At the time the foam fell off, the shuttle was still accelerating at full power. The piece of foam also entered the slipstream between the shuttle and the external tank, which is where most of the acceleration came from.
The patent deals specifically with Video on Demand services, and even more specifically, the claims deal with features pertaining to creating favorites lists of content you might want to order, with preview video thumbnails.
It's got nothing to do with online gaming, or modem services by any stretch of the imagination. Even if it COULD be stretched to include online games, all the online games you mentioned are games installed/running on the local machine, that uses a server matchmaking service to connect to other users. Not even CLOSE to a Video on Demand system.
because you've paid for all the decryption hardware and card programmers, and go to the trouble of buying a new card and reprogramming it when they change their encryption.
You're perfectly willing to pay for it, you just don't want to pay them as much as they're asking for it.
It clearly has value to you, or you wouldn't go to the trouble of trying to decrypt it.
Seeing Rocky Horror is as much a theatre experience as it is a cinema experience, it can't be held up as a typical cinema experience by ANY stretch of the imagination.
A) Soyuz Capsules have a maximum crew capacity of 3.
B) Soyuz Capsules have such a severe reentry and landing profile that each crewmember must have a specially designed seat liner to avoid serious injury on landing. ISS Crews take their seat liners up with them on the Shuttle incase they have to use the Soyuz docked there to escape.
C) Soyuz Capsules don't have an Airlock, they have a simple hatch. So they would have had to depressurize and repressurize the capsule multiple times for the crew transfer. No idea how many repressurizations a Soyuz capsule is rated for, nor if enough consumables are available onboard for multiple repressurizations.
D) Russia can barely build enough Soyuz capsules to fulfill their current committments. Firing off one (they would have needed 4 due to the 7 member crew and the requirement for at least 1 cosmonaut in each one) would have been technically and physically impossible under the time constraints they were operating under. Even if they DID Have 4 spare Soyuz capsules lying around, it's doubtful they would have had 4 launch vehicles available and able to be prepped and launched in rapid succession.
That's not true. They "cheated" by 8.2% on the same benchmark nVdia was "cheating" on, when wieghted into the full benchmark score it came out to a 1.9% difference in total score.
HUD's in fighter aircraft work like old Video Arcade displays. There's a plate of glass at an angle infront of the pilot, and a display facing up at the plate of glass. The pilot looks through the glass out of the cockpit and sees the display below reflected into it.
Eastman-Kodak is facing competition from Digital Photography and that isn't a question of a flawed Business model, it's legitimate competition by a technically superior/different product.
It's not like Canon and Fuji are making exact duplicates of Kodak's products and giving them away for free at no cost to themselves.
It's a very poor parallel to try and draw as the situations have almost nothing at all in common.
The situation's aren't comparable.
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That's because Digital Photographers aren't STEALING THEIR FILM AND CAMERAS.
The situations are not comparable in the slightest.
New Technology for picture taking is supplanting Eastman-Kodak's traditional film-based market, and they are adapting by expanding into the digital photography arena. It's other companies using new technology to sell a different/better product.
P2P is distributing the RIAA's member's works for free to anyone that requests them. You CANNOT compete with someone taking YOUR PRODUCT and giving it away for free.
It's not like Indie bands are giving their music away and thriving off of increased goodwill and concert attendance. That would be somewhat analagous to Eastman-Kodak's traditional film business vs. Digital Photography.
People are taking the RIAA's property and giving it away for free without permission, there is no way around this fact, no matter HOW you try and justify it.
I get this EXACT same problem with an ATI-7xxx in Eve Online. Does that mean that ATI is optimizing their drivers for Eve Online with a hardware clip-plane to speed up the Eve Online benchmarks? Or does it mean there's a bug in their driver?
I know which one I'd choose.
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Actually, there are several abort scenarios, which is why the shuttle can't take off if weather over any of the backup landings sites is bad.
The problem is that the foam strike wasn't found until some time after the launch (several days actually, if I remember correctly)
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So did American's until the Space Pen was sold to them for a couple of dollars each. Now both American's AND Russians use Space Pens. Keeps all that nasty graphite out of the electronics, and out of the astronauts/cosmonauts lungs.
If I run out and shoot someone dead, I can only be prosecuted for that crime once (barring appeals). If I run out and shoot someone else, I can be tried for that crime.
Similarily, if it was a criminal trial, he could only be tried once, unless he infringes again, in which case that instance of infringement could be tried, as it would be a seperate and distinct crime.
That was set years and years ago.
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You mean the way Microsoft and HP/Compaq locked everyone out of making PocketPC's, TabletPC's and MediaCenter PC's?
Microsoft has used Compaq/HP as their testbed/reference designer for new hardware platforms for years. They haven't locked anyone else out yet, what makes you think they're going to start doing so now?
Found it buried in a story on the 5th, though that article seemed to indicate it was purely about the Video Messaging, whereas the PC World article implies it's all interoperability requirements.
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It glows when it falls off? A piece of foam GLOWS when it falls the 200 feet between it's attachment point on the external tank, and the shuttle?
Ya know, I think just maybe, NASA might have an slightly better idea of what their requirements and capabilities are, jackass.
The "Editors" will keep posting this kind of shit.
Which is why his result is so totally unbelievable.
At the time the foam fell off, the shuttle was still accelerating at full power. The piece of foam also entered the slipstream between the shuttle and the external tank, which is where most of the acceleration came from.
No, it's a programmable scroll-rate that responds to user selectable preferences. A Page up/down button is not the same thing.
