What the movie industry SHOULD be doing, instead of pissing in the wind, is add value to the movie experience. I personally don't go see a movie in the theatre unless it is a 'Spectacular' movie. One where the experience of seeing it on a Big screen cannot be duplicated by any other means and actually plays and integral part of the film.
They should invest, partner, encourage more theatres like the IMAX franchise. As I understand the Matrix has done very well in those venues and cannot be duplicated in any other environment.
Give the movie goer a REASON to see the movie in a theatre, make us CHOOSE the theatre instead of our living room/computer monitor/etc.
There will always be individuals who would not pay to see a particular movie in a theatre, this is something that cannot be changed (and should not show up on any studio's bottom line). These are the same people who would rather pirate them to just be up on the popular culture of the day.
Make Better Movies, make us WANT to go to the theatre, make us excited enough to go, otherwise they will destroy themselves fighting a trend that will never cease to move forward.
IANAA (I am not an astronomer), but as far as I can remember, a moon is defined as a celectrial body that orbits another "Planet" and whose "center of gravity" of the pair, lies within the volume of the planet.
If you follow this definition then the moon (Luna) is not a moon but a planet. So this definition is not widely used. It makes sense to me but I have always thought of Luna as to big to be a moon relative to the earth.
Bush: The Quintessential Pro-Business President
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If it isn't clear to anyone with half a brain by now, you're already gone.
Bush is 'Pro' Business, and this is what a 'Pro' Business Administration wants. It's all about making America strong by supporting the corporations and leaning the general public over 'forwards' to make those corps happy and profitable. This is GREAT news for Wall Street. The biggest cost for most companies is labor, if you can shave just a bit and increase productivity, you will strengthen U.S. companies. This is all well an good for the US, but bad if you happen to be amoung the 90% of Americans who are not independently wealthy, and have to work ultimately to survive.
I am glad I work for a small (6 people) company in a tech related industry. I feel sorry for all those poor bastards who have traded their lives for that 200k+ mortage, SUV, and a 60hr+ work week, high blood pressure, failing marriages, dysfunctional children/families, short unfulfilling lives.
B-11 Tire & Wheel Label and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Standard Current Version and Publication Date:
Version 04.00 Approved October, 2002
Overview: This application specification provides a methodology for the use of 2D symbology (for labels) and RFID in tires and wheels for product identification. This standard is designed to help automate the collection of tire information and the mounting and assembly process of tires with vehicles in the OEM environment. The standard provides information about the manufacturer, tire size, type, including Dot data, and additional optional information as outlined in this standard and as agreed to by the supplier. Anyone interested in participating in the revision project should contact mbrown@aiag.org
Table of Contents:
* Introduction
* Definitions
* General; Labels
* Symbologies
* 2D Specifications
* General; RFID
* RFID Specification
* References
* Appendix A - AIAG managed data identifiers
* Appendix B - Min. RFID system performance
* Appendix C - Data Locking Commands and Responses
* Appendix D - Description of tire parts
* Appendix E - ANSI data identifiers
* Appendix F - ISO 15434 Syntax Structure
* Appendix G - ISO 15434 - As used in this standard
* Appendix H - Description of wheel parts
Price Information: AIAG Members: Hardcopy only - $10 Electronic copy - FREE for downloading from our Members-Only Web Site (Password required to sign on) (Don't know if you're a member? Check out our Member List! ) Non-members: Hardcopy only - $50
Tire RFID Demonstration Video
Ordering Information:
To order any of these publications:
Download an order form (PDF: 100k/1 page) or Call AIAG's Customer Service department at (248) 358-3003, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
It is known as one of the most celebrated accidents: the discovery of the vulcanisation process by Charles Goodyear in 1839. Only the development of a stable rubber mixture, unaffected by temperature, made the production of automotive tires possible. This was the base for a high volume production with millions of pieces per year.
Today, an automotive tire is no longer just a simple combination of different raw materials for a special rubber mixture. It is in fact a high-tech product which has to give the best possible performance within a wide temperature range and with maximum loads, thus providing security for the vehicle driver.
An automotive tire is created from steel wire, synthetic- and natural india rubber, soot, oil, silicone and various other materials manufactured in the course of different production processes, as for example mixing and vulcanization, followed by a final inspection and storage of the finished product.
