No, they are both not radars. I do QA on the maintenance of both of these systems for the US Navy, as well as training and qualifying of technicians. If one of our techs referred to a interrogater/transponder communications link as "secondary radar" I'd tell his supervisor that the guy needs to go back to school.
If a system relies on the target to actively transmit an information-bearing signal, it is NOT radar.
That's really not how transponders work. They do not receive the radar pulses and send them back to the radar with ID information encoded into the pulses.
They are totally seperate and unrelated systems operating on radically different frequencies. The only things they have in common is that the base station antenna is typically mounted somewhere on the rotating radar antenna so that they are ensured to both be pointing in the same direction, and they generally share a single display, with the information received from the airborne transponders superimposed over the radar video. You can break either system, and the other one will still work perfectly, just so long as the antenna is still turning and the display still works.
RAID-1 is rare on desktop boxes. Having a checkbox on the order form doesn't make it commonly used by the masses. Here's how it goes:
Salesman - We can put in a second hard drive for RAID if you want. Customer - How much more room will that give me? Salesman - None. It's like an automatic backup device. Customer - Screw that.
if my business is incorporated in Delaware (heh, no sales tax at all, as far as I recall), then how could New York require me to do anything? All they could do is limit my ability to import goods to that state
They couldn't even do that. Congress regulates interstate commerce, not the individual states. Since you have no presence in the state, and they can't apply state laws to you out of the state, there's really nothing they can do but ask politely for you to voluntarily pay these "taxes."
Consider the probability that a MS QA tester would test using any browser other than IE...
I'd say pretty much zero.
Therefore, internal QA testing at MS would not have discovered the problem of links always opening in IE instead of the correct default browser.
It's a combination of lazy programming and indadequate QA. Nothing malicious; just the MS attitude of "there's no reason to use any browser other than ours so we don't need to program to or test anything else."
This article and the comments baffle me. Maybe I'm not a true geek, but who the heck wants to live in Europe? It's a miserable, cold, wasteland. From the article, "We shouldn't be stuck on this rock forever." This rock? This ROCK? Our continent is an incredible, wonderful place. Human beings evolved here, and like it or not if we're taken away from it we suffer. I can't imagine anything more important or better than living a human life in Africa. Would you really trade your life away for a place in a history book? It's not important how history remembers us but what kind of men and women we are. We have a hell of a lot of work to do here, we don't need to start colonizing other land masses. We're still killing each other like damn animals. If you ask me, this is less about progress and more about not wanting to accept the cards that we have been dealt. Hell, maybe sailing out of the sight of land isn't possible, maybe we're stuck in the Old World, or if we travel away it will take years and the time away will mean everyone we know could be dead when we get back. Maybe there's no way to communicate faster than walking to the next village. Are these things really so horrible? Would it be such a horrific thing to live on our continent as best we can until the Sahara desert spreads south and then just die? Before we go deciding we're going to start firing off caravans full of people on one way trips maybe first we should come to terms with our humanity and learn how to live together in harmony.
Or, wait... Maybe I'm just talking out my ass and finding a new place to live, where nobody has ever lived before, doesn't destroy my humanity. Maybe, [gasp] other places may also contain beauty and the resources to build a civilization, inspiring us to develop in new and unexpected directions which result in the creation of more incredible, wonderful places for humanity to call home. Maybe, maybe the desire, no the NEED to explore is a key part of the very foundation of being human. That could even be what has made us what we are... Unafraid to open our eyes, our minds and our hearts to look beyond the animal needs of the moment and become human.
"DVDs already have a HUGE acceptance and user base. Where as Blue Ray has barely any uptake"
Actually, the uptake of Blu Ray has been faster than the uptake of DVD.
They don't want to pay $300 or more for a DVD player when an upscaling DVD player costs $39.
And this is compared to when DVD players cost $300 and VCRs cost $39. The price of Blu Ray has dropped faster than DVD did (DVD players originally cost more than a grand, just like the first Blu Ray ones did) and it's a lot easier to buy and rent BDs than it was to do the same for DVDs this early into their life-span.
You are either very very young, or have very poor memory.
That's exactly where I and a lot of other people stand. Microsoft could send me a free complimentary copy of Vista Ultimate and I'd toss it in the trash.
Well, no, I'd sell it on eBay, but I certainly would never install it on one of my machines or any that I might be called upon to support. My own father was a victim of WGA false positives when the HP he bought a couple of years ago started screaming that he was a pirate. It was running the factory-installed OS. If HP is pirating Windows, MS has far bigger problems than worrying about individual home users making copies for their friends. Not that WGA or any other DRM they try will ever put a damper on casual copying...
You are absolutely incorrect. I am currently deployed in Iraq and using an Air Force network for internet access.
ALL blogs are blocked from viewing by the net-nanny software the Air Force has deployed. I mean, EVERYTHING, including anything with "blog" in the URL or title like some of the regular columns on BBC and other major news websites.
