There aren't enough consumables on the Space Shuttle to leave it up there for more than about two to three weeks. Systems aboard the Shuttle can probably only operate for a set amount of time before they need maintenance.
The Soyuz Capsules they're using for Lifeboats now, only have an on orbit lifetime of 6 months before they have to be swapped out.
One of the reasons they can't put two Soyuz up there at a time, is that it would double the number that have to be made, and double the number of Taxi flights the russians would have to launch.
See, this is what SHOULD have been in the article summary, since it quite clearly states the issue, rather than the ambigious impression the article summary leaves. That Visa is suing because evisa dilutes the Visa trademark. They're suing because they actually own the evisa trademark as well.
As Aragog explained, spiders fear the Basilisk, and flee from it. In the book, it's a little clearer that whenver the Basilisk is roaming about the school, spiders are fleeing the building through any hole they can find. In the movie you see them escaping through a hole in a window, and streaming past Hagrid's hut, into the forest, towards Aragog's hollow.
That's bullshit, lots of companies lose money when breaking into a new market. In fact, companies show a loss all the time, it is not something that is unique to Microsoft, or Monopolies.
Think you could fix the submitters comments? The posted letter is from EMI, as the title correctly notes, and not BMI as stated in the submitters remarks.
If Hospital IT departments or HMO's are looking at deploying these things. Medical Terminology is not going to be a problem, since they will be able to deploy their own factoid sets filled with all the terminology they need.
Yeah, Jargon... except that TabletPC has full support for installable dictionary files with fully configurable priority. Want to use one in a medical setting, install a medical terminology factoid set, and you're off to the races.
No they don't. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donates MONEY. The recieving organizations decide what they want to spend the money on. Or have we all forgotten the recent "Slashdot Sitcom" on the Gates Foundation funding Apple Computers in libraries?
Interesting, almost all the examples you site, are things happening in the "Northern" (wealthy) countries, the poorer "Southern" ones. So how is it that they apply to the so-called "Digital Divide"?
Actually, we probably wouldn't be reading the same article, because no one would have reported it. Don't kid yourself, it's here because it's Microsoft doing it, even though it's a dispute in standard contract law, and has nothing to do with EULA's.
I'd like to see the Palm device you can use for a 168 hours.
Otherwise, you're not comparing the same thing, and if you actually did some research on the battery life the device manufacturers claim, you'd find that they are rated for almost the same operational time, 6-8 hours.
Palm just chooses to report their battery time in weeks, based on 15 or 30 minutes of use a day, whereas the PPC Manufacturers report an actual number of hours. If you bother to do the math, you will find that they are almost identical.
If "who" was not there "what" wouldn't have happened?
The only reason you put a file into the share directory of your P2P program, is with the intent to distribute it. And if it's a copyrighted work, you are intending to distribute a copyrighted work, which is a violation of copyright law.
Entrapment is the act of luring or enticing someone to commit an illegal act they would not otherwise commit. The legal definition of "Entrapment" is the aforementioned process, done at the behest of Law Enforcement agencies.
Asking a Prostitute how much it will cost for sex, could be construed as entrapment. A prostitute offering you sex is not.
The Media supported lists VCD (MPEG-1) as a supported format, and then goes on to say that it lacks the ADPCM or Video Decoding Circuitry to playback CD-I disks.
No, the power usage figures are right. The post you're replying to has it wrong. The first article says it functions as a DVD Video Player when connected to a TV or PC, and the Sony Product Page links to that review.
From the first article in the story:
"As a standalone portable player, Sony's new gadget can play back CDs as well as MP3, WAV and WMA files that are stored on CDs, DVDs or the company's own Memory Stick cards.
When connected to a Windows or Macintosh computer, the device can serve as a CD-RW drive for recording digital content or backing up computer data. When connected to a television or PC, the device can also become a DVD player for watching movies."
Check out that last sentence there.
A) NASA didn't invent the pen, Fischer did, and sold it to Nasa, and it didn't cost Billions.
B) Pencils are terrible in space, all the little graphite dust gets into the electronics, causing shorts. Not a good idea on a space craft.
NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and developement costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government.
Because of the fire in Apollo 1, in which three Astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere. It also had to work in the extreme conditions of outer space:
1. In a vacuum.
2. With no gravity.
3. In hot temperatures of +150C in sunlight and also in the cold shadows of space where the temperatures drop to -120C
(NASA tested the pressurized Space Pens at -50C, but because of the residential [sic] heat in the pen it also writes for many minutes in the cold shadows.)
Fisher spent over one million dollars in trying to perfect the ball point pen before he made his first successful pressurized pens in 1965. Samples were immediately sent to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Manager of the Houston Space Center, where they were thoroughly tested and approved for use in Space in September 1965. In December 1967 he sold 400 Fisher Space Pens to NASA for $2.95 each.
Lead pencils were used on all Mercury and Gemini space flights and all Russian space flights prior to 1968. Fisher Space Pens are more dependable than lead pencils and cannot create the hazard of a broken piece of lead floating through the gravity-less atmosphere.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.htm
Microsoft will argue, however, that the main reason people want these chips is for pirating games.
Don't delude yourself, they're right. The primary function of these mod chips is to facilitate game piracy.
If Lik Sang was selling ANY Mod Chips with Microsoft's copyrighted BIOS on them, they had every right to get an injunction against Lik Sang to stop them from selling Microsoft's copyrighted code.
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There aren't enough consumables on the Space Shuttle to leave it up there for more than about two to three weeks. Systems aboard the Shuttle can probably only operate for a set amount of time before they need maintenance. The Soyuz Capsules they're using for Lifeboats now, only have an on orbit lifetime of 6 months before they have to be swapped out. One of the reasons they can't put two Soyuz up there at a time, is that it would double the number that have to be made, and double the number of Taxi flights the russians would have to launch.
