(/me gets up from my POS government Dell desktop, walks onto GPS Ops floor, asks the SrA at the SVO workstation what is he flying.) (/me walks back to my POS dell and types this post)
well, not to be difficult with you, jeremyp, but the Senior Airman WHO IS ACTUALLY FLYING THE SATELLITES tells me he calls it "GPS". And since he, and the other folks over there (/me points at wall across from my cubicle) that are flying it already have a name for it, between some goof on/. and the guys that fly it 24/7 - i'm gonna go with the guys in the green jammies./sarcasm Seriously, though, no one has called it NAVSTAR in i don't know how long. I've been working GPS for almost a decade, and i've not one single time heard anyone use the word "NAVSTAR" at work without meaning it in a joking manner.
oh, and i think that we should, in all seriousness, give a big hand to those cute Euros for their cute little satellites. I'm sure that their pay-for-use, non-reliable system that is being paid for by stealing money from the much smarter European people will have no problems whatsoever, and since it will most likely LOSE more money per week than Concorde lost in its whole lifespan - and we saw their stick-to-it-aveness with Concorde, didn't we? - i bet everyone will be relying on Galileo for easily, 2, maybe 3 months before someone in France or Brussles or wherever they go to fight about things will pull the plug because its not green enough or not communist enough or something....
first of all - i do not subscribe to the concept that the only secure computer is the one that's turned off, unplugged, and not getting data. That's retarded. A box firewalled to the point where nothing can come in our out might as well not be plugged in.
now - i 100% agree that if it says "everything closed" it damn well better be.
But its still comforting to know that despite the legitimate problem - there was not galaxy-wide pandemonium as all the Macs running 10.5 cried out in terror. In fact, there were no problems at all.
In other words - just business as usual on the Mac front.
before you start down this road, gawddamnit, i want my bag ass table! I don't want to wait 5-10 years for it - i want my 5-10 thousand dollar table now!
Also, "boyfriend" may have been a strong term... they were "sorta" dating... he was trying to impress her by getting her money back from me... but she wouldn't have anything to do with him when this whole thing started.
She was actually not a bad person - and she felt bad about the whole thing. She was just being unreasonable about the computer... i offered to re-clean up the machine and put it back the way it was when i sold it to her for $25 (for my time - probably $5 an hour given how long it took to install 7.5 via a laptop scsi drive), but she decided against it, got $100 for the laptop and printer in the pennysaver, and her parents bought her a proper laptop - which is what she should have done all along.
Long story shorteded... in the end, i told the police, and they contacted the people in my old apartment and then a restraining order... he was tough and mean when he thought he was invisible, but once i figured out who he was, where he was emailing from looking at the headers (using yahoo from his work - i found his work's address and web information via... whois!) and after i called his boss and let him know that he was using the work computer to threaten me... and then the cops got involved, he was like all the bullies that used to beat me up in junior high school - a tough fascade, but get police and lawyers involved, 99% of people chump out.
plus, i had (and still have) a shitload of guns - and i'm a good shot (per the military, not my huberis), so i was more annoyed and pissed than scared at any point.
i sold an old Mac laptop with system 7.5 to a girl for $200 with a printer about 7 years ago. She had little money, and for what she needed - a way to type homework in her dormroom and print it - $200 seemed reasonable - it did what she told me she wanted it to do, and she tested it at my place and everything worked just fine (2 cheers for Word 5.1 on system 7!). I made it clear that this was *not* an internet workhorse, and that if she wanted that, she needed to go to the bookstore and buy a new computer. "No no, i just want to type papers and print them in my dorm room".
So, of course, the first thing she did was attempt to install a bunch of new internet software (browsers, school's First Class server client) on it which of course didn't work. Then she took it to the school helpdesk, and they (rightly) had no idea what to do, so instead of telling her to get jammed, they screwed it up completely. So, she calls and says she wants to return it because it doesn't work. I'm like - yeah, what the hell do i want with a fscked up powerbook and printer? I don't want to buy it - i just sold it to you like two weeks ago.
time passes... and i start getting threatening emails from some guy on a yahoo account with ($myname)fucker@yahoo.com. Then he starts saying that he's going to come after my wife and hes watching her car when she comes home at night. That was fscking it. Its the girl's mental patient boyfriend.
Long story short - he was actually stalking whoever in the hell was in my old apartment - it was pure coincidence that the new tennants also owned a Honda Civic too.
