The fact is, that power plants simply dump electricity to their respective grid. In the USA, we have 3 grids. Grids operate like a lake. Water is dumped in via multiple rivers. Those closest to it will likely get those molecules, HOWEVER, some will spread around. IOW, if somebody pisses enough in that lake, you will also drink some of it. That is a FACT.
As such, you have whatever energy is dumped to that grid, so you are already using green energy. Here in America, you would be using about 38-40% coal, 25-26% natural gas, 20% nuke, less 1% oil, and the rest is all renewable. That means that fossil fuel in America is around 66%, AND DROPPING. AE is around 15%. That include 7% hydro, and another 6-8% in wind, solar, geo-thermal, tidal, etc.
Actually, we have LOADS of asteroids close to earth. BUT, as you say, we do not know all of them, their speeds, etc. However, NASA is now studying just that.
BUT, Mars will never be that close to us. It will remain 6 months out, until we get nuke engines. So, I like the idea of putting a small base such as BA-330 on phobos for a short term stay, but more importantly, as a rescue ship. It might be possible to put one of these inside of a cavern there, and ideally seal the cavern. With a small nuke genarator, it would help warm it up. Regardless, it would also protect humans from radiation.
Mars-one really is not that well thought out or fleshed out. In fact, I doubt that it will ever get off the ground. The fact that they want to use dragons to live in indicates that they will NEVER be taken seriously. Any plan that has ppl living on the surface will NEVER work. Not only do you have meteorites, BUT, you have large amounts of radiation. As such, unless you live underground, you will have a short life. In addition, they want the trans-habitat unit to be from thales. IOW, they want a unit from the ISS and europe. OK, except that once out of earth's orbit, you will have LARGE amounts of scatter radiation due to the metal. When Boeing/NASA built the first units, it was KNOWN that this was in LEO and therefore under earth protection. Once you get past our magnashere, that is gone. Unless you have small magnetic shielding, OR, you use something that does not produce scatter, then you doom the crew to short lives. Bigelow has the best approach on this and yet, Mars-one appears to be more interested in using local companies over what is safest.
What Tito wants is to show that we can send a crew to mars and back. We did that with Apollo, which makes sense. However, I would rather go to an asteroid that is say 1-2 months away and then come back after a week stay. That would prove the equipment, while giving us an opportunity to deal with light G work. This would actually make it possible to put a BA-330 on Phobos. That could then be used as an emergency base, but also as a launch point from/to the the martian surface.
Not really. An 8 day trip is almost as difficult as a trip to Mars. The only issue is one of supplies. Back then it was 100% consumable. Now, we can recycle a lot of it, esp. water and CO2/O2. But the life support issues are the same. The living space is the same issue. The protection from solar radiation is the same.
It is poorly thought out. Instead, it should be one FH to take up a fueled booster and a Bigelow Sundancer. Then the second one brings up supplies and the crew. Once they have hooked up the dragon with the Sundancer, THEN they launch for mars.
Screw worrying about contaminating mars. I would be MUCH more worried about a 2-way trip that brings back bugs to earth. Any mission to mars should be a one-way, or at least a 2-way with at least 10 years stay on mars.
OTOH, add a dragon to a bigelow sundancer, than maybe. But you want the life support system to be duplicates of each other.
Still this idea of sending to mars AND BACK bugs me. It should be a one-way mission. The reaon is that the return trip will normally be very slow.
Oh, I am sure that some expats were here. However, it was nothing like it is today. Back in the 60-80,s the vast majority of computer software was done by the west and more importantly, by the locals. That is why I continue to say that when looking for unpatented software, the right way is to pick amongst the older ppl that did this work. Likewise, in the future, more engineering and software patent examiners will have to be foreigners. But, at this time, the right group would be the westerners that did this work.
The fact is, that nuke tech is spreading all over and every one of these nations are heavily connected with China. North Korea. Iran. Burma. And now, Venezuela is said to be working on nukes. The reason is that China is developing their own NATO in which all of their allies have nukes. Combine that with it suddenly becoming obvious that China has 3000+ nukes and not the 300 that they claim, and life will be far more interesting than the idea of terrorists getting access to a nuke.
