Heh, the reason why AT&T's telephones were so indestructable is because they weren't a product. They came with the telephone service, so everytime someone broke their AT&T telephone, AT&T had to pay to replace it.
If the music economy were truly capitalist, the RIAA wouldn't lobby congress to force broadcasters to pay the RIAA even if the songs played aren't owned by RIAA member labels.
It won't matter what the system is actually used for if the bootloader won't run any non-authorized kernels.
That's what the problem is. It's already illegal to break copyright law. This is just making it technically impossible to even attempt to break copyright law. It's a law making it illegal to break other laws, even though it outlaws a LOT more that that.
In perfect competition, product prices are only slightly above production costs. In a monopoly, the producer sets prices at whatever they choose. Which model does your country prefer?
All forces on antimatter are just the same as they would be on matter, but electromagnetic charges are opposite, there's nothing really special about it other than that.
A law with good intent doesn't make it a good law. The benefits must outweigh the detriments for any law to last. Just as the prohibition was repealed, if enough people get burned by the DMCA, they will question whether the slight benefits to producers are really worth the detriments to the consumers.
Your statements are true; however, it's not the job of the government to ensure that it's citizens are making the most money that they can today, it's job is to ensure that it promotes the greater good of the society for the long term.
If anything, a base on another planet would be likely to want it's sovereignty from any nations on earth, just like most colonies far-away from their fatherland have wanted. If I were living in a self-sustaining base in obviously very dangerous conditions, I don't think that I'd want someone millions of miles away to control my life.
Obviously though, the nation who funded the base to begin with would see it a different way.
About your airplane, if the air over the top surface "just flow[ed] straight back", then guess what would be above the wing.. a vacuum; this would cause the the air below the wing, which isn't a vacuum, to push the wing up because of the pressure difference. Not too difficult.
Now for black holes:
The equation for escape velocity is: v = sqrt(2*G*mP/rP), where mP is mass of the body, and rP is its radius. For 'black holes', the radii would be insanely small (maybe even zero, but insanely small is good enough) and the mass is very big as well, which would push the velocity to well above the speed of light.
Also, the equation for gravitational acceleration of a uniformly dense sphere (I think black bodies are small enough for this to be accurate) in newtonian physics is: a = G*mP/r^2, with the same variables as above, and r representing the distance from center of the body. This means that with sufficiant mass, and small enough distance, the acceleration would be so large that it would take more energy to accelerate you than is contained in your spacecraft's mass, meaning that you couldn't make that constant acceleration even if you had a perfectly efficiant engine.
So in order to get out from behind the event horizon, you would need a spacecraft with a more-than-perfectly efficant engine that could generate energy faster than a perpetual motion machine, and also be able to accelerate you to faster-than-light velocities, which would probably requrire a second engine and also some way to prevent relativistic physics from affecting you.
No, no. Hilary is going after the evil people who steal money from recording artists. It's 'forgetful' Jack Valenti who's going to crack down on the damn hippies watching movies together.
When a small company is about to fail, the invisible hand does it's job and the company folds.
When a big company is about to fail, the government spends billions of dollars bailing it out because it would otherwise 'damage the economy'.
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Heh, the reason why AT&T's telephones were so indestructable is because they weren't a product. They came with the telephone service, so everytime someone broke their AT&T telephone, AT&T had to pay to replace it.
If the music economy were truly capitalist, the RIAA wouldn't lobby congress to force broadcasters to pay the RIAA even if the songs played aren't owned by RIAA member labels.
It won't matter what the system is actually used for if the bootloader won't run any non-authorized kernels.
That's what the problem is. It's already illegal to break copyright law. This is just making it technically impossible to even attempt to break copyright law. It's a law making it illegal to break other laws, even though it outlaws a LOT more that that.
They could release it as GPL and then, just like you mentioned about the story, wait for it to expire.
It's just normal copyright after all...
They could just wait the author's life + 90 years for the copyright on the software to expire, then close their fork; just like your patent analogy.
The Avifile page has a DivX 5 decoder tarball in the downloads section.
In perfect competition, product prices are only slightly above production costs.
In a monopoly, the producer sets prices at whatever they choose.
Which model does your country prefer?
Cowboy (in the series a nickname for bounty hunter, which the characters are) Bebop (the name of the ship where the main characters live)
It's not even that they said CD sales are lower than before, it's just that sales haven't increased by as much as before.
All forces on antimatter are just the same as they would be on matter, but electromagnetic charges are opposite, there's nothing really special about it other than that.
Here's a fairly large one:h tm l
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/04/1437226.s
A law with good intent doesn't make it a good law. The benefits must outweigh the detriments for any law to last. Just as the prohibition was repealed, if enough people get burned by the DMCA, they will question whether the slight benefits to producers are really worth the detriments to the consumers.
Your statements are true; however, it's not the job of the government to ensure that it's citizens are making the most money that they can today, it's job is to ensure that it promotes the greater good of the society for the long term.
"The easiest way to get shot is to carry a gun" - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
If anything, a base on another planet would be likely to want it's sovereignty from any nations on earth, just like most colonies far-away from their fatherland have wanted. If I were living in a self-sustaining base in obviously very dangerous conditions, I don't think that I'd want someone millions of miles away to control my life.
Obviously though, the nation who funded the base to begin with would see it a different way.
About your airplane, if the air over the top surface "just flow[ed] straight back", then guess what would be above the wing.. a vacuum; this would cause the the air below the wing, which isn't a vacuum, to push the wing up because of the pressure difference. Not too difficult.
Now for black holes:
The equation for escape velocity is: v = sqrt(2*G*mP/rP), where mP is mass of the body, and rP is its radius. For 'black holes', the radii would be insanely small (maybe even zero, but insanely small is good enough) and the mass is very big as well, which would push the velocity to well above the speed of light.
Also, the equation for gravitational acceleration of a uniformly dense sphere (I think black bodies are small enough for this to be accurate) in newtonian physics is: a = G*mP/r^2, with the same variables as above, and r representing the distance from center of the body. This means that with sufficiant mass, and small enough distance, the acceleration would be so large that it would take more energy to accelerate you than is contained in your spacecraft's mass, meaning that you couldn't make that constant acceleration even if you had a perfectly efficiant engine.
So in order to get out from behind the event horizon, you would need a spacecraft with a more-than-perfectly efficant engine that could generate energy faster than a perpetual motion machine, and also be able to accelerate you to faster-than-light velocities, which would probably requrire a second engine and also some way to prevent relativistic physics from affecting you.
I think it refers to Dar, the arctic fisherman, and his friends, the winter-netters.
No, no. Hilary is going after the evil people who steal money from recording artists. It's 'forgetful' Jack Valenti who's going to crack down on the damn hippies watching movies together.
Hancom Office isn't free, so I don't think that Hancom would appriciate the Korean government only buying one copy for 120000 systems.
When a small company is about to fail, the invisible hand does it's job and the company folds.
When a big company is about to fail, the government spends billions of dollars bailing it out because it would otherwise 'damage the economy'.
Mathematical truths can and have been patented.
RSA's patent on their asymetric cryptographic algorithm just expired Sept. 2000.
You're only licensing use of the airspace around your building.
EVA suits are run at around 5psi, so you'd still need an airlock just like one is needed today.
Use debian and 'apt-get install enlightenment iptables ftpd-ssl gpg'.
There isn't really anything special in your list that hasn't been offered by most distros for years.
Q. How do you make a dead baby float?
A. Two scoops vanilla ice cream, one scoop dead baby.