Where, do you think, he got the address? Of course, from my whois entry when i didn't have any money to buy a PO Box.
Yeah, if you think i'll ever give out my information to my actual home or office location - ever - you've gone daisy, my son. ICANN and everyone else can demand all they want that my info be correct - but i don't answer to them, so they can kiss my ass.
In fact, because of this, a guy who started, then stole, the website of a non-profit (they've set the donations address to their address, but the actual non-profit is in Africa, so its hard for them to fight the problem) is going to be getting a legal foot up its ass because i know where he is and where he lives and his work address - all because he's broadcasted it in whois and on his webpage.
after endless problems downloading legal videos via Transmission (Mac torrent client), and after my vonage calls stopped working all together, i gave up fighting. I called qwest and found out that my download speed would max out at 1.5 because of my distance from the CO, and i didn't care.
I got qwest up and running in 10 minutes, and i called Comcast when i got to work. I told him i was done dealing with their incompetance on cable TV (shows would start in HD, then go to SD for commercials, then never come back or come back at random times), and now, they were screwing with my legitimate services. For $60 a month, i wasn't going to be jobbed any more because they wanted to be my VOIP provider. I don't want them, i want Vonage, and for as slow as you can run vonage, they should have had no qualms.
Yes, my internet service is way slower.. and i don't care... because at least i'm not giving any more money to Comcast.
I love it when we get told things like "there are fewer lakes in northern Alberta!" or "there is an increase of temperature of.6 degrees in Sri Lanka!" and we're all supposed to sit here and know why its a BFD?
So, the hole got smaller... so what? I didn't give a shit when the hold got bigger because it was probably just naturally getting larger and smaller, kinda like last winter was a total bitch here and set the record for snow, and longest period of snow on Pike's Peak ever recorded, and the previous 10 years had been very very warm and little snow and everyone complained. Guess what, they all complained last year because there was "too much!" snow. Holy shit, there's no pleasing some people, is there?
I say "So what?" to last year and the previous ten years both. I say "so what?" to the ozone hole. I say "so what?" to global warming and climate change doomsayers.
Listen, Jim Jones, the world isn't coming to an end, okay? Some years are warmer and some years are colder. i'm sure if there was really global warming, by definition, it wouldn't get *colder* than its ever been before and there wouldn't be *more* snow than ever before, now would there?
The funniest part is - and you can quote me now because i'm the only one calling it now... but if a Democrat becomes president, all of this wailing and balling will drop in volume by 50% the day after they take office....and this new leader will do exactly very little... there will be no stoppage of the Alaska oil pipeline, there will be no banning of SUVs... the volume on the whole problem is going to go down for two reasons. 1 Bush won't be president. 2. Most all of the Kyoto Protocol countries are failing, and the ones who are exempt will be polluting so much more in 4 years that all the "work" of those that were trying to cut back will be rendered useless by an order of magnatude or maybe more.
So if its not "global warming" that's going to kill us, instead now, its "climate change" who the hell cares? The climate has been changing for a long time, now. Maybe some people like it colder... maybe some people like it warmer? I personally like it colder, and i know most people like it warmer. Hells bells! If its getting warmer, than there's more warmth around the world, maybe the whole fscking planet won't have to move to Southern California now like they've been doing!
And if the water levels go up, then there will be MORE ocean-front property instead of less! Again, not everyone will have to move to SoCal if they want some beach property anymore, eh?
I seriously don't get why the oceans rising is such a big thing.. if it does, i suggest you move! If you don't move, and you want to play pretend that you can hold back the ocean, then you can be as stupid as the people that live in New Orleans, 20 feet under sea level. Seriously, what stupid shit lives 20 feet under sea level, just right up against the ocean? That really seems a daft idea.
There will be PLENTY of land even in America if the oceans rise... have you driven thru Utah and Arizona? There are literally hundreds and hundreds of miles of NOTHING... and that's just what you can see from the handful of freeways... imagine that there's so much more where there are NO freeways.
i hate people...people are so stoopid these days, its a wonder they can take a shit without getting it all over themselves.
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I can't use it on my Mac. It is, therefore, irrelevant.
Seriously - if Microsoft wants people like me (and the other 2 million people in the last 4 months that bought a Mac) to consider their products, step 1 is making it compatible.
