really a very good one. My respect to the people at Groklaw for writing such a well written, well researched letter to our dear friend Mr. McBride.
I, for one, welcome our newfound brotherhood and companionship, even though it is at the expense of our friends at SCO.
"I wonder what the artists think of this? This price reduction has to impact their bottom line..."
Well, I guess they don't give a shit to be blunt. I really don't think this reduction is going to hit them at all. The only people that will be affected by this reduction will be the guys working for the record company, the people that package the CD's, the guys in the record shop that will get less for each CD sold, etc etc. Not the artists themselves. They probably have a contract with the record company stating that they recieve a specific amount per CD sold, so I think they couldn't care less...
The thing about colonization to a (sol)orbiting station or a moon colony is that mistakes are deadly and people with problems find themeselves very quickly without an airsupply (as Roger Wilco would say; Sudden decompression sucks as you float into space). I tend to believe that a colony like that will _very_ quickly learn how to behave and regulate. See Heinleins "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". He makes some good points about this in his book.
Don't know what you're on dude, but I want some of it. All I get on that cached page is Futurama screenies, which is a Good Thing (tm) in general, but not what I was looking for. I admit, I haven't searched hard yet:)
... but wasnt't there this other movie more recent (80's - 90's) where some dude got injected into some guys body and was able to get visuals from the outside world by "plugging" into the optical nerve?
And yes, while writing this my buddy went searching and found it:) Innerspace, that's what it was called...:)
Thing is, some of these blogs actually contain some pretty handy info from time to time, as blogs are becoming more and more used as a cheap and easy alternative to a content management system imho....
They can't be very high end if I've never heard of them. Kenwood, Sony, Pioneer... those are high end. D&M sounds like the Apex of the audio world.
Dude, you are probably not an audiophile. Denon and Marantz are related to the likes of Kenwood, Sony and Pioneer like a ferrari to a volkswagen.
You probably also never heard of Quad or Nakamichi? heh... now that's an audio system.
Heh, "...until death (or hostile takeovers, bankruptcy etc) do us part...." =]
So much for life time support I guess. However, Rio was a good brand a while back, so I hope the new company continues it's services.
some improvements. Looking at those pics on the Ars Technica site only shows a screenshot of a small screen displaying the info in the cockpit. Now what I would like to see is this being implemented in a HUD, possibly with informational lay-overs like restricted flight zones or whatever you can think of that will enhance the info displayed... I mean, as it's realtime, the system knows exactly where you are, so it can never be difficult to put such a system in somewhere =]
About people saying: " The Real Question is would it be real time enough to show the the enemy soldier standing directly in front of them about to pop a cap in thier ass." Of course not. Does your GPS navigator show you cars in front of you? Maybe it does, but it's not cause the GPS can actually see the car. That's a completely different system altogether....
When I was about 6 years of age, I used to live in Houston, Texas, with the Johnson Space Center around the corner. I remember my parents used to take visitors from back home (The Netherlands) to the center so they could marvel at all the huge rockets and such which they keep around there. I have a fotograph of me sitting in one of the seats used in the Apollo craft. And after every visit we made, I remember thinking "When I grow up, I want to sit in one of those chairs again. Go out there. See the Earth from orbit!" - Basically, become an astronaut. Then, one morning as I and my mom were watching TV in the kitchen, the program got interrupted. "We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin: The Space Shuttle Challenger has just exploded during take-off." From that moment onward, I never wanted to be an astronaut no more.
Now, being grown up and all, I realise that the only way to go is up. Everything we as humans do on this world is messing around in the margins. As some poster before me loosely stated, exploring is embedded in our genes. NOT going up there would be a grave mistake. And all those people saying that we should try to fix up stuff here on Earth first, well, I'm sorry to have to be the one to point out that every time humans have explored outside their "set" boundries, their own "world" was pretty messed up. Still they went forward, with a vision that what they were doing might just change their world.
And hasn't the Space Program, even though it's been underfunded for most of it's life, given us a lot of benefits? Think about medical applications, literal wonders have been worked in that field just by the Space Program alone. Almost in every field of science has the Space Program made a contribution. The list of applications directly or indirectly derived from space development is a very very long one. A lot of common household articles are derived from the very Space Program that some of the users of these articles attack so fiercly.
If I really thought I could make a difference, I would love to try and convince people of these facts. Sadly, I know that can never happen. Some people believe so firm in their idea that Man should not go to space same as some people believe so firm in the Church, or other affiliated mind numbing programs.
My final point, and one that seems to be forgetten every now and then:
Before everyone starts talking technical stuff, we should be trying to change the global populations view about space. Things would be a lot easier if large partions of the world's population could share our firm belief in space and it's benefits.
Sorry if this post seems kind of a mess, I'm not a gifted writer.
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really a very good one. My respect to the people at Groklaw for writing such a well written, well researched letter to our dear friend Mr. McBride. I, for one, welcome our newfound brotherhood and companionship, even though it is at the expense of our friends at SCO.
