Damn dude, I may have a slight beef with the moderators cause they always shoot down my stories, but there's no need to get freakin personal on them. Try decaf, or get an enema or something.
What I want to know is, other than deep pockets why is only Microsoft being sued? If the PC makers were in collusion with microsoft - IE they agreed to this tactic - they are just as guilty. MS has deep pockets and can afford slimey lawyers and lobbyists till the stockholders come home, but I guarantee you sue the OEM manufacturers and you'll get somewhere. Afterall, microsoft makes an OS; You have to have a computer to use windows, but you don't have to have windows to use a computer.
I have at least 10 Chinese people on my LICQ contact list. I've already turned 5 of them. So what if Beijing contracted Cisco to make a giant firewall. If the only way they could allow access was to put restrictions in place, they still screwed up by allowing access. You can't censor the whole internet, and freedom is contagious. Get this folks: Cisco enabled information acces to 1 billion otherwise oppressed and ignorant people who would have no informational resource outside of what Beijing prints on posters and pastes on walls.
If you'll kindly put down the crackpipe, you may notice that there is more independant self motivated content producers on the internet than anywhere else. Drudgereport.com, hartleyx.com, and our own slashdot.org just to name a few. I hardly even bother with C|Net, CNN, and their ilk anymore.
Who was it that said "A merchant knows no country but where he is currently standing". But then, it's a capitalists job to make money. It's our job to stop buying Cisco products in protest, or take advantage of SNMP flaws and Cisco's bugs to topple the Chinese government mwahahahaha!
Sorry, but it's been done before many times. There are at least two functional Wright Flyers on display in my native state of North Cackalacki, and there's one replica here in Mesa at the Champlain Fighter Museum at Falcon Field.
The difference is that North Korea turns around and sells weapons to states like Iran,Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and also willfully supplies terrorist groups in South Korea and China.
During WWII, the "Buzz Bomb" was fearsome precisely because it could not be stopped. It wasn't until the event of faster jet aircraft which could intercept and shoot down (or as one wasted gunner found out, could simply be tipped over and sent into a spin by tapping your wing against its wing). Would anyone suffering the daily horror of the Battle of Britain have argued that the development of jet engines was an unnecessarily difficult undertaking? I think not. We now live in a world where it's entirely possible for some pissed off sod with a tanker, scud missile launcher, and a cheaply built nuke to take out an entire seaboard city without even coming close enough to our waters to justify suspicion.
We already have the technology to pinpoint a missile launch anywhere on the planet, we easily have the technology to track multimach missiles, and your standard desktop computer has more than sufficient power to compute postlaunch targeting intercepts. The beauty of a laser is that you don't even have to lead your shots, so all that's really left is for some clever guy to marry the detection, tracking, and shooting down parts.
"When we have to make a decision between cowardice and violence, I would choose violence. I prefer to use arms in defence of honour, than to plow along the way of dishonour." - Mahatma Ghandi
We are talking about the collective survival of western civilization. Ghandi, my myopic friend, was just talking about laying the smack down when someone punks you. If he were still alive he'd whack Bin Ladin upside the head with his cain and wail on his ass like white on Mahatma Rice
Congratulations! You get the idea, now just scale it up a bit more and BAM...you have warfare, which is a shitload of poeple beating the hell out of each other. Making a distinction between a brawl and a full scale infantry battle is a sign of infantile thinking.
I had mentioned the space program and USAF aircraft, but now that you mention it, HARD DRIVING used force feedback,and I do believe that was about 88 or so.
...can be claimed by the US military and/or it's contractors since aircraft have been using force feedback systems since WWII, and their useage of Multifunction Tactile Manipulatable Controls and Velocity Controller with Force Feedback Stiffness Controls have been in use since the space programs Apollo, the X-15, and in production since the F-15.
Science, Technology, and Art were never separate. Even captain caveman had to have a basic understanding of chemistry to make his art drawings. Every artist I know of who is serious about plying his trade has studied anatomy for drawing the human form. Introducing new tools in technology doesn't change anything since artists have always sought to incorporate new tools in their product, and have even invented technology to their own ends.
Here in the Silicon Desert alot of jobs have dried up, but mostly they were the bubble gum and popcorn type positions. I'm a lowly technician (mostly because I don't have a sheepskin attesting to my programming prowess), and I've watched the number of available advertised positions drop from some 20 a day to scarcely 1 a day (monster.com, dice.com, azcentral.com, jobbing.com, etc). However, hard core technoworkers like C programmers, sysadmins, and the like still have jobs a plenty. Since the.com bubble burst, tech businesses had to get realistic about their expenses.