This is a singluar reason why iPod is crushing Zune.
all the government wants to do is to tell you what you can say and what you can do. They'll use any tactic to stop you from thinking yourself, and any questioning of the current administration will get you put into some kind of trouble.
every situtaion you go into will be biased one way or another. But lest stick with It.
What about the typical corporate IT nerd and Macs?
i work for (large airplane manufacturer), and the hostility i was met with when i was tasked to do digital video recording, editing, and analysis in the field with a desktop Dell - and i suggested they get me a PowerBook G4 (at the time), i dare not even relay the facts here because you would think i was making them up.
there are all kinds of biases in all kinds of jobs. Certain jobs attract certain types of people.
Try this... if you work for a big company, go look at your company's webpage... are you telling me that HR is discriminating against men because your company's HR lead is a woman?
just because someone is a Christian, it does not mean
1. We like Bush 2. We will do whatever we can to force you to be a Christian 2a. We will do ANYTHING to force to to do/don't do things YOU think "make" you Christian 3. We like Christian music 4. We want the whole United States to be a big megachurch
its getting to the point where the open hatred of Christians as a group is at least as accepted as the hatred of other groups in the past.
i'm sorry, but this WHOLE THING became a kerfuffle when Maynor stated that Apple threatened him... and not a second before that.
And i have a very very hard time believing that Maynor is telling the truth about that because Apple has an incredible track record on not only accepting information, but giving credit where credit is due to people that find problems and exploits
that would be the previous system to the now previous system. The previous system to the new system is also at Schriever. The system you're referring to (for GPS control) was previous to the system here at Schriever.
And that's odd - i had no idea that they used to fly GPS from the blue cube... i always was under the impression that we just don't talk about the blue cube.
the GPS experts are distinct from the computer system experts to a degree.
GPS is math and database. Period. That's all there is to it. Kalman filter and database, to be precise.
The GPS experts that know math have gone nowhere, and they are shit-in-your-pants scary smart and they still cost you $5000+/hr. There are new GPS experts that are being tended and watered and grown by the soon-to-retire GPS experts. I am constantly amazed at the time that they take not only to build up the next generation, but also to help doofuses like me understand the system. They are humble in a world that should put them in pantheons. The good news is, the new generation are thankfully as shit-in-your-pants scary smart as the first GPS generation was. They are the reason this all worked. I do not deserve to be in the same room as them.
Other projects i've worked on, i was the smarterest guy in the room - and it scared me because i thought we were all going to die due to that fact.
The computer system experts for the old system that know database are going to go away in the next few years and get a well deserved retirement and the new computer system experts are what is going to reduce costs and make the system better in the long run.
Both the old GPS experts that know the math and the old computer system experts that know databases were chest deep in the process of making the new system. That's not to say something here and there wont creep up - of course it will in a new system.
All of the experts are a combo of Boeing, Lockheed Martin (former IBMers) and Aerospace - just like the press release said.
If there are any hidden surprises (and of course there will be) - the question is not if there are, but how fast can they be solved. That's what will matter.
Since no one is complaining so far - and they've had over a day to do so - i'd say the team is functioning well.
You notice i've mentioned Sun - its because all the PR pictures that come out in the base paper in a few days will show operators behind big-ass Sun screens - and there's fsckall to be gained from that knowledge that will not be "leaked" when the pictures make it on the web.
What's funny isn't how much do you think IBM (now LM) was charging to maintain the system... but that they were not only maintaining the old system, but working on the new one at the same time!
Its not cheap - but i ask you - can you name the other globally available, centrally controlled, free to use resource on the planet and above it?
That accuracy seemed to have improved a number of individual times during the winter and summer is completely consistent with the way the transition practice runs and actual transition event took place.
Increased bandwidth: No, absoultely not in any way. Nothing is different parameter-wise with this transition from the user perspective. In fact, that was one of the hardest parts of the transition - to make the new system interact with the user segment (thru the Space segment.. aka: the satellites) in the exact same way as the old system.
I apologize for not being more specific than that... i also stated in my submission that i am extremely hesitant to say anything unless i'm 100% sure that its public knowledge.
So, if you think i'm beating around the bush, you're right. I'm not doing it for effect.. i'm doing it to keep my job and because security is paramount.. not just for US folks, but for everyone that uses GPS.. and i hear a few people are getting into it these days... kinda like CB radios and that Internet thing.
the current system is 70's era. It still uses 9-tracks, DASD units, and something called jovial that no one but old engineers with pants up to their chests have even heard of. The parts are freakish in their weight, their mechanical ways, and how unobtainable and unsupportable most everything about the old system is in 2007.
