Amazon movies, Google movies and Netflix do not work with Linux. DRM doesn't like Linux. Bluray is limited and likely illegal in some places, BD+ is not supported yet.
If you're the kind of person who would rather pirate than pay, content owners aren't going to get your money ever anyway. They can't prevent their content from being available to you. That's no reason for them to unreasonably restrain the bulk of us who just want a square deal and are willing to pay for content from enjoying it in the manner and on the device we find best suits us. We would like to pay them money. They are being foolish by refusing to take our money.
It's a primitive basic premise. If you control the platform and evolve it over time then the people who follow and copy needs must lag behind. Since Miguel is not driving this bus but only trying to follow as best he can, he cannot hope to pass. He cannot innovate, but only hope to emulate. Naturally as a proprietary system Microsoft is doing their best to ditch him. This doesn't make for a solid cutting-edge development environment for Miguel's downstream partners. They can only hope to build on a copy of a copy, and that leads to "build not your castle on sand". They were better off to just commit to Windows and be done with it rather than try to live in this halfway realm.
I'm not a Windows fan, but I'm smart enough not to straddle that fence. Your nards get bloodied up that way.
Surface seasteading doesn't protect us against an asteroid or nuclear war. It's an interesting social solution to other problems, but it doesn't address the whole "We're all going to die" thing. I'm all in favor of it for the benefits that you present, but it doesn't address the core issue in this discussion. An asteroid hit wipes it out. A nuclear hit wipes it out. It's not a backup plan.
It's an interesting segwey I'd like to see have its own discussion, but it's out of place here.
Insolation is a serious issue. It would be necessary to either use nuclear power, or first move the water closer to the sun before converting it to fuel with solar power. On orbit around Ceres the unfiltered solar energy is only a little less than on the Sahale in summer, and that is not nearly enough to do the job in a reasonable amount of time. It takes a LOT of energy to convert water to its constituent elements and then liquefy the proceeds. Think of LH2/LO2 as more of an energy storage medium than a raw product.
Very good question. Yes, we are likely to use nuclear energy for this. Remember, the plan is to lift it only to LEO, and use the Hydrox from Planetary Resources to lift it higher and send it to Ceres. Nuclear fuel is a high-density, high-value cargo and we'll need quite a lot of it. To fully exploit Ceres' water resources would deplete the entire world's available nuclear weapons and some fraction of nuclear waste from power production, and then some. Convenient, no? We were done with that stuff here anyway, and this is a cheaper way to be rid of them than any other. We need not bury them for 100,000 years if they're useful in the Asteroid belt.
Of course some legal formalities will have to be lubricated to work this out, but that's an implementation detail.
Solar panels will be used too for redundancy and for essential operations, but the bulk of the energy will probably be fission if we want to get this done in a reasonable amount of time.
Nuclear powerplants on craft like Curiosity and Voyager use an entirely different type of fuel and engine than we are talking about here, and I don't want people to think I've confused that issue here. I haven't. I know that these are different things. Frankly the kind of engine that powers Curiosity has nowhere near the energy output required to do the work we're talking about by about four orders of magnitude at least.
Colonization of Ceres requires that the humans live in a huge centrifuge because humans don't bear up well under such a tiny gravity in the long term and centripetal force is a fair substitute. Construction of such a centrifuge on Ceres would require considerable resources we don't have because Ceres has both significant gravity and spins on an axis. Ultimately a human habitat on orbit of Ceres seems more likely to me than one burrowed into the ice for this reason, as the centrifuge is simpler on orbit. In fact, the operation of human habitat polar centrifuges would alter the poles of Ceres and be self-defeating. But given such a habitat on orbit, short-term surface ventures and shelter from solar storms are trivial with a surface gravity of 0.03 g and unlimited available fuel from refinery operations. A space elevator on Ceres though, that would make better sense than anywhere else in the solar system.
No, I'm excited about Ceres only as a source of water for LH2/LO2 fuel, O2 for breathables, water for drinking, minerals for refining and fabrication - not as habitat. It may be 50 years or more before we put people there and that will be out of scope for me.
It is ultimately the only possible path for species survival. Once we've scaled Maslow's pyramid the view is quite astounding and we aspire to greater challenges. Until then though, when we look up all we can see is the butt of the guy above us.
