Who needs an alternative of BBC? They are simply the best out there
Alternatives is good even if they are bad. If BBC was to turn a blind spot on a important matter, you would never know without alternatives.
But I agree with you, BBC is very good source for news.
It sure is a doubled edged sword, but there is allot of success stories also, patents is a mechanism to keep competition "fair".
Without patents, it would be even easier for medium/large/mega cooperation to prey on small companies inventions, I write even because just having a patent today do not mean that your immune against this behavior.
I think the Google Lunar x-prize is pointless. Its now more or less 5 years to it expire, but the full sum is only paid out if someone makes the trip before the end of 2012.
The orginal x-prize took 8 years for someone to win, and that prize had a strong commercial (space tourism) appeal, while the Google prize have not.
The water crisis is not about total amount of water, it is the displacement of water from one point to another.
Water in the form of glacier ice in the Himalayas (providing drinking water for millions and millions down stream), that instead becomes rain in Australia , is a water crisis.
Geo-engineering is a short term last resort solution when everything else fails. It has so many unknown factors that in worst case it can lead to an even worse disaster than the one its trying to prevent.
Reducing emissions is the best way in the long run. Part from reducing the Co2 emissions it drives technology development towards more efficient use of energy, new products, new companies, new jobs etc etc.
We have to face the facts, quick fixes does not exists to this problem, we have to clean up our mess and take the consequences.
No "Hatered" needed if the phone is missing an important feature like MMS, it just makes it inferior to other offerings. But that have changed now and its on pair in that area and ahead in several others, so its no surprise it sell well. I personally prefer a simpler/smaller more rugged phone, but I understand the appeal (!) of it, its a great product.
Its all about stir things up in a political environment that tends to see things from a 1987 perspective. Times have changed, media industry and politics understanding of it has not (at least not as much as it should have to be in sync with the world we live in).
"Or is this just another example of how the USPTO is horrendously screwed up?"
USPTO is an important instance, but patents on software, music lyrics, book texts, movie scripts, pie recipe and countless other things do not belong there IMHO
WebGL is based on OpenGL ES and together with javascript bindings its a really neat way of expand the usage of a browser without the need for a multitude of different plugins (each coming with their problems and security issues). Standards is good for you, and to make certain applications we will need 3D directly in the browser (I'm not just thinking geek stuff here, lots of stuff like you need a standalone program for today could run directly in the browser, planing your home, drag around those furnitures and when your happy, just click order !).
Since I have to deal with the trash it is, on a daily basis, I know that IE6 is not dead (unfortunately) , its big in the corporate world, and I'm supprised how many support mail we get every time we miss to check if a new feature is not broken in IE6.
They seem to base their ideas on what the OTRAG project tested and worked on in the late 70s. The idea is that the rocket is made up of inexpensive paralell coupled "segments".
The idea behind the OTRAG design was that if each segment where identical, the manufacturing process could be streamlined to a very cost effective level, much like how cars are made.
"Virgin Galactic will use the cash injection to develop equipment - including a new pylon between the twin hulls of WhiteKnight Two - able to carry a two-stage launcher and satellite weighing up to 200kg (440lb), with a total payload of 17t- into orbit. "
Will look something like the Pegasus launch system (but half the payload) I presume
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Who needs an alternative of BBC? They are simply the best out there
Alternatives is good even if they are bad. If BBC was to turn a blind spot on a important matter, you would never know without alternatives. But I agree with you, BBC is very good source for news.
It sure is a doubled edged sword, but there is allot of success stories also, patents is a mechanism to keep competition "fair".
Without patents, it would be even easier for medium/large/mega cooperation to prey on small companies inventions, I write even because just having a patent today do not mean that your immune against this behavior.
Its possible that article duping activity could sustain at least three Slashdot sites, that actually cover the same events, with no additional work.
One even made it all the way to a governator position !
