at the risk of being a Karma-whore, I should point out that xine plays the ASX stream just fine. No need for any non-free stuff to watch NASA TV wih bated breath.
News Item: Microsoft to offer bounty for rock throwers who recently damaged the owners of GlassHome XP, a product of Microsoft's Housing Division. Microsoft and the US Government asserted that throwing rocks at glass homes was indeed illegal.
In other news: Microsoft to offer additional curtains for owners of its GlassHome XP products, and stated that GlassHome 2003 will be stronger than GlassHome 95, 98, Me, 2000 or XP and that users of those homes should upgrade soon at a cost of 2 million dollars. Most users will need to move to a neighborhood with firm enough soil to withstand the crushing weight that the latest GlassHome products require. Older neighborhoods have been largely abandoned in areas, and new glass patches are no longer offered for these older homes.
Microsoft further warned that customers switching to the free open-source Brickix houses may find that their current furniture may not fit, that home repairs aren't supported well, and the Brickix isn't nearly as easy to use as GlassHomes XP. Brickix has made significant advances in recent months with banking and government groups frustrated with GlassEnterprise's security flaws.
I work in the Engineering Quadrangle at Princeton. Linux is around, sometimes covertly, the happy replacement for all those fubared Win2000 installs the CIT techs punch out. But then again, check out systems like hats.princeton.edu (running RedHat) that run pricey MatLab and Mathematica on an Nigerian scam money funded OS. In your a^Hear Mr. Strauss.
Oh, and as a LUG/IP member, I can say that we aren't affliated with Princeton University, just with the Central NJ area and that the meetings used to be in a bar just off campus.
The right-wing think tank is talking about free as in free to make and sell beer. The post to which I was replying to claimed that PROC was becoming free-er in this respect. But to say that China is to be economically free is, at this time, premature.
As for singapore, they have a parliamentary republic and have elections every six years. The current PM has been in power since 1990. Chief of state: President Sellapan Rama (S. R.) NATHAN (since 1 September 1999). Check it out here.
. Sure, you can't spit on the sidewalk, and you get caned for wrecking somebody's property. I'm not interested in free as in free to spit.
Really sad that /. readers are cheering PROC
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After having read many a Heinlein novel, I'm surprised that you seem to think it's OK for the Chinese to continue status quo and enslave their people, as long as they develop space travel. Are you hoping for a free ride (read free lunch)?
Think they would lift anyone who isn't a good trustworthy comrade?
As for CAPITALISM and morality (I didn't say BUSINESS and morality) you need to do a quick check of ``Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I'm a Randite. My pursuit of happiness is my moral imperative. I'll have every right to kill the next guy who takes away mine to get his! As a professed Heinlein fan I'm shocked to see you let the True Believers own the word "moral".
The hope of getting off this planet doesn't lie with Comrades or Blessed believers. It's with geeks scratching out a living developing technology for profit and/or enjoyment. We'll lift without NASA, ESA, or China and without doing it on your dime.
has been pretty capitalistic for the past ten years or so
By what measure are they enlightened capitalists?!?
Go read the Index of Economic Freedom here and compare Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong ( owned by China now). If the Chinese weren't shouldered with their autocratic government, they'd already be on the moon... and selling us moon rocks on ebay.
Theft begins at the level of the individual.You steal the means of production of from the capitalist (including the donkey and plow from the Kulak) and force him or her to toil at the point of the gun FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND.
Why is it hard to see that it isn't any harder for the socialist to steal land from your neighbor (nation or individual) if it's OK to steal his means of producing?
And what's wrong with mining resources? Do you use 100% recycled products?
Capitalist NATIONS don't take huge percentages for GDP in taxes to go in search of the raw materials for production. Instead, CAPITALIST individuals (or their legal constructions) take personal risks to later return a profit. If a CAPITALIST has the means to launch a moon-mining project (including obtaining some precedent for mineral rights on Luna) and the fervent belief that they will make money (BENEFIT). This is all well and good and moral, and all who contribute do so voluntarily.
Frankly, if the Chinese are going to go to the moon on the backs of the Chinese workers it will almost certainly hasten the demise of their non-free (non-free as in speech and as in beer) regime. [See Heritage foundation freedom index. ] That will benefit humanity.
Geeks usually are more skeptical than most folks, and want to know why things work and ask more questions than your average muggle.
