These systems have a limited flight envelope. They may work when something goes wrong on the pad, or in the early phases of ascent, but once you reach a certain speed/altitude, you are fscked if something major goes wrong.
That isn't cost-effective for someone who doesn't have the skills and knowledge needed to safely replace the switch. Plus, where are you going to get the part?
More and more hardware is just not designed to be repairable, especially at the component level. It's cheaper to throw it away, or on pricier gear, replace major sub-assemblies.
Secretary of State Henry Stimson may have said "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.", but even he later changed his mind when confronted with the reality of the modern world.
I believe the President has very wide latitude when it comes to the interception of communications that may affect the national security of the United States. If you call "Jihads 'R Us" in Pakistan from a phone in the United States, you shouldn't be surprised if that is noted and someone monitors the call.
We would have been in even deeper shit if we had not monitored the communications of the Japanese, both domestic and abroad. An active program of interception and cryptanalysis made possible the victory at Midway, the ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and many other military triumphs.
Secretary of State Hull had the complete text of the Japanese ultimatum to the United States, well before it was presented to him by the Japanese ambassador to the United States. No, it didn't say "do this or we will attack the fleet at Pearl Harbor".
It seems to be a recurring theme in science fiction to have an anti-Earth on the opposite side of the Sun. Either they are mirror images of the real Earth or they are our evil cousins.
Don't underestimate the greed of the companies that operate the cell phone networks. They will only support cell phones that give them a cut of the action.
Some people are stuck with "obsolete" software. Their platform may have been deemed obsolete and unsupported by the major software vendors, even though it still performs useful work and can't be easily replaced or upgraded. I use Netscape 4.7 on several systems because that was the last release available before Netscape dropped support for the platform.
Yes. Substantial amounts of space dust enter the Earth's atmosphere every day. If it was full of lethal space bugs, our distant ancestors would have evolved an immunity to them. We might even be their descendants.
I used to have a big box of mil-spec RF connectors that were silver plated. They were the top-of-the-line for RF connectors and very expensive when new. Silver does corrode, but the oxide is a good conductor.
I live in an apartment building that has three phase power. Some of the circuits are connected to one phase, the rest are connected to another phase. On occasion, one of the phases will fail and I will lose roughly half of my circuits until the power company shows up and fixes the problem.
I've often thought that many of these useless meetings would vanish if the perpetrator had to provide the attendees with a charge number. You want to waste several hours of my time? Fine, give me a charge number, instead of dumping the cost on our real customers.
"The Pinkerton Agency" has its own set of baggage, much of which they would probably like the public to forget. Or I just may be overestimating the historical awareness of the average American.
Why should Apple be forced to sell their products to anyone?
If I own a store, I can refuse your business and ban you from the premises for the rest of your life, all because it's Monday and you drive an ugly car.
Apple doesn't sell computers. They don't sell operating systems. They sell integrated systems. To do that, they must control the hardware and software.
Your train went off the rails when you started with the assumption that the record labels have absolute IP rights to the music that they sell. Copyright is a time-limited privilege, granted to further the public interest, not to enrich the "owners" of IP.
GPS is being used for position/velocity determination on many US launch vehicles, in addition to ground-based C-band radar tracking, for the purposes of range safety during launches.
It might work, if the receiver software was flexible enough to deal with the difference from a nominal GPS orbit. The main problem would be the short view periods, 10-15 minutes for a small number of times per day. You would need an insanely large number of spacecraft to provide reliable coverage of the Earth. You need to have 4 spacecraft in view for a navigation fix.
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These systems have a limited flight envelope. They may work when something goes wrong on the pad, or in the early phases of ascent, but once you reach a certain speed/altitude, you are fscked if something major goes wrong.
Let's ban the automobile, 9 out of 10 bank robbers use them to escape from the scene of the crime.
More and more hardware is just not designed to be repairable, especially at the component level. It's cheaper to throw it away, or on pricier gear, replace major sub-assemblies.
It should be ignored if it is simply a political device designed to generate the illusion of progress and to avoid dealing with the real problems.
Sun? Window? Stop hurting my ears with your manager-speak!
Secretary of State Henry Stimson may have said "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.", but even he later changed his mind when confronted with the reality of the modern world.
I believe the President has very wide latitude when it comes to the interception of communications that may affect the national security of the United States. If you call "Jihads 'R Us" in Pakistan from a phone in the United States, you shouldn't be surprised if that is noted and someone monitors the call.
Secretary of State Hull had the complete text of the Japanese ultimatum to the United States, well before it was presented to him by the Japanese ambassador to the United States. No, it didn't say "do this or we will attack the fleet at Pearl Harbor".
It seems to be a recurring theme in science fiction to have an anti-Earth on the opposite side of the Sun. Either they are mirror images of the real Earth or they are our evil cousins.
Don't underestimate the greed of the companies that operate the cell phone networks. They will only support cell phones that give them a cut of the action.
Some people are stuck with "obsolete" software. Their platform may have been deemed obsolete and unsupported by the major software vendors, even though it still performs useful work and can't be easily replaced or upgraded. I use Netscape 4.7 on several systems because that was the last release available before Netscape dropped support for the platform.
Yes. Substantial amounts of space dust enter the Earth's atmosphere every day. If it was full of lethal space bugs, our distant ancestors would have evolved an immunity to them. We might even be their descendants.
You could also add a MMU to the processor. I knew someone who had an Altos 586 running multi-user Xenix. It used an 8086 and a custom MMU.
He thinks that anyone smarter than himself must be a dirty Jew. Therefore, the Jews control CNN, the media, the banks, and the local liquor store.
I'd fire your ass for making important personnel decisions based on your personal prejudices without bothering to get all the facts.
Every time the subject comes up on Congress, the zinc lobby campaigns against the idea of eliminating the penny. It's one of their major markets.
I used to have a big box of mil-spec RF connectors that were silver plated. They were the top-of-the-line for RF connectors and very expensive when new. Silver does corrode, but the oxide is a good conductor.
I live in an apartment building that has three phase power. Some of the circuits are connected to one phase, the rest are connected to another phase. On occasion, one of the phases will fail and I will lose roughly half of my circuits until the power company shows up and fixes the problem.
I've often thought that many of these useless meetings would vanish if the perpetrator had to provide the attendees with a charge number. You want to waste several hours of my time? Fine, give me a charge number, instead of dumping the cost on our real customers.
"The Pinkerton Agency" has its own set of baggage, much of which they would probably like the public to forget. Or I just may be overestimating the historical awareness of the average American.
Read the law. It only prohibits discrimination against certain protected classes.
If I own a store, I can refuse your business and ban you from the premises for the rest of your life, all because it's Monday and you drive an ugly car.
Apple doesn't sell computers. They don't sell operating systems. They sell integrated systems. To do that, they must control the hardware and software.
Your train went off the rails when you started with the assumption that the record labels have absolute IP rights to the music that they sell. Copyright is a time-limited privilege, granted to further the public interest, not to enrich the "owners" of IP.
GPS is being used for position/velocity determination on many US launch vehicles, in addition to ground-based C-band radar tracking, for the purposes of range safety during launches.
It might work, if the receiver software was flexible enough to deal with the difference from a nominal GPS orbit. The main problem would be the short view periods, 10-15 minutes for a small number of times per day. You would need an insanely large number of spacecraft to provide reliable coverage of the Earth. You need to have 4 spacecraft in view for a navigation fix.