Given that sound waves curve in areas of different density (just like light), the receiver must accurately know the acoustic conditions and path between itself and the source else the location is suspect, no?
It seems that playing video games has made you as much of a military expert as teaching yourself VB and PHP has made you a programmer.
Concur fully - you've hit the nail on the head.
Mod parent up!
Add at least one more "victory" to the TOMCAT count... During exercises in the Mediterranean, a USN TOMCAT downed a USAF PHANTOM. See http://www.netwrx1.com/skunk-works/v05.n640
Hey, there are worse fates than being sucked into a black hole. Might clean things up in the world!
Then again, those who believe this should join the tin-hat club...
Sorry...Richard Reid was flagged by airline personnel (American Airlines) in Paris, as being suspicious. Unfortunately, the French police declined to search him or take additional action despite numerous requests from the airline to do so. Profiling worked, sort of.
Honestly can't believe why you marked this guy down for trolling. He has a point, even if it is weak. If this were a windows vul the majority of slashdotters would be all over it, and the most common statement (after windows sucks) would be how if M$ were open-sourced none of this would have happened.
Fact: (nearly) all software has bugs...some worse than others...independent of platform or development model.
Because I don't feel like paying $1500 per machine for Windows 2003 server on every server in my web farm
I understand (and agree) with your consternation, but your price is 50% more than actual retail for 2003 Standard R2... averages at just over $1000 retail with software assurance if you aren't a volume buyer. Volume buys take this down to around $600-700. If you want Enterprise, then you are paying more like $1400-2200.
Heck, even RHEL costs $$$. Circa $4500 for ES.
If you can run a free distro and get everything needed, than do so. I do for about 15 percent of my systems, but have to host Windows, HPUX & Solaris platforms too.
It's really a point of view case, isn't it. One could argue that Sikkim "joined" (or was annexed into) India based on a case of "Finlandization". Although India entered Sri Lanka with the blessing of the Sinhala government, it overstayed its welcome.
And what of Azad Kashmir?
s for the bjp's "fanaticism"... nothing spectacular happened during its rule which hadnt happened under previous regimes.
Thanks for the history lesson about the other non-Congress I governments...I should check my facts before speaking. But, I vaguely recall a couple of nuclear detonations...
To be fair, here are some facts that you appear to have overlooked:
... not once has it had a militaristic regime or religious zealots threatening to take over the country. India has also never invaded another country.
Uh huh... are you forgetting about when the BJP came to power, backed by Shiv Sena? If not religious zealots, then what? And, up until that point (and discounting Deve Gowda), Congress I was the only party to rule. As for invasions, what of Bangladesh (East Pakistan), Sikkim, Sri Lanka (ask Rajiv about that one). Seems a little skewed.
3. India has the second largest Islamic population in the world after Indonesia. All living harmoniously. The insurgency in Kashmir is primarily brought on by cross-border infiltration of mis-guided, Pakistani trained, mujahideen - same variety as Al Qaeda. And hey, India has had its people slaughtered since 1989 with the West continuing to ignore "state sponsopred terrorism".
True, but are you forgetting about Ayodhya? Maybe that issue belongs in the religious zealot category, but it does spawn muslim hatred towards hindus...and perhaps adds a little salt to the Kashmir fire (not directly related, but the wounds don't heal). Yes, Pakistan is far from innocent in this matter.
You're missing the Big Picture: once there is a nationwide mesh network of these things...
Great idea, not the right way to implement.
Cisco says that a mesh shouldn't go more than 5 mesh AP chains (some of their engineers say 3 levels) from the root (with the WAN connectivity), even with their enterprise Aironet platforms, and this is linksys.
You can create an extended mesh, but you are still constrained by the capacity of your backend, and if you are the unlucky soul to be on the AP near the root node, think of how crappy your useability will be.
And then there is the aforementioned argument of having some maggot upstream (or worse, connected directly to your AP) dealing in kiddie pr0n.
Some aircraft have terrain avoidance systems (e.g. GPWS) which use the downward looking radar altimeter to warn, but it won't be until the advent of Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) which incorporates a digital terrain database and GPS to locate and warn of obstructions ahead.
...escape an impending crash with another airborne aircraft or a building...
Unlikely.
Most commerical aircraft (Airbuses included) use TCAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCAS) for inflight collision avoidance. It does not detect other non-TCAS equipped aircraft (or buidlings).
Maybe Airbus will implement/integrate a terrain avoidance system.
I agree. Unfortunately, we cannot install Linux on joe user's machine because the average user is clueless to the point of buying Windowz software for their Lindowz machine... forget Wine, we're dealing with users who believe in the optical drive cup holder...
...at least initially. Let them learn the fundamentals of programming and the various compiler tricks and traps without an IDE. Once they mature enough, and have proven the understand the language(s) then you can introduce an IDE.
One of the better CS courses I ever had, involved "learning" a new language every 1-2 weeks. No IDEs, just vi and edlin. Of course, TurboPascal was the closest thing to an IDE back then.
