why not build a device that mines the surface of the asteriod for reaction mass? Not convert to fuel (mebbe use solar power to run the launcher) and launch pellets from the surfact of the asteriod? Then you would decrease the mass of the asteroid (hopefully only slightly) while using chunks of the asteroid itself as a means to push it in the right direction? Yes it is crude, but perhaps a crude brute force solution would work better than trying to cram enough reaction mass into a rocket device from earth
because they have separate satellite streams. THere is a cartoon Network west and a Cartoon network east...or at least it works out that way. That's why Your cable company gets it at what would be 9pm ET, but your neighbors shows it at 9pm PT
[quote] Does anyone else here think non-profit projects should be exempt from patents? [/quote]
So what you are saying is, someone takes the patent application for your new "killer ap" and copies it, then replicates and gives the actual "killer ap" away for free? Seems like a recipe for bankruptcy to me. In this case, say the Nintendo patent does apply. Someone creates a way to play those games without paying Nintendo. Assuming that everyone who uses this would have bought the stuff from Nintendo otherwise (a BIG assumption)......how does Nintendo not lose money? If I have to choose between not paying Nintendo, and paying Nintendo.....I think I can say I (and everyone else) would choose to not pay nintendo.
You are right that patents are not awarded to hinder progress. However, if people could not make any money off their creations (seeing as anyone who wanted to could release it as "non-profit") the stimulus driving the economy would suffer considerably......those who create would not receive a monetary reward (other than a voluntary one....which can work, but does not have to, unfortunately)
You must use "Woman Logic." AKA "The Logic of Emotions." How does it make her feel? Will she get the same good feelings out of playing games with you that she does with those marathon conversations?
That is the real question.
I have a "Silicon Graphics GDM-20E21" that has the dual 13W3 HD15 connectors....only problem is that it seems the monitor does not like an 800x600 signal in the HD15....it shifts the image around on the screen and stuff. Very strange. Works fine at 1024x768, but some of the programs I use have setting screens in 800x600:-(
I have a silicon graphics monitor (model: GDM-20E21)
Very nice, it even comes with a built in VGA connector.....I have been having a very difficult time finding drivers for this thing (yes I am running Windows).....it REALLY dislikes 800x600 for a resolution, does some weird image shifting. Any ideas on where I might find drivers?
thanks
you call "WMA > MP3" intelligent? Besides this is slashdot...I thought all those stereotypes were gospel here.
You are right, not everything Microsoft pushes is evil...regardless of their tactics.
Personally I don't know if WMA is a bad thing. I do find comments without any sort of substance irritating, which is why I posted a response to that in the first place.
As for whether my comment was "intelligent" It showed a little more though than "WMA > MP3" or something similar such as "MP3z R Teh Suck!"
"WMA > MP3" What, you mean WMA requires more space to produce the same quality track as MP3? Or maybe it is bigger because of the digital rights encoding? Or is it bloated just like everything else Microsoft makes.....filled with useless information and garbaget that no one has a use for?
or what? If you are going to post flame bait or trolls, try to post something intelligent, and not Anonymously
the only problem is that many of these buildings (especially the houses) were built many years ago. There are several houses built in the 50s down where I live in California that were built on a flood plain that gets a nice flood at least once every 10 years. Those people can no longer get flood insurance, nor can they sell their homes. They are pretty much screwed because back before anyone had accurate data, the houses seemed to be in a great location.
Of course in the most recent Junk Yard Mega Wars it was the British who bailed the Americans and the french out when they couldn't get their acts together. The brits built a plane that flew quite well on the very first test flight, while the American's never got off the ground and the French nearly crashed sideways. They had to call in the British prop blade master to repair the French blade which had cracked. THen they had to call in the Female British engine master to diagnose and repair why the American's Engine wouldn't start. After all that help the Brit's plane still kicked the french and american offering's butts.
I am not sure why reprocessing was banned in the US. I would guess that the government is afraid that if they allow the waste to be reprocessed someone will either A) make a bomb (I was under the impression that this was not weapons grade stuff) or B) dispose of it irresponsibly rather than reprocess it (some sort of environmental catastrophe). Once more we are not capable of taking care of ourselves.....government has to do it for us. On the topic of A) a bomb. While the waste may not be weapons-grade you could certainly make a very dirty conventional bomb that qualified itself as an environmental catastrophe. Blow up a big bomb fullof highly toxic radioactive waste in some large water supplies, or in a few large cities, and you would certainly have a catastrophe of some kind.
