Enough of the ignorant "Linux is the greatest!" drivel...
They made a bad financial desicion.
Any savings they think they made in the hardware, licensing and support costs will be lost many times over as soon as the system makes a small error or goes down.
This is the reason why financial transactions still use mainframes.
Mainframes are unique in their integration and optimization between the hardware and the operating system they run. It gives you a level of performance, integrity and fault tolerance which cannot be achieved by taking generic hardware and sticking Linux on top.
They probably thought (ironically like the stockmarket does) that in the short term there is significant savings to be made switching the system to generic hardware and linux. In the long term however they will be faced with more expensive and frequent maintenance and upgrade cycles. Mainframes on the otherhand are scalable almost to infinity and you pay for the reliablity and maintenance upfront when you purchase the system.
What they could've done is buy a new mainframe and run their application level with virtualized Linuxes. After all this is what mainframes are good at.
People get the government they deserve. If 1,000,000,000 chinese aren't concerned about their own basic civil liberties why should I?
I couldn't agree more. However when 10,000 of their most active members and leaders gather at around Tiananmen Square and get shot dead and run over by tanks it tends to discourage the rest. The few exchange students and workers from China around here are timid and compliant. They don't even admit they know anything about those events. They are completely into the consumer culture and fashion. There is no life in them. Its like with the today's Irish. Hundreds of years of British oppression and brutality made sure that the only ones that are left are the descendants of the cowards, the collaborators and the incompetent. I am reminded of this whenever I visit the shithole Dublin has become.
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The following would at least annoy them and at most illustrate the point clearly:
Device a simple perl/C/Java/Assembly algorithm which encrypts 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C1 into a cipher with a key that is the string "WIKIPEDIA". Post the routine and cipher and instruction on a separate site and then place DMCA take down notice to Wikipedia that the string 'WIKIPEDIA' should be removed everywhere from Wikipedia as it is now officially part of a system to "circumvent copyright protection."
And as you're doing that, might as well do algorithms for "Jimmy Wales" and "Richard Stallman" - then we'll see some action...
These countries can do everything cheaper as seen with off-shored outsourcing and all.
The only edge the US has is innovation.
If these countries can just copy everything and do it dirt cheap, it will harm entities in the US who spend money on innovation - be it pharmaceuticals, music or software.
And western countries can impose arbitrary economic restrictions, meddle in our internal politics, exploit our work forces and natural resources to maximize your profits. But hey!, we should just bend over and swallow this IP shit too.
I have a 10Mpixel camera and an airplane. If I took a bunch of photos from an area not yet covered by them, would they add them to their Map/Earth for free? Cause flying around and taking photos isnt a great expense - its the processing and orthorectification...
Are these the same users who don't backup their computers at home, the same users who save their work on the local drive at work which gets wiped rather than their network drive. People who expect IT to just magically work forever without any problems ever and without any effort on their part? And in this case for free?
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for them.
Gmail is free. So is Hotmail and Yahoo. But Gmail is currently the most convenient and reliable. Google invests millions in making the system work as well as it does. Much better and reliably then most companies IT departments out there manage to do. And people still complain?
If you don't like it, why don't you run your friggin' own mail server and backup racks and see how well you manage! And try doing that on a zero budjet...
In Firefox when i for example press and hold over a link or image, it doesn't bring up the menu you get by right-clicking on Windows? On Windows I do a lot of right-clicking and don't have to touch the keyboard at all - with mac I have to either use keyboard to 'right-click' or find the function among a maze of menus. And buying a two button mouse isn't the solution you insensitive clod! since I'm using the trackpad on the macbook.
It's always been a bit of a mystery why plants absorb red and blue light, reflecting green, when the sun emits the peak energy of the visible spectrum in the green
Solar irradiance at sealevel 'peaks' at 470nm which is exactly where chlorophyl-B absorption peaks. In fact the 'peaking', when put into context, is somewhat vague, since throughout the whole visible spectrum from 400nm - 700nm you have well over 50% of the real watts that you get at the peak 470nm, so an adaptation to a particular wavelenght within it gives at most only a conservative if not marginal advantage.
