Actually the X-33 never flew, the project was cancelled when the prototype was 85% complete.
The A380 is not vapourware - its in production, the delays are due to production problems and not technical issues with the concept itself. Infact, the A380 delays are the perfect example of incompatabilities in IT based projects - different parts were designed with different versions of the CATIA system, leading to problems with the wiring bundles that Airbus are sorting out now.
Airlines also disagree with you - two airlines (Singapore and Qantas) placed followon orders to their originals this year, even before they had the first one delivered, so that says something about confidence in the aircraft.
Hint: the rest of the world doesnt go on EST. Its not 7am where I am, its halfway through the working day for me - try to think outside your own country, Java usage isnt limited to the US.
Yes, because having a policy against idiotic acts like placing corporate data in third party services that have absolutely no contingency plan for access in the event something unspeakable happens to you and no guarantees of availability or security of data is facist....
I think your post symbolises very well the cheapness that certain terms and words have been lowered to on Slashdot.
I don't know about the UK, but in the US we have something called welfare that a woman could live in on instead of prostituting herself. We also have student loans to go to college (including extremely cheap community college) and free public education. Anyone who becomes a prostitute sure doesn't become one for lack of opportunity. He or she either makes a conscious decision to get some fast money and then gets caught up in the system of crime (or, perhaps in a few cases, just really loves sex),
In the UK we also have state aid that they can live on, and student loans and even grants for totally free higher education in certain cases. These are not the problem. The 'problem' is that these women are selling a renewable resource for significant sums of money that places their income quite high in relation to the alternatives. Quite simply, the vast majority of them see the reward outweighing the negative side. If they want to do that, good for them.
Uh, no, Windows is not good at backwards compatibility: the entire OS has changed radically over the last 15 years. There are some compatibility hacks, but old software does not work well on newer versions of Windows.
In contrast, 20 year old UNIX software compiles, runs, and takes full advantage of modern hardware; the APIs have hardly changed because UNIX got them right in the first place. That includes the window system. You might want to try that sometime, in practice its not so clear cut on the UNIX side. And yes, I have experience in this area.
Im sorry, thats not the GPL v3 being 'Apache 2.0 license compatible', thats the Apache 2.0 license being compatible with the GPL v3 - it only goes one way, ever. The GPL series of licenses (from 2 upward, I know nothing about v1) are not compatible with any other license, because you cannot distribute GPLed code under another license without the express permission of the copyright holder. However many licenses are compatible with the GPL because code under those licenses can be distributed under the GPL. One way.
Im not having a rant against the GPL, Im just asking that you get the terms correct.
The sad part of it is that Britain is probably the US' last firm ally in the world right now. With Britain wanting to upgrade its nuclear missile submarine program in a few years, what are they going to do then if we are still being so schizoid, buy their nukes from France?
I know you are probably joking, but the UK would build its own nuclear warheads - the ones we operate currently are fully built and maintained in the UK, its the missile bodies that are shared with the US for ease of maintenance.
A billion bucks could also make life seriously worse on Earth - how much has the Iraq war cost so far? NASA doesnt spend money in space, it spends money here, people get paid, companies get paid, life goes on. We have been throwing stupendous amounts of money at humanities ills for the past 50 years, do you really think a few billion more is going to accelerate the process where a few hundred billion hasnt been able to?
Earth, humanity will get fixed, but at its own pace.
I have two, nothing wrong with them if you are a 20 to 30 year old on a middling income and you dont see clients often. In essence, its a great office suit at a good price.
What's more, no national aviation authority in the world will allow civil UAVs without a system for avoiding other aircraft. And no firm has even started development of one.
Well thats precisely what TCAS (Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System) is designed to do, albiet in todays form its a warning system only and doesnt take action on its own but the current rules about it are that TCAS warnings and action guidance take precedence over air traffic control when the two conflict.
All you would have to do is implement this in the UCAV but have it *always* follow the TCAS automatically when it issues an advisory, no need to produce a new system when one already is in existence around the globe.
Uh, easy way to avoid that - encrypted, frequency hopping control transmissions. We have moved on considerably since the days of basic wide range analogue radio where having a more powerful transmitter won.
Is this the question and the answer? You innovate because when your product becomes stale no one wants it.
