First, there is no reason NOT to be. He asked a VERY legitimate question. In fact, it is one that I am surprised that has not be done so far. When you think about it, many of us want open source to succeed, but many of the small companies do not want to supply their competitors either. Until ppl get over their fears about OSS, something like this would be useful.
Second, The guy was wondering if there was a license that would handle this. Turns out that there really is not. So, yes, it is possible that a lawyer in the OSS wold will step forward and take this on, or he or the company may have to do it.
It was designed to do science in low orbit. It has shields, more Solar Cells, etc. It is far cheaper to send Bigelows to these various places, since it is much lighter. In addition, it would have higher efficiency solar cells, limited shielding (via water as well as more shields around quarters. In the end, it is far better to keep the ISS right where it is, keep testing our parts there as well as doing science, and then push new tech to Moon/Mars based on the lessons from ISS.
Russia is suppose to boost it AND pay for it. But, America DOES have options. In particular, we have the ability to use a simple 5 mile cable to pull it up electrically. Of course, that would mean taking power away from the Russian side. Likewise, I suspect that if Russia were to not uphold that end, we would just pay EU to launch a few more of their ATVs which can last at least 6 months and have plenty of boost.
Finally, I suspect that L-Mart, Boeing, Orbital and SpaceX can come up with quick ability to do this with a several billion contract.
Prices of Oil have plummeted, though at this moment, EU is screwed and paying top dollars for Natural Gas. But EU will be working hard to get themelves unhitched from the Russian Pipeline over the next couple of years. But Oil will remain low.
At the moment, it appears that NASA is going to fund RSA by the ridiculusly high price of ~50M/seat (when they were getting 20M). But more likely than not, NASA is going to fund SpaceX and try to get SpaceX to carry the bulk of the humans for less than half the price.
Basically, RSA is already not well funded. It is not likely that they will get funding for more when Russia is losing money and their economy is crashing HARD.
Actually, Poppa Bush was not that bad. He inherited a nightmare from reagan and if you recall, he turned the deficit down in 91. He was the one who pushed new taxes as a way to start getting the deficit down, and that cost him his presidency. I totally agree with you about the other 2.
Which is why Clinton and reagan vetoed budgets several times. In reagan's case, it was for the pork that he wanted (leading to monster deficits), while for Clinton, it was to remove all the republican pork (leading to balanced budget). Later, the same congress under W made reagan look like a little leaguer, even though reagan had ran up the largest deficit to date.
Which makes sense for the ORIGINAL tests. They have proved the point that there IS a difference. More importantly, they compared the Windows version of Firefox on Wine and showed that it was faster than the Linux version. So, by recompiling we should learn if the diff is the linux codebase OR the compiler. If it is the compiler, than it has implications for ALL of our apps. Basically, it means with just a BIT of work, then all apps speed up a great deal. If it is the code base, then Firefox is not paying attention.
once the economy starts back, that would be a great time for several of the distros to get together and do just that. Rent and pay would be low at most places. They could use it to market to schools, businesses, etc. Keep in mind that MANY ppl want somebody to come out and fix things. The "Genius" ppl.
As they pay salary and not just commission, I think that it is a GREAT idea. The reason is that it will have a number of hires that would otherwise sit on Unemployment. For once, MS would be doing something good, even though they are just copying Apple again.
I live south of Denver (highlands ranch) and did live in saudi aurora. At both places, I have had several of my neighbors refuse vaccines for their kids. One was Christian Scientists. Another was Pentacostal. And the third was Focus on the Family. All told me that the bible told them that it was wrong. Since then, I have come to believe that all 3 are total whackjobs. Yes, religious groups are against vaccines. More so than McCarty followers. The difference is that the McCarty followers are VOCAL about it and trying to sue to stop. Basically, they are like the moral majority, which was neither, just vocal.
If there was true common sense on this, they would not remove the cams. They would simply be used by traffic, or other places where privacy is not an issue.
