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You gotta have the honkin' air conditioning unit to tame that stench, the kind with the HEPA, charcoal and whatever else you can use to keep breathable air for the rest of the staff, right?
1. If everyone just downloads music for free from the Intarweb, well...that sucks for the artists, because they get no monetary compensation from it. 2. The current business model being blasted into our brains by the music industry sucks, because they take too much of the money. We pay too high prices and the artists still get little or no money from it.
Some of these little darlings will grow up to become businessmen and women. A few of them even good businessmen and women. Maybe one of them will come up with a system that actually does work.
How about the U.S. standardize on an open document format
The US govt, and indeed most large organizations, started down the road to MS Word long before there were real alternatives. "Whoever wants to do business with the government must purchase WordPerfect."
How would that really be different? (Except for not being MS)
Does OOo make a perfect WordPerfect doc? Dunno...never tried.
But to suggest that 10 years ago they should have standardised on tools that had not even been thought of is simply silly. Or even 3 years ago, when they were in their infancy.
Long distance communications during wars before the internet used various means of encryption to keep national secrets secure. Why can't they do the same for electronic communications?
And there is no way to prosecute modern warfare with a sneakernet.
Real-time imagery, intel, decisions, and targeting cannot happen without real-time communications.
The ability of the Chiefs in the Pentagon to see exactly what a tank commanders sees is invaluable. And for them to tell him that there are in fact enemy tanks just over the next rise, and in what direction they are moving.
Cannot do that unless the two are directly connected and passing data back and forth.
Here, we depart. You may travel freely upon any public road. You may be a passenger, take a bus, ride a bike, crawl....all without hinderance.
Actually, no you can't. You will be ticketed if you ride a bike, walk, or crawl on any interstate in the nation.
Actually, that is incorrect. There are several sections of Interstate highway where cycling is permitted. Usually out West, and where there is no other route. Also, I believe in New Jersey you can apply for and obtain a permit to cycle on certain Interstates in tha state.
In any case, the right to travel upon the public roads does not have to include all forms of travel on those roads. If your drivers license is revoked, that does not restrict you personally from moving about. Just that you may not pilot a car.
but in our society it is extremely unusual for someone to be denied a license.
Yes, and it seems that it is too unusual. Recently, a longtime bicycle advocate was hit and killed by a drunk driver who had gotten out of jail only a few hours before. The reason the person was in the courtroom in the first place? Driving while under the influence of drugs.
Not being able to drive is a pretty serious limit on ones freedom to travel.
Here, we depart. You may travel freely upon any public road. You may be a passenger, take a bus, ride a bike, crawl....all without hinderance.
Due to the damage and injury potential, you must be licensed to operate a motor vehicle.
Since such license can be taken away (or not issued in the first place) due to incompetence, evidently it is not a right to be able to drive.
We deny someone their ability to drive as punishment for poor execution, not because we can.
They must show some (minimal) level of competence to be granted that license in the first place. In the US, that 'minimal' level is far too minimal.
magine you write an outline in word. file -> export as -> presentation... or in access you select some rows and export to a spreadsheet. this is where staroffice stands to beat them.
This is what Office does (rather) well. Use an xls as a data source for an MDB, a word doc, and a presentation, all at the same time. Or link database info to a remote presentation.
And while Office prefers Office, you CAN link to and from bare text files. Whether delimited or fixed length.
Way back with Office95 we were pulling backend data off a UNIX box into a VB/Access frontend. Seamless to the user.
You're not understanding. Listening does not require credits. You can listen to as much as you want, from whomever you want, in any quantity, without any restriction of any kind.
What part of
Once your computer has the string, it looks at all the songs you've listened to and decides what songs to spend your gift certificate money on. (It knows what you listen to because it's built in to your MP3 player.)
is unclear?
Now..if he had actually meant download instead of listen....then you may have a point. But that's not what he said.
