1. Create a nation wide LTE network using IPv6. 2. Use end to end encryption on all devices and only use VOIP for voice. 3. Allow the rest of the nation to use the network in the same way. 4. Place highly accurate time bases in all LTE towers so where you have tower overlap you can get extremely precise locations even indoors. 5. When overlap is not available use the LTE tower in the aGPS mode to provide the ephemeris data almanac as well as improved location based on differential GPS with the LTE tower as a base reference. Then charge all the carriers to use this network and allow the consumer real choice in carriers. The carriers would in effect become nothing but dumb pipe suppliers and VOIP suppliers.
Well they still have the Superdomes and VMS is still around. I think that VMS is an opportunity lost. It is a very good OS. They should port it to the X86 and X86-64 as well as ARM. I do agree but that is because the lack vision. That is why the should hire me as CEO:) I also think that they should help out the VAR market. Here is what happens a vertical will offer a package with a Laptop. When they get that Laptop they test it, install the software, and often remove the craplets and configure to work out of the box really well for that application. The customer will look up the same computer and buy it at a discounter and then expect the Vertical to support it like one of their own machines because it is "the same as you sell".
I was thinking of the other networks. I know that the Virginia class uses a COTS network for a lot of systems. I was using that as an example because lets face it when your down no one is logging into you at all. As you know subs at depth are pretty cut off well SBNs anyway. The can get messages but only at a very slow rate.
Maybe you should not believe everything that you read. "Nearly all SCADA systems are online. The addition of a simple NAT device is NOT a control. Most of these systems are horribly patched and some run DOS, Win 95, Win 98 and even old Unixs. Some are on outdated versions of VMS. One I know of is on a Cray and another is on a PDP-11."
Ummm a SCADA control on a CRAY? Really> Where? PDP-11 maybe but a CRAY? Also the system you mentioned can not be changed while in flight. Maybe it could be bypassed but then maybe not. The system is not a flight system. In flight it just recordes the information it can not change the settings. Makes good press but not really the problem people think it is.
The real issue source of all our problems is that all our systems are no online. Even something as simple as a picture viewer needs to be checked for security issues today. Scada systems used to depend on physical security they where air gaped. The problem is that we now use COTS hardware so it is so easy bridge networks that it happens all too often. About the only network I would bet on being not bridged would be on a nuclear submarine at depth unless the ELF system is on the network but man that would be one slow hack.
Yes they do but I would also want to add a few desktops and laptops and put them in a series so people know that they can drivers for everything on the machine.
And I know but if they bought nVidia they would then have the option to go after IBM and Cray in the top area of that space. Use the reputation to start recruiting the best and brightest.
I am going back to the HP150 days. HP used to make only professional equipment. I think you would have an issue with Compaq being the high end and HP the low but at the same time sell the enterprise HP systems. I don't think that dropping WalBestTargetMax market would be wise so use the Compaq name for that. Use the HP name for the business class machines and for VARs. One thing that VARs hate is trying to compete with the Big Box Stores. They sell machines for the same prices that a small VAR can buy them for. HP could capture the VAR market that way. Keep the low margin, low price, low service market separate from the high margin, high service segment. It is not possible to provide a home consumer the buys a $329 laptop the same level of service as someone that buys a $2000 laptop. I think HP is betting to much on the printer market. I see that actually dropping off thanks to tablets.
You mean when things started to go bad? HP used to be quality. Now it means cheap printers and laptops. They sold off the Alpha, and PA-RISC teams. They sold of instruments as well. They should hire me as CEO. Here is my plan. 1. Bring back Compaq as the low end name for desktops and laptops. Move HP up market to take on the Thinkpad line now that it isn't by IBM anymore. When people think about a high end desktop or laptop have them lust for an Apple or an HP depending on what camp they are in. 2. Release VMS for 32bit X86 for free to the market. Who cares about low end servers but get it into the hands of developers and future sys admins. VMS is a very secure OS and doing this will cost nothing. Do not open source it because of the cost of code clean up but just turn it loose as a free download. 3. Try and reconstruct the tech teams that brought you Alpha and PA-RISC and turn them to ARM. Take on Samsung, Apple, Martel, and Qualcomm in the ARM market. Buy nVidia as an option. 4. WebOS. Put some real effort into WebOS now. I don't care if for the first phone you have to buy Galaxy S2s from Samsung like Google but get a good WebOS device on the market and to all the carriers. Same thing with a Tablet. 5. Create a and L series of computers that are Linux ready. Servers mainly. 6. UltraBooks for today. If Apple can do it so can HP 7. Start making media deals now. This maybe too late but NetFlix's stock is tanking so it could be a good buy. Maybe also pick up RDIO as well. 8, Supercomputing clusters. Take on Cray if for no other reason than government contracts and the technical attraction.
