What do you think happened to that money? They laminated $100 bills and used that for the skin?
No. A whole bunch of contractor companies were hired to design, build, and test parts of it. Companies that hired people. Thousands of skilled people. People that got paid a good salary for a good days work. People that supported tens of thousands of other people by buying food, clothes, cars, houses.
So it didn't get used. The budget and interest ran out. A shame, but not like the money was wasted.
What would you prefer we have done with that money? Collect taxes and merely give it away?
A migration on this scale in any other direction would be just about as painful.
If they were changing to Mac's throughout, they'd have to do the same document verification, find/test new versions of tools, find a new vendor for Payroll, rewrite all those hundreds of scripts and C/S apps, get all the users comfortable with the new desktop and applications...
Going from Linux to Win or Mac...almost the same. And that's just the end user stuff. The backend infrastructure needs to be deeply looked into as well.
Any major change is painful. Not just cause of the "MS lock-in" factor. (Although that is a huge consideration)
It will be interesting to see what pitfalls they run into, and how they get around them.
Haven't seen an office yet where almost everyone doesn't run at least some sort of custom app.
- A zillion Excel spreadsheet macros to be converted to OOo Whatever their payroll system is.
- Custom reporting in Access out of the Oracle/SQLServer backend needs to be rebuilt
- The city engineers need some new CAD package to manage the sewer sytem. Oh, and all those existing files may need to be converted.
- All of their current Word/Powerpoint files need to be bumped against OOo for compatibility. It's not quite as seamless at it appears.
- All of their current development tools
Converting the one machine in your living room is one thing. Switching a whole business/city is quite another.
Ok, ok.....not 'just like'. However....it does have the ability to add on lenses & filters, and it does have manual controls if you choose, as opposed to auto only.
How about converging the warm air coming from the back of the fridge into something useful, like keeping the coffee pot warm? Or how about converging some sunlight into hot water?
How converging something useful? I don't need a pinhole camera that makes crappy sounding phone calls and plays mp3's.
Sure, it's a great concept, but there's no practical application for home use.
And 386's are for servers, those new 33.6 modems are blazingly fast, and no one will ever need more than 640k of ram.
Just today, we had an article about streaming movies. Current cable and DSL speds are jut barely fast enough. Until you get a large email, and it chokes. With speeds like this, that becomes a lot more viable.
Imagine a HD TiVo, recording and watching 3 different shows/movies at the same time, pumped through your DSL line.
A lot of people (especially in here) are going to tell you "yeah, I'm the same...this is what you should do" or "Shut your whiney cakehole. Go to school, get a job, and go to work."
All bullshit.
Sample many things over the next few years, find something you like to do, and then go do it. After that, all bets are off. If you can't find something you like to do, something that fits in you mindset at the moment...do something anyway! If it sucks...too bad. You still need to, at the very least, support yourself. Because I won't. And neither will the next guy. And your parents shouldn't have to.
Take off your tinfoil conspiracy helmet and ask yourself "Why isn't tear gas used anytime someone 'strays' in to the cordon around a WTO meeting?" It's also non fatal, right?
I'll answer for you. Because non-violent protest is not illegal
(remove the non from that phrase, and all bets are off)
There is a spring loaded interlock switch (Weight-on-wheels, or WOW) to prevent inadvertant firing on the ground. Usually in the wheel well, it is held in the open position when the aircraft is on the ground. Once the a/c takes off (no weight on the wheels and gear extended), the switch closes, and the circuit is complete. Civilian aircraft have other uses for a similar switch.
To fire on the ground, someone has to hold that switch in the proper position.
There have been a few accidental firings, due to a faulty switch. I remember seeing a video of a jet on a carrier shooting one (AIM-9?) off.
And the missile fins don't really generate lift, as such. Just there to keep it going straight, like an arrows fins. Think about it...4 fins in an X. Which direction would the lift be generated?
Which it can't do because the engines don't kick in fully until the missile detects that it is clear of the mount.
That depends on the missile. Aim-9 Sidewinder or AGM-65 is at full thrust as it slides forward off the missile rail. The Aim-7 Sparrow motor doesn't fire until it is approx 18" away from the jet. The missile is kicked out sideways, it reaches the end of the umbilical (guidance and firing voltage), then the motor fires and it goes forward.
Yes, Will Smith and Harry Connick were Marine pilots, out of El Toro, flying F-18 Hornets Very standard.
BUT...as I remember, at the end of the movie, with all the jets parked and looking for volunteers (and this guy confirms) the F-18's were stenciled with Air Force markings.