IDEs frequently change over time. Fundamentals of programming tends to remain relatively stable.
Once again, fingers pointed at some conduit when the true culprit still seems to be Microsoft's OS. If I were to click the link in gaim, on a linux machine (assume for the sake of argument, this browser is platform independent and would work on a linux box)?
Spot on. Therein lies the problem: a faulty underlying security model in the host OS. Since most typical IT clueless sheeple pose the highest user-imposed risk (aka, they'll click anything) run some (discounting something reminiscent of a piece of fruit) of the easist mainstream (and albeit security faulty) operating systems shipped by some company out of Redmond, Washington, a faulty application can wreak havoc.
If we can somehow get the more secure platforms out to the masses, and make them user friendly enough (and cheap enough) for a 65-yo grandmother to use, then we've won a victory against the maggots who produce such vile code. Perhaps *nix will someday gain enough market share in the non-tech user base, or the Fruit company will drop it's price to compete with $400 machinen available at your local Sheeple store inhabited by something called GeekSquad, else...we have to pray that Redmond actually does something right with Vista and finally gets the model right.
Spot on - I'm not disagreeing with the way the contract was run (or wasn't)...NMCI sucks, and is a black hole. EDS management failed to scope the breadth of legacy applications they'd have to deal with, and so was bleeding money like crazy. Maybe turning a profit now, I don't know.
As for Ross, the Perot climate (kind of like IBM until the 90's) was long gone when NMCI was created.
taxpayers dropped over $8B to Ross Perot's EDS company
Sorry... gold old Ross no longer owned EDS when NMCI was bid and awarded. General Motors bought the company from him...not sure if GM still owned it during the original NMCI bidding, or if by then EDS was wholly independent.
Ross now has is own software/services company --> perot systems.
Where I'm from (New Zealand) we don't go on about how great it is to be free because we live it. It's normal to us, it's what we're used to we take it for granted and that's the way it should be.
Yeah, but New Zealand wasn't free for those French secret agents to sink the Rainbow Warrior... in a truly free society, you would have anarchy!
The difference is, security bugs in WoW cannot manifestly impact worldwide commerce (outside of Blizzard's books), national security and all the other things Oracle (and MSFT, unfortunately) are involved with.
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Even though parent posted as AC, find it hard to believe it was marked as Troll... he/she does have a point... perhaps flamebait?
Go with a lower freq... DP is only feasible over relatively short ranges, or in weird conditions where you have extensive ducting.
Given that sound waves curve in areas of different density (just like light), the receiver must accurately know the acoustic conditions and path between itself and the source else the location is suspect, no?
Bah...forget MUDs. There is a wumpus among us...
It seems that playing video games has made you as much of a military expert as teaching yourself VB and PHP has made you a programmer.
Concur fully - you've hit the nail on the head.
Mod parent up!
Add at least one more "victory" to the TOMCAT count... During exercises in the Mediterranean, a USN TOMCAT downed a USAF PHANTOM. See http://www.netwrx1.com/skunk-works/v05.n640
Lesson learned: be careful what you shoot at.
...the IDF has been deploying SINCGARS clones using technologies and software from Redmond...
Hey, there are worse fates than being sucked into a black hole. Might clean things up in the world!
Then again, those who believe this should join the tin-hat club...
Sorry...Richard Reid was flagged by airline personnel (American Airlines) in Paris, as being suspicious. Unfortunately, the French police declined to search him or take additional action despite numerous requests from the airline to do so. Profiling worked, sort of.
There seems to be a new problem with the white Macbooks reacting to the sweat in their owner's skin:
Either that, or surfing too much pr0n.
Honestly can't believe why you marked this guy down for trolling. He has a point, even if it is weak. If this were a windows vul the majority of slashdotters would be all over it, and the most common statement (after windows sucks) would be how if M$ were open-sourced none of this would have happened.
Fact: (nearly) all software has bugs...some worse than others...independent of platform or development model.
Because I don't feel like paying $1500 per machine for Windows 2003 server on every server in my web farm
I understand (and agree) with your consternation, but your price is 50% more than actual retail for 2003 Standard R2... averages at just over $1000 retail with software assurance if you aren't a volume buyer. Volume buys take this down to around $600-700. If you want Enterprise, then you are paying more like $1400-2200.
Heck, even RHEL costs $$$. Circa $4500 for ES.
If you can run a free distro and get everything needed, than do so. I do for about 15 percent of my systems, but have to host Windows, HPUX & Solaris platforms too.
It's really a point of view case, isn't it. One could argue that Sikkim "joined" (or was annexed into) India based on a case of "Finlandization". Although India entered Sri Lanka with the blessing of the Sinhala government, it overstayed its welcome.
And what of Azad Kashmir?
s for the bjp's "fanaticism" ... nothing spectacular happened during its rule which hadnt happened under previous regimes.
Thanks for the history lesson about the other non-Congress I governments...I should check my facts before speaking. But, I vaguely recall a couple of nuclear detonations...
To be fair, here are some facts that you appear to have overlooked:
... not once has it had a militaristic regime or religious zealots threatening to take over the country. India has also never invaded another country.
