If this system we're talking about ever gets purchased for controllers, I hope somebody provides the FAA with some adult supervision for the acquisition.
I expect air traffic controllers to know their systems and how to use them.
They're like every other user. It takes 'em a while to get a clue.
What happens when this software has learned to compensate for one traffic controller's particular errors, and then suddenly another traffic controller takes over his/her station?
D'uh! Controllers log in at the consoles. This way they can sit down at any position and still have all of their preferences (font size, screen brightness, etc.) With this AI interface it'd be the same way.
The sad thing is that this ability (to log in) is only a few years old! (for the enroute centers that have graduated from the PVD's. I think there are a few poor souls working tower or TRACON that still have those green-screens)
Their live music *IS* a CD! Granted, in that case they fully admit to lip synching and really you are "paying" for their modern dance choreography. But the tunes are always perfect!
Okay, on this map I am certain its now Krieger (#27), which is the home of the Math dept, since the Physics dept moved to Bloomberg (h00j lab space in the basement!). And this was also the home of Homewood Academic Computing lab (though the basement of Garland seems to be the center of some computer operations... but jhunix was housed in Whitehead hall.
I remember during rainy days, the trick was to get from one side of campus to the other without getting wet- you could use the tunnel from DUnning to Remsen, then move to Mergenthaler, Gilman, Ames, Krieger, to Maryland. No quick path to Barton (without using the steam tunnels).
And the "new new" dorms to which I referred were the buildings behind the AMR II
Ohhhh! You mean "Building A" and "Building B"? Yeah, I think those are the names!
Uhmm, krieger is next to the library, across the quad from Remsen- maybe I have the name wrong?
Have any students not been in the steam tunnels?:-) Actually, when I bragged around, few knew what I was talking about. I went on a friday night during Spring Fair and side-stepped around some construction which left a gaping hole into 'em. I think we even brought a pre-frosh... (showed him as good of a time as he was gonna see!).
I think my friend picked up one of those VT100 terms when they were throwing them away behind Krieger (which has since been re-vamped) and had a jhunix (running on that poor, beleaguered Challenge L!) connect in his dorm room in the AMRs (which I think NOW have ethernet, though I could be wrong).
While traipsing through the steam tunnels underneath campus (shhhhh! it's "illegal" to be there!) 'round barton hall I found some old punch cards... the last evidence of the old machines!
If I'm not mistaken, the HAC lab is still in the basement of krieger and has a sweet multimedia editing room set up and a punch of PCs, and they had some SGI's (don't know if they're still there) and some Macs.
I assume the New-new dorms you are reffering to are Wolman and McCoy, between Charles and St. Paul. That's where most of the Sophmores. They also have some newer off-campus upper-classman housing- the Homewood was torn down and re-done (I moved there my senior year for 1 reason- ETHERNET. St. Paul Court was nice, but dialup sucks).
I guess you never got to experience the splendor of Bloomberg- its pretty nice. (back where the Space Telescope Science Institute is)
They also have a new arts center, but I haven't seen it yet (behind kreiger).
See my reply to the above comment- it was a slip. Your harshness is completely warranted. It is NOT emulation.
HOWEVER- for my current set up, I am not only running in 32 bit compatibility mode (on POWER 4 chips, older brother of the PPC970) but some of my code is POWER2 architecture. Between POWER2 and the PPC/POWER3 world, they dropped some instructions from the chip. THOSE are emulated by the OS (AIX 5.1 in my case). So until someone gets off their ass and buys me a native compiler, I get a perf hit will all the PROGRAM CHECK exceptions!
Thanks for the correction- yes, it isn't "emulation" and that isn't just a nit-pick error. Everyone who's ever run MAME or any other EMU knows that EMUs can be dog-slow.
I do some kernel programming in AIX for ibm pSeries machines, which are 64 bit chips. The OS has a 32 bit emulation mode. SO everyone will use that to begin with. Then, certain devices and drivers will require 64bit, and the apps will follow afterwards.