If EESTOR was real, this would be the place to be bidding. Assuming that they are real, I can understand their wanting to keep quiet while working with manufacturers. Otherwise, it would cause TOTAL ECONOMIC CHAOS. But I do not see them in this. Though their Military partner is L-Mart and I see that they are on the final 2 list.
I am going to guess that in the future, these will use perm mags, rather than a small turbine. When that occurs, I think that we will see the upfront costs be a bit more, but they will last for several 100K of miles, rather than just a 100K miles.
That is one company that is BEGGING to be let go from GM. It is wasted there. I am not a real fan of hybrids, but it has its uses. It would be good in cross-country trucks and vehicles like the Hummer. This is the PERFECT place to put a serial hybrid. A hummer with electric drive, batteries for 5 miles and 2 small motor/generators would be a winning vehicle.
I still feel that the best way out for the car companies is to break them up for those that accept fed. money. Otherwise, you have the same idiots in place making the choice about what product lines lives or dies.
The only reason people think Linux isn't big is that it isn't big on the desktop.
Exactly. That is why MS fears Linux, not Apple. Apple has a chunk of desktop and a big lead in mp3 players and very small lead in SINGLE phone (and shrinking). They are pretty much locked in because they are just an appliance group. Linux is an OS that others can play and sell with.
But Linux on the desktop is about to take off. And when it does, all the other types of areas (servers, large embedded, small embedded, even hard real times), will expand greatly as the world learns about little bitty tux.
Yes, but what you just listed are MAJOR apps. There are FOSS apps in these lines. Some are competing, others are not. You can bet on it, that some unemployed ppl are going to get the bright idea of providing support AND data on these and selling them.
Who owns about 70% of the sats up there? America. There is little doubt in my mind that it will become a priority to clear the heavens of at least our junk. We will probably offer up our service to other countries with junk (namely Russia, EU, and China). If we have a tug that is doing the work, they MAY buy it. If not, then the group whose sat is taken out by a dead sat or by their junk MAY turn around and sue. My guess is that a law suit will start on either this one, or the next collision. There is now loads of debris from China's anti-sat as well as now, this from Russia's dead sat.
The world has been slowly putting garbage up there. We track it, but difficult to do ALL of them. This ONE SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. But the fact that it did shows that tracking so many items is causing issues. So what is going to happen?
I think that pretty quick we will see one or two companies get smart and develop a space tug to start decoming sats like this. They will simply bring them out of orbit and allow them to burn up. Next somebody will work on the idea of how to catch the smaller pieces. Personally, I think that a sat with a ion engine can blaze in front of a piece and use the exhaust to slow down the garbage. That will allow it to plunge to earth. For truely small pieces, a laser from above and in front. Simply try to slow it down.
IOW, this is an opportunity for a garbage man. I bet that SpaceX will jump on this. Cut a deal with SpaceDev to put their engine up as a tug. Combine SpaceX's electronics and a gabbling hook and they can grab some sats and send them down.
You are Right. You have red flag in China; The new one in Russia; Various South American states are talking about doing more. Funny thing is, NOW is the time to fire up new apps on Linux. The other companies like Adobe, Intuit, etc are NOT there. A start-up can make a killing by not having commercial competition.
As to FOSS beating them to the punch, FOSS works GREAT for OSs and MAJOR apps. But when you have SPECIALIZED apps, like say design a deck for a house, or design your yard, etc. than Commercial really shines; Service, Market or Trade Data, etc. I would not be surprised to see a number of new start up companies around the world taking on these companies because they have the Windows system locked up. That is how it happened on the move from mainframe to DOS and then Windows. The companies that had the mainframe locked up did not move until new and better competition came along.
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First, there is no reason NOT to be. He asked a VERY legitimate question. In fact, it is one that I am surprised that has not be done so far. When you think about it, many of us want open source to succeed, but many of the small companies do not want to supply their competitors either. Until ppl get over their fears about OSS, something like this would be useful.