The whole point of using TrueCrypt is that you have a second encrypted volume inside the first which is effectively hidden because it is impossible mathematically to prove that its there. You simply place some reasonably confidential personal information on the first layer of encryption like your personal financing, photos, (legal) porn collection etc. providing you with plausible deniability. In the second inner layer of encryption you place stuff you don't want RIAA or anyone to actually find.
Robust navigation? From a jumble of tv/mobile signals? I don't think so. For absolute position VOR+DME is pretty good and ILS/MLS around terminal areas. Relative collision avoidance is handled by S-mode transponders and TCAS.
Use existing systems. ATC could gather all the TCAS negotiation information via the s-mode datalinks and use that to make a more accurate picture of the traffic than the survaillance radar alone can provide and broadcast that back to the planes. All that the planes really need anyway is their relative position to other planes more accurately. Absolute geographic position is accurate enough with the existing systems for purpose of terminal procedures and terrain avoidance.
Then again I think we should develop the reliability of GPS satellite constellation and adding Galileo to that will make it very robust with dual receivers and multiple antennas on the planes. To make ADS work will need dependable GPS type vector information anyway...
PS: I'm of course talking about civil aviation needs here. The military might have other requirements and can't rely on civil aviation navigation systems. I suggest they use flying platforms to form a robust location signal beacon network. Some more advanced armies already have such systems (cough Finland cough)...
Loran is a low frequency hyberbolic positioning system used for LRN (long range navigation). I think these people are looking for much more precision from their system atleast equal to NAVSTAR GPS.
Yawn! The Japanese have had several thousend ton skyscrapers sitting on springs hooked up permanently with sensors, dynamic counter-weights and dampers for decades now...
"Had another funny call with a media outlet this morning. When I called them back on the Apple/EMI news, first question was. "Do you think this is a bad thing for Apple and EMI." When I said "no, it's a good thing", they said "thanks for calling but we only want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing."
The mouth-to-mouth ventilation part was always the tricky bit. To be effective you had to blow a large volume of air into the patient with a frequency that made you dizzy and tired quickly. But you also had to be careful not to blow too hard and get air into the stomach which would then blow out all the food out. Often members of the public were reluctant to engage in CPR because of the ventilation part (because of hygiene and sensitivity consideration) and many victims didn't get any CPR because of this. In many countries, including here in Finland, the directives for teaching non-professionals CPR have been changed years ago to teach only the compression part. But I see no reason here why the ventilation part would make CPR less effective when done properly and by professionals. Perhaps this study just shows the lack of skill in doing it properly. After all, what's the point of circulation, if there's no oxygen going in?
This will not work. Sure, you can make almost anything but as anyone who's worked with bioreactors or bacterial colonies will know they do not scale well. Also comparared to good-old sythetic chemistry, bio-processes are inherently inefficient energywise. If you want to take energy from the sun don't mess around with stupid stuff like this. Instead improve upon the COTS solutions available and help them grow in scale for mass-market. Most energy production should be local and thermal (solar-thermal, geo-thermal etc.) with the main net running on nuclear power. Vehicles should be plug-in EV. The reason for this is that we're gonna need our ever diminishing arable land for food production to feed the almost 10 billion people we'll soon have here...
Find a way to prefix the terminology in your research with Hyper-, Nano-, or Quantum-..
??? (not necessary)
Profit!!!
I think Hyper- has gone out of fashion recently just like Super- went out of fashion long time ago. Our university still has a department called Hypermedialab - now it just sounds so 90's and cheese...
Incidently I'm looking for a grant for my biology research on Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-cells...
Sincerely
Dr. Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfernschplendenschlittercrasscrenbonfrieddiggerd ingledangledongledunglebursteinvonknackerthrashera pplebangerhorowitzticolensicgranderknottyspelltink legrandlichgrumblemeyerspelterwasserkurstlichhimbl eeisenbahnwagengutenabendbitteeinnürnburgerbratwus tlegerspurtenmitzweimacheluberhundsfutgumberabersh önedankerkalbsfleischmittleraucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
Any time people start predicting the end of the world, you'd better watch them carefully. It doesn't matter what "religion" they represent, millenialists seem to share a lot in common. And one of the things they share is a desire to silence those voices of reason who would urge caution.
