Actually, the damage was almost minimal to the Japanese air system. The delay only lasted 50 minutes. Unlike American travellers, Japanese people will quietly and orderly board a fully booked 747 in under 20 minutes. If asked to hurry, they will board it even faster. That combined with Narita and Haneda's ability to handle traffic far above their average had most flights back on time before noon. Only a small handful of international passengers may have had to rebook a connecting flight. Domestic flights are almost always direct.
As far as risk management, had there actually been a perceived emergency due to the malfunctioning radar display system, the airports would default to an agreement with Yokota and Atsugi US airbases to provide fallback flight control facilities.
This is really a non news item. The system administrator correctly applied upgrades during non-critical operation time. (i.e. not during the main business week) The problem was identified early on and corrected pretty damned quick. This happens hundreds of times a week all over the world. Had the glitch actually halted the entire Japanese air system for a long period of time, then it would make more sense.
The flip side is the ability to mark emails as copyrighted. How many times have you wanted to email someone and tell them straight that they are a Grade 'A', 1st Class moron? Of course the main thing that kept you from doing it was knowing it would get forwarded around and eventually to your boss who would chew your *ss for being unprofessional.
I see these 'Look what this idiot just penned his name to' emails at least once a week. So in a sense, DRM will be expanding our first ammendment right to express ourselves in email without subsequently giving up our 5th ammendment right to not incriminate ourselves.
I had a seat, then I did this thing called graduating. I'm talking 12MBit domestic, not commercial. Did I mention I only pay $25 a month for it? How much was your tuition, room and board again?
Sorry, couldn't resist, but in all honesty I do miss the college dorm, unlimitted pr0n, QuakeIII frag fest days.
Very good point. The best I've seen is 7.5MBit sustained while downloading the 187MB Dungeon Seige demo from Microsux. My usual average is between 1.5 and 2MBit depending on the pipe the other side has, so all and all, much better than the usual ADSL service provided in the states. Don't even get me started on the difference in cell phone technology.
And I can't resist a jibe back....unless you live at work, it doesn't count. I have a fat pipe at work too, but usually don't notice the difference due to bottlenecks elsewhere in the internet.
Say for instance here in Japan where the geeks are all viewing slashdot through a 12MBit ADSL connection....and it's just now 6pm...let the peak usage period begin.
Yes, yes, I have a 12MBit ADSL connection; now who wants to touch me?... I SAID WHO WANTS TO F*@#ING TOUCH ME?
Most of the missions are run of the mill, public domain. But I doubt you're going to find a HAM radio operator who listened in to the minute by minute play of the deployment of military sattelites.
As far as the hardware goes...it may seem astoundingly simple, but not all countries have the technological know-how to produce that kind of hardware. That leaves them with two choices: #1 spend even more money they don't have on the research (read: let more of their citizens starve to death while the military sucks up 70% of the National budget...sorry North Korea). or #2 buy it off the black market and reverse engineer it.
It boggles the mind that after half a dozen years of Java, Sun has not yet moved their default desktop over to Java GUI apps.
I have to ask....why? How many times do you have to visit a web site that gives you 15 popup windows complaining about script errors in IE? Just to load netscape and have the page work fine, or vice versa. Who here hasn't had to download an older version of the JRE because you've found a program that doesn't work on the newer versions. JAVA isn't, nor has it ever been, platform independant. It continues to be unstable on more platforms than just solaris and really doesn't provide that much of an advantage over ANSI C/C++. Yeah, it was cool back in the days before DHTML, Flash, and XML. But now it offers very little additional functionality.
I may be commiting a sin to say this on slashdot, but just because it's free doesn't mean it's worth using.
Actually, starting salary for an experienced UNIX C Programmer will range from $90K to $160K just monetarily. However, most companies have deals with housing agencies that reduce the need for a higher salary. The programmers just have to live in one of the company houses/appartments. All the infrustructure is probably already in place, so I'm betting that they will hire 4 somewhat experienced programmers and give them a logitics budget of around $20K. That's actually a pretty good development team for this project considering they will be doing it full-time.
Do a Google on Akihabara. Or if you're too lazy to do that, just imagine an entire city of computer stores. I was just there three weeks ago and there is MORE THAN ENOUGH sources for legitimate software, both Japanese, or English versions.
As far as illegal software, there is a great deal of street vendors who pawn that stuff off, but I've seen the same thing in New York. It may be a little bit worse in Japan due to the vast availablilty of high-speed broadband. And no, my use of high-speed and broadband is not redundant. I have a 12MBit ADSL line which usually averages 2.5 MBit, but on sites that can handle it, I've gone as high as 7.5MBit sustained. There are also regions that run 100MBit ethernet straight to your home. I only pay 2800yen (~$25) per month for my ADSL, which makes piracy quite cheap for me if I decided to go down that road to make an illegal yen or two.
