But you can use the excess heat from the processor to heat your house, your garden, your pool and cook your dinner, your dog, your children and everybody else within 30 meters of it.
Whitelist, blacklist and greylist for your internet experience?
The first two lists I get but is the third for Greys? Sheez... mixing porn, religion, science, race and UFO's in one short post. That's Slashdot for you:-)
You must have done something wrong because otherwise you wouldn't have been able to achieve that.
A (misconduct)-> B (result)
A is inferred from B being only possible as a result of A. The success in the suit depends on SCO proving that B can only be a result of A (good luck proving that technological progress can only be a result of theft) or a smoking-gun discovery (IBM emails stating "Yeah, let's give 'em the SCO code, let's rip them off, yeah I know its wrong, but otherwise Linux wouldn't be worth anything and we'd go bankrupt and stuff.") if discovery is allowed by the court.
Looks fun for the trial lawyers and expert witnesses.
Once you've set up a base on the Moon, moving minerals from the Moon to Earth or Earth orbit is no problem at all.
All you need is a big railgun, see The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Powered by solar energy (which will give a hell of a lot of power on the moon, no atmosphere) or a nuclear plant (no pollution problems... you don't even need water, the Soviets made liquid metal cooled reactors). The Moon is a different environment with abundant energy solutions. The energy available is greater than that on Earth because it is not binded with life or affected (which always means degraded) by an environment.
If you're moving rocks or refined metals to Earth all you have to do is aim them at a desert and then collect them when they crash. Damage to goods during freight is not an issue. The trajectories are repeatable and not subject to unforeseeable variables (as is the case with the Space Shuttle - no moving parts, no human element, no rocket fuel, no insulation). Once a railgun is built, moving the materials is simplicity itself and a scientific calculator could control the process.
You might not even need miners on the Moon. Mines on Earth itself are becoming increasingly automated and the variables here are are a lot more complex (active geology, weather, deep mining rather than strip mining which wouldn't be a problem on the Moon, etc).
Cargo containers? Build them out of materials available on the Moon. Hell the containers themselves could be made out valuable metals and be used on Earth afterwards (it would be insane to send them back).
As for how much energy you need to launch a container, see the escape energy calculations here and multiply by mass.
But then again if a few nations might object if somebody built a railgun on the Moon. It would be pretty much an ultimate weapon mass destruction. The devastation it could sow would be comparable to nukes (without the radioactive fallout but with the dust).
He sent the army to take over the police despite the Supreme Court ordering him not to do so.
He sent commando teams to take over oil-carriers.
He organised mass rallies with bullying and bribing to counter the mass-rallies his opponents (most of the country) were organising.
Show me an example of such behaviour by a US President in the US since the Whiskey Wars.
He is a populist crackpot with ideas that Castro, Mugabe and the rest of the "I'm a Big Man" idiots would hold in high esteem. He has completely destroyed his country's economy during his short undemocratic reign. He may be elected but most of the country wants him out.
Eliminate all lawyers? Sure, just eliminate all the laws beforehand. And since all human remotely civilized societies ever have had laws (and their interpreters), you should eliminate all humans first.
Next post try using capital letters. And perhaps note that most of the population wants Chavez out and he is refusing to hold a referendum as required by the Constitution he himself wrote. He may have been elected but he's a dictator now.
Iraq and Venezuela combined are the reason oil prices have risen. The markets are expecting Iraq to stop production and oilfields around Iraq to be affected by war AND Venezuelan production has been devastated. Either could have been compensated for by increased production in other countries but both is just too much.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that gasoline is expensive in the US because a major US supplier is affected. Oil prices aggregrate out around the world. If a normal US supplier can't supply oil to the US, then another will step in to take his place, oil is a commodity that trades pretty freely.
And in other news from Moscow Soviet Radio, illustrious leader Mugabe has cured the Zimbabwe economy, brought food to the starving, improved health standards and engaged in land reform.
Most of the citizens of these poor countries want these two jackasses out.
I've got a Creative 5.1 DTT3500 hooked up to a budget Live card and a wireless Sony headphone set (RF845r) as a 'don't annoy the neighbours' backup. The sound goes to the decoder through a digital cable (TOS-out was not on my card so I bought an add-on). I've also got a Playstation 2 hooked up to the decoder for games and films.
The sound from this system freaks my friends out as far as quality and loudness is concerned.
Loudness - I've never turned the volume up to max because I'm worried what it would do to my neighbours. As it is, the subwoofer gets the floor and ceiling of my flat vibrating (at midpower). When I open my windows people can dance to the music in the courtyard five stories down. I don't use the full power of the system because 'I'm really an okay guy' (even if I do work for a corporation (sort of)).
