There are a couple of parts of the flight where the pilot is required to use the automation. The biggest is during cruise in what's known as RVSM airspace, where the vertical separation minimums are reduced from what was standard before RVSM was implemented. There, if your autopilot quits, ATC will send you down below the RVSM floor. RVSM is in use above some altitude in the 48 states and on transAtlantic routes. (I don't recall the exact altitude.)
The other is in flying an instrument approach to very low altitudes, known as a category III approach. IIRC, those must be flown on autopilot in order to continue below category III minimums.
That $460 million came out of Knight Capital's pockets too...and is far more effective than any fine the SEC could levy. Why should the SEC pile on, aside from the populist outrage that goes along with people handling billions of dollars?
Not hard to find. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2012 that private sector union membership was down to 6.6%, and overall membership was 11.3%, compared to 20.1% as recently as 1983. The 6.6% was the lowest since 1932.
There are plenty of sources cited all over the net. A good place to start is this Wikipedia article.
Unions were good in the 1920s and 1930s. Now, they've priced the American worker out of the global labor market.
There's a reason that union membership is down to historic lows: all they do is take money out of workers' pockets to line the bosses' nests and send money to Democrat politicians.
The original poster misunderstands what EXPDT= in JCL specifies. It doesn't mean the file will be automatically deleted after that date, only that the file may not be deleted before that date without the operator at the system console giving permission.
I'm no patent lawyer, but it would seem to me this is less prior art than he thinks it is.
Not only no but hell no, because the phrase "allowing people to close your code" is a lie. Nobody can ever close my code, no matter what license I release it under. They can close *their* code, and I have no right to tell them they may not.
If the user doesn't want to have code he can't modify, then he has other options. Similarly, if the user wants to have code that functions better for him and doesn't care about the right to modify it, he has the right to make that choice - a right the Stallmanites would deny him.
Even if so - and I'd argue that - there's simply no rational basis on which to claim that the GPL is more free than the BSD license. Thus, you're destroying freedom to protect it. Tell me, is all that sex promoting virginity? The original story says that just the opposite is happening: people are, instead, actually protecting virginity.
This is why saying that the GPL is about freedom is in the same category as the classic "f***ing for virginity". GPL zealots are arguing by redefinition, and using the concept of "freedom" to mean something entirely different and wrapping themselves in its mantle.
If you want true freedom - which must always include the freedom to do things that piss others off without actually harming them - then you should choose some other license than a Stallmanite one.
I've been a ham since a couple of months before my 11th birthday. It was my first truly geeky pursuit, and still holds a special place in my heart. I am still active here and there, though I had to sell my D-STAR system when the economy went sour.
There's still a place for ham radio, both in emergency communications and in experimentation. As Nigel said a post or three ago, it lets experimenters use higher power and different modes than the unlicensed services. While others theorize, hams build.
It's been that way for ages, and hams have contributed far more recently, as well. There's a reason the first popular free TCP/IP package for the PC was called KA9Q: Phil Karn hung his callsign on it.
(And please, folks, a couple of pet peeves: "ham" is not an acronym, and it's "ham radio", not just "ham".)
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There are a couple of parts of the flight where the pilot is required to use the automation. The biggest is during cruise in what's known as RVSM airspace, where the vertical separation minimums are reduced from what was standard before RVSM was implemented. There, if your autopilot quits, ATC will send you down below the RVSM floor. RVSM is in use above some altitude in the 48 states and on transAtlantic routes. (I don't recall the exact altitude.)
The other is in flying an instrument approach to very low altitudes, known as a category III approach. IIRC, those must be flown on autopilot in order to continue below category III minimums.
That $460 million came out of Knight Capital's pockets too...and is far more effective than any fine the SEC could levy. Why should the SEC pile on, aside from the populist outrage that goes along with people handling billions of dollars?
...WANT.
Not hard to find. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2012 that private sector union membership was down to 6.6%, and overall membership was 11.3%, compared to 20.1% as recently as 1983. The 6.6% was the lowest since 1932.
There are plenty of sources cited all over the net. A good place to start is this Wikipedia article.
Unions were good in the 1920s and 1930s. Now, they've priced the American worker out of the global labor market.
There's a reason that union membership is down to historic lows: all they do is take money out of workers' pockets to line the bosses' nests and send money to Democrat politicians.
Just give the whole thing to Bruce Schneier and stand back.
The original poster misunderstands what EXPDT= in JCL specifies. It doesn't mean the file will be automatically deleted after that date, only that the file may not be deleted before that date without the operator at the system console giving permission.
I'm no patent lawyer, but it would seem to me this is less prior art than he thinks it is.
How much did they pay some bureaucrat to retcon that acronym? Merciful $DEITY, they had to work HARD to wedge all that in there...
There's one Slashdot post that turned my life upside down. Definitely worth all that's gone on since then, but ...wow.
Ja da, cobber!
The Harvard Lampoon said everything that needs saying about the Ring trilogy in _Bored of the Rings_...
Not only no but hell no, because the phrase "allowing people to close your code" is a lie. Nobody can ever close my code, no matter what license I release it under. They can close *their* code, and I have no right to tell them they may not.
If the user doesn't want to have code he can't modify, then he has other options. Similarly, if the user wants to have code that functions better for him and doesn't care about the right to modify it, he has the right to make that choice - a right the Stallmanites would deny him.
Please stop putting words in my mouth. "FTFY" is just a sign that you are unable to argue coherently without changing the argument you're replying to.
Even if so - and I'd argue that - there's simply no rational basis on which to claim that the GPL is more free than the BSD license. Thus, you're destroying freedom to protect it. Tell me, is all that sex promoting virginity? The original story says that just the opposite is happening: people are, instead, actually protecting virginity.
If you're going to pursue that course of action, then don't call it "protecting freedom". That's a simple, bald-faced lie.
You don't maximize freedom by destroying it. The BSD license destroys no freedoms. The GPL does. It's truly that simple.
This is why saying that the GPL is about freedom is in the same category as the classic "f***ing for virginity". GPL zealots are arguing by redefinition, and using the concept of "freedom" to mean something entirely different and wrapping themselves in its mantle.
If you want true freedom - which must always include the freedom to do things that piss others off without actually harming them - then you should choose some other license than a Stallmanite one.
Which is exactly why the GPLv3 is so widely rejected.
I've been a ham since a couple of months before my 11th birthday. It was my first truly geeky pursuit, and still holds a special place in my heart. I am still active here and there, though I had to sell my D-STAR system when the economy went sour.
There's still a place for ham radio, both in emergency communications and in experimentation. As Nigel said a post or three ago, it lets experimenters use higher power and different modes than the unlicensed services. While others theorize, hams build.
It's been that way for ages, and hams have contributed far more recently, as well. There's a reason the first popular free TCP/IP package for the PC was called KA9Q: Phil Karn hung his callsign on it.
(And please, folks, a couple of pet peeves: "ham" is not an acronym, and it's "ham radio", not just "ham".)
Windows users will still need them every time they change things, or to clean up tiny software flaws...
Is there any level on which this decision makes sense in light of Nokia's direction?
Any phone smart enough to run Linux us smart enough to run WP7.
And Nokia? Embracing Linux? After jettisoning MeeGo?
And Stephen Elop? Linux?! HUH?!
Consistency? What's that?
Does Nokia have any strategic direction at all?!
WANT.
A "troll" mod is just a moderator's way of saying "you're wrong but I can't say why, so I'll just mark you down". I ignore them.
Without Linus Torvalds, there would be little or no open source software. Linus is hardly a rabid Stallmanite.