You do know that the wright brothers had a 40 minute, 24 mile flight before santos-dumont had even his first flight. Give it up, I know you want to be proud of your fellow brazilian, and you should be, but don't embarass yourself by trying make something out of it that it wasn't.
Who cares how it took off, the wright brothers had many many flights before santos-dumont dumont had his first. In fact, the wright brothers had a 24 mile, 40 minute flight before santos-dumont even had his FIRST flight in 1906. I'm not sure why there is any debate about this.
I agree. Unless I misread that patent, the technology in question has been in use by most cd burning software since before that patent was even granted (but maybe not before the application). It would be impossible for someone in the cd burning business to have a patent like this and not know it was used by others. So the question is, why wait 6-7 years to enforce it? The only reason would be to allow the patent infringement to grow so there are more people to sue.
IMHO, knowingly allowing your patented technology to be used for several years and become a standard, without enforcing your patent rights, should automatically enter that patent into the public domain.
What I remember when episode 1 came out was that episode 2 was supposed to be the love story between anakin and amidala and episode 3 was supposed to be the dark one. We can only hope.
not that I think you were even remotely serious about that, but it could never work anyway, as the moon a) doesn't have a circular orbit, and b) doesn't follow a fixed path relative to the surface of the earth.
Well the thing is, the space elevator doesn't just go to geosync, it can be used to get to lower orbits too. Why would you take a shuttle when you could take an elevator and save a few million gallons of fuel. Just because it might be dangerous for humans to go through the van allen belts doesn't mean humans can't use it to get to LEO.
Also, regarding launch costs and making the elevator thicker... once you get the first elevator up it becomes much much cheaper to get a second (and third, etc) elevator up. You don't get reliability and high traffic by making the cable bigger, you get it by making more cables. The additional cables will also be much cheaper to build, as they can be lifted and deployed using the first one and the infrastructure to create the cable itself will already exist. This is when launch prices start dropping even more dramatically, to the point that rockets no longer stand a chance of being economical.
There are very detailed instructions on the web which include everything from what size torx driver you need (a couple bucks at any hardware store) to how to set the jumpers and exactly what to type at the linux command line. Loads of people who never touched linux have done the upgrade, including the kinds who would call CS right after breaking the unit themselves.
Why do people insist on posting comments on things they know nothing about?
Tivo's KERNEL is GPL, and SOME of tivo's userland is GPL, and tivo has always released the code for their modifications to GPL software they used. But tivos also have proprietary software on them, that is not based on GPL code, and is not released under the GPL, and they have every right to control distribution of it. Just because the GPL binaries and the proprietary binaries are on the same hard drive doesn't give someone the right to image the drive and distribute the proprietary binaries.
I don't understand how people can bash someone for controlling distribution of their own work, and still support the GPL at the same time. The GPL is all about controlling distribution of your work.
Why is that modded insightful? This has nothing to do with source code. This has to do with full drive images, which contain not only GPL software (which tivo has always released code for) but also proprietary software which tivo has absolutely no responsibility to release code for, and has every right to control distribution of.
It's a matter of altitude. Even at the altitude of the space station, there is a very very thin atmosphere which causes drag and lowers the orbit. Putting the station higher would reduce the 'orbital maintenance' but would greatly increase the cost of reaching the station.
Yes, that's the whole point, it is always sunrise on the side of earth facing in the direction of earth's orbit, and sunset on the other side. Thus, the extra IR emission at the sunset side is giving earth a little extra push, always in the same direction, although it's a tiny tiny effect relative to the mass of earth, unlike some asteroids which can be much less dense.
If there technology was great enough to detect our presence why would they want to contact us. Are humans trying to contact and communicate with deep sea fish in the atlantic?
We might not be trying to talk to the fish, but we are trying to understand them. And there are people trying to communicate with some of the species that may be capable of it, like dolphins, chimps, gorillas, etc. Just as we are trying to understand all the species of earth, wouldn't an advanced civilization want to understand species on other worlds?
