Considering the billions to be made in copyright infringement lawsuits, it's safe to say that no, the evidence of copying did not even rise to the SCO level.
The big problem really is that asteroid dirt or any other shielding adds a huge amount of mass, making propulsion that much harder. Trying to move an asteroid to mars with an ion drive isn't going to get there before the astronauts die of old age, and if you're going to bring huge amounts of extra rocket fuel from earth you might as well just build a huge ship with a lot of water around the central crew area for shielding.
"It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory." - Arthur Eddington
The microwaves should escape the cavity in all directions, not just out the back, if they're escaping at all. A light drive has to be open at the back, or the photons would bounce off the rear wall and counter the thrust they imparted to the ship by bouncing off the reflector around the emitter.
Not that I believe in the EM drive, but wouldn't making one wall thicker than the other cause a larger leakage rate in one direction than the other and thus [minute] thrust?
Even if you have the source, you need a team of people who are capable of updating it. If they were running linux, they might well still be on a 2.4 kernel because of a custom made third party app that requires it that nobody could make sense of.
We've long thought that Pluto has an atmosphere at perihelion that freezes when it moves further from the sun. Some common gasses freeze very close to absolute zero. It also does have internal heat from radioactive decay, which may even make liquid water possible deep inside.
China's space program is several decades old, kickstarted by missile programs in the 50s, and drawing significantly on Soviet help and designs. Their first human in orbit was 12 years ago (note that NASA sent people to the moon in less time after its first person in orbit). For all that time and help, it's not very impressive. They're behind India in unmanned flight and not showing any apparent progress in manned flight. Occasionally publishing ambitious papers saying they want to go to the moon/mars doesn't count.
I see the slashdot reactions as a bunch of old people violently opposed to kids coming along making new things that change our workflow. Nobody wants to have to learn a new thing, so there's a strong emotional investment in the status quo. This at least somewhat explains how angry people get at their favorite status quo being depreciated.
GNOME 1.4 had all the good ideas, a flexible highly configurable interface that would still be good to use today. GNOME 2 was what made me move to KDE.
Well, the distinction is that the people calling others SJWs are defending injustice and maligning any desire to fix injustices. Call them SIWs, social injustice warriors?
From what I experience most Americans, as in an actual majority are completely reckless on the road. Even inside a major city.
I think that happens mostly in the major cities, probably because the traffic makes people frustrated and selfish and impatient. I live in a smaller town in California and the bad drivers are rare and people will motion you to go ahead of them. When I drive in SF, it's scary.
document.queryselectorall(".class") and $(".class") are just as readable in a world where people know what jquery is, which they do, or can learn in a minute. Which one would you rather type hundreds of times?
Not becoming more popular than facebook is not failure. Google+ succeeded quite well, and many enjoyed using it. It's only a "failure" because google expects to dominate and destroy all competition and gives up and shuts down solid popular products if they don't become the market leader.
If you think that the framers of the constitution believed that politicians had virtue, you're not understanding them or their historical context. Politicians back then were even more thoroughly corrupt than anything on this part of the planet today, and the constitution attempts to minimize the damage with checks and balances. Some of the framers wanted term limits as well, but it's debatable whether term limits produce more virtue.
Also, ending slavery was clearly not an accomplishment of the constitution since it took a civil war to do it and the USA was quite far from being the first country to do it.
If you actually bothered to read the article, you would not be claiming that's a mystery. The article explains that the void is not a big void, it's actually a fairly normal 20% less dense than average area. It just so happens to be on top of what's already a cool spot in the CMB. A a normal less dense area on top of a normal cool spot in the CMB = an appearance of an extraordinarily cold spot which is not really extraordinary at all but just a coincidence of that combination.
In the 90s, when you actually had to switch users to root to do any GUI root actions, I can see that happening. But these days few distros even allow a GUI login as root and sudo is the norm.
If you've purchased the DVD, you've shown you have the money and inclination to pay. They may have a better shot at forcing you to pay a second time for your kid than they have at getting a pirate to spend money. It's better for their bottom line to focus on stopping you from copying your DVD than to worry about the basement-dwelling pirate who lacks disposable income.
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Considering the billions to be made in copyright infringement lawsuits, it's safe to say that no, the evidence of copying did not even rise to the SCO level.
Why not just zoom the pages with CTRL+scroll up? I've had slashdot zoomed to 150% for years.
The big problem really is that asteroid dirt or any other shielding adds a huge amount of mass, making propulsion that much harder. Trying to move an asteroid to mars with an ion drive isn't going to get there before the astronauts die of old age, and if you're going to bring huge amounts of extra rocket fuel from earth you might as well just build a huge ship with a lot of water around the central crew area for shielding.