The Air Force is highly discriminatory about what information is accessible to deployed troops. I'm just amazed they haven't blocked/. I guess the techies running the network want to read it, too.
Actually, 200GB EIGHT layer BluRay discs have been produced in the testing lab (which is the only place where those 3-layer HD-DVDs ever existed. The 8-layer BDs wasn't in response to competition, either. BR was designed from the beginning to support that many layers, which is why the first data layer is close to the surface instead of being sandwiched in the middle like HD-DVD.
Of course, neither the 3-layer HD-DVDs or the 8-layer BDs are relevant to the format war, because there were never any plans to use either for movies and set-top players can't read them, anyway.
Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I'm just pointing out that Blu-Ray is already pretty well entrenched for data storage, and capacity is the number one criteria used by most people when selecting a storage medium. Wide-spread device compatibility (a large user-base, in other words) is arguably the most important factor, though. Taking on BD-R in the storage arena would be even more of an uphill battle than continuing to go after BD in the video realm.
Nobody wants to deal with a storage format war any more than they want to deal with a video format war. Just look at how messed up the writable DVD situation was for the first few years with DVD-R, DVD+R and DVD-RAM all clamoring for the spotlight. Sure, eventually, combo drives eliminated most of the consumer confusion, but why go through that hassle again? At least with the writable DVDs, they each had some virtue that made them superior in some way to their competitors. "HD-DVD-R" simply doesn't offer anything that BD-R doesn't already do better. The Blu-Ray writers and media are comparably priced to early writable DVD, and will drop faster than the consumer electronics prices will simply because computers are even more commoditized than the CE world.
Just speculating, but that may be why Toshiba didn't go that route to begin with; they'd already conceeded PC data storage to BD-R.
There are many places (not just out in the boonies but also inside large buildings, for example) where my year-old tri-mode phone drops to analog because the digital signal is just too weak.
Shutting down the analog network without actually replacing it first with an equally-capable digital system is insane.
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I can call a big car a boat, but that doesn't mean I should take it out on the lake.
The term "radar" is always used incorrectly when referring to an interrogator/transponder system.
"Yes I do know a lot about Dune, I actually appeared on a TV game show with it as my specialty."
:p
I assume spelling Dune-related names correctly wasn't a requirement?
No, they are both not radars. I do QA on the maintenance of both of these systems for the US Navy, as well as training and qualifying of technicians. If one of our techs referred to a interrogater/transponder communications link as "secondary radar" I'd tell his supervisor that the guy needs to go back to school.
If a system relies on the target to actively transmit an information-bearing signal, it is NOT radar.
That's really not how transponders work. They do not receive the radar pulses and send them back to the radar with ID information encoded into the pulses.
They are totally seperate and unrelated systems operating on radically different frequencies. The only things they have in common is that the base station antenna is typically mounted somewhere on the rotating radar antenna so that they are ensured to both be pointing in the same direction, and they generally share a single display, with the information received from the airborne transponders superimposed over the radar video. You can break either system, and the other one will still work perfectly, just so long as the antenna is still turning and the display still works.
"It probably has to do with the fact that medical doctors, sometimes visit movie theaters."
I fail to see how that's relevant. Are you suggesting that doctors were unable to vist movie theaters prior to the invention of the cell phone?
I really enjoy Feist too, but he's no Tolkien. Surely you noticed how much he blatantly ripped off from Tolkien, including his entire elvish language!
There would be no Feist without Tolkien to inspire him, and that same statement is true of most modern fantasies.
As opposed to alive and not breathing?
Chartrouse?
Not necessarily bad logic, either.
Vader, accessorise him!
RAID-1 is rare on desktop boxes. Having a checkbox on the order form doesn't make it commonly used by the masses. Here's how it goes:
Salesman - We can put in a second hard drive for RAID if you want.
Customer - How much more room will that give me?
Salesman - None. It's like an automatic backup device.
Customer - Screw that.
if my business is incorporated in Delaware (heh, no sales tax at all, as far as I recall), then how could New York require me to do anything? All they could do is limit my ability to import goods to that state
They couldn't even do that. Congress regulates interstate commerce, not the individual states. Since you have no presence in the state, and they can't apply state laws to you out of the state, there's really nothing they can do but ask politely for you to voluntarily pay these "taxes."
Because it's gay?
Great one! You actually had me going until you mentioned Sigorney Weaver!
Please don't.
I was hoping somebody would take the bait on that. :p
Someone call the NRA.
Consider the probability that a MS QA tester would test using any browser other than IE...
I'd say pretty much zero.
Therefore, internal QA testing at MS would not have discovered the problem of links always opening in IE instead of the correct default browser.
It's a combination of lazy programming and indadequate QA. Nothing malicious; just the MS attitude of "there's no reason to use any browser other than ours so we don't need to program to or test anything else."