The current state-of-the-art technology for tire identification is fixing a barcode on the finished product. This method of identification only provides trace ability between the producer's stock and the POS (Point Of Sales). As soon as the barcode is removed at the POS, (point of sales) the identification of the tire is no longer possible and when quality problems occur, a prompt analysis of the production lot could be very difficult and time consuming.
To ensure the maximum quality of each tire, the complete identification and trace ability of every tire during its total lifetime is becoming more and more important.
SOKYMAT® has developed special epoxy transponders which, already at an early production stage, can automatically be integrated into the tire or subsequently be attached to the tire with a patch. Due to the special design, these electronic components withstand even the extreme conditions they have to undergo during further integration into an object. Especially high pressure and high temperatures of more than 160ÂC, have so far seemed to make such applications impossible. However, the exact location of the transponder and the way it is applied has to be evaluated and must be approved by the tire and vehicle manufacturers.
The "LOGI 120" and the "LOGI 160" transponder offer, in the case of a 64-bit read-only chip, the possibility to link all relevant features of the tire with the internal unique transponder number in an external data base. In the case of a 256 bit read-write chip, the data, e.g. information of the "DOT" code, can also be stored in the transponder on the tire and can be read everywhere it is needed.
Due to the fact that the tag remains on the tire or the tread during the complete lifetime, it can always be identified, even after a retread.
In this way, you can use the transponder for many different functions and your benefits can easily be summarised:
â Passive solution without battery â Reading even possible through the tire â Unique Serial Number â Optional (LOGI 120) 224 bit R/W memory to store "dot-code" information â Trace ability from manufacturing through mounting â Optimizing the manufacturing & logistics process (supply chain management) â Improved maintenance of tires on passenger vehicles â Trace ability through usage : warranty issues â Fast reaction time, improved analysis method in case of claims (warranty issue) â Antitheft protection for leasing cars and trucks
For any further detailed information, our team stays at your disposal and will be happy to provide everything necessary that gives you the possibility to successfully integrate our transponders into your application!
Please contact us at: logistic@sokymat.ch
Marc Schnippering Business Development Manager SOKYMAT SA Switzerland (6th. of March 2002)
® SOKYMAT reserves the right to change any information or data in this technology information without prior notice. The distribution and the update of this document is not controlled.
Heh heh... data would take about 300 hops to get from my apartment in Brooklyn to a server in NYC going wireless to wireless. Where's the routing info going to come from in such a flat space? A huge 200GB routing table on each WAP? Some new border protocol that takes up 99% of the available bandwidth keeping itself current? A new IP addressing scheme based on location (like zip+4+IPv6)?
Actually your question poses an interesting question. And questions usually proceed solutions.
Proposed solution for your 'flat' routing problem: GPS enabled devices would have to broadcast, intermittently of course, their geographic coordinates to every peer node. Say once every 5 minutes, more if the geographic location is changing (traveling) by keeping the frequency inversely proportional to the change in speed/direction. Even less if the position is static. A specific broadcast packet would have to be sent and acknowledged by another node that is currently recognized upon powerup/initalization. If the announce broadcast is not acknowledged, the broadcast continue until a peer responds. Conversely, a specific broadcast packet would be needed to signify the device is leaving the network, and acknowledged, if not responded to after a set interval (rather short) the device stops broadcasting.
Would this create a great deal of traffic? Probably, but hey, I'm sure it has military applications...
Re:IAAP -- Here it is in plain English.
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The engineering challenge is configuring the crystal so that it can withstand the forces that need to be applied, and applying the forces in a controllable way.
Easy, grow some multilayered quartz/'photonic crystal' sandwichs... Yummy!
When will World Leaders realize that our 'mode' of operation doesn't suit everyones needs. This is just wacko...
Why the hell is the US even involved in the creation of the Iraqi legal system at all??? Especially for laws that are mala prohibita (deemed illegal by prohibition as opposed to illegal for moral reasons).
Its things like this that make me wonder about the true aim of the US. Are we trying to make another friendly nation (read as puppet state) like we did with Japan? If so the results of the Paris Convention of 1919 should be a good indication of what we should look forward to.
