I doubt it. The bubbles are the result of pressure differences between the CO2 gas in the drink and the air. If the pressure was higher in spacecraft/spacestation then the bubble would come out slower. If it was lower, which it ususally is in spacecraft, then it would come out faster.
THe only reason you can't get foam is because the bubble have to connect together and usually they wont without gravity pushing down on them to squish them together.
You'd also need a container to hold htem close to each other. Ever spill a drink on the floor? The foam comes and goes very fast but can't stay together since there is no container.
An air scrubber failure is not only easily detected but easily escapable. All they have to do is watch the CO2 and other toxin levels SLOWLY rise to figure out if its failed. Now if they move ultra slow they might be in trouble but we're talking slow like 30 minutes slow. I doubt it will take 30 minute to put on an emergency respirator.
It always blows me away that you can authenticate what is essentially a contract by clicking a button. AFAIK under contract law you have to sign the contract to 1) resonably authenticate yourself and 2) agree to the terms of the contract. Clicking "I agree" does not satisfy point 1 properly does it?
IBM is just choosing to not support the Thinkpad for Linux (or vice versa). If I were in their shoes and I was faced with investing a huge amount of resources to get an open source, yet still very much niche market (as far as being a laptop system), OS to boot on my laptop I'd say forget it too.
Now don't get me wrong, I love Linux and the BSDs but its a business decision that has nothing to do with the OS. It has everything to do with what markets they are selling to and how much resources they have to use to support it.
AC Clarke has been a sell-out for a while now. He's probably the ony author who's books I've read and enjoyed but had to cringe at the fact he would change their sequels to match the movies.
I'd be interested in finding out if my tax dollars actually subsidize the high-speed ISPs in Canada. I don't think so but I'm not certain. Given that, Americans should be able to press for lower prices in the US.
If Canadians can have it for CAD$50 why can't Americans get it for that cheap too?
This isn't terribly surprising. The entire province has been wired with fiber optics for almost 20 years now. I'm more suprised that it took this long to figure out that those nifty little fibers can carry more than just voice.
"Threefold duplication of effort is, as you can see, Linux's answer to everything. "
He was refering to duplication of effort of KDE and GNOME.
Duplication of effort in this case was something the linux community knew they had to do. THey had to suck it up and do it right since it wansn't the first time. Its funny that MS calls it duplication of effort when the original incarnation was potentially illegal.
There's a big difference between duplication of effort and correcting something to do it right. Sometimes you have to take a step back to make progress. MS would prefer to break the law.
I don't know. All I know is Robert A Heinlein himself told the story. He got a free waterbed out of it too from the company chanllenging the patent. (He said it's been in his garage since then.:) )
As we all know there are a ton of patents for really stupid stuff. It should be noted that all that's required to refute a patent is a concept available to the public.
A well known example is the science fiction author Robert A Heinlein's description of a water bed in one of his books. Soon afterwards a company put a patent out on water beds. The patent was challenged and later invalidated because the description and design of a water bed (contained within RAH's book) was available to the public domain therefore not the intelectual property of anyone.
Proof of concept available to the public is all that is required AFAIK.
As a Canadian I find it strange/funny/outragouse when I listen to the American horror stories regarding DSL and cable modem service problems.
I don't claim to know what the market differences are between our two nations but at least from my point of view Canadian broadband suppliers are much better than their American counterparts in both service, and speed to their respective markets. I've had some form of high speed connection, be it cable or DSL, to the internet since 1993. In fact I've had it so long that I never purchased a 33.6 modem let alone a 56k modem.
When I hear stories of 2 months before installation, a required one year commitment, or even that the service is just being introduced into some cities I quite frankly am amazed. Broadband suppliers I've seen up here couldn't ever try that with their customers or they'd never have any. A few have tried the one year subscription but their policies have since changed.
I honestly hope my American neighbours are able to at least show their respective companies that they are indeed customers and deserve to be treated as such. Any company that has you over a barrel will treat you poorly. Either you take it the way they dish it or demand better treatment. (That's not as easy as it sounds but it still has to be done.)
In Canada there are regulations that prevent broadband service providers from charging more than C$50 per month. While that used to be the standard price competition has driven that down to C$40 per month with many services added (extra IPs, more email boxes, etc) and I hope it keep dropping.
I certainly hope the boys to the south can enjoy the same competition we have here. (Don't get me wrong though, the competition here is still in the infancy stages but it should grow.)
AFAIK since their contract violates the GPL anything and everything provided under compaq's own contract is now no longer bound to it. Compaq's contract is now invalid in its entirety.
