Why didn't you act earlier? This move seems to arise with SCO's declining
fortunes. We just announced our second quarter, and our financials are in
very good position. The company is profitable. It is the first time in the
history of the company, in almost seven years of existence, that it has been
profitable. The point is we're really only recently seeing significant moves by
many players, specifically IBM, to come out and state that they are moving
wholesale to Linux.
Well the military uses are profound. HUD's (Heads Up Display) are still fairly primitive and this will allow for very advanced ones.
For personal use, having your windshield as a display hooked up to infrared camera's would increase nightime driving safety. (i think cadillac already has a primitive system)
Also, the article state's that the technology can make
LCD's a lot brighter.
This would also allow a user to have multiple screens overlapping one another, kind of like transparencies but much more powerfull.
Further down in the article the exaggeration is revealed:
About a quarter of the trucks in this convoy have GCCS
The system is still really powerfull though:
One zoom out and I'm looking at the entire Baghdad region. Another zoom out and I see all of Iraq, with forces dotted in the north and heavily clumped around the capital in the center. One more click and I'm looking at the entire sphere of Central Command, from the edge of Libya to Pakistan. I see forces in Turkey, and clustered in Iraq and Kuwait. I feel like a four-star general. I'm sitting in the Iraqi desert looking at troop movements across 25 countries.
"Welcome to Siprnet," he says. GCCS runs over Siprnet - the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network - in the same way that Web applications run over the public Internet. The difference with "Sipper" is that it's basically a far-flung local area network. To maximize security, it doesn't connect with the Internet proper. But it links Centcom to the battlefield and, among other things, allows Franks to talk to Rumsfeld and President Bush via two-way videoconference every evening.
Caddell leads the way to one of the shipping containers. Inside, two soldiers baby-sit three rows of Sun servers. "This is where the Global Command and Control System lives," Caddell says. GCCS - known as "Geeks" to soldiers in the field - is the military's HAL 9000. It's an umbrella system that tracks every friendly tank, plane, ship, and soldier in the world in real time, plotting their positions as they move on a digital map.
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A newbie programmer is not usually a newbie computer user.
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Oh right, and the war on drugs has been such a success?
Besides the parent has a good point. The answer is not through legislation. What is to stop people from hosting their spam sites off shores where they are protected from the laws. Kind of like the 809 Phone Call Scam.
Gotta love british humor
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Lord Mackie of Benshie: My Lords, can the
Minister think of a name for the enormous amount of unsolicited ordinary mail we
receive?
Lord
Sainsbury of Turville: My Lords, when I
have a moment I shall bend my mind to that question.
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And how is this brilliant user going to write code that utilizes said database?
My nokia has the same feature and i love it. it gets about 80%-90% of the words correct the first time. When it's wrong I usually only have to press * once to get the correct one.
Nokia's are the best phones though, so maybe that's why I love the feature.
sorry, i meant ASP in the general sense of VBScript. Just like when I say PC I refer to an x86 machine as apposed to a mac, even though both of them are 'Personal Computers'.
It is for this reason that I have never used a laptop in school.
Seems to me that they should require students to use recycled paper instead. Of course I feel that everybody should use recycled paper. We've taught people to recycle, now we need to teach them to purchase the damn products. Otherwise the recycled paper won't be cheaper than normal paper until tree's are so rare that they cost more to chop down.
IMO
A programmers value is determined by experience and ability to learn. Since someone new to the IT field has little experience, being hired is determined mostly by their ability to learn. Since young minds are better suited for learning, they are going to be hired more often. This is the trend I have seen at my company.
Interesting OT Tid-Bit, Niel messed up when he said "That's one small step for man, one Giant leap for mankind". He meant to say "That's one small step for a man..... ". For the entire ride to the moon he was practicing the line, and then he messed it up. That's why he pauses on the comma for so long, then rushes through the rest.
I couldn't agree more. And i think this article shows that the benefits of the shuttle are lacking.
To quote the article : "They [shuttle proponents] think the dream of spaceflight is so fragile that, while crashes cannot derail it, the cancellation of a single program could shut it down for good. They fear that if we take one small step back, we will never again be able to go forward. "
Kinda hard to detect this in any OS. I'm sure they have a smaller more discrete version for the Feds. Besides, did you check the back of your computer for the key sniffer today?
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Why didn't you act earlier? This move seems to arise with SCO's declining fortunes. We just announced our second quarter, and our financials are in very good position. The company is profitable. It is the first time in the history of the company, in almost seven years of existence, that it has been profitable. The point is we're really only recently seeing significant moves by many players, specifically IBM, to come out and state that they are moving wholesale to Linux.