The F-5 as 'MiG-28' is semibelievable. The USAF did use F-5's for the Aggressor squadrons and they couldn't have gotten -29's or Su-27's anyway. The MiG-28 is a fictional jet.
What get's me is when they attribute almost mythical properties to the OpFor jets. "Remember, you must think in Russian"
"Is it ok if we show your email address on screen?" "I'd rather you didn't." (as scottrichter442@yahoo.com flashes several times...:)
A couple of weeks ago, the Aunty Spam blog did an interview with Scottie. Very evasive answers. I had a little back and forth dialog with him in there. (scroll about 1/2way down) Very enlightening as to his mindset.
I can't sit through a movie with fighter jets without pissing everyone else off.
"No, you fool...you cannot launch a missile while the aircraft is on the ground!" (well...you can, but it's hard and you can't do it solely from the cockpit) (something with Michael Douglas)
"No, the runway is NEVER next to the main gate" (James Bond)
"If you shot off all your missiles, how come you now have 3 more? (All of them)
"um, no. A 'modified' F-117 is NOT big enough to hold a squad of people inside" (Air Force One)
"No, you can't outrun a missile for that long. Either it would have run out of fuel, proximity detonated, or hit you by now." (Behind Enemy Lines)
Hair and uniforms. (All of them)
"If you're going to call them Air Force planes, at least use Air Force planes. F-18's don't count." (The Rock, ID4)
and don't get me started on Iron Eagle: "No, you fool...you cannot plug your flight helmet into your Walkman!"
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Go to one of the many the WWII grave sites across Europe or Arlington National Cemetary and ask them.
hmmmm....maybe we can get Michael Moore banned.
I think you suck. Everyone who looks like you sucks.
Will you now censor me?
To be sure...'hate speech' sucks. Sucks big, raw, donkey balls. But in the search for freedom of speech, you gotta take the bad with the good.
It may just be a small attention getter, but a lot of small attention getters can add up to a big boost of Linux awareness among the [general] public.
And launching a Linux laptop into the ultrageeky, ultraexpensive realm.
A real attention getter would be a $600 Linux laptop, with a current chipset (more MHz!), that did all the standard home user stuff, easily.
What do you think happened to that money? They laminated $100 bills and used that for the skin?
No. A whole bunch of contractor companies were hired to design, build, and test parts of it. Companies that hired people. Thousands of skilled people. People that got paid a good salary for a good days work. People that supported tens of thousands of other people by buying food, clothes, cars, houses.
So it didn't get used. The budget and interest ran out. A shame, but not like the money was wasted.
What would you prefer we have done with that money? Collect taxes and merely give it away?
(and makes migrations like this on such a pain).
A migration on this scale in any other direction would be just about as painful.
If they were changing to Mac's throughout, they'd have to do the same document verification, find/test new versions of tools, find a new vendor for Payroll, rewrite all those hundreds of scripts and C/S apps, get all the users comfortable with the new desktop and applications...
Going from Linux to Win or Mac...almost the same. And that's just the end user stuff. The backend infrastructure needs to be deeply looked into as well.
Any major change is painful. Not just cause of the "MS lock-in" factor. (Although that is a huge consideration)
It will be interesting to see what pitfalls they run into, and how they get around them.
Haven't seen an office yet where almost everyone doesn't run at least some sort of custom app.
- A zillion Excel spreadsheet macros to be converted to OOo
Whatever their payroll system is.
- Custom reporting in Access out of the Oracle/SQLServer backend needs to be rebuilt
- The city engineers need some new CAD package to manage the sewer sytem. Oh, and all those existing files may need to be converted.
- All of their current Word/Powerpoint files need to be bumped against OOo for compatibility. It's not quite as seamless at it appears.
- All of their current development tools
Converting the one machine in your living room is one thing. Switching a whole business/city is quite another.
I have a set (mouse + mini kbd), and have used it for presentation. Works pretty well, and was only $90.
The laptop sees it as just another USB device, so no fancy bluetooth stuff needed.
Ok, ok.....not 'just like'. However....it does have the ability to add on lenses & filters, and it does have manual controls if you choose, as opposed to auto only.
No, it is not a 'digital SLR'.
Happy now?
I have a C-3000 that does exactly that. Interchangeable lenses, filters, whatever. Just like a regular film SLR. Reasonable price, too.
How about converging the warm air coming from the back of the fridge into something useful, like keeping the coffee pot warm? Or how about converging some sunlight into hot water?
How converging something useful?
I don't need a pinhole camera that makes crappy sounding phone calls and plays mp3's.
your refrigerator/render-farm.
Maybe now we can keep those AMD chips cool.
Or so he says.
I'll believe it when I (don't) see it.
