Wouldn't it be problematic that the entire moon (on the Earth side) is only uncovered for about a week at a time? If you're going to go to all the trouble of setting up a big power plant on the moon, I'd like to see it producing near capacity all the time. Anybody know how light it is on the side of the moon we never see (except in fuzzy Solviet pictures)?
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But it's better to have AC going from the power station right up to the plug in your home.
Tesla would be proud.
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The beam won't cover more than a few square km. Current powerlines and phone lines are no big deal.
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The article indicates it would take about three times as much as the budget for the Apollo landings (which was $19 billion). If you take inflation into account, I'd bet it would actually be cheeper than Apollo.
Stick with the RFC's and the tried and true TCP transport system. This company will fail.
UDP is just fine for this application because you don't need to receive every single packet to reconstruct the entire set of data. Read up on Tornado codes.
Only time will tell if this is a good idea or not. If anything, they will probably fail because of creating a propreity standard and fall away into obscurity (or get bought by one of the big players).
Actually, it was someone at LDP that noticed that the license didn't work under Debian. If that guy hadn't noticed it, Debian developers would have been blissfuly ignorant of the issue.
What does it matter if "non-free" is part of the offical Debian project or not. It sits on their FTP servers (and mirrors). You can put it in your sources.list and expect apt to get the packages correctly, and dpkg can parse the package format they are in. Weather it is "really" part of Debian or not is just semantics that don't matter in the real world.
The real problem is that Debian make a diffrent policy for software and documentation. Documentation probably should be put to a diffrent set of standards than software, and hopefuly this will change in future releases.
I've never seen Linus or most other kernel hackers make a distribution, either, so maybe we should call it "Debian-the-OS-formally-known-as-GNU/Linux".
GIF code (for encoding GIFs, not reading) is not free due to software patents. Further, GIF is in the process of being replaced by a free standard (PNG), which is also technilogicaly superior. For similar reasons, MP3 readers are perfectly safe because the MP3 patent only covers the encoding process.
Exactly how is this "hypocricy"? Debian says it's a project that upholds a certain set of Free Software guidelines, and then does so. They still allow non-free software, but it is seperated from the free stuff. It would be hypocritical to allow GIF encoding or LDP docuementation as a "special case". Now you may disagree with their unwavering stance on Free Software, but that is no basis for calling them hypocrits. Even so, I'm not sure that documentation should be held to the same standards as software.
(Personally, I started using Debian because of their stance with Free Software. I didn't even know what apt was until six months or so after I started using it.)
I've read all the most commonly used licenses under the Open Source Inititave (GPL, LGPL, Artistic, BSD, etc.), but I almost never read propreity licenses. Even the GPL's leagalees looks tame in comparison.
Oh, and I also check the terms of service for DNS providers, but almost never for other places.
I'll accept that Kirk's death was handled wrong, and that Shatner could bring him back at least in a book to give him a proper death would be OK. But doing it with a suicide attack that takes out the entire Borg collective and then bringing him back for more books is incredibly arrogant, espically being that with VERY few exceptions, Trek books are not cannon.
Capt. Kirk (Shatner) passes the baton to a new Starfleet commander, Capt. Picard (Stewart).
That scene sucked. In Star Trek V, he said he knew he would die alone. Checking "Generations" again . . . nope, Picard was standing right there when he died.
Then Shatner has to go and write some stupid books about it, bring Kirk back to life after "Generations" took place, then "die alone" (as he was supposed to) while having the arrogance to destroy the entire Borg collective, then writing another book after "Insurrection", bring back Kirk AGAIN, and saying "no, I didn't destroy the Borg, that was just a small section of the collective". Uggg.
Speaking of Hugh, what ever happened to that borg computer virus that was created when they captured Hugh? That's just the sort of thing I would think Star Fleet would put somewhere in the datastores of every federation ship. "Just in case you're trapped 70,000 light years in the Delta quadrant and surrounded by a few hundred Borg cubes, use this."
The whole idea of centralization in the collective, on any level (either for the entire collective, parts of the collective, or individual ships), simply does not fit with how the Borg were presented in TNG.
One exception I will make for this is the transwarp gateways seen in the final episode of Voyager. Those things would likely take an awful lot of resources to build, so it makes sense that even the Borg only have a few of them. Of course, Voyager has other problems with the Borg (and that episode in particular), such as uber-torpedos that destroy cubes in one hit and invincible armor plating. Ho hum, whoppie.
I stayed awake for that film, but I wish I hadn't. I haven't seen the new version, though.
Intrestingly, "The Motion Picture" was supposed to be a pilot for a new series. Then "Star Wars" was released and the Star Trek people we're worried that the popularity of Star Wars would overshadow Star Trek, so they rewrote the series pilot as the movie. Many of the other scripts they had written up to that point were eventually turned into TNG episodes.
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Wouldn't it be problematic that the entire moon (on the Earth side) is only uncovered for about a week at a time? If you're going to go to all the trouble of setting up a big power plant on the moon, I'd like to see it producing near capacity all the time. Anybody know how light it is on the side of the moon we never see (except in fuzzy Solviet pictures)?
But it's better to have AC going from the power station right up to the plug in your home.
Tesla would be proud.
