Only if you want to look at a SINGLE wavelength of light, which isn't likely to be useful in a telescope of any kind. These mirrors are pretty useless for just about anything you normally think of when somebody says "mirror" and really only sound useful for laser based applications.
In terms of lasers, well, maybe - as long as the laser uses only a very tight range of wavelengths.
Yes, most do just that... In fact, I'm not sure if there is a laser resonator that isn't pretty specific to a single wave length. To make a laser, the idea is to create a way to bounce a single wavelength of light back and forth until the photons are all going the same direction at the same time and exit the resonator. It's a lot like how a klystron resonator works when generating large amounts of microwave energy.
Talk about hyperbolic arguments. SLAVERY? Really? There isn't any application here using slavery as an example. Plus, using these kinds of arguments really cheapens the issue of slavery from the horrible institution it was/is to something "like" copyright law? Now that's sad.
A song has no feelings, has no soul or even a body. A song feels no pain, no joy, cannot love or hate. It's just a thing that has melody, rhythm and sometimes words that when played can be enjoyed. It's just a thing which is owned by somebody, and like that pile of stuff in the hall closet that you own, is in the control of it's owner.
If you write a song, it's yours to do with as you please. You can play it for others and get paid, you can sell rights to it to somebody else, or you can keep it for yourself. It's yours because you created it. How is that related to slavery? It's not.
If the ethics of the situation bother you, may I suggest that the ethical thing to do is to not deal with BMI at all. Don't play their stuff, Don't buy their licenses and don't worry about getting sued as an example. Hold yourself to a higher ethical standard than they hold themselves to. It's always the best approach..
The way we did Telephone and electricity distribution in this country worked fairly well in the past, of course the proponents of government run services either ignore how this was done or don't know.
Some people do not get it sometimes....Sigh.... Think joke based on stereotypes... But having to point it out ruins what little humor it had to start with.
You cannot seriously be saying that you don't have the right to SUE somebody in Australia if they try to use your property in some way you don't approve. SURELY you have the right to sue somebody in Civil court for damages?
Where I get this "looser pays legal costs" idea and I actually LIKE it, I'm pretty sure that even down where you live you are free to sue. If you are free to sue, that means you must be free to do investigations of your own and collection of evidence. In fact, I just did a quick web search and found a number of active Private Investigative services active in your country.
But even if you don't like HOW they do what they do, you must agree that they have the right to do it that way if that's how they choose.
This is my point. I'm not defending BMI's actions as being nice or the right way to do business, I'm saying that they have the legal right to protect their property. If you don't like their terms and don't like the way they do business then I suggest you not use their stuff.
Further, if you DO choose to use their stuff without a license, don't come complaining about how unfair they are treating you. They can sue to collect damages and make an example out of you if that's how they decide to work. It's their work (or they own the rights to the work) and not yours. They are within their rights to force compliance with ANY terms they decide, up to and including refusing to let you use the work. You either live by their terms or stop using their stuff.. Full stop, end of report...
The fact remains they set the terms of their licenses and if you use their work, those are the terms. If you don't like their terms, don't use their stuff. What's in their catalog? Head to their website and look. Even if you think they are being nasty and unfair, you have no legal choice except not using their stuff. Use their stuff then Pay the license fee or risk BMI hauling your butt into court and collecting damages. End of report, full stop.
"If you're buying a house, you don't need to ask whether it has electricity, phone service, water, and sewage service."
Never purchased a house in the country eh? Where Electricity is pretty much everywhere, the rest is NOT a given for the vast majority of buildable land in this country.
Nearby communities are not far behind in bringing broadband to their residents; they see high-speed Internet as an economic boon akin to rural electrification in the 1930s, one that could bring higher home values, better business climates, and easier access to the modern economy.
I've been saying that for a while. First was electrification, then telephonication, now internetification.
