...or any other target language, you should at least try to do a proper and complete job of it, not a half-assed job, else you risk presenting yourself as only partially literate and perhaps less than knowledgeable about whatever it is that you're trying to write.
I can't name names, since I'm under NDA, but there is a certain giant, world-famous brand of database and application software whose client software piece will not even install unless the windows logon user is a member of the local admins group. Even though you can technically run it after it's installed as a lesser user, you can expect an endless stream of nitpicky problems until you also make that user a member of the local admins group as well.
Another is a well-known brand of drawing software.
My employer does contract work for state/local governments and probably half of all the niche apps written for the Windows platform for the state/local public sector market, expect full access to the entire machine because most of that software was written by idiots.
Wow, I didn't think my sarcastic humor was that hard to get.
Actually I love Windows, because it makes me a lot of money at my job. If it was a lot more reliable and secure, then I'd have much less work and therefore, less income.
I read somewhere that if I didn't run Windows as an admin, that would help a lot
That's absolutely correct. If you avoid logging onto Windows as Administrator, you greatly lessen your exposure to security hazards. Especially since in the real world you can hardly run any useful software unless you're logged on as admin, therefore your using the Windows box less, and naturally, less use equals less exposure to danger. In fact if you just keep your Windows box powered off, then it will be the absolute most secure against malware.
There seems to be a tacit assumption in posts thus far that unmanned craft will be flying willy-nilly through the commercial lanes. That's just not the case.
Given that practically all airspace in the US, except for very small amounts of restricted and prohibited airspace, is a "commerical lane" by default, your argument is void. UAV's *are* flying "willy-nilly" thru Class G, Class E, and even Class D airspace and it is becoming an topic of serious safety concern for not only general aviation and commercial aviation, but also for military aviation too.
I've heard of at least one case where a law enforcement agency blunderingly flew their UAV right across a US Air Force Base where T-38 jet training operations were in progress.
You don't really have to set a separate reporting database. Just set up some materialized views and give them read-only access to those views. You can control what you want them to have access to, by way of your select statements in those views, refresh the views on your decided schedules, and since they won;t be hitting the live tables, the performance impact will be lessened.
You will have to worry about Oracle client licensing for their connection, if you haven't already bought and paid for that.
I found Verizon's EVDO to be the best performer here in the D/FW metroplex. Smokes AT&T's 3G aircard service for breakfast. We've used Sprint before too, and they're pretty good at least in most of the high-techy areas of the metroplex too, plus also around the D/FW airport where all four major carriers VZW, ATT, T-Mobile and Sprint all have strong coverage.
Considering the town/city I live in has over 100K people and 2 pretty large universities, it has been surprising how poorly their 3G coverage is.
Hmmm, city in N. Texas with 100K population and two universities? Would that be Wichita Falls? I was there a couple months ago and was astounded to find they actually have Verizon EVDO-A service there and I got 1.2Mbps service with my laptop's PC5750 card. I was expecting 1xRTT at best.
So, since the beginning of humanity itself, the plain old unaided human ear can listen for stomach and intestinal rumblings that come right before, and predict the coming of a big old juicy butt fart.
Now we can use a portable EEG scanner built into a baseball cap to detect when a brain fart is about to occur.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
You can't tell the young people of today that. They won't believe you.
...I can say that as long as these things stay at or below about 300' AGL and completely stay 100% out of the airspace (at *any* height AGL) within a 4 nautical mile radius of any airport's traffic pattern, then they will not pose any substantial threat to most manned aircraft. The only exception being medivac helicopters, which can be flying low over any part of a populated area. A rule would need to be enforced that whenever a medivac chopper is in the area, the drones must be landed immediately, regardless of whatever mission they were currently flying... that mission would need to execute an immediate abort.
Now having said that, I do have suspicions that many law enforcement operators of such drones may have a disturbing propensity to disregard the rules of air safety whenever the rules get in the way of their wishes.
BTW, it is commonplace, and recommended, that a small general aviation aircraft be flown at 1000' AGL while flying over densely populated areas. The airspace from 500' AGL to 1000' AGL should be kept off-limits from drones, since that is a safety margin for small fixed-wing aircraft, and also typically where helicopters will be flying too.
...something like "A man who picks up a cat by its tail learns a lesson that cannot be learned any other way" or something to that effect.
Anyone having the audacity to tell a federal agency what they can and cannot do, is probably about to learn a very similar lesson since this day and age, federal agencies tend to be very vindictive and retaliatory whenever anyone dares challenge their authority. They will find some way to save face and regain their insulted "honor" and they are very creative in how they go about doing that.
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I bet Jupiter is just laughing at all of this right about now. ...that would be Uranus.
I hoist my beer in toast to all who made this landing successful!
Here's to all the pictures and valuable research data mankind will receive from this project!
YeeHaw!
...or any other target language, you should at least try to do a proper and complete job of it, not a half-assed job, else you risk presenting yourself as only partially literate and perhaps less than knowledgeable about whatever it is that you're trying to write.
I can't name names, since I'm under NDA, but there is a certain giant, world-famous brand of database and application software whose client software piece will not even install unless the windows logon user is a member of the local admins group. Even though you can technically run it after it's installed as a lesser user, you can expect an endless stream of nitpicky problems until you also make that user a member of the local admins group as well.