There are very few intellectuals left in Iraq, and all that remain are ethnic factions that were forced to live under one flag. This country doesn't seem to have the capacity to thrive as a US Style democracy as it is geographically drawn. You have Kurds in the north, and a whole slew of different muslims everywhere else. And they all hate each other. History shows that the only way to enforce unity there is by some archaic form of government, either Despot, Monarchy, or Dictatorship.
If the US truly wants the best for the citizens of Iraq, Iraq must be divided along mutually agreed ethnic boundaries, with the consultation and help of the neighboring nations.
To force upon them US Style Democracy is absurd and doomed for failure. This region has rejected or shown great resistance to Western style governments ever since the Ottoman Empire fell. I say at the very least return it to the three seperate nations that once existed before 1917 and then work from their. Otherwise we will see a major civil war in the region, just like a host rejecting a foriegn organ after a transplant. Our style simply isn't compatible.
Just ask the English... They learned thier lesson and was forced to give Iraq their indepenence nearly 50 years ago...
The fact that it is New is exactly why it is so dangerous. The population has almost Zero natural immunity to it. This can cause massive propagation of the virus and when it spreads through under-developed regions of the planet, it will be a plague.
If we don't throw everything we can at it now, millions of people will die. It's just that simple.
The illness has of yet been isolated to a few regions with moderately decent health care systems in place. Imagine a small town of 200 people infected with this disease. Weeks of lost productivity will not only cause immediate harm to those infected but the means of that town will loose the ability to support itself. Can you say famine?
Personally I understand that new bugs come on the scene on a (on a big picture scale) frequent basis, and its natures way of population control and generating a healthier species. But if it were my daughter in a hospital bed, coughing and vomiting, I would want to know that I did everything possible to help, even if it were just a few idle clock cycles.
This would be a great tool for AV editing... I'm thinking Jog Control/w mouse capabilities... New macs already come with a decent entry level suite of tools, why not adapt the input method to bolster your strengths...
now if they could just get it integrated with the Logitech 3D mouse, use two and a la Instant Minority Report Action!
Humans (which I am one) tend to view the world through a very narrow perspective. We see things on the terms which we live within. Our existance is within a small thin band of possible environments.
I mean does anyone seriously think that all that oil in the ground came from prehistoric vegetation?? This rock we call home is literally infested with life to the core (well to the mantle atleast).
With this new realization, is there any doubt that there exists life on other planets?
Lets say that Massachusetts ends up getting everything that Open Source advocates, Linux users, etc want in terms of penalties against Microsoft. Does this apply to all states after they have settled? Or would Microsoft have to have seperate product lines and "features", depending on the legal conditions in each state?
Well IANAL, and all of that stuff... As I understand this, this is an appeal of a ruling on the federal level, therefore it will have a national affect. This is not a new case being brought up in Mass. jurisdiction, but an existing federal case, as the state of Mass. being on of the litigants...
btw, what is the next level of appeal for this puppy? I mean, theoretically how long can this thing go on? (read as: How many hops til they hit the supreme court?)
From a military perspective (and it is always about that in aviation), the payload to power ratio is impressive. I can't imagine it is fast though, or very easily maintained, but hey that is what prototypes are for.
There are many applications for this innovation for the military. Think Recon/Surv drones. They need no excessive payload as they are filled with electronics and cameras. The payload/power ratio would allow for more fuel as opposed to payload thus allowing longer flight times.
On a non-military tangent I am interested in its flight ceiling. This could be of use to researchers studing the upper reaches of the atmosphere. With extended flight capabilities and remote operation it could be far more useful than precurring a retrofitted commercial airliner or military aircraft.
Hate to see this thing flying through a hurricane though...
I know all of this is stemming from the Gov'ts attempts at providing a 'Sense' of security, which we all know is next to impossible without erecting a 10 mile high wall around the US and shooting down any plane that comes over the wall (or anyone that tunnels underneath. These attempts at spying on the citizenry of the US is a serious afront to our freedom as a whole, at the expense of an ILLUSION of security.