(disclaimer - 20 yr USAF retiree. 15 yrs aircraft weapons systems, 5 yrs PC (Windows) programmer. Got out in '97)
First Do NOT join the military to get good training so you can get out and get a good job (whatever the field). Join the military because you want to.
Having said that, here we go. Try to keep up, kids.
There is LOTS of good training in the military. IT included. A lot of it is old (tech school), but when you get to your actual base, you find yourself working with, and learning from, people who have done (whatever) for years. Been there, done that, got the tshirt.
My last base was Langley AFB, VA. Air Combat Command HQ. And also, the hub of computer ops for ACC. When I was there, I was in the ACC Computer Sys Squadron. A 300 person software shop. Every imaginable job related to s/w development. Configuration management, coding, project management, testing, db design, you name it.
A LOT of very professional people. And just as in any other large organization...some slackers.
However, the Langley Computer Sys Squadron is a CMM Level 3 organization. Not given out lightly. I was on the level 2 & 3 eval teams. We brought in some outside contractors, and a few of us active duty types were tasked as part of the eval team. And we passed. With zero command influence to get a good rating.
Yes, you do get to write code. Or yes, you do get to manage networks. Often, you get the chance to run things sooner than you would on the outside. For instance...a small team is deployed to set up a secure LAN somewhere. You get to be the NCO or junior officer team lead. Deal with it.
Training? I learned far more by myself, than was taught in tech school. But also learned a lot in OJT (on the job training). Each job is different. Some you can learn in class....some by doing. So what if tech school teaches concepts and tools a few years old? Once you get to your real base...you'll quickly be taught the actual tools you'll use. A single point classroom for a huge organization cannot possibly keep up with the quickly changing technologies. And....the miltary tends to keep things a few years old. Because it's proven to work. Cutting edge is for (currently) drone aircraft and the like. Otherwise, use what works.
What's inside the heavily armed gates? Basically, people going to work. Some jobs may be a little weird (loading missiles on F-15's), but all pretty much the same.
Again...let me reiterate point 1. Do not join the military to get good training to get a good job. Join the military because you want to.
2: Americans are cheap. Sure you could get high speed and keep your aol.com address for $50 a month. Or you could get DSL from the phone company for $30 to $35 a month. But why should you do that when you can get dialup for $9 a month now?
And a lot of people think...Why pay 3-5x as much? What's the benefit? What's the killer app that demands faster speed? My email and IM are plenty fast enough now. What do I get out of it?
(Not me...but your 'average american')
Typically if speed is the issue, customers sign up with who ever offers it first (you know who you are.)
Of course. Why should I wait some undeterimed period of time for the phone company to deliver the supposed benefits of DSL, when I can get cable now?
How about making copyright non-transferrable? So if I write a song, Michael Jackson can never come in and buy the rights to it so I can't publish my own song,...
But it's mine. Why can't I sell/assign/give away the rights if I want to?
You're paying per blank CD and some other stuff and ALLOCATING the money per listen.
I, somehow, obtain some certificates. Let's say that these certificates are little green pieces of paper, instead of an encrypted digital string.
Every time I want to listen to some music, I have to give one or more of these 'certificates' (which are actually little green pieces of paper) to some central authority, who then passes that little green piece of paper to the artist.
When I run out of little green pieces of paper, I can no longer listen to music online. I must go obtain some more.
Not exactly--each time you listen to a song, an incremental amount of what you paid shifts from the seller (the label) to the artist.
If I buy a CD burner, and pay $5 'music tax' on that...that $5 is worth X number of 'gift certificates'. When I have used up all my 'gift certificates' downloading and listening to music, somehow I must obtain (buy) more votes to be able to listen to more music.
As I see it...it is pay per listen. The pay part is just one step removed. And with yet another layer of administration to pay for in the middle.
You're paying per blank CD and some other stuff and ALLOCATING the money per listen
1. Per listen is the wrong way to go about it. Britney/Christina fans are probably more likely to listen to their favorite track over, and over, and over and over again, skewing the popularity results. Previously, one CD buy could equal thousands of 'listens' per person.