The new system is modern. You can buy the machines from Sun today online. The OS is still updated and supported. The parts are commonplace like SATA drives, USB DVD drives, Sun workstations, etc. Unix may not be some newfangled operating system, but i can line up 1000 unix-savvy 30 year old-ish engineers and sysadmins for every one 60 year old-ish engineer that understands how to work with the IBM mainframes and jovial.
The savings comes only to US taxpayers - because its going to be way easier to for "us" (US citizens) to pay for younger engineers that are not all about to retire and younger hardware and software that shouldn't have been retired 20 years ago. "We" (US citizens) can pay less to keep GPS going now. The rest of the world.. well, i can't help you with costs since you've never paid for this thing. I'd just say "thanks" and leave it at that.
the iPod shuffle reference is to the fact that all the shuffle does is get music uploaded into it and play it back... it does *nothing* else. Okay... with that example in your mind... that's the same basic thing that GPS satellites do... "we" (US citizens) upload them with what to playback, and they play it back - and they have a clock to make sure they play it back at the right speed.... they practically do nothing more than that.
yeah, my headline was shortend to save room, but in the end, i had to end-up retyping it here. I wish they would have simply said.... "click to read more"... but i wish for lots of shit... it doesn't make me sad.
what about ubootnew? Unbuntoo? whatever the fsck it is... i've used it - I like it. if i don't have a mmac on hand, i'll be using it. its pretty damn usable.
I could easily live off a $100 ooboootnooo computer for quite a long time for internet, email, surfing, and basic office apps - its really a great thing.
but i produce documentaries. Therefore, i have a mac.
then they better not buy Office 2007. its nothing the fsck like Office 2003, 2000, 97, or 95.
They also should keep using XP, because Vista is totally different than XP.
Me - i'm at the point when someone tells me they have a problem with their computer, i say "wow. i don't have that problem. My Mac just works." and i continue my day. I don't think about it, i don't say it smugly. I just don't care.
I stare at them in cold silence because if i told them that my car was blowing up or catching fire or refused to start they'd say "huh.. i'd get a new car, and not the same kind".
I got to the point where i didn't want to help people any more that use Windows. Because i dont care. I can't care. It was consuming all my free time becuase "oh, he can help, he knows computers".
I help my mom, and my wife. I bought my mom a Mac mini, and my wife as a MacBook. And i have never had to reinstall my mom's Mac mini (i reinstalled Windows XP on her HP 4 times).
Everyone else has to fend for themselves - i don't care about their problems with their computers any more.
cacophany is a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds.
There are so many choices available to software users that it is often so overwhelming and dicordant that it can be difficult to analyze it.
wasn't the best sentence upon further review (which i should have hit instead of submit). Or.. it was a tremendous sentence? i was just now trying to reword it to mean that people have to make choices in a cacophany of possibilities;... but my sentence shortens that one up more quickly.
Perhapse "Everyone has to make cacophanic choices?"
bah.. whatever.
There's a ton of noise out there - just don't buy microsoft and then bitch about it to me.. because YOU MADE A CHOICE to buy Microsoft... don't pass it off as tho you didn't have any choice in the matter.
there are any number of operating systems, even some by Micorosft, that do not have this problem.
I'm sick of the going in asumption being "well, you have to use x". No. You don't. There are a cacophany of choices everyone makes. And it drives me batshit when people assume that buying Microsoft anything is not a choice.
Every time your mom or Joe down the street or some multinational company buys Microsoft's wares - its a choice. Whether or not its a good choice is strictly up to the situation.
so, theres a ginormous ocean flow that no one in the "settled science" camp knew about that has not been taken into account in global warming predictions?
Arrange this next to the.1 degree miscalc with the y2k problem from NASA last week... and one would get the feeling that settled doesn't mean what it used to mean.
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how exactly does this guy land?
>as "the GPS" is really called Navstar.
/. and the guys that fly it 24/7 - i'm gonna go with the guys in the green jammies. /sarcasm
Hang on a sec...
(/me gets up from my POS government Dell desktop, walks onto GPS Ops floor, asks the SrA at the SVO workstation what is he flying.)