All of these safeguards are merely illusions. The real indication that a terrorist cannot bring in a nuke into the country will be the day that illegal drugs can't get into the country. I don't see that happening anytime soon. Think about it, if I were a terrorist and had a large nuclear device i wanted smuggled into the US, I would contact a drug smuggler, they get literally 1,000's of tons of drugs into the US every year.
The day heroine is 1,000$/gram is the day we can expect a reasonable sense of security (from a nuke detonating in DC atleast).
Anyway, just a bunch of guys (and some girls) over the age of 30 that like to play online games from Q3F to well, there are other ones but for the life of me I couldn't tell you what they are!
The one observation I can share is that since the early days of Quake Clans, many have come and gone but the ranks of 30plus keeps growing. I guess this is all in agreement with the trend and the unbreakable laws of nature... Young Gamer + Time = Older Gamer.
The thing that gets me about such stories, especially from scientists is the simple conclusion: What they are saying is either true, or false. We have no idea if he is right or wrong. But it is a fact that it is true or false.
Given the news in the headlines about such massively important earth changing risks that is reported in the press I believe we all tend to dismiss any doomsayers. We have become oversaturated by the news that comes almost monthly. I don't know if this is a fault of the media or of people's inability to accept the possibility of danger. In either case, the I believe the observation is true. People just don't care because they don't know what to believe anymore.
So is this the Boy who cried wolf or are have we been warned warned of impending danger? Personally, I just don't know, but the implications are sure as hell worth some serious, multi-national investigation.
These gamma ray bursts are caused by "Death Stars" and if I remember correctly they sterilize everything around them for about 500-1000 lightyears. Basically saturating the place with so much energy that everything is burnt to a crisp (ala Nuked). So given this star is over 5000 lys away, i wouldn't worry so much.
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What the movie industry SHOULD be doing, instead of pissing in the wind, is add value to the movie experience. I personally don't go see a movie in the theatre unless it is a 'Spectacular' movie. One where the experience of seeing it on a Big screen cannot be duplicated by any other means and actually plays and integral part of the film.
They should invest, partner, encourage more theatres like the IMAX franchise. As I understand the Matrix has done very well in those venues and cannot be duplicated in any other environment.
Give the movie goer a REASON to see the movie in a theatre, make us CHOOSE the theatre instead of our living room/computer monitor/etc.
There will always be individuals who would not pay to see a particular movie in a theatre, this is something that cannot be changed (and should not show up on any studio's bottom line). These are the same people who would rather pirate them to just be up on the popular culture of the day.
Make Better Movies, make us WANT to go to the theatre, make us excited enough to go, otherwise they will destroy themselves fighting a trend that will never cease to move forward.
Did you know that you can rearrange the letters of "EARTHSTATION FIVE" to spell "RIAA VOTES IN THEFT"?
I also found "SEVENTH TIT OF RIAA"
We all know the RIAA is a bitch, but this just proves it...
IANAA (I am not an astronomer), but as far as I can remember, a moon is defined as a celectrial body that orbits another "Planet" and whose "center of gravity" of the pair, lies within the volume of the planet.
If you follow this definition then the moon (Luna) is not a moon but a planet. So this definition is not widely used. It makes sense to me but I have always thought of Luna as to big to be a moon relative to the earth.
Oh well...
How's that foot taste?
If it isn't clear to anyone with half a brain by now, you're already gone.
Bush is 'Pro' Business, and this is what a 'Pro' Business Administration wants. It's all about making America strong by supporting the corporations and leaning the general public over 'forwards' to make those corps happy and profitable. This is GREAT news for Wall Street. The biggest cost for most companies is labor, if you can shave just a bit and increase productivity, you will strengthen U.S. companies. This is all well an good for the US, but bad if you happen to be amoung the 90% of Americans who are not independently wealthy, and have to work ultimately to survive.
I am glad I work for a small (6 people) company in a tech related industry. I feel sorry for all those poor bastards who have traded their lives for that 200k+ mortage, SUV, and a 60hr+ work week, high blood pressure, failing marriages, dysfunctional children/families, short unfulfilling lives.
BUSH in 2004!