2. Tax my internet connection, AND blank CD's, to distibute this money out to musicians? As if that's the only reason for being online. Nonsense.
3. So if I never buy a blank CD, but instead just play my downloaded music on the PC...I still get something for nothing. Yeah, that looks good. Blank CD sales plummet, and the only ones paying for all this money redistribution are people who use CD's for other than music.
4. If you want a particular artist, (or s/w developer) to get your money...hey...here's a novel solution. Buy something from them.
1. How does this differ significantly from a buck a song at iTunes? You see something you like, authorize the payment, you d/l it. Or, a monthly sub as in emusic.com for (almost) all you can eat.
2. Overly complex.
oh wait...
3. Once your computer has the string, it looks at all the songs you've listened to and decides what songs to spend your gift certificate money on. (It knows what you listen to because it's built in to your MP3 player.) If you've listened to one Britney Spears song day and night for the past month and nothing else, it will give all your money to Britney.
a similar system in the cockpit of fighter planes could allow pilots to track some controls using their hearing, freeing up their eyes for other tasks.
Too bad fighter jets as so damn noisy. And that noise level changes drastically, depending on what's happening. In a sharp 7g turn? It's a LOT noisier than flying straight and level.
I'd hate to have to rely on sensitive hearing to locate a threat.
Why would you expect a 30 year old aircraft to be designed to filter out a particular RF frequency from a device that had not even been invented? Or some unknown combination of several devices, used in close proximity?
Why not shield the individual electronics first? Case in point - radar detectors. They are supposed to be passive devices, merely sucking in the police radar, and warning the driver that he is being painted. But also, just as any other piece of electronics, they output a little RF on their own.
Detectors have been built, and sold to police departments, that can detect this particular frequency RF. From 50 feet away, in a car moving at 75mph. Radar detector detectors. Virginia uses them. Look up VG-2. The state troopers have this installed in their cars, and can tell if your radar detector is on as you pass him by. A $95 fine.
So the detector companies have been hardening their new models to mask this.
Again, why not shield the individual electronics? Get them tested. Market them as "Aircraft safe".
If making that phone call is sooo important, buy the slightly more expensive, tested and approved model.
All those installed items (TV's, DVD's, etc) are tested, singly and in combination, to determine that they pose no interference to the a/c.
Have all of your devices been tested? And in conjunction and proximity with whatever the guy in the seat next to you is using?
There is no possible way to test each and every device, and in combination with every other consumer device that may be in use right next to it.
Shielding? a LOT of aircraft in use were built decades ago. Retrofit is very hard (impossible in some cases), and very expensive. And, very heavy. Remove some seats, or reduce the range, to compensate for the extra weight.
Just about all electronics put out a little RF. Your phone, the PDA of the guy next to you, and the laptop of the person behind you.
Possibly a cumulative effect?
Now...if the engine fuel mix sensor is in the nose, and the wiring happens to run right under your seat, and the engine fuel mix is a little off because the voltage down the wire is off due to your cell phone and the engine is runing a little rich.
Throw in some bad weather.
I'd rather not crash because the pilots were trying to compensate for a rough running engine, in a thunderstorm, for your of-so-important phone call.
Put your phone next to the pc, and make a call. You just might hear a little harmonic interference. You want that same interference affecting the aircraft intruments?
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You gotta have the honkin' air conditioning unit to tame that stench, the kind with the HEPA, charcoal and whatever else you can use to keep breathable air for the rest of the staff, right?
So THAT'S where the 'bionic' part comes in.
The kids will learn 2 things from this exercise
1. If everyone just downloads music for free from the Intarweb, well...that sucks for the artists, because they get no monetary compensation from it.
2. The current business model being blasted into our brains by the music industry sucks, because they take too much of the money. We pay too high prices and the artists still get little or no money from it.
Some of these little darlings will grow up to become businessmen and women. A few of them even good businessmen and women.
Maybe one of them will come up with a system that actually does work.
$Deity, I hope it doesn't take that long!
