When was the last time YOU heard of a blimp crashing?
2 years ago in the Akron area one of the blimps crashed. Let us have a moment of low hub-bub for the treated and released.
The US Navy also maintained a flotilla of submarine hunting blimps during WW2. They were quite successful, never losing a ship they were protecting to enemy action.
Incidently, Hindenburg passed through a hurricane on its way to Lakehurst, and Graf Zeppelin flew though several on it's routine Germany to Brazil run.
Generally, the larger an airship is, the more controllable it is in rough weather. So new large cargo type zeppelin's should be fine in the same kinds of weather conventional aircraft fly in.
You also have to consider scaling. When a Zeppelin doubles it's size (length and diameter), It's volume cubes. I read somewhere that the Hindenburg had a cargo capacity of about 45 tons. So double the size, cube the lifting capacity, and we're looking at a theoretical 90 thousand tons. For long haul, low priority cargo Zeppelins should niche in nicely between aircraft and ships.
If kids learn early how pervasive and abusive the current IP laws are, they may be more inclined to push for reform as they get older.
Hey, these are the leaders of tomorrow
I don't deny the appeal of watching robots fight each other, but why hasn't the genre progressed beyond that?
Mainly, the people who want to build these things aren't particularly interested in "progressing beyond". It's a simple matter of fun. The games and stuff are boring to those who actually do it. Battlebots is about head to head competition, and combat is its purest form.
And how are two shows an endless stream? Robot Wars airing in the UK and on PBS in the US, and Battlebots have been it so far. TLC is coming out with Robotica, which apparently involves the noncombat tasks you were hoping for.
The RIAA has asked the court to order Napster to use a "filter in" method, which would allow songs that Napster is authorised to distribute to be placed on its system, rather than blocking the swapping of copyrighted music placed on its service.
So then, it looks to me like the judge in charge of the case, will have to go through the files one by one and approve them for Napster.
As an aside; Katz's book was required reading for incoming freshmen at Bowling Green State University in Ohio this summer. Make of it what you will.
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Of course there is the old fashioned style of genetic manipulation, selective breeding. If you clone X breeding pairs, then Y of their offspring will have a defect. Remove and repeat until you've bred out the more serious defective genes. After Z generations you should have a reasonably breeding population.
It looks to me like the big problem is the IOC and various media applying old licensing techniques to modern technology. In the bad old days, when broadcast TV and radio could only transmit so far, selling region and country based rights made sense, and was a viable business model. Now, with netcasting, satellite dishes, cable TV networks, global broadcasting is no longer a technical problem. Yet media sellers insist on clinging to the old atmospheric brodcast rights business model. So you get messes like this with the IOC, and the icravetv.com fiasco. Until the media providers update their business methods, idocy like this shall continue.
I'm not convinced that shattering an asteroid is such a bad idea. The Earth get thousands of metor hits every year, yet few ever touch dirt because they burn up in the atmosphere. If we shatterd one of these massive bodies into maybe a dozen major chunks, and a lot of minor chunks and sand, the overall distribution of damage should be less significant than the single massive hit of The Big One Breaking up the asteroid wouldn't save us entirely, but it could greatly ameliorate the harm.
They wouldn't show up on a scan if you weren't trying to share them. The Napster-like programs do not share your whole hard drive, just the stuff you want it to share. Napster scans the entire hard drive for MP3's, I don't know about Gnutella, but supposing I had my legal MP3's in a sharable folder, is that inherently piracy? If I left CD's in my locker, with the door hanging open, is *that* piracy?
It's also worth pointing out that this software doesn't necessarily find pirated MP3's, just their presence on someones hard drive. Suppose I've ripped my Metallica and Dr Dre collections onto my hard drive from CD's that I purchased for full price? It still shows me as a criminal. I'm sure I'm not the only one with legitimate MP3's out there. So the results are pretty questionable.
America and other individual European countries have also granted smells trademark status, and lawyers are now hoping for more EU-wide registrations. I smell a rat. Is it the lawyers, and have they trademarked it yet?