B-11 Tire & Wheel Label and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Standard
Current Version and Publication Date:
Version 04.00 Approved October, 2002
Overview:
This application specification provides a methodology for the use of 2D symbology (for labels) and RFID in tires and wheels for product identification. This standard is designed to help automate the collection of tire information and the mounting and assembly process of tires with vehicles in the OEM environment. The standard provides information about the manufacturer, tire size, type, including Dot data, and additional optional information as outlined in this standard and as agreed to by the supplier. Anyone interested in participating in the revision project should contact mbrown@aiag.org
Table of Contents:
* Introduction
* Definitions
* General; Labels
* Symbologies
* 2D Specifications
* General; RFID
* RFID Specification
* References
* Appendix A - AIAG managed data identifiers
* Appendix B - Min. RFID system performance
* Appendix C - Data Locking Commands and Responses
* Appendix D - Description of tire parts
* Appendix E - ANSI data identifiers
* Appendix F - ISO 15434 Syntax Structure
* Appendix G - ISO 15434 - As used in this standard
* Appendix H - Description of wheel parts
Price Information:
AIAG Members:
Hardcopy only - $10
Electronic copy - FREE for downloading from our Members-Only Web Site
(Password required to sign on)
(Don't know if you're a member? Check out our Member List! )
Non-members:
Hardcopy only - $50
Tire RFID Demonstration Video
Ordering Information:
To order any of these publications:
Download an order form (PDF: 100k/1 page)
or
Call AIAG's Customer Service department at (248) 358-3003,
8:00 am to 5:00 pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
© Copyright 1995-2002 AIAG. All rights reserved.
Updated: ThursdayDecember 21, 2002 at 19:53:42Z -04:00
(R)EVOLUTION IN TIRE IDENTIFICATION
It is known as one of the most celebrated accidents: the discovery of the vulcanisation process by Charles Goodyear in 1839.
Only the development of a stable rubber mixture, unaffected by temperature, made the production of automotive tires possible. This was the base for a high volume production with millions of pieces per year.
Today, an automotive tire is no longer just a simple combination of different raw materials for a special rubber mixture. It is in fact a high-tech product which has to give the best possible performance within a wide temperature range and with maximum loads, thus providing security for the vehicle driver.
An automotive tire is created from steel wire, synthetic- and natural india rubber, soot, oil, silicone and various other materials manufactured in the course of different production processes, as for example mixing and vulcanization, followed by a final inspection and storage of the finished product.
The current state-of-the-art technology for tire identification is fixing a barcode on the finished product. This method of identification only provides trace ability between the producer's stock and the POS (Point Of Sales).
As soon as the barcode is removed at the POS, (point of sales) the identification of the tire is no longer possible and when quality problems occur, a prompt analysis of the production lot could be very difficult and time consuming.
To ensure the maximum quality of each tire, the complete identification and trace ability of every tire during its total lifetime is becoming more and more important.
SOKYMAT® has developed special epoxy transponders which, already at an early production stage, can automatically be integrated into the tire or subsequently be attached to the tire with a patch.
Due to the special design, these electronic components withstand even the extreme conditions they have to undergo during further integration into an object.
Especially high pressure and high temperatures of more than 160ÂC, have so far seemed to make such applications impossible.
However, the exact location of the transponder and the way it is applied has to be evaluated and must be approved by the tire and vehicle manufacturers.
The "LOGI 120" and the "LOGI 160" transponder offer, in the case of a 64-bit read-only chip, the possibility to link all relevant features of the tire with the internal unique transponder number in an external data base.
In the case of a 256 bit read-write chip, the data, e.g. information of the "DOT" code, can also be stored in the transponder on the tire and can be read everywhere it is needed.
Due to the fact that the tag remains on the tire or the tread during the complete lifetime, it can always be identified, even after a retread.
In this way, you can use the transponder for many different functions and your benefits can easily be summarised:
â Passive solution without battery
â Reading even possible through the tire
â Unique Serial Number
â Optional (LOGI 120) 224 bit R/W memory to store "dot-code"
information
â Trace ability from manufacturing through mounting
â Optimizing the manufacturing & logistics process (supply chain
management)
â Improved maintenance of tires on passenger vehicles
â Trace ability through usage : warranty issues
â Fast reaction time, improved analysis method in case of claims
(warranty issue)
â Antitheft protection for leasing cars and trucks
For any further detailed information, our team stays at your disposal and will be happy to provide everything necessary that gives you the possibility to successfully integrate our transponders into your application!
