Maybe its because 99.9999% of corse deviations aren't a problem. There is this stuff called weather and airplanes fly in it. It has quite an effect on aircraft and has been know to do things like drop aiplanes 5000 feet in a few seconds.
ATC only gives hints at where the planes are supposed to be going except in the landing enviroment.
The way the old system works is simple, you say I want to fly from point A to point B and if I can't land at point B, I'll go to point C. My plane goes this fast and I would like to go at an altitude of about somany feet. ATC then says you can take off from point A (within 30 min or so) and fly on airway V-whatever to some vor at a specifc altitude. You get assinged chuncks of airspace and you get exclusive use of that. The assumption of the old system is that the radio is going to break and since the pilot has all the details before they leave the ground, its all safe.
This works nothing like what you read in your OOD programming book.
The new system is based on the concept that the computer is doing the controlling and the people are doing the communinicating. The old system was based on the people doing the controllig and the computer helping them with a manual task. One of these situations is workable when the computer crashes and one isn't.
So far Australia, UK and Tahiti all have had new systems that have crashed in the last year. It takes days to reroute and fix up the messes when London goes down. Australia has about as many planes in the air as the state of Missouri so they don't count as a busy airspace (but their rules and airspace plans make it look that way). Tahiti has some good controllers that can work around issues but because the new computer allows them to break the old rules (east is odd, west is even altitudes), there were two 747's flying at the same altittude and using GPS linked autopilots. In still air (like a calm night in the tropics), the GPS autopilot can get a 747 with in about 100 meters of the centerline between LAX and PPT VORs and the air pressure altimeter will keep the planes within 20 ft of their assigned altitudes. The new rules (only allowed by the new computer system) two planes were assigned to a collision course. Fortunately both planes had radar and they had options that didn't mess with other trafic but what happens when this same situation happens between Dulles and LaGuardia or between London and Hannover? In thouse cases if you change your course, you will go into areas that have been assigned to parallel flights.
I've been making money coding for over 20 years and I can say that in some applications computers are evil. I think this is one of them.
How about asking him how many alumni made a fortune in the Unix world vs Windows. I know a few Unix alums that are close to billionares and none of those windows guys that made it.
I wish I could remember the professors name but he taught the people who did BASIC for the 1st time-- I don't think he would have recomeneded windows. But that was long ago when OU tried to hire Donald Knuth but decided not to. It sucks when a state school gets so close to the likes of MIT and Stanford but then again maybe windows 2k is right for your department. Sometimes windows does fit in.
So the goverement allows anyone (within limits) to get a wiretap on any unsavory characters. It looks like to me that Al-quada won round 1 where Americans lose all their privacy from the goverment. The intention of Al-Quada was to get Americans so parinoid they use the goverment aginst themselves. 1st rule of terrorism is to use anything you can aginst your enemy--this includes the goverment. They won that round and there is no turning back as long as the pussys keep bending over. So whos going to bend over for round two?
All this BS over some deaths in the lower east side of NYC? Keep in mind that Sep 11th didn't even make a stistical blip in the death rate in NYC since the first major cold of the winter will kill somewhere between 5 to 10 thousand elderly and wtc only has about 900 confirmed about about 1700 maybes. There have been over 3000 investigations and fraud arrest in NYC for WTC death fraud over this. Consider only about 50,000 people could have been in the area at the time. 3 out of 50 is a very high rate for any illegal activity.
This may seem a bit callus but most of the people that have tried to rip me off in the last three years worked in those buildings. I don't have any problem with thouse assholes ending up jobless or even dead. I've got names of 8 jerks that were involed with things like over billing fraud, insurance frand and loan fraud that had addresses as 1 WTC or 2 WTC.
What does bother me is how Americans are bending over and getting screwed in the name of anti-buzworrd of the year. Does anyone remember the concepts that created America? Is histroy that forgotten? Much worse things have happened but can the average American name even one? I suspect not.
I don't think the Chinese embassy wasn't a mistake. The explosions were very small. The only cruise missiles the US had at the time with small explosives were the very high precision ones. The run of the mill $800,000 unit can take a building but the high precision ones can be programmed to go through specific windows but they run about $2m each. These are the type that hit Milosevic's house . One was rumored to have blown up his bed. A day before the attack on the house, he had give a speach with some reference to statues in the garden and the next day a wall on his house is leveled but the statues in the garden weren't harmed. Based on that we know someone who can target these things has a way of sending messages.