See, this is what SHOULD have been in the article summary, since it quite clearly states the issue, rather than the ambigious impression the article summary leaves. That Visa is suing because evisa dilutes the Visa trademark. They're suing because they actually own the evisa trademark as well.
Pretty cut and dried actually.
As Aragog explained, spiders fear the Basilisk, and flee from it. In the book, it's a little clearer that whenver the Basilisk is roaming about the school, spiders are fleeing the building through any hole they can find. In the movie you see them escaping through a hole in a window, and streaming past Hagrid's hut, into the forest, towards Aragog's hollow.
That's bullshit, lots of companies lose money when breaking into a new market. In fact, companies show a loss all the time, it is not something that is unique to Microsoft, or Monopolies.
How so? They hold the copyright on the work they are using the software to manipulate/create.
Think you could fix the submitters comments? The posted letter is from EMI, as the title correctly notes, and not BMI as stated in the submitters remarks.
If Hospital IT departments or HMO's are looking at deploying these things. Medical Terminology is not going to be a problem, since they will be able to deploy their own factoid sets filled with all the terminology they need.
Yeah, Jargon ... except that TabletPC has full support for installable dictionary files with fully configurable priority. Want to use one in a medical setting, install a medical terminology factoid set, and you're off to the races.
Yeah, and about 20x the size.
These things are all about size, not capacity. You can hook it onto a keyring for chrissakes.
The USS Cole was hardly a supercarrier. It wasn't even a plain old Aircraft Carrier. It was just a standard, run of the mill Guided Missile Destroyer.
No they don't. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donates MONEY. The recieving organizations decide what they want to spend the money on. Or have we all forgotten the recent "Slashdot Sitcom" on the Gates Foundation funding Apple Computers in libraries?
Interesting, almost all the examples you site, are things happening in the "Northern" (wealthy) countries, the poorer "Southern" ones. So how is it that they apply to the so-called "Digital Divide"?
You usually see Dot Matrix printers still in use these days in administrative settings because pre-printed Carbon Copy forms are still being used.
Actually, we probably wouldn't be reading the same article, because no one would have reported it. Don't kid yourself, it's here because it's Microsoft doing it, even though it's a dispute in standard contract law, and has nothing to do with EULA's.
I'd like to see the Palm device you can use for a 168 hours. Otherwise, you're not comparing the same thing, and if you actually did some research on the battery life the device manufacturers claim, you'd find that they are rated for almost the same operational time, 6-8 hours. Palm just chooses to report their battery time in weeks, based on 15 or 30 minutes of use a day, whereas the PPC Manufacturers report an actual number of hours. If you bother to do the math, you will find that they are almost identical.
If "who" was not there "what" wouldn't have happened? The only reason you put a file into the share directory of your P2P program, is with the intent to distribute it. And if it's a copyrighted work, you are intending to distribute a copyrighted work, which is a violation of copyright law. Entrapment is the act of luring or enticing someone to commit an illegal act they would not otherwise commit. The legal definition of "Entrapment" is the aforementioned process, done at the behest of Law Enforcement agencies. Asking a Prostitute how much it will cost for sex, could be construed as entrapment. A prostitute offering you sex is not.
It is in no way Entrapment.
The Media supported lists VCD (MPEG-1) as a supported format, and then goes on to say that it lacks the ADPCM or Video Decoding Circuitry to playback CD-I disks.
No, the power usage figures are right. The post you're replying to has it wrong. The first article says it functions as a DVD Video Player when connected to a TV or PC, and the Sony Product Page links to that review.
From the first article in the story: "As a standalone portable player, Sony's new gadget can play back CDs as well as MP3, WAV and WMA files that are stored on CDs, DVDs or the company's own Memory Stick cards. When connected to a Windows or Macintosh computer, the device can serve as a CD-RW drive for recording digital content or backing up computer data. When connected to a television or PC, the device can also become a DVD player for watching movies." Check out that last sentence there.
How is this insightful? It's a lifting body. It doesn't need big wings, because the entire shape of the fuselage generates lift.
The MPAA and RIAA don't run the movie theatres, nor do they set the ticket prices, or concession stand prices, dumbass.
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A) NASA didn't invent the pen, Fischer did, and sold it to Nasa, and it didn't cost Billions.
B) Pencils are terrible in space, all the little graphite dust gets into the electronics, causing shorts. Not a good idea on a space craft.
NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and developement costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government.
Because of the fire in Apollo 1, in which three Astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere. It also had to work in the extreme conditions of outer space:
1. In a vacuum. 2. With no gravity. 3. In hot temperatures of +150C in sunlight and also in the cold shadows of space where the temperatures drop to -120C
(NASA tested the pressurized Space Pens at -50C, but because of the residential [sic] heat in the pen it also writes for many minutes in the cold shadows.)
Fisher spent over one million dollars in trying to perfect the ball point pen before he made his first successful pressurized pens in 1965. Samples were immediately sent to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Manager of the Houston Space Center, where they were thoroughly tested and approved for use in Space in September 1965. In December 1967 he sold 400 Fisher Space Pens to NASA for $2.95 each.
Lead pencils were used on all Mercury and Gemini space flights and all Russian space flights prior to 1968. Fisher Space Pens are more dependable than lead pencils and cannot create the hazard of a broken piece of lead floating through the gravity-less atmosphere. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.ht
Microsoft will argue, however, that the main reason people want these chips is for pirating games.
Don't delude yourself, they're right. The primary function of these mod chips is to facilitate game piracy. If Lik Sang was selling ANY Mod Chips with Microsoft's copyrighted BIOS on them, they had every right to get an injunction against Lik Sang to stop them from selling Microsoft's copyrighted code.
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