Re: U.S. National Weather Service upgrades to ASCII

2016-04-12 Thread Asmus Freytag (c)
On 4/12/2016 11:47 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: Wow! They name that technology "Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System"... The announcement is straight from "Dilbert" : ... Service Level Management Process defines a life cycle of

Re: U.S. National Weather Service upgrades to ASCII

2016-04-12 Thread Philippe Verdy
Wow! They name that technology "Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System"... Is plain ASCII "advanced"? Probably when compared to 5-bit or 6-bit Baudot. Is it "interactive" ? when it does not understand the languages that people actually use locally assuming they only use Basic English.

U.S. National Weather Service upgrades to ASCII

2016-04-12 Thread Doug Ewell
http://www.noaa.gov/national-weather-service-will-stop-using-all-caps-its-forecasts Don't worry; you've got until May 11 to upgrade your ITA2-compliant equipment to support this new technological breakthrough. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 