If, for some reason, Intel was working on a chip that would be labled "W", the next generation of that chip would be W2. A graphic artist may overlay the roman numeral two over the center of the W, so it looked like VIIV.
Of course, this theory falls to pieces if Intel doesn't actually have a prospective "W" chip.
*Rawinsonde - A radio transmitter attached to a balloon that transmits pressure, temperature, and humidity data back to a base station so that the composition of the atmosphere can be determined.
I meant to say helium baloon , and by composition, I mean temperature/pressure/humidity. I apologize if anyone misconstrued what I meant to say.
If you go to the/obseravtions subdirectory, you have the raw data transmitted from the actual observing sites. The/observations/metar/cycles subdirectory contains all of the observations collected by NOAA during the hour, and the/observations/stations subdirectory contains the data for each individual station.
For those needing aviation data, the/forecasts/taf/cycles subdirectory contains all aviation forcasts, and the/forecasts/taf/stations subdirectory contains data for each individual station, as forecast by the forecast office responsible for that particular station. The/raw subdirectory contains upper air data, (exactly as transmitted by the stations collecting the data) which could be easily decoded by someone who knows how to decode rawinsonde* data. (Hint - raw is short for rawinsonde*)
*Rawinsonde - A radio transmitter attached to a balloon that transmits pressure, temperature, and humidity data back to a base station so that the composition of the atmosphere can be determined.
COTS is good for general business purposes. Custom is good for your business specific processes. If you are not an IT company don't do either. Get an IT company to do this for you.
The tricky part is communicating business requirements to the IT company. Since the IT company works in the IT industry instead of the customer's specific business, the IT company may or may not understand what the business really wants. If the business's contract negotiators aren't familiar with the requirements or the nuts-and-bolts of the business, they may not even know what is really desired, which makes miscommunication even more likely.
...It's not like it would be any significant change from what they're doing now anyway since they obviously have no clue how the technology they're drafting against works....Wow, For a minute I thought I was on an automobile forum.
My guess would be (lack of appropriate) bilateral agreements*. Even if the aircraft has the range, if it doesn't have permission to depart from, overfly, and/or land in the country or countries concerned, it gets messy.
Others probably have more insight into the actual agreements currently in effect than I.
*Bilateral agreements - agreements between two countries outlining which flights are allowed to do what in the other's airspace. The agreements can be very broad or very limited.
I believe I read in an older edition of Gerard Frawley's The International Directory of Civil Aircraft (ISBN: 0760315930) that there was a high-density configuration for this aircraft that was planned for just over 1,000 passengers.
DFW has a new Internation Terminal being constructed. (Terminal D). I hope they considered the possibility of larger airliners during the design process, but I haven't found anything stating so.
Many of the folks selling solutions are selling the same products to everyone, and calling the combination of items included "the solution". For instance, if they are going to sell you a network solution, it is probably going to contain a combination of NICs, switches/routers/hubs, appropriate cables, and associated software. When you write the purchase order/contract, it will more than likely state that the provider will include a specific number of specific items at specific cost, payable at a specific date, possibly with a discount for paying early. Others who purchase "solutions" from the same company with just get a different combination of NICs, switches/routers/hubs, appropriate cables, and associated software, much like everyone who shops at Tom Thumb Grocery will get a different combination of food in their cart. Of course, Tom Thumb Grocery does not refer to themselves as a "hunger solution."
I know of small busines CEOs/CIOs that look for specifics. Those that try to sell buzzwords don't get the sale, and salespersons with hardware/software knowledge have a decent chance. Often, though, the small-business IT staff will have found the optimum product(s) to solve the problem and already have the purchase order ready to sign as soon as the problem is diagnosed. That is true adaptability and flexibility in my humble opinion.
I also know of people who would make Dilbert's PHB look like a genius. I've seen one business with a division that was losing to a competitor in many areas, with their IT lag seriously hurting their situation. That business did not realize that their IT was causing a problem with customers, even though it was painfully obvious.
I have also met IT sales staff people who were reprimanded for giving specifics (such as cables, switches, routers, hubs, NICs, CDs, and licenses,) instead of using the term "solution" when presenting the cost estimate to the CIOs of companies who were interested in their product.