Just as the X86 has pushed higher and higher into the market so will ARM. There will come a time when you will not need an X86 because an ARM is good enough. Push ARM and WebOS everywhere to compete with Apple and Google. HP could have a top to bottom stack unlike Google and could offer both the front end, PC, Phones, Tablets, even TVs like Apple but also could supply the servers and infrastructure that Apple can not.
The problem is professional CEOs. They go from company to company and really don't care about anything long term. Isn't there one person that has worked at HP all their life that can step up and be CEO?
Even if there was graphene odds are that it would still be embedded in epoxy. So the term plastic would work. The truth is that this is a "composite" but the world seems to believe that there is only four solds. plastic, metal, glass, and wood. Funny thing is that this is composites are a lot like wood and some of them will even use balsa as a core.
I do not understand how multi-core subverts our craving for transistor density? You kind of need that to increase the core count. The comes form the lack really good tools for parallel programing.
Yea I guess the brits where too lazy to do a conversion themselves to save around 2.9 million dollars and have working software 3 years sooner. But I did get a trip to London and a nice bonus "consulting" to tell them what they did wrong. I think they only spent another million or so an took another year to rewrite the mess.:) Very nice city but I was amused at the their shock that I new who Lord Nelson was.
Not for the UK. They want to sell it to India. But yes the Eurofighter is a good example of what happens when you do a joint project. Too many cooks and all that. Kind of like the F-35. One wonders how the Eurofighter compares to say an F-15S,K, or updated Cs and Es. My guess is, more maneuverable, shorter range, less effective radar.
The OEMs for the most part will make it a user option for a simple reason. A lot of people when Windows 8 comes out will want to keep Windows 7. If they have an install disk and it doesn't work their will be hell to pay. Right now the UEFI folks are all going to be putting in an option to turn it off. Intel will without a doubt have that option in all of their reference motherboards which is what a lot of the OEMs use. ASUS will put in that option as well.
The problem will be when at some point in the future someone has an old crappy Ultra book made by Ikkkiianu and wants to put Linux on it because Windows 9 doesn't work well on it and Windows 8 is too insecure.
Ahh no. Every F-22 would take out 8 P-51s per fight if not more. They could carry external weapons so maybe 12 per plane. The thing is that yes you could build them at that rate for a while but you couldn't get pilots at that rate. You would have zero air to air kills since the f-22 would stay out of reach of a P-51 class air craft. The factories that made them would be pounded into rubble because those air craft couldn't defend them. The bases that they flew from would be nothing but craters. The pilots would refuse to to fly them because no good pilot would want to be considered expendable. The P-51 like aircraft would be facing not just the 190 F-22s but the F-16s, F-15s, and F-18. Eventually it would also face the F-35s. And your math is very wrong. Sortie losses for the F-22 would be maybe 1 per 5000s sorties due to mechanical issues if that high. So even if you don't mean really a P-51 You are still at the numbers your are talking about something like a F-86 or maybe a Hawk. But even with a Hawk you are talking about a unit cost of 18 million pounds per aircraft a lot more than a P-51 or Spitfire. And even a BEA Hawk would just be so much raw meat. They would never see what killed them and would just drop from the sky.
Even your commet about the T-34 is missing the important detail. The T-34 was actually as good as the German tanks in may ways. It was actually far more reliable than the Tigers. Carried a very good gun. And had slopping good sloping armor. It was as good as the German tanks it first fought if not better. The Germans rushed the Tiger and Panther to the front lines to try and counter but they had real reliability issues. So no the theory of just throwing a wall of meat in the form of people and taking your losses doesn't work. There is a ratio between quantity and quality if the US Air Force was only 190 F-22s that you would be correct but the F-15, F-16, A-10, b-52, B-1B, B-2 and to throw the navy air arm in the mix F-18 and Harrier II will be in service for a good while still. The F-35 will also go into service and at some time UCAVs will also fill in.
