Technically, you are correct, they don't have an Army, Navy or Air Force. What they DO have is called the "Home Defense Force", which looks a whole lot like an Army, Air Force, and a Navy
Some links for you: http://www.jda.go.jp/e/index_.htm
will give you their english home page.
I'd call any group of people who deploy 2 types of Main Battle Tank, The Multiple Launch Rocket System, and a bunch of other high tech systems an Army.
I'd also call any "Naval Forces" that deploy 10 classes of Destroyers (including one class that is a variant of our Arligh Burke class ships with the Aegis AAW system), 4 classes of DEs, 3 classes of subs a Navy (Their air force flys F-15s, F-1, and is developing the JSX)
I live in NYC, where, as the article states, pinball was illegal until 1976. Every summer we used to go upstate for a week, and I used to save up my $$, and play as much as I could. I can remember earlier than that (say, 1970) as a 7 YO, saving up and having A WHOLE ROLL of quarters! It lasted half the week
Best run on a quarter? A few years later (say 1978 or so), I was playing some game, and started just after lunch. This place closed at 8pm, and I still had 32 credits up on the machine!
Now, I KNOW this isn't the US - BUT, one of the interesting things I see is that to have the site pulled under the DMCA, they have to swear, under the penality of purgery, that a copyright violation has occured.
Maybe, we can bring a class action lawsuit against RIAA/MPAA for violating the DMCA - I'm sure some US lawyer would LOVE to get hold of some of their money
Having written hardware control code that was NO WHERE NEAR AS LIFE CRITICAL as the shuttle, but that would toast 500k worth of hardware if you had a bug, I'll tell you one of the MOST fun parts of this kind of work.
When you sit back, and watch some totally amazing piece of hardware do it's stuff, with everyone going "Ooh" and "Aaah", and all you just do is smile
And Germany was a Democracy in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Army better armed? Yep, you bet. But remember, there are approx 80 MILLION gun owners in the USA. If even ONE percent of those fight, they have the same number of people as the armed forces. If it's 10%, we WAY outnumber them. Remember, a much less well armed force threw us out of Vietnam, and the Russians out of Afghanistan. Also remember, that a cerntain percentage of people in the Military will fight on the other side, so you will get advanced weapons
OK, Let's remember one thing. Your country got it's freedom peacably. The US got it's in Blood. We took up arms against our government, and threw them out. Our founding fathers expected this to be necessary again! The "legitimate" reason for owning guns under the second amendment is TO BE ABLE TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. This is where Jefferson's quote "The Tree Of Liberty must be occasionaly water with the Blood of Patriots" comes from
So the from WHO is the Government, NOT Joe Crackuser down the street, and you don't tell your potential enemy what you've got
The problem is, as John pointed out, is sometimes you don't have a choice! I used to work for one of the worlds largest insurance companies in the claims department, and I'd see this ALL the time. There is usually a clause in almost every insurance policy that ALLOWS your insurance company to settle, WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION!
YOU might think you can (or will) win, but if they think it's cheaper to settle, THEY WILL. Insurance companies don't only measure "Loss" (what they pay out), but "Leakage", or the legal bills they pay. Claims examiners get reviewed on how low they keep this number (any more than a couple of percent over the end of year reviews theoretical minimum, and it's time to start looking for another job)
How about everyone pulls the favorite Ebay scam, and puts "Not Metallica" at the end of their song titles! Picture "1812 Overture, Not Metallica". Could drive them nuts
OK, there are a bunch of choices, but one of the big questions is, how is your ADSL setup? DHCP Based? Static IP? or are you going to be PPPoE based? (For instance, Bell Atlantic is PPPoE). If your PPPoE based, you really only have 3-4 choices 1)I believe Linksys now supports PPPoE 2)Zyxel makes one (the Prestige 310) 3)Netgear RT311 - Lost sibling of the Zyxel 4)NexLand's ISB2LAN (which is what I use) All of these will support all the above modes. If you don't need PPPoE, you have more choices. The ISB2LAN does NAT, and you can close all you inbound ports (which I do), so at can act as a "pseudo" firewall Standard disclaimers apply
Yes, society doesn't like fink kids, or oddballs OK, go back to 1976, and Jr High school for me. I was the slightly short, slightly overweight kid that everyone picked on, to the point I was actually stabbed with a hobby knife in school. THAT was the last straw. Dad decided to take teach me to fight DIRTY instead of "clean" like the good kids are. Well, I'll give you a hint, when an Ex-OSS (Read Special forces for those of you who don't know WWII history) guy teaches you to fight dirty. they tech you to fight DIRTY, remember, when THEY are trained, it's not to hurt, but to KILL. Well, a month or two later, two Seniors decided that they wanted to throw rocks at me on the way home. I ended it. Nope, didn't kill them, BUT I made it REAL obvious to the the leader that I had his life in MY hands, and that I CHOOSE not to kill him. You know what? I went from getting beat up about once a week, to NEVER having a hand layed on me again, because they KNEW what I could do Sigh, I wish I never had to do that, but hell, it worked!
