It's quite easy. People want to be stopped being exploited by copyright. I was in a music store a couple of weeks ago, and an artist that I'm interested in had a CD on sale for $35. That is an absurb amount of money for a CD. Everyone who downloads music agrees it's a hassle. You get tracks which are mislabeled. Tracks which are corrupted. Tracks that are badly ripped. You also have tracks that you spend a long time looking for and never find. Why do they do it? Because even with those restrictions, your time is not valuable enough to offset the money you'd spend on the CDs. Any time that the price of the legimiate article is above what people are prepared to pay, then people will find alternatives.
I was going on the assumption that in space junk, the larger peices aren't going to be solids, they're going to be shells, which have a low mass, and therefore a low momentum.
Rulings from one federal circuit are not binding on either trial or appellate courts in other circuits. The court(s) in the 321 Studios case may or may not be influenced by the rulings in the 2600 case, but they are not bound by them.
However, when there are conflicting rulings in different circuits, this is when the supreme court is most likely to take an appeal, to set a precedent which is binding in other circuits.
Depends exactly where in LEO it is, and the size of the object. The higher you are in the exosphere, the lower the drag. The larger shape you present, the higher the drag. If you have a very large piece in a relativly low orbit, the answer seems to be about 5 years. For smaller objects, in higher orbits, it will probably be decades or centuries.
Economy of scale plays a roll in CD's too. I can go to many small bands and buy a CD directly from them. It usually costs about $5 or so. The reason it's so expensive, is that they have small duplication runs. There are oodles of places which will duplicate CD's, and everyone of them the price decreases per disk as the run size inceases.
Baen also has websubscriptions, non-free books you can pay and download, but in open formats, including HTML. These are available in electronic format before the physical books are published, so fans can (and often do) buy both the e & physical versions.
A lot of this sort of stuff you don't really know what was useful until 5,10 or more years later. Unix was originated around 1970, but it's usefulness didn't become widely aparent until 1978 or so. Engelbart's mouse was invented in 1963/1964, but wasn't patented until 1970, and didn't become widespread until after the PARC stuff in the late 1970s.
How about a six month course on the designs of the IBM PC and MS DOS? There was no 640k limit in DOS. Many people ran it with more than that. What the limit was is that the memory must be contigious to be seen by DOS, and the CGA/EGA/VGA adaptors all used the memory starting at 640k. That was IBM's decision, they could have put the CGA at 896, and DOS would have supported 896k without any changes at all. IBM's decision wasn't stupid either. They had to put memory starting at 0, so that the interupt table was programmable, and spliting the available memory space for 60% RAM, 40% hardware memory mapping was perfectly reasonable, especially considering that they allocated 40 times the initial shipping memory.
Actually, if you look at how Linux evolved, it started as a kernel running on top of Minix tools. Minix was copyright Prentice Hall, and because of that, sometimes the tools were rewritten, or were added because they werent' part of the Minux tools. If GNU tools hadn't been around, then it would probably have been hosted on the Minix system a bit longer while the tools would have to have been rewritten, but Linux would have continously useful, and freely distributable as soon as a suitable base of tools were rewritten.
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There is an alleged comment in the MS Basic source code that says something like "this function used to do xxx, but Bill Gates changed something and it stopped working".
The Wright brothers first flight was in 1903. In 1914, the Benoist Company started the first reguarly scheduled passenger air line, between Tampa, and St. Petersberg, Florida. That's 11 years by my calculation, but even before 1914, there was commercial benefits, for example In 1911 the US Post office carried their first airmail, from Nassua Boulevard Aerodrome, New York to Mineola, New York.
In what way does having manned space flight work towards a better future? There is nothing worthwile going on in manned space. The ISS is teaching us nothing. The shuttles much vaunted ability to returns stuff from space to earth has been almost totally unused. Because of the shuttles inability to reach geosync orbit, satellites have to have incredibly complicated systems to get them out of the cargo bay and into orbit, which has resulted in a terrible reliability rating, for example Leasat F3, and it's STILL more expensive than a rocket such as the Delta III. If NASA cancelled the shuttle and all manned space flights, and put their resources into unmanned space they could achive much more, and cost less. The military realized this a long time ago, which is why they don't use the shuttle any more.