(/me walks back to my POS dell and types this post)
well, not to be difficult with you, jeremyp, but the Senior Airman WHO IS ACTUALLY FLYING THE SATELLITES tells me he calls it "GPS". And since he, and the other folks over there (/me points at wall across from my cubicle) that are flying it already have a name for it, between some goof on
Seriously, though, no one has called it NAVSTAR in i don't know how long. I've been working GPS for almost a decade, and i've not one single time heard anyone use the word "NAVSTAR" at work without meaning it in a joking manner.
oh, and i think that we should, in all seriousness, give a big hand to those cute Euros for their cute little satellites. I'm sure that their pay-for-use, non-reliable system that is being paid for by stealing money from the much smarter European people will have no problems whatsoever, and since it will most likely LOSE more money per week than Concorde lost in its whole lifespan - and we saw their stick-to-it-aveness with Concorde, didn't we? - i bet everyone will be relying on Galileo for easily, 2, maybe 3 months before someone in France or Brussles or wherever they go to fight about things will pull the plug because its not green enough or not communist enough or something....
first of all - i do not subscribe to the concept that the only secure computer is the one that's turned off, unplugged, and not getting data. That's retarded. A box firewalled to the point where nothing can come in our out might as well not be plugged in.
now - i 100% agree that if it says "everything closed" it damn well better be.
But its still comforting to know that despite the legitimate problem - there was not galaxy-wide pandemonium as all the Macs running 10.5 cried out in terror. In fact, there were no problems at all.
In other words - just business as usual on the Mac front.
before you start down this road, gawddamnit, i want my bag ass table! I don't want to wait 5-10 years for it - i want my 5-10 thousand dollar table now!
like:
"Cooler than the other side of the pillow"
and
"Booyah!"
instead of getting his damn job done.
my place - i meant my office.
Also, "boyfriend" may have been a strong term... they were "sorta" dating... he was trying to impress her by getting her money back from me... but she wouldn't have anything to do with him when this whole thing started.
She was actually not a bad person - and she felt bad about the whole thing. She was just being unreasonable about the computer... i offered to re-clean up the machine and put it back the way it was when i sold it to her for $25 (for my time - probably $5 an hour given how long it took to install 7.5 via a laptop scsi drive), but she decided against it, got $100 for the laptop and printer in the pennysaver, and her parents bought her a proper laptop - which is what she should have done all along.
Long story shorteded... in the end, i told the police, and they contacted the people in my old apartment and then a restraining order... he was tough and mean when he thought he was invisible, but once i figured out who he was, where he was emailing from looking at the headers (using yahoo from his work - i found his work's address and web information via... whois!) and after i called his boss and let him know that he was using the work computer to threaten me... and then the cops got involved, he was like all the bullies that used to beat me up in junior high school - a tough fascade, but get police and lawyers involved, 99% of people chump out.
plus, i had (and still have) a shitload of guns - and i'm a good shot (per the military, not my huberis), so i was more annoyed and pissed than scared at any point.
i sold an old Mac laptop with system 7.5 to a girl for $200 with a printer about 7 years ago. She had little money, and for what she needed - a way to type homework in her dormroom and print it - $200 seemed reasonable - it did what she told me she wanted it to do, and she tested it at my place and everything worked just fine (2 cheers for Word 5.1 on system 7!). I made it clear that this was *not* an internet workhorse, and that if she wanted that, she needed to go to the bookstore and buy a new computer. "No no, i just want to type papers and print them in my dorm room".
So, of course, the first thing she did was attempt to install a bunch of new internet software (browsers, school's First Class server client) on it which of course didn't work. Then she took it to the school helpdesk, and they (rightly) had no idea what to do, so instead of telling her to get jammed, they screwed it up completely. So, she calls and says she wants to return it because it doesn't work. I'm like - yeah, what the hell do i want with a fscked up powerbook and printer? I don't want to buy it - i just sold it to you like two weeks ago.
time passes... and i start getting threatening emails from some guy on a yahoo account with ($myname)fucker@yahoo.com. Then he starts saying that he's going to come after my wife and hes watching her car when she comes home at night. That was fscking it. Its the girl's mental patient boyfriend.
Long story short - he was actually stalking whoever in the hell was in my old apartment - it was pure coincidence that the new tennants also owned a Honda Civic too.
Where, do you think, he got the address? Of course, from my whois entry when i didn't have any money to buy a PO Box.
