...because the rocket was using GLONASS for navigation instead of GPS.
Wasn't a navigation, but propulsion problem. Go back to your model rocketry and read the manuals again, and not the difference between Propulsion section and Payload section.
This is a drag, but it's always a drag when these fail because it still means failure is possible, even SOYUZ.
But Commission activity should be just one piece of a broader response. Flaws in the patent system are likely fueling much of the real costs associated with PAE activities. PAEs are good at monetizing patents. But effective monetization of low quality patents imposes a de facto tax on productive economic activity with little or no offsetting benefit for consumers
Expecting that parliament of whores, the US House, to pass anything meaningful while they wring their hands over how it might reduce their campaign warchests by $1 million, or less, is like believing the Tooth Faerie exists.
I'd bet a nontrivial amount of money that the Interestate Commerce Clause is 'elastic' enough to handle this one, if Congress felt like it
If a federal judge can strike down Virginia's ban on out-of-state trash processors shipping their trash to Virginia landfills, striking down barriers to Tesla selling direct to consumers across state lines seems like a no brainer to me. And I'm a states rights advocate.
And this post winds a kewpie doll. If I had mod points you'd get a bright and shiny one for understanding this and stating it clearly. A federal court should be able to throw out a law which was cynical enough to be designed to protect dealerships. Smacks of the 'Old Boy Network', doesn't it?
Typo... 74K short. Although now it's only 72K short, seems it's working...
If there's one thing business can't stand it's competition - given that the Big 3 conspired to kill the Tucker, you have some idea where the original legislation found its roots and monetary $upport (when it came to buying votes to pass the original bill). Every business would love to be a monopoly, barring that, they settle for an oligarchy.
This will mean even more spam from them. They already relentlessly spam me about some approval for pay later (i.e. my charges are a loan), next they'll be bugging me about how and where I can spend my SpaceBucks (and borrow from them, in the form of a loan).
I've seen your face before.. back when Michigan fought Japan through legislation in Washington DC. How have you been? I see you are on the rise again as people pretend you're their last, best hope.
Maybe someone could optimize editors on/. to make sure all acronyms are spelled out at least once in the article.
If this was some common newspaper, then yeah, it could be good idea. However, you should assume readers of Slashdot to be familiar with industry's (and general, like DNA and CEO) common acronyms on at least "I know what it is about" level.
Where I got my degrees it was driven into us to Spell Out anything we were going to refer to later in a written article, followed by the acronym in parenthesis. In longer works it would be included in a glossary in the appendix. This must seem foreign now, this concept of Technical Writing. The practice saved readers from having to mark their reading material and go seek out an explanation.
I haven't seen an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) email in ages as I have a pretty good spam filter these days. Heck, I haven't seen and SEO article on/. in years.
I have been seeing and reading about Android computers the size of a USB flash drive which can clip on a LCD monitor, and gets power from a USB cable.
I think in China and a lot of other countries, Android is a desktop OS, but other than a few models winding up on this side of the pond, I've not seen that many of these Android devices.
It'll all depend upon how you define desktop I suppose. Mine is a big noisy thing with a lot of power to do things. Android seems geared to small, quiet things with small power needs.
I have two gmail accounts and both of them are used for registering for websites which may have dubious practices, such as... um.../.
All anyone would gain from them is the ability to steal my password on review or nattering accounts, Comrade!
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I for one want the government out of marriage. Let the churches deal with "marriage"
SNIP
So all along I could have formed the Ackthpt Church of the Holy Wombat and married anyone to anyone else (or to themselves for that matter.)
Not what it's really about.
Respecting a marriage which took place in State A in State B is closer to the Constititutionality of the well meaning, but mean spirited laws and this becomes a federal issue. You have no more than to look back at Blacks married to Whites to find the same level of discrimination.
Google never indicated, to me at least, what was in the search results. I don't see how it could be deceptive.
And even if it was, does that matter, since I don't pay Google one red cent for the service?
Perhaps this will make Google results more useful. I'm rather fed up with doing a search and getting all this garbage up front which has nothing to do with the search, but tries to lure me to some business or review site. Ever notice how Urban Spoon and Yelp show up first, even when the site you are looking for has their own website?
Long-time users of Google may agree here, the results are becoming less useful as time goes by, obviously because paid or revenue producing pages are promoted over utility.
in 2013 it is much worse than 1776 and yet the west hasn't done anything about it
Yet. You forgot to append 'yet'.