Uh huh... are you forgetting about when the BJP came to power, backed by Shiv Sena? If not religious zealots, then what? And, up until that point (and discounting Deve Gowda), Congress I was the only party to rule. As for invasions, what of Bangladesh (East Pakistan), Sikkim, Sri Lanka (ask Rajiv about that one). Seems a little skewed.
3. India has the second largest Islamic population in the world after Indonesia. All living harmoniously. The insurgency in Kashmir is primarily brought on by cross-border infiltration of mis-guided, Pakistani trained, mujahideen - same variety as Al Qaeda. And hey, India has had its people slaughtered since 1989 with the West continuing to ignore "state sponsopred terrorism".
True, but are you forgetting about Ayodhya? Maybe that issue belongs in the religious zealot category, but it does spawn muslim hatred towards hindus...and perhaps adds a little salt to the Kashmir fire (not directly related, but the wounds don't heal). Yes, Pakistan is far from innocent in this matter.
Stop drinking your own bathwater.
You're missing the Big Picture: once there is a nationwide mesh network of these things...
Great idea, not the right way to implement.
Cisco says that a mesh shouldn't go more than 5 mesh AP chains (some of their engineers say 3 levels) from the root (with the WAN connectivity), even with their enterprise Aironet platforms, and this is linksys.
You can create an extended mesh, but you are still constrained by the capacity of your backend, and if you are the unlucky soul to be on the AP near the root node, think of how crappy your useability will be.
And then there is the aforementioned argument of having some maggot upstream (or worse, connected directly to your AP) dealing in kiddie pr0n.
My previous post was incomplete...
Some aircraft have terrain avoidance systems (e.g. GPWS) which use the downward looking radar altimeter to warn, but it won't be until the advent of Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) which incorporates a digital terrain database and GPS to locate and warn of obstructions ahead.
...escape an impending crash with another airborne aircraft or a building...
Unlikely.
Most commerical aircraft (Airbuses included) use TCAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCAS) for inflight collision avoidance. It does not detect other non-TCAS equipped aircraft (or buidlings).
Maybe Airbus will implement/integrate a terrain avoidance system.
I agree. Unfortunately, we cannot install Linux on joe user's machine because the average user is clueless to the point of buying Windowz software for their Lindowz machine... forget Wine, we're dealing with users who believe in the optical drive cup holder...
...at least initially. Let them learn the fundamentals of programming and the various compiler tricks and traps without an IDE. Once they mature enough, and have proven the understand the language(s) then you can introduce an IDE.
One of the better CS courses I ever had, involved "learning" a new language every 1-2 weeks. No IDEs, just vi and edlin. Of course, TurboPascal was the closest thing to an IDE back then.
IDEs frequently change over time. Fundamentals of programming tends to remain relatively stable.
Once again, fingers pointed at some conduit when the true culprit still seems to be Microsoft's OS. If I were to click the link in gaim, on a linux machine (assume for the sake of argument, this browser is platform independent and would work on a linux box)?
Spot on. Therein lies the problem: a faulty underlying security model in the host OS. Since most typical IT clueless sheeple pose the highest user-imposed risk (aka, they'll click anything) run some (discounting something reminiscent of a piece of fruit) of the easist mainstream (and albeit security faulty) operating systems shipped by some company out of Redmond, Washington, a faulty application can wreak havoc.
If we can somehow get the more secure platforms out to the masses, and make them user friendly enough (and cheap enough) for a 65-yo grandmother to use, then we've won a victory against the maggots who produce such vile code. Perhaps *nix will someday gain enough market share in the non-tech user base, or the Fruit company will drop it's price to compete with $400 machinen available at your local Sheeple store inhabited by something called GeekSquad, else...we have to pray that Redmond actually does something right with Vista and finally gets the model right.
Spot on - I'm not disagreeing with the way the contract was run (or wasn't)...NMCI sucks, and is a black hole. EDS management failed to scope the breadth of legacy applications they'd have to deal with, and so was bleeding money like crazy. Maybe turning a profit now, I don't know.
As for Ross, the Perot climate (kind of like IBM until the 90's) was long gone when NMCI was created.
taxpayers dropped over $8B to Ross Perot's EDS company
Sorry... gold old Ross no longer owned EDS when NMCI was bid and awarded. General Motors bought the company from him...not sure if GM still owned it during the original NMCI bidding, or if by then EDS was wholly independent.
Ross now has is own software/services company --> perot systems.
Mod parent down.
Where I'm from (New Zealand) we don't go on about how great it is to be free because we live it. It's normal to us, it's what we're used to we take it for granted and that's the way it should be.
Yeah, but New Zealand wasn't free for those French secret agents to sink the Rainbow Warrior... in a truly free society, you would have anarchy!
The difference is, security bugs in WoW cannot manifestly impact worldwide commerce (outside of Blizzard's books), national security and all the other things Oracle (and MSFT, unfortunately) are involved with.
Either way, this is bad on Oracle's part.