The Chinese had observers in the area and may have been tring some of their new equipment to find out just how hard it is to shoot down the F117. There had been some political issues about the Chinese observers just days before the F117 got shot down.
At work we bought a 3kva upsonic ups. Its good for about 10 minutes. That just would not do so we hooked up 16 deep cycle batteries to the thing. Now it will run for about 4 hours on a full load and a very long time when we start pulling things offline. It takes 4 days to recharge the thing.
We got a UPS because it has a good inverter and auto switching and a built in charger. An inverter would have cost more. I've got a snmp card so I can measure different things.
You have to be careful about these things beause you get a large voltage and massive amounts of current. Our system has two 96 volt banks and good for at least 300 amps. That can kill and it can also cause batteries to explode. Treat these with the respect they deserve. We have a small circut that goes between each battery that has 4 led's that let us know if any one of the batteries go bad. Its also hooked to a monitor system so we can get real time alarms if anything goes bad.
This will rapidly devalue used sun hardware. This means that banks that considered them an asset last month will now consider them as worthless as PC's because they can't liquidate them. The short term effect of this is no one will loan money for small sun boxes and in time--the larger ones.
The price of these printers has gone down quite a bit and it looks like the color refills are about as cheap as it can get for very high color quality.
Does anyone have any technical data on how this printer manages to take a large chunk of crayon like wax and put small color dots on the right spots on the page?
Can a typical cable modem talk to other modems on the same area? If so can one person get two, subscribe one to the service, set the second one up in a peer to peer setup and then NAT through a gateway?
Years ago we found that Arcnet cards would work over the local cables wires for quite some distance.
If you store your messages in an usenet server you get all kinds of neat features like auto expiration and tools that can put the binaries together and let the server deal with the file format.
Back when C-news was new, there was a systems called "Notes" that keep usenet posts in a database. From what I can tell that became the ancestor of lotus notes at some point.
On my server it takes elm about.78 seconds to read in and index 1651 messages from a 21 meg mbox file. Of course most of that is living in cache somewhere.
My phone does that too. But its about 1/2 the size of a plam III. It cost me about US$150 and I pay about US$25/mo for service. It has wireless internet access as well. Its a very good phone too. The down side is that I have to chage it about once a week but I've got a stand for it that charges it if it needs it at night.
I wonder if the large US PDA market has something to do with the lower cell phone take up.
If its a rocket, its NASA's jurisdiction and they aren't going to touch this. Of course that won't stop the FAA from busting the guy unless he follow their procedures. Too bad they don't have enough procedures for this sort of thing. If he refuses to follow their procedures he will end up with a big fine from them but they are powerless to stop him. He could get busted from endangering the lives of others but thats a hard thing to do before he lights the fuse.
Got any ideas on how to ask for the source? I've asked the dealer, I've asked on their web site, I've asked other dealers. I've tried to ask on their tech support line (which sent me back to the dealer).
I would have better luck asking a fish for a bicycle.
As far as having it on their web site. They don't even have the binaries on their web site. If someone finds a way to root these servers, there is no way anyone is in any position to apply emercency patches to these things to work around bugs. I know there are bugs. For example the user id must be "administrator" and the password must not have specail chaaracters in it due to a slight bug in their password encryption. google for "nbx rant" for more.
The last MS program I bought was MS Flight sim. It's box was almost but not quite right but I'm sure it was authentic. It was also at a very good price considering it was at a swap meet. Sometimes I feel I must give billy gates more of my hard earned money.
Big compaines already rip off the GPL and don't pay.
For example gnu tar and gnu zip are included in 3com's (a supporter of DMCA) NBX 100 but they don't supply souce for thouse programs nor the stuff they are linked to (which is 99% of the operational code). Why should they care if they break the law?
MS version 5 had the same set of peep hole optimization bugs as GCC. It could happen by chance.
The thing bombed out while tring to suck Telstra's cache dry so it only works up to about the middle of the "Thumbprints" so that might be a good place to stop looking.
Stats so far: bytes: 178,368,616 my bandwidth cost: us$00.66447487 Oz bandwidth cost: au$34.0211
So a poorly rated followup (it was 2 till very recently) to a/. story can suck more bandwidth in 25 minutes than all of my paying customers in a month.
The would lose even more money by porting their entire game line over to the xbox.
