I do believe that Mach-1 is the speed of sound, therefore Mach-2 would be twice the speed of sound, Mach-3 is 3x the speed of sound, etc...so what they're saying is they're ship can go from 0-to-5x the speed of sound in 15 seconds.
Gallagher came up with this idea a long time ago, but it was even better: assign every person in the country (world?) a number that they used for everything and anything.
*Quickly bookmarks and downloads everything not on newsgroups.*
Seriously though, this is the direction that things are going, and the RIAA is just trying in a futile attempt to stop it. There isn't ever going to be a way to police anything on the internet: it's to large and too spread out. Eventually the RIAA is going to have to realize that album sales aren't going to be bringing in the big bucks anymore, and instead there are going to have to focus on promoting concerts, t-shirts, and other things that can't be ripped from the web.
This is just another example of how real life follows in the footsteps of science fiction: impossible things 30 years ago being made possible in similar ways that they were 'being done' in sci-fi stuffs. It never ceases to amaze me how writers with far-fetched ideas can be on the money so often, even though they are way ahead of their time.
Now-a-days if I need something, it usually is larger than 1.44MB (even zipped up). What I usually do is upload it to some website I can get to so I can just d/l it when I get to my destination, or, I burn it onto a CD. Heck, most of the time you can get 50 32x CDs for $20 with a $20 rebate from CompUSA. Rewriteables might be a little bit more, but with Drag'n'Drop CD software out there, they are the new floppy.
Bah, crybabies. They already have the most newbies using their products, now they're feeling threatened and trying to prove they're more money-hungery than before. Damn the corprate world!
I'm all for space exploration to discover and learn just about anything and everything we can about our solar system, galaxy, and universe. BUT, there has to be a priority list in my mind, and for me this doesn't seem as important as some other things, such as trying to send more craft (or even people) back to the moon or to Mars. Not to go off on a tangent or anything, but it's been nearly 30 years since man was last on the Moon. This was because NASA wanted to make a reusable spacecraft, and they have: the spaceshuttle. Isn't about time to work on something that can launch from the space shuttle and goto the moon, or are they waiting for the ISS to be completed first, which ironically would tack the numbe rof years since we were last on the moon upto about 40-50ish. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. To me atleast these asteroids circling around Mercury are like a bunch of little moons, agreed? If they were to say it'd take 6 months to a year or more, I'd be totally against it because of the cost. But a month or two for what information might come from these observations could be worth it. Who knows, have we ever really looked right next to the sun for an extended period of time?
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Setting aside the fact that it would be an incredibaly fragile piece of aircraft (blimps are really only used for those crappy aireal shots of sporting events inside or out---can you say stupid?---right now) for a moment, how much water would they be able to carry? Considering the number of passengers, cargo, and extra utilities that were carried by them in the pre-1940s, the weight isn't that much in comparison to the amount of water that would be needed to fight the fire.
Even if you could get enough water in the holding tank of the blimp, who's to say that you could easily fill it? From what I've heard and seen about blimps, they aren't the fastest or most manuverable things floating around the sky. In my eyes, the only way they could be effective in fighting fires would be if the fire was VERY close to a river or lake.
Lastly (bringing the structure of the blimp back into view), if a blimp is highly flamable, and all Blimps built in the 1930s or earlier crashed and burned (as one poster stated earlier), where is the sense in using a blimp to fight the very thing that caused its demise? Ok, ok, I know the materials that make up the structure of the blimp have changed (from wood and canvas to probably steel and a plastic covering), but that still doesn't mean it is immune to fire: the very thing it'd be floating over. Now while it probably wouldn't come into contact with the flame, you have to remember that all of the heat being put off by the fire would be rising rapidly right upto the blimp. Not safe at all in my eyes.
From the looks of it, the copyright office wants to make damn sure they get a chunk upfront instead of as a service grows. They don't seem to optimistic this area then, do they?
It even mentions the fact that cigarettes are all used up in the CNN.com article. This is one way that's better than the patch to quit smoking. Err, wait...or was that the best way to drive yourself to suicide...
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I do believe that Mach-1 is the speed of sound, therefore Mach-2 would be twice the speed of sound, Mach-3 is 3x the speed of sound, etc...so what they're saying is they're ship can go from 0-to-5x the speed of sound in 15 seconds.