How about the U.S. standardize on an open document format
The US govt, and indeed most large organizations, started down the road to MS Word long before there were real alternatives.
"Whoever wants to do business with the government must purchase WordPerfect."
How would that really be different? (Except for not being MS)
Does OOo make a perfect WordPerfect doc? Dunno...never tried.
But to suggest that 10 years ago they should have standardised on tools that had not even been thought of is simply silly. Or even 3 years ago, when they were in their infancy.
Long distance communications during wars before the internet used various means of encryption to keep national secrets secure. Why can't they do the same for electronic communications?
And there is no way to prosecute modern warfare with a sneakernet.
Real-time imagery, intel, decisions, and targeting cannot happen without real-time communications.
The ability of the Chiefs in the Pentagon to see exactly what a tank commanders sees is invaluable. And for them to tell him that there are in fact enemy tanks just over the next rise, and in what direction they are moving.
Cannot do that unless the two are directly connected and passing data back and forth.
Furthermore this list prevents marketers from contacting you ever,
Actually, you're on the DNC list for 5 years. Then you must register again.
The article cleary states that HP did not license Linux from SCO.
No, the article clearly states that Martin Fink said they did not. Whether they actually did or did not may still be in question.
Here, we depart. You may travel freely upon any public road. You may be a passenger, take a bus, ride a bike, crawl....all without hinderance.
Actually, no you can't. You will be ticketed if you ride a bike, walk, or crawl on any interstate in the nation.
Actually, that is incorrect. There are several sections of Interstate highway where cycling is permitted. Usually out West, and where there is no other route. Also, I believe in New Jersey you can apply for and obtain a permit to cycle on certain Interstates in tha state.
In any case, the right to travel upon the public roads does not have to include all forms of travel on those roads. If your drivers license is revoked, that does not restrict you personally from moving about. Just that you may not pilot a car.
but in our society it is extremely unusual for someone to be denied a license.
Yes, and it seems that it is too unusual. Recently, a longtime bicycle advocate was hit and killed by a drunk driver who had gotten out of jail only a few hours before.
The reason the person was in the courtroom in the first place? Driving while under the influence of drugs.
This "right" would seem to be a little misplaced.
We have the right to travel freely.
Yes, we do.
Driving is a form of transportation.
Yes, it is. But only one form.
Not being able to drive is a pretty serious limit on ones freedom to travel.
Here, we depart. You may travel freely upon any public road. You may be a passenger, take a bus, ride a bike, crawl....all without hinderance.
Due to the damage and injury potential, you must be licensed to operate a motor vehicle.
Since such license can be taken away (or not issued in the first place) due to incompetence, evidently it is not a right to be able to drive.
We deny someone their ability to drive as punishment for poor execution, not because we can.
They must show some (minimal) level of competence to be granted that license in the first place. In the US, that 'minimal' level is far too minimal.
magine you write an outline in word. file -> export as -> presentation... or in access you select some rows and export to a spreadsheet. this is where staroffice stands to beat them.
This is what Office does (rather) well. Use an xls as a data source for an MDB, a word doc, and a presentation, all at the same time. Or link database info to a remote presentation.
And while Office prefers Office, you CAN link to and from bare text files. Whether delimited or fixed length.
Way back with Office95 we were pulling backend data off a UNIX box into a VB/Access frontend. Seamless to the user.
You're not understanding. Listening does not require credits. You can listen to as much as you want, from whomever you want, in any quantity, without any restriction of any kind.
What part of
Once your computer has the string, it looks at all the songs you've listened to and decides what songs to spend your gift certificate money on. (It knows what you listen to because it's built in to your MP3 player.)
is unclear?
Now..if he had actually meant download instead of listen....then you may have a point. But that's not what he said.
(disclaimer - 20 yr USAF retiree. 15 yrs aircraft weapons systems, 5 yrs PC (Windows) programmer. Got out in '97)
First Do NOT join the military to get good training so you can get out and get a good job (whatever the field).
Join the military because you want to.