In other words don't just use science fiction be your guide. But it was a good story.
Well now I hear that the UK is thinking of making Eurofighter carrier capable so they can sell it over seas. Which I find really odd and I worry how much it will end up costing before they cancel it.
No problem, I tried to be as international in my post as possible. A lot of EU folks take offense when people from the US while posting on this US based site, post US centric posts.
I don't know which side of the pond you are on or what pond, but here our carriers are the Nimitz class thank you very much and we do not sell or share them:)
Well to be nice I left out the Tornado F.3 "Should have bought the F-15 it would have been in service years sooner and with working radar". The Carriers are tougher. I guess you could have tried working with France but that has worked so well with in past with the Jaguar and A400m. The UK could have tired to buy Nimitz class carriers but the math on that gets tricky, Even if you are spending more in country than buying from the US some of that money gets "recycled". When you pay ship builders in the UK you get to tax them and they buy stuff in the UK with that money which puts others in the UK to work and so on. A large amount of that gets recycled back. When you guy an Aircraft carrier from the US all that money goes to the US and very little gets recycled back to the UK unless they use their pay to buy a lot of Land Rovers, Jags, and Triumph motorcycles.
The UK does some odd things sometimes. I work for a software company and about 15 years ago an agency in the UK Gov was interested in our software. They wanted 50 seats. Well our normal price is about $4000 but for that big of a sale we would have gone as low as $2000. Well they decided to write their own custom solution three years a two million pounds later they still didn't have a working system and asked us to consult for them and tell them what they did wrong. The offer was more than buying our system! We told them that that but they said that they want to waste all that development money. Then you have the UKs bizarre love affair with the Nimrod sub hunting plane. I wonder if they are trying to convince everyone and themselves that the Comet really wasn't a failure. The UK could have bought the Grumman E-2 or even the Boeing E-3 AWACS but instead decided to try and convert the Nimrod into an AWACS. Well okay then the UK could have bought the Radar system from the E-2 and fitted it to the Nimrod. Well they decided to develop a new and better radar, Except after years of testing and Billions of dollars it was a failure. The RAF ended up using slightly post World War II Shackletons with World War II era US radar for AEW until 1991 when they bought 7 E-3s. In 1996 the Nimrod sub hunter was getting really tired. Now RAF could have picked up updated P-3s from the US. Now the Orion is based on a 1950s airliner but then again the Nimrod is based on a 1940s airliner. Or they could have waited for the P-3s replacement which ended up being the P8. Instead they decided to update the Nimrod with new engines, wing and avionics. Well after around 4 billion pounds they killed that program in 2011. Oh and India just bought P-8s for one fourth the cost per plane than what the Nimrod MRA4 would have cost if they had delivered it. Now we have this. I have to wonder if VistA would have worked for them. It is used by the US VA and is FOSS.
Yea because sitting around WallStreet eating donated pizza is going to do anything. Please they have a committee to decide what pizza to get. Crack pot to say that 10,000 showed up. Crack pot to say that their spam being stopped was censorship. Crack pot to say that there was no coverage of their little protest.
Hey I am the first to say that corps are out of control The media corps own the Democrats, Finance owns the GOP, the Telcomms seem to own both. What we need is a good Republican president like Teddy Roosevelt.
"I remember hearing about this from a friend, but couldn't find any news articles, didn't see it covered by the TV media, didn't hear about it on the radio, and now it's turning out that ytou can't email about it either..." Really then you suck at looking for news. Here let me Google that for you http://bit.ly/rodGXK And no rick roll or Goat anything. Not much coverage because a. Protests happen all the time on wall street. b. Just not that many people are involved. If is was the thousands that some claim it would be on the front page of some of the foreign news sites like http://english.aljazeera.net/ . Just some people that think they are important and figure that the reason they are not getting coverage is a grand conspiracy vs just not that many people care.
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1. Create a nation wide LTE network using IPv6.
2. Use end to end encryption on all devices and only use VOIP for voice.
3. Allow the rest of the nation to use the network in the same way.
4. Place highly accurate time bases in all LTE towers so where you have tower overlap you can get extremely precise locations even indoors.
