Who cares about the ammo? It is simple to keep track of by conventional methods.
The great thing would be a system that would display a topographical map with markers for all of your fellow squad members and any annotations that might be useful, such as enemy positions, objectives etc. Plus you could use the system to direct mortar and artillery fire. A really sophisticated system would integrate data from remote sensors, such as RPVs.
Politicians are not idiots. They are smarter than most of the people on slashdot. Just because someone doesn't agree with your views, does not make them an idiot.
That's how the Senator - who voted against secure handgun storage, and twice against child safety locks - positioned himself as our noble defender of children.
If you think Handgun Control Inc. has anything to do with gun safety, you have been smoking too much weed. Anyone who opposes their gun ban agenda is branded as being "against the children".
The one program that has been proven to work, the NRA's "Eddie Eagle" program, has faced bitter opposition from the so-called gun safety advocates.
For most communications systems, costs are determined largely by peak usage, not total usage. A telephone system is engineered to provide a certain quality-of-service during peak usage periods, often defined as the busy-hour. That drives the requirements for switch capacity and inter-office trunk lines. Similarly, a dialup ISP has to buy enough modems and phone lines to meet its quality-of-service standards during peak usage periods.
One of the justifications for charging more for business subscriber lines is that the business subscribers are the main component of the system's peak usage. Residential users have a different usage pattern, using what would otherwise be idle capacity in the system.
The tricky part is how do you charge for this? There seem to be two schools, the "cost plus markup" and the "value" school. The telephone companies like the "value" approach, as it generates larger profits. One possibility is to meter usage, but make the rates time dependent. Charge full-rate during peak usage periods and much cheaper rates during off-peak periods.
Good question. It could be argued that some of the early batch systems had a CLI, they just took input from cards instead of a teletype. Some of these systems had a teletype for the operator's console. A better question might be what was the first time sharing system with a CLI? IBM had some horrible kludge (TSO) that was bolted on to OS/360. I'm sure there were earlier examples. I used to know an ex-Burroughs programmer who said that Burroughs invented many of the things that IBM is often given credit for.
I currently use Exabyte 8mm tape drives for most of my backup jobs. They have gotten cheaper, but they are still over $1000 for a basic 8mm tape drive. What I really like about them is the cheap media. You can get 112m 8mm tapes at very good prices. All the other tape drives, including the high-end 8mm models, charge outrageous prices for blank tapes. This can kill your budget when you need a large number of tape cartridges. I would like to have a higher density tape drive, as long as the media price was reasonable.
My favorites are "controlled flight into terrain" and "uncontrolled flight into terrain". A "controlled flight into terrain" is where everything is working properly except that the pilot didn't notice the big mountain in his flight path.
While Internet and other modern technologies may be changing our society, I would suggest that television is still the biggest influence. People watch an enormous amount of television. Besides pushing products, television influences our beliefs about the "real world".
The court cases seem to hinge on whether or not you have an "expectation of privacy". This can get fuzzy, as in search and seizure of an automobile and its contents.
I've read that the CSS, region coding and macrovision are all optional, in fact they charge you extra money in licensing fees to use them on your disk.
I believe it was Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in an infamous case, Schenck v. United States, which upheld a World War I law that criminalized the distribution of anti-war literature. It was a low point for the first amendment.
Bytes transferred may not be the right thing to measure and charge for.
With the telephone system, the variable costs of running the system are mostly dependent on peak usage, not the total number or length of calls. Off-peak usage just uses otherwise idle capacity.
With a data network, the optimal solution would be to charge full rate for usage that occurs during peak usage periods, and charge low rates during other times. The idea being that the people whose usage patterns force the network provider to buy more upstream bandwidth should be the ones who get the large bills.
It isn't just the power, telephone company equipment is generally engineered and tested to higher standards of reliability than network equipment. The voice network has more redundancy and reliability than most data networks.
I should have been more specific. There are two copyrights, the copyright on the composition and the copyright on the phonogram (record/tape/CD). The phonogram copyright holder does not get royalties, only the composition copyright holder.
If I record a cover of Purple Haze, and it hits the top 40 on radio, the Hendrix family gets royalties and I get nothing.
It looks like the same policy as the IEEE, standards may use patented inventions but the patent holder is required to license the patent under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms.
You are in a minority. Most people, especially businesses, buy a box from a vendor and use it as is. It is usually not cost effective to upgrade the system. Replacing a motherboard is a major waste of time and money. It is cheaper to replace it with a new box.
