"(1) the folks at Mozilla want to start getting rich, and/or
(2) they want to attract private investment
I had the same thinking. And I am scared by both options (2 more than 1). Ok, maybe they can run Mozilla as a private company (option 1), but something must change for that.
Even then, isn't it funny that the english police, that is pround of almost never using their guns, kill (execute) someone with 8 bullets on the head?
"U.S. intelligence agencies have identified at least 22 Islamic terrorists who are believed to be operating in the so-called tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay."
Are that the same US intelligence agencies that lied to you that Iraq had WMD? Can anybody still trust them while US is trying to enforce its authority on Latin America?
What happened to the obligation of companies to include the note "patent pending" on their products? There are lots of weard software patents this days about stuff that was already comercialized, how can companies do that? Shouldn't the company's products count as prior art to the patent?
Teoreticaly, a fuel cell don't need to run on hydrogen. It may accept any kind of fuel on one side, and any kind of comburent on the other side. The big problem is that "teoreticaly" word. And this is one of the biggest technological limitations of them.
Also, fuels cells have no teoretical limitation on efficiency, 100% is bigger than 60% by near 66%:)
The law passed on the 90's, I was too young to remember it well. But it was unnoticed until the end of the decade, when people started to reinforce it. Even today many uninformed people don't know that burning crops is ilegal, and a few times, they are charged.
It is illegal* to burn cane crops on Brazil nowadays. But it surely had a big environmental impact, and destroied the soil of some areas.
*Not that nobody does that, but the ones who do can be caught and the new crops don't use this method, because not burning is more lucrative, people burn it because of lack of information.
Fuel cels are a good idea for any kind of fuel. The carnot cicle is too restritive, we can make it better using the chemical energy directly. Those cells aren't used yet because of technological limitations. But doesn't matter the fuel we'll be using, someday we'll stop burning it.
O3 emissoins can be controled with the right catalizer. But I keep wondering why Brazil can make usable ethanol and US can't. The fact the US uses corn is a hint, but it is not enogh to explain it.
"Secondly, it was supposed to be compatible with DOS and FAT16. In practice, it could write things to a FAT16 partition across a LAN on a DOS/Win machine that could not be read by DOS/Win and caused automated back-ups to fail and require someone to spend sixteen hours watching the machine to hit buttons and tell the backup software to ignore the problem. It behaved like an infertile virus that happened to double as an OS."
Blame that on Windows! You don't really think that OS2 can have raw access to the disks by lan, do you? Even if it can, double blame on Windows, because it shouldn't. Ok, you come with several non issues and a bug of Windows, a lot of reasons to hate OS2... Saying that it isn't a troll dont make it so.
The fact that people don't want to read the MS sponsored bulls**t doesn't make it censored (we don't even have this power). You should look at your dictionary again for the meaning of this word, and while you are at it, look for the right way of writting it also.
"...perhaps it's because the "international organizations" we work with, like the UN, can't even keep their word and uphold the tenets of their own charters for things that are much more important than the root servers?"
I see, when the US invaded Iraq it did find a lot of WMDs to prove UN wrong.
Basicaly, what you are saying is, "we invented the thing, so all the world must use the internet by our rules. No, I don't care abount sovereignty.". Well, you'll have a bad time if you expect all the world to accept that.
Analogic computers are quite possible, ineed, people messed with them for ears before the digital ones become as powerfull. They are not very used anymore because digital computers are easyer to program and more robust.
Analogic computers don't have perfect definition, as you say, every calculation generates errors. But that don't makes the computer a digital one. And yes, biological stuff seems to not be very sensitive, this also don't make it digital.
But I'd really like to know how the synapses transmit analogic data, it is really hard to think about a way*. Maybe our brain is on reality digital, but with so many possible values that it fooled the study.
*Remember that the synapses pass molecules from one side to the other. Or I am loosing something here, or counting molecules can only generate integers.
" Because automating a process always makes it "new and novel"."
No, it doesn't. The most you can do is automate something using a novel idea, so you could patent the way that your baby maker machine works (so anybody else could develop a different baby maker machine and patent it also). But you can't patent the proces just because it was automated. It is not new.
"Sounds like Microsoft is seeing Google much as they saw Netscape in the past... a threat that is important and trumps all other goings-on on campus."
That vision from MS I could never understand. Why does MS think that Google is a treat? I could understand Netscape, I surely understand FOSS, but I can't understand Google. Or are they just envious?
You boost the economy if you use the rich people's money to employ the poor. It also assumes that you have a very hight unemployment rate*. Also, all the money spent on this project is not spent on improvements on the production, that is what would really boost the economy. So, the price is really hight.
*if you want to fund a 600T project, you'll seek for a boost of at least 100 times on the short term. Without any technology modification, you'll need at least 99% of the world's population unemployed.
"I'd say I prefer US units, if only because the unit descriptions on things like insulative properties make more sense when the units for thickness and area don't naturally cancel each other out."
That is because you learned that way. Anyway, the units don't cancel each other just because you can mix several different units that measure the same thing on the US units, try using just feet and square feet and you'll see them cancel (you can also replace ft/in by 12, yd/ft by 3...).
What you don't seem to understand is that free software is not just about a comunity of hippies writting software. Free software is about colaboration, it doesn't matter if it is colaboration of people or companies.
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"(1) the folks at Mozilla want to start getting rich, and/or
I had the same thinking. And I am scared by both options (2 more than 1). Ok, maybe they can run Mozilla as a private company (option 1), but something must change for that.(2) they want to attract private investment
"If so then I nominate him for a Darwin Award"
Even then, isn't it funny that the english police, that is pround of almost never using their guns, kill (execute) someone with 8 bullets on the head?
