You'd be lucky to get a satellite every two years for the australian domestic market.
the point about this is we have political stability, a legal system with strong property rights thats compatible with the rest of the western world, and a location that's very close to the equator (which saves a big heap of fuel).
Given how hard it is to find that combination (singapore could do it but they don't have the room) it's worth taking a shot at getting into commercial satellite launch. The asian market is looking to heat up in a big way.
Also worth noting that Christmas Island has long been viewed by the Austraslian Defence Force as "an unsinkable aircraft carrier" with which to scare Indonesia... I'm not sure how this is going to affect that.
the true stealthiness comes from the "hopeless diamond" the shape and angle of the panles that difueses radar instead of returning a signal. the RAM is something of red herring.
It's realtively easy to detect stealth aircraft (just look for the flock of geese travelling at 600 knots towards your oil refinery) its extremely hard to get enough data for firing solutions.
I've read the history, i'd recommend Corelli Barnett's "Collapse of British Power" for some great quotes from newspapers of the day.
The Guardian's unshakeable belief in disarmament had a lot to do with the shift in the balance of power from 1936 (when the germans would have been creamed) to 1940 (when the opposite was true).
Does anyone know if the british literary critic referred to in the second article (the one who slagged off JRR), Phillip Toynbee, is related to the current resident fool at The Guardian, Polly Toynbee?
The thought of successive generations of Toynbee's being utterly WRONG on every issue they address as they write for the intellectual left of Britain is priceless.
Of course if anyone took the Guardian seriously Britain would have been on the losing side of both WWII and the cold war...
They aren't evil because they charge, they're evil because they are trying to limit our ability to choose alternatives to they're products. And then they have the gall to tell us it's all for the best.
Mundie, and you, confuses whats good for Microsoft with whats good for everyone else.
Our company's most precious assets, or even IP, are not software.
MS's IP approach is perfect for microsft at the expense of everyone else (want to measure that expense? just add up your software expenditure)
For businesses that use computers to help them do other things, things that are actually what makes us money, good quality public domain software is a godsend. Some stuff we modify, under the terms of the GPL but those mods aren't crucial to our competitive advantage and we're happy for them to be incorporated into the next version. It saves us the time of remodifying the next version.
Don't confuse what's good for Bill Gates with what's good for you.
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hanging out on his site and bitching?
What open source is largely about is stopping bitching and going and doing things in the way you think is right.
If you don't like it go make something better
I'm waiting....
It is a rather cunning way to get some degree of self- regulation
If they'd done the same thing for internet porn they'd have won applause.
no freedoms reduced, just making net companies think about the consequences.
Might speed up online currency develoment tho (to get around it)
Thats why we get upset.
i think your server was a touch slow....
Note the example machine in that setup was a 1Ghz beastie
not the biggest in terms of money raised (which is what people mean when they say biggest).
the point about this is we have political stability, a legal system with strong property rights thats compatible with the rest of the western world, and a location that's very close to the equator (which saves a big heap of fuel).
Given how hard it is to find that combination (singapore could do it but they don't have the room) it's worth taking a shot at getting into commercial satellite launch. The asian market is looking to heat up in a big way.
Also worth noting that Christmas Island has long been viewed by the Austraslian Defence Force as "an unsinkable aircraft carrier" with which to scare Indonesia... I'm not sure how this is going to affect that.
easy to grab headlines and with it funding right up to launch time then make a well timed run to a warm place with no extradition laws...
The american looks a little mroe genuine (in that he's doing it himself)
Futile and no-one will find it
or; dangerous, handing over our DNA to unknown intelligent aliens
They have to keep checking to see what cell they are in and informing the cell of their presence and number.
That way, when your mum calls you, the call gets put through to your phone.
Even a network without calls can get overloaded.
It's realtively easy to detect stealth aircraft (just look for the flock of geese travelling at 600 knots towards your oil refinery) its extremely hard to get enough data for firing solutions.
I'm not convinced this approach is up to it.
The Guardian's unshakeable belief in disarmament had a lot to do with the shift in the balance of power from 1936 (when the germans would have been creamed) to 1940 (when the opposite was true).
Of course The Times was as culpable.
Does anyone know if the british literary critic referred to in the second article (the one who slagged off JRR), Phillip Toynbee, is related to the current resident fool at The Guardian, Polly Toynbee?
The thought of successive generations of Toynbee's being utterly WRONG on every issue they address as they write for the intellectual left of Britain is priceless.
Of course if anyone took the Guardian seriously Britain would have been on the losing side of both WWII and the cold war...
And we're nowhere near understanding the instruction set in the brain.
Or are u suggesting that we have yet to reach sentience ourselves?
They aren't evil because they charge, they're evil because they are trying to limit our ability to choose alternatives to they're products. And then they have the gall to tell us it's all for the best.
could well be...
Our company's most precious assets, or even IP, are not software.
MS's IP approach is perfect for microsft at the expense of everyone else (want to measure that expense? just add up your software expenditure)
For businesses that use computers to help them do other things, things that are actually what makes us money, good quality public domain software is a godsend. Some stuff we modify, under the terms of the GPL but those mods aren't crucial to our competitive advantage and we're happy for them to be incorporated into the next version. It saves us the time of remodifying the next version.
Don't confuse what's good for Bill Gates with what's good for you.
where do u think they get the Nitrogen from???
It's ubiquitous and harmless in air
Admittedly u'll asphyxiate if you're trapped over the stuff venting, but that close u'd be worried about the loose high-voltage cable.
Superconductors conduct heat as well as electricity near perfectly.
so the temperature will be evenly distributed
Oh come on people if this isn't +5 informative then Eric Raymond isn't ugly
its not compulsory, but it is recommended.
Doubly recommended when in the process of going belly-up.
Nokia are so big that this is just a side project for them, which makes me think its for real or they wouldn't even bother announcing it.
It's not going to shift their stock price appreciabley so they're probably on the level.