Yeah, if you think i'll ever give out my information to my actual home or office location - ever - you've gone daisy, my son. ICANN and everyone else can demand all they want that my info be correct - but i don't answer to them, so they can kiss my ass.
In fact, because of this, a guy who started, then stole, the website of a non-profit (they've set the donations address to their address, but the actual non-profit is in Africa, so its hard for them to fight the problem) is going to be getting a legal foot up its ass because i know where he is and where he lives and his work address - all because he's broadcasted it in whois and on his webpage.
ICANN can't make me do anything.
after endless problems downloading legal videos via Transmission (Mac torrent client), and after my vonage calls stopped working all together, i gave up fighting. I called qwest and found out that my download speed would max out at 1.5 because of my distance from the CO, and i didn't care.
I got qwest up and running in 10 minutes, and i called Comcast when i got to work. I told him i was done dealing with their incompetance on cable TV (shows would start in HD, then go to SD for commercials, then never come back or come back at random times), and now, they were screwing with my legitimate services. For $60 a month, i wasn't going to be jobbed any more because they wanted to be my VOIP provider. I don't want them, i want Vonage, and for as slow as you can run vonage, they should have had no qualms.
Yes, my internet service is way slower.. and i don't care... because at least i'm not giving any more money to Comcast.
So?
.6 degrees in Sri Lanka!" and we're all supposed to sit here and know why its a BFD?
.and this new leader will do exactly very little... there will be no stoppage of the Alaska oil pipeline, there will be no banning of SUVs... the volume on the whole problem is going to go down for two reasons. 1 Bush won't be president. 2. Most all of the Kyoto Protocol countries are failing, and the ones who are exempt will be polluting so much more in 4 years that all the "work" of those that were trying to cut back will be rendered useless by an order of magnatude or maybe more.
.people are so stoopid these days, its a wonder they can take a shit without getting it all over themselves.
I love it when we get told things like "there are fewer lakes in northern Alberta!" or "there is an increase of temperature of
So, the hole got smaller... so what? I didn't give a shit when the hold got bigger because it was probably just naturally getting larger and smaller, kinda like last winter was a total bitch here and set the record for snow, and longest period of snow on Pike's Peak ever recorded, and the previous 10 years had been very very warm and little snow and everyone complained. Guess what, they all complained last year because there was "too much!" snow. Holy shit, there's no pleasing some people, is there?
I say "So what?" to last year and the previous ten years both. I say "so what?" to the ozone hole. I say "so what?" to global warming and climate change doomsayers.
Listen, Jim Jones, the world isn't coming to an end, okay? Some years are warmer and some years are colder. i'm sure if there was really global warming, by definition, it wouldn't get *colder* than its ever been before and there wouldn't be *more* snow than ever before, now would there?
The funniest part is - and you can quote me now because i'm the only one calling it now... but if a Democrat becomes president, all of this wailing and balling will drop in volume by 50% the day after they take office...
So if its not "global warming" that's going to kill us, instead now, its "climate change" who the hell cares? The climate has been changing for a long time, now. Maybe some people like it colder... maybe some people like it warmer? I personally like it colder, and i know most people like it warmer. Hells bells! If its getting warmer, than there's more warmth around the world, maybe the whole fscking planet won't have to move to Southern California now like they've been doing!
And if the water levels go up, then there will be MORE ocean-front property instead of less! Again, not everyone will have to move to SoCal if they want some beach property anymore, eh?
I seriously don't get why the oceans rising is such a big thing.. if it does, i suggest you move! If you don't move, and you want to play pretend that you can hold back the ocean, then you can be as stupid as the people that live in New Orleans, 20 feet under sea level. Seriously, what stupid shit lives 20 feet under sea level, just right up against the ocean? That really seems a daft idea.
There will be PLENTY of land even in America if the oceans rise... have you driven thru Utah and Arizona? There are literally hundreds and hundreds of miles of NOTHING... and that's just what you can see from the handful of freeways... imagine that there's so much more where there are NO freeways.
i hate people..
I can't use it on my Mac. It is, therefore, irrelevant.
Seriously - if Microsoft wants people like me (and the other 2 million people in the last 4 months that bought a Mac) to consider their products, step 1 is making it compatible.
This is a singluar reason why iPod is crushing Zune.
all the government wants to do is to tell you what you can say and what you can do. They'll use any tactic to stop you from thinking yourself, and any questioning of the current administration will get you put into some kind of trouble.