Oh, It makes warped sense. Think Tax laws. If they sell them, they don't get a tax writeoff for the full amount, if they fry them, they do. It would actually cost them money to sell them
Just remember, the CTO doesn't WANT to invest any money in computers if he can avoid it. He wants his office suite pre-installed, and wants the user to go away.
Custom apps will get written on way or the other, so they are a wash, but don't expect THEM to be open source, heck, they aren't even open binary - they are usually considered a companies competitive advantage.
One more thing to point out. Windows was going nowhere for a long time in big companies. They just could not be bothered to put the effort into writing a C program for windows. It took too LONG. Then the first of the visual tools came out - Yep Visual Basic. All of a sudden the companies all around started with pilot projects to test out programming in and deploying windows. We later got things like VC++ which was great, but VB lives on.
In industry, VB has been called "COBOL for the Micro", and really, that is what it has become. There are a LOT of COBOL jokes out there, just like there are VB jokes, but it took COBOL for the Mainframe to catch on, and it took VB for windows to catch on
OK, where, or what is the COBOL/VB equivalent for Linux? If Inprise gets their butt in gear, and gets Delphi out to marked SOON, I'd predict they would be as much of a winner in the Linux Community, as they were a minor player in the Windows.
Well, you asked about this week. I had a bunch of time due to me, so I took Mon, Tues, Weds off, so it'll only be 28 hours (Thurs Fri Sat). Of course, Last week was over 60, and so will next. The week that's going to be the kill is the week of March 6th - I'm scheduled for 108+ hours
The WHO is Kerningham and Richie (spelling?) They invented two little things you may have heard of - C and Unix. The wrote a book called (If I remember right) "The Programming Elements of Style" (The book's at work, and I'm at home ) It's just calles the K&R for short.
Bill, The problem is that this is being done real time in the camera! But even if that DOES work, for the bulk storage of the back 7.5m hours, we'll still need 4000+ platters. Even when it gets to 1.4 Terrabytes/disk with it'll be 400+ platters.
The big thing that I'm trying to pint out to some of the readers is that there is more to data storage requirements than "A Lot of MP3s", or "My Home Video collection"
It seems to me that one of the major problems I see on/. is that MOST of the readers here are still in school, and haven't hit the "real world". You know, the ones that have HUGE problems, so of which we look at go "That's nice, let me know when things get 100 times better", and the world where software developers need to get paid, because we have a Wife, some kids, 2 cats and a mortgage to pay
No Need? Want to bet? I work for a TV network, and we're looking into DVD based video for our cameras, as well as for putting thumbnails of our existing tapes up for review. Let's look at the camera specs first. The existing consumer grade, mpeg encoded video does NOT meet broadcast specs, more so when you talk HDTV. Compression is a no no. So we've got various prototypes, and the most anyone has fit on a DVD disk (well, as of the last time I visted tha labs a few months back) was 20 minutes of video. That's right, ONLY 20 minutes. They were trying to see if there was some way to get 30 minutes, which makes all the difference in the world, as the standard video tape used by the pros only handles 30 minutes on the tape! Now, let's look at the other problem. Picture you have a HUGE tape library, and various people can look at the tapes. You have a list (very basic list) of everything that is on each tape, and SOME tapes have a detailed list. Now, you say, I want to see a list of all the video tapes that have "Subject X" on them. You now get a list of 50 tapes, and you want to see exactly what is on them. What do you have to do? You order all 50 tapes from the library, and you get the ONE AND ONLY COPY of that tape to look at, and you send them all back. Gee, wouldn't it be nice if we could stream video to the desk, even as a thumbnail (Network bandwith issues here - picture there are 100 people on your network watching 100 different clips). What kind of storage would you need? Well, a 10 second MPEG runs say, 650k. That works out to be 234 meg/hour. Now picture you have 7.5 MILLION hours of video. That's 1.76E15 bytes of data (1760 Terrabytes of data for you - what's that, 1.76 Petabytes if I remember right). Now even with 140gig/disk you'll still need 12500+ disks. Remember, that's for THUMBNAILS Want to know why we want bulk storage?