Those were from the 90's. The mainframe era was from the 60's through 80's. Totally different items. All of the dos items were fairly trivial apps that simply copied items from the mainframes.
And the openBSD was NOT written by De Raadt. He forked it and continued to modify it.
Shhh. Be very quiet them. But, here is a thought for you. How many south Africans WROTE the MVS system? Or how about VM? Writing a program that makes use of OS, DBs and libraries generally does not involve that much work. And those that wrote on punch cards with fortran, cobol, JCL, RPG, etc. did NOT develop elaborate algorithms. The algorithms were discovered in languages like Assembler (including Mix, but I suspect that you do not know that one; z-80s, 8086, etc), PL/1, etc. Heck, on the series/1 we did elaborate algos, but that was all with assembler.
Exactly. That is because Australia is a Western nation. BUT, you will only find mainframes, PDPs, and Vaxes in special locations of USSR and China that were about trying to copy what we were up to.
And yes, I have been out of USA and multiple continents. I would guess far more than you have been to other continents.
You could keep adding stuff, but the fact is, that you were wrong on every single thing that you wrote. Sadly, your racism and lack of intelligence is getting in your way.
It amazes me how intellectually downwards/. has become. When you do not like it, then you scream racism, bigotry, etc.
YET, the fact is, that many of those that were either under USSR or Chinese spheres while growing up, had access to different technologies, with different education.
MOST of the Comp.Sci and electronics that are used today, were developed in the west. Yet, you seem to think that somebody who had ZERO access to this, would know it.
So, let me explain it to you real slow and simple for you. The examiners already have access to previous patents via a simple DB search. Likewise, any competent examiners can read a patent and decide it is done up decently enough to be considered a patent. Likewise, any competent examiner will know such things as perpetual motion machines do not exist unless somebody can produce a working example of these and even then, look closely.
SO, where do we run into issues with PRIOR ART? It is when it was developed long ago, BUT WAS NOT PATENTED, OR IS NOT TAUGHT IN THE BOOKS. Therefore, you had to have worked in the OLDER languages, OSs, equipment, hardware, etc. to know about it. BUT, if you come from a nation that did not have such, then you have NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE OR FOOTING on which to know this. Now, that means that not only Chinese and Indians, BUT the old Soviet union itself, loaded with white ppl, will have an extreme disadvantage in determining if a patent has USED PRIOR ART. Of course, very few of the examiners are from old USSR, so this is a none issue.
One simple way to rectify these issues is for USPTO to run all of the patents that were approved by current examiners through a small group of older engineers, coders, who will be looking for ideas that existed before. This will not catch them all, BUT, they will catch many of them.
Hopefully, the above will help you to realize that the ONLY racism here is YOURS (and the other trolls) in ASSUMING that this was about racism/bigotry, when it was about nothing BUT FACTS. Yet, I have a feeling that you not give a single thought to this and will simply deny it. You (and a few others here) are like those who oppose Climate Change or scream that god created us. You simply chose to avoid facts while screaming that the other person is prejudiced in some way.
I am MARRIED to an Indian software engineer. I have worked with plenty of indian / chinese software engineers. There is NOTHING racists in what I have said. India was close to USSR until around 2000 (basically, once USSR broke apart, then they fell more into the western sphere). China has ALWAYS worked to keep western influences and goods out ( most likely due to the opium wars).
The only racist individual is yourself. The reason I say so is that you do not see the issue because you are afraid of being called a racist, rather than looking at something. To add to that, I am guessing that you have ZERO experience with USPTO. And yes, I have experience dealing with patents. Enave, Yermai poolu poite chhapeda, naye!
One last thing, regardless of wether I operate under a pseudonym or my real name makes no difference to me. I express the same opinion all around. I have never had a friend call me racists or think that I was. The fact is, that I use a pseudonym because I was well aware that spammers were coming. My initial approach was to avoid them by not registering. Now, I use one pseudonym and try to keep it quiet (not like it is that hard, but I hate spammers). In addition, now, I have a sociopathic ex, so, I stick with this.