Fscking George Bush.. leave us alone!
and then not responding to someone's question about what she had?
hmmmm.
maybe instead, she should have worn roadflares taped together as a haltertop. Then her intentions would have been much clearer.
every situtaion you go into will be biased one way or another. But lest stick with It.
What about the typical corporate IT nerd and Macs?
i work for (large airplane manufacturer), and the hostility i was met with when i was tasked to do digital video recording, editing, and analysis in the field with a desktop Dell - and i suggested they get me a PowerBook G4 (at the time), i dare not even relay the facts here because you would think i was making them up.
there are all kinds of biases in all kinds of jobs. Certain jobs attract certain types of people.
Try this... if you work for a big company, go look at your company's webpage... are you telling me that HR is discriminating against men because your company's HR lead is a woman?
just because someone is a Christian, it does not mean
1. We like Bush
2. We will do whatever we can to force you to be a Christian
2a. We will do ANYTHING to force to to do/don't do things YOU think "make" you Christian
3. We like Christian music
4. We want the whole United States to be a big megachurch
its getting to the point where the open hatred of Christians as a group is at least as accepted as the hatred of other groups in the past.
Your hatred makes you ugly.
i'm sorry, but this WHOLE THING became a kerfuffle when Maynor stated that Apple threatened him... and not a second before that.
And i have a very very hard time believing that Maynor is telling the truth about that because Apple has an incredible track record on not only accepting information, but giving credit where credit is due to people that find problems and exploits
Here are 28 examples between 10.4.1-10.4.3 where Apple gave credit to security researchers, organizations, and individuals.
So, Maynor found something, acted very suspiciously, made lame comments, hid information, and blamed Apple for all of it.
He's a choad.
that would be the previous system to the now previous system. The previous system to the new system is also at Schriever. The system you're referring to (for GPS control) was previous to the system here at Schriever.
And that's odd - i had no idea that they used to fly GPS from the blue cube... i always was under the impression that we just don't talk about the blue cube.
the GPS experts are distinct from the computer system experts to a degree.
GPS is math and database. Period. That's all there is to it. Kalman filter and database, to be precise.
The GPS experts that know math have gone nowhere, and they are shit-in-your-pants scary smart and they still cost you $5000+/hr. There are new GPS experts that are being tended and watered and grown by the soon-to-retire GPS experts. I am constantly amazed at the time that they take not only to build up the next generation, but also to help doofuses like me understand the system. They are humble in a world that should put them in pantheons. The good news is, the new generation are thankfully as shit-in-your-pants scary smart as the first GPS generation was. They are the reason this all worked. I do not deserve to be in the same room as them.
Other projects i've worked on, i was the smarterest guy in the room - and it scared me because i thought we were all going to die due to that fact.
The computer system experts for the old system that know database are going to go away in the next few years and get a well deserved retirement and the new computer system experts are what is going to reduce costs and make the system better in the long run.
Both the old GPS experts that know the math and the old computer system experts that know databases were chest deep in the process of making the new system. That's not to say something here and there wont creep up - of course it will in a new system.
All of the experts are a combo of Boeing, Lockheed Martin (former IBMers) and Aerospace - just like the press release said.
If there are any hidden surprises (and of course there will be) - the question is not if there are, but how fast can they be solved. That's what will matter.
Since no one is complaining so far - and they've had over a day to do so - i'd say the team is functioning well.
You notice i've mentioned Sun - its because all the PR pictures that come out in the base paper in a few days will show operators behind big-ass Sun screens - and there's fsckall to be gained from that knowledge that will not be "leaked" when the pictures make it on the web.
What's funny isn't how much do you think IBM (now LM) was charging to maintain the system... but that they were not only maintaining the old system, but working on the new one at the same time!
Its not cheap - but i ask you - can you name the other globally available, centrally controlled, free to use resource on the planet and above it?
I can't either.
i wanted my mom to understand in case she read TFS.
That accuracy seemed to have improved a number of individual times during the winter and summer is completely consistent with the way the transition practice runs and actual transition event took place.
Increased bandwidth: No, absoultely not in any way. Nothing is different parameter-wise with this transition from the user perspective. In fact, that was one of the hardest parts of the transition - to make the new system interact with the user segment (thru the Space segment.. aka: the satellites) in the exact same way as the old system.
I apologize for not being more specific than that... i also stated in my submission that i am extremely hesitant to say anything unless i'm 100% sure that its public knowledge.