"U.S. intelligence agencies have identified at least 22 Islamic terrorists who are believed to be operating in the so-called tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay."
Are that the same US intelligence agencies that lied to you that Iraq had WMD? Can anybody still trust them while US is trying to enforce its authority on Latin America?
" If you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas."
And people wonder why vigilantism is a bad idea...
What happened to the obligation of companies to include the note "patent pending" on their products? There are lots of weard software patents this days about stuff that was already comercialized, how can companies do that? Shouldn't the company's products count as prior art to the patent?
No magic, it is a kind of battery, that can use any exoterm reaction (theoreticaly). And 60 * 166% (66% more) = 99.6, that is very near 100%.
Teoreticaly, a fuel cell don't need to run on hydrogen. It may accept any kind of fuel on one side, and any kind of comburent on the other side. The big problem is that "teoreticaly" word. And this is one of the biggest technological limitations of them.
Also, fuels cells have no teoretical limitation on efficiency, 100% is bigger than 60% by near 66% :)
The law passed on the 90's, I was too young to remember it well. But it was unnoticed until the end of the decade, when people started to reinforce it. Even today many uninformed people don't know that burning crops is ilegal, and a few times, they are charged.
"A hardware OS. Fuck software. Hrdware."
You want a BIOS? You are a little late here...
It is illegal* to burn cane crops on Brazil nowadays. But it surely had a big environmental impact, and destroied the soil of some areas.
*Not that nobody does that, but the ones who do can be caught and the new crops don't use this method, because not burning is more lucrative, people burn it because of lack of information.
Fuel cels are a good idea for any kind of fuel. The carnot cicle is too restritive, we can make it better using the chemical energy directly. Those cells aren't used yet because of technological limitations. But doesn't matter the fuel we'll be using, someday we'll stop burning it.
O3 emissoins can be controled with the right catalizer. But I keep wondering why Brazil can make usable ethanol and US can't. The fact the US uses corn is a hint, but it is not enogh to explain it.
"Secondly, it was supposed to be compatible with DOS and FAT16. In practice, it could write things to a FAT16 partition across a LAN on a DOS/Win machine that could not be read by DOS/Win and caused automated back-ups to fail and require someone to spend sixteen hours watching the machine to hit buttons and tell the backup software to ignore the problem. It behaved like an infertile virus that happened to double as an OS."
Blame that on Windows! You don't really think that OS2 can have raw access to the disks by lan, do you? Even if it can, double blame on Windows, because it shouldn't. Ok, you come with several non issues and a bug of Windows, a lot of reasons to hate OS2... Saying that it isn't a troll dont make it so.
The fact that people don't want to read the MS sponsored bulls**t doesn't make it censored (we don't even have this power). You should look at your dictionary again for the meaning of this word, and while you are at it, look for the right way of writting it also.
I guess you are posting it using lynks, right? Several stuff is slower on a GUI, but some stuff is not. Try to do graphic design on a GUI...
" ...perhaps it's because the "international organizations" we work with, like the UN, can't even keep their word and uphold the tenets of their own charters for things that are much more important than the root servers?"
I see, when the US invaded Iraq it did find a lot of WMDs to prove UN wrong.
Basicaly, what you are saying is, "we invented the thing, so all the world must use the internet by our rules. No, I don't care abount sovereignty.". Well, you'll have a bad time if you expect all the world to accept that.
Analogic computers are quite possible, ineed, people messed with them for ears before the digital ones become as powerfull. They are not very used anymore because digital computers are easyer to program and more robust.
Analogic computers don't have perfect definition, as you say, every calculation generates errors. But that don't makes the computer a digital one. And yes, biological stuff seems to not be very sensitive, this also don't make it digital.
But I'd really like to know how the synapses transmit analogic data, it is really hard to think about a way*. Maybe our brain is on reality digital, but with so many possible values that it fooled the study.
*Remember that the synapses pass molecules from one side to the other. Or I am loosing something here, or counting molecules can only generate integers.
" Because automating a process always makes it "new and novel"."
No, it doesn't. The most you can do is automate something using a novel idea, so you could patent the way that your baby maker machine works (so anybody else could develop a different baby maker machine and patent it also). But you can't patent the proces just because it was automated. It is not new.
Good luck because it seems that it does.
"With a spreadsheet, he enters in one figure and everything is re-calculated in an instant. Why isn't that useful and novel?"
Usefull, yes. Novel, no. You seems to be arguing using a falacy here, not everything that is usefull is novel.
"Sounds like Microsoft is seeing Google much as they saw Netscape in the past... a threat that is important and trumps all other goings-on on campus."
That vision from MS I could never understand. Why does MS think that Google is a treat? I could understand Netscape, I surely understand FOSS, but I can't understand Google. Or are they just envious?
With lots of oil burning...
And that means less sun on everybody's backyard. Who owns the 84 milion MW? Because all world's agriculture will lose (or just around the equator?).
You boost the economy if you use the rich people's money to employ the poor. It also assumes that you have a very hight unemployment rate*. Also, all the money spent on this project is not spent on improvements on the production, that is what would really boost the economy. So, the price is really hight.
*if you want to fund a 600T project, you'll seek for a boost of at least 100 times on the short term. Without any technology modification, you'll need at least 99% of the world's population unemployed.
"I'd say I prefer US units, if only because the unit descriptions on things like insulative properties make more sense when the units for thickness and area don't naturally cancel each other out."
That is because you learned that way. Anyway, the units don't cancel each other just because you can mix several different units that measure the same thing on the US units, try using just feet and square feet and you'll see them cancel (you can also replace ft/in by 12, yd/ft by 3...).
What you don't seem to understand is that free software is not just about a comunity of hippies writting software. Free software is about colaboration, it doesn't matter if it is colaboration of people or companies.