This article and the comments baffle me. Maybe I'm not a true geek, but who the heck wants to live in Europe? It's a miserable, cold, wasteland. From the article, "We shouldn't be stuck on this rock forever." This rock? This ROCK? Our continent is an incredible, wonderful place. Human beings evolved here, and like it or not if we're taken away from it we suffer. I can't imagine anything more important or better than living a human life in Africa. Would you really trade your life away for a place in a history book? It's not important how history remembers us but what kind of men and women we are. We have a hell of a lot of work to do here, we don't need to start colonizing other land masses. We're still killing each other like damn animals. If you ask me, this is less about progress and more about not wanting to accept the cards that we have been dealt. Hell, maybe sailing out of the sight of land isn't possible, maybe we're stuck in the Old World, or if we travel away it will take years and the time away will mean everyone we know could be dead when we get back. Maybe there's no way to communicate faster than walking to the next village. Are these things really so horrible? Would it be such a horrific thing to live on our continent as best we can until the Sahara desert spreads south and then just die? Before we go deciding we're going to start firing off caravans full of people on one way trips maybe first we should come to terms with our humanity and learn how to live together in harmony.
Or, wait... Maybe I'm just talking out my ass and finding a new place to live, where nobody has ever lived before, doesn't destroy my humanity. Maybe, [gasp] other places may also contain beauty and the resources to build a civilization, inspiring us to develop in new and unexpected directions which result in the creation of more incredible, wonderful places for humanity to call home. Maybe, maybe the desire, no the NEED to explore is a key part of the very foundation of being human. That could even be what has made us what we are... Unafraid to open our eyes, our minds and our hearts to look beyond the animal needs of the moment and become human.
"DVDs already have a HUGE acceptance and user base. Where as Blue Ray has barely any uptake"
Actually, the uptake of Blu Ray has been faster than the uptake of DVD.
They don't want to pay $300 or more for a DVD player when an upscaling DVD player costs $39.
And this is compared to when DVD players cost $300 and VCRs cost $39. The price of Blu Ray has dropped faster than DVD did (DVD players originally cost more than a grand, just like the first Blu Ray ones did) and it's a lot easier to buy and rent BDs than it was to do the same for DVDs this early into their life-span.
You are either very very young, or have very poor memory.
That's exactly where I and a lot of other people stand. Microsoft could send me a free complimentary copy of Vista Ultimate and I'd toss it in the trash.
Well, no, I'd sell it on eBay, but I certainly would never install it on one of my machines or any that I might be called upon to support. My own father was a victim of WGA false positives when the HP he bought a couple of years ago started screaming that he was a pirate. It was running the factory-installed OS. If HP is pirating Windows, MS has far bigger problems than worrying about individual home users making copies for their friends. Not that WGA or any other DRM they try will ever put a damper on casual copying...
You are absolutely incorrect. I am currently deployed in Iraq and using an Air Force network for internet access.
/. I guess the techies running the network want to read it, too.
ALL blogs are blocked from viewing by the net-nanny software the Air Force has deployed. I mean, EVERYTHING, including anything with "blog" in the URL or title like some of the regular columns on BBC and other major news websites.
The Air Force is highly discriminatory about what information is accessible to deployed troops. I'm just amazed they haven't blocked
Actually, 200GB EIGHT layer BluRay discs have been produced in the testing lab (which is the only place where those 3-layer HD-DVDs ever existed. The 8-layer BDs wasn't in response to competition, either. BR was designed from the beginning to support that many layers, which is why the first data layer is close to the surface instead of being sandwiched in the middle like HD-DVD.
Of course, neither the 3-layer HD-DVDs or the 8-layer BDs are relevant to the format war, because there were never any plans to use either for movies and set-top players can't read them, anyway.
Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I'm just pointing out that Blu-Ray is already pretty well entrenched for data storage, and capacity is the number one criteria used by most people when selecting a storage medium. Wide-spread device compatibility (a large user-base, in other words) is arguably the most important factor, though. Taking on BD-R in the storage arena would be even more of an uphill battle than continuing to go after BD in the video realm.
Nobody wants to deal with a storage format war any more than they want to deal with a video format war. Just look at how messed up the writable DVD situation was for the first few years with DVD-R, DVD+R and DVD-RAM all clamoring for the spotlight. Sure, eventually, combo drives eliminated most of the consumer confusion, but why go through that hassle again? At least with the writable DVDs, they each had some virtue that made them superior in some way to their competitors. "HD-DVD-R" simply doesn't offer anything that BD-R doesn't already do better. The Blu-Ray writers and media are comparably priced to early writable DVD, and will drop faster than the consumer electronics prices will simply because computers are even more commoditized than the CE world.
Just speculating, but that may be why Toshiba didn't go that route to begin with; they'd already conceeded PC data storage to BD-R.
There are many places (not just out in the boonies but also inside large buildings, for example) where my year-old tri-mode phone drops to analog because the digital signal is just too weak.
Shutting down the analog network without actually replacing it first with an equally-capable digital system is insane.