The problem is that you're making a statement about the rest of the universe when we haven't seen 99.99999999% of it (understatement). The "firm foundation in experience" that you speak of is meaningless, as your experience is only of this tiny part of the universe that you live in. Without seeing the rest of it you have no basis for your belief.
We are all 100% guaranteed to die if we don't get off this planet, it's only a matter of time. And since we don't know when, delaying the research to get our asses off this planet could be the end of us all.
BTW, if you want to talk about right here right now, just take a look at how many billions are spent destroying iraq, which posed 0 threat to the US. Even 1/10 of that money would be a huge huge benefit to any of your 'worthy causes'.
Who said anything about current prices? If/when a space elevator is built, which isn't to far off, launch prices will plummet, fuel requirements to reach other parts of the solar system will be greatly reduced, bringing cargo/people down from orbit will be infinitly safer, and the technologies that will be developed once space access is cheap will only improve all of these factors.
Crashing into the sun isn't as easy as it sounds. In order to pull it off, you have to cancel out the orbital velocity of the ship orbiting the sun (as every shit that leaves earth is doing). That's somewhere around 67000 mph, not just 'pushing it off'.
No, bring down tons of it and you corner the market. Think DeBeers.
Also, bring down tons of it and things that were inpractical because of the cost and rarity of certain materials become practical, opening new markets and allowing for new technologies.
No need for an ssh tunnel, just have another machine accept the mail and deliver it to yours on another port. Very simple to do in qmail, probably almost as easy in sendmail and other MTAs. This has the advantage of queueing your mail on the other server whenever yours is down, which won't happen with just a tunnel.
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You do know that the wright brothers had a 40 minute, 24 mile flight before santos-dumont had even his first flight. Give it up, I know you want to be proud of your fellow brazilian, and you should be, but don't embarass yourself by trying make something out of it that it wasn't.
Who cares how it took off, the wright brothers had many many flights before santos-dumont dumont had his first. In fact, the wright brothers had a 24 mile, 40 minute flight before santos-dumont even had his FIRST flight in 1906. I'm not sure why there is any debate about this.
I agree. Unless I misread that patent, the technology in question has been in use by most cd burning software since before that patent was even granted (but maybe not before the application). It would be impossible for someone in the cd burning business to have a patent like this and not know it was used by others. So the question is, why wait 6-7 years to enforce it? The only reason would be to allow the patent infringement to grow so there are more people to sue.
IMHO, knowingly allowing your patented technology to be used for several years and become a standard, without enforcing your patent rights, should automatically enter that patent into the public domain.
They used walkie talkies to communicate.
don't you mean wookie talkies?
What I remember when episode 1 came out was that episode 2 was supposed to be the love story between anakin and amidala and episode 3 was supposed to be the dark one. We can only hope.
I think that was in Neuromancer, but I could be wrong.
not that I think you were even remotely serious about that, but it could never work anyway, as the moon a) doesn't have a circular orbit, and b) doesn't follow a fixed path relative to the surface of the earth.
Well the thing is, the space elevator doesn't just go to geosync, it can be used to get to lower orbits too. Why would you take a shuttle when you could take an elevator and save a few million gallons of fuel. Just because it might be dangerous for humans to go through the van allen belts doesn't mean humans can't use it to get to LEO.
Also, regarding launch costs and making the elevator thicker... once you get the first elevator up it becomes much much cheaper to get a second (and third, etc) elevator up. You don't get reliability and high traffic by making the cable bigger, you get it by making more cables. The additional cables will also be much cheaper to build, as they can be lifted and deployed using the first one and the infrastructure to create the cable itself will already exist. This is when launch prices start dropping even more dramatically, to the point that rockets no longer stand a chance of being economical.