...you've missed the point entirely dude.
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Gallagher came up with this idea a long time ago, but it was even better: assign every person in the country (world?) a number that they used for everything and anything.
*Quickly bookmarks and downloads everything not on newsgroups.* Seriously though, this is the direction that things are going, and the RIAA is just trying in a futile attempt to stop it. There isn't ever going to be a way to police anything on the internet: it's to large and too spread out. Eventually the RIAA is going to have to realize that album sales aren't going to be bringing in the big bucks anymore, and instead there are going to have to focus on promoting concerts, t-shirts, and other things that can't be ripped from the web.
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This is just another example of how real life follows in the footsteps of science fiction: impossible things 30 years ago being made possible in similar ways that they were 'being done' in sci-fi stuffs. It never ceases to amaze me how writers with far-fetched ideas can be on the money so often, even though they are way ahead of their time.
Now-a-days if I need something, it usually is larger than 1.44MB (even zipped up). What I usually do is upload it to some website I can get to so I can just d/l it when I get to my destination, or, I burn it onto a CD. Heck, most of the time you can get 50 32x CDs for $20 with a $20 rebate from CompUSA. Rewriteables might be a little bit more, but with Drag'n'Drop CD software out there, they are the new floppy.
Bah, crybabies. They already have the most newbies using their products, now they're feeling threatened and trying to prove they're more money-hungery than before. Damn the corprate world!
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Ahh, now that I reread that set of sentances, I see what you mean. Even so, the same reasons I'm against this still remain.
I'm all for space exploration to discover and learn just about anything and everything we can about our solar system, galaxy, and universe. BUT, there has to be a priority list in my mind, and for me this doesn't seem as important as some other things, such as trying to send more craft (or even people) back to the moon or to Mars. Not to go off on a tangent or anything, but it's been nearly 30 years since man was last on the Moon. This was because NASA wanted to make a reusable spacecraft, and they have: the spaceshuttle. Isn't about time to work on something that can launch from the space shuttle and goto the moon, or are they waiting for the ISS to be completed first, which ironically would tack the numbe rof years since we were last on the moon upto about 40-50ish. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. To me atleast these asteroids circling around Mercury are like a bunch of little moons, agreed? If they were to say it'd take 6 months to a year or more, I'd be totally against it because of the cost. But a month or two for what information might come from these observations could be worth it. Who knows, have we ever really looked right next to the sun for an extended period of time?
Setting aside the fact that it would be an incredibaly fragile piece of aircraft (blimps are really only used for those crappy aireal shots of sporting events inside or out---can you say stupid?---right now) for a moment, how much water would they be able to carry? Considering the number of passengers, cargo, and extra utilities that were carried by them in the pre-1940s, the weight isn't that much in comparison to the amount of water that would be needed to fight the fire.
Even if you could get enough water in the holding tank of the blimp, who's to say that you could easily fill it? From what I've heard and seen about blimps, they aren't the fastest or most manuverable things floating around the sky. In my eyes, the only way they could be effective in fighting fires would be if the fire was VERY close to a river or lake.
Lastly (bringing the structure of the blimp back into view), if a blimp is highly flamable, and all Blimps built in the 1930s or earlier crashed and burned (as one poster stated earlier), where is the sense in using a blimp to fight the very thing that caused its demise? Ok, ok, I know the materials that make up the structure of the blimp have changed (from wood and canvas to probably steel and a plastic covering), but that still doesn't mean it is immune to fire: the very thing it'd be floating over. Now while it probably wouldn't come into contact with the flame, you have to remember that all of the heat being put off by the fire would be rising rapidly right upto the blimp. Not safe at all in my eyes.
Just a few things to think about.
From the looks of it, the copyright office wants to make damn sure they get a chunk upfront instead of as a service grows. They don't seem to optimistic this area then, do they?
It even mentions the fact that cigarettes are all used up in the CNN.com article. This is one way that's better than the patch to quit smoking. Err, wait...or was that the best way to drive yourself to suicide...
Hey, buddy, it's a little thing called SARCASM. Gee, you're a quick one, hu? WAIT! There it is again!
...can I get Debian to install on any of these bad boys? ;P