The entire patent is all about a user interface with selectable favorites, a user selectable scroll-rate and video previews.
That's it.
It's got absolutely NOTHING to do with XBox Live, EA's PS2 or Nintendo's games, or anything of the sort.
The patent deals specifically with Video on Demand services, and even more specifically, the claims deal with features pertaining to creating favorites lists of content you might want to order, with preview video thumbnails.
It's got nothing to do with online gaming, or modem services by any stretch of the imagination. Even if it COULD be stretched to include online games, all the online games you mentioned are games installed/running on the local machine, that uses a server matchmaking service to connect to other users. Not even CLOSE to a Video on Demand system.
It boggles the mind that the parent is modded up.
because you've paid for all the decryption hardware and card programmers, and go to the trouble of buying a new card and reprogramming it when they change their encryption. You're perfectly willing to pay for it, you just don't want to pay them as much as they're asking for it. It clearly has value to you, or you wouldn't go to the trouble of trying to decrypt it.
which was a Games Workshop product, using their established Warhammer races.
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The same Bruce Almighty that took the box office lead from the Matrix in it's second week? The same Matrix that saw a 60% drop in it's second week?
Seeing Rocky Horror is as much a theatre experience as it is a cinema experience, it can't be held up as a typical cinema experience by ANY stretch of the imagination.
A) Soyuz Capsules have a maximum crew capacity of 3.
B) Soyuz Capsules have such a severe reentry and landing profile that each crewmember must have a specially designed seat liner to avoid serious injury on landing. ISS Crews take their seat liners up with them on the Shuttle incase they have to use the Soyuz docked there to escape.
C) Soyuz Capsules don't have an Airlock, they have a simple hatch. So they would have had to depressurize and repressurize the capsule multiple times for the crew transfer. No idea how many repressurizations a Soyuz capsule is rated for, nor if enough consumables are available onboard for multiple repressurizations.
D) Russia can barely build enough Soyuz capsules to fulfill their current committments. Firing off one (they would have needed 4 due to the 7 member crew and the requirement for at least 1 cosmonaut in each one) would have been technically and physically impossible under the time constraints they were operating under. Even if they DID Have 4 spare Soyuz capsules lying around, it's doubtful they would have had 4 launch vehicles available and able to be prepped and launched in rapid succession.
Inshort, completely impossible.
That's not true. They "cheated" by 8.2% on the same benchmark nVdia was "cheating" on, when wieghted into the full benchmark score it came out to a 1.9% difference in total score.
HUD's in fighter aircraft work like old Video Arcade displays. There's a plate of glass at an angle infront of the pilot, and a display facing up at the plate of glass. The pilot looks through the glass out of the cockpit and sees the display below reflected into it.
Why would they seek legislation?
Eastman-Kodak is facing competition from Digital Photography and that isn't a question of a flawed Business model, it's legitimate competition by a technically superior/different product.
It's not like Canon and Fuji are making exact duplicates of Kodak's products and giving them away for free at no cost to themselves.
It's a very poor parallel to try and draw as the situations have almost nothing at all in common.
That's because Digital Photographers aren't STEALING THEIR FILM AND CAMERAS.
The situations are not comparable in the slightest.
New Technology for picture taking is supplanting Eastman-Kodak's traditional film-based market, and they are adapting by expanding into the digital photography arena. It's other companies using new technology to sell a different/better product.
P2P is distributing the RIAA's member's works for free to anyone that requests them. You CANNOT compete with someone taking YOUR PRODUCT and giving it away for free.
It's not like Indie bands are giving their music away and thriving off of increased goodwill and concert attendance. That would be somewhat analagous to Eastman-Kodak's traditional film business vs. Digital Photography.
People are taking the RIAA's property and giving it away for free without permission, there is no way around this fact, no matter HOW you try and justify it.
that the "candy" the Oracle gave Neo, and that she herself ate looked like a little red pill?
I get this EXACT same problem with an ATI-7xxx in Eve Online. Does that mean that ATI is optimizing their drivers for Eve Online with a hardware clip-plane to speed up the Eve Online benchmarks? Or does it mean there's a bug in their driver?
I know which one I'd choose.
Actually, there are several abort scenarios, which is why the shuttle can't take off if weather over any of the backup landings sites is bad.
The problem is that the foam strike wasn't found until some time after the launch (several days actually, if I remember correctly)
So did American's until the Space Pen was sold to them for a couple of dollars each. Now both American's AND Russians use Space Pens. Keeps all that nasty graphite out of the electronics, and out of the astronauts/cosmonauts lungs.
If I run out and shoot someone dead, I can only be prosecuted for that crime once (barring appeals). If I run out and shoot someone else, I can be tried for that crime.
Similarily, if it was a criminal trial, he could only be tried once, unless he infringes again, in which case that instance of infringement could be tried, as it would be a seperate and distinct crime.
You mean the way Microsoft and HP/Compaq locked everyone out of making PocketPC's, TabletPC's and MediaCenter PC's? Microsoft has used Compaq/HP as their testbed/reference designer for new hardware platforms for years. They haven't locked anyone else out yet, what makes you think they're going to start doing so now?
How is a fucking CD painful to use?
DRM and Copy Protection have come around as a RESULT Of P2P Sharing. Copy Protection of Audio CD's did not create the P2P Sharing problem.
If it breaks, you go to THEM to get it fixed/replaced, not to AMD.
Found it buried in a story on the 5th, though that article seemed to indicate it was purely about the Video Messaging, whereas the PC World article implies it's all interoperability requirements.