If Mojave is as stated a spaceport with no commercial airline service, why did I see the SS1 gliding in past at least two Swissair 737s? Were they privately owned, or was the site of the launch changed, or what? ------------------
A wall? How 11th century. Try long-range weapons and a pack of rabid lawyers. Space exploration (at least right now) depends upon funding from Earth. Lawyers can cut that funding off, forcing a return home.
Am I the only one who's a bit frightened by the concept of Space Property rights? We all knew it was coming of course, but why not something more akin to our handling of the oceans as international waters? Sure, let private corporations control asteroids, artificial satellites and other space debris but keep space itself free for general use by all, or by some international body.
See, the sick part about all of this is that nothing will actually happen. Diebold will stall and complain and fling their influence around, The Governator will promise to look into it and do nothing.
"The general election is too close to fix anything now! If ONLY we'd learned about it sooner!"
Well, it would be as frustrating as any other dealing with big business. Their main concern is always their bottom line, and if all that "cool stuff" we all want to do in space didn't directly benefit the sponsoring company's pocketbook, it simply would not get done.
Worse yet, I suspect any space program the Bush Administration has up its sleeve is based upon privatizing spaceflight and disbanding NASA entirely or making it irrelevant.
...which pretty much describes the Mac-to-Mac synchronization function of the iSync application. So because Apple didn't get on the ball on their patent once again, we lose a cool feature?
For me, the movie was "Forbidden Planet". Specifically, it was the monster, which I could not see, nor comprehend at the age of six the conundrum inherent in its existance. I have yet to see the fim again.
Y'know, I'm really sorry about that. Apple should go to immense trouble in order to support an operating system that's five years old, and not listed on the box of your product. USB 2.0 high speed is pretty much required to transfer the sheer volume of files the iPod can hold in a reasonable amount of time.
Let's look at it realistically, and assume you got your drivers to work. USB 1.1 has a theoretical max of 12MBps, and a realistic throughput of less than a quarter of that in my experience. To fill it up would take days of constant copying instead of minutes. Add to that the fact that USB support was somewhat shaky in any version of '98, and I think forgoing support is smart to say the least.
Then again, feel free to complain to the MacOS 8.1 users on their 66MHz PowerMac 6100s about how your perfectly modern computer should be able to run perfectly modern accessories.
Possibly. Let the private sector take surface-to-suborbital-to-LEO, because it's gruntwork, and in the long run could be cheaper to contract out the supply runs.
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The system font default changed to something called "Charcoal" back when MacOS 8 first came out.
True, and I apologize if my post's brevity was somewhat ill-considered. My oft-cited reference was to a more generic product purchase. However, that is not the focus of this discussion. I do see your point as regards governmental contracts, but I believe that the private sector is better able to change the nature of the vehicle from experimental to commercial. This would be done more efficiently in a competitive multiparty environment than in a governmental contract (and thus primarily bottom line)-oriented one.
Heh, before I so hastily tapped the "return" key, I meant to add:
Private agencies don't spend $100,000 on a toilet seat, and freed from that web of costs incurred from beaurocracy (sp? crap!), the industry can flourish.
I must respectfully disagree. It's not profit-producing because up to this point, it's been handled by large, inefficient government agencies. Get suborbital cost down below $1 million per launch, and profit will flow.
"Caltech is already in talks with Microsoft and Disney about using it for video on demand," the magazine added.
"Hey! Let's take a technology that's potentially revolutionary, and give it to Microsoft!"
Yay for Caltech!
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If Mojave is as stated a spaceport with no commercial airline service, why did I see the SS1 gliding in past at least two Swissair 737s? Were they privately owned, or was the site of the launch changed, or what?
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A wall? How 11th century. Try long-range weapons and a pack of rabid lawyers. Space exploration (at least right now) depends upon funding from Earth. Lawyers can cut that funding off, forcing a return home.
Am I the only one who's a bit frightened by the concept of Space Property rights? We all knew it was coming of course, but why not something more akin to our handling of the oceans as international waters? Sure, let private corporations control asteroids, artificial satellites and other space debris but keep space itself free for general use by all, or by some international body.
See, the sick part about all of this is that nothing will actually happen. Diebold will stall and complain and fling their influence around, The Governator will promise to look into it and do nothing.
"The general election is too close to fix anything now! If ONLY we'd learned about it sooner!"
Damn you, Chr4is Wang-Iverson! It's all your fault!
Well, it would be as frustrating as any other dealing with big business. Their main concern is always their bottom line, and if all that "cool stuff" we all want to do in space didn't directly benefit the sponsoring company's pocketbook, it simply would not get done. Worse yet, I suspect any space program the Bush Administration has up its sleeve is based upon privatizing spaceflight and disbanding NASA entirely or making it irrelevant.
It's Hiroko's fault!
Didn't the Soviets do something with counter-rotating blades at one point? I forget. Someone fill me in.
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So put a metal box... outside... the space station...
...which pretty much describes the Mac-to-Mac synchronization function of the iSync application. So because Apple didn't get on the ball on their patent once again, we lose a cool feature?
Not even sarcasm?
For me, the movie was "Forbidden Planet". Specifically, it was the monster, which I could not see, nor comprehend at the age of six the conundrum inherent in its existance. I have yet to see the fim again.
Y'know, I'm really sorry about that. Apple should go to immense trouble in order to support an operating system that's five years old, and not listed on the box of your product. USB 2.0 high speed is pretty much required to transfer the sheer volume of files the iPod can hold in a reasonable amount of time.
Let's look at it realistically, and assume you got your drivers to work. USB 1.1 has a theoretical max of 12MBps, and a realistic throughput of less than a quarter of that in my experience. To fill it up would take days of constant copying instead of minutes. Add to that the fact that USB support was somewhat shaky in any version of '98, and I think forgoing support is smart to say the least.
Then again, feel free to complain to the MacOS 8.1 users on their 66MHz PowerMac 6100s about how your perfectly modern computer should be able to run perfectly modern accessories.
Possibly. Let the private sector take surface-to-suborbital-to-LEO, because it's gruntwork, and in the long run could be cheaper to contract out the supply runs.
Offtopic, but why not: The system font default changed to something called "Charcoal" back when MacOS 8 first came out.
True, and I apologize if my post's brevity was somewhat ill-considered. My oft-cited reference was to a more generic product purchase. However, that is not the focus of this discussion. I do see your point as regards governmental contracts, but I believe that the private sector is better able to change the nature of the vehicle from experimental to commercial. This would be done more efficiently in a competitive multiparty environment than in a governmental contract (and thus primarily bottom line)-oriented one.
Heh, before I so hastily tapped the "return" key, I meant to add: Private agencies don't spend $100,000 on a toilet seat, and freed from that web of costs incurred from beaurocracy (sp? crap!), the industry can flourish.
I must respectfully disagree. It's not profit-producing because up to this point, it's been handled by large, inefficient government agencies. Get suborbital cost down below $1 million per launch, and profit will flow.
All of us do.
HA-ha
Yeah, I know, but they don't have to own the technology behind it. >:(
"Caltech is already in talks with Microsoft and Disney about using it for video on demand," the magazine added. "Hey! Let's take a technology that's potentially revolutionary, and give it to Microsoft!" Yay for Caltech!