Please, read more about homeopathy, before you spend the big bucks for the sugar pills. Most homeopathic remedies have been diluted to the point of absurdity, and you don't even get many molecules of the supposed "cure".
"I think most people would feel more comfortable knowing the other participant in a communication does not have the unilateral ability to bring the government into that conversation without court approval," Sobel said.
What am I missing? It's electronic mail. The recipient always has a copy somewhere until they choose to trash it.
Hmmm... does this mean that I cc: an email onto a list or newsgroup that didn't cc: the list when they responded to me? If somebody confesses to murder in an email should I not CC: the cops? Do you REALLY need to give out disclaimers to people before any email?
That's right. It doesn't mean silicon is obsolete.
It does mean that EUV photomask aligners and photoresist technology can now handle the sorter wavelength extreme UV and therefore make smaller devices.
-- Mycr0ft
NASA Marshall is funding the work of Prof. Gerry Smith, formerly of the PSU Physics Dept. (where I got my Ph.D. a while back) and who has gone to NASA MSFC
You can seen the PSU antimatter propulsion page here. He also has tried to sell folks on anti-matter assisted fusion energy at the NASA fusion propulsion workshop that was held in 2000.
I haven't the slightest idea how far any of this will get under the current NASA budget woes.
Hydrogen, being a lighter than air fuel quickly disperses from the scene of the accident.
Why did the Hindenburg burn? Newer theory: It was made of highly flammable cloth and hit by lightning. See one description here.
Don't use a tragedy from the 30s make us fear the fuel of this century.
--mycr0ft
This is a correction I couldn't let go.
Yes you are correct that energy is proportional to mass (linearly) and to the square of velocity, but you must have the 1/2 constant to get it right. If not, all the calculus gets screwed up.
Since we are only Mach 7, don't sweat relativistic corrections.
Hypersonic flight is the next challenge of aerospace technology. High altitude transpacific flights, cheap air to orbit, and yes, military missile technologies all are applications.
Frankly, the aerospace world has been pretty dormant in the last 20 years with detente and then the defeat of the eastern european socialist empire. Military spending drove advances that have been slowly translated into the civilian infrastructure. The most modern civilian aircraft, the Boeing 777 introduced 'fly-by-wire' technology already decades old. Ever notice the lack of innovation in aircraft design? Isn't the shuttle 60's technology, too?
The current initiatives by the Air Force and NASA are planned to develop dual-use engines that can operate as turbo jets or as scrams, OR as scrams and rockets. Alas, slow funding and lack of current talent means plans are for the middle of the 21st century. Not very ambitious.
Jetliner - dual use the engines, or take off from a larger moving craft. Better yet, boost on the ground from a mag-sled like this.
Missiles - again, dual mode engine, or use a boost stage, sure.
Aero heating - Use plasma 'magic' to heat air in front of the vehicle and thin it out, like this . Rockets are expensive, why boost so high?
And yes, I am a current rocket scientist working on hypersonic drag reduction and plasma steering.
OK, the point is that this is a scramjet engine, not that it is going fast. The idea folks, is that in future vehicles you can take off to high speed using a mag-sled or a more conventional aircraft and achieve high velocity and high altitude using earths atmosphere and at the last possible moment switch to a rocket engine using Liquid O2 (LOX) that you store aboard.
Part of the reason launch is so expensive (and dangerous) is that we have to carry LOX from the ground up along with the propellant.
--mycr0ft
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Yes! Simply by having a character who by most folks (even by Rand, if she was alive) is considered an immoral jerk, they have impuned objectivism/radical-capitalism.
But hey all the rest of the Rodenberry world is anti-capitalist! Remember the Ferengi in ST:TNG? The Orion Traders in TOS? Aren't all the good-guys in Trek self-less and loathesome of money? (Janeway, most recently made me sick)
turns my stomach.
--mycr0ft
A sci-fi fan wishing more Heinlein would be made into movies.
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What the hell is the plasma for?
Plasma? Maybe it's an atmospheric pressure plasma for decontamination of biohazards. But then again maybe not.
Maybe it's a microwave plasma fireball for shooting bad guys.
Nah. Its probably just one of these dumb things from Spencer's Gifts.
BRIEFING: Opportunity Site was once *Drenched*
Yeah the little blueberries are evidence of water flowing in the past.
at the risk of being a Karma-whore, I should point out that xine plays the ASX stream just fine. No need for any non-free stuff to watch NASA TV wih bated breath.
...perhaps he might no be far behind with another of his very successful albums.