I think too many people have sat through too many marketing classes without learning anything, and this is the result. Sales people are instructed to sell a solution to a problem instead of the actual product, and a lot of CEOs and a few CIOs know they have a problem without knowing the cause, and just want a solution. Consequently, solutions have a higher margin than products, even if the product is exactly the same as the solution.
Or, I could be wrong, and PHBs are only a figment of Mr. Adam's imagination.
I don't think Physics is cool. Judging from how I hear the term used these days, cool seems to mean "fashionably stupid." I don't think Physics is stupid. I find it +5 Interesting, enjoyable, and useful, but not stupid. I don't care if it is popular with the uneducated masses.
Others may disagree, and may or may not find this response cool.
From what I can tell from talking to commercial airline pilots, most landings are done manually to keep in practice, and hand flown landings are usually softer than the ones flown automatically.
The people in the tower cannot land the plane. Only the people in the cockpit can control the autopilot/autoland functions.
...it's about planting a device on my car for later use against me. If we allow this, could the next device be a concealed tape recorder or other device to monitor my conversations since it is legal to listen to what I say? Since it is as legal to watch a house as it is to track a car, does this mean it is similarly legal to put monitoring devices in the home without my knowledge or permission?
I personally believe that this is a violation of the intent of the fourth amendment. Of course, as I am not a lawyer or a judge, my opinion doesn't really matter.
I am running a dual-boot laptop with Debian (2.4 kernel, KDE,) and NT4SP6. The NT partition is only for running Office and VB for work-related items (offline,) and as a backup in case I screw up the Debian partition. I've been too cheap and lazy to upgrade to anything else, since I haven't really been able to find a reason to upgrade given my needs.
I propose that after a company/vendor ceases ALL support for a specific piece of software, they are legally considered to have deemed the software obsolete. Thus, they are no longer legally liable for the software, and more importantly, cede all rights in relation to the software. Additionally, I propose that the company retains rights to the software as long as they are providing updates and support to keep the software useful , current, and relevant.
I figure that this makes sense, but others may have other insights.
How many of you remember when IBM were the bad guys?
I remember, but I don't look at this as a good guy/bad guy thing. I look at it as a good business move, and think it is about profitability.
MS is all software, and a big PITA to hardware manufacturers. Some other companies have their software tied to their hardware. If Open Source takes off, it tilts the market toward hardware, and lessens the value of proprietary solutions, thus, commodity hardware gains market-share at the expense of software and proprietary hardware.
Or, to put it more plainly, if Debian gains acceptance, Sun and MS both stand to lose market-share.
The author talked about the importance of personal chemistry. I guess he means that we need to be aware of our own personal chemical compositions, and make sure that we do not suffer from deficiencies of caffeine or other essential chemicals.
Don't the options to allow ActiveX controls to be downloaded and executed have to be selected for Auto Update to work? Is malware being deployed via ActiveX, or is it through some other method?
"Well, no one invests more in security of their browser than what we do on IE. The key message we have for people is they should turn on auto update because if you turn on auto update, without you having to think about it and go through a bunch of user interface or know about this or that or the other thing, you can know that there are hundreds of very smart people who are constantly improving your browser and making sure that you're safe. And so with auto update and IE, you're getting the top security team and the quickest response team that there is anywhere."
If I understand the problem, it isn't so much that there are holes in IE, the problem is that you have to have IE set to allow others to execute code on your box if you wish to use Auto Update, and it is these settings which allow malware to be loaded.
Please correct me if I am wrong, or tell me if I am missing something.
I must admit to being rather surprised whenever I see comments like "PhD's dont know nothin" (sic), or a recent post saying "I hate college" with poor grammar and spelling. Responses to it basically stated that a college degree was worthless.
I agree. I think a large number of folks would benefit from the English classes so they could communicate better and thus secure more favorable employment if they so desire. Many would also benefit from the astronomy class that would clearly show that they are NOT the center of the universe.
...how useful they are/were? The US intelligence agencies are not likely to tell folks where they got what information if they don't have to. For example, if information concerning the locations and orientations of anti-aircraft weaponry was obtained via satellite, the information would likely be passed to on-scene commanders, but not to CNN or such, so the average person is not going to know how effective the satellites are.
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If, for some reason, Intel was working on a chip that would be labled "W", the next generation of that chip would be W2. A graphic artist may overlay the roman numeral two over the center of the W, so it looked like VIIV.
