If we were in international airspace, why would the Chinese plane be near us?
I'm not familiar with Chinese military practices, but it isn't unusual for a country to intercept and identify unknown aircraft outside the 12 mile limit. The intercepting aircraft has just as much of a right to fly in international airspace as the unknown aircraft. If you look at US aeronautical maps, you will see large areas off the coast marked ADIZ, for Air Defence Intercept Zone. If you enter the zone without a flight plan and active transponder, don't be surprised if a fighter is scrambled to check you out.
IBM published the source code under copyright. Compaq had to reverse engineer the BIOS to create an IBM PC compatible BIOS that was free of intellectual property claims by IBM. Compaq had two teams, one that wrote a functional requirements document based on the IBM PC BIOS and another team that used the requirements document to write a new BIOS from scratch.
Cash is legal tender for debts. A seller can refuse to accept cash as a condition of sale. At that point, it isn't a debt. If they give you the car, without any conditions as to acceptable forms of payment, they have to accept cash when you return the car and pay the bill.
Standards have to be free from third party IP claims to be successful, so if the IETF were to include this in a standard, it would simply go unimplemented.
Not true. The typical policy of standards bodies is that any patents have to be licensed on a fair and non-discriminatory basis.
I don't know the rules that the ESA has to live with, but if they're anything like the rules the DOD imposes on rocket launches, if something goes wrong, you just blow up the rocket. Even the shuttle's SRBs have the equivalent of a really long stick of dynamite to make sure that, in case of an accident, no pieces bigger than my hand or so would ever reach the surface.
The purpose of a range safety system is not to "blow up the rocket", it is to terminate thrust, allowing the rocket, or pieces thereof, to follow a ballistic trajectory into a safe impact zone. That is what the linear shaped charges do to the SRB. They "unzip" the motor casing, causing the internal pressure and thrust to drop to near zero.
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I'm not familiar with Chinese military practices, but it isn't unusual for a country to intercept and identify unknown aircraft outside the 12 mile limit. The intercepting aircraft has just as much of a right to fly in international airspace as the unknown aircraft. If you look at US aeronautical maps, you will see large areas off the coast marked ADIZ, for Air Defence Intercept Zone. If you enter the zone without a flight plan and active transponder, don't be surprised if a fighter is scrambled to check you out.
What a pile of...
Since when is there any correlation between innovation, technical quality and commercial success?
It's the UCITA, not the DMCA.
IBM published the source code under copyright. Compaq had to reverse engineer the BIOS to create an IBM PC compatible BIOS that was free of intellectual property claims by IBM. Compaq had two teams, one that wrote a functional requirements document based on the IBM PC BIOS and another team that used the requirements document to write a new BIOS from scratch.
Cash is legal tender for debts. A seller can refuse to accept cash as a condition of sale. At that point, it isn't a debt. If they give you the car, without any conditions as to acceptable forms of payment, they have to accept cash when you return the car and pay the bill.
Not true. The typical policy of standards bodies is that any patents have to be licensed on a fair and non-discriminatory basis.
How difficult would it be to use UTF-8, instead of ASCII, in the DNS?
The purpose of a range safety system is not to "blow up the rocket", it is to terminate thrust, allowing the rocket, or pieces thereof, to follow a ballistic trajectory into a safe impact zone. That is what the linear shaped charges do to the SRB. They "unzip" the motor casing, causing the internal pressure and thrust to drop to near zero.
The shuttle's GPCs are programmed in HAL/S (high-level aerospace language/shuttle).
Your recollection is wrong.
The shuttle uses five IBM AP-101S computers. They are not microprocessors. Architecturally, they belong to the IBM 360/370 family of computers. See http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/sts/newsref/sts-av.ht ml.