He's using seven year old Office software on 10-year-old OS software, and he's complaining because he can't get updates online? News Flash -- companies don't support old software forever.
When you get out of a cab naked, you're kinda taking your chances.
Seriously -- do you think blacks have equal rights now (at least, more than they did in the 50s) because they went along with "separate but equal"? Sometimes it takes spending a night in a shithole of a jail cell in order to make sure the next generation doesn't have to go through the same oppression or worse.
So can you piggyback on their software to develop a Linux solution? I'm asking because I don't know enough about the GPL to know how much of the source gets distributed under a GPL (i.e., all of it or just what parts of it were GPL'ed before they wrote the software).
Chicagoans should go out of their way to act "suspicious" in front of these cameras if they want to prevent the onset of a nanny state. Wear thick coats during the summer months, keep their hands in their pockets, look back and forth. Hell, maybe sticking their tongues out at the cameras would constitute suspicious...
Besides, where they ought to be placing these cameras is in the halls of Chicago's city government.
Then that needs to change. Text messages are closer to speech than either campaign donations or flag burning. This isn't strictly a first amendment issue (since the first amendment only applies to the gummint), but for purposes of content voice transmission == text transmissions.
Actually, from a certain point of view, it is a First Amendment issue. After all, the government owns the wavelengths that Verizon uses for its business.
Unfortunately, once you stop talking about the four dimensions we're actually familiar with or the universe we live in, concepts like "where" become kinda meaningless.
The Coop claims the ISBN identification numbers in books are their intellectual property.
Bullshit. You can't copyright facts or directory listings, and it seems to me an ISBN would be both. Hell, you can't even copyright a title, and an ISBN is less than that.
Really? You don't happen to know who the NYTimes reporter was and with whom the reporter was corresponding, do you? Because otherwise I'm going to have to call bullshit.
Plus the cost of our wasted time waiting for old equipment. Eventually, maintaining the old exceeds the cost of purchasing new. This happens with almost every piece of equipment. Cars, tractors, computers, houses, clothes, shoes, etc.
QFT. I would have thought that anyone who knew anything about software development already knew about the "bathtub" effect.
There were a lot of agencies involved. The GPS Wing at Los Angeles AFB was the procurement agency for the new system. Other federal agencies had to be involved with the process, because they're stakeholders -- the Department of Agriculture and the FAA, for example, have a vested interest in making sure GPS "just works."
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron and the 19th Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base are the primary operators of GPS. Within the squadrons, you have a wide variety of expertise -- airmen, government civilians, and contractors from the companies that developed both the new ground segment and the satellites that are on-station. Some of them are two-stripers just out of technical school... some are contractors who've been in the business just as long as GPS itself.
It's more than just the mainframe... in fact, that was probably the cheap part. The expensive part was developing software that:
Can communicate with each of the satellites currently on-orbit. We have GPS Block II, II-A, II-R, II-R(M), and (soon) II-F satellites in orbit, and each block speaks a slightly different language.
Transmits the same timing and navigation data that the satellites are used to getting from the old system. I don't know much about the technical aspects of that, but I know it's not easy.
Is easier to maintain. I don't know what language the new system was written in, but I imagine it's easier to support than code that was written 22 years ago.
Works without people noticing. This is the toughest part, and it's why the Space and Missile Systems Center commander said that this is like swapping out an engine while the car's driving down the highway at 65 mph. Think about how often in the past 15 years or so you've had to worry about whether or not you would have GPS.
A lot was on the line with this -- the Air Force has bombs and cargo pallets that rely on GPS for precision drops. The Army has a GPS-aided artillery system now. The financial sector uses the GPS timing signal for transaction management. A lot of the $800 million was no doubt an investment in testing the system so that, when it finally came online, the poop wouldn't hit the proverbial fan.
When people act like idiots, authority steps in. When enough people act like idiots, other people imitate them, and soon you have a population that needs the Nanny State or Police State, which seem to be the same thing.
Umm, no. What you need in that case is a society that holds the people accountable for their actions, and a government that reflects that society. But people have to get completely sick of the whole "poor me" victim mentality in this country before we see any substantial change.
