unless you deal with some of the Americans there who try to out mafiya the mafiya.
There problem is that they make so much from natural resources that they are already significant in the world economy. The difficulty is that they need to move more in to manufacturing to employ more people and force a better law of contract.
I don't really see that NASA has improved much under O'Keefe. I hear a lot about his competance in the past but I see little evidence except for his administrative skills except for his relationship with George Bush (Snr) and Dick Cheney. I would have been happier if he had come from a major NSF project, but I just don't see anything to emphasise his credibility. That also goes for a lot of his direct reports, because someone must be filling his mouth with the rubbish that he shoots off.
This comes back to the real danger. I don't know what O'Keefe understands about what NASA does, but it really seems not enough.
The issue with being a manager is when to delegate. A bean counter isn't necessarily a manager either. A manager needs to be able to balance conflicting stuff from the bean-counters and the engineers. When it comes to costs and timescales, the bean-counters are good to listen to. When the engineers are unhappy about something not being safe then they have priority.
Goldin wasn't that good but it seems that neither is O'Keefe.
What this is really looking at isn't PC vendors, but those who make embedded processors. The patents sem to be about reducing the cost of lower performance systems needed for making controllers. Motorola is definitely into embedded processors.
First, SCO is not the Santa Cruz Operation who took over Xenix from Microsoft and eventually started selling a real Sys V based Unix. SCO is a descendent from caldera, the original Santa Cruz Operation has changed its name to something else.
AIX isn't called Unix for a reason. In the early days at least, it was almost 70% S5 UNIX incompatible being mostly a BSD offshoot, but from the outside at least, having a kernel that looked like none of the above (I never saw kernel source, but saw enough headers to say this was something different). And you are right, AIX started on the PS/2 - an x86 architecture box. PowerPC came much later.
They will work if the enemy is kind enough to deploy a beacon in the reentry vehicle. Even better if the US is allerted 72 hours or more before the launch where it will be coming from. A couple of weeks notice would be even better, as the radar systems are intended more to detect launches from China and the now defunct Soviet Union.
Not exactly a likely scenario.
The main problem isn't a nuclear explosion in any case, box cutters seem to be an issue which SDI doesn't help with.
O'Keefe is a liability. He is an accountant not a scientist or engineer. However he is a political appointee and he will follow his master's wishes all the way to Mars. It isn't possible to blame O'keefe for the problems caused by his subordinates directly, but he didn't exactly do much to promote 'quality'.
The stuff about the danger to a crew fixing Hubble is typical O'Keefe, actually there more problems with the ISS which passes periodically through some places with higher radiation. Sure, you are ok in the accomodation module, but it isn't so easy if you are outside.
Explain to an astronaut the risk and they have no trouble wanting to fly. They all *want* to fly. However the other replyer put it very succinctly, you don't fly unless you toe the company line. The brief about the O-rings to Feynmann was from an anonymous astronaut. He daren't say anything. They are all for a manned space programme by definition, but hubble very much belongs to the astronauts that first fixed it and who have subsequnetly upgraded and maintained it. I wouldn't think they would want to splash it, but they will *never* be quoted on that.
As a large bureacracy, the DoD is cursed by many of the problems that plagued the administration of Soviet Russia. There are few dividing lines between supplier and customer, with a revolving door and job gurantees. Thank heavens that at least Boeing hast started doing things about it.
Yes, buffer runs happen, but did SQL server have to default to allowing remote connections? One of the reasons that Microsoft is loathed is that they economise by reducing their QA to a minimum.
It is just a matter of time before companies become liable for consequential damages This will be an interesting time for all, especially the uninsurable Microsoft.
One of the issues before with minaturised TVs (for example, that wrist watch one) is the amount of power they consume. The processor in a mobile phone spends much of its time sleeping which is why you can get those obscenely long standby times.
The small pocket TVs that you can get from the likes of Casio are much larger than a mobile phone and can take larger cells.
Yes, and that happens often in busy traffic, thinking of some of the major traffic jam centres like the M25 around London or the Peripherie around Paris.
I still worry more about extreme differences in velocity.
As a general rule, it is the difference in speed between two lanes that leads to a lot of accidents. Two-lane autobahns are also unrestricted so you can still be doing 100Kmh and then some bugger comes up at 220Kmh. One minute not there, next minute applying maximum anchor while you feel the logo in the small of your back!!
This is mostly to happen near a junction and generally the speed limit is 130 Km/h or less. Some drivers ignore this competely. A slow vehicle entering the autobahn like a truck may pull out in front of you, you move to overtake and then bam!
