If someone put up NC licensed instructions for making a one of these designs, and I carved one out of a block of wood. Would I still be violating the terms?
The people who purchased the printers and then printed those copyrighted designs weren't violating the designer's copyright. The company which included his copyrighted designs for sale with their commercial product (the printer) were violating copyright. The problem is the company distributing copyrighted (actually copyleft) designs commercially without permission, and specifically against the CC-NC licence being used.
Example: Suppose I run a How-To website that instructs people how to... let's say, build custom cars (well, this is a slashdot analogy). Being an instruction site, it's implicit that I expect people to follow my instructions and create my designs, however my website and my instructions are themselves copyright. Now because of how awesome I am, (really awesome), I licence my instructions under one of the non-commercial copy-left licences (such as CC-NC). Non-commercial distributors (say not-for-profit hobby builder clubs) are free to re-distribute my instructions. However... some jackass commercial car parts company has been selling kits of component parts along with a copy of my instructions for that model. That is a violation of my site licence, a violation of the clear intent of the "artist" (me), and thus a violation of copyright law.
Has nothing to do with patents, or whether you can "copyright" objects, or any other crap. It's a pure issue of copyright of the instruction. The only novelties are that the violator is a "3d printer manufacturer" and the artist licences his instructions under CC copyleft.
The Hellas Basin impact would have increased the amount of volatiles in the atmosphere, delaying the "thinning". It can't be responsible for Mars' loss of atmosphere and water, impacts don't work that way.
IMO, the impacts in the Late Heavy Bombardment are probably the reason Mars ever had an atmosphere/ocean. Once the bombardment ended, the planet started to geologically freeze up, and that prevented the atmosphere from being replenished.
Move Venus to MSL3 and spin it. As the atmosphere cools, drop chunks of Ganymede every few years for water and possibly organics. If it cools too far (unlikely with all that CO2 and added water), move it to ESL3.
Colliding Mars and Mercury into Venus adds nothing of value, certainly nothing worth the hundred million extra years you'd need to wait afterwards.
The smallest 787 configuration carries 210 passengers. The largest stretched Embraer carries just 120. Different league entirely. Embraer is competing with the 717/A318 and similar small commuter jets, not the 787/A380 and similar wide bodied jumbos.
2. When a strange problem arrives or I suspect such a problem may exist in some new software, I give them tools. Specifically a button that says "REPORT BUG!" that takes screenshots, dumps the contents of variables and datasets. If available, previous steps taken. Also the log files... and sends it all directly to me. Usually adding such a thing is pretty simple
If it's this easy why would you only do this selectively? Shouldn't this be the default reporting process in any program/system you produce?
Why would you want to have any reporting process other than this (except when program/system itself (or the Report Bug button) can't be accessed.))
OTOH, this...
3. I write documentation on how to properly submit a bug. I make it very clear to people that are not computer savvy what to do. Down to "How to save the file" and "How to take a screenshot" I make it so even my mom could follow the instructions.
I wasn't responding to the dropped plural and incorrect capitalisation. I was responding to the irony in you complaining about bad questions and the achingly bad questions you posted as examples of what you ask.
Asking the user, "Did you download the newest version from the test server", when you already auto-grab user information, which I would damn well hope includes build info.
Or ever asking anyone "Did you follow the setup directions properly?" No, I sincerely believe I'm the problem, that's why I'm submitting this as a bug report.
Click on it and a dialog box comes up that says simply "What's wrong with this page?" and has a big blank area to fill in.
"It's not working."
"What is not visible is that the JavaScript code for the BUG! button is grabbing all the information it can from the browser itself - what the current URL is, all the global JavaScript variables, name of the current logged-in user, time and date, browser type, web page contents, etc. All grabbed automatically. And all stored in a special file on the server. The only thing the user has to tell me is what she doesn't like about that page."
So when they call, you say, "Click on the 'Help' menu [explain where that is], 'Troubleshooting', 'Send message log to helpdesk'," so you can see for yourself what the message was and what program state triggered it.
What, your product doesn't log that stuff? Yeah, this is totally the user's fault.
It depends on the type of law. Driving offences are generally "Strict liability" crimes, requiring only the act (actus reus.) But many offences also require intent (mens rea), usually defined in the original law. Ie, robbery might be defined as "taking property with intent to deprive the rightful owner", and both act and intent must be proved.
Don't forget about the landing fuel you have to tote with you along your whole trip. That is not trivial weight.
Actually it is trivial. The rocket is landing almost empty, the extra fuel to get down is vastly less than the amount to go up.
There were industry studies in the '90s and early 2000s that showed fairly conclusively that the added mass of fuel (especially as rockets are never burned dry) is about the same as all the added mass and complexity from a soft-landing parachute system. (Hard landing parachutes are lighter, but not suitable for a reusable system.) Remember, most of your mass is engines and their controllers, pumps, tanks, etc, which you have to carry anyway. And with first stages (which is what Grasshopper is), you can add more fuel without affecting your payload mass. (Reusable upper stages will eat into payload mass.)
[The extra mass required for a horizontal landing, otoh, massively outweighs the small amount extra fuel required for VTOL. They aren't even in the same universe.]
That's not how the polls are shaping up. Greens have lost votes. The swing against Labor is going directly to the Liberal primary vote. I suspect the Greens and the current independents will lose their lower house seats.
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If someone put up NC licensed instructions for making a one of these designs, and I carved one out of a block of wood. Would I still be violating the terms?
The people who purchased the printers and then printed those copyrighted designs weren't violating the designer's copyright. The company which included his copyrighted designs for sale with their commercial product (the printer) were violating copyright. The problem is the company distributing copyrighted (actually copyleft) designs commercially without permission, and specifically against the CC-NC licence being used.