You know, I'm not a fan of this idea, where government shoulders the costs and then owns the resource. We didn't do electricity or telephone this way back in the days, we encouraged private industry to do this by providing subsidies and a regulatory climate where private enterprise could survive. Just having the government do it is a bad idea.... Just about as bad as just handing out grants to companies that claim they will do it for government, which is, in effect, how this will end up. But we apparently are incapable of understanding how this was done successfully in the past and how this government run thing is so not going to work given past history...
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.... While those who DO know history are doomed to watch..
Read the story.. For those getting the minimum wage: 1 in 8 live at home. 1 in 4 have children, but not all of these households depend solely on one worker (or even two) making minimum wage. Many have other wage earners who are making more than minimum wage. Not to mention that there are only 30 million workers actually paid minimum wage, and 155 Million people working in the USA right now. Doing a bit of math tells me that only about 8 million workers have kids and get minimum wage, and somewhat less than only have one wage earner in the house.
However, WHY are the numbers skewed toward older age workers on minimum wage? Because most kids and college aged workers are UNEMPLOYEED right now. For the most part, anybody under 20 right now simply cannot find work AT ANY PRICE. What's more, they are not counted in the unemployment numbers because they've never held a job and are not drawing unemployment (which is what the "headline unemployment" number actually is). Real unemployment in segments of the population is a staggering 30% in some places, mostly for young workers and those who have turned 20 in the last 7 years or so. It's worse in some ethnic groups than others, but it's bad just about everywhere.
In my view this is due to the minimum wage and the negative effects of the ACA on low end worker's hours.... Well that and the economy that is stuck in granny gear by the way it's been managed since 2008....
The public is going to be mercilessly taxed to provide themselves with high-speed internet, and the cost will be entirely on the people who benefit!
This failed in Chattanooga, in North Carolina, and everywhere else it has been tried!
Never under estimate the liberal mind's propensity for hubris. They either don't know history, or they firmly believe that because THEY are running this show, it won't be a problem this time, they are smarter. What usually happens though is that they keep making the "program" bigger and bigger or put the federal government in charge which just wastes more resources and simply fails as before.
Remember it's the INTENT that matters, not the result...
Compared to many states (like mine) Massachusetts is a county.
You ain't seen nothing... I live in Texas and we WHERE our own country, having broken off from Mexico in 1836 and joined the US about 10 years later... Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we had stayed the Republic of Texas just a little bit longer than 10 years... Darn pesky war debt... Should have put up the "Come and Get It" flags again and held out for something more, but I guess another war wasn't a good idea, but coming into the union as a slave state wasn't either.
Probation made hooch illegal... They where acting outside the law to start with, one would need to expect them to not care about the law at all. But that's not the case here.
BMI isn't acting outside the law, as much as people would like to imply that they are. They are working totally within the correct legal and ethical grounds. If you are going to use somebody's property, the owner of the property has the right to set the terms.
IF they require you get a license and pay for the privilege to use their work, they get to do that. IF they take you to court when you don't, they get to do that too..
If you go to the linked article you will find the following:
Moving forward, it apparently is a matter of developers simply saying "yes" to backwards compatibility - Microsoft will do the heavy lifting and make sure the game's properly playable on the new hardware.
This tells me that there is some porting effort required, even if it's just a recompile of the original source code into an executable for the new hardware operating platform. But it doesn't tell me that the console is binary compatible with 360 games. In fact, I'd bet quite a bit of money that they are decidedly NOT binary compatible systems.
The Xbox One has a variant of Windos 8, specially crafted for the platform with another co-responsible Operating System which runs on it's specialized X86 (ish) cores. The Xbox 360 has a standard Xenon core. Not having a common instruction set is very likely to make binary compatibility not a given and make it necessary to recompile into new object code. Having different Operating Systems will also make it necessary to link that freshly compiled object code.
So, my guess at what "saying yes" means is that you have to provide Microsoft with something other than your permission. My guess is that they require source code so they can compile and link your game to be played on the Xbox One. You would at least need to provide them object files for re-linking with the new operating system libs, even if they are DLL's.