If you want an unambiguous definition of Vesta, use the entire Wikipedia article. It is "Vesta," a thing unique unto itself. If we want to group it into classes of similar things and give those classes names, we have to agree on the scope and definition of those classes, and generally we don't because we disagree about the relative importance of various aspects of the objects worthy of categorization. I'm OK with that. It's a thing. It has a name. The various classes have very little value-add.
Yes, it really is, even though calling Vesta dinky is a bit of a stretch. It has more surface area than Texas by almost twice. Almost a million square kilometers.
This is an interesting point. A sufficiently deep subsea human habitat that was self-sufficient might be enough to preserve mankind against even a planet-killer asteroid, if it survived the initial shock wave. Certainly many aquatic species survived the last dinosaur killer, including sharks. If you put it at the equator it should be safe from ice ages. Geothermal energy would be persistent enough, even if the uranium from seawater thing didn't work out. It would have to be a subsea city with pop > 100k though to provide a persistent level of science and culture.
There's probably a good trilogy of books in this one if you want to develop it.
Not proof against nuclear war though. If I know anything about my fellow men, they're griefers and when the shit hits the fan a subsea survival habitat is going to have several torpedos with its name on them, some of them nuclear.
Mars has water. A lot of it, right on the surface. Plenty to provide air and water for indefinite human habitation and fuel for the return trip, if you have the energy. That's the good news.
Mars also has a lot of gravity (.38 g). And it's the gravity that's a killer because it's not got enough atmosphere for a decent atmospheric brake. To land a significant (20 ton or better) craft on Mars in condition to lift off again demands that you set her down on the jets, and that is a very unforgiving process that costs a metric boatload of fuel. Whatever source of energy you use is going to have a lot of mass too. The 1 ton of Curiosity is actually as much mass as we can land on Mars right now. To get humans there in any condition to start a colony requires a vast quantity of fuel to shorten the trip and to land. And where are we going to get that fuel? Ceres!
Mars has too much gravity to be a good source of water for fuel in microgravity. You have to burn too much fuel to get it off of Mars. As it is on the return trip the humans are going to have to meet up in Mars orbit with a return booster fuelled by LH2/LO2 from Ceres.
Yeah, Ceres is a good bit further out and it takes longer to get there (to the GP). But the robots don't care. Planetary Resources should get us enough Near-Earth asteroid water to make the fuel to lift the craft out of LEO and send it swiftly on its way to Ceres. At 0.03 g, the water comes off of Ceres nice and easy. Once it comes back to lunar orbit (firing its LH2/LO2 jets) with its kilotons aquatic payload a lot of other things like Mars become realistically possible. There are just not enough near-Earth asteroids of the right type to provide the supply we need for this.
Ceres is the key to everything. If it really has the water.
Jupiter is twice as far out from the sun as Ceres, meaning that it's usually almost three times as far from the Earth at closest approach. Coming away again is harder too, as surface gravity is 6 times as high. I should think that having a heavy-duty supply of propellant from Ceres or other sources would help get the resources there for proper development of Ganymede.
Space is cold, and dry. It can be pretty hard to find water out there, and gas stations are far between.
Planetary Resources is a company in Seattle set up to mine asteroids. The big deal at first is asteroid-borne water, which comprises up to 30% of some asteroids. They are going after asteroids that pass near the Earth at first.
The big deal is what potentials this opens up for expoloration of our solar system and the stars. With energy water can be converted into LH2/LO2 fuel. The problem is that lifting up the fuel from our deep gravity well makes this prohibitively expensive.
Ceres may have 200 million cubic kilometers of water ice, almost all of it relatively pure and on the surface, 100km thick. That's more water than all of the fresh water on Earth. Ceres has a surface gravity of 0.03 g, so getting the ice or fuel away from there is no big deal. There may be other volatiles there as well - Xenon would be a great find. We've found water on the moon and Mars, but getting the water away is nearly impossible because the gravity on these bodies is just too high. Small asteroids aren't plentiful enough for a huge explosion of exploration and manned habitation in space.