Quality - I put 128 and 192 bit mp3s through Winamp, tweak the equalizers and the digital decoder adds some of its own magic. Wow. DVD sound is even better.
There are some tweaks that I'll make to the system because I can sometimes hear hiccups and interference but I've got a better sound system with a mountain of albums (took a while to rip) available at a click for $700 (cheaper now) , than my friends who bought home stereo systems for $1500. Bang & Ollufsen it isn't but it's still great.
The US spent and spends too much time trying to eradicate the supplier without stopping the customer's demand. There will always be new suppliers if there is demand. Stop or decrease the demand or even make it uneconomical to supply the goods and the supplier goes away.
Like I mentioned in the other post, COPYRIGHT is something different to a patent.
Copyrights on human gene sequences cannot be given. Why? Because an 'author' gains copyright. Nobody can author something that other people carry with them from birth as a chemical sequence. Even if a sequence was copyrightable then you would not have to license your DNA from Big Bad Corp because you are carrying it a chemical form, not a sequence of letters, etc etc.
A patent on a practical usage of a sequence is a completely different matter. Inventions using already occuring elements are fine under law and fine for most people. If somebody patents ATATATAT as a sequence used in a drug to boost human intelligence, then they're creating a new drug using that sequence, in the same way that a hydrogen engine uses naturally occuring metals and hydrogen to push a car. Usage is key and it seems that the Patent Office is pushing the usage aspect. Thankfully.
Ahem. You're mixing copyright and patents up. They're both intellectual property but that's about all they're similarities.
Copyright - only you can copy and sell this information in this form.
Patent right - only you can use and sell the right to use this process/invention to do this and this.
The interesting aspect to these patent cases is whether a naturally occuring chemical sequence can be patented at all (yes it can) and if so, what degree of practical usage should be demanded from an application.
It seems the Patent Office has started demanding a useful application be shown. So, an applicant can file a sequence but must explain what the sequence will do.
And you're insane if you demand a jury trial in a patent case. Way over the heads of your average juror - even if the facts are simple, the law isn't and the opposing lawyer can gobbly-gook the jury to death. You might as well agree to flip a coin.
"But this never-before-heard-of company has already beat that for their initial launch? Not very likely."
Not very likely? Totally utterly impossible. Even Microsoft couldn't produce 32k games for a console. There is no way in hell that you can produce 32k different games for a new console. The PS2 will not have 10k by the time universe.slashdot geekgods are reminiscing over hyperspace mind melding broadband about the good old days when classic games like Tekken 4 were original and neat and cool and really addictive.
This thing is probably emulating every console and computer from the Atari 800 through the Amiga to the XBox and Playstation 2.
Haven't got one but I drummed my fingers on my desk for two minutes pretending to type whilst looking through something else and after the two minutes my pads were beginning to hurt. More unpleasant than typing.
I've been hit by guys on skateboards (and snowboards - hell I've hit people on a snowboard, yep my fault - I was learning and I was stupid). It's like being hit by somebody running fast. You can't get up to much speed on a board on a sidewalk and boards are pretty maneuverable so any hits are mostly glancing.
Even if you're in a collision, the punk is soft and you're soft. You crump together. They fall over, you fall over. Even a snowboard at 20 mph isn't that bad as long as you don't hit somebody with an edge. Now getting hit by Robbie the Robot at 12 mph (rigid frame, wheels, HARD!) with a passenger is not something I would want to go through. And I can't see a Sedgway weaving through pedestrians with grace.
Aren't the Sedgways supposed to get even faster with new batteries?
Voting a privilege? I thought it was a right. Constitutional right. And like any right it should be made as easy and convenient to exercise as possible once granted. Otherwise its a paper right like the right to vote in the southern states of the USA a while ago. The more you distance a right, the less it means. Making it harder to vote doesn't make the voting mean 'more' or be worth 'more' in the same way that 'good' 'honest' farm work is more 'honorable', 'worth more' or 'better' than sitting behind a desk and coding.
The current 'representative' model of democracy that most countries have, reflects the difficulty of organising an efficient democratic system. Instead of citizens directly deciding on laws and policies, which would be impractical with paper ballots and poll stations in most countries, these countries have people vote for somebody who they believe will be able to do decide laws and policies. They vote because they trust the candidate or at least trust him more than the other guy.
