You've never actually jumped out of a plane, have you? Avoiding the tail is something people say before they do their first jump.
It's absolutely possible to open the door and get out of a plane between 5,000 and 10,000 ft, and fine to jump down to 1,000 ft. An A380 can evacuate 873 people in 77 seconds, and in some cases that would be more than enough to evacuate everyone.
It's obvious that parachutes won't help in every situation - life jackets only work on water, but they've been in every plane I've been on.
Parachutes would have saved almost everyone on Japan Airlines 123 - they spent 32 mins between 5 and 12,000ft, knowing there was almost no way to land.
You're correct that chutes are heavy. It might be a good idea to work on lighter chutes.
PGP style signing of certs. From the point of view of the customer, the SSL cert says it's been signed by 3 CA's I've never heard of, plus my IT department who seem to have some idea, plus my wizzkid brother in law who has OCD who I completely trust. My brother in law also trusts one of the CA's, but not the other 2.
A score gets automagically generated, plus the details if I want them. If the CA screws up, my brother in law revokes his signature.
No, they killed Solaris - not by shutting down the project, but by modifying licensing and support terms to make it unreasonable for most companies to continue to use it.
Here's an interesting quote: "Nordwall reports that the RTCA Committee 177 inquiry found 137 `incidents' (pilot reports, anecdotes) reported either to them, or to the FAA/NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) program, or to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). VOR reception (2) was affected in 111 incidents -- by far the most common occurrence. From the 33 reports direct to RTCA, 21 incidents related to laptop computers and only 2 to cellular phones. Navigation systems were affected in 26 of those incidents; fuel systems, warning lights and propulsion reported one incident each. Rough correlation of suspect with effect by turning the suspect device on and off was found in 14 cases, on-off-on in 6 cases, and no correlation in 13 cases."
Incidents > 0.
If I remember correctly, Thales generation 2 HUDS for A737's had a known issue with interference from mobile phones / laptops - they would blank or flicker.
Well, here's the ugly truth. People DO pay for Linux and BSD. Most contributions are from paid programmers working for companies. Those companies (like Redhat, IBM, Novell, Oracle) make money by selling support. You might think they're different things - they're not.
The music from the radio is NOT free. Someone has to pay for it in one way or another. If you don't pay to listen, you get adverts. Yes, indies make money other ways, but how should radio stations make their money?
You DO pay to read library books. It comes out of tax money.
You DO pay to read the newspaper in McDonalds too - it comes out of the money you paid for the food.
The truth of the world is that you get NOTHING for nothing. Just because you don't understand or see how things are paid for doesn't mean that they're not.
PR-STV: Proportional Representation with a Single Transferable Vote. Basically, if there are 5 candidates, I rank them 1, 2, 3, 4 and leave out 5 because I don't want to vote for a member of the killing puppies party. They count up all the 1 votes, and see how everyone's doing. If nobody's gotten 50%+1 votes (or 25%+1 votes for 4 seats, for example) then they take all the votes from the person in last place and count all their 2 votes. Repeat until someone wins.
Ireland uses it. It occasionally leads to interesting results - many people will vote for an underdog as number one, then a strong candidate as 2, and occasionally the underdog gets a lot more votes than anyone expects...
The problem isn't the multinationals that provide jobs - they will stay. Intel can't move a FAB overnight. The issue is with the shells like Microsoft Licensing - that employ 5 lawyers, 5 accountants and a janitor - and that do nothing but funnel profits. THESE companies will up and leave in a heartbeat, because an extra 2% on $62BN is ENORMOUS. At the moment the corp tax income on these companies is E110bn - and the IMF money is nowhere near that.
Raising the corp tax rate might mean losing 50-100 jobs, mostly accountants and lawyers (not exactly going to get a sympathy vote from most people), but could leave the country more than E50bn a year down - not really an option right now.
They don't have financial dealings in Ireland as such - they have call centres - typically outside Dublin. Pulling them out would be catastrophic for the rest of the country.
T-Mobile will tell you they're a COMMON CARRIER. That means they don't get to pick and choose who uses their service.
By your reasoning (they can do anything they please on a private network) they could decide to drop all calls from Blacks, or women, or Republicans. How long would that be tolerated?