The internet is NOT really the biggest source of risk, users are. The internet is just the vehicle most often used to do direct and indirect attacks, there are a number of other sources of problems for the security expert. Most systems that sit behind any kind of firewall and a NAT address are generally perfectly safe from a direct attack, at least until the user logs in.
Users, once authenticated, are able to download stuff, do stupid things to the system configuration and/or copy data off the system. For most security risks, the BIG money risks are not directly coming from the internet.
They own the copyright so it is their right to do this if they wish. It may be thuggish in your view, but it is their stuff to license and it's their job to enforce their license terms.
If you own a venue that plays music, pay your fees directly or buy your music from a service that does it for you. If you choose to go without a license, you are violating the copyright and they can come after you if they want. Sorry, but that's how this works.
You need to meet the terms that BMI puts forth if you play their material. Their website deals with this issue and they CLEARLY tell you that it is the owner of the venue, not the DJ who is liable. Sure the DJ may have claimed to have the licenses required, but the business owner is the one who is required to obtain the licenses.
not a lot of games can handle a room full of 5 year olds
Not a lot of adults can handle a room full of 5 year olds.
Few can handle ONE 5 year old effectively. Sure you might be able to control them physically, but unless you don't mind duck tape and rope (and the unfavorable CPS attention it brings) they will out run you eventually.
Some of my oldest kid's friends are starting on Minecraft, but we can do that on PC.
Exactly where we where with my youngest about 2 years ago... Once he got the Xbox 2 years ago, it was a pretty quick progression out of Minecraft, off the Wii and onto the Xbox. I think he played the Wii less than 10 times after that, but the Xbox was the new toy. Good luck and remember that once the kid's friends start moving on, you will too, for all but the very youngest kids.
Slashdot Mirror
Only if you want to look at a SINGLE wavelength of light, which isn't likely to be useful in a telescope of any kind. These mirrors are pretty useless for just about anything you normally think of when somebody says "mirror" and really only sound useful for laser based applications.
Mylar is ~98% reflective - seems like a less expensive alternative - and it isn't limited to a particular freq.
Dang it man, STOP thinking like an engineer! Less expensive, more efficient, please...
In terms of lasers, well, maybe - as long as the laser uses only a very tight range of wavelengths.
Yes, most do just that... In fact, I'm not sure if there is a laser resonator that isn't pretty specific to a single wave length. To make a laser, the idea is to create a way to bounce a single wavelength of light back and forth until the photons are all going the same direction at the same time and exit the resonator. It's a lot like how a klystron resonator works when generating large amounts of microwave energy.
Why? Was I referring to you? (/sarcasim)
Talk about hyperbolic arguments. SLAVERY? Really? There isn't any application here using slavery as an example. Plus, using these kinds of arguments really cheapens the issue of slavery from the horrible institution it was/is to something "like" copyright law? Now that's sad.
A song has no feelings, has no soul or even a body. A song feels no pain, no joy, cannot love or hate. It's just a thing that has melody, rhythm and sometimes words that when played can be enjoyed. It's just a thing which is owned by somebody, and like that pile of stuff in the hall closet that you own, is in the control of it's owner.
If you write a song, it's yours to do with as you please. You can play it for others and get paid, you can sell rights to it to somebody else, or you can keep it for yourself. It's yours because you created it. How is that related to slavery? It's not.
If the ethics of the situation bother you, may I suggest that the ethical thing to do is to not deal with BMI at all. Don't play their stuff, Don't buy their licenses and don't worry about getting sued as an example. Hold yourself to a higher ethical standard than they hold themselves to. It's always the best approach..
The way we did Telephone and electricity distribution in this country worked fairly well in the past, of course the proponents of government run services either ignore how this was done or don't know.
Some people do not get it sometimes....Sigh.... Think joke based on stereotypes... But having to point it out ruins what little humor it had to start with.
