I haven't heard of such a change in the law and it doesn't make sense. TV cards were licenseable at one point and I don't see a problem with that. I also pay a fee (15 pound per license) to transmit radio waves but I don't pay a fee for any receivers.
To be fair, I don't believe this PC license addition business, I haven't heard about it and it would have made a big noise.
You are free NOT to buy a TV. I gave mine away and don't pay the tax. Once in a while a threatening mail comes in from the licensing agency, I scribble down "I don't have a TV, you bastards, go away" and send it back. No one bothered to knock my door down and search my flat, yet.
I'm not a big fan or SuSE, I used to use RedHat all around the place... But FC1 and 2 were nothing but dissapointments for me. After screwing my Debian installation and waiting for too long for Gentoo to finish compilation, I switched all of my boxes, including an obsolete Sunsparc box to SuSE. I still hate Yast's limitations but I find its packages at least usable.
Strange though... Two years ago I could reccommend at least five distros to people. These days it is either FC or SuSE. I won't reccommend Gentoo or Debian to a newcomer and although Mandrake 10 was good, I had too many people coming back to me stating "their modem didn't work"...
All of the cars I drove (A Volvo, Fords, a Nissan, a Skoda, Renaults, Wolkswagens etc.) you have to take the key out before the anti-theft lock works. I haven't driven anything made in USA, maybe they do build such shit.
More, where was US when Saddam did this deed, in 1980s? Feeding him money and equipment to win against Iran... And they can't blame goverment at that time, they were republican as well. At least Labour party has its excuse, Conservatives were in power when Halepce business took place.
Mercury 7 were never up there long enough to be effected. The real test will be the Russians who are living in tin cans in space since early 1970s. During the collapse of Soviet union, all previous records were beaten just due to the lack of capability of getting the guy back to earth.
Different flight patterns. X-15 didn't break the speed record on the same flight they broke the attitute record. Given a certain delta-V, you can either go fast or go high but you can't do it both at the same time.
Why not compare two alike things: X-15 and SS1. SS1 managed to fly higher than X-15, spent less money and achieved this feat with less test flights. I say SS1 is actually cheaper.
Comparing the technology and importance of SS1 (for that matter, X-15) to Shuttle is like comparing Kitty Hawk to any airplane that fought in WW1.
probably that's why it got canned so quickly: No money to be made because it didn't cost much. When you are dealing with really big projects, you can afford to loose a couple millions here and there to fund some manager's Porshe or Ferrari...
I always wondered about Apollo 10 people... You are almost there... It is about 20km away, maybe even less than that... What did make them stop, why didn't they just disobey the orders and land, to be done with it?
ah... that's why they killed X-38 because they are planning to build a better one with the parts sitting on the shelf... Now there can't be more than two people permanently living on ISS because Earth lack the rescue system. Clever work Nasa, keep up the good work.
If my Volvo was maintained by trained personel as regularly as the Airbus I flew in yesterday, probably it would have almost equivalent accident/mile ratio compared with the Airbus.:-) Also a less drunk pilot will help.
That's simple to resolve: You can break for longer. Areobraking is a very common way of braking these days, saves fuel. Spaceship one uses the same mechanism to slow down, increase drag, you slow down. In early flights, astronauts routinely experienced forces as high as 12g. A shuttle rarely experiences anything more than 3g, including lift-off.
You are right in many ways. Wright brothers first flew in 1904. Cheap, affordable airflight arrived around 1960s. That's more than 50 years between the first the common people doing it. Technology got more complex and expensive but much better as well. I'm really suprised with Burtan and the speed he managed to get everything going. Although it is true that he didn't have to invent anything groundbreaking (Pegasus can get to the orbit with an almost similar setup) but he made the whole thing affordable.
Normal people like to look at porn web pages and jerk off. Does this mean that NASA's charter should be about providing these people with Women from Venus (prefferably with four tits)?
Nope, they never met an other flying body in space. That's what I'm talking about: Matching orbits, finding the hotel (formerly known as ISS), checking in, tipping the bellboy (formerly known as ISS astronauts).:-)
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To be fair, I don't believe this PC license addition business, I haven't heard about it and it would have made a big noise.
