E.g. in the Soviet Union it essentially ended up essentially reinstating Serfdom
The soviet model was very close to feudalism in several other ways as well. Under feudalism, all property belonged to the king, who let his vassals hold subdivisions of it. Under Soviet communism, all property nominally belonged to the state, and in practice it was a hierarchy from the top thugs in moscow to the local zampolit who decided who got to use what property, regardless of who'd produced it.
It's worse than him just whining about his own situation, his lawsuit is trying to force everyone else to an arrangement that his colleagues didn't ask for.
First of all, what we had in the 1800s was mercantilism, more than capitalism. There was an awful lot of trading in government favors, tariffs, interference with competitors, etc. Secondly, even with those distortions in the market, the industrial revolution is what made our current standard of living possible. There weren't any gangs rounding people up off the farms and forcing them to go work in factories in England or the United States (it was Lenin who came up with that particular crime, and Stalin and Mao scaled it up tremendously.)
Damn right. This guy didn't like the job, fine. He can go and work somewhere else (which he did.) When I had more than I could do at Apple, I quit and joined a start-up.
Seems to me that litigation is pretty lousy substitute for negotiating skills.
A first class threat... say, Russian armored forces... would eat these drones for lunch.
I wouldn't bet on that. Russian tanks aren't all that good, and drones can be made much smaller and harder to detect (and shoot down) than a manned aircraft.
If aviation radios had the equivalent of TCP and self-announced their position a la GPS, it could be a real-time, fully-coordinated, highly secure and all-but-automatic system that required almost no actual human intervention on the radio for most tasks.
There are so many things about aviation that could be vastly improved by applying modern technology. Ever had a look at an ATC radar display? Best 1950s technology you can imagine when it comes to user interface.
I can just imagine the reduction in ATC personnel burn-out, if you just made the display show icons of the aircraft, in a couple of sizes to indicate the general type (heavy transport, private jet, helicopter, etc.), color coded for altitude, flashing in red if the computer thinks they're too close together...
But it would take me 10 years (at best) to get this rammed through the Gubbmint if I had nearly unlimited funds and some damned good lobbyists on my speed-dial. Augh.
When I was kicking around these kinds of ideas many years ago, it seemed to me that the best bet would be to sell a better, cheaper, more modern ATC system to a country that needed to be a bit more budget-conscious than the USA.
The mounted knights were hardly the ones to throw their hands up and say "okay, I am redundant and resign" though.
That's exactly my point. There will always be people who want to maintain the status quo, but things change. Technology advances, and eventually the advantages of new ways of doing things can't be ignored.
, the perks of being a fighter pilot, the status and career path that conveys, are not things they're going to surrender willingly....which is why mounted knights maintained their position and status when firearms made their favorite mode of battle obsolete, right?
Right now drones are itty bitty things with props, meant for long times in the air essentially for surveillance.
Most are, but there are also drones that are just retired combat aircraft that have had remote control systems installed. Those are generally used for target practice.
On the other hand, dogfighting is a rare occurrence in modern wars.
The problem is that very few of the talented pilots want to do this stuff.
So?
Put the best pilot in the world in an F-16, and a much less skilled pilot on the ground, controlling an aircraft that can out climb, out turn, and out run him, and it's game over. Whatever his skills are, if he blacks out at 12 Gs, he loses.
Why not? The limit to the performance of a modern fighter aircraft is how many Gs the pilot can handle. Put the pilot on the ground, and you can make a far faster, more agile, smaller, lighter, and vastly cheaper weapon.
Look at the keypad. The numbers will be worn down.
That works if there's only one code for entry. Every place I've worked that used keypads for entry has assigned a different code to each authorized person.
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E.g. in the Soviet Union it essentially ended up essentially reinstating Serfdom
The soviet model was very close to feudalism in several other ways as well. Under feudalism, all property belonged to the king, who let his vassals hold subdivisions of it. Under Soviet communism, all property nominally belonged to the state, and in practice it was a hierarchy from the top thugs in moscow to the local zampolit who decided who got to use what property, regardless of who'd produced it.
-jcr
So you're saying that Apple should be allowed to break the law?
I said nothing of the kind. BTW, when did you stop beating your wife?
-jcr
It's worse than him just whining about his own situation, his lawsuit is trying to force everyone else to an arrangement that his colleagues didn't ask for.
-jcr
the "ugly capitalism" found in 1800's
First of all, what we had in the 1800s was mercantilism, more than capitalism. There was an awful lot of trading in government favors, tariffs, interference with competitors, etc. Secondly, even with those distortions in the market, the industrial revolution is what made our current standard of living possible. There weren't any gangs rounding people up off the farms and forcing them to go work in factories in England or the United States (it was Lenin who came up with that particular crime, and Stalin and Mao scaled it up tremendously.)