I live in Ukraine, and often travel to Russia, so my knowledge is first hand. Corruption and bribery is institutionalised in the CIS - it a way of live, and it's not going to change. People can't imagine not bribing officials to get things done.
In 2007 bribery in Russia was worth $33bn - more than the GDP of Lebanon or Kenya.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK all of those people require a special license before they're put in a position to drive fast. There's a huge difference between someone who's trained to drive fast and someone who THINKS they can drive fast.
I disagree with one significant thing: the UI is at least as important as the DB, middleware and protocols, precisely because it's what everyone sees and reacts to. I've used some very well architected software be absolute pigs to use because people thought the UI wasn't important. If it's going to be used every day, it should be simple, intuitive and look good. If it's going to be used by non-engineers it's even more important. As anyone who's ever tried to design a good UI knows - simple and intuitive are hard for anything past Hello World.
Believing that you can just slap any GUI at all onto a well-engineered piece of software is wrong (I'm looking at you IBM and Sun) and is the equivalent of saying you can throw together a pretty website in 30 mins using notepad.
s/lice/guns/g Or mod chips. Or bongs. Or anything else that you want to put in the "I only sold it, it's not illegal to sell, just use" camp. How about Yellow Cake and Nukes?
Somewhere there is a line - this is ok, and this is not. I feel sometimes like the line is in the wrong place.:(
WTF? Oracle have said no such thing. They've changed the licensing agreement so that you would need to buy a support contract if you plan on running Solaris on non-Sun gear for more than 90 days, and that is all.
What are you - a FUD machine?
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You've never actually jumped out of a plane, have you? Avoiding the tail is something people say before they do their first jump. It's absolutely possible to open the door and get out of a plane between 5,000 and 10,000 ft, and fine to jump down to 1,000 ft. An A380 can evacuate 873 people in 77 seconds, and in some cases that would be more than enough to evacuate everyone. It's obvious that parachutes won't help in every situation - life jackets only work on water, but they've been in every plane I've been on. Parachutes would have saved almost everyone on Japan Airlines 123 - they spent 32 mins between 5 and 12,000ft, knowing there was almost no way to land. You're correct that chutes are heavy. It might be a good idea to work on lighter chutes.
PGP style signing of certs. From the point of view of the customer, the SSL cert says it's been signed by 3 CA's I've never heard of, plus my IT department who seem to have some idea, plus my wizzkid brother in law who has OCD who I completely trust. My brother in law also trusts one of the CA's, but not the other 2. A score gets automagically generated, plus the details if I want them. If the CA screws up, my brother in law revokes his signature.
No, they killed Solaris - not by shutting down the project, but by modifying licensing and support terms to make it unreasonable for most companies to continue to use it.
Here's an interesting quote: "Nordwall reports that the RTCA Committee 177 inquiry found 137 `incidents' (pilot reports, anecdotes) reported either to them, or to the FAA/NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) program, or to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). VOR reception (2) was affected in 111 incidents -- by far the most common occurrence. From the 33 reports direct to RTCA, 21 incidents related to laptop computers and only 2 to cellular phones. Navigation systems were affected in 26 of those incidents; fuel systems, warning lights and propulsion reported one incident each. Rough correlation of suspect with effect by turning the suspect device on and off was found in 14 cases, on-off-on in 6 cases, and no correlation in 13 cases."
Incidents > 0.
If I remember correctly, Thales generation 2 HUDS for A737's had a known issue with interference from mobile phones / laptops - they would blank or flicker.
Well, here's the ugly truth. People DO pay for Linux and BSD. Most contributions are from paid programmers working for companies. Those companies (like Redhat, IBM, Novell, Oracle) make money by selling support. You might think they're different things - they're not. The music from the radio is NOT free. Someone has to pay for it in one way or another. If you don't pay to listen, you get adverts. Yes, indies make money other ways, but how should radio stations make their money? You DO pay to read library books. It comes out of tax money. You DO pay to read the newspaper in McDonalds too - it comes out of the money you paid for the food. The truth of the world is that you get NOTHING for nothing. Just because you don't understand or see how things are paid for doesn't mean that they're not.
