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Clash of the Headless Humvees
Behind
the scenes in the race to develop a military vehicle that can drive itself.
THE
GOAL: To build the
world's first truly autonomous robotic land vehicle.
THE PLAYERS: Two dozen teams of robotics pioneers, garage tinkerers and
high school eggheads.
THE TEST: A 210-mile off-road race from L.A. to Las Vegas. read
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Terror Games
Can
computer games be devised to model the thinking and predict the actions of
allies, enemies and even terrorists? Some in the U.S. government think so. Are
they playing God? By Jeffery Rothfeder read
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Sun Tzu On The Art of
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Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the
State.
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it
is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into
account in one's deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions
obtaining in the field.
These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) The Commander; (5)
Method and discipline.
The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so
that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so
that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons.
Earth comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and
narrow passes; the chances of life and death.
The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage
and strictness.
By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its
proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance
of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military
expenditure.
These five heads should be familiar to every general: he who knows them will be
victorious; he who knows them not will fail.
Therefore, in your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military
conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:--
(1) Which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the Moral law?
(2) Which of the two generals has most ability?
(3) With whom lie the advantages derived from Heaven and Earth?
(4) On which side is discipline most rigorously enforced?
(5) Which army is stronger?
(6) On which side are officers and men more highly trained?
(7) In which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?
By means of these seven considerations I can forecast victory or defeat.
The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such
a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor
acts upon it, will suffer defeat:--let such a one be dismissed!
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Editors Choice |
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EVE is a world far away
from mankind's original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and where, no
one knows. Humans got there through a natural wormhole, and gazing upon a
sky never before seen, were completely unable to determine the whereabouts
of this new world. From the system of New Eden, where the gate of EVE that
once led to the old world lies, humans expanded in all directions at a
great pace, exploring and colonizing.
Then, seemingly out of the
blue, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale
never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in
the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in isolation to fend
for themselves. For millennia they endured on the brink of extinction and
only a handful survived.
Of those surviving
colonies, 5 were to rise up and become the major empires that hold between
them the balance of power in the world of EVE today. These are: the Amarr
Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic
and the Jovian Empire, plus several small independent factions and states.
For more than
a century the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They've
strived hard to maintain this peace, as each of them realizes only too
well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent
technological breakthroughs in FTL travel, and the ensuing increase in
space travellers, has shaken, but not broken the fragile peace - at least
not yet
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