Switzerland is an exception with very democratic politics (mostly because the basic democratic deciding unit is very local level) and I think internet voting will make it even more so. The easier it is for a citizen to make their voice heard, the more the citizen will be able to say and decide on. This means that the role of professional politicians will decline. I don't have the time to sit in parliament and listen to debates and make deals and campaign and cast paper ballots and solicit financing but I do have the time to click yes/no on a tax rise/cut. And if I have the opportunity to do so, it means less horseplay opportunities for a professional politician and less justification for their existence. And I have more time to consider the issues than to spend freezing my feet off.
If you give people the facts and give them the tools to act upon them and create laws and policies, you give them democracy. Democracy is not freezing your feet off in the snow to put a cross on a piece of paper for somebody who will spend the next half of his term asking for you to freeze your feet off again.
Troll? Did any of the moderators read the 'preview'?
Hmm. I put in the gamerankings.com link for a reason. So people could find some proper previews and not a darn CTRL + V out of the manual/development paper/neat ideas thrown together. This is a part 1 of 6 in 5 fragments... one 'part' per day out of the manual? With annoying underlinked phrases which make me want to click them because I subconsciously think they're hyperlinks.
And what's the "HARVESTER" copyright notice doing at the end of 'preview'. Some incredible secret game race that will be the 6 of 9 Borg of the Orion universe?
On another note, I'm wondering about the release date. I haven't seen any reviews of the game and it's only a week until the release (17 January).
This 'preview' is an excerpt from the manual concerning game races. Would my copying the spell section from the Neverwinter manual qualify as a 'preview'? It's as detailed as Cheesetor's review of Grand Theft Auto: "It's the best game in the world. You can steal cars, shoot cops and run over prostitutes!" Elftor
Slashdot, don't waste our time.
For more detailed previews of the game, check out Gamerankings
Midas turned things to gold with his touch. Sendo turned to... Perhaps gorgon gaze would an appropriate classical allusion. And kiss of death would be a more modern one and perhaps more appropriate if you're comparing somebody to the mob.
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But you can use the excess heat from the processor to heat your house, your garden, your pool and cook your dinner, your dog, your children and everybody else within 30 meters of it.
Whitelist, blacklist and greylist for your internet experience?
:-)
The first two lists I get but is the third for Greys? Sheez... mixing porn, religion, science, race and UFO's in one short post. That's Slashdot for you
To translate from lawyerspeak (IAAL):
You must have done something wrong because otherwise you wouldn't have been able to achieve that.
A (misconduct)-> B (result)
A is inferred from B being only possible as a result of A. The success in the suit depends on SCO proving that B can only be a result of A (good luck proving that technological progress can only be a result of theft) or a smoking-gun discovery (IBM emails stating "Yeah, let's give 'em the SCO code, let's rip them off, yeah I know its wrong, but otherwise Linux wouldn't be worth anything and we'd go bankrupt and stuff.") if discovery is allowed by the court.
Looks fun for the trial lawyers and expert witnesses.
Once you've set up a base on the Moon, moving minerals from the Moon to Earth or Earth orbit is no problem at all.
All you need is a big railgun, see The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Powered by solar energy (which will give a hell of a lot of power on the moon, no atmosphere) or a nuclear plant (no pollution problems... you don't even need water, the Soviets made liquid metal cooled reactors). The Moon is a different environment with abundant energy solutions. The energy available is greater than that on Earth because it is not binded with life or affected (which always means degraded) by an environment.
If you're moving rocks or refined metals to Earth all you have to do is aim them at a desert and then collect them when they crash. Damage to goods during freight is not an issue. The trajectories are repeatable and not subject to unforeseeable variables (as is the case with the Space Shuttle - no moving parts, no human element, no rocket fuel, no insulation). Once a railgun is built, moving the materials is simplicity itself and a scientific calculator could control the process.
You might not even need miners on the Moon. Mines on Earth itself are becoming increasingly automated and the variables here are are a lot more complex (active geology, weather, deep mining rather than strip mining which wouldn't be a problem on the Moon, etc).
Cargo containers? Build them out of materials available on the Moon. Hell the containers themselves could be made out valuable metals and be used on Earth afterwards (it would be insane to send them back).
As for how much energy you need to launch a container, see the escape energy calculations here and multiply by mass.
But then again if a few nations might object if somebody built a railgun on the Moon. It would be pretty much an ultimate weapon mass destruction. The devastation it could sow would be comparable to nukes (without the radioactive fallout but with the dust).
Very measured responses...
He sent the army to take over the police despite the Supreme Court ordering him not to do so.
He sent commando teams to take over oil-carriers.
He organised mass rallies with bullying and bribing to counter the mass-rallies his opponents (most of the country) were organising.
