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http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=2&comments_parentId=49 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:28:39 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=2&comments_parentId=48 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:25:45 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=45 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:22:40 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=44 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:22:11 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=43 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:21:13 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=42 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:20:34 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=41 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:19:57 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=40 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:19:22 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=16&comments_parentId=39 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:15:06 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=7&comments_parentId=38 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:13:13 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=7&comments_parentId=37 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:12:34 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=10&comments_parentId=36 System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:10:51 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=12&comments_parentId=35 From: Robotech_Master > Subject: "Soft walls" will keep hijacked planes at bay > > Article in *NewScientist* about an interesting new technique for > keeping airliners from crashing into skyscrapers: > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 93893 > > The proposal suggests > > modifying the avionics in aircraft so that the plane would fight any > efforts by the pilot to fly into restricted airspace. So if a plane > was flying with a no-fly-zone to the left, and the pilot started > banking left to enter the zone, the avionics would counter by banking > right. Lee's system, called "soft walls", would first gently resist > the pilot, and then become increasingly forceful until it prevailed. > The risks of this technique I leave as an exercise to the reader. > > Chris Meadows aka Robotech_Master robotech@eyrie.org > http://www.eyrie.org/~robotech > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:03:45 -0600 > From: zowie@euterpe.boulder.swri.edu (Craig DeForest) > Subject: "Soft walls" = dangerous avionics? > > Edward Lee, at U.C. Berkeley, is proposing to implement no-fly zones > around skyscrapers (and avoid a repeat of the 9/11 massacre) by using > GPS to override the controls of civilian aircraft. Based on a > database (in the aircraft) of building locations, the on-board > avionics would force the controls of large airplanes to prevent them > from flying into large buildings (with presumably known locations). > > There's an interesting article in this week's New Scientist > (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 93893) that talks > about Lee's system and relates it to other ideas for counter- > terrorism. Interestingly, one advantage that Lee uses is that other > systems require radio links with the ground and therefore "can be > jammed, or hacked into" (while, presumably, GPS cannot?). > > Not surprisingly, Lee says that pilots are "openly hostile" to the > idea. > > It seems to me that the system falls prey to a weakness that so many > pseudo-security systems do: it's in essence a cooperative system, > rather than a pre-emptive one (by analogy to multitasking in the > computing world). Even assuming the avionics work flawlessly, it > would be impossible to install the "soft wall" system on every > airplane in the country, let alone the world -- and it only takes one > airplane with the soft-wall avionics missing or disabled, to defeat > the purpose of the whole system. --- Laurence Holt Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 07:45 pm: By Laurence Holt on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:25 am: It would be easier to let the computer fly the plane. This is already possible--in fact, many landings are computer-flown (they are easy to spot - they are the smooth ones). But airlines think passengers wouldn't want to fly in them (they are probably correct on this). 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Graphic Icon [Design Idea *047]: A lying-down rectangle. (The standing rectangle is a document icon.) Type [Design Idea *047]: Parameter, Design. --------- Quote from Planguage Glossary (online version), also simpler version inCompetitive Engineering (Gilb, 2005). See my chapter on Design in CE book. --- Alan Ashton-Jeanes Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 08:38 pm: I think Jerry Weinberg's pithy definition of design was: "the progressive elimination of ambiguity" (Exploring Requirements). My understanding of his argument is that computers do exactly what their specification (program code etc) tells them to do. By this time, then, there is no ambiguity: the software may be defective, but if so, it is unambiguously so. It is a common error, it seems to me, to believe that requirements somehow actually exist prior to the design process. Rather, as note 4 to concept *026 suggests, "Requirements, at different levels of abstraction, can be viewed as inputs to a defined level of design process. In a series of systems engineering processes, one engineerâs output (Îdesignâ, Îarchitectureâ) may become another engineerâs inputs, or Îrequirementsâ." And this is also true of the initial inputs, an output from a business design "process". All too often, as we know, the business design is deficient (hardly surprisingly). In fact, I would argue that it must be deficient at outset, since some necessary business inputs only become necessary as the systems design process firms up on a particular range of solution ideas (I call these inputs "second order requirements"). In practice, then, the business design process needs to proceed in parallel with the systems design process. Indeed, sidestepping the traditional boundaries, the two processes can be viewed as a single design process. So what are the inputs to this process? Not "requirements", but the business context, including stakeholders, business objectives and constraints etc. It is often said that projects fail due to poor communication of stakeholder requirements. It is nearer the truth to say that they fail due to poor understanding of these requirements, either by the stakeholders or by the engineers. Any takers for the proposition that Requirement (*026) is a special case of Design Idea (*047)? (Unfortunately, this would seem to invalidate the definition of *047 by making it recursive; however, design ideas and requirements seem to exist in an almost fractal