THAT will most likely be driven buy how many people buy the machines and what sort of market demand there is.
And yes, we are talking months, maybe years.
BEsides- you'll see more performance gain from the GHZ rating rather than from the 64-bit-ness, (unless you have a need for LOTS of addressable ram. 64bit is a virtual memory manager's dream.
Because Mom and Pop can't be bothered to figure out this internet thingie ("can I talk on the phone at the same time? Will it turn on in the middle of the night and download spam?") It seems some avenging white-hat (aka Sysadmin who is tired of encountering so many damn infected machines) has coded up a viral solution!
An even better twist of fate would be for that individual to get arrested for creating a worm! (its a DMCA violation to use that hack...)
consumers little more than a pat on the back and no increased functionality.
Nope- they get $25 bucks. And the computer and software field has beaten them to death with BSODs so that if they get ANY functionality, they are overjoyed.
They way I see it, the consumer is definitely coming out on top with this one.
ANd I don't see any issue with the lawyers getting some money for their "win" (qualified, of course, because Apple vigorously denies all the material allegations... but hey, I like to save face in public, too).
Let see, without those lawyers and their legal fees (who only work on contigency) let me calculate what you and the average consumer would get back. Let's see, add for the user base, divide by 2, carry the 1.... ah yes. ZERO DOLLARS and zero cents.
You can get all of your money back! Or if you still want to use it, you can get some money back! That is what I like to call having your cake and eating it too.
Though I am certaintly not Pro-Guns or Pro-Gun-Control, I find your argument about the swis pretty lacking...
The swis are not relative to the US in size. Until gun control gets moved exclusively to the state level, thus putting financial burden on the states shoulders, you can't compare us to them. --
I fail to see what state-level gun control has to do with anything. Are you saying that what is good for Wyoming is not good for New York? Or are you simply equating population size to population size?
I think you've hit the nail on the head when you say humans are half assed.
However, YES, there are plenty of examples of other countries being more fully assed than us 'mericans. For example, gun ownership in switzerland. In terms of murder rates, they are doing it better than we are.
Well, AIX now has the/proc filesystem- very linux (and brand new to AIX). I don't mean to say "soon", but I am trying to say IBM has more than their big toe stuck into LINUX.
But yes- z/OS and OS/390 are indeed other major OS products from IBM.
That would mean no more stamps from a vending machine, and probably no more stamps from the convenience store (since the barcode-printing setup would probably be too expensive/cumbersome to install).
Pay by credit card, then its all connected;)
Either that- or for cash stamps you have to scan the stamp when you drop it off- this can be as low tek as forcing you to drop off at the window, where they check ids (which can be forged... but we'll ignore that for now) or drop off kiosks which ask you to insert some ID with a barcode (my drivers license has one, as do my credit cards) and then accepts your mail)
As for the flaws in the system, I'll tell you a little story. My wife and I flew from Baltimore to San Fran and back, and she had No ID at all. No credit cards, no license, no library cards, nada. On the way back she got searched. That was it.
I don't expect a good system to be put into place. I expect a half-assed system. It's the American Way(tm).
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If this system we're talking about ever gets purchased for controllers, I hope somebody provides the FAA with some adult supervision for the acquisition.
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Not what you were expecting?
I expect air traffic controllers to know their systems and how to use them.
They're like every other user. It takes 'em a while to get a clue.
What happens when this software has learned to compensate for one traffic controller's particular errors, and then suddenly another traffic controller takes over his/her station?
D'uh! Controllers log in at the consoles. This way they can sit down at any position and still have all of their preferences (font size, screen brightness, etc.) With this AI interface it'd be the same way.
The sad thing is that this ability (to log in) is only a few years old! (for the enroute centers that have graduated from the PVD's. I think there are a few poor souls working tower or TRACON that still have those green-screens)
Their live music *IS* a CD!