You cannot seriously be saying that you don't have the right to SUE somebody in Australia if they try to use your property in some way you don't approve. SURELY you have the right to sue somebody in Civil court for damages?
Where I get this "looser pays legal costs" idea and I actually LIKE it, I'm pretty sure that even down where you live you are free to sue. If you are free to sue, that means you must be free to do investigations of your own and collection of evidence. In fact, I just did a quick web search and found a number of active Private Investigative services active in your country.
I think you are mistaken on this...
But even if you don't like HOW they do what they do, you must agree that they have the right to do it that way if that's how they choose.
This is my point. I'm not defending BMI's actions as being nice or the right way to do business, I'm saying that they have the legal right to protect their property. If you don't like their terms and don't like the way they do business then I suggest you not use their stuff.
Further, if you DO choose to use their stuff without a license, don't come complaining about how unfair they are treating you. They can sue to collect damages and make an example out of you if that's how they decide to work. It's their work (or they own the rights to the work) and not yours. They are within their rights to force compliance with ANY terms they decide, up to and including refusing to let you use the work. You either live by their terms or stop using their stuff.. Full stop, end of report...
The fact remains they set the terms of their licenses and if you use their work, those are the terms. If you don't like their terms, don't use their stuff. What's in their catalog? Head to their website and look. Even if you think they are being nasty and unfair, you have no legal choice except not using their stuff. Use their stuff then Pay the license fee or risk BMI hauling your butt into court and collecting damages. End of report, full stop.
No, I'm assuming from what I'm seeing them say...
Heck with that.. Just look for the Golden Arches Steak house. If you want to come inside, the Dollar menu is cheap...
"If you're buying a house, you don't need to ask whether it has electricity, phone service, water, and sewage service."
Never purchased a house in the country eh? Where Electricity is pretty much everywhere, the rest is NOT a given for the vast majority of buildable land in this country.
Nearby communities are not far behind in bringing broadband to their residents; they see high-speed Internet as an economic boon akin to rural electrification in the 1930s, one that could bring higher home values, better business climates, and easier access to the modern economy.
I've been saying that for a while. First was electrification, then telephonication, now internetification.
You know, I'm not a fan of this idea, where government shoulders the costs and then owns the resource. We didn't do electricity or telephone this way back in the days, we encouraged private industry to do this by providing subsidies and a regulatory climate where private enterprise could survive. Just having the government do it is a bad idea.... Just about as bad as just handing out grants to companies that claim they will do it for government, which is, in effect, how this will end up. But we apparently are incapable of understanding how this was done successfully in the past and how this government run thing is so not going to work given past history...
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.... While those who DO know history are doomed to watch..
Read the story.. For those getting the minimum wage: 1 in 8 live at home. 1 in 4 have children, but not all of these households depend solely on one worker (or even two) making minimum wage. Many have other wage earners who are making more than minimum wage. Not to mention that there are only 30 million workers actually paid minimum wage, and 155 Million people working in the USA right now. Doing a bit of math tells me that only about 8 million workers have kids and get minimum wage, and somewhat less than only have one wage earner in the house.
However, WHY are the numbers skewed toward older age workers on minimum wage? Because most kids and college aged workers are UNEMPLOYEED right now. For the most part, anybody under 20 right now simply cannot find work AT ANY PRICE. What's more, they are not counted in the unemployment numbers because they've never held a job and are not drawing unemployment (which is what the "headline unemployment" number actually is). Real unemployment in segments of the population is a staggering 30% in some places, mostly for young workers and those who have turned 20 in the last 7 years or so. It's worse in some ethnic groups than others, but it's bad just about everywhere.
In my view this is due to the minimum wage and the negative effects of the ACA on low end worker's hours.... Well that and the economy that is stuck in granny gear by the way it's been managed since 2008....
The public is going to be mercilessly taxed to provide themselves with high-speed internet, and the cost will be entirely on the people who benefit!
This failed in Chattanooga, in North Carolina, and everywhere else it has been tried!
