We can use some of the water to go get more. There is no shortage of water in space. There's so much of it flying around out there that some of it hits the Earth every week.
If you watched the whole show they have selected a specific day in 2014 for their first space operations (telescopes), and robots underway less than two after that. They are already grinding metal, and they're cash-flow positive. They look like they mean business.
In the case of this author he's an editor for a major tech trade online magazine with hundreds of high-speed contacts. He's a prime target, and he's been using gmail without incident for many years. If his computer was compromised to this degree, it would have happened before the Hotmail trial.
You can see from the delivery failure notices in the screenshot that they actually sent their emails from his actual hotmail account in this instance. A "Joe Job" would not have that.
Once you have a significant amount of water and a refinery on orbit around the moon, this problem solves itself. You now have enough fuel to blast out to Ceres, which has more water ice on it than all the Earth's oceans and 0.03g surface gravity. Send a nuclear powered refinery out there the fast way with a big can. You don't even need to refine it at that point: you can blast all the way back with a steam powered rocket.
They're not going to the belt. They're going after Near Earth asteroids, almost identical to the one that buzzed LA yesterday on its way to its new Nevada home. They're not going to shift it very much at all, either. Just a gentle nudge. If they were going to the belt they don't need an observation mission to observe the easy icy asteroid, because they want water and we know where Ceres is. It's covered with the stuff tens of kilometers deep.
Regardless, these guys are more likely to prevent that problem than to cause it. A certain interesting ethical dilemma does arise when it's more costly to prevent an Asteroid certain to hit Earth and more profitable to get the high-water content asteroid that's on a better course instead.
I can see why you'd like me to be less informed. The issue is that Motorola offered a license, which was declined. And these companies are now using the patented technologies without a license having been offered one. They have no license. You are not allowed to use patented technology without a license. They are breaking the law. The "F" in "FRAND" does not stand for "Free".
Just a-clicking on every little link without a care in the world: completely unaware that beneath every click - indeed, below the very useful content they enjoy - lurks a Minefield of Voracious vermin who would love to be feasting on their browser's entrails, "if" they were using Windows. They call it "browsing", as if they were in a nice shop picking up some brioche and a Pinot Noir. It's disgusting.
If I put out rat food every day until the neighborhood was swarming with the little beasties, I'm pretty sure the neighbors are going to blame me for the rat problem.
This is most likely the case. And the "some infected Windows host that was part of a botnet" was most likely: 1) your boss or coworker or 2) your mom or other family member. But they're no threat.
Motorola patents are only a tiny fraction of those that make up the MPEG patent pool. Google can't make H.264 open and free. WebM on the other hand, Google owns all of that - and they already have made it open and free. They opened it under a permissive license as soon as humanly possible after they bought it.
It's the folks in the MPEG Patent licensing group that were making it impossible to do video on open and free platforms. I will not mourn their passing.
Four of the five involved in the fine summary above reference wifi patents, not software. The Apple one has to do with noise rejection on a radio signal.
Just because some of these patents are FRAND doesn't mean that they don't need to be licensed at all. Both of these companies are using Motorola's patents without even engaging in negotiation for rights. That's not allowed.
You are right, of course. If you have a robotic water refinery on orbit around the moon. You have a reusable robot lunar lander that lands on the moon, scoops up ice, and returns it to the refinery for processing. Your yield is some fraction of the water returned each trip, because the rest is used as fuel. The cost is the cost of delivery of all that equipment (but not the fuel) to LEO.
But to get that lander and its initial fuel, that lunar ice mine, the immense solar array required to power it all, you need some asteroid water first to boost all that gear out of LEO into orbit around the moon because it's not cost-effective to put it there from the ground.
It doesn't matter, by the way, if the libs are not copied "slavishly". If APIs are copyrighted then the standard is significant reproduction (not de minimus), and that certainly is a bar that Java cannot pass. Currently Oracle is forced into the argument that 9 lines out of 12 million are not "de minimus". I really doubt Java could survive such a comparison.
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We can use some of the water to go get more. There is no shortage of water in space. There's so much of it flying around out there that some of it hits the Earth every week.
If you watched the whole show they have selected a specific day in 2014 for their first space operations (telescopes), and robots underway less than two after that. They are already grinding metal, and they're cash-flow positive. They look like they mean business.
Oh, it'll be interesting. There's no need to put any kind of conditional on that.
