L2 is even more precious as it is the only fairly stable spot in the Earth-moon system where if you're not careful you fall into interplanetary space. Every other place but this requires significant delta-v to escape the Earth's or the moon's gravity. Here though, just drift a little too far from the moon and away you go.
150 tons of that rock is rocket fuel. That is a handy thing to have at L2 if you want to intercept another earthbound rock. L2 is the ideal fuel depot for this. 150 tons is not enough, but it is a significant start.
This would actually be really nice. I could see a market for this. Hey, it looks like there's a bunch of companies online that do this, and can use all sorts of materials. Neat!
And those past dramatic climate changes correlate with pretty serious ecological upheavals; while "life" in general finds a way to go on, the picture isn't so rosy for particular species, populations, and ecosystems. If you happen to have a particular concern for Homo sapiens species populations (and, by extension, the complex ecosystems that support them), you might get pretty worried about 10x more abrupt ecological upheavals than the worst the planet has recently seen.
You don't mind if I quote you, do you? Let's settle a couple of things right off: crops don't grow on glaciers. That's a pretty well established fact.
We have seven billion people, and if they must starve to support your AGW theory, they're likely to get a little pissy about that.
Some of these people have guns. A few have nuclear weapons. That's likely to get iffy
Geeks on a plane. Great! Get back on the plane and fly to Haiti and figure out how to help those people. The $20B we sent them seems to not have arrived.
I brought up ocean temperatures because they are relevant. Not only do the oceans outweigh the atmosphere 280x, but they have a mutual energy exchange interface of 361 million square kilometres, and an easy energy interchange method in evaporation also. We are discussing air temperatures to a fraction of a degree as if it was an issue of merit when it is not.
/yeah, that was me. Apparently I can't restrain myself.
Take a look at mobile for a clue how that would turn out. Without Microsoft's - and their partners' "leadership" the pace of progress has been... astounding.
VP8 Hardware codecs are up to generation six, freely licensed also - to 80 chip companies so far, and in production by many major vendors. So there's that.
You have already pointed out there is a mechanism in place for you to apply the level of filter you are comfortable with. That should be enough. There are very good reasons why this is permitted.
Hurd was CEO of HP from 2005 to 2010. In that time despite weathering a global meltdown shares of the company increased in value from $20 to $46. In the time since it has not done as well, though it seems to be rebounding right now.
Ozmanjusri, you're in serious danger of earning the coveted "+5 Troll"/. achievement. This is a Holy Grail I have aspired to for 10 years and more. I certainly hope some few folks with mod points give you "underrated" to put it over for you.
The winning strategy has never been to list the patents up front. As long as they do that, people will now go about invalidating them. VP8 was already designed to work around patent restricions - one of the few software projects to take that strategy.
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I don't mind if we send out robots first to make it safe and comfy for the humans who follow. As long as we get moving.
L2 is even more precious as it is the only fairly stable spot in the Earth-moon system where if you're not careful you fall into interplanetary space. Every other place but this requires significant delta-v to escape the Earth's or the moon's gravity. Here though, just drift a little too far from the moon and away you go.
150 tons of that rock is rocket fuel. That is a handy thing to have at L2 if you want to intercept another earthbound rock. L2 is the ideal fuel depot for this. 150 tons is not enough, but it is a significant start.
This would actually be really nice. I could see a market for this. Hey, it looks like there's a bunch of companies online that do this, and can use all sorts of materials. Neat!
Amazon sells meat? Excuse me, I gotta update my shopping list.
And those past dramatic climate changes correlate with pretty serious ecological upheavals; while "life" in general finds a way to go on, the picture isn't so rosy for particular species, populations, and ecosystems. If you happen to have a particular concern for Homo sapiens species populations (and, by extension, the complex ecosystems that support them), you might get pretty worried about 10x more abrupt ecological upheavals than the worst the planet has recently seen.
You don't mind if I quote you, do you? Let's settle a couple of things right off: crops don't grow on glaciers. That's a pretty well established fact.
We have seven billion people, and if they must starve to support your AGW theory, they're likely to get a little pissy about that.
Some of these people have guns. A few have nuclear weapons. That's likely to get iffy
Geeks on a plane. Great! Get back on the plane and fly to Haiti and figure out how to help those people. The $20B we sent them seems to not have arrived.
Reading your post I sense you might have anger issues. Would you take a referral to a qualified therapist?
I brought up ocean temperatures because they are relevant. Not only do the oceans outweigh the atmosphere 280x, but they have a mutual energy exchange interface of 361 million square kilometres, and an easy energy interchange method in evaporation also. We are discussing air temperatures to a fraction of a degree as if it was an issue of merit when it is not.
/yeah, that was me. Apparently I can't restrain myself.
Brilliant!
I would like to see something radical happen which promotes actual technological innovation and hinders all this IP bullshit.
It's called mobile. Their crap doesn't play well over here. Come on in. The water's fine.
Take a look at mobile for a clue how that would turn out. Without Microsoft's - and their partners' "leadership" the pace of progress has been... astounding.
VP8 Hardware codecs are up to generation six, freely licensed also - to 80 chip companies so far, and in production by many major vendors. So there's that.
You have already pointed out there is a mechanism in place for you to apply the level of filter you are comfortable with. That should be enough. There are very good reasons why this is permitted.
Hurd was CEO of HP from 2005 to 2010. In that time despite weathering a global meltdown shares of the company increased in value from $20 to $46. In the time since it has not done as well, though it seems to be rebounding right now.
While I admire your point you already know it was lost in the noise. It may raise its head in the 9th circuit- or not.
I've seen it done. It can be done.
Ozmanjusri, you're in serious danger of earning the coveted "+5 Troll" /. achievement. This is a Holy Grail I have aspired to for 10 years and more. I certainly hope some few folks with mod points give you "underrated" to put it over for you.
Yeah sure. And I'm Niklaus Wirth.
VP8 is evolved from TrueMotion S, released in 1990. So 22 years, not 5. Google acquired its developer ON2 in 2010.
How is consulting for Microsoft and Oracle working out?
The winning strategy has never been to list the patents up front. As long as they do that, people will now go about invalidating them. VP8 was already designed to work around patent restricions - one of the few software projects to take that strategy.
ARM chips are for whatever you want to use them for. Some people are putting them in servers.
If they have the source code, porting isn't too difficult.
Of course they don't care about piracy at all in China. But things like UEFI and SecureBoot are going to put an end to their ability to do it.
There are a few of these.
If you sup with the devil, have a long spoon.
If you dance with the devil you will pay his fee. The devil doesn't fiddle for free.
Linux or BSD.