Show me an example of such behaviour by a US President in the US since the Whiskey Wars.
He is a populist crackpot with ideas that Castro, Mugabe and the rest of the "I'm a Big Man" idiots would hold in high esteem. He has completely destroyed his country's economy during his short undemocratic reign. He may be elected but most of the country wants him out.
Eliminate all lawyers? Sure, just eliminate all the laws beforehand. And since all human remotely civilized societies ever have had laws (and their interpreters), you should eliminate all humans first.
Next post try using capital letters. And perhaps note that most of the population wants Chavez out and he is refusing to hold a referendum as required by the Constitution he himself wrote. He may have been elected but he's a dictator now.
Iraq and Venezuela combined are the reason oil prices have risen. The markets are expecting Iraq to stop production and oilfields around Iraq to be affected by war AND Venezuelan production has been devastated. Either could have been compensated for by increased production in other countries but both is just too much.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that gasoline is expensive in the US because a major US supplier is affected. Oil prices aggregrate out around the world. If a normal US supplier can't supply oil to the US, then another will step in to take his place, oil is a commodity that trades pretty freely.
Improved the standard of living?
Expanded the health infrastructure?
Started housing projects?
Engaged in land reform?
ROFTL
And in other news from Moscow Soviet Radio, illustrious leader Mugabe has cured the Zimbabwe economy, brought food to the starving, improved health standards and engaged in land reform.
Most of the citizens of these poor countries want these two jackasses out.
I've got a Creative 5.1 DTT3500 hooked up to a budget Live card and a wireless Sony headphone set (RF845r) as a 'don't annoy the neighbours' backup. The sound goes to the decoder through a digital cable (TOS-out was not on my card so I bought an add-on). I've also got a Playstation 2 hooked up to the decoder for games and films.
The sound from this system freaks my friends out as far as quality and loudness is concerned.
Loudness - I've never turned the volume up to max because I'm worried what it would do to my neighbours. As it is, the subwoofer gets the floor and ceiling of my flat vibrating (at midpower). When I open my windows people can dance to the music in the courtyard five stories down. I don't use the full power of the system because 'I'm really an okay guy' (even if I do work for a corporation (sort of)).
Quality - I put 128 and 192 bit mp3s through Winamp, tweak the equalizers and the digital decoder adds some of its own magic. Wow. DVD sound is even better.
There are some tweaks that I'll make to the system because I can sometimes hear hiccups and interference but I've got a better sound system with a mountain of albums (took a while to rip) available at a click for $700 (cheaper now) , than my friends who bought home stereo systems for $1500. Bang & Ollufsen it isn't but it's still great.
War on drugs focusing on the end user?
You've got it backwards.
The US spent and spends too much time trying to eradicate the supplier without stopping the customer's demand. There will always be new suppliers if there is demand. Stop or decrease the demand or even make it uneconomical to supply the goods and the supplier goes away.
Bush: "...Our journey into space will go on..."
So maybe the program will go on.
This is insightful? How much does crack cost these days?
Like I mentioned in the other post, COPYRIGHT is something different to a patent.
Copyrights on human gene sequences cannot be given. Why? Because an 'author' gains copyright. Nobody can author something that other people carry with them from birth as a chemical sequence. Even if a sequence was copyrightable then you would not have to license your DNA from Big Bad Corp because you are carrying it a chemical form, not a sequence of letters, etc etc.
A patent on a practical usage of a sequence is a completely different matter. Inventions using already occuring elements are fine under law and fine for most people. If somebody patents ATATATAT as a sequence used in a drug to boost human intelligence, then they're creating a new drug using that sequence, in the same way that a hydrogen engine uses naturally occuring metals and hydrogen to push a car. Usage is key and it seems that the Patent Office is pushing the usage aspect. Thankfully.
Ahem. You're mixing copyright and patents up. They're both intellectual property but that's about all they're similarities.
Copyright - only you can copy and sell this information in this form.
Patent right - only you can use and sell the right to use this process/invention to do this and this.
The interesting aspect to these patent cases is whether a naturally occuring chemical sequence can be patented at all (yes it can) and if so, what degree of practical usage should be demanded from an application.
It seems the Patent Office has started demanding a useful application be shown. So, an applicant can file a sequence but must explain what the sequence will do.
And you're insane if you demand a jury trial in a patent case. Way over the heads of your average juror - even if the facts are simple, the law isn't and the opposing lawyer can gobbly-gook the jury to death. You might as well agree to flip a coin.