-jcr
The whole point of the law is to protect peons from being exploited by their bosses.
The job this guy was doing at Apple was probably paying him between 70 and 80 grand. IT at Apple isn't a coal mine or a garment factory.
-jcr
Damn right. This guy didn't like the job, fine. He can go and work somewhere else (which he did.) When I had more than I could do at Apple, I quit and joined a start-up.
Seems to me that litigation is pretty lousy substitute for negotiating skills.
-jcr
A first class threat... say, Russian armored forces... would eat these drones for lunch.
I wouldn't bet on that. Russian tanks aren't all that good, and drones can be made much smaller and harder to detect (and shoot down) than a manned aircraft.
-jcr
If aviation radios had the equivalent of TCP and self-announced their position a la GPS, it could be a real-time, fully-coordinated, highly secure and all-but-automatic system that required almost no actual human intervention on the radio for most tasks.
There are so many things about aviation that could be vastly improved by applying modern technology. Ever had a look at an ATC radar display? Best 1950s technology you can imagine when it comes to user interface.
I can just imagine the reduction in ATC personnel burn-out, if you just made the display show icons of the aircraft, in a couple of sizes to indicate the general type (heavy transport, private jet, helicopter, etc.), color coded for altitude, flashing in red if the computer thinks they're too close together...
But it would take me 10 years (at best) to get this rammed through the Gubbmint if I had nearly unlimited funds and some damned good lobbyists on my speed-dial. Augh.
When I was kicking around these kinds of ideas many years ago, it seemed to me that the best bet would be to sell a better, cheaper, more modern ATC system to a country that needed to be a bit more budget-conscious than the USA.
-jcr
The mounted knights were hardly the ones to throw their hands up and say "okay, I am redundant and resign" though.
That's exactly my point. There will always be people who want to maintain the status quo, but things change. Technology advances, and eventually the advantages of new ways of doing things can't be ignored.
-jcr
, the perks of being a fighter pilot, the status and career path that conveys, are not things they're going to surrender willingly. ...which is why mounted knights maintained their position and status when firearms made their favorite mode of battle obsolete, right?
Oh, wait.
-jcr
Right now drones are itty bitty things with props, meant for long times in the air essentially for surveillance.
Most are, but there are also drones that are just retired combat aircraft that have had remote control systems installed. Those are generally used for target practice.
On the other hand, dogfighting is a rare occurrence in modern wars.
Even more reason to quit putting pilots on board.
-jcr
The problem is that very few of the talented pilots want to do this stuff.
So?
Put the best pilot in the world in an F-16, and a much less skilled pilot on the ground, controlling an aircraft that can out climb, out turn, and out run him, and it's game over. Whatever his skills are, if he blacks out at 12 Gs, he loses.
-jcr
That explains Top Gun, I suppose.
Careful, Tom Cruise is going to sue your suppressive ass!
-jcr
Fighter Wing, no way
Why not? The limit to the performance of a modern fighter aircraft is how many Gs the pilot can handle. Put the pilot on the ground, and you can make a far faster, more agile, smaller, lighter, and vastly cheaper weapon.
-jcr
NeXT had 3D Kit, and it rocked. It used Renderman.
They're both long gone, though.
-jcr
Steve Jobs apparently confirms that it is a malicious app kill switch.
No. He confirmed that there is a "kill switch", he said nothing about how it's implemented.
The Core Location black list is only about what apps get to access your phone's location data.
-jcr
There are many more factors at work on that price than bandwidth. One of the biggest ones is customer expectations and what they'll put up with.
-jcr
It also helps that SMS requires a miniscule fraction of the bandwidth that an audio connection does.
-jcr
The hardest thing about coping those Medeco keys was the difficulty in cutting the angles and the proper spacing.
That wouldn't be tough at all if you have a couple of fine-tooth files and a decent bench vise.
-jcr
The California AAA also makes plastic duplicate keys for its members.
-jcr
Look at the keypad. The numbers will be worn down.
That works if there's only one code for entry. Every place I've worked that used keypads for entry has assigned a different code to each authorized person.
-jcr
Will these work outside of Colorado?
-jcr
Nobody hunted him down and made him return to the job; he's not a slave, QED.
-jcr
mental pain and anguish.
Oh, come on now.
COBOL was often tedious (mostly because the applications tended to be mundane as hell) but it wasn't a sheer abomination like C++.
-jcr
Dude, you sound like you're as old as I am. ;-)
PERFORM NOSTALIGIA
-jcr