Ariane 5 is and continues to be a success but the premise on which Ariane 5 was built -- heavy payloads -- is a small and shrinking market segment. Ariane 5 can launch two payloads, but matching payloads -- the right orbital configuration and mass constraints -- is not easy.
Arianespace hedged their bets by bringing this Soyuz launchers over to CSG with a new (ESA-funded) launchpad at Sinnamari. The much smaller Vega rocket is way off in the distance. The reasoning for Ariane 6 (not having to pay the Russians, as far as I can work out) is sound enough, but the politics (money for France for A6 vs money for Germany for revised A5) is getting in the way.
Anyhoo - the more people on _both_ sides of the argument who actually look at the data rather than just attack the conclusions, the better for everybody concerned.
Extremadura is one of the poorer regions of Spain and with the general funding squeeze trying to get the public deficit under control, I reckon they have a lot to gain from this.
While we desperately need some sanity injected into the system after the Digital Britain Bill, I suspect this is going to really favour big-media's use of our copyrighted work.
"He said the law could be relaxed to allow greater use of copyright material without the owner's permission."
There must be plenty of companies drooling at the idea of smash and grab raids on flickr accounts and GPL'd software.
Which is exactly why you will never see anything more than an expert system in space. There is no way any space agency is going to punt hundreds of millions or euros/dollars/pounds into space without a full understanding of the decision tree in the spacecraft control loop. It is hard enough at the moment without introducing outliers into the system.
Indeed. I'm not sure what the industry could do in this case. It would be up to the theatre owner to contact the musicians - which they can choose not to do. I imagine the composed would get a cut if electronic score has to be licensed for public performance (it would be slightly strange for this not to be the case).
It might be hard to find musicians later though; I'm not sure many musicians make a full time career out of this sort of work, but it might be just be the last straw - god knows I've seen enough string quartets busking these days and that can't be much of a money spinner.
All in all, it sucks to be a musician these days - composing, recording or performing seems to be a talent which is rather unappreciated (to the extent that anybody is willing to pay for what a musician produces).
Satire and journalism are not necessarily incompatible. Private Eye has mixed both for years although the loss of Paul Foot undoutably was a big loss to them.
Robledo (Madrid) was done a few years back - they had to replace the bearings IIRC. In fact it was largely due to the work on DSS63 at Robledo that NASA started to look at the DSS14.
I love how 'mercenaries' has been replaced by 'private contractors' in the minds of people, it's just really scary how Orwell knew the workings of language.
"proprietary" is just the standard terminology for data that has not entered into the public domain - used to distinguish from "published" in the sense that the data has been analysed and the results published (in a journal etc etc).
Information may want to be free, but there's plenty of people who want to keep it locked up
I know anecdotes are not statistics but I slapped Win7 on my custom built PC and it just worked. It was extremely easy. I did not have much oddball hardware attached, but neither were any of the components Win7 certified.
Sure, there's the pain of reinstalling apps and waiting for Steam to download my game collection. But that's not really the point.
Slashdot is just a Selection Effect with nerd rage
As someone else said, there are no blind spots as such, over a long enough period of time.
Gaia will build an astrometric/photometric catalogue of all objects from mag 7ish down to mag 20 + a little bit. This is about 10^9 objects, some of which will be solar system objects. So yes it will see many objects which are could be a problem. It will almost certainly be in contact with the Minor Planet Center.
However there are better telescopes for doing this sort of object detection (LSST etc), although the final astrometry will be better from Gaia if enough observations can be made - this is certainly going to help ephemeris calculation.
What? Pagers were around long long before SMS even existed. They just were never in the mass-market communication space that SMSs dominate now since they were not 'peer to peer', at least not in the most common form
Because a 2nd hand game is indistinguishable from a 1st hand game? When you buy a 2nd hand car, you except that it's suffered wear and tear and therefore worth less; except in the unusual cases where is end up being worth more as a vintage car.
I think the biggest gripe from the devs is that, between piracy and the second hand market, they see lots of people playing their games, but not seeing a corresponding amount of money in revenue. That's very much their problem which we're not obligated to solve, but we might not like the solutions.
Digital distribution of games will be the way forward for them; Capps says impulse purchasing is still alive, but in these days of over-saturated media coverage of upcoming games, with 'Previews' and 'Hands-ons' and forums and user-reviews -- who is really surprised anymore?? It's surely much more convenient to click 'buy now'.
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Ariane 5 is and continues to be a success but the premise on which Ariane 5 was built -- heavy payloads -- is a small and shrinking market segment. Ariane 5 can launch two payloads, but matching payloads -- the right orbital configuration and mass constraints -- is not easy.
Arianespace hedged their bets by bringing this Soyuz launchers over to CSG with a new (ESA-funded) launchpad at Sinnamari. The much smaller Vega rocket is way off in the distance. The reasoning for Ariane 6 (not having to pay the Russians, as far as I can work out) is sound enough, but the politics (money for France for A6 vs money for Germany for revised A5) is getting in the way.
