Ransom Love, and Billy G, and You and Me are free to use whatever software under whatever licence we like.
But the beauty of the GPL is that if Mr. Love wants to use GPL software from the commons then he can't later exlude changes he makes from that commons.
His comments later in the article show he's well aware of the issues and i suspect the journo is manipulating his words somewhat to make a better story.
GPL is about freedom and its maintenance, it leaves people free not to use it (unlike some others)
NT was designed in large part by a brains trust snaffled from Digital and based heavily on VMS.
The brains trust involved was reportedly not happy with the "Windification" of their work.
I'd be suprised if there's much of OS2 at all in NT.
also don't think OS2 is dead, you just don't see it. It gets used in ATM's, hospital machinery, production lines. Any place a a Blue Screen of Death is REALLY bad news....
Last time i was there (october 2000) the museum was open and looking good, they've got a chart of which dishes are talking to which deep space rpobes and arrows pointing out the dishes.. i got a real shiver down the spine looking at the dish that was talking to gallileo
NASA's Deep Space Tracking station in Australia is at Tidbinbilla in Canberra (and/. reading visitors to Australia will get a real kick out of doing the tour there).
Parkes was used for Apollo11 because it's an exceptionally powerful dish.
According to legend when the shit hit the fan with Apollo13 the already immense dishes at Tidbinbilla were unable to receive the significantly weakened signal.
They called Parkes to see if they were able to try and fill the gap, to be told the dish was in re-fit and couldn't be brought online (by-the-book) in less than three weeks.
When they explained what was happenning and that without Parkes there'd be a loss of communications there was the sound of shouting down the line and the reply came back "We'll be up in three hours"
I have heard anecdotal evidence that if you block that vent at the top of the "cube" (the one that makes it look like a boutique tissue box) it only takes about 10 minutes to get a heat-shutdown
could be its using clever convection currents to drag the air in the bottom and push it out the top without a fan (in essence the heat of the CPU is the fan.. but not a very noisy one).
For what its worth the Bill was before the Parliament for nearly a year.
It was certainly discussed in legal publishing circles (which are heavily effected as the government is messing around as a copyright holder of legislation)
However the so called "house of review" the Senate seemed to push it though without even looking at it. meaning no-one had objected strongly as it usually only takes one senator to refer a bill to committee (unless the government can get majority support of a guillotine which is rare)
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But the beauty of the GPL is that if Mr. Love wants to use GPL software from the commons then he can't later exlude changes he makes from that commons.
His comments later in the article show he's well aware of the issues and i suspect the journo is manipulating his words somewhat to make a better story.
GPL is about freedom and its maintenance, it leaves people free not to use it (unlike some others)
The brains trust involved was reportedly not happy with the "Windification" of their work.
I'd be suprised if there's much of OS2 at all in NT.
also don't think OS2 is dead, you just don't see it. It gets used in ATM's, hospital machinery, production lines. Any place a a Blue Screen of Death is REALLY bad news....
d'oh
Last time i was there (october 2000) the museum was open and looking good, they've got a chart of which dishes are talking to which deep space rpobes and arrows pointing out the dishes.. i got a real shiver down the spine looking at the dish that was talking to gallileo
2 tons seems a lot to go "beep" with a coded signal...
Parkes was used for Apollo11 because it's an exceptionally powerful dish.
According to legend when the shit hit the fan with Apollo13 the already immense dishes at Tidbinbilla were unable to receive the significantly weakened signal.
They called Parkes to see if they were able to try and fill the gap, to be told the dish was in re-fit and couldn't be brought online (by-the-book) in less than three weeks.
When they explained what was happenning and that without Parkes there'd be a loss of communications there was the sound of shouting down the line and the reply came back "We'll be up in three hours"
It was discussed further up.
we're on the other side o the date line.
in Australia it was the 19th.
seeing as how the thing was over our heads we'll score that as double.
Satellites can be brought down anywhere, maybe it's not a satelite at all, maybe its an orbital bombardment platform.
many military satellites are much heavier than their stated role requires.
The immense GPS sat's being one example that springs to mind.
If someone else hears about it and can implement it better than you then isn't it their idea too now?
All ideas flow from others
Well maybe not the biggest, but its up there.
It stands up fine if you want to connect to their network your choice.
If it survived re-entry on Mir i think its already down anyway
The costs are well known, they know what they are planning to charge.
They know how much Venture Capital they have.
And knowing that they go offering a service hoping someone will just give them more money to make them viable!
PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok... I'll go cry now
could be its using clever convection currents to drag the air in the bottom and push it out the top without a fan (in essence the heat of the CPU is the fan.. but not a very noisy one).
Its not like Natasha stood up on this either
It was nearly a year before the Parliament but no-one paid much attention, myself included
The Second Reading Speech (which has legal bearing on the spirit of the law) is here
For what its worth the Bill was before the Parliament for nearly a year.
It was certainly discussed in legal publishing circles (which are heavily effected as the government is messing around as a copyright holder of legislation)
However the so called "house of review" the Senate seemed to push it though without even looking at it. meaning no-one had objected strongly as it usually only takes one senator to refer a bill to committee (unless the government can get majority support of a guillotine which is rare)
The Bill and its explanatory material are here
You gotta be patient while the page loads.
you can still point to windward, but you won't go there,
to do it seriously try it in a scow where the hull doesn't perform and keel-like function
you won't get very far.
observe how it gets thinner as it expands
compare it to a pokey stick.. still the same thickness as you push it...
hmmmm i pity you and everyone you know if that was your idea of humour....