World currency markets are not based on gold standards anymore. There's just not enough gold to go around to capture the economic value being traded in today's electronic money.
If the world were flooded with gold, industrialized nations would use it as a resource in producing consumer goods. We would have gold everything, but, the world markets would remain intact.
Can people reproduce on other planets? Can any earth creature? We can conceivably provide a breathable habitat, running water, etc. But, it is becoming clear that gravity plays a fairly strong role in the development of living things from fertilized egg to adulthood. Perhaps it might be impossible to reproduce on the moon or mars, because there is not enough gravity. Or, maybe you can but there will be a statistical risk of some undiscovered birth defect.
It may turn out that the only viable planet to really colonize is Venus, then, it becomes a question of, what do we do with 10^20 tons of carbon dioxide!
I imagine an outcome of this litigation would be a GPL specific addendum to copyright law. I find it hard to believe that the Republican Party would not change copyright legislation at the request of the combined efforts of IBM, Sun, Dell, etc. Once they get that open source code allows for greater diversity, and thus, stronger markets, in computer hardware, they will do it. Plus, even though California might go anti-GPL, Texas, Florida, New York, Massachussets (sp?) and Pennsylvania delegations would probably go pro GPL because of either heavy hardware or consulting presences.
There will probably be some text you will be able to mark your IP with, and it will look mostly like the GPL is today, and, there will probably be a federal repository for it.
It might not actually be a bad idea to jump the gun and start lobbying for a federal GPL act.
You see a thief on camera, whack him! All citizens would have to spend time on line monitoring national cameras, shooting thieves. I'd let my kid do it:
If NASA called me up and said, we're going to launch you on the shuttle, are you willing to go. You have a 1 in 50 chance in being killed during the mission, but, you'll get to go to space if you live. I would bet there are easily 100,000 people that would do this. Astronauts know the risks they are taking, and, there are plenty of people willing to take those risks.
It's my understanding that we are going to return to the moon by having NASA join in the military on the costs of an updated EELV. The new Atlas and Delta rockets already can do payload into GEO and LEO orbits for less than a 1/10th cost of the shuttle.
oh, and what's the next release of Java have?
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real enumerations, like C# real attributes and program metadata, like C# real foreach, like C# generics, like the next version of C#
Face it, if C# borrows from Java, the next release of Java is a ripoff of C#.
This is not too different of a problem from that which confronts the "hydrogen economy." I seem to recall reading that the most effective way to get hydrogen atoms packed into a tiny space is in fact the trusty carbon atom. So yeah, liquid hydrogen doesn't have that much mass, but, to get the same effect as burning a gallon of gas requires some absurd amount of more volume. I wonder, really, what the tradeoffs are?
"I can't swim.. I CaN'T sWim... I cannot swim... I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. sdf@#$@#$@#$
> guess any argument including infinite anything has problems to begin with
Watch it: does that mean you don't believe singularities exist? Or what about the big bang. At the moment prior to the big bang, the universe was an infinitely dense point.
I think sometimes too much collaboration can be a bad thing, it leads to committees, culture differences, etc. It's probably better to let the different nations (EU and USA and China), each try out their own methods, and then, when the results come in, everyone would benefit from it, incorporate that into their own programs, and then, proceed onto the next steps.
But wow, look at what's going on on the ground. The new rover images are really remarkable.
I feel bad for the Europeans and the loss of the Beagle. Hopefully this won't dissuade European policy makers from continuing to explore the stars, and honestly, a friendly rivalry will help the space programs on all continents.
It seems better to have nations compete to build spacecraft to expore the heavens with than it is to have them compete to build more armies with.
HAM radio operators have a vested interest in opposing the use of broadband over power lines because the RF interference screws up their sets.
So, they are going to do anything they can to fight this, tooth and nail, and if it means using Photoshop to conjure up a broadband over powerline baby with 18 twisted limbs, they probably would. Not that I would blame them for doing so, as I'm not really sure I like the idea myself.
I have to say that I'm amazed with the claim that Mars is being mapped better than the Earth. I don't like the associative suggestion that somehow we know more about Mars than the Earth. We don't.
There's probably not a spot on the surface of the Earth that has not been visited by a human, while on Mars we can't even decide if the ground is muddy or not. We know so little about the red planet.
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World currency markets are not based on gold standards anymore. There's just not enough gold to go around to capture the economic value being traded in today's electronic money.
If the world were flooded with gold, industrialized nations would use it as a resource in producing consumer goods. We would have gold everything, but, the world markets would remain intact.
(click)
"FBI, are you aware of what you said?"
"Ah, I just wanted my DSL to work, and they said to wait three weeks."
"You threatened to blow the place. That's a violation of federal law."
"I was just upset."
"You know that Mr. Ashcroft will do anything to protect the assets of those who invest in the United States"
"But, why should I have to wait three weeks for service."
"Sloppy service does not give you the right to threaten American investors.."
whir of sirens...
