On top of that, the GGP claims "Not bad without military budgets" when your link states "The launch was a collaborative effort between the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), also representing the research collaborators in the Australian Hypersonics Initiative (AHI)."
Not to belittle their efforts, mind you; it's a spectacular project and I wish them the best. Just correcting bad information.
Not bad without military budgets - beat them to the punch!
From your article:
"Published: 27 February 2010... Professor Boyce said the project represented the first phase of a 20-year program that ultimately would include ground testing, the development of new materials and flight testing at Woomera, South Australia"
From Wikipedia and the summary:
"Ground tests of the X-51A began in late 2006." "The US Air Force said it was looking to launch its 14-foot long X-51A Waverider on its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25."
Still, very nearly 50% of the money contributed is coming from OS X and Linux. Whether it's because those users are more affluent, more inclined to buy games, or just happy to support any development on their platform, the numbers show there's a substantial market to be tapped. Studies like this are exactly the thing marketing departments want to see.
And it couldn't have come at a better time: Steam's imminent release on OS X and Linux is about to make cross-platform development substantially easier. While it's hardly the Year of Gaming Linux, it would be nice to remember 2010 as the year we started chipping away at Microsoft's PC gaming monopoly.
asserting rights to use all human knowledge as a human right
Do you think that the world would be a better place if the only thing we valued was manual labor? If any public knowledge was worthless (in a financial sense) knowledge?
The world already experimented with the idea that "knowledge is free to all". We ended up with opaque guilds that fiercely protected their trade secrets. The Freemasons and similar groups are a throwback to when skilled labor groups used every means they had to ensure that the skills of their trade never became public knowledge. And while modern companies might not use threats of supernatural violence and arcane authorization rituals, eliminating intellectual property laws would almost certainly lead to more draconian restrictions on information.
Since the data sheet mentions that the cameras can endure long communications outages with the main network, they need a good way of tracking time. Putting a GPS receiver in to get accurate time signals may be cheaper than adding a very accurate clock.
Embedding a GPS time code in images would also be more effective from a legal standpoint, since a defendant couldn't argue that the camera's internal clock was inaccurate.
The cameras could also potentially determine their own location, saving a bit on installation costs.
The cameras are here on earth. They're just synchronized using GPS so the system can tell how long a vehicle takes to go from one checkpoint to the next.
Yeah, I don't see how Nintendo could possibly be infringing. Nintendo's games aren't used for isometric exercises, the only Nintendo device that even contains strain gauges is the Balance Board—and similar force platforms have been used since before IA's patents were filed.
On the other hand, they didn't file in East Texas, so they must think they actually have a case...
I've boycotted cookie-cutter games like that. Same with movies. Do you know how few filmmakers bother designing their own quarks and leptons and stuff? The lazy bastards think they can just fill an existing engine with art.
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That's a different kind of test, and the X-43a beat them to it by a few years.
On top of that, the GGP claims "Not bad without military budgets" when your link states "The launch was a collaborative effort between the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), also representing the research collaborators in the Australian Hypersonics Initiative (AHI)."
Not to belittle their efforts, mind you; it's a spectacular project and I wish them the best. Just correcting bad information.
Dude, chill. Listen to some Jack Johnson. Watch a nice video.
Not bad without military budgets - beat them to the punch!
From your article:
"Published: 27 February 2010 ... Professor Boyce said the project represented the first phase of a 20-year program that ultimately would include ground testing, the development of new materials and flight testing at Woomera, South Australia"
From Wikipedia and the summary:
"Ground tests of the X-51A began in late 2006."
"The US Air Force said it was looking to launch its 14-foot long X-51A Waverider on its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25."
Yeah...no.
Oh, live in your loony little fantasy world. I've seen the cat detector vans the Ministry of Housinge keeps sending about!
I'd definitely like to see IRS personnel inside an active volcano.
Sorry, they stopped offering tours years ago.
Most decent clients will let you download only specific files from a torrent.
And I don't know who this "Maiman" guy is. Everybody knows the laser was invented by Dr. Parsons at Cambridge University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmt6z5c9xPY
You could build the equipment yourself.
Getting more energy out of fusion than you put in... that's the hard part.
For the longest time I thought Monty Python was a parody.
2) head tilted 45 degrees to the right
3) tilt head 90 degrees to the left
4) tilt head another 90 degrees to the left
uh... pictures?
Still, very nearly 50% of the money contributed is coming from OS X and Linux. Whether it's because those users are more affluent, more inclined to buy games, or just happy to support any development on their platform, the numbers show there's a substantial market to be tapped. Studies like this are exactly the thing marketing departments want to see.
And it couldn't have come at a better time: Steam's imminent release on OS X and Linux is about to make cross-platform development substantially easier. While it's hardly the Year of Gaming Linux, it would be nice to remember 2010 as the year we started chipping away at Microsoft's PC gaming monopoly.
asserting rights to use all human knowledge as a human right
Do you think that the world would be a better place if the only thing we valued was manual labor? If any public knowledge was worthless (in a financial sense) knowledge?
The world already experimented with the idea that "knowledge is free to all". We ended up with opaque guilds that fiercely protected their trade secrets. The Freemasons and similar groups are a throwback to when skilled labor groups used every means they had to ensure that the skills of their trade never became public knowledge. And while modern companies might not use threats of supernatural violence and arcane authorization rituals, eliminating intellectual property laws would almost certainly lead to more draconian restrictions on information.
Actually, it says right in the summary:
An IT person will have to touch all affected PCs.
If you see a glow, it's working.
No one, one any condition, meaning employers too, can force you into an implant.
That's a relief; I heard it was common practice in Soviet Russia.
Since the data sheet mentions that the cameras can endure long communications outages with the main network, they need a good way of tracking time. Putting a GPS receiver in to get accurate time signals may be cheaper than adding a very accurate clock.
Embedding a GPS time code in images would also be more effective from a legal standpoint, since a defendant couldn't argue that the camera's internal clock was inaccurate.
The cameras could also potentially determine their own location, saving a bit on installation costs.
Sorry about the broken link. The data sheet is here
The cameras are here on earth. They're just synchronized using GPS so the system can tell how long a vehicle takes to go from one checkpoint to the next.
Data sheet
Actually, they're just handing the controls to the Pinball Wizard.
"Rules of Journalism"? "Really Necessary"? We are talking about the same Gizmodo, right?
You'd think they would have at least noticed when he started running for president. It's like he wanted to get caught.
People have bodies.. get over it.
As the spokesman for the brain-in-vat segment of the Slashdot community, I submit that you are an insensitive clod.
Yeah, I don't see how Nintendo could possibly be infringing. Nintendo's games aren't used for isometric exercises, the only Nintendo device that even contains strain gauges is the Balance Board—and similar force platforms have been used since before IA's patents were filed.
On the other hand, they didn't file in East Texas, so they must think they actually have a case...
I've boycotted cookie-cutter games like that. Same with movies. Do you know how few filmmakers bother designing their own quarks and leptons and stuff? The lazy bastards think they can just fill an existing engine with art.
Please tell me it doesn't involve Bruce Willis.