A prelude to selling off all that nice Florida beach front property NASA owns? Part of the debt deal that it is transfered into some tea party hacks name?
You can have all the letters you want. You can roll sick kids in wheel chairs in to give speeches. If you didn't pay for the law, you don't get it's benefits. That's the way our new corporatist free enterprise system works.
What do you expect for free?
If you want a law, you hire a lobbyist. They will give you a quote, just like getting your driveway seal coated. You pay. You get what you want.
Who do you think your congressmen and senators are working for anyway? You? Not likely.
Roundabouts can only work when the direction of traffic flow puts the driver on the outer side of the circle. Talk about confusing, the only way they could be useful here in the land of right hand drive is to force counter clockwise access. Talk about Bubba in the large wheeled pick being confused.
WP 7 phones would start selling if they played Android apps. Barring that, they are only good for those "replace at no charge" things the carriers try pushing on customers of lower IQ's.
I hope the folks at Nokia read this. I'm sure Elop has put lots of little legal bombs in every contract Nokia has with M$. Not that there is any real hope for Nokia now, in any case.
Where should we start? We have to start at the end of Apollo because we wasted all that time and money with the useless shuttle.
Next, some one should come up with a rocket that has at least the lift capacity of the old Saturn V. None of the proposed launch vehicles even come close.
We have been out of the space business for a long time. We have to start somewhere, like where we left off.
If you wanted security and the ability to control what your phone is doing, and who has access, and if you delete something it's really deleted and actually know what programs (apps) are actually doing then go find a Nokia N900.
Otherwise, you are a consumer to be culled, and controlled, and not a customer to be sold on features where you are in control.
I think I will build a shrine for my Nokia N900. I doubt we will ever see a truly open platform from a major manufacturer or allowed be a vile and evil carrier again.
Maemo would have been better for tablets than Android.
Actually, I still have a Kaypro II from that era. It lights up, but I've long since lost the boot disk. I also have a SORD M5. This still works like new. I remembered how much I wanted an Osborne 1. I has a Morrow Designs S-100 CP/M system and was just amazed you could make a portable.
I date back to Z80 Assembly as the preferred programming method. I had developed some very interesting and unique things. I never thought of patenting them, and I shared them on bulletin boards and in print with joy.
Now, with my many years of experience, because big business has laid lawyer minefields with software patents, I don't even think of publishing my own programs. When I do work, it's as a contract consultant to a giant company (who also has me tied up in 2" of contracts that I can never work for anyone else)
I'm thinking my next venture will be a hot dog stand. A good hat dog is as illusive as it is tasty.
Software patents serve no one but giant companies, and only to stifle innovation. Exactly the opposite of their stated purpose.
We went down the wrong path with the shuttles. I think their main purpose was a plot to make the Soviets copy them breaking their economy. If we would have kept making Saturn V's ( 10 times the lift capacity of the shuttle ) we would be walking on Mars TODAY.
But no, 30 years of waste, tiny lift capacity, and far more expense than single use rockets.
The best use of the Shuttles in my opinion it to let people look at them in museums.
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It's software. It cost nothing to duplicate. You get exposure.
Quit whining.
A prelude to selling off all that nice Florida beach front property NASA owns? Part of the debt deal that it is transfered into some tea party hacks name?
Steven Seagal would notice. And then ...
Afghanistan. We control it. It's remote. A great place to dump nuclear waste.
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
Where exactly would this mythical country with "free journalism" be located?
This is America, if they can't afford a car, or better yet a pickup truck, fuck 'em.
You can have all the letters you want. You can roll sick kids in wheel chairs in to give speeches. If you didn't pay for the law, you don't get it's benefits. That's the way our new corporatist free enterprise system works.
What do you expect for free?
If you want a law, you hire a lobbyist. They will give you a quote, just like getting your driveway seal coated. You pay. You get what you want.
Who do you think your congressmen and senators are working for anyway? You? Not likely.
Roundabouts can only work when the direction of traffic flow puts the driver on the outer side of the circle. Talk about confusing, the only way they could be useful here in the land of right hand drive is to force counter clockwise access. Talk about Bubba in the large wheeled pick being confused.
WP 7 phones would start selling if they played Android apps. Barring that, they are only good for those "replace at no charge" things the carriers try pushing on customers of lower IQ's.
I hope the folks at Nokia read this. I'm sure Elop has put lots of little legal bombs in every contract Nokia has with M$. Not that there is any real hope for Nokia now, in any case.
Where should we start? We have to start at the end of Apollo because we wasted all that time and money with the useless shuttle.
Next, some one should come up with a rocket that has at least the lift capacity of the old Saturn V. None of the proposed launch vehicles even come close.
We have been out of the space business for a long time. We have to start somewhere, like where we left off.
Back to real rockets, and rocketmen! (women also).
The sooner the Shuttles can be put on display in museums, the better.
If you wanted security and the ability to control what your phone is doing, and who has access, and if you delete something it's really deleted and actually know what programs (apps) are actually doing then go find a Nokia N900.
Otherwise, you are a consumer to be culled, and controlled, and not a customer to be sold on features where you are in control.
Sheep have won.
I think I will build a shrine for my Nokia N900. I doubt we will ever see a truly open platform from a major manufacturer or allowed be a vile and evil carrier again.
Maemo would have been better for tablets than Android.
Now the shuttles can go where they really belong. Wright Pat, Smithsonian, NASA visitor center. It's too bad we didn't do this 30 years ago.
We would have been on Mars if we never wasted all that money on these useless shuttles.
Finally, they are gone!
Good thing (Evil) is not Logical.
This is what happens when you add (Do No Evil) aka Google, with (Do Evil) aka Verizon, AT&T, etc.
Lets give (Do No Evil) a value of 0.
(Do Evil) would be 1.
Class? Buehler? Buehler?
Makes a good point for GPL licensed software, now doesn't it?
That's great. But soon all Nokia fones will be Windows Phone 7 with a backdoor for police conveniently built in.
Actually, I still have a Kaypro II from that era. It lights up, but I've long since lost the boot disk. I also have a SORD M5. This still works like new. I remembered how much I wanted an Osborne 1. I has a Morrow Designs S-100 CP/M system and was just amazed you could make a portable.
I date back to Z80 Assembly as the preferred programming method. I had developed some very interesting and unique things. I never thought of patenting them, and I shared them on bulletin boards and in print with joy.
Now, with my many years of experience, because big business has laid lawyer minefields with software patents, I don't even think of publishing my own programs. When I do work, it's as a contract consultant to a giant company (who also has me tied up in 2" of contracts that I can never work for anyone else)
I'm thinking my next venture will be a hot dog stand. A good hat dog is as illusive as it is tasty.
Software patents serve no one but giant companies, and only to stifle innovation. Exactly the opposite of their stated purpose.
We went down the wrong path with the shuttles. I think their main purpose was a plot to make the Soviets copy them breaking their economy. If we would have kept making Saturn V's ( 10 times the lift capacity of the shuttle ) we would be walking on Mars TODAY.
But no, 30 years of waste, tiny lift capacity, and far more expense than single use rockets.
The best use of the Shuttles in my opinion it to let people look at them in museums.
The program can't end soon enough for me.
The number of Chinese scientists. We still have a lot of them here in America!
Number of Chinese scientists? We still have a lot here.