Have you considered that this brilliant plan of yours will fail you and the world the one time that one of these people turns out to be right. Continue to watch them carefully indeed...
Translation: Apparently big oil can't disprove the overwhelming evidence which proves global warming, so they've turned to the only alternative they have. Get Bush to make NASA stop collecting the evidence.
Why is it that people keep modding perfectly reasonable (within/. standards) and insightful comments as "Flamebait" just because they happen to be critical of their exalted leader. Bush government has a clear track record of doing anything and everything in their power to oppose the science of anthropogenic global warming. It's therefore not far-fetched to presume that if they had an opportunity or excuse, like the mars/moon missions, to cut down on earth science, they would jump on it for sure! That's just normal daily politics - no 'great conspiracy' needed there.
Personally I don't see the point of most 'Flamebait' or 'Troll' modding. Almost all articles on/. are highly controversial or create heated debates (in fact people complain when an article is boring and lame). So most comments on/. are always going to be highly disagreeable from someones point of view. This doesn't mean the person is 'flaming' or 'trolling' - ie. intentionally goading the opposing side or inciting retaliation by insults. There are always going to be those who don't see the 'truth' of calling someone an idiot when he's an idiot and he will automatically mod such 'accusations' flamebait/troll. It is the responsibility of the sane people to mod things up again accordingly.
Oh well, I love the smell of burning karma in the morning...
Is it me or are the macfanboys rampantly modding down perfectly valid and appropriatecomments as 'Offtopic' or 'Troll' just because they don't fit the narrow minded fanaticism.
Well, you can mod me down, but you can NEVER TAKE MY FREEDOM! (I'll just do some Karma Whoring tomorrow to make up for my sins)
Now that we have established that this whole iPhone thing is just vaporware hyped by macfanboys, can I have my karma back from my earlier post, please?
"' What did Cisco want? '[We] wanted an open approach. We hoped our products could interoperate in the future.'"
Oooh! this is so cool - all the macfanboys are hiding in caves while their god is being grilled by just about every geek and slashdottian in the universe. Steve Jobs is not just the enemy of opensource - he's actually so evil and greedy that he doesn't want anyone else to make third party apps for the thing and is proudly bragging about it.
Where are you now oh macfanboys! Come and defend your hero
OLPC is not 'Linux hackers favorite toy' - It'll be running Sugar, a complete failure for a user interface, obviously designed by a committee of 'child experts'.
Just watch that google video. It's insulting to the intellegence of even the most stupid of children.
And do you really think these things are going to be 'given' to the children to 'play with' and learn as they would.. - oh no! They'll be carefully controlled, supervised and hamstered away at classrooms, where the kids will have to do exactly what the teacher wants them to do: "now, timmy, move the pointed to this icon and click it, then draw a circle... "
So much for the dream of creating a Linux generation - these kids will grow up to be another bunch of helpless cubicle retards at telemarketing caves...
pompous and belligerent, eh? hey dude, this is slashdot!
Your FAA experience and ASRS represent the uninformed opinion here. You dare question my opinion with that 'Implementation' garbage of yours? They are based on actual measurements with the Airforces Material Command electronics warfare cave as well as a throughout knowledge and experience of measuring and fixing board level avionics packages. My opinion is based on laws of physics - not on some speculation implied from some statistics.
It's very simple. Consumer electronics in modern commercial aircraft cabin aren't allowed to interfere with avionics. There's all kinds of internal structures between the passenger and the avionics bay and your silly diagrams of mobile phone signal going through the floor and into the antenna cable are just silly. It's silly because I've measured it and it doesn't work! It doesn't work because the antenna cables have been shielded and properly connected.