As for the 200 year problem.....we can certainly construct a storage plce that would last 200 years. There are even groups willing to allow it done on their property if you pay them. The Not In My BackYard syndrome arises though. There is an Indian Reservation out in Utah where the Indians have some very useless land, and they said "Please, pay us to use our land." It is a desert out there. However, as soon as they started doing this people started trying to revoke the Indian's and their right to the land. "We can't have this dangerous stuff in Utah." Even though supposedly the reservations can make their own laws. This is only an example. There are lots of other states with the same reactions.
I once attended a presentation on the research being done into breeder reactors and reprocessed fuel. I believe it was said that the spent fuel can be reprocessed to the point where the compnents left over have a half-life of less than 200 years.
also in the US in the state of Utah there is a HUGE power plant called IPP (Intermountain Power Plant) that provides a great deal of the power for Los Angeles. The cables that transfer all the power run DC from Delta, Utah to Los Angeles. Supposedly the cables are actually the right length to produce harmonics that would pretty much overpower any radio signal on the earth if the power was transferred via AC as opposed to DC. Not sure I believe my University Physics professor on that one though.
an interesting idea. That's true though, what do the american people get for having given up their rights to the airwaves? At the moment it would seem we have the right to have to pay for the programming...and I would much rather pay a certain amount for the programming itself rather than be bombarded by the commercials we have to deal with. Interesting point (as for the the money we pay to dish and whatnot....of course that isn't enough to pay for the programming. Nearly all of it goes to someone already:-P Notice how HBO hasn't become cheaper over the last 20 years even though it's popularity has increased?"
[quote]Nevertheless, I watch a lot of television thanks to my TiVo. TiVo lets me skip the commercials, which makes me a "thief" but lets me enjoy the entertainment I deserve. Let's compare some features. [/quote]
Deserve? What do you mean deserve? What part of the program did you pay for? Yes watchign commercials (especially the same ones over and over again) sucks.....and having something to shift forward with to skip said commercials is awesome. However, the companies that make thise programs need to get money somehow. You don't deserve anything in the current scheme,unless you watch the commercials.
[quote] Anyone who rants and raves about changes made is revealing their ignorance of the creative process. [/quote]
You may be right about the creative process, but ending with a phrase stating "anyone who doesn't agree with me is an idiot" kind of destroys the oportunity for the sharing of ideas, and turns slashdot back into a playground for 5 year old bullies.
do you mean the hindenburg? Everytime you mention that it was full of hydrogen people laugh....of course last I heard it was the highly flammable treatment on the wood superstructure that got the fire going...then the hydrogen caught.
[quote] Of course there were always those exotic electic cars, but their use never become too widespread. [/quote]
Actually, in the early days of automobiles Electric cars were more prevalent than the gasoline powered cars. I am not quite sure what their demise was attributed to (possibly the same problems we have today....batteries are very heavy and don't provide juice for long enough distances....generally speaking)
[quote] Engineers will be able to continue the shrink for another 15 years based on what we know now [/quote]
this should make for an interesting effect. A whole new market will open up in tiny cubicles and desks, with tiny-engineer sized keyboards as well. What will the final engineer size be? Will they finally become small enough that millions can be employed as miniature chip makers themselves, thus solving the problem of high costs associated with the creation of a new chip-fab?
EB Games sells N-Gages....I imagine they will sell anything their marketing guys are convinced will make money. Seeing as they sell the N-Gage I would say they do not have too many gamers in their marketing department, and that this same marketing department will approve The Phantom if it is ever released
unfortunately in the housing complexes here near BYU (Provo, Utah USA area) part of the rent agreement usually involves not making any holes in the walls. The telephones are all provided through a central service (so getting DSL requires installing a new line) and getting a cable modem can prove problematic.....I'm not sure how many other areas are similar to this, but here in Provo most of the Apartment complexes are like this. It is off campus housing (not a dorm) but the university still controls some standards....and the complexes have a shared phone network of some sort
Basically, at the moment it looks like we are screwed.....I pay 40 bucks a month for 512 down 256 up and a 15 GB x-fer limit
I haven't seen anyone mention costs here yet. I am on a 15 GB transfer limit here, and while I realize that many other people have "unlimited" transfer capabilites (as to total down and uploaded) if enough people were to switch to bittorrent style transfers, how long would it take before these "unlimited" system became very limited? Some of the cable providers are aqlready experimenting with capping off their "excessive bandwidth" users...... there are costs associated with this beyond what Fileplanet and their ilk pay.
If we could devise a system that had a sedrver in each ISP, so that way traffic stayed local within the network, then we definitely would have something useful.
