So what? The tests were pointless because, as the linked story says:
Glenn, 77 at the time and the oldest person ever sent into space, was so healthy and the mission so short that the results weren't much different from tests done on men and women half his age.
Not pointless at all. The obvious conclusion it that the deletrious effects to health can be mitigated in an older person simply by that person living a healthy lifestyle. In other words, the effects of space travel on an older person need not be any more negative than they are on a younger person. This actually reinforces the health requirements NASA imposes on its astronauts.
He participated in 83 science experiments over 9 days while up in the shuttle. (That's an average of 9.2 experiments per day, for those having trouble with the math as well as with history).
Isn't it obvious why $800billion of stuff sitting on the moon is better than $800billion of stuff sitting on Mars?
No, it's not. Military-related paranoia aside, the potential for long-term residency is far better on Mars because of the higher gravity and existing atmosphere--even if it's not breathable, it still provides some protection from solar radiation.
"Collection" does not equal "presentation". When someone buys, licenses, rents, whatevers a database of facts that are in the public domain, they're effectively paying for the research and compilation effort, not the facts.
The other issue at stake is that the current US copyright legislation is primarily based on media type. A virtual database may be covered under the section covering computer works, depending upon how the legislation is worded. And even then, I'd still expect the legislation to ultimately be struck down in court as being unconstitutional.
What's copyrightable in an almanac is the presenation and exposition of the facts, not the facts themselves. It's the same principle under which photographs of works in the public domain are copyrightable. There's a section in the copyright statues about it.
A database can be considered intellectual property and a trade secret without being copyrightable, thereby providing any corporation any legitimate protection they may need.
The catch is as soon as you share, your secret isn't a secret any more, and this is where the corporate money-grubers don' want the the process to stop.
Autozone has a market cap of 7.71 Billion US$. It appears that the only meritorious aspect of this action on SCO's part is that the bitch slapping they are going to get is going to be so hard and so thorough as to leave them unable to persue litigation against anyone else.
Well, that was when the spun it, which makes sense. Once the angular momentum is gone, gravity exerts it's influence on the coin and down she goes. In the proposed flipping experiment, the distance traveled and force applied to the toss should be a constant. And done in a vacuum to eliminate pertubations from humidity, air density, and the odd gust of wind.
It's those sudden gusts of gravity that are the gotcha's.
Given the distances involved, I doubt the weight difference is significant enough. This could be easily verified by using a coin with a larger difference like a Peace dollar or the "Una and the Lion" gold 5. Then a coin with and incused design, like a $5 half eagle could be used as a control coin.
To remove the human bias, a machanical device that puts a consistent amount of spin on each flip could be used. This is important; with enough practice a person can flip a coin with the right number of spins on it to make it come up heads or tails fairly consistently.
There *must* however be laws against making statements *that* outrageous...
If the truth in advertising laws don't cover this, I would think that there are SEC regulations that do, particularly regarding an officer of a publically held company knowingly making false statements to the public. Anyone know when the next insider trading window for Microsoft is scheduled?
Spamming is an ethical issue at its heart. Using open relays, using individuals' computers to forward mail, and other uses of bandwith that the spammers aren't paying for is at the least dishonest, and moreso argueably theft.
There is also the consideration that freedom of speach by definition includes freedom from speach, so we shouldn't have to be subjected to the spam in the first place.
When a backup server kicked-in, it also failed, unable to handle the accumulation of unprocessed events that had queued up since the main system's failure. Because the system failed silently, FirstEnergy's operators were unaware for over an hour that they were looking at outdated information on the status of their portion of the power grid, according to the November report.
How in the world did they manage to build a system nearly completely dependant upon computers, and yet not know when they lost not just one, but two computers that monitored the system?
Homer: Don't turn off the computer! Don't turn off the computer! Don't turn off the computer!
AOL tried being a "content provider". They had hopes of the Time Warner merger facilitating this even further because they thought they'd have so much more content to push. They were wrong about people being happy to be fed content ala TV, and so under-ultilized the content they had access too. They forgot their roots, as it were. They totally did not (and still do not) get that the people who popularized the Internet did so in part because they didn't like TV.