Your reference to an anecdote of Piper Cherokee test flight having problems with GPS while the pilot used a mobile is just silly. What do you expect from a navigation system that was never ever meant or designed for flight critical navaid for aviation use! And that stupid Cherokee isn't exactly a commercial jet. It probably had a Garmin 430 with a RG-58 antenna cable to the top of the cabin with poor connections. Of course the GPS signal is going to be blocked by interference. But as you and me know very well, that is exactly the reason why planes like Cherokee's aren't certified for precision landing using GPS. I challenge you to go and do the same in a 737 using Collins GPS unit and with antenna cables installed by certified avionics technician and tested for external emissions hardness. Good luck with that one.
"a 2 watt mobile phone can have RF signals of around 15 v/m at 0.5m!", "Emissions at the operating frequency were as high as 60dB over the airplane equipment emission limits"
Who's the one here frothing uninformed garbage? You clearly have zero knowledge of RF-engineering. It's sad that the FAA is influenced by such wacko lobby websites as yours but fortunately this means here in Europe we can spearhead this technology while you argue over such sensationalist mumbo-jumbo...
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Enough of the ignorant "Linux is the greatest!" drivel...
They made a bad financial desicion.
Any savings they think they made in the hardware, licensing and support costs will be lost many times over as soon as the system makes a small error or goes down.
This is the reason why financial transactions still use mainframes.
Mainframes are unique in their integration and optimization between the hardware and the operating system they run. It gives you a level of performance, integrity and fault tolerance which cannot be achieved by taking generic hardware and sticking Linux on top.
They probably thought (ironically like the stockmarket does) that in the short term there is significant savings to be made switching the system to generic hardware and linux. In the long term however they will be faced with more expensive and frequent maintenance and upgrade cycles. Mainframes on the otherhand are scalable almost to infinity and you pay for the reliablity and maintenance upfront when you purchase the system.
What they could've done is buy a new mainframe and run their application level with virtualized Linuxes. After all this is what mainframes are good at.
I couldn't agree more. However when 10,000 of their most active members and leaders gather at around Tiananmen Square and get shot dead and run over by tanks it tends to discourage the rest. The few exchange students and workers from China around here are timid and compliant. They don't even admit they know anything about those events. They are completely into the consumer culture and fashion. There is no life in them. Its like with the today's Irish. Hundreds of years of British oppression and brutality made sure that the only ones that are left are the descendants of the cowards, the collaborators and the incompetent. I am reminded of this whenever I visit the shithole Dublin has become.
The Tamk Man was the last rebel...
The following would at least annoy them and at most illustrate the point clearly:
Device a simple perl/C/Java/Assembly algorithm which encrypts 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C1 into a cipher with a key that is the string "WIKIPEDIA". Post the routine and cipher and instruction on a separate site and then place DMCA take down notice to Wikipedia that the string 'WIKIPEDIA' should be removed everywhere from Wikipedia as it is now officially part of a system to "circumvent copyright protection."
And as you're doing that, might as well do algorithms for "Jimmy Wales" and "Richard Stallman" - then we'll see some action...
now, if only someone would place that as an example of Assembly code on Wikipedia (who are panicing to censor the whole thing)
And western countries can impose arbitrary economic restrictions, meddle in our internal politics, exploit our work forces and natural resources to maximize your profits. But hey!, we should just bend over and swallow this IP shit too.
Sincerely Fuck You!
The rest of the world
PS: You are loosing, we are winning!
I have a 10Mpixel camera and an airplane. If I took a bunch of photos from an area not yet covered by them, would they add them to their Map/Earth for free? Cause flying around and taking photos isnt a great expense - its the processing and orthorectification...
Are these the same users who don't backup their computers at home, the same users who save their work on the local drive at work which gets wiped rather than their network drive. People who expect IT to just magically work forever without any problems ever and without any effort on their part? And in this case for free?
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for them.
Gmail is free. So is Hotmail and Yahoo. But Gmail is currently the most convenient and reliable. Google invests millions in making the system work as well as it does. Much better and reliably then most companies IT departments out there manage to do. And people still complain?
If you don't like it, why don't you run your friggin' own mail server and backup racks and see how well you manage! And try doing that on a zero budjet...