Now, lets get a tourny going where everyone is playing this on 75 baud TTYs. You can eat lunch between screen redraws Please remember to bring your ear plugs (Chugga, Chugga, Chugga)
Ever look at the average number of defects per new car? I think you'll be shocked. It averages industry wide to about 1 per car. Trucks are worse (128/100 trucks) Best US car? Saturn, at 81/100 cars. It used to be MUCH MUCH worse, like the double digits/car Remember that a car is, believe it or not, much easier to design than software. BTW those defects are just MFG defects, not even "design" defects. There is a LOT of things that we would consider design defects in software that are "Just part of the design of the car", and don't count. Heck, can you get your tires to chirp or wheel hop going around a corner and gunning the gas? That's a design flaw/compromise. We accept it, and say "Don't do that" Airbags don't always save your life, and sometimes kill you, but we accept that. They do the best they can within budget and time constraints. Well gues what? Commercial software is the same way. What is an acceptable level of risk? How much money are you willing to pay for NO risk? Please include your time at your rate of pay. Trust me, Linux probably has a huge, but mostly unrecorded bug list. Go on to any of the usegroups and LOOK. We accept those bugs because we can fix them, but that doesn't make them less real. Heck, when I installed Mandrake 6.x, my "supported" SIS 6536 chipset video card wouldn't work under X windows. I searched around and found out that "the driver had a known flaw", and what the work around was (change a config file) Gee, I see three (at least) bugs for the database right there 1) That the driver had a problem with the card, and you had to install an 8 meg card as a 4 meg card 2)That the install program did not detect this known problem, and install the work around automaticaly 3)That the documentaion called the card fully compatible Now, if I can find that many flaws that fast, how many are really out there? Please consider EVERY hardware and software interaction
In the US you can get a jury trial for misdemenors. You don't get one for offences, which are even a lower class, like the fire hydrant. Basicaly, if you can do any time, you can ask for a jury, and get it
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Technically, you are correct, they don't have an Army, Navy or Air Force. What they DO have is called the "Home Defense Force", which looks a whole lot like an Army, Air Force, and a Navy
Some links for you:
http://www.jda.go.jp/e/index_.htm
will give you their english home page.
I'd call any group of people who deploy 2 types of Main Battle Tank, The Multiple Launch Rocket System, and a bunch of other high tech systems an Army.
I'd also call any "Naval Forces" that deploy 10 classes of Destroyers (including one class that is a variant of our Arligh Burke class ships with the Aegis AAW system), 4 classes of DEs, 3 classes of subs a Navy (Their air force flys F-15s, F-1, and is developing the JSX)
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Notice my screen name? Do _YOU_ as a RAH fan think it's real?
Simon Jester was here
It was a LUCKY run. The best I ever did on ANY other table was about 30 minutes. The Pinball gods were smiling on me that day
I live in NYC, where, as the article states, pinball was illegal until 1976. Every summer we used to go upstate for a week, and I used to save up my $$, and play as much as I could. I can remember earlier than that (say, 1970) as a 7 YO, saving up and having A WHOLE ROLL of quarters! It lasted half the week
Best run on a quarter? A few years later (say 1978 or so), I was playing some game, and started just after lunch. This place closed at 8pm, and I still had 32 credits up on the machine!
I particularly liked where he called Gnutella and Freenet "Companies" that can be stopped - The guy is clueless.
Now, I KNOW this isn't the US - BUT, one of the interesting things I see is that to have the site pulled under the DMCA, they have to swear, under the penality of purgery, that a copyright violation has occured.
Maybe, we can bring a class action lawsuit against RIAA/MPAA for violating the DMCA - I'm sure some US lawyer would LOVE to get hold of some of their money
Having written hardware control code that was NO WHERE NEAR AS LIFE CRITICAL as the shuttle, but that would toast 500k worth of hardware if you had a bug, I'll tell you one of the MOST fun parts of this kind of work.
When you sit back, and watch some totally amazing piece of hardware do it's stuff, with everyone going "Ooh" and "Aaah", and all you just do is smile
And Germany was a Democracy in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Army better armed? Yep, you bet. But remember, there are approx 80 MILLION gun owners in the USA. If even ONE percent of those fight, they have the same number of people as the armed forces. If it's 10%, we WAY outnumber them. Remember, a much less well armed force threw us out of Vietnam, and the Russians out of Afghanistan. Also remember, that a cerntain percentage of people in the Military will fight on the other side, so you will get advanced weapons
From who?