... "Omega_mass" (the mass density of the universe divided by the critical density) is about 0.3. If there is no "dark matter", we don't know how to explain this number...
Why is G = 6.67259 ? I think if we can more adequately explain G, then we'll have a much better basis for explaining Omega. I've never thought dark matter or engery were real, they smell too much like placeholders and I expect they will go the way of the luminiferous aether.
You get permission to use the method. Business methods are patentable, which is what, on the surface, it appears was being pursued. Obviousness and prior art and perhaps extreme vaguery ought to invalidate much of the claims, I think.
Not just games, banner ads and other stuff too
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From the artile:
Additionally, many of the claims of the Goldberg Patents are not limited to games. For example, some claims of the Goldberg Patents are broadly directed to network-based persentations, i.e. changing advertising such as pop-up advertising or rotating banners, in connection with network services
With that being the case, why didn't they go after the pop-up spammers first?
but realize that the energy needed to get it back to earth lessens its appeal and ultimately, its usefulness
How much energy do you think it will take? The Apollo-era Lunar Lander was used to transport 2 astronauts and about a ton of rocks off the surface to the orbiting Apollo. The rocks were then transferd to the Apollo spacecraft which left orbit and returned to earth. It's not like we are going to have to build a spacecraft 30 times larger than Apollo or burn 30 times the fuel to carry 30 times the payload back to earth.
You very much appear to be forgetting that the moon's and the earth's gravity were used to facilitate much of the trip each way.
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Some Tea's are higher in caffeine than coffee, so you may not be as caffeine-free as you thought.
So what? The tests were pointless because, as the linked story says:
Glenn, 77 at the time and the oldest person ever sent into space, was so healthy and the mission so short that the results weren't much different from tests done on men and women half his age.
Not pointless at all. The obvious conclusion it that the deletrious effects to health can be mitigated in an older person simply by that person living a healthy lifestyle. In other words, the effects of space travel on an older person need not be any more negative than they are on a younger person. This actually reinforces the health requirements NASA imposes on its astronauts.
Glenn has alread said he doesn't think he should be sent back into space.
He participated in 83 science experiments over 9 days while up in the shuttle. (That's an average of 9.2 experiments per day, for those having trouble with the math as well as with history).
Just because the man made it to the moon
Glenn never went to the moon. NASA wouldn't let him go, they didn't want to risk losing their hero.
does *not* mean he is an authority on the economic / social / political needs to make a manned trip to Mars
Having served in the US Senate, I'm sure he's much more of an authority on those matters than you would belive.
The ISS budget is not 2.5 million, but 2.5 BILLION!
Glenn wasn't talking about the complete ISS budget, just the science portion that's projected to be cut.
Isn't it obvious why $800billion of stuff sitting on the moon is better than $800billion of stuff sitting on Mars?
No, it's not. Military-related paranoia aside, the potential for long-term residency is far better on Mars because of the higher gravity and existing atmosphere--even if it's not breathable, it still provides some protection from solar radiation.
"Collection" does not equal "presentation". When someone buys, licenses, rents, whatevers a database of facts that are in the public domain, they're effectively paying for the research and compilation effort, not the facts.
The other issue at stake is that the current US copyright legislation is primarily based on media type. A virtual database may be covered under the section covering computer works, depending upon how the legislation is worded. And even then, I'd still expect the legislation to ultimately be struck down in court as being unconstitutional.
What's copyrightable in an almanac is the presenation and exposition of the facts, not the facts themselves. It's the same principle under which photographs of works in the public domain are copyrightable. There's a section in the copyright statues about it.
A database can be considered intellectual property and a trade secret without being copyrightable, thereby providing any corporation any legitimate protection they may need.
The catch is as soon as you share, your secret isn't a secret any more, and this is where the corporate money-grubers don' want the the process to stop.
Autodesk?!?!?
Whoo-Hoo! 3D-CAD on my Linux cluster! Yes!