Now, I have also been to Hong Kong, where after 5 days I had still not located a store that was actually selling legitimate copies of software. But there were more places than I could count pawning off the illegal copies.
For those of us in the military overseas, we will be watching the game on the Armed Forces Network (AFN). Due to a variety of issues, no commercials are aired on AFN which means we miss out on what could potentially be the more entertaining part of the game.
If someone with a really kind heart could encode the commercials and post them on the internet, we would be very appreciative. Last year wasn't so bad as we do get Fox, although tape delayed by two weeks, so we could watch the commercials when it re-aired. This year, there will be no avenue for us to see the game as we would in America.
You are actually incorrect on this point. I'm also stuck with the lovely billet of being the NMCI rep for the unit, so I've done my homework here. You can start at EDS's site and then get even deeper at the contract award site. EDS is going to do exactly what their satement of work and contract say they have to do. Anything you may have read produced by the Navy or Marine Corps that contradicts these two sites is merely wishful thinking or bad information.
STRATIS(Warehouse management:Linux, Oracle), as well as ROLMS(Ammunition accounting:Solaris/NT, Oracle) and DMLSS(Medical Logistics:Oracle) are three systems that I am responsible for that employ non MS based solutions. All 3 of these systems have been identified by EDS Corp as LEGACY applications and will be supported in house by DOD personnel. The contract clearly explains the definition of legacy and non-legacy systems.
What you may have been thinking is what would happen if we elected to request EDS to support the functionality of the system. In this case, EDS would contract out and provide their own MS based solution which would be a non-legacy system. They would support every inch, or byte in this case, of the system. Legacy apps only get supported up to the link light on the LAN card...not the card itself mind you, just that there is a valid signal going to the card.
Linux is not just being considered, it's being used as a realistic, cost effective solution. See this presentation on what the Marine Corps now uses to manage its warehouse inventories. It's a bit old, but still very relevant as the system is being deployed here in Okinawa next month.
Why do you even need 10 digit dialing in NY? Think about it...10 digits is 10 billion possibilities. There aren't even that many people on the planet. Now let's say you gave 10 area codes to NY....that's still 100 million possible numbers. I'm sure there are some wierd restrictions for prefixes and reserved numbers that will knock off a few million numbers, but still....
That's all well and good until you break your phone and realize that the only numbers you know are 911 and POSSIBLY your home number. I live in Japan where EVERYONE has a cell phone and they show the same dependancy. My cell phone got dropped in water once and I damned near had a heart attack freaking out over the possibility of losing so many phone numbers and email addresses. Fortunately, my new phone has a SONY 8MB memory stick which I back everything up to periodically. (I did recover the stuff from my old phone...Docomo phones are damned near indestructable)
Also, I type out full email addresses just about everytime I send an email to friends off of my work's Outlook Web Access. Maybe there's a better way, but it's not that hard to remember an old fashioned email address.
I just saw Bon Jovi in concert at the Tokyo Dome. The Japanese have been in an economic slump longer than America. However, that stadium was sold out in 10 minutes and packed with 50,000 fans. Most of them came in wearing, or purchased in the stadium, all kinds of Bon Jovi gear. A T-shirt with Jon's picture on it was running about 6000 Yen which is close to $50. CD's here run 3000 Yen ($26).
My point is that good music still sells. Part of this is also due to a loyal fan base. As long as the music industry continues to manufacture these cheezy one-hit-wonder acts in the hope of quick money from Tower Records, their industry will continue to suck. If they start focussing on what the fans want, they will keep their loyal fan base and thus, their solid revenue flow.
I would have to concure. I live in Japan, where there is actually email as well as SMS. SMS is rarely used since email is more flexible. In the year I have had my phone, I've only had one incident where someone asked why I didn't reply to a message that I never received. Although, knowing the person, it was entirely possible they were a bit $h!7-faced and sent it to someone else.
Also, 10 cents per SMS??? I'd have to write a damned long email on my phone to get charged like that.
There are two different ball games going on. For the general network, check my classified email stuff, NT is the current OS. For the Intelligence side of the house doing complex tracking and image recognition, the OS of choice has almost always been Solaris in the exercises I've done. The network guys don't even touch the intelligence guys stuff as they don't understand it. There has always been civilian contractors present to manage the UNIX side of the classified networks.
I have applied to the AC's post at great length, but I think I can answer your points pretty quickly.
#1 I think we have provided hints to the inspectors. In a few days, they will make their report. Iraq has been warned repeatedly about their conduct by the international community and if they have once again tried to lie their way through the rules, then they're going to be punished. If the report indicates they are clean and no one else can bring evidence to the table saying otherwise, then I will be happy to see the sanctions and other actions taken against them lifted.