I work on the principle of physically looking over my shoulder rather than just checking the mirror when overtaking.
The basic technology of a phased array isn't that complicated, however the control system is very. You have to be able to switch the little antennae on and off in a very precise order to get a lock and whilst a modern PC would have no problems running this, the VAX 11/780 only appeared in 1978. Big phased arrays appeared in the 80s (even the Russians had them) but not much was around earlier.
Missile detection radars were never an issue under the ABM treaty, it was the interception control radars and associated missle systems which were restricted (until the shrub came along).
The problem is that unless you are flying a high-performance jet and in formation, there are very few parts of flying in VFR conditions that require high concentration. Essentially, landing is the real issue and even then if you are coming into a controlled field with a pattern, approach control will keep you from trying to come in at the same time as someone else.
Driving a motor vehicle, you are much more likely to encounter another and the level of concentration is higher. This is why a commercial driver is forced to take a break after 4 hours in most countries. A commercial pilot isn't so forced. Finding an autopilot for a car is rather more difficult than for a plane.
Back to cars, a private driver is unregulated as regards hours. They can drive after a long day at work and essentially it is very difficult to maintain concentration.
ABout the limit for many people here is vmware to run Windows under Linux (or vice versa), and UML because it is used by many hosting providers.
The problem comes down to the sucky IA-32 architecture which is hard to virtualize. Take a privileged mode instruction on a proper architecture, and it will trap allowing it to be emulated. Some IA-32 instructions do not trap but return different mode-dependent results. A nightmare.
For me what is interesting are domains, giving a very fine level of VMs to CPU allocation. A CPU may be reserved for a single VM or be shared by many, in turn many CPUs can be devoted to a single VM This gives very fine resource control and is what you get now on heavy iron such as the IBM Z-series or the big Sun machines.
This is why I follow the Xen project with some interest. Xen needs mods to the host OS to get around the shortcomings of the IA-32, but they are minor and well defined (replacement of some macros). It isn't there now, but maybe if they get enough people working on it, it could be very interesting indeed.
There are two approaches to virtualisation, one where you mod the guest OS and thother where try to virtualise hardware instructions that were never designed for it (Thanks Intel). You can guess which is cleaner, faster and more reliable.
If you can compile Linux, you can run Xen. If you can compile Windpws XP, you run it under Xen too (not permissable for most of us, but they could and did). What is interesting is that are looking very much at the administrative side, possibly more so than vmware.
If you try Gnucash you will find it pretty much ok for single user accounting. What is interesting is the international support, For example, if you are an american living/working in Germany, then it is kind of useful to have German book keeping standards but retain an English GUI.
Quick-books can't properly handle multiple currencies whilst GnuCash seems to have no problems. You may have as many currencies as you want then balance them out at any time with a current or historical exchange rate. QB Professional is really not suitable for anything more than very simple stuff, it is closed and not extensible.
Its called Factory Refurbishing. A mechanic is to expensive so, for example instead of replacing brushes on a starter motor, they send the unit back and get a new one. Nobody outside the factory has any idea of the electrics now and some important subsystems like the EMU aren't designed for anyone to repair them. The end result is that the mechanic is getting dumber (job is being downgraded) whilst the cost of repair increases.
The East India company took natural resources away from the country.
I suppose one should then not comment upon the railway system....
No the problem is that business in India is still somewhat difficult because of bureacracy and corruption. Open trade puts pressure on officialdom to play straighter.
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There problem is that they make so much from natural resources that they are already significant in the world economy. The difficulty is that they need to move more in to manufacturing to employ more people and force a better law of contract.
This comes back to the real danger. I don't know what O'Keefe understands about what NASA does, but it really seems not enough.
Goldin wasn't that good but it seems that neither is O'Keefe.
What this is really looking at isn't PC vendors, but those who make embedded processors. The patents sem to be about reducing the cost of lower performance systems needed for making controllers. Motorola is definitely into embedded processors.
AIX isn't called Unix for a reason. In the early days at least, it was almost 70% S5 UNIX incompatible being mostly a BSD offshoot, but from the outside at least, having a kernel that looked like none of the above (I never saw kernel source, but saw enough headers to say this was something different). And you are right, AIX started on the PS/2 - an x86 architecture box. PowerPC came much later.
Interesting, isn't Motorola also in the embedded business?
Not exactly a likely scenario.
The main problem isn't a nuclear explosion in any case, box cutters seem to be an issue which SDI doesn't help with.
