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Comment Re:Paranoid, but mostly appropriate (Score 1) 90

This isn't a guy pushing a rod connected by mechanical linkage to some flaps. Its a guy pushing a joystick which is just 2 sets of POTS that gets translated into a number and fired off to the drone. The drone then checks those numbers and attempts to perform the command.

Congratulation, you just described all modern Airbus commercial aeroplanes after the A320 and the Boeing 777. They're also fly-by-computer

Comment Re:What What? (Score 1) 240

The services that provide the mobile/touchscreen interfaces come from the window manager.

I can install debian on a PC and choose KDE or GNOME as the UI. Each of those desktop environments provide different API's for applications to use.
The operating system is the same - Debian GNU/Linux.

I can also choose to leave the operating system without a desktop environment all together.

You can't argue it's a different operating system when I choose to install a different desktop environment.

For example, having an OS where the process model distinguishes a single foreground process and multiple background processes

You're describing Windows 3.x, Windows 95, 98 and ME. They all distinguished the foreground process from the background ones.

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