Granted, in that case they fully admit to lip synching and really you are "paying" for their modern dance choreography. But the tunes are always perfect!
nah man, he's right. Now the RAVE scene, THAT's where the people are really there for the music, man! ;)
(said by an ex-raver (I have a 9-5 job now) with tongue firmly planted in cheek)
Okay, on this map I am certain its now Krieger (#27), which is the home of the Math dept, since the Physics dept moved to Bloomberg (h00j lab space in the basement!). And this was also the home of Homewood Academic Computing lab (though the basement of Garland seems to be the center of some computer operations... but jhunix was housed in Whitehead hall.
I remember during rainy days, the trick was to get from one side of campus to the other without getting wet- you could use the tunnel from DUnning to Remsen, then move to Mergenthaler, Gilman, Ames, Krieger, to Maryland. No quick path to Barton (without using the steam tunnels).
And the "new new" dorms to which I referred were the buildings behind the AMR II
:-)
Ohhhh! You mean "Building A" and "Building B"? Yeah, I think those are the names!
Uhmm, krieger is next to the library, across the quad from Remsen- maybe I have the name wrong?
Have any students not been in the steam tunnels?
Actually, when I bragged around, few knew what I was talking about. I went on a friday night during Spring Fair and side-stepped around some construction which left a gaping hole into 'em. I think we even brought a pre-frosh... (showed him as good of a time as he was gonna see!).
I think my friend picked up one of those VT100 terms when they were throwing them away behind Krieger (which has since been re-vamped) and had a jhunix (running on that poor, beleaguered Challenge L!) connect in his dorm room in the AMRs (which I think NOW have ethernet, though I could be wrong).
While traipsing through the steam tunnels underneath campus (shhhhh! it's "illegal" to be there!) 'round barton hall I found some old punch cards... the last evidence of the old machines!
If I'm not mistaken, the HAC lab is still in the basement of krieger and has a sweet multimedia editing room set up and a punch of PCs, and they had some SGI's (don't know if they're still there) and some Macs.
I assume the New-new dorms you are reffering to are Wolman and McCoy, between Charles and St. Paul. That's where most of the Sophmores. They also have some newer off-campus upper-classman housing- the Homewood was torn down and re-done (I moved there my senior year for 1 reason- ETHERNET. St. Paul Court was nice, but dialup sucks).
I guess you never got to experience the splendor of Bloomberg- its pretty nice. (back where the Space Telescope Science Institute is)
They also have a new arts center, but I haven't seen it yet (behind kreiger).
Word booty.
Same thing happened in 1996- it was a big deal (and all of us who got in when it was only 15 thought we got a great deal!)
But whatever- you can't party on the beach any more, E-level is dry, and they don't hold graduation on the upper quad anymore. JHU IS TEH SUXX!
... that's eight grand worth of new Macs ...
Yeah, and just think what both of those machines could do!
See my reply to the above comment- it was a slip. Your harshness is completely warranted. It is NOT emulation.
HOWEVER- for my current set up, I am not only running in 32 bit compatibility mode (on POWER 4 chips, older brother of the PPC970) but some of my code is POWER2 architecture. Between POWER2 and the PPC/POWER3 world, they dropped some instructions from the chip. THOSE are emulated by the OS (AIX 5.1 in my case). So until someone gets off their ass and buys me a native compiler, I get a perf hit will all the PROGRAM CHECK exceptions!
I agree, however the term "Virus" will not be used. Instead, the term "autonomic update" will come into vogue. ;)
Despite the smiley face, I'm NOT kidding!
Thanks for the correction- yes, it isn't "emulation" and that isn't just a nit-pick error. Everyone who's ever run MAME or any other EMU knows that EMUs can be dog-slow.
Good point! I forgot that inevitably, someone gets stuck with the bill for the traffic.
Would you like spam if it offered you things you like? Would spam from redhat or the FSF be good?
I actually signed up for some video game news-site spam. And guess what? It sucked, and I immediatley un-subscribed.
The best way to make the internet cheaper and faster is to eliminate all the superflouous junk traffic.
