An argument of the businessman is that he is relatively unknown in the US, but well known in Melbourne. He could say, therefore, that the majority of damage due to defamation has occurred in Australia, rather than the US, and the defamation trial should be held in Australia.
Whether this argument holds or not... is up to the courts to decide.
Launch was originally planned for around this time, but project delays have caused launch to be rescheduled to June/July 2001 at Woomera. This is a pretty firm date now (due to a number of constraints), but further delays are always of course possible.
Compared to the chronically delayed NASA hyper-x, the hyshot delay is pretty small.
It is interesting to note that this group at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia were the first to demonstrate a thrust-producing scramjet in a wind tunnel.
Cheers.
Slashdot Mirror
People here often complain about how hyperlinks aren't used properly, and yet when Microsoft implement an automatic hyperlink generator, they complain!
Since people writing websites are often engaging in practices such as closed sites (where there aren't any external links, keeping novice users within their system of sites - i.e. AOL or Freeserve) then we should applaud this feature, as it will allow millions to finally venture out into the web as a whole, and increase connectivity massively. No longer will you have to waste valuable time searching for the meaning of an unexplained term on a page - there'll be a Smart Tag leading directly to useful information!
As for copyright issues, well you could say the same thing about proxy services like Junkbuster, which strip certain elements out of webpages before the user sees them. At the end of the day it's less offensive to copyright holders, because it adds value to their pages at no cost or effort to them, whereas Junkbuster removes any chance of them being able to fund their efforts, leading to the closure of many people's pages.
No I think this will work out well for everyone, and I hope that minority browsers like Mozilla and Opera follow suit. No longer will we need to be constrained by the linking laziness of web authors :)
Whether this argument holds or not ... is up to the courts to decide.
See the article in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Compared to the chronically delayed NASA hyper-x, the hyshot delay is pretty small.
It is interesting to note that this group at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia were the first to demonstrate a thrust-producing scramjet in a wind tunnel. Cheers.