Second, The guy was wondering if there was a license that would handle this. Turns out that there really is not. So, yes, it is possible that a lawyer in the OSS wold will step forward and take this on, or he or the company may have to do it.
It was designed to do science in low orbit. It has shields, more Solar Cells, etc. It is far cheaper to send Bigelows to these various places, since it is much lighter. In addition, it would have higher efficiency solar cells, limited shielding (via water as well as more shields around quarters. In the end, it is far better to keep the ISS right where it is, keep testing our parts there as well as doing science, and then push new tech to Moon/Mars based on the lessons from ISS.
Russia is suppose to boost it AND pay for it. But, America DOES have options. In particular, we have the ability to use a simple 5 mile cable to pull it up electrically. Of course, that would mean taking power away from the Russian side. Likewise, I suspect that if Russia were to not uphold that end, we would just pay EU to launch a few more of their ATVs which can last at least 6 months and have plenty of boost.
Finally, I suspect that L-Mart, Boeing, Orbital and SpaceX can come up with quick ability to do this with a several billion contract.
Basically, RSA is already not well funded. It is not likely that they will get funding for more when Russia is losing money and their economy is crashing HARD.
Actually, Poppa Bush was not that bad. He inherited a nightmare from reagan and if you recall, he turned the deficit down in 91. He was the one who pushed new taxes as a way to start getting the deficit down, and that cost him his presidency. I totally agree with you about the other 2.
Which is why Clinton and reagan vetoed budgets several times. In reagan's case, it was for the pork that he wanted (leading to monster deficits), while for Clinton, it was to remove all the republican pork (leading to balanced budget). Later, the same congress under W made reagan look like a little leaguer, even though reagan had ran up the largest deficit to date.
Which makes sense for the ORIGINAL tests. They have proved the point that there IS a difference. More importantly, they compared the Windows version of Firefox on Wine and showed that it was faster than the Linux version. So, by recompiling we should learn if the diff is the linux codebase OR the compiler. If it is the compiler, than it has implications for ALL of our apps. Basically, it means with just a BIT of work, then all apps speed up a great deal. If it is the code base, then Firefox is not paying attention.
with GCC, and Intel. Lets find out if the code base difference between Windows and Linux is the issue OR the compilers.
If I were a billionare, I would be tempted to hire somebody to clone one. Likewise, to bring back some of the extinct mammals such as Woolly Mammoth.
once the economy starts back, that would be a great time for several of the distros to get together and do just that. Rent and pay would be low at most places. They could use it to market to schools, businesses, etc. Keep in mind that MANY ppl want somebody to come out and fix things. The "Genius" ppl.
As they pay salary and not just commission, I think that it is a GREAT idea. The reason is that it will have a number of hires that would otherwise sit on Unemployment. For once, MS would be doing something good, even though they are just copying Apple again.
I live south of Denver (highlands ranch) and did live in saudi aurora. At both places, I have had several of my neighbors refuse vaccines for their kids. One was Christian Scientists. Another was Pentacostal. And the third was Focus on the Family. All told me that the bible told them that it was wrong. Since then, I have come to believe that all 3 are total whackjobs. Yes, religious groups are against vaccines. More so than McCarty followers. The difference is that the McCarty followers are VOCAL about it and trying to sue to stop. Basically, they are like the moral majority, which was neither, just vocal.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=focus+on+the+family+vaccine&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=religious+groups+against+vaccine&btnG=Search http://www.know-vaccines.org/exemptionFAQ.html Numerous RRWN have for ages been opposed to vaccines. Dobson is just one group. Or are you going to deny all the facts about the groups that fight vaccines?
Do the kids then get to say to the parents: "fuck you, you will pay horrifically for what you did us" ? You must not have older kids yet.