There are rumblings in the West, which will soon turn into the roars of the Arab Spring.
Just observe the abundance of postings here on/., on Twitter, Facebook. Weak at the moment, but it's just the start. Ranters can coalesce into action groups which, if they attain critical mass, can force the hands of politicians.
In Australia, the Greens (who traditionally support online freedoms) have steadily gained seats over the past 10 years. I expect this to continue, albeit at the same snail's pace. A good number of policies of the current Australian government were borne out of the necessity of Labor to acquire and retain the support of the Greens.
The NSA tipped me off on this gaffe, you can thank them.
Ah, but how do you know they aren't going to harm the US, unless you spy on them? Arguably a lot of the difficulties we had in Iraq and Afghanistan are directly linked to not having a strong intelligence presence; if we had had any idea, going in, of the lay of the land (politically speaking) we might have resolved matters a lot more quickly and peacefully. Instead we had to try to brute force it.
Espionage isn't warfare; it's an alternative.
I may be wrong, but I think 'Espionage' is the French word for 'Spying'
The ghost of the spirit of the law is now haunting the patent office, waiting on the Mystery Van to trap it and do the big reveal to show that it's actually...
Technical aspects are being used to commit the sort of large scale larceny mobsters never dreamed up while threatening a shop keeper for a protection racket.
so do I.. but then, I'm old and I have to do that for everything. Maybe its not the language after all.. just saying:-)
I'm not old, well, super old, but I've always found that to be a good practice anyway. Too often I'm switching between 4 or 5 languages, all of which do something differently (why the heck can't we have uniform names for routines across langauges?!? Yeah, I know, big dream and horses got out of the barn years ago.)
Judge: Officer Friday, could you please repeat that, I'm not sure I heard it right.
Friday: Yes, your honor. It appears on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, the suspect's car was orbiting Europa, in clear violation of the directive to leave this one moon alone.
People are forgetting the DS. Kids still play with portable Nintento consoles. If you aren't seeing this then you are choosing to have tunnel vision.
The Apple hype machine (news media included) is trying to hype things into something that they realy aren't.
My old Sega still works and I have a PS2 laying around somewhere, too. I don't play those games much these days as my hand-to-eye coordination isn't what it once was and I'm leaning more to tactical or strategy games after burning my synapses like magnesium flares on MMO games for a few years.
Hardcore gamers are not on consoles, they're on PCs. Consoles have always had fairly dumbed down gaming experiences compared to what is available on PCs.
When consoles became a "big thing", it was the non-hardcore gamers who went there, and the hardcore types that stayed on the PC. Consoles didn't have the right kinds of controllers, the games were more dumbed down, etc.
So, about this:
First, there are signs that the hardcore gamer market is soft: console sales in the United States dropped 21 percent in 2012,
... those are not the hardcore gamers, those are the "middle-core" gamers.
Consoles succeeded in a vacuum. When your Apple or PC couldn't really play like the glorious dedicated devices in arcades you needed a console. Now you don't. Computer hardware, even the cheapest, can do pretty well for MMO, 3D experience (not great, but good enough for most and bet on it most don't shell for an $800 video card.)
It's been 10ish years since we have seen a new console.....maybe that had a little to do with the drop in console purchases, everybody has one?
For a while they were the best bet for playing your games on. PCs were OK at it, but expensive and geared to the Office or Home Office. Now even the most humble PC can play pretty good 3D games (not talking 120 fps here, but good enough for the masses) Mobile devices are catching up in performance, but are likely held back by battery life.
You can play games on your dedicated hardware and use it to watch movies on, but the actual need for a dedicated game device is passing by.
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...because the rocket was using GLONASS for navigation instead of GPS.
Wasn't a navigation, but propulsion problem. Go back to your model rocketry and read the manuals again, and not the difference between Propulsion section and Payload section.
This is a drag, but it's always a drag when these fail because it still means failure is possible, even SOYUZ.
From TFA:
IV. PAE Harm is a Symptom of a Larger Problem
But Commission activity should be just one piece of a broader response. Flaws in the patent system are likely fueling much of the real costs associated with PAE activities. PAEs are good at monetizing patents. But effective monetization of low quality patents imposes a de facto tax on productive economic activity with little or no offsetting benefit for consumers
Expecting that parliament of whores, the US House, to pass anything meaningful while they wring their hands over how it might reduce their campaign warchests by $1 million, or less, is like believing the Tooth Faerie exists.