There are very detailed instructions on the web which include everything from what size torx driver you need (a couple bucks at any hardware store) to how to set the jumpers and exactly what to type at the linux command line. Loads of people who never touched linux have done the upgrade, including the kinds who would call CS right after breaking the unit themselves.
Why do people insist on posting comments on things they know nothing about?
Tivo's KERNEL is GPL, and SOME of tivo's userland is GPL, and tivo has always released the code for their modifications to GPL software they used. But tivos also have proprietary software on them, that is not based on GPL code, and is not released under the GPL, and they have every right to control distribution of it. Just because the GPL binaries and the proprietary binaries are on the same hard drive doesn't give someone the right to image the drive and distribute the proprietary binaries.
I don't understand how people can bash someone for controlling distribution of their own work, and still support the GPL at the same time. The GPL is all about controlling distribution of your work.
Why is that modded insightful? This has nothing to do with source code. This has to do with full drive images, which contain not only GPL software (which tivo has always released code for) but also proprietary software which tivo has absolutely no responsibility to release code for, and has every right to control distribution of.
It's a matter of altitude. Even at the altitude of the space station, there is a very very thin atmosphere which causes drag and lowers the orbit. Putting the station higher would reduce the 'orbital maintenance' but would greatly increase the cost of reaching the station.
Yes, that's the whole point, it is always sunrise on the side of earth facing in the direction of earth's orbit, and sunset on the other side. Thus, the extra IR emission at the sunset side is giving earth a little extra push, always in the same direction, although it's a tiny tiny effect relative to the mass of earth, unlike some asteroids which can be much less dense.
If there technology was great enough to detect our presence why would they want to contact us. Are humans trying to contact and communicate with deep sea fish in the atlantic?
We might not be trying to talk to the fish, but we are trying to understand them. And there are people trying to communicate with some of the species that may be capable of it, like dolphins, chimps, gorillas, etc. Just as we are trying to understand all the species of earth, wouldn't an advanced civilization want to understand species on other worlds?
You can afford to have cancer, it's the living through it part you might have a problem with.
Darl getting his ass kicked?
Now there's something I pay $699 to see.
No, there's something I'd pay $699 to DO.
The prefix poly means 'many' or 'multi', which makes it a perfectly logical name for a device which graphs multiple body measurements.
597 occurances. booyah.
The problem is that you're making a statement about the rest of the universe when we haven't seen 99.99999999% of it (understatement). The "firm foundation in experience" that you speak of is meaningless, as your experience is only of this tiny part of the universe that you live in. Without seeing the rest of it you have no basis for your belief.
Nice troll, I'll bite.
We are all 100% guaranteed to die if we don't get off this planet, it's only a matter of time. And since we don't know when, delaying the research to get our asses off this planet could be the end of us all.
BTW, if you want to talk about right here right now, just take a look at how many billions are spent destroying iraq, which posed 0 threat to the US. Even 1/10 of that money would be a huge huge benefit to any of your 'worthy causes'.
Who said anything about current prices? If/when a space elevator is built, which isn't to far off, launch prices will plummet, fuel requirements to reach other parts of the solar system will be greatly reduced, bringing cargo/people down from orbit will be infinitly safer, and the technologies that will be developed once space access is cheap will only improve all of these factors.
Crashing into the sun isn't as easy as it sounds. In order to pull it off, you have to cancel out the orbital velocity of the ship orbiting the sun (as every shit that leaves earth is doing). That's somewhere around 67000 mph, not just 'pushing it off'.
No, bring down tons of it and you corner the market. Think DeBeers.
Also, bring down tons of it and things that were inpractical because of the cost and rarity of certain materials become practical, opening new markets and allowing for new technologies.
Wouldn't it be easier to just have the MTA listen on the other port?
No need for an ssh tunnel, just have another machine accept the mail and deliver it to yours on another port. Very simple to do in qmail, probably almost as easy in sendmail and other MTAs. This has the advantage of queueing your mail on the other server whenever yours is down, which won't happen with just a tunnel.