I for one am lucky enough to still be young. I've always wanted to go into the military, but have managed to allow myself to be lured away by the easy money of the job market. Having wasted 8 years chasing.com rainbows, I've decided to instead go into one of the few recession proof occupations around. I figure, either way I'd wind up shooting people, but this way it'll be with the blessing of the American government (note: given my computer experience, it's likely I'll get stuck behind a terminal under a mountain somewhere).
What is a "shame" is the shrill noises of the frightened and paranoid. "Nuclear" is inherently cleaner than other forms of energy. Unfortunatly, the same shrill voices that complain about the environment also put a half to nuclear research which would have eventually led to safe disposal and radiological recylcing techniques.
Oh well...even Galileo had to deal with shrill noises from the paranoid.
CRAP! Sorry, but this is pure ignorance. The vast majority of scientific advances have come either from the private sector or from military research projects. You think the space program has been about pure science? The first rockets were testbeds for ICBM technology. GPS (which is used for everything from helping hikers not get lost to navigating the high seas in overcast conditions) was originally for military use. The same lasers that now make Lasik possible and CD-Players able to work off of AA batteries were refines and developed to knock ICBM's down. I challenge you to find any significant technological advance of the last century that did'nt arise from military or private sector spending.
Lets face it folks, government is always the least efficient mechanism for accomplishing any given task, and the space race is no different. It's almost 3 decades since we last traipsed around the moon, and we haven't been back since. Why? Because in spite of the vast resources available "up there", the government has no vested interest in exploiting them. Private companies, however, are already performing satellite launches (something most of the worlds countries still can't do yet), and are busily talking about space tourism. The *smart* thing to do is let government do what it's supposed to do (provide for the defense) and let the private sector do what they're best at. After all, it wasn't government that rediscovered the America's for Europe.
Essentially, what they did has less to do with their claim than the conditions under which they did it. There was a contract (verbal or otherwise) wherein they agreed to use the software for the purpose (expressed or implied) of finding errors and malfunctions in the software, and reporting those back to the maker. In exchange, they got free support, free product, and other caveats. If they did not stake a claim to IP resulting from their efforts prior to their performance of the contract, then they are simply not entitled. Further, any attempt to modify a contract without the other parties consent after the onset of performance usually voids that contract (at least as I understand it in most states).
More importantly, let this be a lesson. If you've got software that might possibly in any way be a big money opportunity, and you're not inclined to release it under a GPL, then always release betas with a highly restrictive End User License Agreements (EULAs), and also have your beta testor consent to a Non-Compete/Non Disclosure Agreement which binds them for as long as allowed. I sell car parts for Shelby Cobra sports cars, and even though any idgit can cut a piece of sheet metal after a pattern, I make sure to use a NC/NDA before I do business with any machine shop, lest the machinist get the idea that he's going to sell my designs or make his own parts (I'd really hate to have to reengineer their knees).
They were planning to use the same engines, but not he same housings. They would still have about 3 feet of clearance (as opposed to 10 feet), and would be blended to the wing more. The more powerful engines would'nt leave as bad a set of contrails on takeoff, so they would be harder to pick up on satellite, and they would be more efficient while delivering much more power. Part of the problem is that the same engines make the 777 nearly a supersonic aircraft, but on the lighter B-52, they would definately be able to pull the BUFF through the sound barrier, which means the planes would have to be reinforced. And hence, the reason they're still using the old 8 engine config.
We are also seeing the future of the BUFF's mission, which will be an airborne weapons delivery platform, not a carpet-bomber. Think of it as a smaller faster aircraft carrier: The stand off capability and power projection ability of a BUFF (Big Ugly Fat F*$@#r), Bone (B-1, or B One), or Beak (B-2) gives us the ability to start bombing little brown poor folk around the planet in under 24 hours.
Well, no, but I had read a paper somewhere (I think Discover magazine) that disturbances in space-time caused by gravity are felt instantaneously throughout the universe, and that one of the potential uses for this tidbit was a faster method of communication for extrasolar space probes. Right now it's like an 18 minute trip for a message to a satellite around mars.
Of course, "gravity waves" is an arguable concept in and of itself.
It also assumes that an advanced alien civilization would still use conventional radio for communication. I think if we would check in other areas of the electromagnetic spectrum, we'd be more likely to find activity in ELF bands. Theoretically, you could modulate gravity, and it would echo throughout the universe instantaneously. Now if I had to fax something to Alpha Centauri by 3:00 pm, that's the way to go.