Problem is, that doesnt work - sure, the product is stale, but if you invest money improving it, theres someone out there that can take that improvement and produce it for less than you can because they have no investment to recoup. Now theres two products on the market that arent stale, except one is higher priced than the other, so guess which one consumers are buying...
Sure there is. Without innovation a company has no advantage over its competitors. To make a profit you have to either sell something different or produce the same thing more efficiently. Both of these require innovation.
Theres also the third requirement - innovation to move the market forward.
Whats the market going to look like when the market innovator has no recourse on those undercutting them and they cant afford to lower the prices, eat the R&D costs and fight them on that front? Whats it going to look like when they decide to leave the market? Are you seriously under the impression that the copiers are suddenly going to grow a backbone and magic their own top class R&D department out of thin air? You think the copiers would be able to sustain their own low pricing in that circumstance?
As for your comment about frees speech zones... have you ever been to Cairo? Or talked to anyone who has? Their security measures are nothing like "Free Speech Zones" in the U.S. Both the police and army regularly go around armed with automatic weapons because Egypt has very legitimate concerns over political and terrorist/religious fundamentalist violence. Cairo has, quite possibly, the most police per thousand citizens of any major city.
I visited Cairo in 2003 as part of a day package tour from Cyprus, and what follows is a short description of the security given to our tour group.
Landed in Cairo on 737, aircraft met on the runway by two armed jeeps and escorted to a remote stand. Passengers deplaned and bussed to a deserted terminal area with the busses escorted by the jeeps, cordon of armed guards around the plane. Passing through passport control, I could count at least a dozen uniformed security personel armed with AK-47 class weapons.
4 tour busses awaited us in a secure compound outside the airport, three designated for the passengers, one for 'Tourism Police' armed guards. Four armed guards also on each bus.
Driving through Cairo, you can spot armed guards positioned about 500 meters apart on each side of the road for the entire route.
At the Pyramids, the tourism police are more than welcome to deal with the locals that try to sell you anything and everything they can. By the way, dont take a camel ride - they charge you to get on, and then charge you extortionate rates to allow you to get off again. Lots of armed guards around.
Midday meal - secure top class hotel, no armed guards within the building but noticable presence outside the building.
Local market visit - what I assume are military guards stationed outside nearly every shop, with shotguns, head protection, and what looked like full length half inch thick steel riot shields.
Evening meal on the Nile - the boat is followed by two small launches with what looked like twin.50 cal machine guns mounted on the front.
The protection level for just our small group of tourists was phenominal, and just a little bit scary on its own - I didnt get that easy sense of safety but the sight was welcome.
I can't imagine them working on GPL'd stuff and having to release the code.
As the GP suggests, the Services for Unix package contains a lot of GPLed stuff, the code for which is also available on the Microsoft FTP servers. Microsoft have no issues with actually following license terms if they are required to do so.
This seems to be the latest stupid 'slashdot-ism' - other than a few well known exceptions, you are not allowed to have a good word about or make a recommendation about any company big or small because you are instantly branded a shill for doing so.
Actually most Progress modules are used for this - they are loaded with trash before being detatched and deorbited, burning up on reentry but theres no particular reason they couldnt be placed into a parking orbit for potential future use.
So its OK for the Mac trumpet to sound, because its not the OS? Nevermind that it might as well be because you cant turn it off, its mandated by the same people who produce OSX, and its as annoying as anything an OS can produce? Stop putting artificial restrictions on arguements.
Charge under Section 5 (1) the Terrorism Act 2006 says "between 1 January and 10 August 2006, with the intention of committing acts of terrorism, [he was] preparing to smuggle parts of improvised explosive devices on to aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board".
Mr Stewart Whyte also faces three firearms charges. The first said "on 9 August he had in his possession a Baikal 8mm pistol, contrary to section 5 (1) of the Firearms Act 1968".
He is also charged with possessing a magazine clip with 10 rounds of ammunition and a silencer without holding a firearms certificate, contrary to section 1 (1) of the Firearms Act 1968.
MOHAMMED SADDIQUE, 24, OF WALTHAMSTOW, EAST LONDON
Charge under Section 5 (1) the Terrorism Act 2006 also says "between 1 January and 10 August 2006, with the intention of committing acts of terrorism, [he was] preparing to smuggle parts of improvised explosive devices on to aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board".