#2 I'm not saying their actions justify the attack. I'm saying that their lack of compliance to non-violent means of resolving this has put themselves in this position. It would be different if this were 9 years ago and they had messed up due to a simple misunderstanding and immediately showed a willingness to correct the problem and cooperate with the international community. Unfortunately it has simply been too many years and too many ignored warnings and violated rules and sanctions. I am saddened to see it has come this far, but repeated misconduct will eventually garner negative consequences. I once had my drivers license suspended for a year because I got too many speeding tickets. The judge was legitimately pissed, but also unhappy with what she was doing to me. Upon realizing that, I finally understood beyond a shadow of doubt what it means to be responsible for my own actions.
I live in Japan and my Japanese still is quite poor despite 5 years of studying. I think your English is great!
I hope this was the response you were looking for. If not, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Either way I think this has been a very good discussion.
I normally do not reply to AC's, but per the request of a registered user....
#1 You are absolutely incorrect. You can't just go to the UN and say, "They are evil, trust us." and get results. The people you are pointing the finger at will demand evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Lacking that evidence, they will just accuse you of lying....which is exactly what's going on right now. We've made the statement that we KNOW Iraq has active WMD programs. But without disclosing how we know that, Iraq is just claiming that we're lying. Ideally, the inspectors will locate the programs the old fashioned way without us having to disclose the intelligence capability we have. In the event that the inspections team does report on the 18th that Iraq is squeaky clean, I have no doubt that the US will release that intelligence information.
While I may not know first hand exactly what the sticking point is with this information, I am familiar with this process. We do training out here all the time with the Koreans, Thai, Phillipines and Japanese. When we do integrated training with them, there are toys we don't even bring out to the exercises. The reason why is because the countries in question not only don't have the technology, but they're also not even researching it. The reason why they aren't researching it is because they haven't even thought of it. All they have to do is see it and they will begin looking into how they can duplicate and defeat it. Intelligence works the exact same way. If you know the weakness I exploited to find something out, you are going to ensure that the weakness is corrected.
#2 Of course no one wants war...myself included. I haven't "lived" in a country on the brink of poverty. But I have many friends who live and work in the Korean peninsula and I have visited there many times. I have seen with my own eyes the death and maltreatment that is not only due to government mistreatment, but a general lack of resources in the country itself. I have spoken with these people and some of them are so desperate, that they beleive war with their neighbors is the only answer left to gain the resources they need to survive. You don't even have to visit N. Korea to learn this though. Just find a night time picture taken from space. You can practically see the stark outline of the country because it is a gapping black whole with no lights spawned from industry or modernization. China is another country I have been unfortunate enough to witness first hand. There are entire villiages of people suffering from malnutrition that you will never see in the media. China wants to brag about its military might, space program, and engineering prowess. But you will never see the human cost enacted on their own people to fuel these highlites.
Your quoted interpretation of my earlier days looks like it was taken straight off a left wing militant manifesto. Guess what? Over half the parts in the computer you used to post your comment were made in the same sweat shop/child labor manner and you shelled out the money just like I did. What you won't read in your manifesto is that those kids who work in those sweat shops are proud of what they do and happy that they could earn some money to take home to their families. I'll agree with you about the slave labor being evil, but whining because some 8 year old kid makes shoes for $10 bucks a week is just ignorant. Take your own advice and visit Thailand. $5 there will get you a room, all the food you can eat, all the beer you can drink, and even a woman if you desire. That's because in their economy, they can support a family in what they think is a decent lifestyle for just a 100th of what it takes in First World countries. I'm not saying that we shouldn't make efforts to improve their quality of life. What I'm saying is that most of those people are just happy to be alive and have something to eat everyday and they really aren't concerned with when the next Britney Spears album comes out. If my $120 pair of running shoes helped feed some kid for a month as opposed to paying for an American teenager's new discman, then I can sleep at night. Tip a waitress in Thailand $1. In America she'd give you a dirty look and go complain about what a tight-wad you are. In Thailand, she will profoundly thank you because you just gave her enough money to buy food for the next few days.
I used the whole trade arguement as a demontration of one of the reasons why Iraq's actions are a problem. We're not going to attack them because they don't buy our stuff. We're attacking them because they keep doing things that are in violation of UN resolutions. Shoplifters don't go to jail for not buying something, they go to jail because taking it without buying it is in violation of the law. The international community has told Iraq "Don't do that" a thousand times and talking just doesn't seem to be working.
They do teach ethics to officers and enlisted and take it very seriously. This is not just an issue of the US economy. If it was, I would be the first in line to be a conscientious objector. If a war occurs in Iraq, it will be based on numerous violations of UN resolutions in addition to known ties with terrorist activity. If a war occurs in Korea, it will be because N. Korea invades S. Korea in a desperate attempt to improve their economic condition or as a result of a military coup. While I may not have seen first hand evidence of the Iraq situation because it is not in my Area of Operations, I HAVE seen the evidence in the case of Korea. There is no legitimate reason for N. Korea to attack anyone and I will sleep soundly at night if I am forced to halt such an attack. And I don't even need a course in ethics to know the difference between obeying and disobeying your community rules. Rules are rules, whether you like them or not.