If these come with any kind of survey card asking what type of games people would like to see, I think Minesweeper and free cell. Maybe even mention their trian simulator (which Union Pacific hates). Who buys that game? driving a train down a track. Do you steer with the joystick? I keep picking up the boxed game at software stores and look at asking my self, Why?
A real trick would be to convince them that you want somethink like "Microsoft Bob" on your xbox.
My comment to them... any/. readers want to look into the bolded bit some more?
I am a US citizen living in Australia. There are a large number of American artists that live here because they can make a living here making their art. Most are here because the could not make a living in the US industry with its heave handed control of the MPAA and RIAA. To me this shows that US copyright law does not properly protect the artist but only the companies that claim to represent the artists.
I ask the Congress to look at the top selling movies over the last year and ask how many of them were made by US artists? How many of the top 20 music CD's were done by US artists in the last 20 years? Current US copyright law is not helping the creators of the work.
The concept of public domain is very broken. Did any of the Members of Congress pay royalties when they sung God Bless America on the steps of the Capitol on Sept 12? The song was written in 1936 by Irving Berlin and is still copyright just as much as a drawing of Mickey Mouse in 1928. Maybe everyone just assumed that the song was public domain but I've never seen so many Congressmen break the law at one time.
Please restore copyright law to the way it was 40 years ago and fix the problem. Ignore what the MPAA and RIAA say since they do not represent nearly a 1/2 million artists that make film and music in America.
We just force anyone who makes ADC to put a bit more cpu power in them (ok that will require adding a cpu core and memory and the rest of the stuff to make a dsp but we can ignore that for now)
That should only drive the price for a 16 bit a/d convert up about 800% but its such a small part of modern electronics it won't matter to the consumer.
I hope there is an exclusion for A/D converters for hearing aids or else these voters might get just a bit upset.
They did so much work getting the landscape to flow more realistly but the buildings seem to be based on the lowest level on the grid and then other sides don't look right. I wonder if that has an effect of property values:-)
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Maybe its because 99.9999% of corse deviations aren't a problem. There is this stuff called weather and airplanes fly in it. It has quite an effect on aircraft and has been know to do things like drop aiplanes 5000 feet in a few seconds.
ATC only gives hints at where the planes are supposed to be going except in the landing enviroment.
The way the old system works is simple, you say I want to fly from point A to point B and if I can't land at point B, I'll go to point C. My plane goes this fast and I would like to go at an altitude of about somany feet. ATC then says you can take off from point A (within 30 min or so) and fly on airway V-whatever to some vor at a specifc altitude. You get assinged chuncks of airspace and you get exclusive use of that. The assumption of the old system is that the radio is going to break and since the pilot has all the details before they leave the ground, its all safe.
This works nothing like what you read in your OOD programming book.
The new system is based on the concept that the computer is doing the controlling and the people are doing the communinicating. The old system was based on the people doing the controllig and the computer helping them with a manual task. One of these situations is workable when the computer crashes and one isn't.
So far Australia, UK and Tahiti all have had new systems that have crashed in the last year. It takes days to reroute and fix up the messes when London goes down. Australia has about as many planes in the air as the state of Missouri so they don't count as a busy airspace (but their rules and airspace plans make it look that way). Tahiti has some good controllers that can work around issues but because the new computer allows them to break the old rules (east is odd, west is even altitudes), there were two 747's flying at the same altittude and using GPS linked autopilots. In still air (like a calm night in the tropics), the GPS autopilot can get a 747 with in about 100 meters of the centerline between LAX and PPT VORs and the air pressure altimeter will keep the planes within 20 ft of their assigned altitudes. The new rules (only allowed by the new computer system) two planes were assigned to a collision course. Fortunately both planes had radar and they had options that didn't mess with other trafic but what happens when this same situation happens between Dulles and LaGuardia or between London and Hannover? In thouse cases if you change your course, you will go into areas that have been assigned to parallel flights.
I've been making money coding for over 20 years and I can say that in some applications computers are evil. I think this is one of them.
How about asking him how many alumni made a fortune in the Unix world vs Windows. I know a few Unix alums that are close to billionares and none of those windows guys that made it.
I wish I could remember the professors name but he taught the people who did BASIC for the 1st time-- I don't think he would have recomeneded windows. But that was long ago when OU tried to hire Donald Knuth but decided not to. It sucks when a state school gets so close to the likes of MIT and Stanford but then again maybe windows 2k is right for your department. Sometimes windows does fit in.