So, if you think i'm beating around the bush, you're right. I'm not doing it for effect.. i'm doing it to keep my job and because security is paramount.. not just for US folks, but for everyone that uses GPS.. and i hear a few people are getting into it these days... kinda like CB radios and that Internet thing.
the current system is 70's era. It still uses 9-tracks, DASD units, and something called jovial that no one but old engineers with pants up to their chests have even heard of. The parts are freakish in their weight, their mechanical ways, and how unobtainable and unsupportable most everything about the old system is in 2007.
.... "click to read more"... but i wish for lots of shit... it doesn't make me sad.
The new system is modern. You can buy the machines from Sun today online. The OS is still updated and supported. The parts are commonplace like SATA drives, USB DVD drives, Sun workstations, etc. Unix may not be some newfangled operating system, but i can line up 1000 unix-savvy 30 year old-ish engineers and sysadmins for every one 60 year old-ish engineer that understands how to work with the IBM mainframes and jovial.
The savings comes only to US taxpayers - because its going to be way easier to for "us" (US citizens) to pay for younger engineers that are not all about to retire and younger hardware and software that shouldn't have been retired 20 years ago. "We" (US citizens) can pay less to keep GPS going now. The rest of the world.. well, i can't help you with costs since you've never paid for this thing. I'd just say "thanks" and leave it at that.
the iPod shuffle reference is to the fact that all the shuffle does is get music uploaded into it and play it back... it does *nothing* else. Okay... with that example in your mind... that's the same basic thing that GPS satellites do... "we" (US citizens) upload them with what to playback, and they play it back - and they have a clock to make sure they play it back at the right speed.... they practically do nothing more than that.
yeah, my headline was shortend to save room, but in the end, i had to end-up retyping it here. I wish they would have simply said
what about ubootnew? Unbuntoo? whatever the fsck it is... i've used it - I like it. if i don't have a mmac on hand, i'll be using it. its pretty damn usable.
I could easily live off a $100 ooboootnooo computer for quite a long time for internet, email, surfing, and basic office apps - its really a great thing.
but i produce documentaries. Therefore, i have a mac.
if people are used to Windows...as you say....
then they better not buy Office 2007. its nothing the fsck like Office 2003, 2000, 97, or 95.
They also should keep using XP, because Vista is totally different than XP.
Me - i'm at the point when someone tells me they have a problem with their computer, i say "wow. i don't have that problem. My Mac just works." and i continue my day. I don't think about it, i don't say it smugly. I just don't care.
I stare at them in cold silence because if i told them that my car was blowing up or catching fire or refused to start they'd say "huh.. i'd get a new car, and not the same kind".
I got to the point where i didn't want to help people any more that use Windows. Because i dont care. I can't care. It was consuming all my free time becuase "oh, he can help, he knows computers".
I help my mom, and my wife. I bought my mom a Mac mini, and my wife as a MacBook. And i have never had to reinstall my mom's Mac mini (i reinstalled Windows XP on her HP 4 times).
Everyone else has to fend for themselves - i don't care about their problems with their computers any more.
no.
cacophany is a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds.
There are so many choices available to software users that it is often so overwhelming and dicordant that it can be difficult to analyze it.
wasn't the best sentence upon further review (which i should have hit instead of submit). Or.. it was a tremendous sentence? i was just now trying to reword it to mean that people have to make choices in a cacophany of possibilities;... but my sentence shortens that one up more quickly.
Perhapse "Everyone has to make cacophanic choices?"
bah.. whatever.
There's a ton of noise out there - just don't buy microsoft and then bitch about it to me.. because YOU MADE A CHOICE to buy Microsoft... don't pass it off as tho you didn't have any choice in the matter.
bullshit.
there are any number of operating systems, even some by Micorosft, that do not have this problem.
I'm sick of the going in asumption being "well, you have to use x". No. You don't. There are a cacophany of choices everyone makes. And it drives me batshit when people assume that buying Microsoft anything is not a choice.
Every time your mom or Joe down the street or some multinational company buys Microsoft's wares - its a choice. Whether or not its a good choice is strictly up to the situation.
so, theres a ginormous ocean flow that no one in the "settled science" camp knew about that has not been taken into account in global warming predictions?
.1 degree miscalc with the y2k problem from NASA last week... and one would get the feeling that settled doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Arrange this next to the