I would be interrested to see an arguement on why it's OK for Iraq to repeatedly violate these rules.
#1 Let's say you have a girlfriend who's off at college and travels alot with a varsity team. When she's travelling, she has often asked you to check her email for her. The new season has started off and she heads out on a trip and you decide to suprise her by already checking her email because you know she is expecting mid-term grades and will ask you to check when she calls. To your horror, you find an email from some guy talking about how great the other night was. Do you call her right away and say, I was checking your email and I think your cheating on me? Or do you try and find out the truth another way and keep the ability to read her email as a source of information?
Granted that's kind of a loose analogy, but it hits the point. The US has intelligence gathering capabilities that we don't want people to know we have. While we could just come out and say, "We have discovered that Nuclear weapons release a high frequency EM energy when heated above 28 dgrees Celsius." Every country or terrorist that is trying to create or hide those weapons will start air conditioning them and we've just lost that source. Ideally, the UN weapons inspectors will find clues the old fashioned way that everyone already knows about, and we get to keep an intelligence edge.
#2 I think countries on the brink of poverty and wide spread government unrest would disagree with you. If attacking a country whos actions is causing your economic and social problems is the only way to get them to stop, then so be it. Many historical wars have been over trade issues. It's not like Iraq hasn't been a chance to resolve this peacefully....I've lost count of the chances they've been given.
The reason why I view this the way I do is because I used to be a member of the American lower class. I had a job out at McDonald's on the beach as soon as I was old enough to work so I could help my family pay the bills and attempt to save some kind of money for college. If gas prices had suddenly doubled, I could not have afforded to put gas in the car to get to work. I would have had to quit the beach job and look for something closer. There are millions of people in America who live paycheck to paycheck and they depend on a stable economy. There are 100's of millions of people in underdeveloped countries accross the planet who make less money a year than I make each week. And some of their income is derived from products they export that I buy. It just isn't as simple as, "damn, gas prices doubled, guess I'll have to cut out my weekly massage appointment."
There are also more trade issues than just oil out there. I have continued on with that subject because it's the most popular. America, as well as other countries, also export food and medical supplies out there. If we can no longer export it out there, then the people who worked to produce those items will most likely be laid off due to decrease in demand.
I do not know your education level, but I would guess you are either young, or have not gone beyond basic primary education. You will eventually learn not to beleive everything you see.
#1 The media does not have access to Allied intelligence. Without access to the solid information that Iraq is a problem, they will publish many stories that are questioning the US position on Iraq simply because it's the only thing they have that is interresting to read.
#2 I live in Japan and my friends here as well as some friends I have in China would all disagree with you. Granted, they all have at least college degrees and have spent enough time studying governement and political science to realize that the situation in Iraq is more than just a personal problem with GW Bush....Iraq's actions have negatively affected the whole region and pose a real threat to the stability of trade in the region. This eventually effects us all as it could provide a chain reaction of rising inflation should those trade routes be disrupted. Inflation that outpaces income growth will widen the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" which could potentially unbalance countries with existing unrest.
It's all about being a responsible citizen of the planet. Iraq has taken the attitude that it should be free to do whatever it wants. Unfortunately, personal freedom can only go so far before it begins to conflict with the freedoms of others. The UN is involved in this for a reason. And lacking all the info myself, I will trust that these educated men and women who represent their countries in the UN have expressed an interrest because they have credible evidence that the problem is real.
The media industry is already making the move into product placement as the means to make money. We've seen it in movies for years, but most TV shows and music have avoided it due to commercial sponsorship. The industrty realizes we can make digital recordings and edit out the commercials, so why not embed the commercials in the shows themselves. It's only a matter of time before Pepsi's new ad campaign involves their name being mentioned in 8 of the Top Ten songs on the radio....plus your still stuck with the advertizing if you buy the CD, or just "steal" it off the internet. Could be a good thing for the file swappers if they can now argue that the artist was paid by the advertizers
I would beg to differ. I think domain names fall under the bounds of intellectual property. While two people running rock bands of the same name may not do much harm to anyone but themselves, having more than one internet naming athority could potentially cause quite a bit of havoc as packets streams get split between two physical destinations. Since copyrighting the name you come up with is not structured enough to preserve the integrity of the net, you pay a fee to register YOUR name with a governing body that will theoretically respect your intellectual right to owning that name.