I would have vetoed Columbus's voyage because the man was an idiot who totally miscalculated the size of the earth. However, if he HAD achived his goal, which was a quicker and easier route to India, then it would have had objective benefits immediatly. There are no benefits on the horizon for manned space flight.
You're assuming that there will eventually be a benefit. That's an unsafe assumption. All your other examples gave an benefit immediatly, either in objective benefits, eg obtaining valuable minerals, or the person who paid for the experience enjoying themselves. With the execption of two billionaires, neither is true with manned space. We've spent 40 years doing nothing useful that couldn't be done with non-manned space. There is no sign that this will change, in fact with increasing sophisticated robotics, it's less and less likely to be changing.
Since when did the other students become the teachers?
That's the whole concept behind the University system. That's why there are undergrads, MSc, PhD, and Post Doc students all in the same building, all learning and all (except the undergrads) teaching.
How do you define porn? In the UK, there are national newspapers with topless women on page 3. This isn't considered porn in the UK, no-one would play any attention to a 15 year old buying 'The Sun'. I suspect that in the US, it not be the same.
Can I have permission to quote your message above, in order to compose this reply?
Some things are so burdensome that they create an atmosphere where the majority of people won't do something, even though they've got the right to do so. That's something we should try to avoid. That's why you can quote someone without their permission.
They charge the artist for that time. The artist has to cover every expense of the record company from their royalties before the record company pays the reyalties.
SACD is 'SUPER AUDIO CD', which is a Sony lead program, which uses a DVD like disk, with an encoding scheme which allows higher dynamic range, and also 5+1. Individual disks can either have a CD compatable layer, or not.
The size of the sample should vary according to the size of the total population. A few hundred is good for a city, but it's not enough for the entire planet. The formula is n=(Z^2*P*(1-P))/D2, where sample size is n, D is the minimum detectable difference, P is the total population, and Z is the 1-alpha/2 percentile of the standard normal distribution.
I wonder if the bargining chip is to make AMD the preferred platform for Windows. If Windows supported the AMD specific x86-64 instruction set, and this gave performance gains for AMD over Intel, then Intel would suddenly switch into second place.
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It's quite easy. People want to be stopped being exploited by copyright. I was in a music store a couple of weeks ago, and an artist that I'm interested in had a CD on sale for $35. That is an absurb amount of money for a CD. Everyone who downloads music agrees it's a hassle. You get tracks which are mislabeled. Tracks which are corrupted. Tracks that are badly ripped. You also have tracks that you spend a long time looking for and never find. Why do they do it? Because even with those restrictions, your time is not valuable enough to offset the money you'd spend on the CDs. Any time that the price of the legimiate article is above what people are prepared to pay, then people will find alternatives.
Dupont introduced Nylon at the world fair in 1938. NASA was created in 1958. I think your top of your head is off target.
I was going on the assumption that in space junk, the larger peices aren't going to be solids, they're going to be shells, which have a low mass, and therefore a low momentum.
However, when there are conflicting rulings in different circuits, this is when the supreme court is most likely to take an appeal, to set a precedent which is binding in other circuits.
Depends exactly where in LEO it is, and the size of the object. The higher you are in the exosphere, the lower the drag. The larger shape you present, the higher the drag. If you have a very large piece in a relativly low orbit, the answer seems to be about 5 years. For smaller objects, in higher orbits, it will probably be decades or centuries.
Economy of scale plays a roll in CD's too. I can go to many small bands and buy a CD directly from them. It usually costs about $5 or so. The reason it's so expensive, is that they have small duplication runs. There are oodles of places which will duplicate CD's, and everyone of them the price decreases per disk as the run size inceases.
Baen also has websubscriptions, non-free books you can pay and download, but in open formats, including HTML. These are available in electronic format before the physical books are published, so fans can (and often do) buy both the e & physical versions.
That can't be true, I saw Wesley use a tunneling neutrino beam to rid the Enterpise of bacteria. Star Trek wouldn't lie to me, would it?