Having said that, here we go. Try to keep up, kids.
There is LOTS of good training in the military. IT included. A lot of it is old (tech school), but when you get to your actual base, you find yourself working with, and learning from, people who have done (whatever) for years. Been there, done that, got the tshirt.
My last base was Langley AFB, VA. Air Combat Command HQ. And also, the hub of computer ops for ACC. When I was there, I was in the ACC Computer Sys Squadron. A 300 person software shop. Every imaginable job related to s/w development. Configuration management, coding, project management, testing, db design, you name it.
A LOT of very professional people. And just as in any other large organization...some slackers.
However, the Langley Computer Sys Squadron is a CMM Level 3 organization. Not given out lightly. I was on the level 2 & 3 eval teams. We brought in some outside contractors, and a few of us active duty types were tasked as part of the eval team. And we passed. With zero command influence to get a good rating.
Yes, you do get to write code. Or yes, you do get to manage networks. Often, you get the chance to run things sooner than you would on the outside. For instance...a small team is deployed to set up a secure LAN somewhere. You get to be the NCO or junior officer team lead. Deal with it.
Training? I learned far more by myself, than was taught in tech school. But also learned a lot in OJT (on the job training). Each job is different. Some you can learn in class....some by doing. So what if tech school teaches concepts and tools a few years old? Once you get to your real base...you'll quickly be taught the actual tools you'll use. A single point classroom for a huge organization cannot possibly keep up with the quickly changing technologies. And....the miltary tends to keep things a few years old. Because it's proven to work. Cutting edge is for (currently) drone aircraft and the like. Otherwise, use what works.
What's inside the heavily armed gates? Basically, people going to work. Some jobs may be a little weird (loading missiles on F-15's), but all pretty much the same.
Again...let me reiterate point 1. Do not join the military to get good training to get a good job.
Join the military because you want to.
Any questions?
2: Americans are cheap. Sure you could get high speed and keep your aol.com address for $50 a month. Or you could get DSL from the phone company for $30 to $35 a month. But why should you do that when you can get dialup for $9 a month now?
And a lot of people think...Why pay 3-5x as much? What's the benefit? What's the killer app that demands faster speed? My email and IM are plenty fast enough now. What do I get out of it?
(Not me...but your 'average american')
Typically if speed is the issue, customers sign up with who ever offers it first (you know who you are.)
Of course. Why should I wait some undeterimed period of time for the phone company to deliver the supposed benefits of DSL, when I can get cable now?
How about making copyright non-transferrable? So if I write a song, Michael Jackson can never come in and buy the rights to it so I can't publish my own song,...
But it's mine. Why can't I sell/assign/give away the rights if I want to?
For whatever reason...someone might want to.
You're paying per blank CD and some other stuff and ALLOCATING the money per listen.
I, somehow, obtain some certificates. Let's say that these certificates are little green pieces of paper, instead of an encrypted digital string.
Every time I want to listen to some music, I have to give one or more of these 'certificates' (which are actually little green pieces of paper) to some central authority, who then passes that little green piece of paper to the artist.
When I run out of little green pieces of paper, I can no longer listen to music online. I must go obtain some more.
How is that not pay per listen?
Not exactly--each time you listen to a song, an incremental amount of what you paid shifts from the seller (the label) to the artist.
If I buy a CD burner, and pay $5 'music tax' on that...that $5 is worth X number of 'gift certificates'. When I have used up all my 'gift certificates' downloading and listening to music, somehow I must obtain (buy) more votes to be able to listen to more music.
As I see it...it is pay per listen. The pay part is just one step removed.
And with yet another layer of administration to pay for in the middle.
You're paying per blank CD and some other stuff and ALLOCATING the money per listen
1. Per listen is the wrong way to go about it.
Britney/Christina fans are probably more likely to listen to their favorite track over, and over, and over and over again, skewing the popularity results. Previously, one CD buy could equal thousands of 'listens' per person.