Actually, she is not the problem. It is the Religious Right Wing nuts that are the majority of those that fight against vaccines.
Both have about the same amount of proof either way.
If there was true common sense on this, they would not remove the cams. They would simply be used by traffic, or other places where privacy is not an issue.
If EESTOR was real, this would be the place to be bidding. Assuming that they are real, I can understand their wanting to keep quiet while working with manufacturers. Otherwise, it would cause TOTAL ECONOMIC CHAOS. But I do not see them in this. Though their Military partner is L-Mart and I see that they are on the final 2 list.
I am going to guess that in the future, these will use perm mags, rather than a small turbine. When that occurs, I think that we will see the upfront costs be a bit more, but they will last for several 100K of miles, rather than just a 100K miles.
That is one company that is BEGGING to be let go from GM. It is wasted there. I am not a real fan of hybrids, but it has its uses. It would be good in cross-country trucks and vehicles like the Hummer. This is the PERFECT place to put a serial hybrid. A hummer with electric drive, batteries for 5 miles and 2 small motor/generators would be a winning vehicle.
I still feel that the best way out for the car companies is to break them up for those that accept fed. money. Otherwise, you have the same idiots in place making the choice about what product lines lives or dies.
The only reason people think Linux isn't big is that it isn't big on the desktop. Exactly. That is why MS fears Linux, not Apple. Apple has a chunk of desktop and a big lead in mp3 players and very small lead in SINGLE phone (and shrinking). They are pretty much locked in because they are just an appliance group. Linux is an OS that others can play and sell with.
But Linux on the desktop is about to take off. And when it does, all the other types of areas (servers, large embedded, small embedded, even hard real times), will expand greatly as the world learns about little bitty tux.
Yes, but what you just listed are MAJOR apps. There are FOSS apps in these lines. Some are competing, others are not. You can bet on it, that some unemployed ppl are going to get the bright idea of providing support AND data on these and selling them.
Who owns about 70% of the sats up there? America. There is little doubt in my mind that it will become a priority to clear the heavens of at least our junk. We will probably offer up our service to other countries with junk (namely Russia, EU, and China). If we have a tug that is doing the work, they MAY buy it. If not, then the group whose sat is taken out by a dead sat or by their junk MAY turn around and sue. My guess is that a law suit will start on either this one, or the next collision. There is now loads of debris from China's anti-sat as well as now, this from Russia's dead sat.
The world has been slowly putting garbage up there. We track it, but difficult to do ALL of them. This ONE SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. But the fact that it did shows that tracking so many items is causing issues. So what is going to happen?
I think that pretty quick we will see one or two companies get smart and develop a space tug to start decoming sats like this. They will simply bring them out of orbit and allow them to burn up. Next somebody will work on the idea of how to catch the smaller pieces. Personally, I think that a sat with a ion engine can blaze in front of a piece and use the exhaust to slow down the garbage. That will allow it to plunge to earth. For truely small pieces, a laser from above and in front. Simply try to slow it down.
IOW, this is an opportunity for a garbage man. I bet that SpaceX will jump on this. Cut a deal with SpaceDev to put their engine up as a tug. Combine SpaceX's electronics and a gabbling hook and they can grab some sats and send them down.
You are Right. You have red flag in China; The new one in Russia; Various South American states are talking about doing more. Funny thing is, NOW is the time to fire up new apps on Linux. The other companies like Adobe, Intuit, etc are NOT there. A start-up can make a killing by not having commercial competition. As to FOSS beating them to the punch, FOSS works GREAT for OSs and MAJOR apps. But when you have SPECIALIZED apps, like say design a deck for a house, or design your yard, etc. than Commercial really shines; Service, Market or Trade Data, etc. I would not be surprised to see a number of new start up companies around the world taking on these companies because they have the Windows system locked up. That is how it happened on the move from mainframe to DOS and then Windows. The companies that had the mainframe locked up did not move until new and better competition came along.