Providers of the mod-boxes with big windows, transparent boxes, etc. get around the requirement for FCC certification for their devices because they don't sell them with the CPU. But the reality is that boxes that aren't RF shielded are tremendous radio interference generators, due to all of the ultra-high-frequency switching transients from the electronics within them. Thus, most nations regulate the interference generated by electronic products. A box like this, to be a good RF citizen, would need some foil or other shielding material, and careful limitation of the size of openings.
The "seismic detector", actually a camo vehicle and troop movement detector, went on to the military surplus market at one point. So, you could buy a plastic poop with a radio transmitter in it via mail-order. This must have been about 30 years ago.
The D-21 drone is in the Research Hangar at the Air Force Museum. You can get a bus trip to that hangar from the museum and walk around for about 50 minutes, but there are ID requirements.
I had a DARPA contract during my tenure at Pixar, before we got our first film contract. The purpose was to create economic demand for computer graphics hardware by making new advances in image-processing software, so that the U.S. would have that technology if it needed it for wartime. So, it ended up making live-action and old cel animated films look better, but served the economic purpose desired by DoD.
It sounds like Tio Paco is annoyed that we actually fight for things that matter. Idealism means that. It doesn't mean that you live in utopia, it means that you fight to improve things.
You're attempting to apply some rational analysis to the problem, when the problem is actually irrational behavior. It doesn't matter that there's a 900 MHz band or where bands are at all. What matters is that a bunch of misled or malicious folks misled other folks into becoming the horde of angry villagers with pitchforks and firebrands chasing something that they don't understand
Free Software licenses and Open Source licenses are the same licenses to this day. RMS has always accepted BSD as a free software license. There are some licenses that are not GPL-compatible but still considered to be Free.
If we look back at when enterprise web development picked up Java, it was at a time when Sun made much of the hardware those shops were already running and was seen as a big winner in both their hardware and software initiatives. Large companies were just bringing up their first web presence, and they turned to Sun for help. Sun sold them both hardware and a platform, and got them going. The language and the platform were second in importance to that, and run-anywhere (they didn't have JIT back then) was of tertiary importance or lower.
It's a different environment today. If you're working on something that runs a GUI better, and develops faster, that's great. I hope you don't feel obligated to tie it to a big virtual machine environment. And you should consider not making it interpretive, too. There's a big open space to explore there.
Go is compiled, so it kind of misses the entire point.
Well, this would have been an important point if we were running Java on clients. On servers, all of the energy spent on JIT and so on is useless, because we can compile the code and IMO should.
Was it ever a good idea for Apache to participate in Java in the first place, knowing that the exact situation that they are complaining about today existed when they started, and has existed for the entire time they've been developing?
When we're finished with this one, we can think about Open Source projects and.NET .
It's much easier to prove that someone who signs a declaration that they are an accredited investor has a complete understanding of the risks. Unfortunately, these days stockholder lawsuits are a very common device used by investors to get more stock out of the founders and into their own pockets.
It also helps to retain a securities attorney for drafting your investment agreements, and for responding to later lawsuits concerning the agreements, rather than a generalist.
OK, it might be easier to test a solar sail by de-orbiting something faster, and it's important to not contribute further to orbital debris. But the interesting direction is UP! Get the thing from low-orbit to a higher orbit with the solar sail, like the Japanese have started to do with the IKAROS satellite. Can we get from LEO to geostationary with a solar sail? Can we use it to maintain an orbit without propellant? That means less mass for delta-V to lift out of the atmosphere, and thus less cost but maybe a long time to achieve the final orbit.
You are not considering that this is a low-stakes gamble. But I don't suggest it to anyone who can't do the work, just folks who can make software without investment. Sure, you should write up a business plan, but you should not spend too much time extrapolating a future that you really can't forecast. So many VC directed plans that I read are just fiction. You should also expect to try more than one business before you get one that actually works. 4 in 5 fail, despite the best of plans.
Anyone I deal with has to be an "accredited investor" under SEC rules - no exceptions. This rule has saved me from serious grief in the past. I'd be happy to chat with folks who qualify. My email address is my name +.com .
I also hear from a lot of "I have a great idea, but it doesn't work yet, and I got a marketing guy and that terrible SOB wasn't able to sell it" sorts of people. Of course, it's not the marketing person's problem if the software doesn't work yet. They can get angry/abusive if I don't buy into their idea.
I've met people who have excellent working software, and have had it for years, and simply aren't able to make a business out of it. They think I just need an investor! And this when it would take them hundreds of dollars to actually start their business, after which they'd have a lot more value to an investor, if they decided they still need one.
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Providers of the mod-boxes with big windows, transparent boxes, etc. get around the requirement for FCC certification for their devices because they don't sell them with the CPU. But the reality is that boxes that aren't RF shielded are tremendous radio interference generators, due to all of the ultra-high-frequency switching transients from the electronics within them. Thus, most nations regulate the interference generated by electronic products. A box like this, to be a good RF citizen, would need some foil or other shielding material, and careful limitation of the size of openings.