In Firefox when i for example press and hold over a link or image, it doesn't bring up the menu you get by right-clicking on Windows? On Windows I do a lot of right-clicking and don't have to touch the keyboard at all - with mac I have to either use keyboard to 'right-click' or find the function among a maze of menus. And buying a two button mouse isn't the solution you insensitive clod! since I'm using the trackpad on the macbook.
No, it doesn't!
- Solar irradiance at sealevel
- Absorption-spectrum
Solar irradiance at sealevel 'peaks' at 470nm which is exactly where chlorophyl-B absorption peaks. In fact the 'peaking', when put into context, is somewhat vague, since throughout the whole visible spectrum from 400nm - 700nm you have well over 50% of the real watts that you get at the peak 470nm, so an adaptation to a particular wavelenght within it gives at most only a conservative if not marginal advantage.
The whole point of using TrueCrypt is that you have a second encrypted volume inside the first which is effectively hidden because it is impossible mathematically to prove that its there. You simply place some reasonably confidential personal information on the first layer of encryption like your personal financing, photos, (legal) porn collection etc. providing you with plausible deniability. In the second inner layer of encryption you place stuff you don't want RIAA or anyone to actually find.
PS: I'm of course talking about civil aviation needs here. The military might have other requirements and can't rely on civil aviation navigation systems. I suggest they use flying platforms to form a robust location signal beacon network. Some more advanced armies already have such systems (cough Finland cough)...
Loran is a low frequency hyberbolic positioning system used for LRN (long range navigation). I think these people are looking for much more precision from their system atleast equal to NAVSTAR GPS.
Yawn! The Japanese have had several thousend ton skyscrapers sitting on springs hooked up permanently with sensors, dynamic counter-weights and dampers for decades now...
The mouth-to-mouth ventilation part was always the tricky bit. To be effective you had to blow a large volume of air into the patient with a frequency that made you dizzy and tired quickly. But you also had to be careful not to blow too hard and get air into the stomach which would then blow out all the food out. Often members of the public were reluctant to engage in CPR because of the ventilation part (because of hygiene and sensitivity consideration) and many victims didn't get any CPR because of this. In many countries, including here in Finland, the directives for teaching non-professionals CPR have been changed years ago to teach only the compression part. But I see no reason here why the ventilation part would make CPR less effective when done properly and by professionals. Perhaps this study just shows the lack of skill in doing it properly. After all, what's the point of circulation, if there's no oxygen going in?
This will not work. Sure, you can make almost anything but as anyone who's worked with bioreactors or bacterial colonies will know they do not scale well. Also comparared to good-old sythetic chemistry, bio-processes are inherently inefficient energywise. If you want to take energy from the sun don't mess around with stupid stuff like this. Instead improve upon the COTS solutions available and help them grow in scale for mass-market. Most energy production should be local and thermal (solar-thermal, geo-thermal etc.) with the main net running on nuclear power. Vehicles should be plug-in EV. The reason for this is that we're gonna need our ever diminishing arable land for food production to feed the almost 10 billion people we'll soon have here...
I think Hyper- has gone out of fashion recently just like Super- went out of fashion long time ago. Our university still has a department called Hypermedialab - now it just sounds so 90's and cheese...
Incidently I'm looking for a grant for my biology research on Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-cells...
Sincerelyd ingledangledongledunglebursteinvonknackerthrashera pplebangerhorowitzticolensicgranderknottyspelltink legrandlichgrumblemeyerspelterwasserkurstlichhimbl eeisenbahnwagengutenabendbitteeinnürnburgerbratwus tlegerspurtenmitzweimacheluberhundsfutgumberabersh önedankerkalbsfleischmittleraucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
Dr. Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfernschplendenschlittercrasscrenbonfrieddigger
Have you considered that this brilliant plan of yours will fail you and the world the one time that one of these people turns out to be right. Continue to watch them carefully indeed...
Why is it that people keep modding perfectly reasonable (within /. standards) and insightful comments as "Flamebait" just because they happen to be critical of their exalted leader. Bush government has a clear track record of doing anything and everything in their power to oppose the science of anthropogenic global warming. It's therefore not far-fetched to presume that if they had an opportunity or excuse, like the mars/moon missions, to cut down on earth science, they would jump on it for sure! That's just normal daily politics - no 'great conspiracy' needed there.
