when they exist is the key... first you have to convince publishers to put the material online for free and you have store it. It is not next to zero cost unless you plan on volunteering your time to digitize the media...
Welcome to reality.
Hook up with XM or Sirrius (one or both are planning on streaming video). Have a FanTrek channel. Is fan-fiction covered by fair use? What about fan-video? Would it matter tif it was non-profit?
You have a very valid concern. My concern is that if you give it to the big boys it won't get done. Not because they can't do it, but because they run so far over budget that the project is simply killed. Why do I think they will run over budget? Defense budget is about to get squeezed hard, which means projects will be cut, which means engineers will be laid-off and managers (with the higher overhead) will be shuffled into "live" programs. This will be a live program. Managers with experience in areas such as tactical communcations will now be added to bloat the command structure of teams dealing with flight control (hey control, communication they're almost the same thing) and since they are managers and completely out of their element they will feel the need to piss on something to mark their territory. Schedule slip, budget slip, next step cancellation. On top of that add the almost criminal tendency of business development drones to over promise capability and "under promise" cost and schedule and you have a recipe for complete failure. I know I sound pessemistic; however, after 5 years as a software engineer working for one of the big boys and now one of the smaller def. contractors I prefer to think of myself as a realist. My proposal, let the underdog be the Prime and sub out the component systems to the contractors (defence and otherwise, US and otherwise) who are the best in that particular field. This endevor should not be used as corporate welfare to keep otherwise unemployable managers employed.
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when they exist is the key ... first you have to convince publishers to put the material online for free and you have store it. It is not next to zero cost unless you plan on volunteering your time to digitize the media...
Welcome to reality.
Hook up with XM or Sirrius (one or both are planning on streaming video). Have a FanTrek channel. Is fan-fiction covered by fair use? What about fan-video? Would it matter tif it was non-profit?
ah yes, the fiendish but banal bureaucratman.
You not come here! Illegal! I just do eyes. Just - just eyes. Just genetic design. Just eyes.
You have a very valid concern. My concern is that if you give it to the big boys it won't get done. Not because they can't do it, but because they run so far over budget that the project is simply killed. Why do I think they will run over budget? Defense budget is about to get squeezed hard, which means projects will be cut, which means engineers will be laid-off and managers (with the higher overhead) will be shuffled into "live" programs. This will be a live program. Managers with experience in areas such as tactical communcations will now be added to bloat the command structure of teams dealing with flight control (hey control, communication they're almost the same thing) and since they are managers and completely out of their element they will feel the need to piss on something to mark their territory. Schedule slip, budget slip, next step cancellation. On top of that add the almost criminal tendency of business development drones to over promise capability and "under promise" cost and schedule and you have a recipe for complete failure. I know I sound pessemistic; however, after 5 years as a software engineer working for one of the big boys and now one of the smaller def. contractors I prefer to think of myself as a realist. My proposal, let the underdog be the Prime and sub out the component systems to the contractors (defence and otherwise, US and otherwise) who are the best in that particular field. This endevor should not be used as corporate welfare to keep otherwise unemployable managers employed.