Incorrect. I intentionally made a distinction between classified and FOUO. FOUO exists and is used almost entirely to get around the FOIA, as near as I can tell.
I can almost guarantee that the information sought is either classified or at least FOUO (For Official Use Only) which means it's exempt from the FOIA.
No, one where the adherents actually apply the principles in their daily lives - say, like accomodating a reasonable request from an authority to lower their hood, which, if you are silly enough to analyze it to this point, is clearly in line with "Jedi philosophy".
I'm by no means even close to being so dedicated a fan, but I'm pretty sure a Jedi would remove his hood when asked to after entering a building, specifically one run by the local government. All the Jedi characters I remember were pretty polite. Also, I don't recall many complaint forms being filled out.
Why, it's almost as if they were acting like immature twerps and that Jedi is not actually a real religion.
I don't understand why the Linux developers are so quiet about this. Microsoft is building up a huge amount of momentum around the idea that Linux violates some arbitrary patents, and not a single Linux developer or company appears willing to call them out on it. Bizarre.
Bizarre? How so? It's [joe blow Linux developer] VS. Richest company in the World's Law Team (that successfully managed to blunt a clear antitrust case by the US DOJ). You go the wherewithall to go up against them? I sure don't, and certainly not just to defend a principle.
Whenever I have a problem, and call the IT department in our huge company, I can't get anyone to pay attention to the error message. I say "I got an error message saying xxxx". They say, "uh, yeah, that's great, we are going to re-image your machine".
No, you completely miss my point. My point was the current Ares1/Ares5 systems are workable and the rest of the problem is essentially solved. Maybe Ares is sub-optimal but to assert that there are insoluble problems is just nonsense. It's the same problems we have solved time and time again.
Bullshit. These issues are no different than they have been on any other project. Base heating was a huge issue with the Polaris missile, it got solved. And most of the rest of the problem (Orion CSM, etc) is well in hand. The only really hard part of the problem was/is the lunar lander, and that was going to be an issue no matter what approach was taken.
I agree that there are special interests involved, and we could certainly use EELV and associated technology, but the current approach is workable.
I'm slightly confused. Are they doing this to help the brick-and-mortar stores? Are they doing this to help the brands? I'm confused. It sounds like they are trying to take down low-overhead companies because they are too efficient. Does anyone know why this would be a good idea?
If you owned a mom-and-pop store, I think that you would see it as a good idea.
I don't defend the concept that they are promoting, but clearly, that's one obvious example of a group that would see this as a good idea.
Have you ever programmed? I mean this seriously. It sounds like you either do not understand the complexity of software, or just want to complain.
Software bugs are logic typos. Have you ever made a grammatical error? Reading your post, I can say yes. Bugs are like that. In projects with tens of thousands of lines of code, it is unreasonable and completely unrealistic to expect every line to be a pinnacle of perfection, just like it is unreasonable to expect that every sentence in a book is completely without error.
I have to ask you the same question - have *you* ever written a program? Each line should be perfect, and when it's not, it's like a grammatical error? The serious bugs are certainly not like typos. A strange new type of program called a "compiler" can find most typos.
The biggest sort of problem with programming is making sure that different parts work together and don't give unexpected results. Every routine or section can be absolutely perfectly written and but not interact the way you expected. Looking at it line at a time and determining that line's "perfection" will get you pretty much nowhere.
(The oath requires the signer to "support and defend" the California and U.S,. constitutions;
If I had signed an oath like that I would be forced to attempt to overthrow those who claim to be the government, and reinstate a government that actually follows the constitution.
So, you have somehow concluded the that requiring someone to "support and defend the constitution" as a condition of employment, is, itself, unconstitutional? Fascinating.
The classic example of an imperial-metric snafu is the Mars Climate Orbiter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter which was lost because the software measured force in pounds while the thrusters gave results and throttled accordingly by newtons.