Abundant water and energy are the two essential keys to human and robotic exploration of the solar system. If we can somehow with robots bring energy and equipment to this ball of water we can bring back enough fuel to scoop much larger payloads out of much cheaper near Earth Orbits and move them anywhere from there. That enables larger habitations with centrifugal simulated gravity, water ice mass shielding from radiation, million-kilo LH2/LO2 rockets that start in microgravity and so don't have to spend 90% of their fuel lifting up out of our gravity well.
Ice makes a great construction material too, so if we found a way to put humans on Ceres they need not worry too much about radiation or building materials. It's also a great thermal insulator, and we've learned how to carve habitats out of ice in Antarctica.
In short if that water is really there it is the key to humans establishing a permanent occupation of space, and maybe the fuel we'll use to send the first probes to nearby stars. We'll know in about 30 months.
Seriously though, Ceres is an awesome target and much more exciting than Vesta. Vesta is a rock. Ceres is half water ice by volume, in low g. Obviously some serious upside potentials there. A vastly superior target to Mars, or just about anywhere else in the solar system.
The trial is almost over. The evidence was presented, the lawyers rested their case. The jury deliberated and returned a verdict. And they found that the Galaxy Tab did not infringe Apple's patents. The judge hasn't completed post-verdict processes and issued a final judgment, but it's late in the day for Apple to be adding devices to this case. Maybe we're talking about another case?
Samsung gives Windows Phone token support. In return they get better license cost on Windows. But instead of being mass produced in a Chinese sweatshop these token Windows Phones are lovingly handcrafted in Whittier California by a wizened old former TV repairman named Hank. Hank is semi-retired and only works 15 hours a week, but he has no trouble keeping up with the global demand.
Android is an open source OS built on the Linux Kernel. You're welcome to take it and build the notknown86OS suitable for installing on whatever device you like which meets this "neither" need, and sharing it with the wider world as long as you adhere to the license requirements. If you do it well, fame will be yours. If you sell it well, fortune too. Unless there is no demand for this feature.
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Amazon movies, Google movies and Netflix do not work with Linux. DRM doesn't like Linux. Bluray is limited and likely illegal in some places, BD+ is not supported yet.
If you're the kind of person who would rather pirate than pay, content owners aren't going to get your money ever anyway. They can't prevent their content from being available to you. That's no reason for them to unreasonably restrain the bulk of us who just want a square deal and are willing to pay for content from enjoying it in the manner and on the device we find best suits us. We would like to pay them money. They are being foolish by refusing to take our money.
The advanced technology I need to preserve atmosphere at any reasonable depth is called a "cup".
It's a primitive basic premise. If you control the platform and evolve it over time then the people who follow and copy needs must lag behind. Since Miguel is not driving this bus but only trying to follow as best he can, he cannot hope to pass. He cannot innovate, but only hope to emulate. Naturally as a proprietary system Microsoft is doing their best to ditch him. This doesn't make for a solid cutting-edge development environment for Miguel's downstream partners. They can only hope to build on a copy of a copy, and that leads to "build not your castle on sand". They were better off to just commit to Windows and be done with it rather than try to live in this halfway realm.
I'm not a Windows fan, but I'm smart enough not to straddle that fence. Your nards get bloodied up that way.
Surface seasteading doesn't protect us against an asteroid or nuclear war. It's an interesting social solution to other problems, but it doesn't address the whole "We're all going to die" thing. I'm all in favor of it for the benefits that you present, but it doesn't address the core issue in this discussion. An asteroid hit wipes it out. A nuclear hit wipes it out. It's not a backup plan.
It's an interesting segwey I'd like to see have its own discussion, but it's out of place here.
Insolation is a serious issue. It would be necessary to either use nuclear power, or first move the water closer to the sun before converting it to fuel with solar power. On orbit around Ceres the unfiltered solar energy is only a little less than on the Sahale in summer, and that is not nearly enough to do the job in a reasonable amount of time. It takes a LOT of energy to convert water to its constituent elements and then liquefy the proceeds. Think of LH2/LO2 as more of an energy storage medium than a raw product.
Very good question. Yes, we are likely to use nuclear energy for this. Remember, the plan is to lift it only to LEO, and use the Hydrox from Planetary Resources to lift it higher and send it to Ceres. Nuclear fuel is a high-density, high-value cargo and we'll need quite a lot of it. To fully exploit Ceres' water resources would deplete the entire world's available nuclear weapons and some fraction of nuclear waste from power production, and then some. Convenient, no? We were done with that stuff here anyway, and this is a cheaper way to be rid of them than any other. We need not bury them for 100,000 years if they're useful in the Asteroid belt.