OK, Let's remember one thing. Your country got it's freedom peacably. The US got it's in Blood. We took up arms against our government, and threw them out. Our founding fathers expected this to be necessary again! The "legitimate" reason for owning guns under the second amendment is TO BE ABLE TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. This is where Jefferson's quote "The Tree Of Liberty must be occasionaly water with the Blood of Patriots" comes from
So the from WHO is the Government, NOT Joe Crackuser down the street, and you don't tell your potential enemy what you've got
"Give me Liberty, or Give me Death"
The problem is, as John pointed out, is sometimes you don't have a choice! I used to work for one of the worlds largest insurance companies in the claims department, and I'd see this ALL the time. There is usually a clause in almost every insurance policy that ALLOWS your insurance company to settle, WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION!
YOU might think you can (or will) win, but if they think it's cheaper to settle, THEY WILL. Insurance companies don't only measure "Loss" (what they pay out), but "Leakage", or the legal bills they pay. Claims examiners get reviewed on how low they keep this number (any more than a couple of percent over the end of year reviews theoretical minimum, and it's time to start looking for another job)
How about everyone pulls the favorite Ebay scam, and puts "Not Metallica" at the end of their song titles! Picture "1812 Overture, Not Metallica". Could drive them nuts
OK, there are a bunch of choices, but one of the big questions is, how is your ADSL setup? DHCP Based? Static IP? or are you going to be PPPoE based? (For instance, Bell Atlantic is PPPoE). If your PPPoE based, you really only have 3-4 choices 1)I believe Linksys now supports PPPoE 2)Zyxel makes one (the Prestige 310) 3)Netgear RT311 - Lost sibling of the Zyxel 4)NexLand's ISB2LAN (which is what I use) All of these will support all the above modes. If you don't need PPPoE, you have more choices. The ISB2LAN does NAT, and you can close all you inbound ports (which I do), so at can act as a "pseudo" firewall Standard disclaimers apply
OK Everyone talks about PKZip - How many of you actually REGISTERED your copy? I did, and have the manuals and disks to prove it
Yes, society doesn't like fink kids, or oddballs OK, go back to 1976, and Jr High school for me. I was the slightly short, slightly overweight kid that everyone picked on, to the point I was actually stabbed with a hobby knife in school. THAT was the last straw. Dad decided to take teach me to fight DIRTY instead of "clean" like the good kids are. Well, I'll give you a hint, when an Ex-OSS (Read Special forces for those of you who don't know WWII history) guy teaches you to fight dirty. they tech you to fight DIRTY, remember, when THEY are trained, it's not to hurt, but to KILL. Well, a month or two later, two Seniors decided that they wanted to throw rocks at me on the way home. I ended it. Nope, didn't kill them, BUT I made it REAL obvious to the the leader that I had his life in MY hands, and that I CHOOSE not to kill him. You know what? I went from getting beat up about once a week, to NEVER having a hand layed on me again, because they KNEW what I could do Sigh, I wish I never had to do that, but hell, it worked!
Oh, It makes warped sense. Think Tax laws. If they sell them, they don't get a tax writeoff for the full amount, if they fry them, they do. It would actually cost them money to sell them
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Just remember, the CTO doesn't WANT to invest any money in computers if he can avoid it. He wants his office suite pre-installed, and wants the user to go away.
Custom apps will get written on way or the other, so they are a wash, but don't expect THEM to be open source, heck, they aren't even open binary - they are usually considered a companies competitive advantage.
One more thing to point out. Windows was going nowhere for a long time in big companies. They just could not be bothered to put the effort into writing a C program for windows. It took too LONG. Then the first of the visual tools came out - Yep Visual Basic. All of a sudden the companies all around started with pilot projects to test out programming in and deploying windows. We later got things like VC++ which was great, but VB lives on.
In industry, VB has been called "COBOL for the Micro", and really, that is what it has become. There are a LOT of COBOL jokes out there, just like there are VB jokes, but it took COBOL for the Mainframe to catch on, and it took VB for windows to catch on
OK, where, or what is the COBOL/VB equivalent for Linux? If Inprise gets their butt in gear, and gets Delphi out to marked SOON, I'd predict they would be as much of a winner in the Linux Community, as they were a minor player in the Windows.
