But they are used for the same reason paper systems are used. Simplicity and human-readable hard copy that captures all the details. They just get used in situations that are way too complex.
Considering the orignal problem, if it's a network that isn't hierarchical and simple enough in design that these simple records aren't good enough and easy to maintain, well, that's part of the problem.
At the Tehran and Yalta Conferences Stalin agreed to wage war on Japan within 3 months after the war ending in Europe. And the U.S.S.R. did so to the day on August 9, 1945.
Althought there may have been thoughs about limiting Soviet opportunities for expansion, dropping the bombs on Japan was the alternative to amphibious invasion by the United States, Britain, and the other allies. From Wikipedia's article on Operation Downfall:
Japan's geography made this invasion plan quite obvious to the Japanese as well; they were able to predict the Allied invasion plans accurately and thus adjust their defensive plan, Operation Ketsug, accordingly. The Japanese planned an all-out defense of Kysh, with little left in reserve for any subsequent defense operations. Casualty predictions varied widely but were extremely high for both sides: depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians resisted the invasion, estimates ran into the millions for Allied casualties[1] and several times that number for total Japanese casualties.
IT is a dying field because no one in management values it properly and it is mind bogglingly complex. You either struggle in the small companies for too liitle pay and/or too little budget and small office politics or struggle in large companies with the same problems in their large company forms.
I'd suggest you become an electrician and work up to Red Seal Journeyman. With your knowledge of networks and with the hardware skills on wiring and fibre you get a broad spectrum of related skills that allow you to move between companies and cities. Someone else sells the suits on the project. You implement it.
Electricity and data flow can't be outsourced and is needed for everything. That's job security.
Then you don't understand war. What is limited is what doesn't really help to win battles or wars. If a church or a historical building is used as a defensive position you can atttack it, but if it isn't, it survivies. Regular ball rounds do plenty of damage. Chemical weapons mostly inconvinience trained troops. Who also breach minefields with little operational delay.
The rules help minimize the damage to property and society and between societies. You don't just have to win a war, you have to establish a stable peace. I knew a lot of veterans from the Calgary Tanks who because they defended the beach at Dieppe while the infantry was taken off became prisoners of war for 3 years. Under your "enlightened" philosophy I imagine they're no room for POW's either.
Well, better not exercize those views in a real war zone. With professional troops your side would likely throw you in jail. If captured, you're likely to be shot out of hand.
Seems there's a lot of effort to work around them or even outright ignore them. Yes, the new has to be covered. How about protecting what's slipping away?
The Gates Foundation is supporting mass male genital mutilation, AKA circumcision, in belief of the bullshit research that says it reduces the spread of H.I.V. Lot of good the high rate of cutting did U.S. males, didn't it? >:(
We need some new rules stating that a person can't hide behind "I was told to". If it's found to be immoral/unethical, then the person doing it should be held responsible. If said person can point a finger at a superior, then the superior takes more of the fault, but not all of it.
I thought the "I was following orders" defence got trashed in the Nuremburg Trials.
But the auto corp's managements made bad decisions and I believe a large number of them lost their jobs. Wall street banksters made criminal decisions that damaged most of the world's economy and they all still have their jobs--and their bonuses. >:(
Take the lot of those twits who continue to refer to copyright violation as "piracy" and pack them in a wee small boat, then sail it to off of Somalia to impress on them the true definition of the word. >:(
I remember hearing about the Thiokol pork (both originally and when considering what to do after the Challenger loss) but I'd either never read or forgot Aerojet had a monolithic design; thanks for pointing that out. It would have been the superior choice.
Certainly the UTC 5, 6, and 7 segment solid boosters have flown in the 100's on Titan 3C's and later and as far as I know have never had a failure similar to what happened to the Challlenger. However, the Titan stack doesn't have to endure the initial twang that the shuttle stack did (due to the horizontal layout of shuttle + tank + SRB's). That twang makes having a segmented SRB more complex and prone to problems and eventually failures (another reason to go with the monolithic build).
