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GPS-only RNAV STARs (Standard Terminal Arrival Routes) have been in use for some time.

The "next gen" technologies referred to in the article involve a lot more than just GPS improvements (such as WAAS and publishing more RNAV GPS approaches annually). They include new ground radar for automated taxi operations, a replacement of traditional transponder-based aircraft separation, redesigning ATIS and weather reporting, and an overall push to standardize all ATC data -- ultimately getting more real-time data into cockpit avionics.

I was a customer for several months and the level of service was very good. Good peering, too.

Forestry and petroleum exploration require constant updating and presentation techniques.

Precipitation and drainage maps are extremely useful in agriculture.

Aviation section charts are updated quarterly.

Most vineyards, large farms, and ranches have probably had custom mapping done at some point.

It's actually a pretty fascinating field when you appreciate the breadth of data that is regularly correlated to maps.

http://www.allancartography.com/

http://www.ravenmaps.com/

At that time Parsons Technology was known primarily as the publisher of a personal finance program called MoneyCounts, but they also released a formidable catalog of Bible-related software.

Much to my dismay, the interview process was heavily skewed toward determining how much of a believer I was and ran into all manner of private territory.

I did briefly meet Bob -- just a handshake and he was gone.

Very little of my computer experience was discussed and by the end of the rushed interview I was given complimentary copies of Parsons Technology Bible-related software.

I drove away from that interview disappointed and tricked.

Obviously you can't jump to conclusions from anecdotal data, but I wanted to share this experience and my personal opinion that Bob Parsons is an intensely self-righteous and dogmatic fellow.

Anyway, from my early experience with his first company, to his bizarre and narcissistic elephant hunt, GoDaddy's obnoxious objectification of women, and now SOPA... I've always felt the guy is just sort of twisted and unsavory.

One man's view only.

Its only dependency (beyond enabling sar) is gnuplot.

Very impressive effort there, and for $60... Nuts!

In addition to hacking, I love flying and aviation -- another area of science and technology totally distorted by the media every time there's an incident of some kind. :)

Why is that?

How was that confusing?

It's nice when a bookmarking service can be a discovery tool itself.

The 0MQ high water mark is set high enough so that it's virtually impossible not to fix a broken DB by the time messages on the client side create an OOM condition being queued in memory.

What used to be (I think) a $700 plugin now adds $2,000 to the annual maintenance cost of JIRA.

Stay interested and keep working hard.

We're people who build things.

Our fortune is a natural one -- not money and not even respect.

It's that we are getting paid to learn new things every single day.

People magazine would have more respect.

Putting eight million files in one directory level aside, the whole basis for this event - using the filesystem as a storage layer for a k/v 'database' - is just twisted.

Happy not to be working with devs like this.