Please contact us at:
logistic@sokymat.ch
Marc Schnippering
Business Development Manager
SOKYMAT SA
Switzerland
(6th. of March 2002)
® SOKYMAT reserves the right to change any information or data in this technology information without prior notice. The distribution and the update of this document is not controlled.
Actually your question poses an interesting question. And questions usually proceed solutions.
Proposed solution for your 'flat' routing problem: GPS enabled devices would have to broadcast, intermittently of course, their geographic coordinates to every peer node. Say once every 5 minutes, more if the geographic location is changing (traveling) by keeping the frequency inversely proportional to the change in speed/direction. Even less if the position is static.
A specific broadcast packet would have to be sent and acknowledged by another node that is currently recognized upon powerup/initalization. If the announce broadcast is not acknowledged, the broadcast continue until a peer responds. Conversely, a specific broadcast packet would be needed to signify the device is leaving the network, and acknowledged, if not responded to after a set interval (rather short) the device stops broadcasting.
Would this create a great deal of traffic? Probably, but hey, I'm sure it has military applications...
The engineering challenge is configuring the crystal so that it can withstand the forces that need to be applied, and applying the forces in a controllable way.
Easy, grow some multilayered quartz/'photonic crystal' sandwichs... Yummy!
Damn it, I shoulda been a patent lawyer...
When will World Leaders realize that our 'mode' of operation doesn't suit everyones needs. This is just wacko...
Why the hell is the US even involved in the creation of the Iraqi legal system at all??? Especially for laws that are mala prohibita (deemed illegal by prohibition as opposed to illegal for moral reasons).
Its things like this that make me wonder about the true aim of the US. Are we trying to make another friendly nation (read as puppet state) like we did with Japan? If so the results of the Paris Convention of 1919 should be a good indication of what we should look forward to.
There are very few intellectuals left in Iraq, and all that remain are ethnic factions that were forced to live under one flag. This country doesn't seem to have the capacity to thrive as a US Style democracy as it is geographically drawn. You have Kurds in the north, and a whole slew of different muslims everywhere else. And they all hate each other. History shows that the only way to enforce unity there is by some archaic form of government, either Despot, Monarchy, or Dictatorship.
If the US truly wants the best for the citizens of Iraq, Iraq must be divided along mutually agreed ethnic boundaries, with the consultation and help of the neighboring nations.
To force upon them US Style Democracy is absurd and doomed for failure. This region has rejected or shown great resistance to Western style governments ever since the Ottoman Empire fell. I say at the very least return it to the three seperate nations that once existed before 1917 and then work from their. Otherwise we will see a major civil war in the region, just like a host rejecting a foriegn organ after a transplant. Our style simply isn't compatible.
Just ask the English... They learned thier lesson and was forced to give Iraq their indepenence nearly 50 years ago...
The fact that it is New is exactly why it is so dangerous. The population has almost Zero natural immunity to it. This can cause massive propagation of the virus and when it spreads through under-developed regions of the planet, it will be a plague.
If we don't throw everything we can at it now, millions of people will die. It's just that simple.
The illness has of yet been isolated to a few regions with moderately decent health care systems in place. Imagine a small town of 200 people infected with this disease. Weeks of lost productivity will not only cause immediate harm to those infected but the means of that town will loose the ability to support itself. Can you say famine?
Personally I understand that new bugs come on the scene on a (on a big picture scale) frequent basis, and its natures way of population control and generating a healthier species. But if it were my daughter in a hospital bed, coughing and vomiting, I would want to know that I did everything possible to help, even if it were just a few idle clock cycles.
This would be a great tool for AV editing... I'm thinking Jog Control /w mouse capabilities... New macs already come with a decent entry level suite of tools, why not adapt the input method to bolster your strengths...
now if they could just get it integrated with the Logitech 3D mouse, use two and a la Instant Minority Report Action!
How about instead of this childish fixation on size, give us some specs on fuel economy and MTBFs.
Don't forget about TCO!!!
No this isn't flamebait...
