I do not remember where, but I read one guy, who was employed at a large company, say that the patent system today is used by large companies to keep small companies and disruptive innovations out of the way. Do not cause any surprise to you that we see every day news of great innovations that are only available in 10, 15 years?
The system is not broken, the error is to believe that it serves to protect and encourage innovation
Plausible, but will be really interesting if the neutrinos can travel faster than light. Why? Imagine the possibilities. And I could put another possibility: What if the photon have mass (really small, but not zero) and this mass is slightly larger than that of a neutrino? This would cause the neutrino to be faster than the photon.
Exactly. I really hate when those goddammit hypes goes wild. Some stupid thought could really do something with complete applications was idealized to display text, and now believes that everyone has to do the same thing. As a baby that insists on trying to put the square object in the round hole.
Are you fucking mad? The whole concept fails miserably when you, for thousands of possible reasons, loses the network connection. Not everyone has available network connections running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Try to find out the current owner of the rights of "Game X". If after some time looking for you can not find who owns it, then just download the ROM from anywhere.
I say the problem is not on you making an operating system with C#, Ruby, or even Brainfuck.... Becomes a problem when you do this and tries to push up to the whole world that your operating system made in their is the best thing in the universe in spite of her atrocious performance compared to an "mainline" operating system or reinvent the wheel in the most heinous possible way.
I invite you to try. Try to reach a iron vein 1000 (or more) meters below earth, open a mine in this deep, protect then from floodings, explosions, avoid being buried and remember that you have to remove many tons of earth and low concentration iron ore for each ton of pure iron. It is still "easy" to mine on Earth? And this for iron, for rare metals is even more difficult.
But you still have one problem: The patent war/trolls. In the current situation you can not even take a step without "violating" the "imaginary property" of someone
Well, the idea is pretty simple: On Earth and on the Moon, you need to dig to get the ore. On the planetary formation, almost all valuable metal sinks to the core (more dense than most non-metals), and is actually impossible to get this almost pure metal ore on the core of Earth or Moon. But a asteroid - specially a metallic one - is more or less a big piece of many metals that you do not need to dig kilometers to get, you only need to cut then into pieces on site. And the idea turns specially interesting with the fact that is not difficult to find metallic asteroids with BILLIONS tons of metals, many of then rare and difficult to find in quantity on Earth. As example, Iridium is rare on Earth, but common on asteroids. If you need many tons of iridium, you will need to go to space.
P.S: Google translator is really bad to translate from my native language to english
I wrote "easy to extract" meaning the work of reach a vein of ore in the earth (which can be hundreds of meters below the surface) versus simply taking pieces of a metallic asteroid on orbit.
Your mistake is to think in financial terms rather than practical terms. Banks can create money from nothing, But no one can can create metal from nothing.
Damn, I forgot the most important reason to search as soon as mining asteroids: You are thinking only of the financial part of the idea... You can not build cars, airplanes and spacecraft with money, you need the metal that money buys. Banks can create money from the vacuum (debts are money), but anyone can create metals from the vacuum.
Think on a very big amount of easy to extract iridium, platinum, many and many iron, manganese, titanium, and many others metals rare on earth but easy to find on metallic asteroids (many of the iron mines of the world are ancient asteroid impact sites). Minning asteroids is still a bad idea? And we have the tech (geostationary satellites), the actual problem is only how to scale to something big as a asteroid.
You can put a "solar farm" on orbit, but when you send the power down (microwaves, laser, etc) dust still is a problem (the need to beam power across a dust storm). And now you need too to keep the solar cell in orbit pointing to the receptor on the ground, is not a easy task. A RTG is simpler and much more reliable to this task
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The Brazilian army uses buffalos to this job, where you can not drive a truck through.
I do not remember where, but I read one guy, who was employed at a large company, say that the patent system today is used by large companies to keep small companies and disruptive innovations out of the way. Do not cause any surprise to you that we see every day news of great innovations that are only available in 10, 15 years?
The system is not broken, the error is to believe that it serves to protect and encourage innovation
... to get a job like that? Oh wait, I need to sign using blood? And what stranger paper is this that smells like... sulfur?