I think it's a typo for 'wins a kewpie doll'. Kewpie dolls are often given away as prizes at games of skill and chance at fairs and carnivals.
Indeed, that little 'd' snuck in there inadvertently.
If a federal judge can strike down Virginia's ban on out-of-state trash processors shipping their trash to Virginia landfills, striking down barriers to Tesla selling direct to consumers across state lines seems like a no brainer to me. And I'm a states rights advocate.
And this post winds a kewpie doll. If I had mod points you'd get a bright and shiny one for understanding this and stating it clearly. A federal court should be able to throw out a law which was cynical enough to be designed to protect dealerships. Smacks of the 'Old Boy Network', doesn't it?
Typo... 74K short. Although now it's only 72K short, seems it's working...
If there's one thing business can't stand it's competition - given that the Big 3 conspired to kill the Tucker, you have some idea where the original legislation found its roots and monetary $upport (when it came to buying votes to pass the original bill). Every business would love to be a monopoly, barring that, they settle for an oligarchy.
This will mean even more spam from them. They already relentlessly spam me about some approval for pay later (i.e. my charges are a loan), next they'll be bugging me about how and where I can spend my SpaceBucks (and borrow from them, in the form of a loan).
I've seen your face before .. back when Michigan fought Japan through legislation in Washington DC. How have you been? I see you are on the rise again as people pretend you're their last, best hope.
Maybe someone could optimize editors on /. to make sure all acronyms are spelled out at least once in the article.
If this was some common newspaper, then yeah, it could be good idea. However, you should assume readers of Slashdot to be familiar with industry's (and general, like DNA and CEO) common acronyms on at least "I know what it is about" level.
Where I got my degrees it was driven into us to Spell Out anything we were going to refer to later in a written article, followed by the acronym in parenthesis. In longer works it would be included in a glossary in the appendix. This must seem foreign now, this concept of Technical Writing. The practice saved readers from having to mark their reading material and go seek out an explanation.
I haven't seen an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) email in ages as I have a pretty good spam filter these days. Heck, I haven't seen and SEO article on /. in years.
Because everyone on /. is a web marketer, developer, or designer?
Because the term is used everywhere, all the time.
Well, dang, there's a first class assumption and exaggeration right there, no wonder we can't get good editors around this joint: Low expectations!
It would make it rank higher organically with search engines.
Well, here's one....
I had to go look up 'SEO' as I was drawing a blank on it. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There, now I have some idea what the article is about.
Maybe someone could optimize editors on /. to make sure all acronyms are spelled out at least once in the article.
I have been seeing and reading about Android computers the size of a USB flash drive which can clip on a LCD monitor, and gets power from a USB cable.
I think in China and a lot of other countries, Android is a desktop OS, but other than a few models winding up on this side of the pond, I've not seen that many of these Android devices.
It'll all depend upon how you define desktop I suppose. Mine is a big noisy thing with a lot of power to do things. Android seems geared to small, quiet things with small power needs.
I have two gmail accounts and both of them are used for registering for websites which may have dubious practices, such as ... um ... /.
All anyone would gain from them is the ability to steal my password on review or nattering accounts, Comrade!
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I believe there is more to it than that.
I for one want the government out of marriage. Let the churches deal with "marriage"
SNIP
So all along I could have formed the Ackthpt Church of the Holy Wombat and married anyone to anyone else (or to themselves for that matter.)
Not what it's really about.
Respecting a marriage which took place in State A in State B is closer to the Constititutionality of the well meaning, but mean spirited laws and this becomes a federal issue. You have no more than to look back at Blacks married to Whites to find the same level of discrimination.
Google never indicated, to me at least, what was in the search results. I don't see how it could be deceptive.
And even if it was, does that matter, since I don't pay Google one red cent for the service?
Perhaps this will make Google results more useful. I'm rather fed up with doing a search and getting all this garbage up front which has nothing to do with the search, but tries to lure me to some business or review site. Ever notice how Urban Spoon and Yelp show up first, even when the site you are looking for has their own website?