Of course some legal formalities will have to be lubricated to work this out, but that's an implementation detail.
Solar panels will be used too for redundancy and for essential operations, but the bulk of the energy will probably be fission if we want to get this done in a reasonable amount of time.
Nuclear powerplants on craft like Curiosity and Voyager use an entirely different type of fuel and engine than we are talking about here, and I don't want people to think I've confused that issue here. I haven't. I know that these are different things. Frankly the kind of engine that powers Curiosity has nowhere near the energy output required to do the work we're talking about by about four orders of magnitude at least.
Pure oxygen is a very real danger, as we found on Apollo 13. Mortonda is correct about this. We shall have to be careful.
Colonization of Ceres requires that the humans live in a huge centrifuge because humans don't bear up well under such a tiny gravity in the long term and centripetal force is a fair substitute. Construction of such a centrifuge on Ceres would require considerable resources we don't have because Ceres has both significant gravity and spins on an axis. Ultimately a human habitat on orbit of Ceres seems more likely to me than one burrowed into the ice for this reason, as the centrifuge is simpler on orbit. In fact, the operation of human habitat polar centrifuges would alter the poles of Ceres and be self-defeating. But given such a habitat on orbit, short-term surface ventures and shelter from solar storms are trivial with a surface gravity of 0.03 g and unlimited available fuel from refinery operations. A space elevator on Ceres though, that would make better sense than anywhere else in the solar system.
No, I'm excited about Ceres only as a source of water for LH2/LO2 fuel, O2 for breathables, water for drinking, minerals for refining and fabrication - not as habitat. It may be 50 years or more before we put people there and that will be out of scope for me.
It is ultimately the only possible path for species survival. Once we've scaled Maslow's pyramid the view is quite astounding and we aspire to greater challenges. Until then though, when we look up all we can see is the butt of the guy above us.
If you want an unambiguous definition of Vesta, use the entire Wikipedia article. It is "Vesta," a thing unique unto itself. If we want to group it into classes of similar things and give those classes names, we have to agree on the scope and definition of those classes, and generally we don't because we disagree about the relative importance of various aspects of the objects worthy of categorization. I'm OK with that. It's a thing. It has a name. The various classes have very little value-add.
Yes, it really is, even though calling Vesta dinky is a bit of a stretch. It has more surface area than Texas by almost twice. Almost a million square kilometers.
This is an interesting point. A sufficiently deep subsea human habitat that was self-sufficient might be enough to preserve mankind against even a planet-killer asteroid, if it survived the initial shock wave. Certainly many aquatic species survived the last dinosaur killer, including sharks. If you put it at the equator it should be safe from ice ages. Geothermal energy would be persistent enough, even if the uranium from seawater thing didn't work out. It would have to be a subsea city with pop > 100k though to provide a persistent level of science and culture.
There's probably a good trilogy of books in this one if you want to develop it.
Not proof against nuclear war though. If I know anything about my fellow men, they're griefers and when the shit hits the fan a subsea survival habitat is going to have several torpedos with its name on them, some of them nuclear.
Mars has water. A lot of it, right on the surface. Plenty to provide air and water for indefinite human habitation and fuel for the return trip, if you have the energy. That's the good news.
Mars also has a lot of gravity (.38 g). And it's the gravity that's a killer because it's not got enough atmosphere for a decent atmospheric brake. To land a significant (20 ton or better) craft on Mars in condition to lift off again demands that you set her down on the jets, and that is a very unforgiving process that costs a metric boatload of fuel. Whatever source of energy you use is going to have a lot of mass too. The 1 ton of Curiosity is actually as much mass as we can land on Mars right now. To get humans there in any condition to start a colony requires a vast quantity of fuel to shorten the trip and to land. And where are we going to get that fuel? Ceres!
Mars has too much gravity to be a good source of water for fuel in microgravity. You have to burn too much fuel to get it off of Mars. As it is on the return trip the humans are going to have to meet up in Mars orbit with a return booster fuelled by LH2/LO2 from Ceres.
