should't the job of NASA be primarily to lead the way into new ideas and approaches in the aviation field and subsequently be a regulating body over these?
I should come as no surprise that a government agency takes more $$$ and more time to accomplish something that commercial companies can do. Maybe NASA should be outsourcing their earth orbit operations and focusing on larger and further things....
and that's why even though companies fail, CEOs (and whatever other C titles there are) always come out ahead. Use the airline industry as an example. Airlines fail quite frequently, but the guys at the top always make money.....
Many industries have to face this day by day. Companies over the last 3-4 years have laid off IT and software staff and have learned to make do without them.
So when you ask the boss to hire more people to do the work he says "But we haven't had any problems over the last 3 years" not realizing it's been a patch job since then.
When your company only generates so much money, upper management would rather invest it into marketing and sales, rather than investing into something where there is no perceived problem....
The utility that comes installed by default with SUSE called 'cook' does the same thing. How is distcc any better than cook? Has anyone done any comparisons?
Whoever had anything against Howard Stern? If you don't like what he is sayting, change the channel. The money he vrought in must have been amazing though...
so how does this effect IDE drives in terms of IO read/write accuracy? We use SCSI drives for low level mass data processing and mining because what you write to the disk is guaranteed to be what you can read from the disk in the future.
IDE disks don't have the same guarantee. Does the new 2.6 kernel improve this?
I also wonder if this reduces hard drive wear for longer lifetimes....
SATS will be the first step to the principle of Free Flight, where everyone, commercial and private, fly as they want. And yes, this would in theory decrease the workload for controllers by a large amount.
However, there still needs to be a person who is ultimately in charge if something happens and machines fail. Conflict detection and resolution done by the aircraft themselves can resolve conflicts 99% of the time, but someone needs to watch over the other 1%.
So, on the controller side, the question becomes whether it is harder for the controller to simply control the aircraft or if it is more strenuous for him to watch the aircraft and 'trust' them to self-separate.
Based on research done by my department here at Embry-Riddle University, controllers want to be in charge and hate having aircraft that fly themselves around.
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should't the job of NASA be primarily to lead the way into new ideas and approaches in the aviation field and subsequently be a regulating body over these?
I should come as no surprise that a government agency takes more $$$ and more time to accomplish something that commercial companies can do. Maybe NASA should be outsourcing their earth orbit operations and focusing on larger and further things....
just my two cents worth....
agreed :)
and that's why even though companies fail, CEOs (and whatever other C titles there are) always come out ahead. Use the airline industry as an example. Airlines fail quite frequently, but the guys at the top always make money.....
Many industries have to face this day by day. Companies over the last 3-4 years have laid off IT and software staff and have learned to make do without them.
So when you ask the boss to hire more people to do the work he says "But we haven't had any problems over the last 3 years" not realizing it's been a patch job since then.
When your company only generates so much money, upper management would rather invest it into marketing and sales, rather than investing into something where there is no perceived problem....
just my two cents worth....
The utility that comes installed by default with SUSE called 'cook' does the same thing. How is distcc any better than cook? Has anyone done any comparisons?
Whoever had anything against Howard Stern? If you don't like what he is sayting, change the channel. The money he vrought in must have been amazing though...
so how does this effect IDE drives in terms of IO read/write accuracy? We use SCSI drives for low level mass data processing and mining because what you write to the disk is guaranteed to be what you can read from the disk in the future.
IDE disks don't have the same guarantee. Does the new 2.6 kernel improve this?
I also wonder if this reduces hard drive wear for longer lifetimes....
SATS will be the first step to the principle of Free Flight, where everyone, commercial and private, fly as they want. And yes, this would in theory decrease the workload for controllers by a large amount.
However, there still needs to be a person who is ultimately in charge if something happens and machines fail. Conflict detection and resolution done by the aircraft themselves can resolve conflicts 99% of the time, but someone needs to watch over the other 1%.
So, on the controller side, the question becomes whether it is harder for the controller to simply control the aircraft or if it is more strenuous for him to watch the aircraft and 'trust' them to self-separate.
Based on research done by my department here at Embry-Riddle University, controllers want to be in charge and hate having aircraft that fly themselves around.