Part of the interesting part of this adventure was to try the smooth new OS integrated features of Windows 8 for consumers. On that score at least it was a highly successful demonstration. Can't wait for the gold code to drop.
Let's hope they vigorously defend their proprietary right to this precious intellectual property, whatever it is.
In the case of this author he's an editor for a major tech trade online magazine with hundreds of high-speed contacts. He's a prime target, and he's been using gmail without incident for many years. If his computer was compromised to this degree, it would have happened before the Hotmail trial.
You can see from the delivery failure notices in the screenshot that they actually sent their emails from his actual hotmail account in this instance. A "Joe Job" would not have that.
Once you have a significant amount of water and a refinery on orbit around the moon, this problem solves itself. You now have enough fuel to blast out to Ceres, which has more water ice on it than all the Earth's oceans and 0.03g surface gravity. Send a nuclear powered refinery out there the fast way with a big can. You don't even need to refine it at that point: you can blast all the way back with a steam powered rocket.
They're not going to the belt. They're going after Near Earth asteroids, almost identical to the one that buzzed LA yesterday on its way to its new Nevada home. They're not going to shift it very much at all, either. Just a gentle nudge. If they were going to the belt they don't need an observation mission to observe the easy icy asteroid, because they want water and we know where Ceres is. It's covered with the stuff tens of kilometers deep.
Regardless, these guys are more likely to prevent that problem than to cause it. A certain interesting ethical dilemma does arise when it's more costly to prevent an Asteroid certain to hit Earth and more profitable to get the high-water content asteroid that's on a better course instead.
I can see why you'd like me to be less informed. The issue is that Motorola offered a license, which was declined. And these companies are now using the patented technologies without a license having been offered one. They have no license. You are not allowed to use patented technology without a license. They are breaking the law. The "F" in "FRAND" does not stand for "Free".
Just a-clicking on every little link without a care in the world: completely unaware that beneath every click - indeed, below the very useful content they enjoy - lurks a Minefield of Voracious vermin who would love to be feasting on their browser's entrails, "if" they were using Windows. They call it "browsing", as if they were in a nice shop picking up some brioche and a Pinot Noir. It's disgusting.
If I put out rat food every day until the neighborhood was swarming with the little beasties, I'm pretty sure the neighbors are going to blame me for the rat problem.
This is most likely the case. And the "some infected Windows host that was part of a botnet" was most likely: 1) your boss or coworker or 2) your mom or other family member. But they're no threat.
Motorola patents are only a tiny fraction of those that make up the MPEG patent pool. Google can't make H.264 open and free. WebM on the other hand, Google owns all of that - and they already have made it open and free. They opened it under a permissive license as soon as humanly possible after they bought it.
It's the folks in the MPEG Patent licensing group that were making it impossible to do video on open and free platforms. I will not mourn their passing.
Let's hope we don't see those Javascript patent suits. Microsoft just bought the Netscape patents from AOL.
Who am I kidding. They're probably herding up a horde of lawyers to sue The Internet right now.
It wasn't Google who picked a fight.
Not if you buy it from Motorola.
Four of the five involved in the fine summary above reference wifi patents, not software. The Apple one has to do with noise rejection on a radio signal.
Just because some of these patents are FRAND doesn't mean that they don't need to be licensed at all. Both of these companies are using Motorola's patents without even engaging in negotiation for rights. That's not allowed.
I think a more interesting/pertinent reference is to Delos Harriman in "The Man Who Sold the Moon"
This. They're cash-flow positive already. I like their odds.
You are right, of course. If you have a robotic water refinery on orbit around the moon. You have a reusable robot lunar lander that lands on the moon, scoops up ice, and returns it to the refinery for processing. Your yield is some fraction of the water returned each trip, because the rest is used as fuel. The cost is the cost of delivery of all that equipment (but not the fuel) to LEO.
But to get that lander and its initial fuel, that lunar ice mine, the immense solar array required to power it all, you need some asteroid water first to boost all that gear out of LEO into orbit around the moon because it's not cost-effective to put it there from the ground.
Planetary Resources has their big announce tomorrow. This was just the size they are looking for.
But it's almost all like that. Didn't you read it?
It doesn't matter, by the way, if the libs are not copied "slavishly". If APIs are copyrighted then the standard is significant reproduction (not de minimus), and that certainly is a bar that Java cannot pass. Currently Oracle is forced into the argument that 9 lines out of 12 million are not "de minimus". I really doubt Java could survive such a comparison.