Sure, it's a great concept, but there's no practical application for home use.
And 386's are for servers, those new 33.6 modems are blazingly fast, and no one will ever need more than 640k of ram.
Just today, we had an article about streaming movies. Current cable and DSL speds are jut barely fast enough. Until you get a large email, and it chokes. With speeds like this, that becomes a lot more viable.
Imagine a HD TiVo, recording and watching 3 different shows/movies at the same time, pumped through your DSL line.
just finished my first year of college.
and
once you have your degree, you can do anything you want.
These two statements don't mesh with each other in any sort of reality.
...and then do it.
A lot of people (especially in here) are going to tell you "yeah, I'm the same...this is what you should do"
or
"Shut your whiney cakehole. Go to school, get a job, and go to work."
All bullshit.
Sample many things over the next few years, find something you like to do, and then go do it. After that, all bets are off.
If you can't find something you like to do, something that fits in you mindset at the moment...do something anyway! If it sucks...too bad. You still need to, at the very least, support yourself. Because I won't. And neither will the next guy. And your parents shouldn't have to.
It becomes breaking news and the protesters get the attention they want.
Exactly the same if any other non-fatal means were used.
As I said...protesting, as such, is not illegal. Violent protest, OTOH, is quite different.
Keep the violent asshats out, and there will be far, far fewer problems.
Take off your tinfoil conspiracy helmet and ask yourself "Why isn't tear gas used anytime someone 'strays' in to the cordon around a WTO meeting?" It's also non fatal, right?
I'll answer for you.
Because non-violent protest is not illegal
(remove the non from that phrase, and all bets are off)
...they'd actually test for that before putting them into the field.
There is a spring loaded interlock switch (Weight-on-wheels, or WOW) to prevent inadvertant firing on the ground. Usually in the wheel well, it is held in the open position when the aircraft is on the ground. Once the a/c takes off (no weight on the wheels and gear extended), the switch closes, and the circuit is complete.
Civilian aircraft have other uses for a similar switch.
To fire on the ground, someone has to hold that switch in the proper position.
There have been a few accidental firings, due to a faulty switch. I remember seeing a video of a jet on a carrier shooting one (AIM-9?) off.
And the missile fins don't really generate lift, as such. Just there to keep it going straight, like an arrows fins. Think about it...4 fins in an X. Which direction would the lift be generated?
Which it can't do because the engines don't kick in fully until the missile detects that it is clear of the mount.
That depends on the missile. Aim-9 Sidewinder or AGM-65 is at full thrust as it slides forward off the missile rail. The Aim-7 Sparrow motor doesn't fire until it is approx 18" away from the jet. The missile is kicked out sideways, it reaches the end of the umbilical (guidance and firing voltage), then the motor fires and it goes forward.
Yes, Will Smith and Harry Connick were Marine pilots, out of El Toro, flying F-18 Hornets
Very standard.
BUT...as I remember, at the end of the movie, with all the jets parked and looking for volunteers (and this guy confirms) the F-18's were stenciled with Air Force markings.
I'd have to see it again to confirm.
The F-5 as 'MiG-28' is semibelievable. The USAF did use F-5's for the Aggressor squadrons and they couldn't have gotten -29's or Su-27's anyway. The MiG-28 is a fictional jet.
What get's me is when they attribute almost mythical properties to the OpFor jets.
"Remember, you must think in Russian"
I saw that too. What a turkey.
"Is it ok if we show your email address on screen?"
"I'd rather you didn't." (as scottrichter442@yahoo.com flashes several times...:)
A couple of weeks ago, the Aunty Spam blog did an interview with Scottie. Very evasive answers. I had a little back and forth dialog with him in there. (scroll about 1/2way down)
Very enlightening as to his mindset.
I can't sit through a movie with fighter jets without pissing everyone else off.
"No, you fool...you cannot launch a missile while the aircraft is on the ground!" (well...you can, but it's hard and you can't do it solely from the cockpit) (something with Michael Douglas)
"No, the runway is NEVER next to the main gate" (James Bond)
"If you shot off all your missiles, how come you now have 3 more? (All of them)
"um, no. A 'modified' F-117 is NOT big enough to hold a squad of people inside" (Air Force One)
"No, you can't outrun a missile for that long. Either it would have run out of fuel, proximity detonated, or hit you by now." (Behind Enemy Lines)
Hair and uniforms. (All of them)
"If you're going to call them Air Force planes, at least use Air Force planes. F-18's don't count." (The Rock, ID4)
and don't get me started on Iron Eagle:
"No, you fool...you cannot plug your flight helmet into your Walkman!"