5. When overlap is not available use the LTE tower in the aGPS mode to provide the ephemeris data almanac as well as improved location based on differential GPS with the LTE tower as a base reference.
Then charge all the carriers to use this network and allow the consumer real choice in carriers. The carriers would in effect become nothing but dumb pipe suppliers and VOIP suppliers.
Well they still have the Superdomes and VMS is still around. I think that VMS is an opportunity lost. It is a very good OS. They should port it to the X86 and X86-64 as well as ARM. :)
I do agree but that is because the lack vision. That is why the should hire me as CEO
I also think that they should help out the VAR market. Here is what happens a vertical will offer a package with a Laptop. When they get that Laptop they test it, install the software, and often remove the craplets and configure to work out of the box really well for that application.
The customer will look up the same computer and buy it at a discounter and then expect the Vertical to support it like one of their own machines because it is "the same as you sell".
I was thinking of the other networks. I know that the Virginia class uses a COTS network for a lot of systems. I was using that as an example because lets face it when your down no one is logging into you at all. As you know subs at depth are pretty cut off well SBNs anyway. The can get messages but only at a very slow rate.
Maybe you should not believe everything that you read.
"Nearly all SCADA systems are online. The addition of a simple NAT device is NOT a control. Most of these systems are horribly patched and some run DOS, Win 95, Win 98 and even old Unixs. Some are on outdated versions of VMS. One I know of is on a Cray and another is on a PDP-11."
Ummm a SCADA control on a CRAY? Really> Where?
PDP-11 maybe but a CRAY?
Also the system you mentioned can not be changed while in flight. Maybe it could be bypassed but then maybe not. The system is not a flight system. In flight it just recordes the information it can not change the settings. Makes good press but not really the problem people think it is.
The real issue source of all our problems is that all our systems are no online. Even something as simple as a picture viewer needs to be checked for security issues today. Scada systems used to depend on physical security they where air gaped. The problem is that we now use COTS hardware so it is so easy bridge networks that it happens all too often.
About the only network I would bet on being not bridged would be on a nuclear submarine at depth unless the ELF system is on the network but man that would be one slow hack.
Yes they do but I would also want to add a few desktops and laptops and put them in a series so people know that they can drivers for everything on the machine.
And I know but if they bought nVidia they would then have the option to go after IBM and Cray in the top area of that space. Use the reputation to start recruiting the best and brightest.
I am going back to the HP150 days. HP used to make only professional equipment. I think you would have an issue with Compaq being the high end and HP the low but at the same time sell the enterprise HP systems. I don't think that dropping WalBestTargetMax market would be wise so use the Compaq name for that. Use the HP name for the business class machines and for VARs. One thing that VARs hate is trying to compete with the Big Box Stores. They sell machines for the same prices that a small VAR can buy them for. HP could capture the VAR market that way.
Keep the low margin, low price, low service market separate from the high margin, high service segment. It is not possible to provide a home consumer the buys a $329 laptop the same level of service as someone that buys a $2000 laptop.
I think HP is betting to much on the printer market. I see that actually dropping off thanks to tablets.
You mean when things started to go bad?
HP used to be quality. Now it means cheap printers and laptops. They sold off the Alpha, and PA-RISC teams. They sold of instruments as well.
They should hire me as CEO.
Here is my plan.
1. Bring back Compaq as the low end name for desktops and laptops. Move HP up market to take on the Thinkpad line now that it isn't by IBM anymore. When people think about a high end desktop or laptop have them lust for an Apple or an HP depending on what camp they are in.
2. Release VMS for 32bit X86 for free to the market. Who cares about low end servers but get it into the hands of developers and future sys admins. VMS is a very secure OS and doing this will cost nothing. Do not open source it because of the cost of code clean up but just turn it loose as a free download.
3. Try and reconstruct the tech teams that brought you Alpha and PA-RISC and turn them to ARM. Take on Samsung, Apple, Martel, and Qualcomm in the ARM market. Buy nVidia as an option.
4. WebOS. Put some real effort into WebOS now. I don't care if for the first phone you have to buy Galaxy S2s from Samsung like Google but get a good WebOS device on the market and to all the carriers. Same thing with a Tablet.