Unisys anyone?
The probably use a projector of some type
Well the military uses are profound. HUD's (Heads Up Display) are still fairly primitive and this will allow for very advanced ones.
For personal use, having your windshield as a display hooked up to infrared camera's would increase nightime driving safety. (i think cadillac already has a primitive system)
Also, the article state's that the technology can make LCD's a lot brighter.
This would also allow a user to have multiple screens overlapping one another, kind of like transparencies but much more powerfull.
Further down in the article the exaggeration is revealed:
About a quarter of the trucks in this convoy have GCCS
The system is still really powerfull though:
One zoom out and I'm looking at the entire Baghdad region. Another zoom out and I see all of Iraq, with forces dotted in the north and heavily clumped around the capital in the center. One more click and I'm looking at the entire sphere of Central Command, from the edge of Libya to Pakistan. I see forces in Turkey, and clustered in Iraq and Kuwait. I feel like a four-star general. I'm sitting in the Iraqi desert looking at troop movements across 25 countries.
"Welcome to Siprnet," he says. GCCS runs over Siprnet - the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network - in the same way that Web applications run over the public Internet. The difference with "Sipper" is that it's basically a far-flung local area network. To maximize security, it doesn't connect with the Internet proper. But it links Centcom to the battlefield and, among other things, allows Franks to talk to Rumsfeld and President Bush via two-way videoconference every evening.
Caddell leads the way to one of the shipping containers. Inside, two soldiers baby-sit three rows of Sun servers. "This is where the Global Command and Control System lives," Caddell says. GCCS - known as "Geeks" to soldiers in the field - is the military's HAL 9000. It's an umbrella system that tracks every friendly tank, plane, ship, and soldier in the world in real time, plotting their positions as they move on a digital map.
Thanks for the image. That's just precious.
Don't belittle the horror of paper cuts plz.
... a BSD vs Linux war brewing
A newbie programmer is not usually a newbie computer user.
Oh right, and the war on drugs has been such a success?
Besides the parent has a good point. The answer is not through legislation. What is to stop people from hosting their spam sites off shores where they are protected from the laws. Kind of like the 809 Phone Call Scam.
Lord Mackie of Benshie: My Lords, can the Minister think of a name for the enormous amount of unsolicited ordinary mail we receive?
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: My Lords, when I have a moment I shall bend my mind to that question.
And how is this brilliant user going to write code that utilizes said database?
My nokia has the same feature and i love it. it gets about 80%-90% of the words correct the first time. When it's wrong I usually only have to press * once to get the correct one.
Nokia's are the best phones though, so maybe that's why I love the feature.
I said learn with asp fucknut. I learned with C. Fucking coward.
sorry, i meant ASP in the general sense of VBScript. Just like when I say PC I refer to an x86 machine as apposed to a mac, even though both of them are 'Personal Computers'.
Never learn to program with ASP. The worst programmers I know started with that abomination of a language.
And of course I'm stuck using it to bring home the bacon
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It is for this reason that I have never used a laptop in school.
Seems to me that they should require students to use recycled paper instead. Of course I feel that everybody should use recycled paper. We've taught people to recycle, now we need to teach them to purchase the damn products. Otherwise the recycled paper won't be cheaper than normal paper until tree's are so rare that they cost more to chop down.
Uh hello, everybody is all upset because they think that I said someone fresh out of college is better suited than someone with 10 years experience.
That is NOT what i said. I said that 2 people with 0 experience and a 10 year age gap, the younger person has an advantage.
IMO
A programmers value is determined by experience and ability to learn. Since someone new to the IT field has little experience, being hired is determined mostly by their ability to learn. Since young minds are better suited for learning, they are going to be hired more often. This is the trend I have seen at my company.
Interesting OT Tid-Bit, Niel messed up when he said "That's one small step for man, one Giant leap for mankind". He meant to say "That's one small step for a man ..... ". For the entire ride to the moon he was practicing the line, and then he messed it up. That's why he pauses on the comma for so long, then rushes through the rest.
I couldn't agree more. And i think this article shows that the benefits of the shuttle are lacking.
To quote the article : "They [shuttle proponents] think the dream of spaceflight is so fragile that, while crashes cannot derail it, the cancellation of a single program could shut it down for good. They fear that if we take one small step back, we will never again be able to go forward. "
lets go to mars already.
Or why not call it a Black Market? I mean, that's what it is. The RIAA price fixed CD's and now they have a black market. Econ 101.
This just shows that Free Market > Price Fix
Kinda hard to detect this in any OS. I'm sure they have a smaller more discrete version for the Feds. Besides, did you check the back of your computer for the key sniffer today?