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why not build a device that mines the surface of the asteriod for reaction mass? Not convert to fuel (mebbe use solar power to run the launcher) and launch pellets from the surfact of the asteriod? Then you would decrease the mass of the asteroid (hopefully only slightly) while using chunks of the asteroid itself as a means to push it in the right direction? Yes it is crude, but perhaps a crude brute force solution would work better than trying to cram enough reaction mass into a rocket device from earth
because they have separate satellite streams. THere is a cartoon Network west and a Cartoon network east...or at least it works out that way. That's why Your cable company gets it at what would be 9pm ET, but your neighbors shows it at 9pm PT
heh heh Which game is this from? Civ 3? Command and Conquer?
[quote] Does anyone else here think non-profit projects should be exempt from patents? [/quote]
So what you are saying is, someone takes the patent application for your new "killer ap" and copies it, then replicates and gives the actual "killer ap" away for free? Seems like a recipe for bankruptcy to me.
In this case, say the Nintendo patent does apply. Someone creates a way to play those games without paying Nintendo. Assuming that everyone who uses this would have bought the stuff from Nintendo otherwise (a BIG assumption)......how does Nintendo not lose money? If I have to choose between not paying Nintendo, and paying Nintendo.....I think I can say I (and everyone else) would choose to not pay nintendo.
You are right that patents are not awarded to hinder progress. However, if people could not make any money off their creations (seeing as anyone who wanted to could release it as "non-profit") the stimulus driving the economy would suffer considerably......those who create would not receive a monetary reward (other than a voluntary one....which can work, but does not have to, unfortunately)
they are putting out a new Perfect Dark......sadly it is for the XBOX
You must use "Woman Logic." AKA "The Logic of Emotions." How does it make her feel? Will she get the same good feelings out of playing games with you that she does with those marathon conversations? That is the real question.
I have a "Silicon Graphics GDM-20E21" that has the dual 13W3 HD15 connectors....only problem is that it seems the monitor does not like an 800x600 signal in the HD15....it shifts the image around on the screen and stuff. Very strange. Works fine at 1024x768, but some of the programs I use have setting screens in 800x600 :-(
I have a silicon graphics monitor (model: GDM-20E21) Very nice, it even comes with a built in VGA connector.....I have been having a very difficult time finding drivers for this thing (yes I am running Windows).....it REALLY dislikes 800x600 for a resolution, does some weird image shifting. Any ideas on where I might find drivers? thanks
you call "WMA > MP3" intelligent?
Besides this is slashdot...I thought all those stereotypes were gospel here.
You are right, not everything Microsoft pushes is evil...regardless of their tactics.
Personally I don't know if WMA is a bad thing.
I do find comments without any sort of substance irritating, which is why I posted a response to that in the first place.
As for whether my comment was "intelligent"
It showed a little more though than "WMA > MP3" or something similar such as "MP3z R Teh Suck!"
"WMA > MP3"
What, you mean WMA requires more space to produce the same quality track as MP3?
Or maybe it is bigger because of the digital rights encoding?
Or is it bloated just like everything else Microsoft makes.....filled with useless information and garbaget that no one has a use for?
or what?
If you are going to post flame bait or trolls, try to post something intelligent, and not Anonymously
the only problem is that many of these buildings (especially the houses) were built many years ago. There are several houses built in the 50s down where I live in California that were built on a flood plain that gets a nice flood at least once every 10 years. Those people can no longer get flood insurance, nor can they sell their homes. They are pretty much screwed because back before anyone had accurate data, the houses seemed to be in a great location.
Of course in the most recent Junk Yard Mega Wars it was the British who bailed the Americans and the french out when they couldn't get their acts together. The brits built a plane that flew quite well on the very first test flight, while the American's never got off the ground and the French nearly crashed sideways. They had to call in the British prop blade master to repair the French blade which had cracked. THen they had to call in the Female British engine master to diagnose and repair why the American's Engine wouldn't start. After all that help the Brit's plane still kicked the french and american offering's butts.
I am not sure why reprocessing was banned in the US. I would guess that the government is afraid that if they allow the waste to be reprocessed someone will either A) make a bomb (I was under the impression that this was not weapons grade stuff) or B) dispose of it irresponsibly rather than reprocess it (some sort of environmental catastrophe). Once more we are not capable of taking care of ourselves.....government has to do it for us.
On the topic of A) a bomb. While the waste may not be weapons-grade you could certainly make a very dirty conventional bomb that qualified itself as an environmental catastrophe. Blow up a big bomb fullof highly toxic radioactive waste in some large water supplies, or in a few large cities, and you would certainly have a catastrophe of some kind.