hierarchy that suggests a recursive definition is appropriate. A requirement/design-idea that has no "parent" requirement/design idea is simply a special case that we must accept as a given, "axiom" or Fundamental Objective (*229) of the System (*145), which can be taken to include organisation, business or enterprise.) --- Alan Ashton-Jeanes Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 12:07 pm: After further reflection, pondering on Competitive Engineering, I would refine my previous comments. A Requirement (*026) is neither more nor less than a "stakeholder-desired, or needed" (<- Planguage Glossary [Requirement]) System (*145) Attribute (*003). This point is almost explicit in Figure 2.2, where "System Requirements (Future Attributes)" are mapped from "System Attributes (Present or Past), but appears to be omitted from the glossary. Requirement (*026) itself does not link to Attribute. Function Requirement (*074) points to Function (*069) which points to Attribute. Performance Requirement (*100) seems to avoid pointing to Attribute even indirectly. Resource Requirement (*431) is defined as "...a scalar attribute...", although Attribute is not a "Related Concept". Returning to the process of Requirement specification, we see that there are two components to the process: selection of the future Attributes and assignment of values to Parameters (*105) such as Goal, Fail and Survival. Formal approaches similar to Impact Estimation can be used to challenge both the selection of particular Attributes (and Scales) over others and the values assigned to the Parameters. This is putting the Engineering into Requirements Engineering.]]> System Administrator Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:49:35 +0100 http://www.valuecertification.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=15&comments_parentId=15 > Index In this respect, designers will think of the whole value chain, from production to sales and use of the product. Designers realize that the humanization of technology, the idea, usability and even the enjoyment of the product are part of their responsability. ARTICLE III Protect the Earthâs Ecosystem Ultimately, the best interests of current and future generations can only be protected if the worldâs ecosystem can be safeguarded. Consequently, designers shall adopt the following principles of environmental stewardship: a) Advocacy for safe products and services. Designers will advocate with their clients the development of environments, landscapes, products, communications and packaging that minimize environmental harm and are safe for use by all people. b) Protection of the biosphere. Designers will seek to minimize the release of any pollutant that may endanger life, air, water, or earth. c) Sustainable use of natural resources. Designers will strive to specify processes and materials which are the result of sustain- able and/or renewable natural resources, including the protection of vegetation, wildlife habitat, open spaces and wilderness. Designers will share information that will help their peers make the best choices in specifying materials and processes. d) Reduction of waste and increasing recycling. Designers will try to minimize waste. To this end, they will design for durability, adaptability, repair and recycling of the product. e) Wise use of energy. Designers will choose environmentally safe energy sources and adopt energy conserving means of production and operation whenever possible. f) Use of new technology. Designers will remain continuously aware of the possibilities offered by new technologies, and use them to create new resources-saving materials. ARTICLE IV Enrich Cultural Identity Industrial designers acknowledge that the environments, objects and services created as a result of the design process both reflect and help to define the cultural identity of their nations and distinct societies within nations. Designers shall strive to embody and further the cultural traditions of their national societies while incorporating the best characteristics of international design principles and standards. ARTICLE V Benefit the Profession Designers shall abide by the following guidelines in order to further ongoing development of ö and respect for ö the industrial design profession itself: a) Advocacy for professional business practices. Professional business practices will be strengthened by applying the following principles: ð professional advancement will be based primarily on the quality of design work and not at the expense of other designers, ð no work will be undertaken at the invitation of a client without appropriate payment, unless for a charitable or non-profit organization, ð the client will be notified in advance, when a designer may benefit financially (through association with any company, firm or business) from any recommendations made by him/her during the realization of a project, and ð when asked to advise on the recommendation of other designers, a designer will accept no payment in any form from the selected designers. b) Support for ongoing development of the profession. Professional development will be supported through the provision of: ð opportunities to apply acquired design skills to challenging projects, ð fair recognition for work undertaken, ð opportunities for further education, ð respectable working practices and remuneration to colleagues, sub-contractors, suppliers, etc. with which the work has been undertaken, and ð endorsement of, and (where possible) participation in, activities and programs which aim to enhance the design profession, whether by professional organizations, educational institutions or legislative bodies. c) Congruity of professional image. Promotional endeavors will consistently reflect professional aims and will include only factual, truthful statements and, where appropriate, objective, constructive criticism. --- Xenia Riemann Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 01:12 pm: Dear ladies and gentlemen, The name of the designer Mordechai Rotenberg i found at your website. I am writing a doctoral thesis on the designer Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg (1908-1998) at the Free University in Berlin. I also archived the property of Braun-Feldweg. Mordechai Rotenberg was one of his students in the late 1960s/early 1970s at the academy of arts in Berlin. I am still interviewing Braun-Feldwegs students and therefore would be interested to know, if Mr. Rotenberg has interest in telling me about his time in (West)Berlin. My e-mail is x.riemann@yahoo.de my address is Xenia Riemann, Rochusstr. 23, 40479 Duesseldorf, Germany I would be happy if you could help me further in contacting Mr. Rotenberg for me? My best regards, Xenia Riemann --- Mordechai Rotenberg Posted on Saturday, June 18, 2005 - 03:51 pm: The bi-annual international industrial design conference will be held in Scandanvia in September (simutaneous conferences in Oslo,Helsinki, Copenhagen & Gottenburg). 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