WRONG. The data was supplied to the mission analysts was in lb-seconds. The program they used to do the mission analysis expected the data in newton-seconds. And, once again, that particular error was far from the most damning part of the issue. With even the most basic due dilligence on the part of the mission analysis it would have been corrected. And in any case, the units WEREN'T SPECIFIED in the interface, and *all*, repeat, *ALL* the data associated with this thruster has been for decades and will continue to be in the future, in conventional units.
Only allowing data to be stored in metric units would likely reduce the likelihood of such a mistake, but it would not eliminate it altogether.
Unfortunately you are about 50 years too late. In the aerospace industry, virtually ALL the data about most components is already "stored" in conventional units, no Metric. Forcing it to all be converted to Metric just creates the problem you are trying to solve.
BTW, the MRO incident may have *started* with a units conversion error, but the real flaw was with the lack of due dilligence. The trajectory was diverging for months, and the problem could have been detected and solved easily if the normal checks and balances were applied.
I've never heard of anyone who works at a company that uses Macs.
I used to - and one of the biggest. We switched to PCs and nothing has worked quite right since, and really no serious attempt has been made to fix it for 12 years. Document control, in particular, has completely broken down. We still have a few Macs around (OS8.6 and OS X) to try to correct document corruption problems caused by PCs. Even on PC to another can't correctly read, render, or print a document correctly. Create it in Office 2000, move it to another Office 2000 machine, characters are screwed up. It's even worse with 2000/2003/2007 and NT/XP/Vista (for those poor saps who got stuck with it). Put them on the Mac, using Office 98/2001/VX/2004, and frequently, no problem, and/or you can fix it and have it work with any of the PC versions. But reports created on 2003 two days ago, into Windows-based document control, and try to extract them today, completely hosed.
For critical items, we print it out (however we can get a correct version, PC or Mac) then scen them in as TIFF files. This was suggested by the senior Microsoft tech working the Platinum trouble ticket as the most reliable way!
Forgive me if this is a stupid question with an obvious answer, but I am not a Windows person. How does this work when the machine is not connected to the internet? Say, sequestered on it's own network, but not leaving the room.
I have plenty of production CDs that date back to their introduction and they all work just fine. I would expect DVDs and Blu-Rays to last just as long physically. CD-rs are much more prone to dying.
Playing them on obsolescent players might be another story but I would be very surprised to find that every single blu-ray player in the world is going to disappear in the forseeable future. I have a 25-year-old VCR and people still sell/trade/make equipment for Edison wax cylinders.
And there is NO moped in the world that makes more pollution than an SUV, you are just showing everyone your own personal bias and one eyed view of transportatiom
Oh, bullshit. A modern ULEV SUV (of which there are several) produce a tiny fraction of the particulate pollution per passenger-mile of almost any two-stroke moped or motorcycle.
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Incorrect. I intentionally made a distinction between classified and FOUO. FOUO exists and is used almost entirely to get around the FOIA, as near as I can tell.
I can almost guarantee that the information sought is either classified or at least FOUO (For Official Use Only) which means it's exempt from the FOIA.
No, one where the adherents actually apply the principles in their daily lives - say, like accomodating a reasonable request from an authority to lower their hood, which, if you are silly enough to analyze it to this point, is clearly in line with "Jedi philosophy".
Brett
That is not the insult you were looking for.
Why, it's almost as if they were acting like immature twerps and that Jedi is not actually a real religion.
Brett
How DARE you talk about Ms. Pelosi that way! She's the duly elected... Oh, wait, nevermind.
Bizarre? How so? It's [joe blow Linux developer] VS. Richest company in the World's Law Team (that successfully managed to blunt a clear antitrust case by the US DOJ). You go the wherewithall to go up against them? I sure don't, and certainly not just to defend a principle.
Brett
I said VACUUM!
Whenever I have a problem, and call the IT department in our huge company, I can't get anyone to pay attention to the error message. I say "I got an error message saying xxxx". They say, "uh, yeah, that's great, we are going to re-image your machine".