2. Tax my internet connection, AND blank CD's, to distibute this money out to musicians? As if that's the only reason for being online. Nonsense.
3. So if I never buy a blank CD, but instead just play my downloaded music on the PC...I still get something for nothing. Yeah, that looks good. Blank CD sales plummet, and the only ones paying for all this money redistribution are people who use CD's for other than music.
4. If you want a particular artist, (or s/w developer) to get your money...hey...here's a novel solution. Buy something from them.
1. How does this differ significantly from a buck a song at iTunes? You see something you like, authorize the payment, you d/l it.
Or, a monthly sub as in emusic.com for (almost) all you can eat.
2. Overly complex.
oh wait...
3. Once your computer has the string, it looks at all the songs you've listened to and decides what songs to spend your gift certificate money on. (It knows what you listen to because it's built in to your MP3 player.) If you've listened to one Britney Spears song day and night for the past month and nothing else, it will give all your money to Britney.
That's how it differs. Pay per listen. No thanks.
Bowling for Columbine is still kind of slanted.
That's like saying the Pacific ocean is kind of deep.
a similar system in the cockpit of fighter planes could allow pilots to track some controls using their hearing, freeing up their eyes for other tasks.
Too bad fighter jets as so damn noisy. And that noise level changes drastically, depending on what's happening. In a sharp 7g turn? It's a LOT noisier than flying straight and level.
I'd hate to have to rely on sensitive hearing to locate a threat.
FYI: jet engines just dump the fuel strait into the engine ...
FYI - you're FOC.
Look up "jet engine" "fuel management", or "digital fuel management" or "engine management".
Why would you expect a 30 year old aircraft to be designed to filter out a particular RF frequency from a device that had not even been invented? Or some unknown combination of several devices, used in close proximity?
Why not shield the individual electronics first?
Case in point - radar detectors. They are supposed to be passive devices, merely sucking in the police radar, and warning the driver that he is being painted. But also, just as any other piece of electronics, they output a little RF on their own.
Detectors have been built, and sold to police departments, that can detect this particular frequency RF. From 50 feet away, in a car moving at 75mph. Radar detector detectors. Virginia uses them. Look up VG-2. The state troopers have this installed in their cars, and can tell if your radar detector is on as you pass him by. A $95 fine.
So the detector companies have been hardening their new models to mask this.
Again, why not shield the individual electronics? Get them tested. Market them as "Aircraft safe".
If making that phone call is sooo important, buy the slightly more expensive, tested and approved model.
All those installed items (TV's, DVD's, etc) are tested, singly and in combination, to determine that they pose no interference to the a/c.
Have all of your devices been tested? And in conjunction and proximity with whatever the guy in the seat next to you is using?
There is no possible way to test each and every device, and in combination with every other consumer device that may be in use right next to it.
Shielding? a LOT of aircraft in use were built decades ago. Retrofit is very hard (impossible in some cases), and very expensive. And, very heavy. Remove some seats, or reduce the range, to compensate for the extra weight.
Just about all electronics put out a little RF. Your phone, the PDA of the guy next to you, and the laptop of the person behind you.
Possibly a cumulative effect?
Now...if the engine fuel mix sensor is in the nose, and the wiring happens to run right under your seat, and the engine fuel mix is a little off because the voltage down the wire is off due to your cell phone and the engine is runing a little rich.
Throw in some bad weather.
I'd rather not crash because the pilots were trying to compensate for a rough running engine, in a thunderstorm, for your of-so-important phone call.
Put your phone next to the pc, and make a call. You just might hear a little harmonic interference. You want that same interference affecting the aircraft intruments?
And it would solve nothing. How many already 'licensed' network admins succumb to the latest worm/trojan/virus floating around?
How many 'licensed' motorists are the cause of fatal crashes?
-- I estimated it would save me thousands per year in the cost of gas in comparision to a Jeep Grand Cherokee
a 15mpg SUV vs a high mpg compact. Not a valid compare.
Run that same calculation against a $9000 Hyundai, and things will come out significantly different.