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Actually, the damage was almost minimal to the Japanese air system. The delay only lasted 50 minutes. Unlike American travellers, Japanese people will quietly and orderly board a fully booked 747 in under 20 minutes. If asked to hurry, they will board it even faster. That combined with Narita and Haneda's ability to handle traffic far above their average had most flights back on time before noon. Only a small handful of international passengers may have had to rebook a connecting flight. Domestic flights are almost always direct.
As far as risk management, had there actually been a perceived emergency due to the malfunctioning radar display system, the airports would default to an agreement with Yokota and Atsugi US airbases to provide fallback flight control facilities.
This is really a non news item. The system administrator correctly applied upgrades during non-critical operation time. (i.e. not during the main business week) The problem was identified early on and corrected pretty damned quick. This happens hundreds of times a week all over the world. Had the glitch actually halted the entire Japanese air system for a long period of time, then it would make more sense.
The flip side is the ability to mark emails as copyrighted. How many times have you wanted to email someone and tell them straight that they are a Grade 'A', 1st Class moron? Of course the main thing that kept you from doing it was knowing it would get forwarded around and eventually to your boss who would chew your *ss for being unprofessional.
I see these 'Look what this idiot just penned his name to' emails at least once a week. So in a sense, DRM will be expanding our first ammendment right to express ourselves in email without subsequently giving up our 5th ammendment right to not incriminate ourselves.
The rest of it pretty much sucks @$$ though.
I had a seat, then I did this thing called graduating. I'm talking 12MBit domestic, not commercial. Did I mention I only pay $25 a month for it? How much was your tuition, room and board again?
Sorry, couldn't resist, but in all honesty I do miss the college dorm, unlimitted pr0n, QuakeIII frag fest days.
Very good point. The best I've seen is 7.5MBit sustained while downloading the 187MB Dungeon Seige demo from Microsux. My usual average is between 1.5 and 2MBit depending on the pipe the other side has, so all and all, much better than the usual ADSL service provided in the states. Don't even get me started on the difference in cell phone technology.
And I can't resist a jibe back....unless you live at work, it doesn't count. I have a fat pipe at work too, but usually don't notice the difference due to bottlenecks elsewhere in the internet.
Say for instance here in Japan where the geeks are all viewing slashdot through a 12MBit ADSL connection....and it's just now 6pm...let the peak usage period begin.
... I SAID WHO WANTS TO F*@#ING TOUCH ME?
Yes, yes, I have a 12MBit ADSL connection; now who wants to touch me?
Most of the missions are run of the mill, public domain. But I doubt you're going to find a HAM radio operator who listened in to the minute by minute play of the deployment of military sattelites.
As far as the hardware goes...it may seem astoundingly simple, but not all countries have the technological know-how to produce that kind of hardware. That leaves them with two choices: #1 spend even more money they don't have on the research (read: let more of their citizens starve to death while the military sucks up 70% of the National budget...sorry North Korea). or #2 buy it off the black market and reverse engineer it.
It boggles the mind that after half a dozen years of Java, Sun has not yet moved their default desktop over to Java GUI apps.
I have to ask....why? How many times do you have to visit a web site that gives you 15 popup windows complaining about script errors in IE? Just to load netscape and have the page work fine, or vice versa. Who here hasn't had to download an older version of the JRE because you've found a program that doesn't work on the newer versions. JAVA isn't, nor has it ever been, platform independant. It continues to be unstable on more platforms than just solaris and really doesn't provide that much of an advantage over ANSI C/C++. Yeah, it was cool back in the days before DHTML, Flash, and XML. But now it offers very little additional functionality.
I may be commiting a sin to say this on slashdot, but just because it's free doesn't mean it's worth using.
Actually, starting salary for an experienced UNIX C Programmer will range from $90K to $160K just monetarily. However, most companies have deals with housing agencies that reduce the need for a higher salary. The programmers just have to live in one of the company houses/appartments. All the infrustructure is probably already in place, so I'm betting that they will hire 4 somewhat experienced programmers and give them a logitics budget of around $20K. That's actually a pretty good development team for this project considering they will be doing it full-time.
Do a Google on Akihabara. Or if you're too lazy to do that, just imagine an entire city of computer stores. I was just there three weeks ago and there is MORE THAN ENOUGH sources for legitimate software, both Japanese, or English versions.
As far as illegal software, there is a great deal of street vendors who pawn that stuff off, but I've seen the same thing in New York. It may be a little bit worse in Japan due to the vast availablilty of high-speed broadband. And no, my use of high-speed and broadband is not redundant. I have a 12MBit ADSL line which usually averages 2.5 MBit, but on sites that can handle it, I've gone as high as 7.5MBit sustained. There are also regions that run 100MBit ethernet straight to your home. I only pay 2800yen (~$25) per month for my ADSL, which makes piracy quite cheap for me if I decided to go down that road to make an illegal yen or two.
Now, I have also been to Hong Kong, where after 5 days I had still not located a store that was actually selling legitimate copies of software. But there were more places than I could count pawning off the illegal copies.