AHMED ABDULLAH ALI (AKA ABDULLAH ALI AHMED KHAN), 25, OF WALTHAMSTOW, EAST LONDON
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court conspired with other persons to murder other persons (contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977).
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court with the intention of committing acts of terrorism engaged in conduct to give effect to their intention to smuggle the component parts of improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board (contrary to Section 5 (1) of the Terrorism Act 2006).
TANVIR HUSSAIN, 25, OF NO FIXED ADDRESS
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court conspired with other persons to murder other persons (contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977).
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court with the intention of committing acts of terrorism engaged in conduct to give effect to their intention to smuggle the component parts of improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board (contrary to Section 5 (1) of the Terrorism Act 2006).
UMAR ISLAM (AKA BRIAN YOUNG), 28, OF STRATFORD, EAST LONDON
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court conspired with other persons to murder other persons (contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977).
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court with the intention of committing acts of terrorism engaged in conduct to give effect to their intention to smuggle the component parts of improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board (contrary to Section 5 (1) of the Terrorism Act 2006).
ARAFAT WAHEED KHAN, 25, OF WALTHAMSTOW
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court conspired with other persons to murder other persons (contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977).
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court with the intention of committing acts of terrorism engaged in conduct to give effect to their intention to smuggle the component parts of improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board (contrary to Section 5 (1) of the Terrorism Act 2006).
ASSAD ALI SARWAR, 26, OF HIGH WYCOMBE
On diverse days between 1 January 2006 and 10 August 2006 within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court conspired with other persons to murder other persons (contrary to
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Actually the X-33 never flew, the project was cancelled when the prototype was 85% complete.
The A380 is not vapourware - its in production, the delays are due to production problems and not technical issues with the concept itself. Infact, the A380 delays are the perfect example of incompatabilities in IT based projects - different parts were designed with different versions of the CATIA system, leading to problems with the wiring bundles that Airbus are sorting out now.
Airlines also disagree with you - two airlines (Singapore and Qantas) placed followon orders to their originals this year, even before they had the first one delivered, so that says something about confidence in the aircraft.
Referrer logging is pitifully easy to defeat.
Or using Occams Razor - there are as many people outside the US taking part in the Java download as there is within.
Based on the fact that theres very rarely a drop off in number of comments being posted while the US is asleep, I dont see how your argument is valid.
Hint: the rest of the world doesnt go on EST. Its not 7am where I am, its halfway through the working day for me - try to think outside your own country, Java usage isnt limited to the US.
Yes, because having a policy against idiotic acts like placing corporate data in third party services that have absolutely no contingency plan for access in the event something unspeakable happens to you and no guarantees of availability or security of data is facist....
I think your post symbolises very well the cheapness that certain terms and words have been lowered to on Slashdot.
In the UK we also have state aid that they can live on, and student loans and even grants for totally free higher education in certain cases. These are not the problem. The 'problem' is that these women are selling a renewable resource for significant sums of money that places their income quite high in relation to the alternatives. Quite simply, the vast majority of them see the reward outweighing the negative side. If they want to do that, good for them.
In contrast, 20 year old UNIX software compiles, runs, and takes full advantage of modern hardware; the APIs have hardly changed because UNIX got them right in the first place. That includes the window system. You might want to try that sometime, in practice its not so clear cut on the UNIX side. And yes, I have experience in this area.
Im sorry, thats not the GPL v3 being 'Apache 2.0 license compatible', thats the Apache 2.0 license being compatible with the GPL v3 - it only goes one way, ever. The GPL series of licenses (from 2 upward, I know nothing about v1) are not compatible with any other license, because you cannot distribute GPLed code under another license without the express permission of the copyright holder. However many licenses are compatible with the GPL because code under those licenses can be distributed under the GPL. One way.
Im not having a rant against the GPL, Im just asking that you get the terms correct.
I know you are probably joking, but the UK would build its own nuclear warheads - the ones we operate currently are fully built and maintained in the UK, its the missile bodies that are shared with the US for ease of maintenance.