Okay, I'm puzzled. Do we know each other outside of/.?
At one time, yes. I got my degree from Colorado State in Microbio/genetic engineering, worked at CDC, also worked as EMT. Then got into software engineering including at Metpath and CU-med. LONG ago.
in addition, we have emailed before.
Actually, I DID. Why? Because I worked on mainframes as well as early unix, DOS, Xenix, etc. However, how many Chinese or Indians from the 70's, or even 80's, worked on IBM mainframes? Probably none that are working in the USPTO. BUT, I will bet that there are PLENTY of schools around Australia that have/had mainframes, PDPs, VAXs, etc. In fact, I know that even back in the 90's, Colorado State's main programming was still done on mainframes. There were plenty of other schools around the western world that did the same thing. The reason is that it costs money to change.
Well, first off Dan, you already know who I am. We have emailed plenty before. Secondly, I use the same item here. There is only ONE person as Windbourne on/.. OTOH, there are plenty ACs here.
And yet, we have so many idiots with their everything-is-racist-or-against-me syndrome, that they are incapable of looking at issues realistically. Hell, you have to hide who you are.
To be honest, that is not a bad idea. BUT, keep in mind that only solves IT. You have engineering as well. And in 20 years or so, you will want to have a number of asian-born inspectors. IOW, at this time, they are too early.
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The fact is, that power plants simply dump electricity to their respective grid. In the USA, we have 3 grids. Grids operate like a lake. Water is dumped in via multiple rivers. Those closest to it will likely get those molecules, HOWEVER, some will spread around. IOW, if somebody pisses enough in that lake, you will also drink some of it. That is a FACT.
As such, you have whatever energy is dumped to that grid, so you are already using green energy. Here in America, you would be using about 38-40% coal, 25-26% natural gas, 20% nuke, less 1% oil, and the rest is all renewable. That means that fossil fuel in America is around 66%, AND DROPPING. AE is around 15%. That include 7% hydro, and another 6-8% in wind, solar, geo-thermal, tidal, etc.
This needs to be looked at carefully for any security issues.
Or at least the west. Otherwise, China will dump on you and work to destroy your industry.
Actually, we have LOADS of asteroids close to earth. BUT, as you say, we do not know all of them, their speeds, etc. However, NASA is now studying just that.
BUT, Mars will never be that close to us. It will remain 6 months out, until we get nuke engines. So, I like the idea of putting a small base such as BA-330 on phobos for a short term stay, but more importantly, as a rescue ship. It might be possible to put one of these inside of a cavern there, and ideally seal the cavern. With a small nuke genarator, it would help warm it up. Regardless, it would also protect humans from radiation.
It is a FLY-BY. As such, it is MUCH cheaper to do.
Mars-one really is not that well thought out or fleshed out. In fact, I doubt that it will ever get off the ground. The fact that they want to use dragons to live in indicates that they will NEVER be taken seriously. Any plan that has ppl living on the surface will NEVER work. Not only do you have meteorites, BUT, you have large amounts of radiation. As such, unless you live underground, you will have a short life. In addition, they want the trans-habitat unit to be from thales. IOW, they want a unit from the ISS and europe. OK, except that once out of earth's orbit, you will have LARGE amounts of scatter radiation due to the metal. When Boeing/NASA built the first units, it was KNOWN that this was in LEO and therefore under earth protection. Once you get past our magnashere, that is gone. Unless you have small magnetic shielding, OR, you use something that does not produce scatter, then you doom the crew to short lives. Bigelow has the best approach on this and yet, Mars-one appears to be more interested in using local companies over what is safest.
What Tito wants is to show that we can send a crew to mars and back. We did that with Apollo, which makes sense. However, I would rather go to an asteroid that is say 1-2 months away and then come back after a week stay. That would prove the equipment, while giving us an opportunity to deal with light G work. This would actually make it possible to put a BA-330 on Phobos. That could then be used as an emergency base, but also as a launch point from/to the the martian surface.