Calculate the benefit to us all from the outcome of such unrestricted sharing.
In the first case, Britney Spears doesn't get paid, and perhaps stops producing music.
Kids learning physics, allowing America to stay competitive: $90.2 billion
Britney Spears getting out of the music business: Priceless
I was actually speaking more in the "on death row for a crime one didn't commit" sense, or the "in GTMO for being in the wrong place at the wrong time" sense.
What's fscked up about the justice system is that you probably have done something wrong; you just don't know what. And alternately, that you don't have to do something wrong to be arrested, tried and convicted. Or just, y'know, detained indefinitely.
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I think Charles Dickens had A Modest Proposal along those lines as well, once upon a time.
He's using seven year old Office software on 10-year-old OS software, and he's complaining because he can't get updates online? News Flash -- companies don't support old software forever.
When you get out of a cab naked, you're kinda taking your chances.
Seriously -- do you think blacks have equal rights now (at least, more than they did in the 50s) because they went along with "separate but equal"? Sometimes it takes spending a night in a shithole of a jail cell in order to make sure the next generation doesn't have to go through the same oppression or worse.
So can you piggyback on their software to develop a Linux solution? I'm asking because I don't know enough about the GPL to know how much of the source gets distributed under a GPL (i.e., all of it or just what parts of it were GPL'ed before they wrote the software).
Chicagoans should go out of their way to act "suspicious" in front of these cameras if they want to prevent the onset of a nanny state. Wear thick coats during the summer months, keep their hands in their pockets, look back and forth. Hell, maybe sticking their tongues out at the cameras would constitute suspicious ...
Besides, where they ought to be placing these cameras is in the halls of Chicago's city government.
In any topic that deals with a controversy about police use of force, someone should add the tag donttazemebro.
You wouldn't think it were free if you were Catholic! *Rimshot*
Really? You don't happen to know who the NYTimes reporter was and with whom the reporter was corresponding, do you? Because otherwise I'm going to have to call bullshit.
If only. Instead, the Air Force has to sack 40,000 positions in order to buy new fighters.
There were a lot of agencies involved. The GPS Wing at Los Angeles AFB was the procurement agency for the new system. Other federal agencies had to be involved with the process, because they're stakeholders -- the Department of Agriculture and the FAA, for example, have a vested interest in making sure GPS "just works."
... some are contractors who've been in the business just as long as GPS itself.
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron and the 19th Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base are the primary operators of GPS. Within the squadrons, you have a wide variety of expertise -- airmen, government civilians, and contractors from the companies that developed both the new ground segment and the satellites that are on-station. Some of them are two-stripers just out of technical school
It's more than just the mainframe ... in fact, that was probably the cheap part. The expensive part was developing software that:
A lot was on the line with this -- the Air Force has bombs and cargo pallets that rely on GPS for precision drops. The Army has a GPS-aided artillery system now. The financial sector uses the GPS timing signal for transaction management. A lot of the $800 million was no doubt an investment in testing the system so that, when it finally came online, the poop wouldn't hit the proverbial fan.
It isn't. We have some backup facilities in different locations around the country in case of a scenario like this.
When people act like idiots, authority steps in. When enough people act like idiots, other people imitate them, and soon you have a population that needs the Nanny State or Police State, which seem to be the same thing.
Umm, no. What you need in that case is a society that holds the people accountable for their actions, and a government that reflects that society. But people have to get completely sick of the whole "poor me" victim mentality in this country before we see any substantial change.
Calculate the benefit to us all from the outcome of such unrestricted sharing. In the first case, Britney Spears doesn't get paid, and perhaps stops producing music.
Kids learning physics, allowing America to stay competitive: $90.2 billion
Britney Spears getting out of the music business: Priceless
I was actually speaking more in the "on death row for a crime one didn't commit" sense, or the "in GTMO for being in the wrong place at the wrong time" sense.
What's fscked up about the justice system is that you probably have done something wrong; you just don't know what. And alternately, that you don't have to do something wrong to be arrested, tried and convicted. Or just, y'know, detained indefinitely.
Funny, yes, but false.