If it is going to cost $50 million (or more!) to build the prototype after $10 or 20 million just to design it and do all of the computations, you'd have to both have a very, very serious plan with a very, very high probability of success
I remember following the late Bussard's ploywell development a few years ago before he passed and before the Navy snapped his team up. They claimed to have actually achieved net fusion in the lab and still needed something like $200 mil just to get the engineering done to scale up to a production size prototype.
In the UK, Uber cars and drivers have to follow the same registration and licensing requirements as private hire taxis, which they do in my city and they don't seem to have made much of a fuss about it. Every other day though there's an article where they kick up a stink about being forced to follow municipality regulations and how it shouldn't affect them as they're not really a taxi service. I've no idea why they think it would fly anywhere else.
I don't know why Uber are whining about this. It appears they try to enter every market with their cowboy style of 'ride sharing', then once they get a dressing down by the local authorities they'll adapt the service, get some properly insured and licensed taxis to operate as part of the Uber network and then just run the service like a local taxi firm but with a cool app. That's what they did in the UK anyway so I don't know why they're now trying to launch in Germany with lax standards.
I thought the Secret Service protected diplomats and US currency. Why were they getting involved with a security breach at a hotel? Unless the documents he had were for the concierge arranging hookers for visiting politicians.
In both cases you've acquired the same content, in the same form, for the same price. But now we're supposed to believe that because it happens via the internet, a crime has been committed? That their business is now suddenly failing because people are doing the same thing they've done for years with tape players and vcrs?
There's a slight difference. When time-shifting (recording from TV or Radio), the broadcaster has already paid a royalty to broadcast the content, which is significantly higher than a mechanical royalty paid on a CD or DVD. When downloading, usually the original source (a DVD or CD) has only netted the publisher a mechanical royalty on one sale (or no royalty at all if it was leaked).
Sam & Max
Mechwarrior
Freespace
Starfox (the space shooter one, not the platform)
Megaman
I don't play games anymore these days except the odd NES emulator or flash game. Any of these faithful to the original gameplay would get me interested again.
Hopefully the way things go will be something like this:
The newest generation of browsers (Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Opera 10) all leave beta. They all pass acid3 (Chrome almost) and are standards compliant. Web developers can't resist all the HTML5 & Javascript goodness and a few killer apps start to support compliant browsers only. IE dies overnight, cue celebration scene from Endor!
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If it is going to cost $50 million (or more!) to build the prototype after $10 or 20 million just to design it and do all of the computations, you'd have to both have a very, very serious plan with a very, very high probability of success
I remember following the late Bussard's ploywell development a few years ago before he passed and before the Navy snapped his team up. They claimed to have actually achieved net fusion in the lab and still needed something like $200 mil just to get the engineering done to scale up to a production size prototype.
It'll soon be a national trend now Suffolk police have done a national press release!
Are the sites listed just canaries being monitored or notifications of removed canaries?
In the UK, Uber cars and drivers have to follow the same registration and licensing requirements as private hire taxis, which they do in my city and they don't seem to have made much of a fuss about it. Every other day though there's an article where they kick up a stink about being forced to follow municipality regulations and how it shouldn't affect them as they're not really a taxi service. I've no idea why they think it would fly anywhere else.
I don't know why Uber are whining about this. It appears they try to enter every market with their cowboy style of 'ride sharing', then once they get a dressing down by the local authorities they'll adapt the service, get some properly insured and licensed taxis to operate as part of the Uber network and then just run the service like a local taxi firm but with a cool app. That's what they did in the UK anyway so I don't know why they're now trying to launch in Germany with lax standards.
How very cynical of you. However I'm inclined to agree.
I thought the Secret Service protected diplomats and US currency. Why were they getting involved with a security breach at a hotel? Unless the documents he had were for the concierge arranging hookers for visiting politicians.
BRB, off to patent warp drive...
Or maybe he's trying to atone for some things.
Like Clippy?
In both cases you've acquired the same content, in the same form, for the same price. But now we're supposed to believe that because it happens via the internet, a crime has been committed? That their business is now suddenly failing because people are doing the same thing they've done for years with tape players and vcrs?
There's a slight difference. When time-shifting (recording from TV or Radio), the broadcaster has already paid a royalty to broadcast the content, which is significantly higher than a mechanical royalty paid on a CD or DVD. When downloading, usually the original source (a DVD or CD) has only netted the publisher a mechanical royalty on one sale (or no royalty at all if it was leaked).
Sam & Max Mechwarrior Freespace Starfox (the space shooter one, not the platform) Megaman I don't play games anymore these days except the odd NES emulator or flash game. Any of these faithful to the original gameplay would get me interested again.
Hopefully the way things go will be something like this: The newest generation of browsers (Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Opera 10) all leave beta. They all pass acid3 (Chrome almost) and are standards compliant. Web developers can't resist all the HTML5 & Javascript goodness and a few killer apps start to support compliant browsers only. IE dies overnight, cue celebration scene from Endor!