A lot of this sort of stuff you don't really know what was useful until 5,10 or more years later. Unix was originated around 1970, but it's usefulness didn't become widely aparent until 1978 or so. Engelbart's mouse was invented in 1963/1964, but wasn't patented until 1970, and didn't become widespread until after the PARC stuff in the late 1970s.
And of course, Unix didn't come out of Berkeley either, it came out of New Jersey. BSD came out of Berkeley.
How about a six month course on the designs of the IBM PC and MS DOS? There was no 640k limit in DOS. Many people ran it with more than that. What the limit was is that the memory must be contigious to be seen by DOS, and the CGA/EGA/VGA adaptors all used the memory starting at 640k. That was IBM's decision, they could have put the CGA at 896, and DOS would have supported 896k without any changes at all. IBM's decision wasn't stupid either. They had to put memory starting at 0, so that the interupt table was programmable, and spliting the available memory space for 60% RAM, 40% hardware memory mapping was perfectly reasonable, especially considering that they allocated 40 times the initial shipping memory.
Actually, if you look at how Linux evolved, it started as a kernel running on top of Minix tools. Minix was copyright Prentice Hall, and because of that, sometimes the tools were rewritten, or were added because they werent' part of the Minux tools. If GNU tools hadn't been around, then it would probably have been hosted on the Minix system a bit longer while the tools would have to have been rewritten, but Linux would have continously useful, and freely distributable as soon as a suitable base of tools were rewritten.
There is an alleged comment in the MS Basic source code that says something like "this function used to do xxx, but Bill Gates changed something and it stopped working".
In what way does having manned space flight work towards a better future? There is nothing worthwile going on in manned space. The ISS is teaching us nothing. The shuttles much vaunted ability to returns stuff from space to earth has been almost totally unused. Because of the shuttles inability to reach geosync orbit, satellites have to have incredibly complicated systems to get them out of the cargo bay and into orbit, which has resulted in a terrible reliability rating, for example Leasat F3, and it's STILL more expensive than a rocket such as the Delta III. If NASA cancelled the shuttle and all manned space flights, and put their resources into unmanned space they could achive much more, and cost less. The military realized this a long time ago, which is why they don't use the shuttle any more.
I would have vetoed Columbus's voyage because the man was an idiot who totally miscalculated the size of the earth. However, if he HAD achived his goal, which was a quicker and easier route to India, then it would have had objective benefits immediatly. There are no benefits on the horizon for manned space flight.
You're assuming that there will eventually be a benefit. That's an unsafe assumption. All your other examples gave an benefit immediatly, either in objective benefits, eg obtaining valuable minerals, or the person who paid for the experience enjoying themselves. With the execption of two billionaires, neither is true with manned space. We've spent 40 years doing nothing useful that couldn't be done with non-manned space. There is no sign that this will change, in fact with increasing sophisticated robotics, it's less and less likely to be changing.
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That's the whole concept behind the University system. That's why there are undergrads, MSc, PhD, and Post Doc students all in the same building, all learning and all (except the undergrads) teaching.
How do you define porn? In the UK, there are national newspapers with topless women on page 3. This isn't considered porn in the UK, no-one would play any attention to a 15 year old buying 'The Sun'. I suspect that in the US, it not be the same.
Some things are so burdensome that they create an atmosphere where the majority of people won't do something, even though they've got the right to do so. That's something we should try to avoid. That's why you can quote someone without their permission.
They charge the artist for that time. The artist has to cover every expense of the record company from their royalties before the record company pays the reyalties.
SACD is 'SUPER AUDIO CD', which is a Sony lead program, which uses a DVD like disk, with an encoding scheme which allows higher dynamic range, and also 5+1. Individual disks can either have a CD compatable layer, or not.
I'm not trying to kill anyone here, however Microsoft & AMD will have a different agenda to me.
The size of the sample should vary according to the size of the total population. A few hundred is good for a city, but it's not enough for the entire planet. The formula is n=(Z^2*P*(1-P))/D2, where sample size is n, D is the minimum detectable difference, P is the total population, and Z is the 1-alpha/2 percentile of the standard normal distribution.
I wonder if the bargining chip is to make AMD the preferred platform for Windows. If Windows supported the AMD specific x86-64 instruction set, and this gave performance gains for AMD over Intel, then Intel would suddenly switch into second place.