5. Create a and L series of computers that are Linux ready. Servers mainly.
6. UltraBooks for today. If Apple can do it so can HP
7. Start making media deals now. This maybe too late but NetFlix's stock is tanking so it could be a good buy. Maybe also pick up RDIO as well.
8, Supercomputing clusters. Take on Cray if for no other reason than government contracts and the technical attraction.
Just as the X86 has pushed higher and higher into the market so will ARM. There will come a time when you will not need an X86 because an ARM is good enough. Push ARM and WebOS everywhere to compete with Apple and Google. HP could have a top to bottom stack unlike Google and could offer both the front end, PC, Phones, Tablets, even TVs like Apple but also could supply the servers and infrastructure that Apple can not.
The problem is professional CEOs. They go from company to company and really don't care about anything long term. Isn't there one person that has worked at HP all their life that can step up and be CEO?
Even if there was graphene odds are that it would still be embedded in epoxy. So the term plastic would work. The truth is that this is a "composite" but the world seems to believe that there is only four solds. plastic, metal, glass, and wood. Funny thing is that this is composites are a lot like wood and some of them will even use balsa as a core.
I do not understand how multi-core subverts our craving for transistor density? You kind of need that to increase the core count. The comes form the lack really good tools for parallel programing.
Yea I guess the brits where too lazy to do a conversion themselves to save around 2.9 million dollars and have working software 3 years sooner. But I did get a trip to London and a nice bonus "consulting" to tell them what they did wrong. I think they only spent another million or so an took another year to rewrite the mess. :) Very nice city but I was amused at the their shock that I new who Lord Nelson was.
Not for the UK. They want to sell it to India.
But yes the Eurofighter is a good example of what happens when you do a joint project. Too many cooks and all that. Kind of like the F-35.
One wonders how the Eurofighter compares to say an F-15S,K, or updated Cs and Es. My guess is, more maneuverable, shorter range, less effective radar.
The OEMs for the most part will make it a user option for a simple reason.
A lot of people when Windows 8 comes out will want to keep Windows 7. If they have an install disk and it doesn't work their will be hell to pay.
Right now the UEFI folks are all going to be putting in an option to turn it off. Intel will without a doubt have that option in all of their reference motherboards which is what a lot of the OEMs use.
ASUS will put in that option as well.
The problem will be when at some point in the future someone has an old crappy Ultra book made by Ikkkiianu and wants to put Linux on it because Windows 9 doesn't work well on it and Windows 8 is too insecure.
Ahh no.
Every F-22 would take out 8 P-51s per fight if not more. They could carry external weapons so maybe 12 per plane. The thing is that yes you could build them at that rate for a while but you couldn't get pilots at that rate.
You would have zero air to air kills since the f-22 would stay out of reach of a P-51 class air craft. The factories that made them would be pounded into rubble because those air craft couldn't defend them. The bases that they flew from would be nothing but craters. The pilots would refuse to to fly them because no good pilot would want to be considered expendable. The P-51 like aircraft would be facing not just the 190 F-22s but the F-16s, F-15s, and F-18. Eventually it would also face the F-35s.
And your math is very wrong. Sortie losses for the F-22 would be maybe 1 per 5000s sorties due to mechanical issues if that high.
So even if you don't mean really a P-51 You are still at the numbers your are talking about something like a F-86 or maybe a Hawk. But even with a Hawk you are talking about a unit cost of 18 million pounds per aircraft a lot more than a P-51 or Spitfire. And even a BEA Hawk would just be so much raw meat. They would never see what killed them and would just drop from the sky.
Even your commet about the T-34 is missing the important detail. The T-34 was actually as good as the German tanks in may ways. It was actually far more reliable than the Tigers. Carried a very good gun. And had slopping good sloping armor. It was as good as the German tanks it first fought if not better. The Germans rushed the Tiger and Panther to the front lines to try and counter but they had real reliability issues.
So no the theory of just throwing a wall of meat in the form of people and taking your losses doesn't work. There is a ratio between quantity and quality if the US Air Force was only 190 F-22s that you would be correct but the F-15, F-16, A-10, b-52, B-1B, B-2 and to throw the navy air arm in the mix F-18 and Harrier II will be in service for a good while still. The F-35 will also go into service and at some time UCAVs will also fill in.
In other words don't just use science fiction be your guide. But it was a good story.