Hope against all logic.
News Item: Microsoft to offer bounty for rock throwers who recently damaged the owners of GlassHome XP, a product of Microsoft's Housing Division. Microsoft and the US Government asserted that throwing rocks at glass homes was indeed illegal.
In other news: Microsoft to offer additional curtains for owners of its GlassHome XP products, and stated that GlassHome 2003 will be stronger than GlassHome 95, 98, Me, 2000 or XP and that users of those homes should upgrade soon at a cost of 2 million dollars. Most users will need to move to a neighborhood with firm enough soil to withstand the crushing weight that the latest GlassHome products require. Older neighborhoods have been largely abandoned in areas, and new glass patches are no longer offered for these older homes.
Microsoft further warned that customers switching to the free open-source Brickix houses may find that their current furniture may not fit, that home repairs aren't supported well, and the Brickix isn't nearly as easy to use as GlassHomes XP. Brickix has made significant advances in recent months with banking and government groups frustrated with GlassEnterprise's security flaws.
Strauss is such a snot.
I work in the Engineering Quadrangle at Princeton. Linux is around, sometimes covertly,
the happy replacement for all those fubared Win2000 installs the CIT techs punch out. But then again, check out systems like hats.princeton.edu (running RedHat) that run pricey MatLab and Mathematica on an Nigerian scam money funded OS. In your a^Hear Mr. Strauss.
Oh, and as a LUG/IP member, I can say that we aren't affliated with Princeton University, just with the Central NJ area and that the meetings used to be in a bar just off campus.
I trusted MS XP Pro so much that I fdisked over it with great gusto without a single bootup.
Unfortunately, Toshiba (and thus me) already gave those toads money.
These things implode in bright light!
See
Carbon nanotubes ignite when exposed to flash.
Makes my plans for a superstrong nanotube fiber superhero suit go up in smoke. Literally!
The right-wing think tank is talking about free as in free to make and sell beer. The post to which I was replying to claimed that PROC was becoming free-er in this respect. But to say that China is to be economically free is, at this time, premature.
As for singapore, they have a parliamentary republic and have elections every six years. The current PM has been in power since 1990. Chief of state: President Sellapan Rama (S. R.) NATHAN (since 1 September 1999). Check it out here.
. Sure, you can't spit on the sidewalk, and you get caned for wrecking somebody's property. I'm not interested in free as in free to spit.
After having read many a Heinlein novel, I'm surprised that you seem to think it's OK for the Chinese to continue status quo and enslave their people, as long as they develop space travel. Are you hoping for a free ride (read free lunch)?
Think they would lift anyone who isn't a good trustworthy comrade?
As for CAPITALISM and morality (I didn't say BUSINESS and morality) you need to do a quick check of ``Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I'm a Randite. My pursuit of happiness is my moral imperative. I'll have every right to kill the next guy who takes away mine to get his!
As a professed Heinlein fan I'm shocked to see you let the True Believers own the word "moral".
The hope of getting off this planet doesn't lie with Comrades or Blessed believers. It's with geeks scratching out a living developing technology for profit and/or enjoyment. We'll lift without NASA, ESA, or China and without doing it on your dime.
has been pretty capitalistic for the past ten years or so
By what measure are they enlightened capitalists?!?
Go read the Index of Economic Freedom here and compare Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong ( owned by China now). If the Chinese weren't shouldered with their autocratic government, they'd already be on the moon... and selling us moon rocks on ebay.
Theft begins at the level of the individual.You steal the means of production of from the capitalist (including the donkey and plow from the Kulak) and force him or her to toil at the point of the gun FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND.
Why is it hard to see that it isn't any harder for the socialist to steal land from your neighbor (nation or individual) if it's OK to steal his means of producing?
And what's wrong with mining resources? Do you use 100% recycled products?
Capitalist NATIONS don't take huge percentages for GDP in taxes to go in search of the raw materials for production. Instead, CAPITALIST individuals (or their legal constructions) take personal risks to later return a profit. If a CAPITALIST has the means to launch a moon-mining project (including obtaining some precedent for mineral rights on Luna) and the fervent belief that they will make money (BENEFIT). This is all well and good and moral, and all who contribute do so voluntarily.
Frankly, if the Chinese are going to go to the moon on the backs of the Chinese workers it will almost certainly hasten the demise of their non-free (non-free as in speech and as in beer) regime. [See Heritage foundation freedom index. ] That will benefit humanity.