Ie. If they provided both Linux and some proprietary stuff, Linux still falls under the GPL but their stuff becomes "free" since it isn't covered by any other contract.
Of course contract stuff gives me a headache so I could very easily be wrong. Someone clear this up?
You seem to forget that the US and Canada both have Norad monitoring stations all throughout Canada. Canada has full access to almost all (if not everything) the US has regarding nuclear information and, the much debated, encryption technologies just to name a few "secret" technologies other countries would like to have.
We spy on you. You spy on us. "They" spy on both of us. More importantly we also share a huge amount of information. China wants nuclear secrets. Who says the US has to be the only one using the so-called backdoor?
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Internet devices or not how hard do you think it will be to usurp already heavily embeded technology.
THe only reason you can't get foam is because the bubble have to connect together and usually they wont without gravity pushing down on them to squish them together.
You'd also need a container to hold htem close to each other. Ever spill a drink on the floor? The foam comes and goes very fast but can't stay together since there is no container.
An air scrubber failure is not only easily detected but easily escapable. All they have to do is watch the CO2 and other toxin levels SLOWLY rise to figure out if its failed. Now if they move ultra slow they might be in trouble but we're talking slow like 30 minutes slow. I doubt it will take 30 minute to put on an emergency respirator.
It always blows me away that you can authenticate what is essentially a contract by clicking a button. AFAIK under contract law you have to sign the contract to 1) resonably authenticate yourself and 2) agree to the terms of the contract. Clicking "I agree" does not satisfy point 1 properly does it?
Now don't get me wrong, I love Linux and the BSDs but its a business decision that has nothing to do with the OS. It has everything to do with what markets they are selling to and how much resources they have to use to support it.
Bah. Now look what I did.
I'd be interested in finding out if my tax dollars actually subsidize the high-speed ISPs in Canada. I don't think so but I'm not certain. Given that, Americans should be able to press for lower prices in the US.
If Canadians can have it for CAD$50 why can't Americans get it for that cheap too?
This isn't terribly surprising. The entire province has been wired with fiber optics for almost 20 years now. I'm more suprised that it took this long to figure out that those nifty little fibers can carry more than just voice.
There's a big difference between duplication of effort and correcting something to do it right. Sometimes you have to take a step back to make progress. MS would prefer to break the law.
Ack, replied to wrong thread. :)
I don't know. All I know is Robert A Heinlein himself told the story. He got a free waterbed out of it too from the company chanllenging the patent. (He said it's been in his garage since then.:) )
A well known example is the science fiction author Robert A Heinlein's description of a water bed in one of his books. Soon afterwards a company put a patent out on water beds. The patent was challenged and later invalidated because the description and design of a water bed (contained within RAH's book) was available to the public domain therefore not the intelectual property of anyone.
Proof of concept available to the public is all that is required AFAIK.
I don't claim to know what the market differences are between our two nations but at least from my point of view Canadian broadband suppliers are much better than their American counterparts in both service, and speed to their respective markets. I've had some form of high speed connection, be it cable or DSL, to the internet since 1993. In fact I've had it so long that I never purchased a 33.6 modem let alone a 56k modem.
When I hear stories of 2 months before installation, a required one year commitment, or even that the service is just being introduced into some cities I quite frankly am amazed. Broadband suppliers I've seen up here couldn't ever try that with their customers or they'd never have any. A few have tried the one year subscription but their policies have since changed.
I honestly hope my American neighbours are able to at least show their respective companies that they are indeed customers and deserve to be treated as such. Any company that has you over a barrel will treat you poorly. Either you take it the way they dish it or demand better treatment. (That's not as easy as it sounds but it still has to be done.)
In Canada there are regulations that prevent broadband service providers from charging more than C$50 per month. While that used to be the standard price competition has driven that down to C$40 per month with many services added (extra IPs, more email boxes, etc) and I hope it keep dropping.
I certainly hope the boys to the south can enjoy the same competition we have here. (Don't get me wrong though, the competition here is still in the infancy stages but it should grow.)
Ie. If they provided both Linux and some proprietary stuff, Linux still falls under the GPL but their stuff becomes "free" since it isn't covered by any other contract.
Of course contract stuff gives me a headache so I could very easily be wrong. Someone clear this up?
So you're saying I've got some time?
We spy on you. You spy on us. "They" spy on both of us. More importantly we also share a huge amount of information. China wants nuclear secrets. Who says the US has to be the only one using the so-called backdoor?
Of course, its the RCMP. Nuff said.
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