You are free NOT to buy a TV. I gave mine away and don't pay the tax. Once in a while a threatening mail comes in from the licensing agency, I scribble down "I don't have a TV, you bastards, go away" and send it back. No one bothered to knock my door down and search my flat, yet.
Strange though... Two years ago I could reccommend at least five distros to people. These days it is either FC or SuSE. I won't reccommend Gentoo or Debian to a newcomer and although Mandrake 10 was good, I had too many people coming back to me stating "their modem didn't work"...
All of the cars I drove (A Volvo, Fords, a Nissan, a Skoda, Renaults, Wolkswagens etc.) you have to take the key out before the anti-theft lock works. I haven't driven anything made in USA, maybe they do build such shit.
More, where was US when Saddam did this deed, in 1980s? Feeding him money and equipment to win against Iran... And they can't blame goverment at that time, they were republican as well. At least Labour party has its excuse, Conservatives were in power when Halepce business took place.
This pack of wolves busines... Didn't happen to Trumman, why should it happen to GWB? It's all about marketing/PR.
Mercury 7 were never up there long enough to be effected. The real test will be the Russians who are living in tin cans in space since early 1970s. During the collapse of Soviet union, all previous records were beaten just due to the lack of capability of getting the guy back to earth.
To be able to "do" it at that short amount of time... You must be a rabbit!!!
Different flight patterns. X-15 didn't break the speed record on the same flight they broke the attitute record. Given a certain delta-V, you can either go fast or go high but you can't do it both at the same time.
Comparing the technology and importance of SS1 (for that matter, X-15) to Shuttle is like comparing Kitty Hawk to any airplane that fought in WW1.
probably that's why it got canned so quickly: No money to be made because it didn't cost much. When you are dealing with really big projects, you can afford to loose a couple millions here and there to fund some manager's Porshe or Ferrari...
I always wondered about Apollo 10 people... You are almost there... It is about 20km away, maybe even less than that... What did make them stop, why didn't they just disobey the orders and land, to be done with it?
I believe the real lesson is "stop over-engineering and keep it simple, stupid". Rutan's space plane is at least elegantly beautiful if nothing else.
ah... that's why they killed X-38 because they are planning to build a better one with the parts sitting on the shelf... Now there can't be more than two people permanently living on ISS because Earth lack the rescue system. Clever work Nasa, keep up the good work.
Apparently, prior to this flight Joseph Walker was the pilot of the highest flying plane, which was the X-15.
I would call 21,379 m space...
Booby babes? Where do I sign?
Guess where it is launched from? Air. From what? A Lockheed. Boring? Yes. Does it work? Oh, yes.
Komarov and crew of Soyuz 11 would disagree. :-(
If my Volvo was maintained by trained personel as regularly as the Airbus I flew in yesterday, probably it would have almost equivalent accident/mile ratio compared with the Airbus. :-) Also a less drunk pilot will help.
That's simple to resolve: You can break for longer. Areobraking is a very common way of braking these days, saves fuel. Spaceship one uses the same mechanism to slow down, increase drag, you slow down. In early flights, astronauts routinely experienced forces as high as 12g. A shuttle rarely experiences anything more than 3g, including lift-off.
You are right in many ways. Wright brothers first flew in 1904. Cheap, affordable airflight arrived around 1960s. That's more than 50 years between the first the common people doing it. Technology got more complex and expensive but much better as well. I'm really suprised with Burtan and the speed he managed to get everything going. Although it is true that he didn't have to invent anything groundbreaking (Pegasus can get to the orbit with an almost similar setup) but he made the whole thing affordable.
Normal people like to look at porn web pages and jerk off. Does this mean that NASA's charter should be about providing these people with Women from Venus (prefferably with four tits)?
Nope, they never met an other flying body in space. That's what I'm talking about: Matching orbits, finding the hotel (formerly known as ISS), checking in, tipping the bellboy (formerly known as ISS astronauts). :-)