So the goverement allows anyone (within limits) to get a wiretap on any unsavory characters. It looks like to me that Al-quada won round 1 where Americans lose all their privacy from the goverment. The intention of Al-Quada was to get Americans so parinoid they use the goverment aginst themselves. 1st rule of terrorism is to use anything you can aginst your enemy--this includes the goverment. They won that round and there is no turning back as long as the pussys keep bending over. So whos going to bend over for round two?
All this BS over some deaths in the lower east side of NYC? Keep in mind that Sep 11th didn't even make a stistical blip in the death rate in NYC since the first major cold of the winter will kill somewhere between 5 to 10 thousand elderly and wtc only has about 900 confirmed about about 1700 maybes. There have been over 3000 investigations and fraud arrest in NYC for WTC death fraud over this. Consider only about 50,000 people could have been in the area at the time. 3 out of 50 is a very high rate for any illegal activity.
This may seem a bit callus but most of the people that have tried to rip me off in the last three years worked in those buildings. I don't have any problem with thouse assholes ending up jobless or even dead. I've got names of 8 jerks that were involed with things like over billing fraud, insurance frand and loan fraud that had addresses as 1 WTC or 2 WTC.
What does bother me is how Americans are bending over and getting screwed in the name of anti-buzworrd of the year. Does anyone remember the concepts that created America? Is histroy that forgotten? Much worse things have happened but can the average American name even one? I suspect not.
You could go one step farther and only determine when cats are dead or not only when they are being looked at.
I don't think the Chinese embassy wasn't a mistake. The explosions were very small. The only cruise missiles the US had at the time with small explosives were the very high precision ones. The run of the mill $800,000 unit can take a building but the high precision ones can be programmed to go through specific windows but they run about $2m each. These are the type that hit Milosevic's house . One was rumored to have blown up his bed. A day before the attack on the house, he had give a speach with some reference to statues in the garden and the next day a wall on his house is leveled but the statues in the garden weren't harmed. Based on that we know someone who can target these things has a way of sending messages.
The Chinese had observers in the area and may have been tring some of their new equipment to find out just how hard it is to shoot down the F117. There had been some political issues about the Chinese observers just days before the F117 got shot down.
At work we bought a 3kva upsonic ups. Its good for about 10 minutes. That just would not do so we hooked up 16 deep cycle batteries to the thing. Now it will run for about 4 hours on a full load and a very long time when we start pulling things offline. It takes 4 days to recharge the thing.
We got a UPS because it has a good inverter and auto switching and a built in charger. An inverter would have cost more. I've got a snmp card so I can measure different things.
You have to be careful about these things beause you get a large voltage and massive amounts of current. Our system has two 96 volt banks and good for at least 300 amps. That can kill and it can also cause batteries to explode. Treat these with the respect they deserve. We have a small circut that goes between each battery that has 4 led's that let us know if any one of the batteries go bad. Its also hooked to a monitor system so we can get real time alarms if anything goes bad.
Its not the computers that the banks use that I was talking about. Its the ones they might own because the company they lent the money went belly up.
This will rapidly devalue used sun hardware. This means that banks that considered them an asset last month will now consider them as worthless as PC's because they can't liquidate them. The short term effect of this is no one will loan money for small sun boxes and in time--the larger ones.
The price of these printers has gone down quite a bit and it looks like the color refills are about as cheap as it can get for very high color quality.
Does anyone have any technical data on how this printer manages to take a large chunk of crayon like wax and put small color dots on the right spots on the page?
Can a typical cable modem talk to other modems on the same area? If so can one person get two, subscribe one to the service, set the second one up in a peer to peer setup and then NAT through a gateway?
Years ago we found that Arcnet cards would work over the local cables wires for quite some distance.
If you store your messages in an usenet server you get all kinds of neat features like auto expiration and tools that can put the binaries together and let the server deal with the file format.
Back when C-news was new, there was a systems called "Notes" that keep usenet posts in a database. From what I can tell that became the ancestor of lotus notes at some point.
On my server it takes elm about .78 seconds to read in and index 1651 messages from a 21 meg mbox file. Of course most of that is living in cache somewhere.
My phone does that too. But its about 1/2 the size of a plam III. It cost me about US$150 and I pay about US$25/mo for service. It has wireless internet access as well. Its a very good phone too. The down side is that I have to chage it about once a week but I've got a stand for it that charges it if it needs it at night.