The beam won't cover more than a few square km. Current powerlines and phone lines are no big deal.
The article indicates it would take about three times as much as the budget for the Apollo landings (which was $19 billion). If you take inflation into account, I'd bet it would actually be cheeper than Apollo.
Answer: America is not a very good capitalist system. In fact, it is closer to socialism than anything the USSR had.
Isn't that exactly what they are doing (integrating IE into Windows, for example).
Stick with the RFC's and the tried and true TCP transport system. This company will fail.
UDP is just fine for this application because you don't need to receive every single packet to reconstruct the entire set of data. Read up on Tornado codes.
Only time will tell if this is a good idea or not. If anything, they will probably fail because of creating a propreity standard and fall away into obscurity (or get bought by one of the big players).
Please tell me that data was encrypted first.
No one makes money off of DNS . . .
These people disagree, but I think they help prove your point :)
Taken to a logical conclusion, we should really call it Apple/Xerox/NextStep/Microsoft Windows (and I'm probably missing some).
Actually, it was someone at LDP that noticed that the license didn't work under Debian. If that guy hadn't noticed it, Debian developers would have been blissfuly ignorant of the issue.
What does it matter if "non-free" is part of the offical Debian project or not. It sits on their FTP servers (and mirrors). You can put it in your sources.list and expect apt to get the packages correctly, and dpkg can parse the package format they are in. Weather it is "really" part of Debian or not is just semantics that don't matter in the real world.
Ha! Congradulations on slashdotting yourself ;)
The real problem is that Debian make a diffrent policy for software and documentation. Documentation probably should be put to a diffrent set of standards than software, and hopefuly this will change in future releases.
I've never seen Linus or most other kernel hackers make a distribution, either, so maybe we should call it "Debian-the-OS-formally-known-as-GNU/Linux".
I believe you CAN'T call something 'GNU myproject' unless the rights are handed over to the FSF.
No, they just require that you are using a GNU license.
GIF code (for encoding GIFs, not reading) is not free due to software patents. Further, GIF is in the process of being replaced by a free standard (PNG), which is also technilogicaly superior. For similar reasons, MP3 readers are perfectly safe because the MP3 patent only covers the encoding process.
Exactly how is this "hypocricy"? Debian says it's a project that upholds a certain set of Free Software guidelines, and then does so. They still allow non-free software, but it is seperated from the free stuff. It would be hypocritical to allow GIF encoding or LDP docuementation as a "special case". Now you may disagree with their unwavering stance on Free Software, but that is no basis for calling them hypocrits. Even so, I'm not sure that documentation should be held to the same standards as software.
(Personally, I started using Debian because of their stance with Free Software. I didn't even know what apt was until six months or so after I started using it.)
I've read all the most commonly used licenses under the Open Source Inititave (GPL, LGPL, Artistic, BSD, etc.), but I almost never read propreity licenses. Even the GPL's leagalees looks tame in comparison.
Oh, and I also check the terms of service for DNS providers, but almost never for other places.
I'll accept that Kirk's death was handled wrong, and that Shatner could bring him back at least in a book to give him a proper death would be OK. But doing it with a suicide attack that takes out the entire Borg collective and then bringing him back for more books is incredibly arrogant, espically being that with VERY few exceptions, Trek books are not cannon.
Capt. Kirk (Shatner) passes the baton to a new Starfleet commander, Capt. Picard (Stewart).
That scene sucked. In Star Trek V, he said he knew he would die alone. Checking "Generations" again . . . nope, Picard was standing right there when he died.
Then Shatner has to go and write some stupid books about it, bring Kirk back to life after "Generations" took place, then "die alone" (as he was supposed to) while having the arrogance to destroy the entire Borg collective, then writing another book after "Insurrection", bring back Kirk AGAIN, and saying "no, I didn't destroy the Borg, that was just a small section of the collective". Uggg.
I didn't particularly like it either, but Paramount will be very happy if they get another Trek movie with the money number 4 pulled in.
Insurrection was also not an ILM job. Berman has said he wanted the "best bang for the buck", effects-wise.
Speaking of Hugh, what ever happened to that borg computer virus that was created when they captured Hugh? That's just the sort of thing I would think Star Fleet would put somewhere in the datastores of every federation ship. "Just in case you're trapped 70,000 light years in the Delta quadrant and surrounded by a few hundred Borg cubes, use this."
The whole idea of centralization in the collective, on any level (either for the entire collective, parts of the collective, or individual ships), simply does not fit with how the Borg were presented in TNG.
One exception I will make for this is the transwarp gateways seen in the final episode of Voyager. Those things would likely take an awful lot of resources to build, so it makes sense that even the Borg only have a few of them. Of course, Voyager has other problems with the Borg (and that episode in particular), such as uber-torpedos that destroy cubes in one hit and invincible armor plating. Ho hum, whoppie.
I stayed awake for that film, but I wish I hadn't. I haven't seen the new version, though.
Intrestingly, "The Motion Picture" was supposed to be a pilot for a new series. Then "Star Wars" was released and the Star Trek people we're worried that the popularity of Star Wars would overshadow Star Trek, so they rewrote the series pilot as the movie. Many of the other scripts they had written up to that point were eventually turned into TNG episodes.