"I wonder what the artists think of this? This price reduction has to impact their bottom line..."
Well, I guess they don't give a shit to be blunt. I really don't think this reduction is going to hit them at all. The only people that will be affected by this reduction will be the guys working for the record company, the people that package the CD's, the guys in the record shop that will get less for each CD sold, etc etc. Not the artists themselves. They probably have a contract with the record company stating that they recieve a specific amount per CD sold, so I think they couldn't care less...
I really wonder where people are getting these outrageous prices. I just had a look and on my screen at least it's still at
...
Current bid: US $780.00
Where the hell did you see $970? Some people here actually stated they saw said article's price had gone up to $9700
The thing about colonization to a (sol)orbiting station or a moon colony is that mistakes are deadly and people with problems find themeselves very quickly without an airsupply (as Roger Wilco would say; Sudden decompression sucks as you float into space). I tend to believe that a colony like that will _very_ quickly learn how to behave and regulate. See Heinleins "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". He makes some good points about this in his book.
Don't know what you're on dude, but I want some of it. All I get on that cached page is Futurama screenies, which is a Good Thing (tm) in general, but not what I was looking for. I admit, I haven't searched hard yet :)
AllIGotWasA404.com =]
... but wasnt't there this other movie more recent (80's - 90's) where some dude got injected into some guys body and was able to get visuals from the outside world by "plugging" into the optical nerve? And yes, while writing this my buddy went searching and found it :) Innerspace, that's what it was called... :)
Thing is, some of these blogs actually contain some pretty handy info from time to time, as blogs are becoming more and more used as a cheap and easy alternative to a content management system imho ....
They can't be very high end if I've never heard of them. Kenwood, Sony, Pioneer... those are high end. D&M sounds like the Apex of the audio world. Dude, you are probably not an audiophile. Denon and Marantz are related to the likes of Kenwood, Sony and Pioneer like a ferrari to a volkswagen. You probably also never heard of Quad or Nakamichi? heh ... now that's an audio system.
Heh, "...until death (or hostile takeovers, bankruptcy etc) do us part ...." =]
So much for life time support I guess. However, Rio was a good brand a while back, so I hope the new company continues it's services.
some improvements. Looking at those pics on the Ars Technica site only shows a screenshot of a small screen displaying the info in the cockpit. Now what I would like to see is this being implemented in a HUD, possibly with informational lay-overs like restricted flight zones or whatever you can think of that will enhance the info displayed ... I mean, as it's realtime, the system knows exactly where you are, so it can never be difficult to put such a system in somewhere =]
About people saying: " The Real Question is would it be real time enough to show the the enemy soldier standing directly in front of them about to pop a cap in thier ass." Of course not. Does your GPS navigator show you cars in front of you? Maybe it does, but it's not cause the GPS can actually see the car. That's a completely different system altogether ....
Euhhh . . . . wasn't that Linus Thorvalds? =]
When I was about 6 years of age, I used to live in Houston, Texas, with the
Johnson Space Center around the corner. I remember my parents used to take
visitors from back home (The Netherlands) to the center so they could marvel at
all the huge rockets and such which they keep around there. I have a fotograph
of me sitting in one of the seats used in the Apollo craft. And after every
visit we made, I remember thinking "When I grow up, I want to sit in one of
those chairs again. Go out there. See the Earth from orbit!" - Basically, become an astronaut.
Then, one morning as I and my mom were watching TV in the kitchen,
the program got interrupted.
"We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin: The Space Shuttle Challenger has just exploded during take-off."
From that moment onward, I never wanted to be an astronaut no more.
Now, being grown up and all, I realise that the only way to go is up.
Everything we as humans do on this world is messing around in the margins.
As some poster before me loosely stated, exploring is embedded in our genes.
NOT going up there would be a grave mistake.
And all those people saying that we should try to fix up stuff here on Earth first, well,
I'm sorry to have to be the one to point out that every time humans have explored
outside their "set" boundries, their own "world" was pretty messed up.
Still they went forward, with a vision that what they were doing might just change their world.
And hasn't the Space Program, even though it's been underfunded for most of it's life,
given us a lot of benefits? Think about medical applications, literal wonders have been worked
in that field just by the Space Program alone. Almost in every field of science has the
Space Program made a contribution. The list of applications directly or indirectly derived from
space development is a very very long one. A lot of common household articles are derived from
the very Space Program that some of the users of these articles attack so fiercly.
If I really thought I could make a difference, I would love to try and convince people of these facts.
Sadly, I know that can never happen. Some people believe so firm in their idea that Man should
not go to space same as some people believe so firm in the Church, or other affiliated mind numbing
programs.
My final point, and one that seems to be forgetten every now and then:
Before everyone starts talking technical stuff, we should be trying to change
the global populations view about space. Things would be a lot easier if large partions of
the world's population could share our firm belief in space and it's benefits.
Sorry if this post seems kind of a mess, I'm not a gifted writer.