Another is a well-known brand of drawing software.
My employer does contract work for state/local governments and probably half of all the niche apps written for the Windows platform for the state/local public sector market, expect full access to the entire machine because most of that software was written by idiots.
Wow, I didn't think my sarcastic humor was that hard to get.
Actually I love Windows, because it makes me a lot of money at my job. If it was a lot more reliable and secure, then I'd have much less work and therefore, less income.
I read somewhere that if I didn't run Windows as an admin, that would help a lot
That's absolutely correct. If you avoid logging onto Windows as Administrator, you greatly lessen your exposure to security hazards. Especially since in the real world you can hardly run any useful software unless you're logged on as admin, therefore your using the Windows box less, and naturally, less use equals less exposure to danger. In fact if you just keep your Windows box powered off, then it will be the absolute most secure against malware.
There seems to be a tacit assumption in posts thus far that unmanned craft will be flying willy-nilly through the commercial lanes. That's just not the case.
Given that practically all airspace in the US, except for very small amounts of restricted and prohibited airspace, is a "commerical lane" by default, your argument is void. UAV's *are* flying "willy-nilly" thru Class G, Class E, and even Class D airspace and it is becoming an topic of serious safety concern for not only general aviation and commercial aviation, but also for military aviation too.
I've heard of at least one case where a law enforcement agency blunderingly flew their UAV right across a US Air Force Base where T-38 jet training operations were in progress.
You don't really have to set a separate reporting database. Just set up some materialized views and give them read-only access to those views. You can control what you want them to have access to, by way of your select statements in those views, refresh the views on your decided schedules, and since they won;t be hitting the live tables, the performance impact will be lessened.
You will have to worry about Oracle client licensing for their connection, if you haven't already bought and paid for that.
Well... very carefully of course.
I found Verizon's EVDO to be the best performer here in the D/FW metroplex. Smokes AT&T's 3G aircard service for breakfast. We've used Sprint before too, and they're pretty good at least in most of the high-techy areas of the metroplex too, plus also around the D/FW airport where all four major carriers VZW, ATT, T-Mobile and Sprint all have strong coverage.
Considering the town/city I live in has over 100K people and 2 pretty large universities, it has been surprising how poorly their 3G coverage is.
Hmmm, city in N. Texas with 100K population and two universities? Would that be Wichita Falls? I was there a couple months ago and was astounded to find they actually have Verizon EVDO-A service there and I got 1.2Mbps service with my laptop's PC5750 card. I was expecting 1xRTT at best.
Anyone else glance at the subject and first thought it said "Microsoft Reaches Out To Bender"?
Who could ever forget this flying car from 1979?
And a couple years earlier, in 1977, there was a certain black Trans-Am that flew at least once.
...are required for flying an airplane? They're not. They're only required for flying under IFR rules.
Do you file a "driving plan" with the highway patrol each time before you get into your car to drive somewhere? That would be assinine.
...stink.
So, since the beginning of humanity itself, the plain old unaided human ear can listen for stomach and intestinal rumblings that come right before, and predict the coming of a big old juicy butt fart.
Now we can use a portable EEG scanner built into a baseball cap to detect when a brain fart is about to occur.
Ain't technology wonderful?
Once again, Butanol is a much better alcohol to use as a motor fuel.
It can even be made from biomass just about as easily as ethanol.
Where the hell is Ogg the Caveman when you need him?
...he who dares tell the Emperor that he's wearing no clothes gets his head chopped off.
Right.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
You can't tell the young people of today that. They won't believe you.
Why do people fall for this crap? p4p? No need for regulation? WHAT?
Waves hand...
These aren't the P-number-P's you're looking for. We can go about our business.
...when they can spot a planet that has an ocean of liquid water on it.
...I can say that as long as these things stay at or below about 300' AGL and completely stay 100% out of the airspace (at *any* height AGL) within a 4 nautical mile radius of any airport's traffic pattern, then they will not pose any substantial threat to most manned aircraft. The only exception being medivac helicopters, which can be flying low over any part of a populated area. A rule would need to be enforced that whenever a medivac chopper is in the area, the drones must be landed immediately, regardless of whatever mission they were currently flying... that mission would need to execute an immediate abort.
Now having said that, I do have suspicions that many law enforcement operators of such drones may have a disturbing propensity to disregard the rules of air safety whenever the rules get in the way of their wishes.
BTW, it is commonplace, and recommended, that a small general aviation aircraft be flown at 1000' AGL while flying over densely populated areas. The airspace from 500' AGL to 1000' AGL should be kept off-limits from drones, since that is a safety margin for small fixed-wing aircraft, and also typically where helicopters will be flying too.
You got your flying car way back in 1979.
And I think there was a certain black Trans-Am that flew at least once a couple years earlier than the General.
...something like "A man who picks up a cat by its tail learns a lesson that cannot be learned any other way" or something to that effect.
Anyone having the audacity to tell a federal agency what they can and cannot do, is probably about to learn a very similar lesson since this day and age, federal agencies tend to be very vindictive and retaliatory whenever anyone dares challenge their authority. They will find some way to save face and regain their insulted "honor" and they are very creative in how they go about doing that.