Nope, you can subscribe to Sky Player separately - you don't need a Sky box or a dish or whatever. There's a link on the front page: http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/page/online-tv.html
...you've been able to stream Sky on the XBox in the UK for years. Why is this a big deal?
Glass. China never invented glass, so it stagnated. No lenses or slides makes it hard to do chemistry, physics, biology etc.
PR-STV: Proportional Representation with a Single Transferable Vote. Basically, if there are 5 candidates, I rank them 1, 2, 3, 4 and leave out 5 because I don't want to vote for a member of the killing puppies party. They count up all the 1 votes, and see how everyone's doing. If nobody's gotten 50%+1 votes (or 25%+1 votes for 4 seats, for example) then they take all the votes from the person in last place and count all their 2 votes. Repeat until someone wins. Ireland uses it. It occasionally leads to interesting results - many people will vote for an underdog as number one, then a strong candidate as 2, and occasionally the underdog gets a lot more votes than anyone expects...
Homer Simpson is an engineer in a nuclear power plant...
Typically, "Democracy" means "I don't understand the word Republic".
The problem isn't the multinationals that provide jobs - they will stay. Intel can't move a FAB overnight. The issue is with the shells like Microsoft Licensing - that employ 5 lawyers, 5 accountants and a janitor - and that do nothing but funnel profits. THESE companies will up and leave in a heartbeat, because an extra 2% on $62BN is ENORMOUS. At the moment the corp tax income on these companies is E110bn - and the IMF money is nowhere near that. Raising the corp tax rate might mean losing 50-100 jobs, mostly accountants and lawyers (not exactly going to get a sympathy vote from most people), but could leave the country more than E50bn a year down - not really an option right now.
They don't have financial dealings in Ireland as such - they have call centres - typically outside Dublin. Pulling them out would be catastrophic for the rest of the country.
...which means if someone gets one factor (your phone), they still don't have the other (your password).
T-Mobile will tell you they're a COMMON CARRIER. That means they don't get to pick and choose who uses their service. By your reasoning (they can do anything they please on a private network) they could decide to drop all calls from Blacks, or women, or Republicans. How long would that be tolerated?
I live in Ukraine, and often travel to Russia, so my knowledge is first hand. Corruption and bribery is institutionalised in the CIS - it a way of live, and it's not going to change. People can't imagine not bribing officials to get things done. In 2007 bribery in Russia was worth $33bn - more than the GDP of Lebanon or Kenya.
If you swap Up and across, you get the Barents Sea, Greenland, and 2 spots in Antartica - 1 land, one sea. Naimina is a girls name in Kenya.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK all of those people require a special license before they're put in a position to drive fast. There's a huge difference between someone who's trained to drive fast and someone who THINKS they can drive fast.
Wait, what? You want to show The Shining to a bunch of kids under 10? And you call other people idiots?
If only I could mod you to 6....
I disagree with one significant thing: the UI is at least as important as the DB, middleware and protocols, precisely because it's what everyone sees and reacts to. I've used some very well architected software be absolute pigs to use because people thought the UI wasn't important. If it's going to be used every day, it should be simple, intuitive and look good. If it's going to be used by non-engineers it's even more important. As anyone who's ever tried to design a good UI knows - simple and intuitive are hard for anything past Hello World. Believing that you can just slap any GUI at all onto a well-engineered piece of software is wrong (I'm looking at you IBM and Sun) and is the equivalent of saying you can throw together a pretty website in 30 mins using notepad.
PR-STV. Ireland uses it, and it works very well.
s/lice/guns/g Or mod chips. Or bongs. Or anything else that you want to put in the "I only sold it, it's not illegal to sell, just use" camp. How about Yellow Cake and Nukes? Somewhere there is a line - this is ok, and this is not. I feel sometimes like the line is in the wrong place. :(
Western Europe, sure, but trains in Eastern Europe are slow and loooong.
WTF? Oracle have said no such thing. They've changed the licensing agreement so that you would need to buy a support contract if you plan on running Solaris on non-Sun gear for more than 90 days, and that is all. What are you - a FUD machine?