"It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory."
- Arthur Eddington
The microwaves should escape the cavity in all directions, not just out the back, if they're escaping at all. A light drive has to be open at the back, or the photons would bounce off the rear wall and counter the thrust they imparted to the ship by bouncing off the reflector around the emitter.
Not that I believe in the EM drive, but wouldn't making one wall thicker than the other cause a larger leakage rate in one direction than the other and thus [minute] thrust?
... comply with the terms of GPL by freely distributing the code for their extensions?
Is this editor FOSS, or does it just use FOSS components?
Do you know anyone running Mac OS X 10.1, or Red Hat 6 with the 2.4.0 kernel? How about Solaris 8? Nope, they're ancient -- and the same age as XP.
Even if you have the source, you need a team of people who are capable of updating it. If they were running linux, they might well still be on a 2.4 kernel because of a custom made third party app that requires it that nobody could make sense of.
Although US export laws forbid its sale, I'm sure Iran has already downloaded pirate copies of Duke Nukem.
We've long thought that Pluto has an atmosphere at perihelion that freezes when it moves further from the sun. Some common gasses freeze very close to absolute zero. It also does have internal heat from radioactive decay, which may even make liquid water possible deep inside.
China's space program is several decades old, kickstarted by missile programs in the 50s, and drawing significantly on Soviet help and designs. Their first human in orbit was 12 years ago (note that NASA sent people to the moon in less time after its first person in orbit). For all that time and help, it's not very impressive. They're behind India in unmanned flight and not showing any apparent progress in manned flight. Occasionally publishing ambitious papers saying they want to go to the moon/mars doesn't count.
I see the slashdot reactions as a bunch of old people violently opposed to kids coming along making new things that change our workflow. Nobody wants to have to learn a new thing, so there's a strong emotional investment in the status quo. This at least somewhat explains how angry people get at their favorite status quo being depreciated.
GNOME 1.4 had all the good ideas, a flexible highly configurable interface that would still be good to use today. GNOME 2 was what made me move to KDE.
Well, the distinction is that the people calling others SJWs are defending injustice and maligning any desire to fix injustices. Call them SIWs, social injustice warriors?
Buying everybody in California a dog would cost considerably more than $38mil, and food for all those dogs would be considerably more than $16mil/yr.
From what I experience most Americans, as in an actual majority are completely reckless on the road. Even inside a major city.
I think that happens mostly in the major cities, probably because the traffic makes people frustrated and selfish and impatient. I live in a smaller town in California and the bad drivers are rare and people will motion you to go ahead of them. When I drive in SF, it's scary.
document.queryselectorall(".class") and $(".class") are just as readable in a world where people know what jquery is, which they do, or can learn in a minute. Which one would you rather type hundreds of times?
The numbers I cited are purchasing power parity, not raw income. The differences in costs are at least largely factored in already.
While Mexico has become wealthier, the gap is still huge:
USA: $30,932 or possibly $38,000
Mexico: $4,508
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Not becoming more popular than facebook is not failure. Google+ succeeded quite well, and many enjoyed using it. It's only a "failure" because google expects to dominate and destroy all competition and gives up and shuts down solid popular products if they don't become the market leader.
If you're going to make senate representation proportional, what's the point of the senate? Just eliminate it.
If you think that the framers of the constitution believed that politicians had virtue, you're not understanding them or their historical context. Politicians back then were even more thoroughly corrupt than anything on this part of the planet today, and the constitution attempts to minimize the damage with checks and balances. Some of the framers wanted term limits as well, but it's debatable whether term limits produce more virtue.
Also, ending slavery was clearly not an accomplishment of the constitution since it took a civil war to do it and the USA was quite far from being the first country to do it.
If you actually bothered to read the article, you would not be claiming that's a mystery. The article explains that the void is not a big void, it's actually a fairly normal 20% less dense than average area. It just so happens to be on top of what's already a cool spot in the CMB. A a normal less dense area on top of a normal cool spot in the CMB = an appearance of an extraordinarily cold spot which is not really extraordinary at all but just a coincidence of that combination.
In the 90s, when you actually had to switch users to root to do any GUI root actions, I can see that happening. But these days few distros even allow a GUI login as root and sudo is the norm.
If you've purchased the DVD, you've shown you have the money and inclination to pay. They may have a better shot at forcing you to pay a second time for your kid than they have at getting a pirate to spend money. It's better for their bottom line to focus on stopping you from copying your DVD than to worry about the basement-dwelling pirate who lacks disposable income.