Of course, this theory falls to pieces if Intel doesn't actually have a prospective "W" chip.
*Rawinsonde - A radio transmitter attached to a balloon that transmits pressure, temperature, and humidity data back to a base station so that the composition of the atmosphere can be determined.
I meant to say helium baloon , and by composition, I mean temperature/pressure/humidity. I apologize if anyone misconstrued what I meant to say.
If you go to the /obseravtions subdirectory, you have the raw data transmitted from the actual observing sites. The /observations/metar/cycles subdirectory contains all of the observations collected by NOAA during the hour, and the /observations/stations subdirectory contains the data for each individual station.
/forecasts/taf/cycles subdirectory contains all aviation forcasts, and the /forecasts/taf/stations subdirectory contains data for each individual station, as forecast by the forecast office responsible for that particular station. The /raw subdirectory contains upper air data, (exactly as transmitted by the stations collecting the data) which could be easily decoded by someone who knows how to decode rawinsonde* data. (Hint - raw is short for rawinsonde*)
For those needing aviation data, the
*Rawinsonde - A radio transmitter attached to a balloon that transmits pressure, temperature, and humidity data back to a base station so that the composition of the atmosphere can be determined.
... is available at http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/.
COTS is good for general business purposes.
Custom is good for your business specific processes.
If you are not an IT company don't do either. Get an IT company to do this for you.
The tricky part is communicating business requirements to the IT company. Since the IT company works in the IT industry instead of the customer's specific business, the IT company may or may not understand what the business really wants. If the business's contract negotiators aren't familiar with the requirements or the nuts-and-bolts of the business, they may not even know what is really desired, which makes miscommunication even more likely.
Maybe the Bluetooth-enabled helmet is a better idea than the jacket for actual snowborders.
My guess would be (lack of appropriate) bilateral agreements*. Even if the aircraft has the range, if it doesn't have permission to depart from, overfly, and/or land in the country or countries concerned, it gets messy.
Others probably have more insight into the actual agreements currently in effect than I.
*Bilateral agreements - agreements between two countries outlining which flights are allowed to do what in the other's airspace. The agreements can be very broad or very limited.
I believe I read in an older edition of Gerard Frawley's The International Directory of Civil Aircraft (ISBN: 0760315930) that there was a high-density configuration for this aircraft that was planned for just over 1,000 passengers.
DFW has a new Internation Terminal being constructed. (Terminal D). I hope they considered the possibility of larger airliners during the design process, but I haven't found anything stating so.
Many of the folks selling solutions are selling the same products to everyone, and calling the combination of items included "the solution". For instance, if they are going to sell you a network solution, it is probably going to contain a combination of NICs, switches/routers/hubs, appropriate cables, and associated software. When you write the purchase order/contract, it will more than likely state that the provider will include a specific number of specific items at specific cost, payable at a specific date, possibly with a discount for paying early. Others who purchase "solutions" from the same company with just get a different combination of NICs, switches/routers/hubs, appropriate cables, and associated software, much like everyone who shops at Tom Thumb Grocery will get a different combination of food in their cart. Of course, Tom Thumb Grocery does not refer to themselves as a "hunger solution."
I know there are some companies, such as this one that guarantees uptime instead of selling products, for example, that actually take the solutions approach. I believe they are an exception rather than the rule, however.
I know of small busines CEOs/CIOs that look for specifics. Those that try to sell buzzwords don't get the sale, and salespersons with hardware/software knowledge have a decent chance. Often, though, the small-business IT staff will have found the optimum product(s) to solve the problem and already have the purchase order ready to sign as soon as the problem is diagnosed. That is true adaptability and flexibility in my humble opinion.
I also know of people who would make Dilbert's PHB look like a genius. I've seen one business with a division that was losing to a competitor in many areas, with their IT lag seriously hurting their situation. That business did not realize that their IT was causing a problem with customers, even though it was painfully obvious.
I have also met IT sales staff people who were reprimanded for giving specifics (such as cables, switches, routers, hubs, NICs, CDs, and licenses,) instead of using the term "solution" when presenting the cost estimate to the CIOs of companies who were interested in their product.
I think too many people have sat through too many marketing classes without learning anything, and this is the result. Sales people are instructed to sell a solution to a problem instead of the actual product, and a lot of CEOs and a few CIOs know they have a problem without knowing the cause, and just want a solution. Consequently, solutions have a higher margin than products, even if the product is exactly the same as the solution.