NextStep isnt dead, it just got a new name when Next told Apple to buy them....
is the Amiga platform even relevant any more? The hardware and OS were revolutionary in 1989
Thats 20 years after Unix was released, right ?
#define _SECURE_SCL 0 to disable checked iterators
I think the Google Lunar x-prize is pointless. Its now more or less 5 years to it expire, but the full sum is only paid out if someone makes the trip before the end of 2012.
The orginal x-prize took 8 years for someone to win, and that prize had a strong commercial (space tourism) appeal, while the Google prize have not.
Tried to be funny, will never attempt that again, promise....
a whole new crop springs up in wild
The trick is to switch the fuses after the server move so they barley can run a workstation on each outlet.
Worsening water crisis?
The water crisis is not about total amount of water, it is the displacement of water from one point to another.
Water in the form of glacier ice in the Himalayas (providing drinking water for millions and millions down stream), that instead becomes rain in Australia , is a water crisis.
Geo-engineering is a short term last resort solution when everything else fails. It has so many unknown factors that in worst case it can lead to an even worse disaster than the one its trying to prevent.
Reducing emissions is the best way in the long run. Part from reducing the Co2 emissions it drives technology development towards more efficient use of energy, new products, new companies, new jobs etc etc.
We have to face the facts, quick fixes does not exists to this problem, we have to clean up our mess and take the consequences.
I hope they have invented something better than ordinary Ethernet cables to wire that ting with.
No "Hatered" needed if the phone is missing an important feature like MMS, it just makes it inferior to other offerings. But that have changed now and its on pair in that area and ahead in several others, so its no surprise it sell well. I personally prefer a simpler/smaller more rugged phone, but I understand the appeal (!) of it, its a great product.
"Larson hated the new series"
:)
Sounds like a a developer that get his/her code forked and improved x100
Its all about stir things up in a political environment that tends to see things from a 1987 perspective. Times have changed, media industry and politics understanding of it has not (at least not as much as it should have to be in sync with the world we live in).
It have worked quite well here in Sweden, the pirate party have woken up the other parties when polls started to show that they might even get into the Riksdag ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#Modern_political_system )
"Or is this just another example of how the USPTO is horrendously screwed up?"
USPTO is an important instance, but patents on software, music lyrics, book texts, movie scripts, pie recipe and countless other things do not belong there IMHO
A statement that could be applied to more or less all software patents I've seen so far.....
"What could possibly go wrong?"
WebGL is based on OpenGL ES and together with javascript bindings its a really neat way of expand the usage of a browser without the need for a multitude of different plugins (each coming with their problems and security issues). Standards is good for you, and to make certain applications we will need 3D directly in the browser (I'm not just thinking geek stuff here, lots of stuff like you need a standalone program for today could run directly in the browser, planing your home, drag around those furnitures and when your happy, just click order !).
Heretic !!
Its C++012 !!
"Actually, no"
Yea, they are, because if there where some substance to your claims an ad for Apple Store should not show up when I search for "Windows sucks" on Bing
Stories like this is getting pretty lame, same entry is showing up on googles first page as well.
"IE6 is dead."
Since I have to deal with the trash it is, on a daily basis, I know that IE6 is not dead (unfortunately) , its big in the corporate world, and I'm supprised how many support mail we get every time we miss to check if a new feature is not broken in IE6.
They seem to base their ideas on what the OTRAG project tested and worked on in the late 70s. The idea is that the rocket is made up of inexpensive paralell coupled "segments".
The idea behind the OTRAG design was that if each segment where identical, the manufacturing process could be streamlined to a very cost effective level, much like how cars are made.
More on the OTRAG project here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/otrag.htm
"Virgin Galactic will use the cash injection to develop equipment - including a new pylon between the twin hulls of WhiteKnight Two - able to carry a two-stage launcher and satellite weighing up to 200kg (440lb), with a total payload of 17t- into orbit. " Will look something like the Pegasus launch system (but half the payload) I presume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_rocket