Not very likely? Totally utterly impossible. Even Microsoft couldn't produce 32k games for a console. There is no way in hell that you can produce 32k different games for a new console. The PS2 will not have 10k by the time universe.slashdot geekgods are reminiscing over hyperspace mind melding broadband about the good old days when classic games like Tekken 4 were original and neat and cool and really addictive.
This thing is probably emulating every console and computer from the Atari 800 through the Amiga to the XBox and Playstation 2.
Haven't got one but I drummed my fingers on my desk for two minutes pretending to type whilst looking through something else and after the two minutes my pads were beginning to hurt. More unpleasant than typing.
I've been hit by guys on skateboards (and snowboards - hell I've hit people on a snowboard, yep my fault - I was learning and I was stupid). It's like being hit by somebody running fast. You can't get up to much speed on a board on a sidewalk and boards are pretty maneuverable so any hits are mostly glancing.
Even if you're in a collision, the punk is soft and you're soft. You crump together. They fall over, you fall over. Even a snowboard at 20 mph isn't that bad as long as you don't hit somebody with an edge. Now getting hit by Robbie the Robot at 12 mph (rigid frame, wheels, HARD!) with a passenger is not something I would want to go through. And I can't see a Sedgway weaving through pedestrians with grace.
Aren't the Sedgways supposed to get even faster with new batteries?
Voting a privilege? I thought it was a right. Constitutional right. And like any right it should be made as easy and convenient to exercise as possible once granted. Otherwise its a paper right like the right to vote in the southern states of the USA a while ago. The more you distance a right, the less it means. Making it harder to vote doesn't make the voting mean 'more' or be worth 'more' in the same way that 'good' 'honest' farm work is more 'honorable', 'worth more' or 'better' than sitting behind a desk and coding.
The current 'representative' model of democracy that most countries have, reflects the difficulty of organising an efficient democratic system. Instead of citizens directly deciding on laws and policies, which would be impractical with paper ballots and poll stations in most countries, these countries have people vote for somebody who they believe will be able to do decide laws and policies. They vote because they trust the candidate or at least trust him more than the other guy.
Switzerland is an exception with very democratic politics (mostly because the basic democratic deciding unit is very local level) and I think internet voting will make it even more so. The easier it is for a citizen to make their voice heard, the more the citizen will be able to say and decide on. This means that the role of professional politicians will decline. I don't have the time to sit in parliament and listen to debates and make deals and campaign and cast paper ballots and solicit financing but I do have the time to click yes/no on a tax rise/cut. And if I have the opportunity to do so, it means less horseplay opportunities for a professional politician and less justification for their existence. And I have more time to consider the issues than to spend freezing my feet off.
If you give people the facts and give them the tools to act upon them and create laws and policies, you give them democracy. Democracy is not freezing your feet off in the snow to put a cross on a piece of paper for somebody who will spend the next half of his term asking for you to freeze your feet off again.
In Soviet Russia the privilege votes you.
HELLO?
SMS - Short Message Service.
In cellular phones.
Not ICQ or whatever on the net.
Service provided by cellular telecommunication companies for money. Big money, its a major cash cow.
Nothing to do with the internet (apart from the fact that you can send SMS to a cellular phone using an internet portal).
I hope the metamoderation catches the moderators as well.
Troll? Did any of the moderators read the 'preview'?
Hmm. I put in the gamerankings.com link for a reason. So people could find some proper previews and not a darn CTRL + V out of the manual/development paper/neat ideas thrown together. This is a part 1 of 6 in 5 fragments... one 'part' per day out of the manual? With annoying underlinked phrases which make me want to click them because I subconsciously think they're hyperlinks.
And what's the "HARVESTER" copyright notice doing at the end of 'preview'. Some incredible secret game race that will be the 6 of 9 Borg of the Orion universe?
On another note, I'm wondering about the release date. I haven't seen any reviews of the game and it's only a week until the release (17 January).
This 'preview' is an excerpt from the manual concerning game races. Would my copying the spell section from the Neverwinter manual qualify as a 'preview'? It's as detailed as Cheesetor's review of Grand Theft Auto: "It's the best game in the world. You can steal cars, shoot cops and run over prostitutes!" Elftor
Slashdot, don't waste our time.
For more detailed previews of the game, check out Gamerankings
Norway is not a member of the EU. The other nordic nations, that is Sweden, Finland and Denmark, are. European Union
Norway is a member of Nato. Nato
Midas turned things to gold with his touch. Sendo turned to ... Perhaps gorgon gaze would an appropriate classical allusion. And kiss of death would be a more modern one and perhaps more appropriate if you're comparing somebody to the mob.