Not really. An 8 day trip is almost as difficult as a trip to Mars. The only issue is one of supplies. Back then it was 100% consumable. Now, we can recycle a lot of it, esp. water and CO2/O2. But the life support issues are the same. The living space is the same issue. The protection from solar radiation is the same.
It is poorly thought out. Instead, it should be one FH to take up a fueled booster and a Bigelow Sundancer. Then the second one brings up supplies and the crew. Once they have hooked up the dragon with the Sundancer, THEN they launch for mars.
Screw worrying about contaminating mars. I would be MUCH more worried about a 2-way trip that brings back bugs to earth. Any mission to mars should be a one-way, or at least a 2-way with at least 10 years stay on mars.
OTOH, add a dragon to a bigelow sundancer, than maybe. But you want the life support system to be duplicates of each other.
Still this idea of sending to mars AND BACK bugs me. It should be a one-way mission. The reaon is that the return trip will normally be very slow.
Oh, I am sure that some expats were here. However, it was nothing like it is today. Back in the 60-80,s the vast majority of computer software was done by the west and more importantly, by the locals. That is why I continue to say that when looking for unpatented software, the right way is to pick amongst the older ppl that did this work. Likewise, in the future, more engineering and software patent examiners will have to be foreigners. But, at this time, the right group would be the westerners that did this work.
The fact is, that nuke tech is spreading all over and every one of these nations are heavily connected with China. North Korea. Iran. Burma. And now, Venezuela is said to be working on nukes. The reason is that China is developing their own NATO in which all of their allies have nukes. Combine that with it suddenly becoming obvious that China has 3000+ nukes and not the 300 that they claim, and life will be far more interesting than the idea of terrorists getting access to a nuke.
Those were from the 90's. The mainframe era was from the 60's through 80's. Totally different items. All of the dos items were fairly trivial apps that simply copied items from the mainframes.
And the openBSD was NOT written by De Raadt. He forked it and continued to modify it.
Now, they have told the CHinese were to go dig. And dig they will. At the very least, they will scan these and know what the company is interested in.
Shhh. Be very quiet them. But, here is a thought for you. How many south Africans WROTE the MVS system? Or how about VM? Writing a program that makes use of OS, DBs and libraries generally does not involve that much work. And those that wrote on punch cards with fortran, cobol, JCL, RPG, etc. did NOT develop elaborate algorithms. The algorithms were discovered in languages like Assembler (including Mix, but I suspect that you do not know that one; z-80s, 8086, etc), PL/1, etc. Heck, on the series/1 we did elaborate algos, but that was all with assembler.
Exactly. That is because Australia is a Western nation. BUT, you will only find mainframes, PDPs, and Vaxes in special locations of USSR and China that were about trying to copy what we were up to.
Hmmm. Where exactly did Von Braun get his rockets from? Oh yeah, Godard, an American.
Oh yes, Seymour cray who developed superscalar in the 60s, was definitely Russian. Or the fact that Intel had superscalars PRIOR to the fall of the USSR really proves your points.
Corinary Bypass was an ex-german who did some of the work in SOuth Africa and was able to do it when he hooked up with an American. The actual work was done by the American, not the ex-german. Oh, as to Argentina, please look at the last section of the history. You will notice the argentinian that you speak of, did his work 7 years later. Here is a comment from one of the docs who was there, but hey, do not let what those who were there influence YOUR idea of facts.
WHO in their right mind thinks that Harry potter was American or LOTR was American? Harry is 100% English filmed and LOTR was filmed in New Zealand. I think that ANYBODY with any intelligence KNOWS both of these.
And Sergey MOVED to the USA when he was 6 years of age. IOW, he grew up as a first generation American. My wife moved here at age 10. And I can tell you that she is neither British nor Indian except in birth and ancestors, respectively.
And yes, I have been out of USA and multiple continents. I would guess far more than you have been to other continents.
You could keep adding stuff, but the fact is, that you were wrong on every single thing that you wrote. Sadly, your racism and lack of intelligence is getting in your way.
It amazes me how intellectually downwards /. has become. When you do not like it, then you scream racism, bigotry, etc.