The D-21 drone is in the Research Hangar at the Air Force Museum. You can get a bus trip to that hangar from the museum and walk around for about 50 minutes, but there are ID requirements.
I had a DARPA contract during my tenure at Pixar, before we got our first film contract. The purpose was to create economic demand for computer graphics hardware by making new advances in image-processing software, so that the U.S. would have that technology if it needed it for wartime. So, it ended up making live-action and old cel animated films look better, but served the economic purpose desired by DoD.
It sounds like Tio Paco is annoyed that we actually fight for things that matter. Idealism means that. It doesn't mean that you live in utopia, it means that you fight to improve things.
You're attempting to apply some rational analysis to the problem, when the problem is actually irrational behavior. It doesn't matter that there's a 900 MHz band or where bands are at all. What matters is that a bunch of misled or malicious folks misled other folks into becoming the horde of angry villagers with pitchforks and firebrands chasing something that they don't understand
Free Software licenses and Open Source licenses are the same licenses to this day. RMS has always accepted BSD as a free software license. There are some licenses that are not GPL-compatible but still considered to be Free.
And all that time, I was extracting spermatogonial cells from my testicular tissue and I didn't know how useful they could be! :-)
The parallelism paradigm is pretty good. What don't you like?
If we look back at when enterprise web development picked up Java, it was at a time when Sun made much of the hardware those shops were already running and was seen as a big winner in both their hardware and software initiatives. Large companies were just bringing up their first web presence, and they turned to Sun for help. Sun sold them both hardware and a platform, and got them going. The language and the platform were second in importance to that, and run-anywhere (they didn't have JIT back then) was of tertiary importance or lower.
It's a different environment today. If you're working on something that runs a GUI better, and develops faster, that's great. I hope you don't feel obligated to tie it to a big virtual machine environment. And you should consider not making it interpretive, too. There's a big open space to explore there.
Go is compiled, so it kind of misses the entire point.
Well, this would have been an important point if we were running Java on clients. On servers, all of the energy spent on JIT and so on is useless, because we can compile the code and IMO should.
Actually, I wanted folks to think about why .NET was also not a good idea.
Google's "Go" language is interesting. But I don't see any explicit rights release from Google regarding it. Maybe we should nudge them for one.
Was it ever a good idea for Apache to participate in Java in the first place, knowing that the exact situation that they are complaining about today existed when they started, and has existed for the entire time they've been developing?
When we're finished with this one, we can think about Open Source projects and .NET .
Bruce
No, it is just to make the point that an accredited investor isn't just someone with a lot of money.
It's not just how much they make. They also are supposed to have certain knowledge regarding investment.
It's much easier to prove that someone who signs a declaration that they are an accredited investor has a complete understanding of the risks. Unfortunately, these days stockholder lawsuits are a very common device used by investors to get more stock out of the founders and into their own pockets.
It also helps to retain a securities attorney for drafting your investment agreements, and for responding to later lawsuits concerning the agreements, rather than a generalist.
Well, it seems that atmospheric drag might be the dominant force in LEO. So, this isn't necessarily a solar sail when used to deorbit a satellite.
OK, it might be easier to test a solar sail by de-orbiting something faster, and it's important to not contribute further to orbital debris. But the interesting direction is UP! Get the thing from low-orbit to a higher orbit with the solar sail, like the Japanese have started to do with the IKAROS satellite. Can we get from LEO to geostationary with a solar sail? Can we use it to maintain an orbit without propellant? That means less mass for delta-V to lift out of the atmosphere, and thus less cost but maybe a long time to achieve the final orbit.
I am sorry to hear of your pain.
You are not considering that this is a low-stakes gamble. But I don't suggest it to anyone who can't do the work, just folks who can make software without investment. Sure, you should write up a business plan, but you should not spend too much time extrapolating a future that you really can't forecast. So many VC directed plans that I read are just fiction. You should also expect to try more than one business before you get one that actually works. 4 in 5 fail, despite the best of plans.
Marketers have no crystal ball. If they did, they would stay home and clip stock coupons. The most useful data is actually trying.
Anyone I deal with has to be an "accredited investor" under SEC rules - no exceptions. This rule has saved me from serious grief in the past. I'd be happy to chat with folks who qualify. My email address is my name + .com .
I also hear from a lot of "I have a great idea, but it doesn't work yet, and I got a marketing guy and that terrible SOB wasn't able to sell it" sorts of people. Of course, it's not the marketing person's problem if the software doesn't work yet. They can get angry/abusive if I don't buy into their idea.
If you have interesting software, in the age of the web, you really can start an income-producing business for hundreds of dollars.
I've met people who have excellent working software, and have had it for years, and simply aren't able to make a business out of it. They think I just need an investor! And this when it would take them hundreds of dollars to actually start their business, after which they'd have a lot more value to an investor, if they decided they still need one.