Really, wouldn't creating new opportunities be good?
Can people reproduce on other planets? Can any earth creature? We can conceivably provide a breathable habitat, running water, etc. But, it is becoming clear that gravity plays a fairly strong role in the development of living things from fertilized egg to adulthood. Perhaps it might be impossible to reproduce on the moon or mars, because there is not enough gravity. Or, maybe you can but there will be a statistical risk of some undiscovered birth defect.
It may turn out that the only viable planet to really colonize is Venus, then, it becomes a question of, what do we do with 10^20 tons of carbon dioxide!
These are sweet days.
I imagine an outcome of this litigation would be a GPL specific addendum to copyright law. I find it hard to believe that the Republican Party would not change copyright legislation at the request of the combined efforts of IBM, Sun, Dell, etc. Once they get that open source code allows for greater diversity, and thus, stronger markets, in computer hardware, they will do it. Plus, even though California might go anti-GPL, Texas, Florida, New York, Massachussets (sp?) and Pennsylvania delegations would probably go pro GPL because of either heavy hardware or consulting presences.
There will probably be some text you will be able to mark your IP with, and it will look mostly like the GPL is today, and, there will probably be a federal repository for it.
It might not actually be a bad idea to jump the gun and start lobbying for a federal GPL act.
Other reasons include religious or racial freedom. If you have something "new" and a new order being built in space, people will go there...
then, we'll go back to killing lawyers.
Jesus Christ people, if you hang your free speech arguments on the right to show videos of daddy fucking a dog, you will lose those rights.
You see a thief on camera, whack him! All citizens would have to spend time on line monitoring national cameras, shooting thieves. I'd let my kid do it:
"If it looks like a thief..."
"Blast the thief!"
"Blast the thief!"
"Blast the thief!"
You got three!
See, no more crime!
If NASA called me up and said, we're going to launch you on the shuttle, are you willing to go. You have a 1 in 50 chance in being killed during the mission, but, you'll get to go to space if you live. I would bet there are easily 100,000 people that would do this. Astronauts know the risks they are taking, and, there are plenty of people willing to take those risks.
It's my understanding that we are going to return to the moon by having NASA join in the military on the costs of an updated EELV. The new Atlas and Delta rockets already can do payload into GEO and LEO orbits for less than a 1/10th cost of the shuttle.
real enumerations, like C#
real attributes and program metadata, like C#
real foreach, like C#
generics, like the next version of C#
Face it, if C# borrows from Java, the next release of Java is a ripoff of C#.
Woe be to the guy that said, "woah, I dropped the Rover..."
Uh oh.
We ought to be able to genetically engineer stuff that can being terraforming Mars. Full speed ahead!
How can you possibly cool a 150 watt chip running at full bore without sounding like you are running a sweeper?
Already my ATX case is way loud, and I'm wondering if it might not be time to start seriously thinking about liquid cooling.
This is not too different of a problem from that which confronts the "hydrogen economy." I seem to recall reading that the most effective way to get hydrogen atoms packed into a tiny space is in fact the trusty carbon atom. So yeah, liquid hydrogen doesn't have that much mass, but, to get the same effect as burning a gallon of gas requires some absurd amount of more volume. I wonder, really, what the tradeoffs are?
One C/S degree > many certifications, and probably cheaper over the lifetime.
"I can't swim.. I CaN'T sWim ... I cannot swim... I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. I can't swim.. sdf@#$@#$@#$
> guess any argument including infinite anything has problems to begin with
Watch it: does that mean you don't believe singularities exist? Or what about the big bang. At the moment prior to the big bang, the universe was an infinitely dense point.
I think sometimes too much collaboration can be a bad thing, it leads to committees, culture differences, etc. It's probably better to let the different nations (EU and USA and China), each try out their own methods, and then, when the results come in, everyone would benefit from it, incorporate that into their own programs, and then, proceed onto the next steps.
Whatever.
But wow, look at what's going on on the ground. The new rover images are really remarkable.
I feel bad for the Europeans and the loss of the Beagle. Hopefully this won't dissuade European policy makers from continuing to explore the stars, and honestly, a friendly rivalry will help the space programs on all continents.
It seems better to have nations compete to build spacecraft to expore the heavens with than it is to have them compete to build more armies with.
As Khan would say, "Let them meet static!".
HAM radio operators have a vested interest in opposing the use of broadband over power lines because the RF interference screws up their sets.
So, they are going to do anything they can to fight this, tooth and nail, and if it means using Photoshop to conjure up a broadband over powerline baby with 18 twisted limbs, they probably would. Not that I would blame them for doing so, as I'm not really sure I like the idea myself.
I have to say that I'm amazed with the claim that Mars is being mapped better than the Earth. I don't like the associative suggestion that somehow we know more about Mars than the Earth. We don't.
There's probably not a spot on the surface of the Earth that has not been visited by a human, while on Mars we can't even decide if the ground is muddy or not. We know so little about the red planet.