I remember the facing of the join in UTC's SRB's (it faces down) versus Thiokol's (it faces up) coming up during the Challenger investigation. Ice forming in the join on the Thiokol SRB's would have increased the cold-soaking of the segment seals which increased the burn-through on cold launches. Would a downward facing join have saved the Challenger? We don't know. But it makes the approval of the Thiokol design even a worse choice, especially in light of several years experience (Titan 3C with the 5-segment SRB's flew in 1965).
The shuttle itself was "defective by design", the seals that led to the Challenger disaster only needed because the SRBs were pork-barrelled out to a location that was far enough away that couldn't ship single-piece SRBs to the launch site, so they had to be built in segments.
The shuttle pushed the envelop of what could be done, but went too far. It required too much inspection to be reused cheaply and should have been phased out in favour of expendable launchers much sooner.
And SRBs that size have to be made in segments. But they should have made with the joins open facing down, like was done in those for the Titan 3, so they couldn't accumulate water. And with so much being cutting edge, engineers' doubts should have been respected for safety's sake. >:(
* Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll, which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.
This one took a long time for me to track down. I'd put a surge protector on the phone line and the ringing current blocked incoming faxes. When fixing this I was informed that properly installed phone and cable lines should have proper surge protection included.
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You have either concrete runways with asphalt sealing or a different mix of asphalt that is more viscous at a given temperature.
Extra feature! Google will know everything. >:(
I used to use Visio. Then Microsoft bought them and it felt too dirty.
I feel for you man.
But they are used for the same reason paper systems are used. Simplicity and human-readable hard copy that captures all the details. They just get used in situations that are way too complex.
Considering the orignal problem, if it's a network that isn't hierarchical and simple enough in design that these simple records aren't good enough and easy to maintain, well, that's part of the problem.
Wide screen and physical keyboard with max freqencies so it can go on all mobile networks.
And Debian underneath the interface.
At the Tehran and Yalta Conferences Stalin agreed to wage war on Japan within 3 months after the war ending in Europe. And the U.S.S.R. did so to the day on August 9, 1945.
Althought there may have been thoughs about limiting Soviet opportunities for expansion, dropping the bombs on Japan was the alternative to amphibious invasion by the United States, Britain, and the other allies. From Wikipedia's article on Operation Downfall:
Japan's geography made this invasion plan quite obvious to the Japanese as well; they were able to predict the Allied invasion plans accurately and thus adjust their defensive plan, Operation Ketsug, accordingly. The Japanese planned an all-out defense of Kysh, with little left in reserve for any subsequent defense operations. Casualty predictions varied widely but were extremely high for both sides: depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians resisted the invasion, estimates ran into the millions for Allied casualties[1] and several times that number for total Japanese casualties.
Reading slashdot is safe. So you wouldn't mind if I made you sit there reading it for a week while force feeding you cheetos?
For many readers, this is their normal state of existence. >:)
I was with you up to red, but before you get to green there's 540THz, sometimes called "yellow", but yellow is a threat! It's a YELLOW peril!
IT is a dying field because no one in management values it properly and it is mind bogglingly complex. You either struggle in the small companies for too liitle pay and/or too little budget and small office politics or struggle in large companies with the same problems in their large company forms.
I'd suggest you become an electrician and work up to Red Seal Journeyman. With your knowledge of networks and with the hardware skills on wiring and fibre you get a broad spectrum of related skills that allow you to move between companies and cities. Someone else sells the suits on the project. You implement it.
Electricity and data flow can't be outsourced and is needed for everything. That's job security.
But it will be lonely.
Then you don't understand war. What is limited is what doesn't really help to win battles or wars. If a church or a historical building is used as a defensive position you can atttack it, but if it isn't, it survivies. Regular ball rounds do plenty of damage. Chemical weapons mostly inconvinience trained troops. Who also breach minefields with little operational delay.
