| From: | ROBERSON@***.EDU |
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| Subject: | My first post in 2 days |
| Date: | Thu, 28 Jan 93 04:16:25 CET |
a tremendous amount of work that has been finally been dealt with. Even now,
I must complete this messgae and send it off before my next class (which starts
in ten minutes). I have the following comments to make based on the mail I
have just read:
1: Riggers and the VCC idea. With Peace in Our Time concerning the
hoped-for end to the Quickening/Grounding debate, perhaps the energies of
all concerned can be focused on creating a good set of rules for vehicle
construction. The process itself, as well as the finished product, may well
illustrate to the Lethargic Rigger what he can do, as well as providing an
outlet for his creativity and concerns.
My advice to Riggers: I have seen them played twice, and drones were
important to the run, providing continual reconnisance of the area (we always
knew where those "random patrols" were) as well as fire support platforms and
even emergency kamikaze runs on outside actions. I would also recommend
getting a good secondary skill to use when not rigging, such as Negotiation
or Psychology. A good run will involve realtime electronic security
manipulation and surveillance, an activity covered by Deckers and Riggers
together. There will always be something for you to do-introduce ideas and
plans of your own that involve your unique skills. I suggest you be sure to
read the Reverend's post on running deckers, although I do take exception
to one of his suggestions (see #4 below).
2:Steele-Do your really spek "20 words _or_ French, Spanish"
et. al? I do hope you mean "of" and that you didn't leave the left side
of your brain at home today.
3:Smartguns vs lasers. I prefer the "spot on the field of vision"
approach, and can illustrate why it is superior to a laser sight. With a
laser sight, a beam is being pojected out onto a target and
subsequently reflected back onto your eye. It becomes less accurate over
distance and can be obstructed by sweat, a blinked eye, or dust. A
smartgun link uses a laser sight, but it is reflected back to the gun,
which gets a more accurate read on where the dot is. the dot's appearance
is then put directly into the optic nerve, meaning it is never
obstructed from view by sweat or a blinking eye. The dot moves where the gun
is pointed. The gun is more accurate at tracking a spot than the human
(or cyber) eye. Assume that the sight system also uses secondary forms
of detection, such as sound or infrared. The important thing to remember
is that the smartgun is more accurate because the dot is projected directly
onto the optic nerve.
Please bear in mind that even though smoke, dust, and other
obstructions will have an equal effect on a laser sight and the laser
sight incorporated into the smartgun. The difference is that the gun
is much better at picking up the signal, however weak, and translating it
into a dot on the field of view. Where a normal eye will see a hazy, wide
dot at a distance, the smartgun will translate that inaccurate blob of
red into a pinpoint dot.
4: A Rigger running an elevator? I suppose it could happen.
But buildings are not vehicles; elevators are slave nodes in a system. A
Rigger (or anyone else with datajacks) would either be decking naked or
borrowing the decker's deck (in which case: why not have the decker do
it. There would be no hacking pool without the proper computer skill (and
riggers have enough skills to keep track of as it is). But the idea
about strealing a vehicle by remote control is great; I'ver seen it done.
5: German for non-germans: Yes it was indeed I who posted the
german note to Herr Doom. I had no idea I would generate so many responses
with so few words. I did have at least one typo (Schoe was supposed to be
schoen). The "e" after a vowel indicates an umlaut over the preceding vow,
(an umlaut being those two dots that warp its pronunciation). It's a trick
my teacher taught me when I word processed my homework and couldn't
type an umlaut.
6: I do hope that the major, regular creative forces that appear
regularly on this board could direct some energy toward the VCC idea. The
argument has gone on long enough that I believe we could market it as a
made-for-TV movie. I would also like to see more Shadowtalk posts-they're
fun.