Or, I could be wrong, and PHBs are only a figment of Mr. Adam's imagination.
I don't think Physics is cool. Judging from how I hear the term used these days, cool seems to mean "fashionably stupid." I don't think Physics is stupid. I find it +5 Interesting, enjoyable, and useful, but not stupid. I don't care if it is popular with the uneducated masses.
Others may disagree, and may or may not find this response cool.
A couple of quick points -
From what I can tell from talking to commercial airline pilots, most landings are done manually to keep in practice, and hand flown landings are usually softer than the ones flown automatically.
The people in the tower cannot land the plane. Only the people in the cockpit can control the autopilot/autoland functions.
...it's about planting a device on my car for later use against me. If we allow this, could the next device be a concealed tape recorder or other device to monitor my conversations since it is legal to listen to what I say? Since it is as legal to watch a house as it is to track a car, does this mean it is similarly legal to put monitoring devices in the home without my knowledge or permission?
I personally believe that this is a violation of the intent of the fourth amendment. Of course, as I am not a lawyer or a judge, my opinion doesn't really matter.
I don't know if they will find rock or not. I looked inside of my can of Comet(TM) and all that is inside is some greenish white cleanser.
I am running a dual-boot laptop with Debian (2.4 kernel, KDE,) and NT4SP6. The NT partition is only for running Office and VB for work-related items (offline,) and as a backup in case I screw up the Debian partition. I've been too cheap and lazy to upgrade to anything else, since I haven't really been able to find a reason to upgrade given my needs.
I propose that after a company/vendor ceases ALL support for a specific piece of software, they are legally considered to have deemed the software obsolete. Thus, they are no longer legally liable for the software, and more importantly, cede all rights in relation to the software. Additionally, I propose that the company retains rights to the software as long as they are providing updates and support to keep the software useful , current, and relevant.
I figure that this makes sense, but others may have other insights.
How many of you remember when IBM were the bad guys?
I remember, but I don't look at this as a good guy/bad guy thing. I look at it as a good business move, and think it is about profitability.
MS is all software, and a big PITA to hardware manufacturers. Some other companies have their software tied to their hardware. If Open Source takes off, it tilts the market toward hardware, and lessens the value of proprietary solutions, thus, commodity hardware gains market-share at the expense of software and proprietary hardware.
Or, to put it more plainly, if Debian gains acceptance, Sun and MS both stand to lose market-share.
Or I could be wrong.
The author talked about the importance of personal chemistry. I guess he means that we need to be aware of our own personal chemical compositions, and make sure that we do not suffer from deficiencies of caffeine or other essential chemicals.
Don't the options to allow ActiveX controls to be downloaded and executed have to be selected for Auto Update to work? Is malware being deployed via ActiveX, or is it through some other method?
Please enlighten me.
Gates quoted from the article:
"Well, no one invests more in security of their browser than what we do on IE. The key message we have for people is they should turn on auto update because if you turn on auto update, without you having to think about it and go through a bunch of user interface or know about this or that or the other thing, you can know that there are hundreds of very smart people who are constantly improving your browser and making sure that you're safe. And so with auto update and IE, you're getting the top security team and the quickest response team that there is anywhere."
If I understand the problem, it isn't so much that there are holes in IE, the problem is that you have to have IE set to allow others to execute code on your box if you wish to use Auto Update, and it is these settings which allow malware to be loaded.
Please correct me if I am wrong, or tell me if I am missing something.
I was a loooong way from the Super Bowl haftime show last year. My TV resolution was too low to see a tattoo.
I must admit to being rather surprised whenever I see comments like "PhD's dont know nothin" (sic), or a recent post saying "I hate college" with poor grammar and spelling. Responses to it basically stated that a college degree was worthless.
I agree. I think a large number of folks would benefit from the English classes so they could communicate better and thus secure more favorable employment if they so desire. Many would also benefit from the astronomy class that would clearly show that they are NOT the center of the universe.
...how useful they are/were? The US intelligence agencies are not likely to tell folks where they got what information if they don't have to. For example, if information concerning the locations and orientations of anti-aircraft weaponry was obtained via satellite, the information would likely be passed to on-scene commanders, but not to CNN or such, so the average person is not going to know how effective the satellites are.