Many SCSI drives used to actually be ST506 and ESDI drives with SCSI bridge boards installed by the manufacturer. There is no reason that it couldn't be done with IDE drives.
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The great thing would be a system that would display a topographical map with markers for all of your fellow squad members and any annotations that might be useful, such as enemy positions, objectives etc. Plus you could use the system to direct mortar and artillery fire. A really sophisticated system would integrate data from remote sensors, such as RPVs.
Politicians are not idiots. They are smarter than most of the people on slashdot. Just because someone doesn't agree with your views, does not make them an idiot.
If you think Handgun Control Inc. has anything to do with gun safety, you have been smoking too much weed. Anyone who opposes their gun ban agenda is branded as being "against the children". The one program that has been proven to work, the NRA's "Eddie Eagle" program, has faced bitter opposition from the so-called gun safety advocates.
The tricky part is how do you charge for this? There seem to be two schools, the "cost plus markup" and the "value" school. The telephone companies like the "value" approach, as it generates larger profits. One possibility is to meter usage, but make the rates time dependent. Charge full-rate during peak usage periods and much cheaper rates during off-peak periods.
Good question. It could be argued that some of the early batch systems had a CLI, they just took input from cards instead of a teletype. Some of these systems had a teletype for the operator's console. A better question might be what was the first time sharing system with a CLI? IBM had some horrible kludge (TSO) that was bolted on to OS/360. I'm sure there were earlier examples. I used to know an ex-Burroughs programmer who said that Burroughs invented many of the things that IBM is often given credit for.
I currently use Exabyte 8mm tape drives for most of my backup jobs. They have gotten cheaper, but they are still over $1000 for a basic 8mm tape drive. What I really like about them is the cheap media. You can get 112m 8mm tapes at very good prices. All the other tape drives, including the high-end 8mm models, charge outrageous prices for blank tapes. This can kill your budget when you need a large number of tape cartridges. I would like to have a higher density tape drive, as long as the media price was reasonable.
My favorites are "controlled flight into terrain" and "uncontrolled flight into terrain". A "controlled flight into terrain" is where everything is working properly except that the pilot didn't notice the big mountain in his flight path.
While Internet and other modern technologies may be changing our society, I would suggest that television is still the biggest influence. People watch an enormous amount of television. Besides pushing products, television influences our beliefs about the "real world".
The material was intercepted during the war and cracked and exploited after the war.
The court cases seem to hinge on whether or not you have an "expectation of privacy". This can get fuzzy, as in search and seizure of an automobile and its contents.
I've read that the CSS, region coding and macrovision are all optional, in fact they charge you extra money in licensing fees to use them on your disk.
They are sold by the spin-off/descendant of the IBM keyboard division.
I believe it was Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in an infamous case, Schenck v. United States, which upheld a World War I law that criminalized the distribution of anti-war literature. It was a low point for the first amendment.
With the telephone system, the variable costs of running the system are mostly dependent on peak usage, not the total number or length of calls. Off-peak usage just uses otherwise idle capacity.
With a data network, the optimal solution would be to charge full rate for usage that occurs during peak usage periods, and charge low rates during other times. The idea being that the people whose usage patterns force the network provider to buy more upstream bandwidth should be the ones who get the large bills.
It isn't just the power, telephone company equipment is generally engineered and tested to higher standards of reliability than network equipment. The voice network has more redundancy and reliability than most data networks.
Cold isn't good for motors, lubricants and bearings.
Please do not propogate this urban legend. It is not true.
I think the version number is in reference to FreeBSD, not UCB BSD.
The IRS pays big rewards to employees, ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, etc. who turn in tax evaders.
Mu metal is often used in electronic test equipment to shield components from magnetic fields.
If I record a cover of Purple Haze, and it hits the top 40 on radio, the Hendrix family gets royalties and I get nothing.
Radio stations pay royalties to the composers via ASCAP and BMI. The performers and copyright holders do not get royalties.
It looks like the same policy as the IEEE, standards may use patented inventions but the patent holder is required to license the patent under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms.
You are in a minority. Most people, especially businesses, buy a box from a vendor and use it as is. It is usually not cost effective to upgrade the system. Replacing a motherboard is a major waste of time and money. It is cheaper to replace it with a new box.
Many SCSI drives used to actually be ST506 and ESDI drives with SCSI bridge boards installed by the manufacturer. There is no reason that it couldn't be done with IDE drives.