Oh, and just following the link at the end of your post:
Moreover, mounting evidence that the GOP stole the presidential election by denying African-Americans their right to vote has created public outrage
Slashdot Mirror
Damn dude, I may have a slight beef with the moderators cause they always shoot down my stories, but there's no need to get freakin personal on them. Try decaf, or get an enema or something.
REDUNDANT!?
Y'all better be damned sure that moderater is gonna pay when I metamoderate today...
What I want to know is, other than deep pockets why is only Microsoft being sued? If the PC makers were in collusion with microsoft - IE they agreed to this tactic - they are just as guilty. MS has deep pockets and can afford slimey lawyers and lobbyists till the stockholders come home, but I guarantee you sue the OEM manufacturers and you'll get somewhere. Afterall, microsoft makes an OS; You have to have a computer to use windows, but you don't have to have windows to use a computer.
I have at least 10 Chinese people on my LICQ contact list. I've already turned 5 of them. So what if Beijing contracted Cisco to make a giant firewall. If the only way they could allow access was to put restrictions in place, they still screwed up by allowing access. You can't censor the whole internet, and freedom is contagious. Get this folks: Cisco enabled information acces to 1 billion otherwise oppressed and ignorant people who would have no informational resource outside of what Beijing prints on posters and pastes on walls.
If you'll kindly put down the crackpipe, you may notice that there is more independant self motivated content producers on the internet than anywhere else. Drudgereport.com, hartleyx.com, and our own slashdot.org just to name a few. I hardly even bother with C|Net, CNN, and their ilk anymore.
Who was it that said "A merchant knows no country but where he is currently standing". But then, it's a capitalists job to make money. It's our job to stop buying Cisco products in protest, or take advantage of SNMP flaws and Cisco's bugs to topple the Chinese government mwahahahaha!
Sorry, but it's been done before many times. There are at least two functional Wright Flyers on display in my native state of North Cackalacki, and there's one replica here in Mesa at the Champlain Fighter Museum at Falcon Field.
The difference is that North Korea turns around and sells weapons to states like Iran,Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and also willfully supplies terrorist groups in South Korea and China.
Same with Rome. They fell because the got fat and lazy...and if you're Pat Roberts because they were gay
During WWII, the "Buzz Bomb" was fearsome precisely because it could not be stopped. It wasn't until the event of faster jet aircraft which could intercept and shoot down (or as one wasted gunner found out, could simply be tipped over and sent into a spin by tapping your wing against its wing). Would anyone suffering the daily horror of the Battle of Britain have argued that the development of jet engines was an unnecessarily difficult undertaking? I think not. We now live in a world where it's entirely possible for some pissed off sod with a tanker, scud missile launcher, and a cheaply built nuke to take out an entire seaboard city without even coming close enough to our waters to justify suspicion.
We already have the technology to pinpoint a missile launch anywhere on the planet, we easily have the technology to track multimach missiles, and your standard desktop computer has more than sufficient power to compute postlaunch targeting intercepts. The beauty of a laser is that you don't even have to lead your shots, so all that's really left is for some clever guy to marry the detection, tracking, and shooting down parts.
"When we have to make a decision between cowardice and violence, I would choose violence. I prefer to use arms in defence of honour, than to plow along the way of dishonour." - Mahatma Ghandi
We are talking about the collective survival of western civilization. Ghandi, my myopic friend, was just talking about laying the smack down when someone punks you. If he were still alive he'd whack Bin Ladin upside the head with his cain and wail on his ass like white on Mahatma Rice
Congratulations! You get the idea, now just scale it up a bit more and BAM...you have warfare, which is a shitload of poeple beating the hell out of each other. Making a distinction between a brawl and a full scale infantry battle is a sign of infantile thinking.
Quit your whining before I kick your ass....
I had mentioned the space program and USAF aircraft, but now that you mention it, HARD DRIVING used force feedback,and I do believe that was about 88 or so.
...can be claimed by the US military and/or it's contractors since aircraft have been using force feedback systems since WWII, and their useage of Multifunction Tactile Manipulatable Controls and Velocity Controller with Force Feedback Stiffness Controls have been in use since the space programs Apollo, the X-15, and in production since the F-15.
Science, Technology, and Art were never separate. Even captain caveman had to have a basic understanding of chemistry to make his art drawings. Every artist I know of who is serious about plying his trade has studied anatomy for drawing the human form. Introducing new tools in technology doesn't change anything since artists have always sought to incorporate new tools in their product, and have even invented technology to their own ends.
