I just finished working on this project a year ago. I worked as a sub-contractor for Thermo-Fisher Scientific, one of the prime contractors, to DNDO, DHS, and CBP. It was an interesting project. My team was responsible for developing the
command and control software for these systems. Had a lot of ups and downs. The technology works fairly well. We did A LOT of testing of the system in both laboratory and field conditions in order to validate the software. Got to travel to
great and wonderous places like Nevada Test Site, Southampton, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium. Who'd a thought something like this would put a monkey in the works?
Funny anecdote: When we installed the system in Southampton, UK, the British and Eurpoean Union representatives were most interest in if it could detect "Cigarettes"? Man, they wanna make sure they collect that tax on your smokes!
I used to be a technician in the U.S. Army for the HAWK (Homing All-the-Way Killer -- gotta love that name, oh, and LASHE mode (Low-Altitude Simultaneous HAWK Engagement) -- YAY, takes me back!) and i had to diagnose and repair the RADAR display systems (TDECC - Tactical Display/Engagement Control Console) [among others systems and sub-systems] and this is EXACTLY how the display worked. It had a green phosphorescent display that "drew" the glyghs representing air-craft etc on the screen in real-time based on digitial inputs representing positions and vectors (shapes) to draw that were converted in A/D converters into voltage levels to drive the "Yoke" thereby deflecting the beam to the correct position on the phosphor.
I used to love figuring out problems with that system and fixing them. What fun! Even better was the refridgerator-sized Tactical Computer that had a RAM drawer the about 5 feet tall and 18 inches wide by about 36 inches deep with (count 'em) 16kiB (yes, virgnia that's Kilo-Bytes -- 16 x 1024 bytes) of "Magneto Core" memory cells.
Mouse wheels have shitty resolution, though. They click to individual stops, they're sent to the host as if they were button presses...
Ummm....you do realize that means that the application can treat each "Click" as whatever amount of movement it chooses and is appropriate for the task at hand? Right? In other words, INFINITE resolution.
There exist no empty sets in the Universe! We can construct all of Mathematics beginning only with the Empty set. So, all of mathematics can be constructed from something that does not exist in the real world. Hmm? Makes you think.
Who says Teachers make piss for money? Every teacher I know makes in excess of $40,000 per year. Most experienced teachers make more than $ 50,000 per year. They only work 9 months of the year. They have LOTS of vacation and days off (way more than most jobs).
If the teacher developed the lesson plan on their own time, it belongs to them. If they developed it on school time, it belongs to the public. Simple as that.
And I'm not just talking about sudo/gksudo etc....look at "Policy Kit". This is EXACTLY what this Patent describes. EPIC FAIL Microsoft! The FREE SOFTWARE WORLD has OUT INNOVATED YOU AGAIN! Been doing this for at least more than a year. Been in design/documentation/talked about for even longer.
To elaborate further...If there are N entries in the above table and ID is in a b-Tree index to iterate over all N records you wish to retrieve would involve N * LOG(N) time complexity, whereas simply getting the whole list (or a proper sub-range) would involve only LOG(N) time complexity. The difference between N * LOG(N) and LOG(N) is DRAMATIC!
You, sir, have a fundamental misunderstanding. Running that query over and over again, simply incrementing the ID, is not "small", "light", "efficient", nor "fast"! That would be a 100% retarded thing to do.
But, you do realize that something that is BSD licensed can also be forked into a GPL version? Simply keep the BSD license notifications and ALL future additions to the fork are licensed GPL/LGPL, GLPv3 etc. You now have a GPL fork. So, if someone (who by the way?) abandons the BSD licensed version and begins solely working on a proprietary fork, the rest of the community can simply take the last BSD licensed version, create a GPL fork, and lock-out future proprietary forks and prevent the proprietary company from using the now GPL contributions to the GPL fork in their proprietary product.
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What you said sounds really, really, really stupid to me.
Yes. That's the idea. These things can scan traffic for nuclear materials as you drive through at 30 mph.