Anyhoo - the more people on _both_ sides of the argument who actually look at the data rather than just attack the conclusions, the better for everybody concerned.
Elrond: We cannot use the DCMA. That we now know too well. It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil.
Extremadura is one of the poorer regions of Spain and with the general funding squeeze trying to get the public deficit under control, I reckon they have a lot to gain from this.
Or give the pirates WoW subs. They'll be too busy with the rep grind to do anything else
You'd need to update the list very frequently to keep it up to date, and even then, who's going to compile it?
I, for the good of humanity, volunteer for this strenuous task. Or at least for the good sites anyway.
While we desperately need some sanity injected into the system after the Digital Britain Bill, I suspect this is going to really favour big-media's use of our copyrighted work.
"He said the law could be relaxed to allow greater use of copyright material without the owner's permission."
There must be plenty of companies drooling at the idea of smash and grab raids on flickr accounts and GPL'd software.
Which is exactly why you will never see anything more than an expert system in space. There is no way any space agency is going to punt hundreds of millions or euros/dollars/pounds into space without a full understanding of the decision tree in the spacecraft control loop. It is hard enough at the moment without introducing outliers into the system.
Indeed. I'm not sure what the industry could do in this case. It would be up to the theatre owner to contact the musicians - which they can choose not to do. I imagine the composed would get a cut if electronic score has to be licensed for public performance (it would be slightly strange for this not to be the case).
It might be hard to find musicians later though; I'm not sure many musicians make a full time career out of this sort of work, but it might be just be the last straw - god knows I've seen enough string quartets busking these days and that can't be much of a money spinner.
All in all, it sucks to be a musician these days - composing, recording or performing seems to be a talent which is rather unappreciated (to the extent that anybody is willing to pay for what a musician produces).
Satire and journalism are not necessarily incompatible. Private Eye has mixed both for years although the loss of Paul Foot undoutably was a big loss to them.
Robledo (Madrid) was done a few years back - they had to replace the bearings IIRC. In fact it was largely due to the work on DSS63 at Robledo that NASA started to look at the DSS14.
I love how 'mercenaries' has been replaced by 'private contractors' in the minds of people, it's just really scary how Orwell knew the workings of language.
"proprietary" is just the standard terminology for data that has not entered into the public domain - used to distinguish from "published" in the sense that the data has been analysed and the results published (in a journal etc etc).
Information may want to be free, but there's plenty of people who want to keep it locked up
NASA seeks more funding for their Solar Sentinels program
The PcPro number are stupid and dumb. They assume that all 26 million customers are on 3G data plans which is fucking nonsense.
The Guardian has more realistic numbers, which judging by the nerd rage in comments above, might make Slashdot explode.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/11/mobile-data-unlimited-end
Consider: This is the UK mobile network, so NO tax dollars spent on infrastructure.
This is going to be awesome fight.
Or vicious gangs of Keep Left signs
I know anecdotes are not statistics but I slapped Win7 on my custom built PC and it just worked. It was extremely easy. I did not have much oddball hardware attached, but neither were any of the components Win7 certified.
Sure, there's the pain of reinstalling apps and waiting for Steam to download my game collection. But that's not really the point.
Slashdot is just a Selection Effect with nerd rage
As someone else said, there are no blind spots as such, over a long enough period of time.
Gaia will build an astrometric/photometric catalogue of all objects from mag 7ish down to mag 20 + a little bit. This is about 10^9 objects, some of which will be solar system objects. So yes it will see many objects which are could be a problem. It will almost certainly be in contact with the Minor Planet Center.
However there are better telescopes for doing this sort of object detection (LSST etc), although the final astrometry will be better from Gaia if enough observations can be made - this is certainly going to help ephemeris calculation.
Unlikely! Gaia will not be launched until 2012.
What? Pagers were around long long before SMS even existed. They just were never in the mass-market communication space that SMSs dominate now since they were not 'peer to peer', at least not in the most common form
Thank Weis and Hickman for that.
Because a 2nd hand game is indistinguishable from a 1st hand game? When you buy a 2nd hand car, you except that it's suffered wear and tear and therefore worth less; except in the unusual cases where is end up being worth more as a vintage car.
I think the biggest gripe from the devs is that, between piracy and the second hand market, they see lots of people playing their games, but not seeing a corresponding amount of money in revenue. That's very much their problem which we're not obligated to solve, but we might not like the solutions.
Digital distribution of games will be the way forward for them; Capps says impulse purchasing is still alive, but in these days of over-saturated media coverage of upcoming games, with 'Previews' and 'Hands-ons' and forums and user-reviews -- who is really surprised anymore?? It's surely much more convenient to click 'buy now'.
Or, more accurately, built by Dornier under contract to ESA.
In fact a concept for a manned mission has been kicking around within the Aurora program. Target arrival date: 2037.
No shortage of forward planning there, then.