Given the cold war mindset of the late fifties, I have to wonder why *they* decided not to do it? I can think of plenty of reasons I wouldn't do it, but I wonder what theirs were?
The problem isn't so much institutional psyche, or limited funding, but diversified focus. Doing these missions with 100% chance of success drives the cost up atronomicly. However, if you only plan for a 90% chance of success, the savings are enormous. It is the currrent NASA philosphy that cutting the corners on missions this way allows them to do more cheaper missions. The idea is that if they do everything right, they can afford perhaps 3 major missions. If they do it cheap, they can do 10 major missions. If only 7 of these pan out, then they're still coming out ahead. The failures they have recently, are coming about as often as was expected, and the majority of missions are coming off just fine.
I'm a computer company, I'm going to crap on one of the biggest hacker//cracker sites around. On second thought, I'm going to coat myself with barbecue sauce and wrestle my weight in rabid starving hyenas.........
I think a lot of us are missing the point of the project. Noone is going to glean new technologies out of SF. What they may find is ideas that they had not considered. Suppose you're reading Heinlein some years ago, and see his idea about 'waldos'. One might think "Hey, something like that could be pretty useful. Let's see how I can make it work". SF is rife with ideas for useful things that may not been invented yet simply because those those with the resources to do so simply haven't thought of it.
I think part of the problem is that the issue of copyright needs to be revisited. In the last ten thousand years or so of human history, recorded music and copyright have just been a small blip, a century or so. Creating art, recoding it, and being able to sell it again and again for the rest of an artists right is a relative aberration. For most of history, a musician had to perform every night to earn is living. To actually go to work every day like most of us do. I'm not saying that we should get rid of copyrights entirely, just that perhaps their present form is no longer reasonable. Perhaps a 10 year lifespan berfore going to the public domain, instead of the life of the artist plus 50 years (or something like that)?
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YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT.
So using the CD as a coaster still binds you to the EULA?
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By the way, here is a photo of the artifact. It's been kept under specified conditions since 1889.
When was the last time YOU heard of a blimp crashing?
2 years ago in the Akron area one of the blimps crashed.
Let us have a moment of low hub-bub for the treated and released.
The US Navy also maintained a flotilla of submarine hunting blimps during WW2. They were quite successful, never losing a ship they were protecting to enemy action.
Incidently, Hindenburg passed through a hurricane on its way to Lakehurst, and Graf Zeppelin flew though several on it's routine Germany to Brazil run.
Generally, the larger an airship is, the more controllable it is in rough weather. So new large cargo type zeppelin's should be fine in the same kinds of weather conventional aircraft fly in.
You also have to consider scaling. When a Zeppelin doubles it's size (length and diameter), It's volume cubes. I read somewhere that the Hindenburg had a cargo capacity of about 45 tons. So double the size, cube the lifting capacity, and we're looking at a theoretical 90 thousand tons. For long haul, low priority cargo Zeppelins should niche in nicely between aircraft and ships.
If kids learn early how pervasive and abusive the current IP laws are, they may be more inclined to push for reform as they get older. Hey, these are the leaders of tomorrow
I don't deny the appeal of watching robots fight each other, but why hasn't the genre progressed beyond that?
Mainly, the people who want to build these things aren't particularly interested in "progressing beyond". It's a simple matter of fun. The games and stuff are boring to those who actually do it. Battlebots is about head to head competition, and combat is its purest form. And how are two shows an endless stream? Robot Wars airing in the UK and on PBS in the US, and Battlebots have been it so far. TLC is coming out with Robotica, which apparently involves the noncombat tasks you were hoping for.
According to the article:
The RIAA has asked the court to order Napster to use a "filter in" method, which would allow songs that Napster is authorised to distribute to be placed on its system, rather than blocking the swapping of copyrighted music placed on its service.
So then, it looks to me like the judge in charge of the case, will have to go through the files one by one and approve them for Napster.
Oh joy.
As an aside; Katz's book was required reading for incoming freshmen at Bowling Green State University in Ohio this summer. Make of it what you will.