Here in the Silicon Desert alot of jobs have dried up, but mostly they were the bubble gum and popcorn type positions. I'm a lowly technician (mostly because I don't have a sheepskin attesting to my programming prowess), and I've watched the number of available advertised positions drop from some 20 a day to scarcely 1 a day (monster.com, dice.com, azcentral.com, jobbing.com, etc). However, hard core technoworkers like C programmers, sysadmins, and the like still have jobs a plenty. Since the .com bubble burst, tech businesses had to get realistic about their expenses.
.com rainbows, I've decided to instead go into one of the few recession proof occupations around. I figure, either way I'd wind up shooting people, but this way it'll be with the blessing of the American government (note: given my computer experience, it's likely I'll get stuck behind a terminal under a mountain somewhere).
I for one am lucky enough to still be young. I've always wanted to go into the military, but have managed to allow myself to be lured away by the easy money of the job market. Having wasted 8 years chasing
What is a "shame" is the shrill noises of the frightened and paranoid. "Nuclear" is inherently cleaner than other forms of energy. Unfortunatly, the same shrill voices that complain about the environment also put a half to nuclear research which would have eventually led to safe disposal and radiological recylcing techniques.
Oh well...even Galileo had to deal with shrill noises from the paranoid.
CRAP! Sorry, but this is pure ignorance. The vast majority of scientific advances have come either from the private sector or from military research projects. You think the space program has been about pure science? The first rockets were testbeds for ICBM technology. GPS (which is used for everything from helping hikers not get lost to navigating the high seas in overcast conditions) was originally for military use. The same lasers that now make Lasik possible and CD-Players able to work off of AA batteries were refines and developed to knock ICBM's down. I challenge you to find any significant technological advance of the last century that did'nt arise from military or private sector spending.
Now that you mention it, why don't we just blow up the whale
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Lizard
Yes, I know, but it's such a net classic
Lets face it folks, government is always the least efficient mechanism for accomplishing any given task, and the space race is no different. It's almost 3 decades since we last traipsed around the moon, and we haven't been back since. Why? Because in spite of the vast resources available "up there", the government has no vested interest in exploiting them. Private companies, however, are already performing satellite launches (something most of the worlds countries still can't do yet), and are busily talking about space tourism. The *smart* thing to do is let government do what it's supposed to do (provide for the defense) and let the private sector do what they're best at. After all, it wasn't government that rediscovered the America's for Europe.
Essentially, what they did has less to do with their claim than the conditions under which they did it. There was a contract (verbal or otherwise) wherein they agreed to use the software for the purpose (expressed or implied) of finding errors and malfunctions in the software, and reporting those back to the maker. In exchange, they got free support, free product, and other caveats. If they did not stake a claim to IP resulting from their efforts prior to their performance of the contract, then they are simply not entitled. Further, any attempt to modify a contract without the other parties consent after the onset of performance usually voids that contract (at least as I understand it in most states).
More importantly, let this be a lesson. If you've got software that might possibly in any way be a big money opportunity, and you're not inclined to release it under a GPL, then always release betas with a highly restrictive End User License Agreements (EULAs), and also have your beta testor consent to a Non-Compete/Non Disclosure Agreement which binds them for as long as allowed. I sell car parts for Shelby Cobra sports cars, and even though any idgit can cut a piece of sheet metal after a pattern, I make sure to use a NC/NDA before I do business with any machine shop, lest the machinist get the idea that he's going to sell my designs or make his own parts (I'd really hate to have to reengineer their knees).
They were planning to use the same engines, but not he same housings. They would still have about 3 feet of clearance (as opposed to 10 feet), and would be blended to the wing more. The more powerful engines would'nt leave as bad a set of contrails on takeoff, so they would be harder to pick up on satellite, and they would be more efficient while delivering much more power. Part of the problem is that the same engines make the 777 nearly a supersonic aircraft, but on the lighter B-52, they would definately be able to pull the BUFF through the sound barrier, which means the planes would have to be reinforced. And hence, the reason they're still using the old 8 engine config.
We are also seeing the future of the BUFF's mission, which will be an airborne weapons delivery platform, not a carpet-bomber. Think of it as a smaller faster aircraft carrier: The stand off capability and power projection ability of a BUFF (Big Ugly Fat F*$@#r), Bone (B-1, or B One), or Beak (B-2) gives us the ability to start bombing little brown poor folk around the planet in under 24 hours.
Well, no, but I had read a paper somewhere (I think Discover magazine) that disturbances in space-time caused by gravity are felt instantaneously throughout the universe, and that one of the potential uses for this tidbit was a faster method of communication for extrasolar space probes. Right now it's like an 18 minute trip for a message to a satellite around mars.
Of course, "gravity waves" is an arguable concept in and of itself.
Oh, and just following the link at the end of your post:
COUGHCOUGHBULLSHITCOUGH...*ahem*