I can't believe that got modded up.
Geeks usually are more skeptical than most folks, and want to know why things work and ask more questions than your average muggle.
Please, read more about homeopathy, before you spend the big bucks for the sugar pills. Most homeopathic remedies have been diluted to the point of absurdity, and you don't even get many molecules of the supposed "cure".
Read more about it at here and here
"I think most people would feel more comfortable knowing the other participant in a communication does not have the unilateral ability to bring the government into that conversation without court approval," Sobel said.
What am I missing? It's electronic mail. The recipient always has a copy somewhere until they choose to trash it.
Hmmm... does this mean that I cc: an email onto a list or newsgroup that didn't cc: the list when they responded to me? If somebody confesses to murder in an email should I not CC: the cops? Do you REALLY need to give out disclaimers to people before any email?
Privacy is not enshrined in the constitution because it is in conflict with real human rights.
Think semantically: how can you have privacy any time when you interact with others?
Does not your "right" to privacy imply that the people you are interacting with have no
right to free speech when that speech concerns you?
It's not completely free. You can't get the source.
Read http://freshmeat.net/projects/blender/
--mycr0ft
That's right. It doesn't mean silicon is obsolete.
It does mean that EUV photomask aligners and photoresist technology can now handle the sorter wavelength extreme UV and therefore make smaller devices.
-- Mycr0ft
NASA Marshall is funding the work of Prof. Gerry Smith, formerly of the PSU Physics Dept. (where I got my Ph.D. a while back) and who has gone to NASA MSFC
/. here.
This was posted previously on
You can seen the PSU antimatter propulsion page here.
He also has tried to sell folks on anti-matter assisted fusion energy at the NASA fusion propulsion workshop that was held in 2000.
I haven't the slightest idea how far any of this will get under the current NASA budget woes.
-- Mycr0ft
Hydrogen, being a lighter than air fuel quickly disperses from the scene of the accident.
Why did the Hindenburg burn? Newer theory: It was made of highly flammable cloth and hit by lightning. See one description here.
Don't use a tragedy from the 30s make us fear the fuel of this century.
--mycr0ft
This is a correction I couldn't let go.
Yes you are correct that energy is proportional to mass (linearly) and to the square of velocity, but you must have the 1/2 constant to get it right. If not, all the calculus gets screwed up.
Since we are only Mach 7, don't sweat relativistic corrections.
Frankly, the aerospace world has been pretty dormant in the last 20 years with detente and then the defeat of the eastern european socialist empire. Military spending drove advances that have been slowly translated into the civilian infrastructure. The most modern civilian aircraft, the Boeing 777 introduced 'fly-by-wire' technology already decades old. Ever notice the lack of innovation in aircraft design? Isn't the shuttle 60's technology, too?
The current initiatives by the Air Force and NASA are planned to develop dual-use engines that can operate as turbo jets or as scrams, OR as scrams and rockets. Alas, slow funding and lack of current talent means plans are for the middle of the 21st century. Not very ambitious.
Jetliner - dual use the engines, or take off from a larger moving craft. Better yet, boost on the ground from a mag-sled like this.
Missiles - again, dual mode engine, or use a boost stage, sure.
Aero heating - Use plasma 'magic' to heat air in front of the vehicle and thin it out, like this . Rockets are expensive, why boost so high?
And yes, I am a current rocket scientist working on hypersonic drag reduction and plasma steering.
Here is a link to the AEDC press release with (fuzzy) pictures and video. -- mycr0ft
OK, the point is that this is a scramjet engine, not that it is going fast. The idea folks, is that in future vehicles you can take off to high speed using a mag-sled or a more conventional aircraft and achieve high velocity and high altitude using earths atmosphere and at the last possible moment switch to a rocket engine using Liquid O2 (LOX) that you store aboard.
Part of the reason launch is so expensive (and dangerous) is that we have to carry LOX from the ground up along with the propellant.
--mycr0ft
Yes! Simply by having a character who by most folks (even by Rand, if she was alive) is considered an immoral jerk, they have impuned objectivism/radical-capitalism. But hey all the rest of the Rodenberry world is anti-capitalist! Remember the Ferengi in ST:TNG? The Orion Traders in TOS? Aren't all the good-guys in Trek self-less and loathesome of money? (Janeway, most recently made me sick) turns my stomach. --mycr0ft A sci-fi fan wishing more Heinlein would be made into movies.