My home phone is attached to my broadband and is much cheaper than paying line rental and all the other extras that Australians have to pay for.
I would have a cell-type connection if they made one that had the look and feel of the old-fashioned type of phone : like the receiver and large easy to read alphanumerics. Mobile/cell phones don't have that.
Microsoft lost to Netscape and as a consequence had to reveal the inner workings of the windows system so that new browsers could have the same advantage as Internet Explorer.
Open source has no such restriction and while it may appear to produce the same results as windows is the source code the same? How many variations are available in OSs : popup menus are available in many different systems ; can anyone really have a patent on them?
It is time for the US justice system to show the world they can lead the way. Patents on software should have their own seperate laws so that ideas are not confused : software and other intellectual property patents are not the same as electric toaster patents and the distinction should be made. In that same area patents need to be reconsidered when the corporation concerned no longer supports the software.
Thinking about those problems means that some time in the future they expect to have missions that last years ? Who knows what will have happened to the human species by then ? I think it is so far into the future they are just fooling themselves they they should be thinking about it now.
By the time they advance that far they will be taking extra people along to perform tasks that would just be wasteful for astronauts to be doing.
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My home phone is attached to my broadband and is much cheaper than paying line rental and all the other extras that Australians have to pay for. I would have a cell-type connection if they made one that had the look and feel of the old-fashioned type of phone : like the receiver and large easy to read alphanumerics. Mobile/cell phones don't have that.
Microsoft lost to Netscape and as a consequence had to reveal the inner workings of the windows system so that new browsers could have the same advantage as Internet Explorer. Open source has no such restriction and while it may appear to produce the same results as windows is the source code the same? How many variations are available in OSs : popup menus are available in many different systems ; can anyone really have a patent on them? It is time for the US justice system to show the world they can lead the way. Patents on software should have their own seperate laws so that ideas are not confused : software and other intellectual property patents are not the same as electric toaster patents and the distinction should be made. In that same area patents need to be reconsidered when the corporation concerned no longer supports the software.
Thinking about those problems means that some time in the future they expect to have missions that last years ? Who knows what will have happened to the human species by then ? I think it is so far into the future they are just fooling themselves they they should be thinking about it now. By the time they advance that far they will be taking extra people along to perform tasks that would just be wasteful for astronauts to be doing.