A billion bucks could also make life seriously worse on Earth - how much has the Iraq war cost so far? NASA doesnt spend money in space, it spends money here, people get paid, companies get paid, life goes on. We have been throwing stupendous amounts of money at humanities ills for the past 50 years, do you really think a few billion more is going to accelerate the process where a few hundred billion hasnt been able to?
Earth, humanity will get fixed, but at its own pace.
I have two, nothing wrong with them if you are a 20 to 30 year old on a middling income and you dont see clients often. In essence, its a great office suit at a good price.
Well thats precisely what TCAS (Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System) is designed to do, albiet in todays form its a warning system only and doesnt take action on its own but the current rules about it are that TCAS warnings and action guidance take precedence over air traffic control when the two conflict.
All you would have to do is implement this in the UCAV but have it *always* follow the TCAS automatically when it issues an advisory, no need to produce a new system when one already is in existence around the globe.
Uh, easy way to avoid that - encrypted, frequency hopping control transmissions. We have moved on considerably since the days of basic wide range analogue radio where having a more powerful transmitter won.
Already being done - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6167868. stm
Is this the question and the answer? You innovate because when your product becomes stale no one wants it.
Problem is, that doesnt work - sure, the product is stale, but if you invest money improving it, theres someone out there that can take that improvement and produce it for less than you can because they have no investment to recoup. Now theres two products on the market that arent stale, except one is higher priced than the other, so guess which one consumers are buying...Sure there is. Without innovation a company has no advantage over its competitors. To make a profit you have to either sell something different or produce the same thing more efficiently. Both of these require innovation.
Theres also the third requirement - innovation to move the market forward.
Whats the market going to look like when the market innovator has no recourse on those undercutting them and they cant afford to lower the prices, eat the R&D costs and fight them on that front? Whats it going to look like when they decide to leave the market? Are you seriously under the impression that the copiers are suddenly going to grow a backbone and magic their own top class R&D department out of thin air? You think the copiers would be able to sustain their own low pricing in that circumstance?
I visited Cairo in 2003 as part of a day package tour from Cyprus, and what follows is a short description of the security given to our tour group.
Landed in Cairo on 737, aircraft met on the runway by two armed jeeps and escorted to a remote stand. Passengers deplaned and bussed to a deserted terminal area with the busses escorted by the jeeps, cordon of armed guards around the plane. Passing through passport control, I could count at least a dozen uniformed security personel armed with AK-47 class weapons.
4 tour busses awaited us in a secure compound outside the airport, three designated for the passengers, one for 'Tourism Police' armed guards. Four armed guards also on each bus.
Driving through Cairo, you can spot armed guards positioned about 500 meters apart on each side of the road for the entire route.
At the Pyramids, the tourism police are more than welcome to deal with the locals that try to sell you anything and everything they can. By the way, dont take a camel ride - they charge you to get on, and then charge you extortionate rates to allow you to get off again. Lots of armed guards around.
Midday meal - secure top class hotel, no armed guards within the building but noticable presence outside the building.
Local market visit - what I assume are military guards stationed outside nearly every shop, with shotguns, head protection, and what looked like full length half inch thick steel riot shields.
Evening meal on the Nile - the boat is followed by two small launches with what looked like twin .50 cal machine guns mounted on the front.
The protection level for just our small group of tourists was phenominal, and just a little bit scary on its own - I didnt get that easy sense of safety but the sight was welcome.
As the GP suggests, the Services for Unix package contains a lot of GPLed stuff, the code for which is also available on the Microsoft FTP servers. Microsoft have no issues with actually following license terms if they are required to do so.
This seems to be the latest stupid 'slashdot-ism' - other than a few well known exceptions, you are not allowed to have a good word about or make a recommendation about any company big or small because you are instantly branded a shill for doing so.
Pathetic.
Congratulations, you just reinvented the Patent and Copyright systems.
Actually most Progress modules are used for this - they are loaded with trash before being detatched and deorbited, burning up on reentry but theres no particular reason they couldnt be placed into a parking orbit for potential future use.
So its OK for the Mac trumpet to sound, because its not the OS? Nevermind that it might as well be because you cant turn it off, its mandated by the same people who produce OSX, and its as annoying as anything an OS can produce? Stop putting artificial restrictions on arguements.
Why should he come up with two products?