Plausible, but will be really interesting if the neutrinos can travel faster than light. Why? Imagine the possibilities. And I could put another possibility: What if the photon have mass (really small, but not zero) and this mass is slightly larger than that of a neutrino? This would cause the neutrino to be faster than the photon.
Angry Physicists, that do not accept anything can be faster than light, clogging the post with comments in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
(I am of those who believe that everything can be revised if you show sufficient evidence)
If I was Barnes & Noble, I would throw the Microsoft lawyer by my office window on the 10th floor.
I opened the larger version from the picture from article (the size comparasion between the sats), and for my, the KH-11 are a copy from Hubble
McAfee running a level below the operating system? Hmm ... What could possibly go wrong? :)
Exactly. I really hate when those goddammit hypes goes wild. Some stupid thought could really do something with complete applications was idealized to display text, and now believes that everyone has to do the same thing. As a baby that insists on trying to put the square object in the round hole.
Are you fucking mad? The whole concept fails miserably when you, for thousands of possible reasons, loses the network connection. Not everyone has available network connections running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
And I agree
... Greed and fear are the driving forces of humanity now. The only thing you and I as "mere mortals" can do now is watch until the final collapse.
Try to find out the current owner of the rights of "Game X". If after some time looking for you can not find who owns it, then just download the ROM from anywhere.
LOL!
Burning undead cows?
I say the problem is not on you making an operating system with C#, Ruby, or even Brainfuck.... Becomes a problem when you do this and tries to push up to the whole world that your operating system made in their is the best thing in the universe in spite of her atrocious performance compared to an "mainline" operating system or reinvent the wheel in the most heinous possible way.
I invite you to try. Try to reach a iron vein 1000 (or more) meters below earth, open a mine in this deep, protect then from floodings, explosions, avoid being buried and remember that you have to remove many tons of earth and low concentration iron ore for each ton of pure iron. It is still "easy" to mine on Earth? And this for iron, for rare metals is even more difficult.
But you still have one problem: The patent war/trolls. In the current situation you can not even take a step without "violating" the "imaginary property" of someone
Well, the idea is pretty simple: On Earth and on the Moon, you need to dig to get the ore. On the planetary formation, almost all valuable metal sinks to the core (more dense than most non-metals), and is actually impossible to get this almost pure metal ore on the core of Earth or Moon. But a asteroid - specially a metallic one - is more or less a big piece of many metals that you do not need to dig kilometers to get, you only need to cut then into pieces on site. And the idea turns specially interesting with the fact that is not difficult to find metallic asteroids with BILLIONS tons of metals, many of then rare and difficult to find in quantity on Earth. As example, Iridium is rare on Earth, but common on asteroids. If you need many tons of iridium, you will need to go to space.
P.S: Google translator is really bad to translate from my native language to english
I wrote "easy to extract" meaning the work of reach a vein of ore in the earth (which can be hundreds of meters below the surface) versus simply taking pieces of a metallic asteroid on orbit.
Your mistake is to think in financial terms rather than practical terms. Banks can create money from nothing, But no one can can create metal from nothing.
Damn, I forgot the most important reason to search as soon as mining asteroids: You are thinking only of the financial part of the idea... You can not build cars, airplanes and spacecraft with money, you need the metal that money buys. Banks can create money from the vacuum (debts are money), but anyone can create metals from the vacuum.
Think on a very big amount of easy to extract iridium, platinum, many and many iron, manganese, titanium, and many others metals rare on earth but easy to find on metallic asteroids (many of the iron mines of the world are ancient asteroid impact sites). Minning asteroids is still a bad idea? And we have the tech (geostationary satellites), the actual problem is only how to scale to something big as a asteroid.
You can put a "solar farm" on orbit, but when you send the power down (microwaves, laser, etc) dust still is a problem (the need to beam power across a dust storm). And now you need too to keep the solar cell in orbit pointing to the receptor on the ground, is not a easy task. A RTG is simpler and much more reliable to this task
Well... Mars, Moon and other planets already have much more radiation than you can add to then with a small nuclear reactor.