As for the 200 year problem.....we can certainly construct a storage plce that would last 200 years. There are even groups willing to allow it done on their property if you pay them. The Not In My BackYard syndrome arises though. There is an Indian Reservation out in Utah where the Indians have some very useless land, and they said "Please, pay us to use our land." It is a desert out there. However, as soon as they started doing this people started trying to revoke the Indian's and their right to the land. "We can't have this dangerous stuff in Utah." Even though supposedly the reservations can make their own laws.
This is only an example. There are lots of other states with the same reactions.
I once attended a presentation on the research being done into breeder reactors and reprocessed fuel. I believe it was said that the spent fuel can be reprocessed to the point where the compnents left over have a half-life of less than 200 years.
also in the US in the state of Utah there is a HUGE power plant called IPP (Intermountain Power Plant) that provides a great deal of the power for Los Angeles. The cables that transfer all the power run DC from Delta, Utah to Los Angeles. Supposedly the cables are actually the right length to produce harmonics that would pretty much overpower any radio signal on the earth if the power was transferred via AC as opposed to DC. Not sure I believe my University Physics professor on that one though.
an interesting idea. That's true though, what do the american people get for having given up their rights to the airwaves? At the moment it would seem we have the right to have to pay for the programming...and I would much rather pay a certain amount for the programming itself rather than be bombarded by the commercials we have to deal with. Interesting point (as for the the money we pay to dish and whatnot....of course that isn't enough to pay for the programming. Nearly all of it goes to someone already :-P Notice how HBO hasn't become cheaper over the last 20 years even though it's popularity has increased?"
[quote]Nevertheless, I watch a lot of television thanks to my TiVo. TiVo lets me skip the commercials, which makes me a "thief" but lets me enjoy the entertainment I deserve. Let's compare some features.
[/quote]
Deserve? What do you mean deserve? What part of the program did you pay for? Yes watchign commercials (especially the same ones over and over again) sucks.....and having something to shift forward with to skip said commercials is awesome. However, the companies that make thise programs need to get money somehow. You don't deserve anything in the current scheme,unless you watch the commercials.
[quote] Anyone who rants and raves about changes made is revealing their ignorance of the creative process. [/quote] You may be right about the creative process, but ending with a phrase stating "anyone who doesn't agree with me is an idiot" kind of destroys the oportunity for the sharing of ideas, and turns slashdot back into a playground for 5 year old bullies.
do you mean the hindenburg? Everytime you mention that it was full of hydrogen people laugh....of course last I heard it was the highly flammable treatment on the wood superstructure that got the fire going...then the hydrogen caught.
[quote] Of course there were always those exotic electic cars, but their use never become too widespread. [/quote] Actually, in the early days of automobiles Electric cars were more prevalent than the gasoline powered cars. I am not quite sure what their demise was attributed to (possibly the same problems we have today....batteries are very heavy and don't provide juice for long enough distances....generally speaking)
[quote] Engineers will be able to continue the shrink for another 15 years based on what we know now [/quote] this should make for an interesting effect. A whole new market will open up in tiny cubicles and desks, with tiny-engineer sized keyboards as well. What will the final engineer size be? Will they finally become small enough that millions can be employed as miniature chip makers themselves, thus solving the problem of high costs associated with the creation of a new chip-fab?
EB Games sells N-Gages....I imagine they will sell anything their marketing guys are convinced will make money. Seeing as they sell the N-Gage I would say they do not have too many gamers in their marketing department, and that this same marketing department will approve The Phantom if it is ever released
unfortunately in the housing complexes here near BYU (Provo, Utah USA area) part of the rent agreement usually involves not making any holes in the walls. The telephones are all provided through a central service (so getting DSL requires installing a new line) and getting a cable modem can prove problematic.....I'm not sure how many other areas are similar to this, but here in Provo most of the Apartment complexes are like this. It is off campus housing (not a dorm) but the university still controls some standards....and the complexes have a shared phone network of some sort Basically, at the moment it looks like we are screwed.....I pay 40 bucks a month for 512 down 256 up and a 15 GB x-fer limit
I haven't seen anyone mention costs here yet. I am on a 15 GB transfer limit here, and while I realize that many other people have "unlimited" transfer capabilites (as to total down and uploaded) if enough people were to switch to bittorrent style transfers, how long would it take before these "unlimited" system became very limited? Some of the cable providers are aqlready experimenting with capping off their "excessive bandwidth" users...... there are costs associated with this beyond what Fileplanet and their ilk pay. If we could devise a system that had a sedrver in each ISP, so that way traffic stayed local within the network, then we definitely would have something useful.
all right......another Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan Now we jsut need frylock's computer