Never under estimate the liberal mind's propensity for hubris. They either don't know history, or they firmly believe that because THEY are running this show, it won't be a problem this time, they are smarter. What usually happens though is that they keep making the "program" bigger and bigger or put the federal government in charge which just wastes more resources and simply fails as before.
Remember it's the INTENT that matters, not the result...
Compared to many states (like mine) Massachusetts is a county.
You ain't seen nothing... I live in Texas and we WHERE our own country, having broken off from Mexico in 1836 and joined the US about 10 years later... Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we had stayed the Republic of Texas just a little bit longer than 10 years... Darn pesky war debt... Should have put up the "Come and Get It" flags again and held out for something more, but I guess another war wasn't a good idea, but coming into the union as a slave state wasn't either.
Probation made hooch illegal... They where acting outside the law to start with, one would need to expect them to not care about the law at all. But that's not the case here.
BMI isn't acting outside the law, as much as people would like to imply that they are. They are working totally within the correct legal and ethical grounds. If you are going to use somebody's property, the owner of the property has the right to set the terms.
IF they require you get a license and pay for the privilege to use their work, they get to do that. IF they take you to court when you don't, they get to do that too..
Moving forward, it apparently is a matter of developers simply saying "yes" to backwards compatibility - Microsoft will do the heavy lifting and make sure the game's properly playable on the new hardware.
This tells me that there is some porting effort required, even if it's just a recompile of the original source code into an executable for the new hardware operating platform. But it doesn't tell me that the console is binary compatible with 360 games. In fact, I'd bet quite a bit of money that they are decidedly NOT binary compatible systems.
The Xbox One has a variant of Windos 8, specially crafted for the platform with another co-responsible Operating System which runs on it's specialized X86 (ish) cores. The Xbox 360 has a standard Xenon core. Not having a common instruction set is very likely to make binary compatibility not a given and make it necessary to recompile into new object code. Having different Operating Systems will also make it necessary to link that freshly compiled object code.
So, my guess at what "saying yes" means is that you have to provide Microsoft with something other than your permission. My guess is that they require source code so they can compile and link your game to be played on the Xbox One. You would at least need to provide them object files for re-linking with the new operating system libs, even if they are DLL's.
Where I get where you are coming from...
The internet is NOT really the biggest source of risk, users are. The internet is just the vehicle most often used to do direct and indirect attacks, there are a number of other sources of problems for the security expert. Most systems that sit behind any kind of firewall and a NAT address are generally perfectly safe from a direct attack, at least until the user logs in.
Users, once authenticated, are able to download stuff, do stupid things to the system configuration and/or copy data off the system. For most security risks, the BIG money risks are not directly coming from the internet.
They own the copyright so it is their right to do this if they wish. It may be thuggish in your view, but it is their stuff to license and it's their job to enforce their license terms.
If you own a venue that plays music, pay your fees directly or buy your music from a service that does it for you. If you choose to go without a license, you are violating the copyright and they can come after you if they want. Sorry, but that's how this works.
You need to meet the terms that BMI puts forth if you play their material. Their website deals with this issue and they CLEARLY tell you that it is the owner of the venue, not the DJ who is liable. Sure the DJ may have claimed to have the licenses required, but the business owner is the one who is required to obtain the licenses.
Not a lot of adults can handle a room full of 5 year olds.
Few can handle ONE 5 year old effectively. Sure you might be able to control them physically, but unless you don't mind duck tape and rope (and the unfavorable CPS attention it brings) they will out run you eventually.
Some of my oldest kid's friends are starting on Minecraft, but we can do that on PC.
Exactly where we where with my youngest about 2 years ago... Once he got the Xbox 2 years ago, it was a pretty quick progression out of Minecraft, off the Wii and onto the Xbox. I think he played the Wii less than 10 times after that, but the Xbox was the new toy. Good luck and remember that once the kid's friends start moving on, you will too, for all but the very youngest kids.