Just imagine being told you have cancer....and then being handed a law suite for not licensing the process of mutating human DNA.
If only the USPTO would wake up to other scemes like this.
For those of us in the military overseas, we will be watching the game on the Armed Forces Network (AFN). Due to a variety of issues, no commercials are aired on AFN which means we miss out on what could potentially be the more entertaining part of the game.
If someone with a really kind heart could encode the commercials and post them on the internet, we would be very appreciative. Last year wasn't so bad as we do get Fox, although tape delayed by two weeks, so we could watch the commercials when it re-aired. This year, there will be no avenue for us to see the game as we would in America.
Thanks in advance.
You are actually incorrect on this point. I'm also stuck with the lovely billet of being the NMCI rep for the unit, so I've done my homework here. You can start at EDS's site and then get even deeper at the contract award site. EDS is going to do exactly what their satement of work and contract say they have to do. Anything you may have read produced by the Navy or Marine Corps that contradicts these two sites is merely wishful thinking or bad information.
STRATIS(Warehouse management:Linux, Oracle), as well as ROLMS(Ammunition accounting:Solaris/NT, Oracle) and DMLSS(Medical Logistics:Oracle) are three systems that I am responsible for that employ non MS based solutions. All 3 of these systems have been identified by EDS Corp as LEGACY applications and will be supported in house by DOD personnel. The contract clearly explains the definition of legacy and non-legacy systems.
What you may have been thinking is what would happen if we elected to request EDS to support the functionality of the system. In this case, EDS would contract out and provide their own MS based solution which would be a non-legacy system. They would support every inch, or byte in this case, of the system. Legacy apps only get supported up to the link light on the LAN card...not the card itself mind you, just that there is a valid signal going to the card.
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Linux is not just being considered, it's being used as a realistic, cost effective solution. See this presentation on what the Marine Corps now uses to manage its warehouse inventories. It's a bit old, but still very relevant as the system is being deployed here in Okinawa next month.
Why do you even need 10 digit dialing in NY? Think about it...10 digits is 10 billion possibilities. There aren't even that many people on the planet. Now let's say you gave 10 area codes to NY....that's still 100 million possible numbers. I'm sure there are some wierd restrictions for prefixes and reserved numbers that will knock off a few million numbers, but still....
That's all well and good until you break your phone and realize that the only numbers you know are 911 and POSSIBLY your home number. I live in Japan where EVERYONE has a cell phone and they show the same dependancy. My cell phone got dropped in water once and I damned near had a heart attack freaking out over the possibility of losing so many phone numbers and email addresses. Fortunately, my new phone has a SONY 8MB memory stick which I back everything up to periodically. (I did recover the stuff from my old phone...Docomo phones are damned near indestructable)
Also, I type out full email addresses just about everytime I send an email to friends off of my work's Outlook Web Access. Maybe there's a better way, but it's not that hard to remember an old fashioned email address.
I just saw Bon Jovi in concert at the Tokyo Dome. The Japanese have been in an economic slump longer than America. However, that stadium was sold out in 10 minutes and packed with 50,000 fans. Most of them came in wearing, or purchased in the stadium, all kinds of Bon Jovi gear. A T-shirt with Jon's picture on it was running about 6000 Yen which is close to $50. CD's here run 3000 Yen ($26).
My point is that good music still sells. Part of this is also due to a loyal fan base. As long as the music industry continues to manufacture these cheezy one-hit-wonder acts in the hope of quick money from Tower Records, their industry will continue to suck. If they start focussing on what the fans want, they will keep their loyal fan base and thus, their solid revenue flow.
I would have to concure. I live in Japan, where there is actually email as well as SMS. SMS is rarely used since email is more flexible. In the year I have had my phone, I've only had one incident where someone asked why I didn't reply to a message that I never received. Although, knowing the person, it was entirely possible they were a bit $h!7-faced and sent it to someone else.
Also, 10 cents per SMS??? I'd have to write a damned long email on my phone to get charged like that.
Check out DoCoMo's English Site to see what your missing.
There are two different ball games going on. For the general network, check my classified email stuff, NT is the current OS. For the Intelligence side of the house doing complex tracking and image recognition, the OS of choice has almost always been Solaris in the exercises I've done. The network guys don't even touch the intelligence guys stuff as they don't understand it. There has always been civilian contractors present to manage the UNIX side of the classified networks.
Firewalls for exercises have usually been BSD.
I have applied to the AC's post at great length, but I think I can answer your points pretty quickly.
#1 I think we have provided hints to the inspectors. In a few days, they will make their report. Iraq has been warned repeatedly about their conduct by the international community and if they have once again tried to lie their way through the rules, then they're going to be punished. If the report indicates they are clean and no one else can bring evidence to the table saying otherwise, then I will be happy to see the sanctions and other actions taken against them lifted.