The rules help minimize the damage to property and society and between societies. You don't just have to win a war, you have to establish a stable peace. I knew a lot of veterans from the Calgary Tanks who because they defended the beach at Dieppe while the infantry was taken off became prisoners of war for 3 years. Under your "enlightened" philosophy I imagine they're no room for POW's either.
Well, better not exercize those views in a real war zone. With professional troops your side would likely throw you in jail. If captured, you're likely to be shot out of hand.
That Bill of Rights only has is your (Americans) problem. Americans are just a small percentage of the internet's demographic.
Indeed. As I am Canadian. I just like to point out that Americans are worrying about fixing the new plumbing while the basement is flooding.
Seems there's a lot of effort to work around them or even outright ignore them. Yes, the new has to be covered. How about protecting what's slipping away?
The Gates Foundation is supporting mass male genital mutilation, AKA circumcision, in belief of the bullshit research that says it reduces the spread of H.I.V. Lot of good the high rate of cutting did U.S. males, didn't it? >:(
Until those battery lives are measured in days and not hours, there's still a lot of work to be done.
Agreed. "Space Command Ninja Cops" would have been better.
...who will obviously have to face off against Space Pirates... >:)
And soon after, gaffer tape gets outlawed as a copyright circumvention device.
How? I thought it was just a nipple supression device. >:)
We need some new rules stating that a person can't hide behind "I was told to". If it's found to be immoral/unethical, then the person doing it should be held responsible. If said person can point a finger at a superior, then the superior takes more of the fault, but not all of it.
I thought the "I was following orders" defence got trashed in the Nuremburg Trials.
What's the worse that could happen? An Inferno? >:)
But the auto corp's managements made bad decisions and I believe a large number of them lost their jobs. Wall street banksters made criminal decisions that damaged most of the world's economy and they all still have their jobs--and their bonuses. >:(
That gives me an idea.
Take the lot of those twits who continue to refer to copyright violation as "piracy" and pack them in a wee small boat, then sail it to off of Somalia to impress on them the true definition of the word. >:(
I remember hearing about the Thiokol pork (both originally and when considering what to do after the Challenger loss) but I'd either never read or forgot Aerojet had a monolithic design; thanks for pointing that out. It would have been the superior choice.
Certainly the UTC 5, 6, and 7 segment solid boosters have flown in the 100's on Titan 3C's and later and as far as I know have never had a failure similar to what happened to the Challlenger. However, the Titan stack doesn't have to endure the initial twang that the shuttle stack did (due to the horizontal layout of shuttle + tank + SRB's). That twang makes having a segmented SRB more complex and prone to problems and eventually failures (another reason to go with the monolithic build).
I remember the facing of the join in UTC's SRB's (it faces down) versus Thiokol's (it faces up) coming up during the Challenger investigation. Ice forming in the join on the Thiokol SRB's would have increased the cold-soaking of the segment seals which increased the burn-through on cold launches. Would a downward facing join have saved the Challenger? We don't know. But it makes the approval of the Thiokol design even a worse choice, especially in light of several years experience (Titan 3C with the 5-segment SRB's flew in 1965).
The shuttle itself was "defective by design", the seals that led to the Challenger disaster only needed because the SRBs were pork-barrelled out to a location that was far enough away that couldn't ship single-piece SRBs to the launch site, so they had to be built in segments.
The shuttle pushed the envelop of what could be done, but went too far. It required too much inspection to be reused cheaply and should have been phased out in favour of expendable launchers much sooner.
And SRBs that size have to be made in segments. But they should have made with the joins open facing down, like was done in those for the Titan 3, so they couldn't accumulate water. And with so much being cutting edge, engineers' doubts should have been respected for safety's sake. >:(
* Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll, which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.
What, no Cowboy Neal option ?!? >:)
This one took a long time for me to track down. I'd put a surge protector on the phone line and the ringing current blocked incoming faxes. When fixing this I was informed that properly installed phone and cable lines should have proper surge protection included.