The stuff about the danger to a crew fixing Hubble is typical O'Keefe, actually there more problems with the ISS which passes periodically through some places with higher radiation. Sure, you are ok in the accomodation module, but it isn't so easy if you are outside.
Explain to an astronaut the risk and they have no trouble wanting to fly. They all *want* to fly. However the other replyer put it very succinctly, you don't fly unless you toe the company line. The brief about the O-rings to Feynmann was from an anonymous astronaut. He daren't say anything. They are all for a manned space programme by definition, but hubble very much belongs to the astronauts that first fixed it and who have subsequnetly upgraded and maintained it. I wouldn't think they would want to splash it, but they will *never* be quoted on that.
As a large bureacracy, the DoD is cursed by many of the problems that plagued the administration of Soviet Russia. There are few dividing lines between supplier and customer, with a revolving door and job gurantees. Thank heavens that at least Boeing hast started doing things about it.
The missile defence system doesn't work. Most of the tests have failed. It is dishonest and a waste of money.
After Challenger and Columbia, your words are so right and sickeningly precient about the problems that arose.
It is just a matter of time before companies become liable for consequential damages This will be an interesting time for all, especially the uninsurable Microsoft.
The small pocket TVs that you can get from the likes of Casio are much larger than a mobile phone and can take larger cells.
I still worry more about extreme differences in velocity.
As a general rule, it is the difference in speed between two lanes that leads to a lot of accidents. Two-lane autobahns are also unrestricted so you can still be doing 100Kmh and then some bugger comes up at 220Kmh. One minute not there, next minute applying maximum anchor while you feel the logo in the small of your back!!
This is mostly to happen near a junction and generally the speed limit is 130 Km/h or less. Some drivers ignore this competely. A slow vehicle entering the autobahn like a truck may pull out in front of you, you move to overtake and then bam!
I work on the principle of physically looking over my shoulder rather than just checking the mirror when overtaking.
Missile detection radars were never an issue under the ABM treaty, it was the interception control radars and associated missle systems which were restricted (until the shrub came along).
Driving a motor vehicle, you are much more likely to encounter another and the level of concentration is higher. This is why a commercial driver is forced to take a break after 4 hours in most countries. A commercial pilot isn't so forced. Finding an autopilot for a car is rather more difficult than for a plane.
Back to cars, a private driver is unregulated as regards hours. They can drive after a long day at work and essentially it is very difficult to maintain concentration.
With keeping track of someone coming up behind you in Stuttgart Skateboard (Porsche) with a *closing* velocity of 100mph, it gets a little harder.
Every Ozzie suspects that the next farmer has a thing going with a Ewe and hates being reminded of it.
Every Kiwi knows that the next farmer has something going with about twenty ewes. But having a choice, only the pretty ones so it doesn't matter!
The problem comes down to the sucky IA-32 architecture which is hard to virtualize. Take a privileged mode instruction on a proper architecture, and it will trap allowing it to be emulated. Some IA-32 instructions do not trap but return different mode-dependent results. A nightmare.
For me what is interesting are domains, giving a very fine level of VMs to CPU allocation. A CPU may be reserved for a single VM or be shared by many, in turn many CPUs can be devoted to a single VM This gives very fine resource control and is what you get now on heavy iron such as the IBM Z-series or the big Sun machines.
This is why I follow the Xen project with some interest. Xen needs mods to the host OS to get around the shortcomings of the IA-32, but they are minor and well defined (replacement of some macros). It isn't there now, but maybe if they get enough people working on it, it could be very interesting indeed.
If you can compile Linux, you can run Xen. If you can compile Windpws XP, you run it under Xen too (not permissable for most of us, but they could and did). What is interesting is that are looking very much at the administrative side, possibly more so than vmware.
Quick-books can't properly handle multiple currencies whilst GnuCash seems to have no problems. You may have as many currencies as you want then balance them out at any time with a current or historical exchange rate. QB Professional is really not suitable for anything more than very simple stuff, it is closed and not extensible.
- browse to Cygwin d/l page
- CYGWIN SETUP
- Select install from Internet
- Open databases tree
- Select Postgress
- Install
It doesn't get much easier.Its called Factory Refurbishing. A mechanic is to expensive so, for example instead of replacing brushes on a starter motor, they send the unit back and get a new one. Nobody outside the factory has any idea of the electrics now and some important subsystems like the EMU aren't designed for anyone to repair them. The end result is that the mechanic is getting dumber (job is being downgraded) whilst the cost of repair increases.
No the problem is that business in India is still somewhat difficult because of bureacracy and corruption. Open trade puts pressure on officialdom to play straighter.