Long-time users of Google may agree here, the results are becoming less useful as time goes by, obviously because paid or revenue producing pages are promoted over utility.
in 2013 it is much worse than 1776 and yet the west hasn't done anything about it
Yet. You forgot to append 'yet'.
There are rumblings in the West, which will soon turn into the roars of the Arab Spring.
Just observe the abundance of postings here on /., on Twitter, Facebook. Weak at the moment, but it's just the start. Ranters can coalesce into action groups which, if they attain critical mass, can force the hands of politicians.
In Australia, the Greens (who traditionally support online freedoms) have steadily gained seats over the past 10 years. I expect this to continue, albeit at the same snail's pace. A good number of policies of the current Australian government were borne out of the necessity of Labor to acquire and retain the support of the Greens.
The NSA tipped me off on this gaffe, you can thank them.
Ah, but how do you know they aren't going to harm the US, unless you spy on them? Arguably a lot of the difficulties we had in Iraq and Afghanistan are directly linked to not having a strong intelligence presence; if we had had any idea, going in, of the lay of the land (politically speaking) we might have resolved matters a lot more quickly and peacefully. Instead we had to try to brute force it.
Espionage isn't warfare; it's an alternative.
I may be wrong, but I think 'Espionage' is the French word for 'Spying'
The ghost of the spirit of the law is now haunting the patent office, waiting on the Mystery Van to trap it and do the big reveal to show that it's actually...
Because:
Officials from President Obama down have said they welcomed the opportunity to explain the importance of the programs...
But only to secret judges on secret courts.
...conducting hearings during a full moon in months with an 'R' in them.
suddenly the Committee pulled up to the curb in an arcane dodge dart and Bob 'The Atomic Carp' was heard to say, 'How arcane!!'
To know that's what was going to happen.
Still, I draped a thread over a string I saw running through the neighborhood and tied it to my own tin can and heard pretty much that.
Technical aspects are being used to commit the sort of large scale larceny mobsters never dreamed up while threatening a shop keeper for a protection racket.
It's all turning into legalized extortion.
so do I.. but then, I'm old and I have to do that for everything. Maybe its not the language after all.. just saying :-)
I'm not old, well, super old, but I've always found that to be a good practice anyway. Too often I'm switching between 4 or 5 languages, all of which do something differently (why the heck can't we have uniform names for routines across langauges?!? Yeah, I know, big dream and horses got out of the barn years ago.)
Programming/reprogramming these things.
Judge: Officer Friday, could you please repeat that, I'm not sure I heard it right.
Friday: Yes, your honor. It appears on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, the suspect's car was orbiting Europa, in clear violation of the directive to leave this one moon alone.
People are forgetting the DS. Kids still play with portable Nintento consoles. If you aren't seeing this then you are choosing to have tunnel vision.
The Apple hype machine (news media included) is trying to hype things into something that they realy aren't.
My old Sega still works and I have a PS2 laying around somewhere, too. I don't play those games much these days as my hand-to-eye coordination isn't what it once was and I'm leaning more to tactical or strategy games after burning my synapses like magnesium flares on MMO games for a few years.
Hardcore gamers are not on consoles, they're on PCs. Consoles have always had fairly dumbed down gaming experiences compared to what is available on PCs.
When consoles became a "big thing", it was the non-hardcore gamers who went there, and the hardcore types that stayed on the PC. Consoles didn't have the right kinds of controllers, the games were more dumbed down, etc.
So, about this:
First, there are signs that the hardcore gamer market is soft: console sales in the United States dropped 21 percent in 2012,
... those are not the hardcore gamers, those are the "middle-core" gamers.
Consoles succeeded in a vacuum. When your Apple or PC couldn't really play like the glorious dedicated devices in arcades you needed a console. Now you don't. Computer hardware, even the cheapest, can do pretty well for MMO, 3D experience (not great, but good enough for most and bet on it most don't shell for an $800 video card.)
It's been 10ish years since we have seen a new console.....maybe that had a little to do with the drop in console purchases, everybody has one?
For a while they were the best bet for playing your games on. PCs were OK at it, but expensive and geared to the Office or Home Office. Now even the most humble PC can play pretty good 3D games (not talking 120 fps here, but good enough for the masses) Mobile devices are catching up in performance, but are likely held back by battery life.
You can play games on your dedicated hardware and use it to watch movies on, but the actual need for a dedicated game device is passing by.