I think he'll have to have someone else do the writting because he's a moron:)
No seriously if you've ever read anything he's written or listened to him. There is a real reason he dropped out. He got really lucky.. as technical issues go he did nothing great nothing new. He just took advantage of peoples desire to get copyrighted music. Hell he didn't even consider sharing anything other than music.
Some of us "Mac users" have afs experience (not only using but admin from startup through general matience) as well as general admin skills and very good coding skills. If you actually knew what you where talking about you probably wouldn't make broad generalization but oh well your a true slashdot moron.
AFS is nice... it requires alot more work to setup then most people have or want to devote. (auth server, file server, and few other I can't remember off the top of my head).Its not great solution for a WAN either (yes I know you can mount man trees) its sluggish and UDP based. Upside its much more secure and the ACLs are much nicer than a normal unix filesystem.
As for openAFS the last time I looked at it it wasn't up to snuff... or atleast compared to the offical clients.
Are you say that altitude isn't reported? because I know the data blocks contain the plains alt. As for the layers... it depends on the system some area spaces aren't broken up (real low traffic) and all ATC is handled by one center. Others break it up so different centers control different layers. Like in the Northeast (US) there are many local center that control there own traffic like boston, JFK (its a little different there because they control the traffic for the all 3 airports in the area at one site). They only control trafic up to a certain altitude after that its taken over by the site in NH (enroute center).
furthermore there are places in the world that have ATC systems and ARE below sea level:)
I don't think this would work to well for ATC. You need to be able to see large amounts of infomation and viewing it in 3D would be more of a hinderance than a help. besides controllers viewalize it in there minds eye anyways.
Not to mention they are a weird breed they hate change... that why they haven't switched to QWERTY keyboards they still use some funky propritary setup (US).
I work for a company that does some of the largest ATC systems in the world (not lockead but a direct competitor).
The idea of having an open source solution to ATC is stupid. Every job/country has slightly different needs (up to 50%!). On top of that the requirements phase can take up to 2 years to hammer out. Then the design phase is atleast 4-6 month. while coding really only takes 2-3 month. The testing phase is another year.
Its not a job for the fant of heart nor something you can just jump into. It requires a team of 30-40 people (only half coders) to put together systems like this. You really think it would be good to have an open source ATC system?
Further more the hardware only is stagering... 2K X 2K monitors are expensive. Not to mention having to stuff a fully loaded string (70+ machines and displays).
so please... think before you speak OSS is nice but there is still a real need for people that do this work. Give us some credit... don't say its a cake walk and be done by a group of volunteers until you've actually dont it:)
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I think he'll have to have someone else do the writting because he's a moron :)
.. as technical issues go he did nothing great nothing new. He just took advantage of peoples desire to get copyrighted music. Hell he didn't even consider sharing anything other than music.
No seriously if you've ever read anything he's written or listened to him. There is a real reason he dropped out. He got really lucky
Some of us "Mac users" have afs experience (not only using but admin from startup through general matience) as well as general admin skills and very good coding skills. If you actually knew what you where talking about you probably wouldn't make broad generalization but oh well your a true slashdot moron.
AFS is nice ... it requires alot more work to setup then most people have or want to devote. (auth server, file server, and few other I can't remember off the top of my head).Its not great solution for a WAN either (yes I know you can mount man trees) its sluggish and UDP based. Upside its much more secure and the ACLs are much nicer than a normal unix filesystem.
... or atleast compared to the offical clients.
As for openAFS the last time I looked at it it wasn't up to snuff
Should you get your money back if the sports team you go see doesn't play up to your expectation?
... but its one you as a consumer have to take. sorry thems the rules.
Its a gamble
Are you say that altitude isn't reported? because I know the data blocks contain the plains alt. As for the layers ... it depends on the system some area spaces aren't broken up (real low traffic) and all ATC is handled by one center. Others break it up so different centers control different layers. Like in the Northeast (US) there are many local center that control there own traffic like boston, JFK (its a little different there because they control the traffic for the all 3 airports in the area at one site). They only control trafic up to a certain altitude after that its taken over by the site in NH (enroute center).
:)
furthermore there are places in the world that have ATC systems and ARE below sea level
2.5 dimensional data? I thought 3D was X,Y,Z .. could be mistaken.
I don't think this would work to well for ATC. You need to be able to see large amounts of infomation and viewing it in 3D would be more of a hinderance than a help. besides controllers viewalize it in there minds eye anyways. Not to mention they are a weird breed they hate change ... that why they haven't switched to QWERTY keyboards they still use some funky propritary setup (US).
its not really a beam ... radio ;-)
but you could monkey with it ...
I work for a company that does some of the largest ATC systems in the world (not lockead but a direct competitor). The idea of having an open source solution to ATC is stupid. Every job/country has slightly different needs (up to 50%!). On top of that the requirements phase can take up to 2 years to hammer out. Then the design phase is atleast 4-6 month. while coding really only takes 2-3 month. The testing phase is another year. Its not a job for the fant of heart nor something you can just jump into. It requires a team of 30-40 people (only half coders) to put together systems like this. You really think it would be good to have an open source ATC system? Further more the hardware only is stagering ... 2K X 2K monitors are expensive. Not to mention having to stuff a fully loaded string (70+ machines and displays).
so please ... think before you speak OSS is nice but there is still a real need for people that do this work. Give us some credit ... don't say its a cake walk and be done by a group of volunteers until you've actually dont it :)