I wonder if the large US PDA market has something to do with the lower cell phone take up.
If its a rocket, its NASA's jurisdiction and they aren't going to touch this. Of course that won't stop the FAA from busting the guy unless he follow their procedures. Too bad they don't have enough procedures for this sort of thing. If he refuses to follow their procedures he will end up with a big fine from them but they are powerless to stop him. He could get busted from endangering the lives of others but thats a hard thing to do before he lights the fuse.
Got any ideas on how to ask for the source? I've asked the dealer, I've asked on their web site, I've asked other dealers. I've tried to ask on their tech support line (which sent me back to the dealer).
I would have better luck asking a fish for a bicycle.
As far as having it on their web site. They don't even have the binaries on their web site. If someone finds a way to root these servers, there is no way anyone is in any position to apply emercency patches to these things to work around bugs. I know there are bugs. For example the user id must be "administrator" and the password must not have specail chaaracters in it due to a slight bug in their password encryption. google for "nbx rant" for more.
The last MS program I bought was MS Flight sim. It's box was almost but not quite right but I'm sure it was authentic. It was also at a very good price considering it was at a swap meet. Sometimes I feel I must give billy gates more of my hard earned money.
Big compaines already rip off the GPL and
don't pay.
For example gnu tar and gnu zip are included
in 3com's (a supporter of DMCA) NBX 100 but they don't supply souce for thouse programs nor the stuff they are linked to (which is 99% of the operational code). Why should they care if they break the law?
MS version 5 had the same set of peep hole optimization bugs as GCC. It could happen by chance.
The thing bombed out while tring to suck Telstra's cache dry so it only works up to about the middle of the "Thumbprints" so that might be a good place to stop looking.
/. story can
Stats so far:
bytes: 178,368,616
my bandwidth cost: us$00.66447487
Oz bandwidth cost: au$34.0211
So a poorly rated followup (it was 2 till very
recently) to a
suck more bandwidth in 25 minutes than all of
my paying customers in a month.
Welcome to the Information Super Outback!
No use blowing some small Aussie ISP out of the water.
mirror will be here for a few days
The would lose even more money by porting their entire game line over to the xbox.
If these come with any kind of survey card asking what type of games people would like to see, I think Minesweeper and free cell. Maybe even mention their trian simulator (which Union Pacific hates). Who buys that game? driving a train down a track. Do you steer with the joystick? I keep picking up the boxed game at software stores and look at asking my self, Why?
A real trick would be to convince them that you want somethink like "Microsoft Bob" on your xbox.
My comment to them... any /. readers want to look into the bolded bit some more?
I am a US citizen living in Australia. There are a large number of
American artists that live here because they can make a living here
making their art. Most are here because the could not make a living
in the US industry with its heave handed control of the MPAA and RIAA.
To me this shows that US copyright law does not properly protect the
artist but only the companies that claim to represent the artists.
I ask the Congress to look at the top selling movies over the last year
and ask how many of them were made by US artists? How many of the top
20 music CD's were done by US artists in the last 20 years? Current US
copyright law is not helping the creators of the work.
The concept of public domain is very broken. Did any of the Members of
Congress pay royalties when they sung God Bless America on the steps of
the Capitol on Sept 12? The song was written in 1936 by Irving Berlin
and is still copyright just as much as a drawing of Mickey Mouse in 1928.
Maybe everyone just assumed that the song was public domain but I've
never seen so many Congressmen break the law at one time.
Please restore copyright law to the way it was 40 years ago and fix the
problem. Ignore what the MPAA and RIAA say since they do not represent
nearly a 1/2 million artists that make film and music in America.
We just force anyone who makes ADC to put a bit more cpu power in them (ok that will require adding a cpu core and memory and the rest of the stuff to make a dsp but we can ignore that for now)
That should only drive the price for a 16 bit a/d convert up about 800% but its such a small part of modern electronics it won't matter to the consumer.
I hope there is an exclusion for A/D converters for hearing aids or else these voters might get just a bit upset.
They did so much work getting the landscape to flow more realistly but the buildings seem to be based on the lowest level on the grid and then other sides don't look right. I wonder if that has an effect of property values :-)
They already have gear that works at nearly 1000G like the GPS systems the use for shelling research.
A typical air to air missile will do 50G for short times.
The F22 and F15 can cope with 12G in some conditions but the pilots most likly can't.