Of course there is the old fashioned style of genetic manipulation, selective breeding. If you clone X breeding pairs, then Y of their offspring will have a defect. Remove and repeat until you've bred out the more serious defective genes. After Z generations you should have a reasonably breeding population.
You had your flying cars in the twenties and thirty's. They were called autogyros. They went out of style.
It looks to me like the big problem is the IOC and various media applying old licensing techniques to modern technology. In the bad old days, when broadcast TV and radio could only transmit so far, selling region and country based rights made sense, and was a viable business model. Now, with netcasting, satellite dishes, cable TV networks, global broadcasting is no longer a technical problem. Yet media sellers insist on clinging to the old atmospheric brodcast rights business model. So you get messes like this with the IOC, and the icravetv.com fiasco. Until the media providers update their business methods, idocy like this shall continue.
The Merced should get them going again
I'm not convinced that shattering an asteroid is such a bad idea. The Earth get thousands of metor hits every year, yet few ever touch dirt because they burn up in the atmosphere. If we shatterd one of these massive bodies into maybe a dozen major chunks, and a lot of minor chunks and sand, the overall distribution of damage should be less significant than the single massive hit of The Big One Breaking up the asteroid wouldn't save us entirely, but it could greatly ameliorate the harm.
They wouldn't show up on a scan if you weren't trying to share them. The Napster-like programs do not share your whole hard drive, just the stuff you want it to share. Napster scans the entire hard drive for MP3's, I don't know about Gnutella, but supposing I had my legal MP3's in a sharable folder, is that inherently piracy? If I left CD's in my locker, with the door hanging open, is *that* piracy?
It's also worth pointing out that this software doesn't necessarily find pirated MP3's, just their presence on someones hard drive. Suppose I've ripped my Metallica and Dr Dre collections onto my hard drive from CD's that I purchased for full price? It still shows me as a criminal. I'm sure I'm not the only one with legitimate MP3's out there. So the results are pretty questionable.
America and other individual European countries have also granted smells trademark status, and lawyers are now hoping for more EU-wide registrations. I smell a rat. Is it the lawyers, and have they trademarked it yet?
Given the cold war mindset of the late fifties, I have to wonder why *they* decided not to do it? I can think of plenty of reasons I wouldn't do it, but I wonder what theirs were?
The problem isn't so much institutional psyche, or limited funding, but diversified focus. Doing these missions with 100% chance of success drives the cost up atronomicly. However, if you only plan for a 90% chance of success, the savings are enormous. It is the currrent NASA philosphy that cutting the corners on missions this way allows them to do more cheaper missions. The idea is that if they do everything right, they can afford perhaps 3 major missions. If they do it cheap, they can do 10 major missions. If only 7 of these pan out, then they're still coming out ahead. The failures they have recently, are coming about as often as was expected, and the majority of missions are coming off just fine.
I'm a computer company, I'm going to crap on one of the biggest hacker//cracker sites around. On second thought, I'm going to coat myself with barbecue sauce and wrestle my weight in rabid starving hyenas.........
I don't know if it's the university you're referring to, but Ohio's Miami University continues this practice.
I think a lot of us are missing the point of the project. Noone is going to glean new technologies out of SF. What they may find is ideas that they had not considered. Suppose you're reading Heinlein some years ago, and see his idea about 'waldos'. One might think "Hey, something like that could be pretty useful. Let's see how I can make it work". SF is rife with ideas for useful things that may not been invented yet simply because those those with the resources to do so simply haven't thought of it.
I think part of the problem is that the issue of copyright needs to be revisited. In the last ten thousand years or so of human history, recorded music and copyright have just been a small blip, a century or so. Creating art, recoding it, and being able to sell it again and again for the rest of an artists right is a relative aberration. For most of history, a musician had to perform every night to earn is living. To actually go to work every day like most of us do. I'm not saying that we should get rid of copyrights entirely, just that perhaps their present form is no longer reasonable. Perhaps a 10 year lifespan berfore going to the public domain, instead of the life of the artist plus 50 years (or something like that)?