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This seems good, otherwise Google for "ows compression OR compress OR compressor", and according to this, OWS stands for the author's initials.

Upon Googling, I found this link which would seem to indicate that both Tandy and Dell released MCA PCs.

It does look a good bit like an ME-163, although the 163 was ground launched.

Spaceship One's wings are totally different. Spaceship One has squarish wings with the a slightly swept back leading edge and vertical and horizontal control elements and no tail. The ME-163 has wings swept back at a higher angle and a tail. The only real similiarity is the shape of the fuselage. Your comparison is like saying a mac g4 and a p3 system are similar because they both have 256MB of RAM.

He had a real tough tough time with this simple problem. Warning, second link has sound.

He had a real tough tough time with this simple problem. Warning, second link has sound.

• that the atmosphere is a hell of a lot thinner at 70,000 feet.
• Rocket motors are REALLY innefficient at low speed.
• Air travels differently around a craft traveling at supersonic speed. If you can start the craft off at nearly the speed of sound you can optimize the design better by ignoring the sub-sonic properties.

If you look at a graph showing mass, velocity, and altitude of the Saturn V, you see that half the fuel in the first stage got the vehicle up to 3000 feet at 500m/s. Granted, you are replacing that mass with more mass in aircraft (not to mention the aircraft's fuel). At least the aircraft doesn't need to carry oxidizer, which is pretty heavy.

Getting back to the spacecraft, the less weight spent getting it of the ground means more weight for payload, fuel, etc.

The Turing tournament is a two sided tournament designed to find, on the one hand, the best computer programs to mimic human behavior, and on the other hand, the best computer programs to detect the difference between machine and human behavior. Two types of submissions will be accepted: an emulator, which mimics human behavior, or a detector, which detects the difference between human and machine behavior.

So, I suppose we could say by evaluating the success of response (as would be weeded out by whomever *actually* turns out an entry), we will have achieved our research, VOILA! It's a successful research incentive, the prize that is.

Whaddya think? no? heck of a fight though wasn't it? :P

Ever been involved with a company who has exhibited at such a trade show? It gets expensive. Thousands upon thousands of dollars and that's for a *small* booth.

I don't have exact figures, there doesn't seem to be anything on the website. I do know that for the big IT trade show in Melbourne last year (they cancelled it this year due to lack of attendance because nobody was exhibiting because it costs so much and they don't get return on investment), the Linux Users of Victoria had a free booth along with the Melbourne PC user group.

My lawyers will be contacting Intentia re licence fees for their use of my invention -- URLs that are publicly accessible, but not actually linked from the site's index page.

(Proof of concept published Sep-07.)

The really sweet thing is that once they've paid me, they can use the DMCA to go after Reuters, since clearly it's a technological protection mechanism they've circumvented....