Autozone has a market cap of 7.71 Billion US$. It appears that the only meritorious aspect of this action on SCO's part is that the bitch slapping they are going to get is going to be so hard and so thorough as to leave them unable to persue litigation against anyone else.
This example should have people questioning the protection that a corporation provides
I thought Enron and WorldComm were doing that.
Well, that was when the spun it, which makes sense. Once the angular momentum is gone, gravity exerts it's influence on the coin and down she goes. In the proposed flipping experiment, the distance traveled and force applied to the toss should be a constant. And done in a vacuum to eliminate pertubations from humidity, air density, and the odd gust of wind.
It's those sudden gusts of gravity that are the gotcha's.
Given the distances involved, I doubt the weight difference is significant enough. This could be easily verified by using a coin with a larger difference like a Peace dollar or the "Una and the Lion" gold 5. Then a coin with and incused design, like a $5 half eagle could be used as a control coin.
To remove the human bias, a machanical device that puts a consistent amount of spin on each flip could be used. This is important; with enough practice a person can flip a coin with the right number of spins on it to make it come up heads or tails fairly consistently.
There *must* however be laws against making statements *that* outrageous...
If the truth in advertising laws don't cover this, I would think that there are SEC regulations that do, particularly regarding an officer of a publically held company knowingly making false statements to the public. Anyone know when the next insider trading window for Microsoft is scheduled?
Yes indeed. Someone please mod the AC as funny.
Spamming is an ethical issue at its heart. Using open relays, using individuals' computers to forward mail, and other uses of bandwith that the spammers aren't paying for is at the least dishonest, and moreso argueably theft.
There is also the consideration that freedom of speach by definition includes freedom from speach, so we shouldn't have to be subjected to the spam in the first place.
From the article:
When a backup server kicked-in, it also failed, unable to handle the accumulation of unprocessed events that had queued up since the main system's failure. Because the system failed silently, FirstEnergy's operators were unaware for over an hour that they were looking at outdated information on the status of their portion of the power grid, according to the November report.
How in the world did they manage to build a system nearly completely dependant upon computers, and yet not know when they lost not just one, but two computers that monitored the system?
Homer: Don't turn off the computer! Don't turn off the computer! Don't turn off the computer!
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AOL tried being a "content provider". They had hopes of the Time Warner merger facilitating this even further because they thought they'd have so much more content to push. They were wrong about people being happy to be fed content ala TV, and so under-ultilized the content they had access too. They forgot their roots, as it were. They totally did not (and still do not) get that the people who popularized the Internet did so in part because they didn't like TV.
... "Omega_mass" (the mass density of the universe divided by the critical density) is about 0.3. If there is no "dark matter", we don't know how to explain this number...
Why is G = 6.67259 ? I think if we can more adequately explain G, then we'll have a much better basis for explaining Omega. I've never thought dark matter or engery were real, they smell too much like placeholders and I expect they will go the way of the luminiferous aether.
You get permission to use the method. Business methods are patentable, which is what, on the surface, it appears was being pursued. Obviousness and prior art and perhaps extreme vaguery ought to invalidate much of the claims, I think.
From the artile:
/sarcasm
Additionally, many of the claims of the Goldberg Patents are not limited to games. For example, some claims of the Goldberg Patents are broadly directed to network-based persentations, i.e. changing advertising such as pop-up advertising or rotating banners, in connection with network services
With that being the case, why didn't they go after the pop-up spammers first?
Seriously, say what you will about him, the President is a man who understands the approaching energy crisis.
You misspelled manipulates
but realize that the energy needed to get it back to earth lessens its appeal and ultimately, its usefulness
How much energy do you think it will take? The Apollo-era Lunar Lander was used to transport 2 astronauts and about a ton of rocks off the surface to the orbiting Apollo. The rocks were then transferd to the Apollo spacecraft which left orbit and returned to earth. It's not like we are going to have to build a spacecraft 30 times larger than Apollo or burn 30 times the fuel to carry 30 times the payload back to earth.
You very much appear to be forgetting that the moon's and the earth's gravity were used to facilitate much of the trip each way.