Personally I don't see the point of most 'Flamebait' or 'Troll' modding. Almost all articles on /. are highly controversial or create heated debates (in fact people complain when an article is boring and lame). So most comments on /. are always going to be highly disagreeable from someones point of view. This doesn't mean the person is 'flaming' or 'trolling' - ie. intentionally goading the opposing side or inciting retaliation by insults. There are always going to be those who don't see the 'truth' of calling someone an idiot when he's an idiot and he will automatically mod such 'accusations' flamebait/troll. It is the responsibility of the sane people to mod things up again accordingly.
Oh well, I love the smell of burning karma in the morning...
Is it me or are the macfanboys rampantly modding down perfectly valid and appropriate comments as 'Offtopic' or 'Troll' just because they don't fit the narrow minded fanaticism.
Well, you can mod me down, but you can NEVER TAKE MY FREEDOM!
(I'll just do some Karma Whoring tomorrow to make up for my sins)
Now that we have established that this whole iPhone thing is just vaporware hyped by macfanboys, can I have my karma back from my earlier post, please?
"' What did Cisco want? '[We] wanted an open approach. We hoped our products could interoperate in the future.'"
Oooh! this is so cool - all the macfanboys are hiding in caves while their god is being grilled by just about every geek and slashdottian in the universe. Steve Jobs is not just the enemy of opensource - he's actually so evil and greedy that he doesn't want anyone else to make third party apps for the thing and is proudly bragging about it.
Where are you now oh macfanboys! Come and defend your hero
OLPC is not 'Linux hackers favorite toy' - It'll be running Sugar, a complete failure for a user interface, obviously designed by a committee of 'child experts'.
Just watch that google video. It's insulting to the intellegence of even the most stupid of children.
And do you really think these things are going to be 'given' to the children to 'play with' and learn as they would.. - oh no! They'll be carefully controlled, supervised and hamstered away at classrooms, where the kids will have to do exactly what the teacher wants them to do: "now, timmy, move the pointed to this icon and click it, then draw a circle... "
So much for the dream of creating a Linux generation - these kids will grow up to be another bunch of helpless cubicle retards at telemarketing caves...
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do!
- Sincerely, you!ess!A! you!ess!A! ...
pompous and belligerent, eh? hey dude, this is slashdot!
Your FAA experience and ASRS represent the uninformed opinion here. You dare question my opinion with that 'Implementation' garbage of yours? They are based on actual measurements with the Airforces Material Command electronics warfare cave as well as a throughout knowledge and experience of measuring and fixing board level avionics packages. My opinion is based on laws of physics - not on some speculation implied from some statistics.
It's very simple. Consumer electronics in modern commercial aircraft cabin aren't allowed to interfere with avionics. There's all kinds of internal structures between the passenger and the avionics bay and your silly diagrams of mobile phone signal going through the floor and into the antenna cable are just silly. It's silly because I've measured it and it doesn't work! It doesn't work because the antenna cables have been shielded and properly connected.
Your reference to an anecdote of Piper Cherokee test flight having problems with GPS while the pilot used a mobile is just silly. What do you expect from a navigation system that was never ever meant or designed for flight critical navaid for aviation use! And that stupid Cherokee isn't exactly a commercial jet. It probably had a Garmin 430 with a RG-58 antenna cable to the top of the cabin with poor connections. Of course the GPS signal is going to be blocked by interference. But as you and me know very well, that is exactly the reason why planes like Cherokee's aren't certified for precision landing using GPS. I challenge you to go and do the same in a 737 using Collins GPS unit and with antenna cables installed by certified avionics technician and tested for external emissions hardness. Good luck with that one.
Who's the one here frothing uninformed garbage? You clearly have zero knowledge of RF-engineering. It's sad that the FAA is influenced by such wacko lobby websites as yours but fortunately this means here in Europe we can spearhead this technology while you argue over such sensationalist mumbo-jumbo...