YET, the fact is, that many of those that were either under USSR or Chinese spheres while growing up, had access to different technologies, with different education. MOST of the Comp.Sci and electronics that are used today, were developed in the west. Yet, you seem to think that somebody who had ZERO access to this, would know it.
So, let me explain it to you real slow and simple for you. The examiners already have access to previous patents via a simple DB search. Likewise, any competent examiners can read a patent and decide it is done up decently enough to be considered a patent. Likewise, any competent examiner will know such things as perpetual motion machines do not exist unless somebody can produce a working example of these and even then, look closely.
SO, where do we run into issues with PRIOR ART? It is when it was developed long ago, BUT WAS NOT PATENTED, OR IS NOT TAUGHT IN THE BOOKS. Therefore, you had to have worked in the OLDER languages, OSs, equipment, hardware, etc. to know about it. BUT, if you come from a nation that did not have such, then you have NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE OR FOOTING on which to know this. Now, that means that not only Chinese and Indians, BUT the old Soviet union itself, loaded with white ppl, will have an extreme disadvantage in determining if a patent has USED PRIOR ART. Of course, very few of the examiners are from old USSR, so this is a none issue.
One simple way to rectify these issues is for USPTO to run all of the patents that were approved by current examiners through a small group of older engineers, coders, who will be looking for ideas that existed before. This will not catch them all, BUT, they will catch many of them.
Hopefully, the above will help you to realize that the ONLY racism here is YOURS (and the other trolls) in ASSUMING that this was about racism/bigotry, when it was about nothing BUT FACTS. Yet, I have a feeling that you not give a single thought to this and will simply deny it. You (and a few others here) are like those who oppose Climate Change or scream that god created us. You simply chose to avoid facts while screaming that the other person is prejudiced in some way.
I am MARRIED to an Indian software engineer. I have worked with plenty of indian / chinese software engineers. There is NOTHING racists in what I have said. India was close to USSR until around 2000 (basically, once USSR broke apart, then they fell more into the western sphere). China has ALWAYS worked to keep western influences and goods out ( most likely due to the opium wars).
The only racist individual is yourself. The reason I say so is that you do not see the issue because you are afraid of being called a racist, rather than looking at something. To add to that, I am guessing that you have ZERO experience with USPTO. And yes, I have experience dealing with patents.
Enave, Yermai poolu poite chhapeda, naye!
One last thing, regardless of wether I operate under a pseudonym or my real name makes no difference to me. I express the same opinion all around. I have never had a friend call me racists or think that I was. The fact is, that I use a pseudonym because I was well aware that spammers were coming. My initial approach was to avoid them by not registering. Now, I use one pseudonym and try to keep it quiet (not like it is that hard, but I hate spammers). In addition, now, I have a sociopathic ex, so, I stick with this.
Okay, I'm puzzled. Do we know each other outside of /.?
At one time, yes. I got my degree from Colorado State in Microbio/genetic engineering, worked at CDC, also worked as EMT. Then got into software engineering including at Metpath and CU-med. LONG ago.
in addition, we have emailed before.
Actually, I DID. Why? Because I worked on mainframes as well as early unix, DOS, Xenix, etc. However, how many Chinese or Indians from the 70's, or even 80's, worked on IBM mainframes? Probably none that are working in the USPTO. BUT, I will bet that there are PLENTY of schools around Australia that have/had mainframes, PDPs, VAXs, etc. In fact, I know that even back in the 90's, Colorado State's main programming was still done on mainframes. There were plenty of other schools around the western world that did the same thing. The reason is that it costs money to change.
Well, first off Dan, you already know who I am. We have emailed plenty before. Secondly, I use the same item here. There is only ONE person as Windbourne on /.. OTOH, there are plenty ACs here.
And yet, we have so many idiots with their everything-is-racist-or-against-me syndrome, that they are incapable of looking at issues realistically. Hell, you have to hide who you are.
To be honest, that is not a bad idea. BUT, keep in mind that only solves IT. You have engineering as well. And in 20 years or so, you will want to have a number of asian-born inspectors. IOW, at this time, they are too early.