I just finished working on this project a year ago. I worked as a sub-contractor for Thermo-Fisher Scientific, one of the prime contractors, to DNDO, DHS, and CBP. It was an interesting project. My team was responsible for developing the command and control software for these systems. Had a lot of ups and downs. The technology works fairly well. We did A LOT of testing of the system in both laboratory and field conditions in order to validate the software. Got to travel to great and wonderous places like Nevada Test Site, Southampton, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium. Who'd a thought something like this would put a monkey in the works?
Funny anecdote: When we installed the system in Southampton, UK, the British and Eurpoean Union representatives were most interest in if it could detect "Cigarettes"? Man, they wanna make sure they collect that tax on your smokes!
I used to be a technician in the U.S. Army for the HAWK (Homing All-the-Way Killer -- gotta love that name, oh, and LASHE mode (Low-Altitude Simultaneous HAWK Engagement) -- YAY, takes me back!) and i had to diagnose and repair the RADAR display systems (TDECC - Tactical Display/Engagement Control Console) [among others systems and sub-systems] and this is EXACTLY how the display worked. It had a green phosphorescent display that "drew" the glyghs representing air-craft etc on the screen in real-time based on digitial inputs representing positions and vectors (shapes) to draw that were converted in A/D converters into voltage levels to drive the "Yoke" thereby deflecting the beam to the correct position on the phosphor.
I used to love figuring out problems with that system and fixing them. What fun! Even better was the refridgerator-sized Tactical Computer that had a RAM drawer the about 5 feet tall and 18 inches wide by about 36 inches deep with (count 'em) 16kiB (yes, virgnia that's Kilo-Bytes -- 16 x 1024 bytes) of "Magneto Core" memory cells.
AMERICA! FUCK YA!
Mouse wheels have shitty resolution, though. They click to individual stops, they're sent to the host as if they were button presses...
Ummm....you do realize that means that the application can treat each "Click" as whatever amount of movement it chooses and is appropriate for the task at hand? Right? In other words, INFINITE resolution.
There exist no empty sets in the Universe! We can construct all of Mathematics beginning only with the Empty set. So, all of mathematics can be constructed from something that does not exist in the real world. Hmm? Makes you think.
This sounds like a familiar story. You've got the right attitude now.
Seriously.
Hmmm.....that sounds a lot like "Evolution". Maybe the I.D. folks should take note.
They've stood for greater than 1,000 years. Do you think they fully understood all the physics? HINT: No, they didn't.
Who says Teachers make piss for money? Every teacher I know makes in excess of $40,000 per year. Most experienced teachers make more than $ 50,000 per year. They only work 9 months of the year. They have LOTS of vacation and days off (way more than most jobs).
If the teacher developed the lesson plan on their own time, it belongs to them. If they developed it on school time, it belongs to the public. Simple as that.
What percentage of successful books are written by English Majors?
No, it isn't even a "Trademark Thing®" The Author of "Go!" does not have a trademark on "Go!". He never applied for one.
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
And I'm not just talking about sudo/gksudo etc....look at "Policy Kit". This is EXACTLY what this Patent describes. EPIC FAIL Microsoft! The FREE SOFTWARE WORLD has OUT INNOVATED YOU AGAIN! Been doing this for at least more than a year. Been in design/documentation/talked about for even longer.
Look at Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, and 9.10 and tell me how this is different? It isn't.
To elaborate further...If there are N entries in the above table and ID is in a b-Tree index to iterate over all N records you wish to retrieve would involve N * LOG(N) time complexity, whereas simply getting the whole list (or a proper sub-range) would involve only LOG(N) time complexity. The difference between N * LOG(N) and LOG(N) is DRAMATIC!
You, sir, have a fundamental misunderstanding. Running that query over and over again, simply incrementing the ID, is not "small", "light", "efficient", nor "fast"! That would be a 100% retarded thing to do.
But, you do realize that something that is BSD licensed can also be forked into a GPL version? Simply keep the BSD license notifications and ALL future additions to the fork are licensed GPL/LGPL, GLPv3 etc. You now have a GPL fork. So, if someone (who by the way?) abandons the BSD licensed version and begins solely working on a proprietary fork, the rest of the community can simply take the last BSD licensed version, create a GPL fork, and lock-out future proprietary forks and prevent the proprietary company from using the now GPL contributions to the GPL fork in their proprietary product.