Humans (which I am one) tend to view the world through a very narrow perspective. We see things on the terms which we live within. Our existance is within a small thin band of possible environments.
I mean does anyone seriously think that all that oil in the ground came from prehistoric vegetation?? This rock we call home is literally infested with life to the core (well to the mantle atleast).
With this new realization, is there any doubt that there exists life on other planets?
Lets say that Massachusetts ends up getting everything that Open Source advocates, Linux users, etc want in terms of penalties against Microsoft. Does this apply to all states after they have settled? Or would Microsoft have to have seperate product lines and "features", depending on the legal conditions in each state?
Well IANAL, and all of that stuff... As I understand this, this is an appeal of a ruling on the federal level, therefore it will have a national affect. This is not a new case being brought up in Mass. jurisdiction, but an existing federal case, as the state of Mass. being on of the litigants...
btw, what is the next level of appeal for this puppy? I mean, theoretically how long can this thing go on? (read as: How many hops til they hit the supreme court?)
From a military perspective (and it is always about that in aviation), the payload to power ratio is impressive. I can't imagine it is fast though, or very easily maintained, but hey that is what prototypes are for.
There are many applications for this innovation for the military. Think Recon/Surv drones. They need no excessive payload as they are filled with electronics and cameras. The payload/power ratio would allow for more fuel as opposed to payload thus allowing longer flight times.
On a non-military tangent I am interested in its flight ceiling. This could be of use to researchers studing the upper reaches of the atmosphere. With extended flight capabilities and remote operation it could be far more useful than precurring a retrofitted commercial airliner or military aircraft.
Hate to see this thing flying through a hurricane though...
test
I even got my girlfriend, boss, and brother using Bearshare.
You got a girlfriend, boss and Brother from a P2P applications! Wow what search are you using?!
I know all of this is stemming from the Gov'ts attempts at providing a 'Sense' of security, which we all know is next to impossible without erecting a 10 mile high wall around the US and shooting down any plane that comes over the wall (or anyone that tunnels underneath. These attempts at spying on the citizenry of the US is a serious afront to our freedom as a whole, at the expense of an ILLUSION of security.
All of these safeguards are merely illusions. The real indication that a terrorist cannot bring in a nuke into the country will be the day that illegal drugs can't get into the country. I don't see that happening anytime soon. Think about it, if I were a terrorist and had a large nuclear device i wanted smuggled into the US, I would contact a drug smuggler, they get literally 1,000's of tons of drugs into the US every year.
The day heroine is 1,000$/gram is the day we can expect a reasonable sense of security (from a nuke detonating in DC atleast).
Here is the letter itself...
Now this is starting to look good for all Free *nixes! Finally...
I'll take this time to plug a gaming clan that I have been in since 9/9/99... Always thought that was a cool day in history...
www.30plus.org
Anyway, just a bunch of guys (and some girls) over the age of 30 that like to play online games from Q3F to well, there are other ones but for the life of me I couldn't tell you what they are!
The one observation I can share is that since the early days of Quake Clans, many have come and gone but the ranks of 30plus keeps growing. I guess this is all in agreement with the trend and the unbreakable laws of nature... Young Gamer + Time = Older Gamer.
Do The Math(tm) -- Atari Corp 1995
The thing that gets me about such stories, especially from scientists is the simple conclusion: What they are saying is either true, or false. We have no idea if he is right or wrong. But it is a fact that it is true or false.
Given the news in the headlines about such massively important earth changing risks that is reported in the press I believe we all tend to dismiss any doomsayers. We have become oversaturated by the news that comes almost monthly. I don't know if this is a fault of the media or of people's inability to accept the possibility of danger. In either case, the I believe the observation is true. People just don't care because they don't know what to believe anymore.
So is this the Boy who cried wolf or are have we been warned warned of impending danger? Personally, I just don't know, but the implications are sure as hell worth some serious, multi-national investigation.
These gamma ray bursts are caused by "Death Stars" and if I remember correctly they sterilize everything around them for about 500-1000 lightyears. Basically saturating the place with so much energy that everything is burnt to a crisp (ala Nuked). So given this star is over 5000 lys away, i wouldn't worry so much.
Is it just me or can you just feel that MS's trajectory has passed its apex and is on its way back to earth??