Well now I hear that the UK is thinking of making Eurofighter carrier capable so they can sell it over seas. Which I find really odd and I worry how much it will end up costing before they cancel it.
No problem, I tried to be as international in my post as possible. A lot of EU folks take offense when people from the US while posting on this US based site, post US centric posts.
I don't know which side of the pond you are on or what pond, but here our carriers are the Nimitz class thank you very much and we do not sell or share them :)
Well to be nice I left out the Tornado F.3 "Should have bought the F-15 it would have been in service years sooner and with working radar". The Carriers are tougher. I guess you could have tried working with France but that has worked so well with in past with the Jaguar and A400m. The UK could have tired to buy Nimitz class carriers but the math on that gets tricky,
Even if you are spending more in country than buying from the US some of that money gets "recycled". When you pay ship builders in the UK you get to tax them and they buy stuff in the UK with that money which puts others in the UK to work and so on. A large amount of that gets recycled back. When you guy an Aircraft carrier from the US all that money goes to the US and very little gets recycled back to the UK unless they use their pay to buy a lot of Land Rovers, Jags, and Triumph motorcycles.
The UK does some odd things sometimes. I work for a software company and about 15 years ago an agency in the UK Gov was interested in our software. They wanted 50 seats. Well our normal price is about $4000 but for that big of a sale we would have gone as low as $2000. Well they decided to write their own custom solution three years a two million pounds later they still didn't have a working system and asked us to consult for them and tell them what they did wrong. The offer was more than buying our system! We told them that that but they said that they want to waste all that development money.
Then you have the UKs bizarre love affair with the Nimrod sub hunting plane. I wonder if they are trying to convince everyone and themselves that the Comet really wasn't a failure. The UK could have bought the Grumman E-2 or even the Boeing E-3 AWACS but instead decided to try and convert the Nimrod into an AWACS. Well okay then the UK could have bought the Radar system from the E-2 and fitted it to the Nimrod. Well they decided to develop a new and better radar, Except after years of testing and Billions of dollars it was a failure. The RAF ended up using slightly post World War II Shackletons with World War II era US radar for AEW until 1991 when they bought 7 E-3s.
In 1996 the Nimrod sub hunter was getting really tired. Now RAF could have picked up updated P-3s from the US. Now the Orion is based on a 1950s airliner but then again the Nimrod is based on a 1940s airliner. Or they could have waited for the P-3s replacement which ended up being the P8. Instead they decided to update the Nimrod with new engines, wing and avionics. Well after around 4 billion pounds they killed that program in 2011. Oh and India just bought P-8s for one fourth the cost per plane than what the Nimrod MRA4 would have cost if they had delivered it.
Now we have this. I have to wonder if VistA would have worked for them. It is used by the US VA and is FOSS.
I have a bold idea.
3. Integrity
4. PROFIT!
It is really sad but I think I see Slashdot rotting a little bit each day.
This is what Slashdot has become?
How to Fix Slashdot.
1. Bring back Cmdr Taco
2. Fire samzenpus.
Yea because sitting around WallStreet eating donated pizza is going to do anything. Please they have a committee to decide what pizza to get.
Crack pot to say that 10,000 showed up.
Crack pot to say that their spam being stopped was censorship.
Crack pot to say that there was no coverage of their little protest.
Hey I am the first to say that corps are out of control The media corps own the Democrats, Finance owns the GOP, the Telcomms seem to own both. What we need is a good Republican president like Teddy Roosevelt.
"I remember hearing about this from a friend, but couldn't find any news articles, didn't see it covered by the TV media, didn't hear about it on the radio, and now it's turning out that ytou can't email about it either..."
Really then you suck at looking for news.
Here let me Google that for you
http://bit.ly/rodGXK
And no rick roll or Goat anything.
Not much coverage because
a. Protests happen all the time on wall street.
b. Just not that many people are involved. If is was the thousands that some claim it would be on the front page of some of the foreign news sites like http://english.aljazeera.net/ .
Just some people that think they are important and figure that the reason they are not getting coverage is a grand conspiracy vs just not that many people care.
Yep if someone sent me this there is a good chance that I would have marked it spam. Frankly I am glad I didn't get it.
Umm If you do not request that email and it was mass mailed it is spam.