Well, to do that, we'll have to re-write a lot of the protocols! And ban all P2P apps!
I do some kernel programming in AIX for ibm pSeries machines, which are 64 bit chips. The OS has a 32 bit emulation mode. SO everyone will use that to begin with. Then, certain devices and drivers will require 64bit, and the apps will follow afterwards.
THAT will most likely be driven buy how many people buy the machines and what sort of market demand there is.
And yes, we are talking months, maybe years.
BEsides- you'll see more performance gain from the GHZ rating rather than from the 64-bit-ness, (unless you have a need for LOTS of addressable ram. 64bit is a virtual memory manager's dream.
Because Mom and Pop can't be bothered to figure out this internet thingie ("can I talk on the phone at the same time? Will it turn on in the middle of the night and download spam?") It seems some avenging white-hat (aka Sysadmin who is tired of encountering so many damn infected machines) has coded up a viral solution!
An even better twist of fate would be for that individual to get arrested for creating a worm! (its a DMCA violation to use that hack...)
Oh no, "Individual", "Person", and "Corporation" are all synonyms! (at least in the legal/gov't sense).
This post is wholly owned by MEKKAB Corp, LLC.
consumers little more than a pat on the back and no increased functionality.
Nope- they get $25 bucks. And the computer and software field has beaten them to death with BSODs so that if they get ANY functionality, they are overjoyed.
They way I see it, the consumer is definitely coming out on top with this one.
ANd I don't see any issue with the lawyers getting some money for their "win" (qualified, of course, because Apple vigorously denies all the material allegations... but hey, I like to save face in public, too).
Let see, without those lawyers and their legal fees (who only work on contigency) let me calculate what you and the average consumer would get back. Let's see, add for the user base, divide by 2, carry the 1.... ah yes. ZERO DOLLARS and zero cents.
You can get all of your money back! Or if you still want to use it, you can get some money back!
That is what I like to call having your cake and eating it too.
Though I am certaintly not Pro-Guns or Pro-Gun-Control, I find your argument about the swis pretty lacking...
The swis are not relative to the US in size. Until gun control gets moved exclusively to the state level, thus putting financial burden on the states shoulders, you can't compare us to them.
--
I fail to see what state-level gun control has to do with anything. Are you saying that what is good for Wyoming is not good for New York? Or are you simply equating population size to population size?
down, firebreathingdog, DOWN! ;)
I think you've hit the nail on the head when you say humans are half assed.
However, YES, there are plenty of examples of other countries being more fully assed than us 'mericans. For example, gun ownership in switzerland.
In terms of murder rates, they are doing it better than we are.
Well, AIX now has the /proc filesystem- very linux (and brand new to AIX). I don't mean to say "soon", but I am trying to say IBM has more than their big toe stuck into LINUX.
But yes- z/OS and OS/390 are indeed other major OS products from IBM.
I don't think IBM considers linux their "primary" operating system at this point.
You sure about that? Considering AIX is being moved towards linux (the "L" in AIX 5L stands for Linux!), what else do they have left?
That would mean no more stamps from a vending machine, and probably no more stamps from the convenience store (since the barcode-printing setup would probably be too expensive/cumbersome to install).
;)
Pay by credit card, then its all connected
Either that- or for cash stamps you have to scan the stamp when you drop it off- this can be as low tek as forcing you to drop off at the window, where they check ids (which can be forged... but we'll ignore that for now) or drop off kiosks which ask you to insert some ID with a barcode (my drivers license has one, as do my credit cards) and then accepts your mail)
As for the flaws in the system, I'll tell you a little story. My wife and I flew from Baltimore to San Fran and back, and she had No ID at all. No credit cards, no license, no library cards, nada. On the way back she got searched. That was it.
I don't expect a good system to be put into place. I expect a half-assed system. It's the American Way(tm).
too expensive. Barcode on the stamps. Its cheaper and they already have that hardware infrastructure in place.