Unfortunately 'folding space' dosen't help. the problem isn't with the acceleration per-se. But rather with getting from point a to point b in less time than light in a vacum could make the same trip through normal space/time. How you get there isn't as important as when. Naturally there is a lot more to it than that, and any language other than math pretty much gaurantees a bad explantion, but the gist of it pretty much holds. fair warning IANAP just a fairly well read interested spectator.
If that WWII c&c system you refer to is the one I think it is, then it was actually inspired by a system in an old series of book by E.E. Smith. They needed a system to co-ordinate space battles consisting of LARGE (yes in all caps, for reason!) numbers of space craft operating in three dimensions. He also gets around the acceleration problems as well as light speed restriction with a space drive that suspends inertia (suspends only, you regain the speed and momentum you had when you turned it on as soon as you turn it off, so make shure you turn it off when your original vector isn't pointed through something big!)
The lensman series was seriously space opera, but still a real fun read. by seriously space opera I mean what in book one was a "doomsday weapon of imponderably unbelievable power" wasn't even worth considering as a toy by the end of the second book.
Worth a read as is His Skylark series. They come into re-print every so often.
This sounds a bit off to me. There is an implied assumption not to mention that many laws have either directly stated or through common law or case law "as a reasonable person would assume". The law doesen't entirely work or just the wording of the law. The INTENT here was clearly deceptive, and the Judge should have so ruled. (I supposed the exact wording of how the machines were sold could be a factor. E.G. "with a pentium IV running at 3ghz" vs "with a 3ghz Pentium IV processor" are two different statements. But by and large without disclosure of some sort a "reasonable person" would assume the processeor in a 3ghz machine would be rated for 3ghz,(indeed most persons wouldn't even know you could overclock a cpu) thus the practice should be considered fraudulent. Anything bought new is assumed to be "reasonably" well designed and operate as such.
I suspect this is more a case of the judge not understanding what was going on and focusing on whether it was running at the rated speed when sold as the issue of fraud instead of the rating of the chip and results of overclocking resulting in substandard and below reasonably expected lifetimes, etc.
Well for one I am NOT suprised. I had a monitor catch fire once,but didn't even know it was on fire for at least a full minute (that's how long I was looking for the source of the odd 'sizziling' noise). It had a perfectly fine image right till I discovered the tiny flames coming from the back of it and pulled the plug. seems the solder joint from the power cord to the board inside had gone bad and got hot enought to set fire to the board.
Being on fire and still working, I'd have been impressed if it wasn't a bad solder joint that set it ablaze in the first place.
This got modded as a troll?!?! sheesh it was a joke, lighten up a bit. No wonder open source people somtimes all get tarred with the Zealot lable. If your gonna take somthing so serious that that you can't laught it or yourself from time to time then you need to just leave it for a while and regain your sense of perspective. +3 funny would be more apropriate.
Mycroft
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For what it's worth I do know that Pizza Hut resturants use sco unix on thier computers. Thats several thousand installations there.
Mycroft
Unfortunately 'folding space' dosen't help. the problem isn't with the acceleration per-se. But rather with getting from point a to point b in less time than light in a vacum could make the same trip through normal space/time. How you get there isn't as important as when. Naturally there is a lot more to it than that, and any language other than math pretty much gaurantees a bad explantion, but the gist of it pretty much holds.
fair warning IANAP just a fairly well read interested spectator.
Mycroft
Small note. Pizza Hut runs SCO on the computers in all thier resturaunts, at least in the US. Probably in other contries as well.
Mycroft
If that WWII c&c system you refer to is the one I think it is, then it was actually inspired by a system in an old series of book by E.E. Smith. They needed a system to co-ordinate space battles consisting of LARGE (yes in all caps, for reason!) numbers of space craft operating in three dimensions. He also gets around the acceleration problems as well as light speed restriction with a space drive that suspends inertia (suspends only, you regain the speed and momentum you had when you turned it on as soon as you turn it off, so make shure you turn it off when your original vector isn't pointed through something big!)
The lensman series was seriously space opera, but still a real fun read. by seriously space opera I mean what in book one was a "doomsday weapon of imponderably unbelievable power" wasn't even worth considering as a toy by the end of the second book.
Worth a read as is His Skylark series. They come into re-print every so often.
Mycroft
This sounds a bit off to me. There is an implied assumption not to mention that many laws have either directly stated or through common law or case law "as a reasonable person would assume".
The law doesen't entirely work or just the wording of the law.
The INTENT here was clearly deceptive, and the Judge should have so ruled.
(I supposed the exact wording of how the machines were sold could be a factor. E.G. "with a pentium IV running at 3ghz" vs "with a 3ghz Pentium IV processor" are two different statements. But by and large without disclosure of some sort a "reasonable person" would assume the processeor in a 3ghz machine would be rated for 3ghz,(indeed most persons wouldn't even know you could overclock a cpu) thus the practice should be considered fraudulent. Anything bought new is assumed to be "reasonably" well designed and operate as such.
I suspect this is more a case of the judge not understanding what was going on and focusing on whether it was running at the rated speed when sold as the issue of fraud instead of the rating of the chip and results of overclocking resulting in substandard and below reasonably expected lifetimes, etc.
Mycroft (IANAL!)
Well for one I am NOT suprised. I had a monitor catch fire once,but didn't even know it was on fire for at least a full minute (that's how long I was looking for the source of the odd 'sizziling' noise). It had a perfectly fine image right till I discovered the tiny flames coming from the back of it and pulled the plug. seems the solder joint from the power cord to the board inside had gone bad and got hot enought to set fire to the board.
Being on fire and still working, I'd have been impressed if it wasn't a bad solder joint that set it ablaze in the first place.
Mycroft_VIII
This got modded as a troll?!?! sheesh it was a joke, lighten up a bit. No wonder open source people somtimes all get tarred with the Zealot lable. If your gonna take somthing so serious that that you can't laught it or yourself from time to time then you need to just leave it for a while and regain your sense of perspective. +3 funny would be more apropriate. Mycroft