Yeah, Ceres is a good bit further out and it takes longer to get there (to the GP). But the robots don't care. Planetary Resources should get us enough Near-Earth asteroid water to make the fuel to lift the craft out of LEO and send it swiftly on its way to Ceres. At 0.03 g, the water comes off of Ceres nice and easy. Once it comes back to lunar orbit (firing its LH2/LO2 jets) with its kilotons aquatic payload a lot of other things like Mars become realistically possible. There are just not enough near-Earth asteroids of the right type to provide the supply we need for this.
Ceres is the key to everything. If it really has the water.
Jupiter is twice as far out from the sun as Ceres, meaning that it's usually almost three times as far from the Earth at closest approach. Coming away again is harder too, as surface gravity is 6 times as high. I should think that having a heavy-duty supply of propellant from Ceres or other sources would help get the resources there for proper development of Ganymede.
Space is cold, and dry. It can be pretty hard to find water out there, and gas stations are far between.
Planetary Resources is a company in Seattle set up to mine asteroids. The big deal at first is asteroid-borne water, which comprises up to 30% of some asteroids. They are going after asteroids that pass near the Earth at first.
The big deal is what potentials this opens up for expoloration of our solar system and the stars. With energy water can be converted into LH2/LO2 fuel. The problem is that lifting up the fuel from our deep gravity well makes this prohibitively expensive.
Ceres may have 200 million cubic kilometers of water ice, almost all of it relatively pure and on the surface, 100km thick. That's more water than all of the fresh water on Earth. Ceres has a surface gravity of 0.03 g, so getting the ice or fuel away from there is no big deal. There may be other volatiles there as well - Xenon would be a great find. We've found water on the moon and Mars, but getting the water away is nearly impossible because the gravity on these bodies is just too high. Small asteroids aren't plentiful enough for a huge explosion of exploration and manned habitation in space.
Abundant water and energy are the two essential keys to human and robotic exploration of the solar system. If we can somehow with robots bring energy and equipment to this ball of water we can bring back enough fuel to scoop much larger payloads out of much cheaper near Earth Orbits and move them anywhere from there. That enables larger habitations with centrifugal simulated gravity, water ice mass shielding from radiation, million-kilo LH2/LO2 rockets that start in microgravity and so don't have to spend 90% of their fuel lifting up out of our gravity well.
Ice makes a great construction material too, so if we found a way to put humans on Ceres they need not worry too much about radiation or building materials. It's also a great thermal insulator, and we've learned how to carve habitats out of ice in Antarctica.
In short if that water is really there it is the key to humans establishing a permanent occupation of space, and maybe the fuel we'll use to send the first probes to nearby stars. We'll know in about 30 months.
We're all counting on you...
Seriously though, Ceres is an awesome target and much more exciting than Vesta. Vesta is a rock. Ceres is half water ice by volume, in low g. Obviously some serious upside potentials there. A vastly superior target to Mars, or just about anywhere else in the solar system.
The Linux version will never be complete and current with the Windows version. If you admire the thing so much, go whole hog.
If Miguel de Icaza wants to program in .NET why doesn't he just go over to the Windows side the rest of the way?
Ah, there it is. This is a different case first filed in February this year.
The trial is almost over. The evidence was presented, the lawyers rested their case. The jury deliberated and returned a verdict. And they found that the Galaxy Tab did not infringe Apple's patents. The judge hasn't completed post-verdict processes and issued a final judgment, but it's late in the day for Apple to be adding devices to this case. Maybe we're talking about another case?
Samsung gives Windows Phone token support. In return they get better license cost on Windows. But instead of being mass produced in a Chinese sweatshop these token Windows Phones are lovingly handcrafted in Whittier California by a wizened old former TV repairman named Hank. Hank is semi-retired and only works 15 hours a week, but he has no trouble keeping up with the global demand.
No, it seems like that guy was seeking an other way. Best of luck to him.
Go at it. More power to you. Write back and let us know how it goes.
Android is an open source OS built on the Linux Kernel. You're welcome to take it and build the notknown86OS suitable for installing on whatever device you like which meets this "neither" need, and sharing it with the wider world as long as you adhere to the license requirements. If you do it well, fame will be yours. If you sell it well, fortune too. Unless there is no demand for this feature.