Well, you asked about this week. I had a bunch of time due to me, so I took Mon, Tues, Weds off, so it'll only be 28 hours (Thurs Fri Sat). Of course, Last week was over 60, and so will next. The week that's going to be the kill is the week of March 6th - I'm scheduled for 108+ hours
The WHO is Kerningham and Richie (spelling?) They invented two little things you may have heard of - C and Unix. The wrote a book called (If I remember right) "The Programming Elements of Style" (The book's at work, and I'm at home ) It's just calles the K&R for short.
Bill,
/. is that MOST of the readers here are still in school, and haven't hit the "real world". You know, the ones that have HUGE problems, so of which we look at go "That's nice, let me know when things get 100 times better", and the world where software developers need to get paid, because we have a Wife, some kids, 2 cats and a mortgage to pay
The problem is that this is being done real time in the camera! But even if that DOES work, for the bulk storage of the back 7.5m hours, we'll still need 4000+ platters. Even when it gets to 1.4 Terrabytes/disk with it'll be 400+ platters.
The big thing that I'm trying to pint out to some of the readers is that there is more to data storage requirements than "A Lot of MP3s", or "My Home Video collection"
It seems to me that one of the major problems I see on
Sigh
No Need? Want to bet? I work for a TV network, and we're looking into DVD based video for our cameras, as well as for putting thumbnails of our existing tapes up for review. Let's look at the camera specs first. The existing consumer grade, mpeg encoded video does NOT meet broadcast specs, more so when you talk HDTV. Compression is a no no. So we've got various prototypes, and the most anyone has fit on a DVD disk (well, as of the last time I visted tha labs a few months back) was 20 minutes of video. That's right, ONLY 20 minutes. They were trying to see if there was some way to get 30 minutes, which makes all the difference in the world, as the standard video tape used by the pros only handles 30 minutes on the tape! Now, let's look at the other problem. Picture you have a HUGE tape library, and various people can look at the tapes. You have a list (very basic list) of everything that is on each tape, and SOME tapes have a detailed list. Now, you say, I want to see a list of all the video tapes that have "Subject X" on them. You now get a list of 50 tapes, and you want to see exactly what is on them. What do you have to do? You order all 50 tapes from the library, and you get the ONE AND ONLY COPY of that tape to look at, and you send them all back. Gee, wouldn't it be nice if we could stream video to the desk, even as a thumbnail (Network bandwith issues here - picture there are 100 people on your network watching 100 different clips). What kind of storage would you need? Well, a 10 second MPEG runs say, 650k. That works out to be 234 meg/hour. Now picture you have 7.5 MILLION hours of video. That's 1.76E15 bytes of data (1760 Terrabytes of data for you - what's that, 1.76 Petabytes if I remember right). Now even with 140gig/disk you'll still need 12500+ disks. Remember, that's for THUMBNAILS Want to know why we want bulk storage?
Now, lets get a tourny going where everyone is playing this on 75 baud TTYs. You can eat lunch between screen redraws Please remember to bring your ear plugs (Chugga, Chugga, Chugga)
Ever look at the average number of defects per new car? I think you'll be shocked. It averages industry wide to about 1 per car. Trucks are worse (128/100 trucks) Best US car? Saturn, at 81/100 cars. It used to be MUCH MUCH worse, like the double digits/car Remember that a car is, believe it or not, much easier to design than software. BTW those defects are just MFG defects, not even "design" defects. There is a LOT of things that we would consider design defects in software that are "Just part of the design of the car", and don't count. Heck, can you get your tires to chirp or wheel hop going around a corner and gunning the gas? That's a design flaw/compromise. We accept it, and say "Don't do that" Airbags don't always save your life, and sometimes kill you, but we accept that. They do the best they can within budget and time constraints. Well gues what? Commercial software is the same way. What is an acceptable level of risk? How much money are you willing to pay for NO risk? Please include your time at your rate of pay. Trust me, Linux probably has a huge, but mostly unrecorded bug list. Go on to any of the usegroups and LOOK. We accept those bugs because we can fix them, but that doesn't make them less real. Heck, when I installed Mandrake 6.x, my "supported" SIS 6536 chipset video card wouldn't work under X windows. I searched around and found out that "the driver had a known flaw", and what the work around was (change a config file) Gee, I see three (at least) bugs for the database right there 1) That the driver had a problem with the card, and you had to install an 8 meg card as a 4 meg card 2)That the install program did not detect this known problem, and install the work around automaticaly 3)That the documentaion called the card fully compatible Now, if I can find that many flaws that fast, how many are really out there? Please consider EVERY hardware and software interaction
In the US you can get a jury trial for misdemenors. You don't get one for offences, which are even a lower class, like the fire hydrant. Basicaly, if you can do any time, you can ask for a jury, and get it