Comments on: The DARPA Way http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-darpa-way Cringely on technology Mon, 20 May 2013 06:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Al Wilson http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-275911 Al Wilson Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:16:17 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-275911 P.S. just to clarify: the 'A' in DARPA stands for "advanced." Why didn't they say that? It's in the name, dummy! "Not the DARPA way" means "don't try meeting the criteria with ancient tech and duct tape, even if that old shit actually does the job."

]]> P.S. just to clarify: the ‘A’ in DARPA stands for “advanced.” Why didn’t they say that? It’s in the name, dummy! “Not the DARPA way” means “don’t try meeting the criteria with ancient tech and duct tape, even if that old shit actually does the job.”

]]> By: Al Wilson http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-275910 Al Wilson Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:10:17 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-275910 Yup, solids on a MiG-25 would work pretty good, just like the PDP-8 in my basement works pretty good for maintaining a database of my coin collection.

]]> Yup, solids on a MiG-25 would work pretty good, just like the PDP-8 in my basement works pretty good for maintaining a database of my coin collection.

]]> By: Sam Hasler http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-255964 Sam Hasler Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:04:23 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-255964 Perhaps it was rejected because you didn't propose anything they couldn't do themselves, whereas the other proposals were pushing the envelope on what was possible.

]]> Perhaps it was rejected because you didn’t propose anything they couldn’t do themselves, whereas the other proposals were pushing the envelope on what was possible.

]]> By: DaveTX http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-254158 DaveTX Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:13:27 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-254158 Bob, if you're going to revive a deceased aircraft, pick the F-111. External centerline hardpoints, common engine with plenty of spares, incredible payload. Lots of them in AZ.
]]> Bob, if you’re going to revive a deceased aircraft, pick the F-111. External centerline hardpoints, common engine with plenty of spares, incredible payload. Lots of them in AZ.

]]> By: Rich The Mongoose http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-252474 Rich The Mongoose Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:26:27 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-252474 Ahhh...the glory days of the PDP-10's IPL'ed with mylar tape because no one trusted the oily paper tape.....it was a world better than starting up an IBM 1800 with 80 column cards! If I recall correctly, Bob and Curtis LeMay are both right. The colleges wanted to be free of the mainframes and reduce their costs by avoiding side suckers like the emerging IBM SNA and Honeywell's BNP. The military wanted a type of data network that could survive a nuclear war. So the colleges got their technology paid for by a military project justified through a new type of worldwide military communications control system using a nuclear war resistant set of protocols. So a few universities banded together and gave DARPA the proposal for the network infrastructure using TCP/IP for the future WWMCCS (Worldwide Military Communications and Control System) and they got their solutions to free themselves from IBM, CDC and Honeywell-GE mainframes. Then came the DEC-10xx and 20xx's and BBN and the fun started......

]]> Ahhh…the glory days of the PDP-10′s IPL’ed with mylar tape because no one trusted the oily paper tape…..it was a world better than starting up an IBM 1800 with 80 column cards!

If I recall correctly, Bob and Curtis LeMay are both right. The colleges wanted to be free of the mainframes and reduce their costs by avoiding side suckers like the emerging IBM SNA and Honeywell’s BNP. The military wanted a type of data network that could survive a nuclear war. So the colleges got their technology paid for by a military project justified through a new type of worldwide military communications control system using a nuclear war resistant set of protocols.

So a few universities banded together and gave DARPA the proposal for the network infrastructure using TCP/IP for the future WWMCCS (Worldwide Military Communications and Control System) and they got their solutions to free themselves from IBM, CDC and Honeywell-GE mainframes. Then came the DEC-10xx and 20xx’s and BBN and the fun started……

]]> By: Bill H http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-250973 Bill H Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:50:33 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-250973 Is that related to crowdfunding, Part 3 The Right Way?

]]> Is that related to crowdfunding, Part 3 The Right Way?

]]> By: Michael http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-250921 Michael Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:08:32 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-250921 With entire countries dropping the MiG-25 due to lack of spare parts, how are you able to obtain spares? And can any part of the critical supply chain be cut off by unfriendly countries?
]]> With entire countries dropping the MiG-25 due to lack of spare parts, how are you able to obtain spares? And can any part of the critical supply chain be cut off by unfriendly countries?

]]> By: swschrad http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-250846 swschrad Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:00:28 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-250846 your options would include turning the solid fuel machine up to a decay orbit, or down and sideways to kill some fish someplace where nobody will notice. perhaps with a "awshit" transponder signal everybody can agree on. there's always a long period between bad idea and explosion where a good exit can be engineered. you just have to understand going in that someday you will need one.

]]> your options would include turning the solid fuel machine up to a decay orbit, or down and sideways to kill some fish someplace where nobody will notice. perhaps with a “awshit” transponder signal everybody can agree on.

there’s always a long period between bad idea and explosion where a good exit can be engineered.

you just have to understand going in that someday you will need one.

]]> By: swschrad http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-250844 swschrad Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:56:04 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-250844 I vote Option B. if you're in The Club, they buy your lunch. if you're not in The Club, there is a vast and byzantine network of "assistance" offices that let you down easy, and then dump you.

]]> I vote Option B. if you’re in The Club, they buy your lunch. if you’re not in The Club, there is a vast and byzantine network of “assistance” offices that let you down easy, and then dump you.

]]> By: swschrad http://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way#comment-250841 swschrad Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:52:45 +0000 http://www.cringely.com/?p=4534#comment-250841 the whole "anywhere from T-24" launch concept sort of suggests the distributed resource model... you know, as in "you can't hit all our sites in 10 minutes." I'm surprised they didn't have a submarine component of the bid.

]]> the whole “anywhere from T-24″ launch concept sort of suggests the distributed resource model… you know, as in “you can’t hit all our sites in 10 minutes.” I’m surprised they didn’t have a submarine component of the bid.

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