#2 I'm not saying their actions justify the attack. I'm saying that their lack of compliance to non-violent means of resolving this has put themselves in this position. It would be different if this were 9 years ago and they had messed up due to a simple misunderstanding and immediately showed a willingness to correct the problem and cooperate with the international community. Unfortunately it has simply been too many years and too many ignored warnings and violated rules and sanctions. I am saddened to see it has come this far, but repeated misconduct will eventually garner negative consequences. I once had my drivers license suspended for a year because I got too many speeding tickets. The judge was legitimately pissed, but also unhappy with what she was doing to me. Upon realizing that, I finally understood beyond a shadow of doubt what it means to be responsible for my own actions.
I live in Japan and my Japanese still is quite poor despite 5 years of studying. I think your English is great!
I hope this was the response you were looking for. If not, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Either way I think this has been a very good discussion.
I normally do not reply to AC's, but per the request of a registered user....
#1 You are absolutely incorrect. You can't just go to the UN and say, "They are evil, trust us." and get results. The people you are pointing the finger at will demand evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Lacking that evidence, they will just accuse you of lying....which is exactly what's going on right now. We've made the statement that we KNOW Iraq has active WMD programs. But without disclosing how we know that, Iraq is just claiming that we're lying. Ideally, the inspectors will locate the programs the old fashioned way without us having to disclose the intelligence capability we have. In the event that the inspections team does report on the 18th that Iraq is squeaky clean, I have no doubt that the US will release that intelligence information.
While I may not know first hand exactly what the sticking point is with this information, I am familiar with this process. We do training out here all the time with the Koreans, Thai, Phillipines and Japanese. When we do integrated training with them, there are toys we don't even bring out to the exercises. The reason why is because the countries in question not only don't have the technology, but they're also not even researching it. The reason why they aren't researching it is because they haven't even thought of it. All they have to do is see it and they will begin looking into how they can duplicate and defeat it. Intelligence works the exact same way. If you know the weakness I exploited to find something out, you are going to ensure that the weakness is corrected.
#2 Of course no one wants war...myself included. I haven't "lived" in a country on the brink of poverty. But I have many friends who live and work in the Korean peninsula and I have visited there many times. I have seen with my own eyes the death and maltreatment that is not only due to government mistreatment, but a general lack of resources in the country itself. I have spoken with these people and some of them are so desperate, that they beleive war with their neighbors is the only answer left to gain the resources they need to survive. You don't even have to visit N. Korea to learn this though. Just find a night time picture taken from space. You can practically see the stark outline of the country because it is a gapping black whole with no lights spawned from industry or modernization. China is another country I have been unfortunate enough to witness first hand. There are entire villiages of people suffering from malnutrition that you will never see in the media. China wants to brag about its military might, space program, and engineering prowess. But you will never see the human cost enacted on their own people to fuel these highlites.
Your quoted interpretation of my earlier days looks like it was taken straight off a left wing militant manifesto. Guess what? Over half the parts in the computer you used to post your comment were made in the same sweat shop/child labor manner and you shelled out the money just like I did. What you won't read in your manifesto is that those kids who work in those sweat shops are proud of what they do and happy that they could earn some money to take home to their families. I'll agree with you about the slave labor being evil, but whining because some 8 year old kid makes shoes for $10 bucks a week is just ignorant. Take your own advice and visit Thailand. $5 there will get you a room, all the food you can eat, all the beer you can drink, and even a woman if you desire. That's because in their economy, they can support a family in what they think is a decent lifestyle for just a 100th of what it takes in First World countries. I'm not saying that we shouldn't make efforts to improve their quality of life. What I'm saying is that most of those people are just happy to be alive and have something to eat everyday and they really aren't concerned with when the next Britney Spears album comes out. If my $120 pair of running shoes helped feed some kid for a month as opposed to paying for an American teenager's new discman, then I can sleep at night. Tip a waitress in Thailand $1. In America she'd give you a dirty look and go complain about what a tight-wad you are. In Thailand, she will profoundly thank you because you just gave her enough money to buy food for the next few days.
I used the whole trade arguement as a demontration of one of the reasons why Iraq's actions are a problem. We're not going to attack them because they don't buy our stuff. We're attacking them because they keep doing things that are in violation of UN resolutions. Shoplifters don't go to jail for not buying something, they go to jail because taking it without buying it is in violation of the law. The international community has told Iraq "Don't do that" a thousand times and talking just doesn't seem to be working.