Example: Suppose I run a How-To website that instructs people how to... let's say, build custom cars (well, this is a slashdot analogy). Being an instruction site, it's implicit that I expect people to follow my instructions and create my designs, however my website and my instructions are themselves copyright. Now because of how awesome I am, (really awesome), I licence my instructions under one of the non-commercial copy-left licences (such as CC-NC). Non-commercial distributors (say not-for-profit hobby builder clubs) are free to re-distribute my instructions. However... some jackass commercial car parts company has been selling kits of component parts along with a copy of my instructions for that model. That is a violation of my site licence, a violation of the clear intent of the "artist" (me), and thus a violation of copyright law.
Has nothing to do with patents, or whether you can "copyright" objects, or any other crap. It's a pure issue of copyright of the instruction. The only novelties are that the violator is a "3d printer manufacturer" and the artist licences his instructions under CC copyleft.
...to the Extreme, Bro!
Peace out, Yo.
The Hellas Basin impact would have increased the amount of volatiles in the atmosphere, delaying the "thinning". It can't be responsible for Mars' loss of atmosphere and water, impacts don't work that way.
IMO, the impacts in the Late Heavy Bombardment are probably the reason Mars ever had an atmosphere/ocean. Once the bombardment ended, the planet started to geologically freeze up, and that prevented the atmosphere from being replenished.
Move Venus to MSL3 and spin it. As the atmosphere cools, drop chunks of Ganymede every few years for water and possibly organics. If it cools too far (unlikely with all that CO2 and added water), move it to ESL3.
Colliding Mars and Mercury into Venus adds nothing of value, certainly nothing worth the hundred million extra years you'd need to wait afterwards.
This always ends badly.
The smallest 787 configuration carries 210 passengers. The largest stretched Embraer carries just 120. Different league entirely. Embraer is competing with the 717/A318 and similar small commuter jets, not the 787/A380 and similar wide bodied jumbos.
More importantly: That's all your crews? For Heathrow? Third busiest airport in the world?
Hardly a "cheap airline" if they are flying brand new planes.
2. When a strange problem arrives or I suspect such a problem may exist in some new software, I give them tools. Specifically a button that says "REPORT BUG!" that takes screenshots, dumps the contents of variables and datasets. If available, previous steps taken. Also the log files... and sends it all directly to me. Usually adding such a thing is pretty simple
If it's this easy why would you only do this selectively? Shouldn't this be the default reporting process in any program/system you produce?
Why would you want to have any reporting process other than this (except when program/system itself (or the Report Bug button) can't be accessed.))
OTOH, this...
3. I write documentation on how to properly submit a bug. I make it very clear to people that are not computer savvy what to do. Down to "How to save the file" and "How to take a screenshot" I make it so even my mom could follow the instructions.
... seems vastly less useful.
Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?
I wasn't responding to the dropped plural and incorrect capitalisation. I was responding to the irony in you complaining about bad questions and the achingly bad questions you posted as examples of what you ask.
Asking the user, "Did you download the newest version from the test server", when you already auto-grab user information, which I would damn well hope includes build info.
Or ever asking anyone "Did you follow the setup directions properly?" No, I sincerely believe I'm the problem, that's why I'm submitting this as a bug report.
If it's possible for the users to submit bad bug reports, it's likely that your bug report submission process is broken.
Did you follow the setup directions properly, Did you download the newest version from the test server
I hate when QA tester ask bad question and complain about useless answers.
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Click on it and a dialog box comes up that says simply "What's wrong with this page?" and has a big blank area to fill in.
"It's not working."
"What is not visible is that the JavaScript code for the BUG! button is grabbing all the information it can from the browser itself - what the current URL is, all the global JavaScript variables, name of the current logged-in user, time and date, browser type, web page contents, etc. All grabbed automatically. And all stored in a special file on the server. The only thing the user has to tell me is what she doesn't like about that page."
So when they call, you say, "Click on the 'Help' menu [explain where that is], 'Troubleshooting', 'Send message log to helpdesk'," so you can see for yourself what the message was and what program state triggered it.
What, your product doesn't log that stuff? Yeah, this is totally the user's fault.
It depends on the type of law. Driving offences are generally "Strict liability" crimes, requiring only the act (actus reus.) But many offences also require intent (mens rea), usually defined in the original law. Ie, robbery might be defined as "taking property with intent to deprive the rightful owner", and both act and intent must be proved.
Of course, in practice...
version/language/repository?
What could possibly go wrong?
Are such questions on your mind often?
Unless doing so would harm you, or cause harm to come to you.
Needless to say, the actual article left me disappointed.
Don't forget about the landing fuel you have to tote with you along your whole trip. That is not trivial weight.
Actually it is trivial. The rocket is landing almost empty, the extra fuel to get down is vastly less than the amount to go up.
There were industry studies in the '90s and early 2000s that showed fairly conclusively that the added mass of fuel (especially as rockets are never burned dry) is about the same as all the added mass and complexity from a soft-landing parachute system. (Hard landing parachutes are lighter, but not suitable for a reusable system.) Remember, most of your mass is engines and their controllers, pumps, tanks, etc, which you have to carry anyway. And with first stages (which is what Grasshopper is), you can add more fuel without affecting your payload mass. (Reusable upper stages will eat into payload mass.)
[The extra mass required for a horizontal landing, otoh, massively outweighs the small amount extra fuel required for VTOL. They aren't even in the same universe.]
Something to consider might be a vertical column into which a damaged craft could descent
And then you've added another whole layer of things to go wrong.
[Just a note to let you know I did read and appreciate your considered response.]
That's not how the polls are shaping up. Greens have lost votes. The swing against Labor is going directly to the Liberal primary vote. I suspect the Greens and the current independents will lose their lower house seats.