Brett
No, you completely miss my point. My point was the current Ares1/Ares5 systems are workable and the rest of the problem is essentially solved. Maybe Ares is sub-optimal but to assert that there are insoluble problems is just nonsense. It's the same problems we have solved time and time again.
Bullshit. These issues are no different than they have been on any other project. Base heating was a huge issue with the Polaris missile, it got solved. And most of the rest of the problem (Orion CSM, etc) is well in hand. The only really hard part of the problem was/is the lunar lander, and that was going to be an issue no matter what approach was taken.
I agree that there are special interests involved, and we could certainly use EELV and associated technology, but the current approach is workable.
Brett
I suggest we create a fleet of Ark ships. Elected officials get on Ark Ship #2.
Brett
Of course. I didn't imply otherwise.
If you owned a mom-and-pop store, I think that you would see it as a good idea.
I don't defend the concept that they are promoting, but clearly, that's one obvious example of a group that would see this as a good idea.
Brett
I have to ask you the same question - have *you* ever written a program? Each line should be perfect, and when it's not, it's like a grammatical error? The serious bugs are certainly not like typos. A strange new type of program called a "compiler" can find most typos.
The biggest sort of problem with programming is making sure that different parts work together and don't give unexpected results. Every routine or section can be absolutely perfectly written and but not interact the way you expected. Looking at it line at a time and determining that line's "perfection" will get you pretty much nowhere.
They'll grow back.
So, you have somehow concluded the that requiring someone to "support and defend the constitution" as a condition of employment, is, itself, unconstitutional? Fascinating.
Brett
Unfortunately you are about 50 years too late. In the aerospace industry, virtually ALL the data about most components is already "stored" in conventional units, no Metric. Forcing it to all be converted to Metric just creates the problem you are trying to solve.
BTW, the MRO incident may have *started* with a units conversion error, but the real flaw was with the lack of due dilligence. The trajectory was diverging for months, and the problem could have been detected and solved easily if the normal checks and balances were applied.
Brett
There's absolutely no reason to think this has anything do do with units conversion, that's just a silly strawman.
I used to - and one of the biggest. We switched to PCs and nothing has worked quite right since, and really no serious attempt has been made to fix it for 12 years. Document control, in particular, has completely broken down. We still have a few Macs around (OS8.6 and OS X) to try to correct document corruption problems caused by PCs. Even on PC to another can't correctly read, render, or print a document correctly. Create it in Office 2000, move it to another Office 2000 machine, characters are screwed up. It's even worse with 2000/2003/2007 and NT/XP/Vista (for those poor saps who got stuck with it). Put them on the Mac, using Office 98/2001/VX/2004, and frequently, no problem, and/or you can fix it and have it work with any of the PC versions. But reports created on 2003 two days ago, into Windows-based document control, and try to extract them today, completely hosed.
For critical items, we print it out (however we can get a correct version, PC or Mac) then scen them in as TIFF files. This was suggested by the senior Microsoft tech working the Platinum trouble ticket as the most reliable way!
Brett
Or, secure systems that will never and can never be on an external network.
Brett
Forgive me if this is a stupid question with an obvious answer, but I am not a Windows person. How does this work when the machine is not connected to the internet? Say, sequestered on it's own network, but not leaving the room.
I have plenty of production CDs that date back to their introduction and they all work just fine. I would expect DVDs and Blu-Rays to last just as long physically. CD-rs are much more prone to dying.
Playing them on obsolescent players might be another story but I would be very surprised to find that every single blu-ray player in the world is going to disappear in the forseeable future. I have a 25-year-old VCR and people still sell/trade/make equipment for Edison wax cylinders.
Brett
Oh, bullshit. A modern ULEV SUV (of which there are several) produce a tiny fraction of the particulate pollution per passenger-mile of almost any two-stroke moped or motorcycle.
Brett