They do teach ethics to officers and enlisted and take it very seriously. This is not just an issue of the US economy. If it was, I would be the first in line to be a conscientious objector. If a war occurs in Iraq, it will be based on numerous violations of UN resolutions in addition to known ties with terrorist activity. If a war occurs in Korea, it will be because N. Korea invades S. Korea in a desperate attempt to improve their economic condition or as a result of a military coup. While I may not have seen first hand evidence of the Iraq situation because it is not in my Area of Operations, I HAVE seen the evidence in the case of Korea. There is no legitimate reason for N. Korea to attack anyone and I will sleep soundly at night if I am forced to halt such an attack. And I don't even need a course in ethics to know the difference between obeying and disobeying your community rules. Rules are rules, whether you like them or not.
I would be interrested to see an arguement on why it's OK for Iraq to repeatedly violate these rules.
#1 Let's say you have a girlfriend who's off at college and travels alot with a varsity team. When she's travelling, she has often asked you to check her email for her. The new season has started off and she heads out on a trip and you decide to suprise her by already checking her email because you know she is expecting mid-term grades and will ask you to check when she calls. To your horror, you find an email from some guy talking about how great the other night was. Do you call her right away and say, I was checking your email and I think your cheating on me? Or do you try and find out the truth another way and keep the ability to read her email as a source of information?
Granted that's kind of a loose analogy, but it hits the point. The US has intelligence gathering capabilities that we don't want people to know we have. While we could just come out and say, "We have discovered that Nuclear weapons release a high frequency EM energy when heated above 28 dgrees Celsius." Every country or terrorist that is trying to create or hide those weapons will start air conditioning them and we've just lost that source. Ideally, the UN weapons inspectors will find clues the old fashioned way that everyone already knows about, and we get to keep an intelligence edge.
#2 I think countries on the brink of poverty and wide spread government unrest would disagree with you. If attacking a country whos actions is causing your economic and social problems is the only way to get them to stop, then so be it. Many historical wars have been over trade issues. It's not like Iraq hasn't been a chance to resolve this peacefully....I've lost count of the chances they've been given.
The reason why I view this the way I do is because I used to be a member of the American lower class. I had a job out at McDonald's on the beach as soon as I was old enough to work so I could help my family pay the bills and attempt to save some kind of money for college. If gas prices had suddenly doubled, I could not have afforded to put gas in the car to get to work. I would have had to quit the beach job and look for something closer. There are millions of people in America who live paycheck to paycheck and they depend on a stable economy. There are 100's of millions of people in underdeveloped countries accross the planet who make less money a year than I make each week. And some of their income is derived from products they export that I buy. It just isn't as simple as, "damn, gas prices doubled, guess I'll have to cut out my weekly massage appointment."
There are also more trade issues than just oil out there. I have continued on with that subject because it's the most popular. America, as well as other countries, also export food and medical supplies out there. If we can no longer export it out there, then the people who worked to produce those items will most likely be laid off due to decrease in demand.
Trade matters alot and always has.
I do not know your education level, but I would guess you are either young, or have not gone beyond basic primary education. You will eventually learn not to beleive everything you see.
#1 The media does not have access to Allied intelligence. Without access to the solid information that Iraq is a problem, they will publish many stories that are questioning the US position on Iraq simply because it's the only thing they have that is interresting to read.
#2 I live in Japan and my friends here as well as some friends I have in China would all disagree with you. Granted, they all have at least college degrees and have spent enough time studying governement and political science to realize that the situation in Iraq is more than just a personal problem with GW Bush....Iraq's actions have negatively affected the whole region and pose a real threat to the stability of trade in the region. This eventually effects us all as it could provide a chain reaction of rising inflation should those trade routes be disrupted. Inflation that outpaces income growth will widen the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" which could potentially unbalance countries with existing unrest.
It's all about being a responsible citizen of the planet. Iraq has taken the attitude that it should be free to do whatever it wants. Unfortunately, personal freedom can only go so far before it begins to conflict with the freedoms of others. The UN is involved in this for a reason. And lacking all the info myself, I will trust that these educated men and women who represent their countries in the UN have expressed an interrest because they have credible evidence that the problem is real.
The media industry is already making the move into product placement as the means to make money. We've seen it in movies for years, but most TV shows and music have avoided it due to commercial sponsorship. The industrty realizes we can make digital recordings and edit out the commercials, so why not embed the commercials in the shows themselves. It's only a matter of time before Pepsi's new ad campaign involves their name being mentioned in 8 of the Top Ten songs on the radio....plus your still stuck with the advertizing if you buy the CD, or just "steal" it off the internet. Could be a good thing for the file swappers if they can now argue that the artist was paid by the advertizers
I would beg to differ. I think domain names fall under the bounds of intellectual property. While two people running rock bands of the same name may not do much harm to anyone but themselves, having more than one internet naming athority could potentially cause quite a bit of havoc as packets streams get split between two physical destinations. Since copyrighting the name you come up with is not structured enough to preserve the integrity of the net, you pay a fee to register YOUR name with a governing body that will theoretically respect your intellectual right to owning that name.