So you've looked at some of the future projects for NASA:-)
Except its "use the heavy lift rockets to put the nuclear power into orbit and then use that to go inter-planetary".
For replacing the shuttle you want to look up the CEV as this will be the main vehicle for crewed missions in the future.
The work on the Shuttle is basically to patch up the old car until the shiny new model arrives from the dealership.
But according to the local law - its not. So since in some countries the age of consent is 12 or 13 - does that mean any porn containing 13 year old is perfectly legal anywhere else?
Just because you're country does it - doesn't mean everyone else can.
Otherwise we'd all have the Dutch laws and be smoking canabis happily while watching the hookers in the shop windows advertising.
The problem with this is changing the culture. Everyone wants to use their car because its convient and you avoid the annoying people with their walkman , cellphones, etc. who always are annoying on public transport.
Why put up with a train or bus when you can sit in personal climate controlled comfort and listen to the tunes of choice?
Scooters are a motorised vehicle and should be used on the road. Its not as if you'd allow the chopper motorbike on the sidewalks, so why allow its smaller cousin?
I know of "Bill of London" and a "Bill of Idle" (small town in Yorkshire, with a Workingmans Club - so you can be a member of the Idle Workingmans Club) but I don't know of Rights or any Bill from there.:-)
I thought the Digital team were rumoured to have "borrowed" code from MICA (VMS sucessor) and thats why DEC sued Microsoft. MS paid up and agreed to support NT on the Alpha (an agreement which ended when Compaq bought them out).
An article on the LinuxInsider site (Sept 6th) said that of the 283 patent violations, 27 were for MS patents. All of the patents had been issued, but not validated.
The search of the kernel code was done by Open Source Risk Management (who sell insurance).
DEC addressed with with FX!32 a very nice emulator for Alpha to run ia32 apps on Alpha, often faster than on Intel platforms. Seem to remember in the docs that it remaps the calls to the Intel Windows API to the Alpha Windows API, and the more times you ran the apps - the more they were optimised for running on Alpha under FX!32.
Still use it on my Multia when I fire the thing up.
Actually - the license is for the reception of TV signals. So PC TV-tuner cards and such are also required to have a license even if you don't have a TV.
You can own a TV and not pay the license fee - if you can clearly show that the TV receiver is not used. (eg - detuned with no plug and ariel attached and its in a the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard")
When I stopped watching TV - I gave the TV away to a friend and put the video recorder under the back seat of the car with no plug, before eventually giving that away too.
They stopped sending me letters demanding I pay them when I pointed out that sending offensive threats through the post is in fact illegal in the UK.
(I've now moved house and am paying the license fee again seeing as I have a TV)
A lot of technology comes out of the BBC - its not just a media broadcaster.
Why stop with tunes? Why not go for every camera manufacturer. Afterall, they have the ability to copy any copyrighted image or text instantly an then produce multiple copies.
Damn, better register my memory and brain while where at it - I have a pretty good memory and could possible copy any image, text or tune without any DRM restrictions.
You might demand the benefits of an open market, but the USA also employs all the restrictions and protectionism of a closed market too.
Oddly enough, in Europe (and other places where they have a national healthcare/social security system in place), you are able to make yourself rich by your own accomplichments and ambition. You are also able to benefit your country by contributing to the national welfare system too.
I think its called having a social conscious and respect for your fellow man.:-)
Actually, it would be more like labelling the South as Yankees.
I don't see anything wrong with the Subway ad. I don;t see anything wrong with the way the Americans portray the UK and the rest of Europe in their media.
While they are complaining about the use of the Statue of Libery in the Subway ad, perhaps they should make a note of the words at the bottom of the statue.....
The chief CPU architect at AMD helped design the Alpha. A lot of Digital people also ended up there.
When Compaq got rid of its Alpha stuff when it merged with HP - it sold it all off to Intel, which is using the technology in the new Pentium-M processors.
So while the Alpha as a chip might be about to die, its children live on.
But some of the people named as terrorists in the aircraft on 9/11 have shown up walking and talking - so the identifying of people clearly hasn't worked. Some of their so-called associates have shown to not be associates at all.
Or is that just government finger pointing?
People still forget that it was INTERNAL flights that were used on 9/11, not INTERNATIONAL ones.
The TSR-1 & TSR-2 were not really follies. They were - like the Avro Arrow, technologically advanced aircraft, which unfortunately was not able to be properly developed with the funding from one country alone.
What they should have done was had a number of Commonwealth countries pool their resources to develop a single aircraft.
Aircraft these days aren't built by single countries - even the JSF (F35) is being developed and built by an international consortium - they should have started this practice in the 50's
Erm - learn your history. Lindburgh was not the first to fly the Atlantic, it was Alcock and Brown.
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.ht m
Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, in a modified Vimy IV they made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. They took off from Lester's Field, near St. Johns, Newfoundland on June 14,1919. They landed June 15,1919 at Clifden in Ireland. The time for the crossing was sixteen hours, and twenty seven minutes.
The news of the adventure spead like wildfire and the two men were received as heroes in London. For their accomplishment they were presented with Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail prize of £10,000 by Winston Churchill who was then Britain's Secretary of State. A few days later both men were knighted at Buckingham Palace by King George V for recognition of their pioneering achievment.
You do know that Scaled Composites has done stuff for NASA and DARPA too? They're slightly closer to the big boys than they make out (stuff for Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, McDonald Douglas, Orbital Space Corp, etc).
Their Proteus aircraft (forerunner to White Knight) is used by NASA (laser target deployment).
One of the largest fibre networks in the UK has been setup by British Waterways (they manage the canals and navigable rivers) mainly by burying the cables in the canal towpaths.
Not sure what the situation is with the railways here since I don't have much to do with them.
The right of way only exists for the power lines. It does not exist to pull fibre or install any equipement not related to the transmission of the power.
Energis found this in the UK when some farmers actually knew their rights and stopped them working on putting their fibre on the high voltage transmission lines.
But its not being given away for free. All the other pyrotechnic companies will still have to pay a licensing fee to use the technology. They don't actually say what "non-profit organisation" will be receiving the donated patents.
Lets wait until the smoke clears before deciding if its good or not:-)
But why would they need handheld Blackberry units for that scheme?
It would be hardwired into the scanning console, like the X-ray machines at the moment for scanning baggage where the operators can see the images, but the passengers cannot. Doesn't need to be handheld and doesn't need to be wireless.
Using handheld units means that the Security Guards will be able to stop anyone in the airport, get their ticket or passport info (or any other information the system holds on them) and put it into the Blackberry to get their details.
This means that anyone in the airport will be open to investigation of suspicious behaviour. These days it seems that wanting to fly at all is classed as suspicious.
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So you've looked at some of the future projects for NASA :-)
Except its "use the heavy lift rockets to put the nuclear power into orbit and then use that to go inter-planetary".
For replacing the shuttle you want to look up the CEV as this will be the main vehicle for crewed missions in the future.
The work on the Shuttle is basically to patch up the old car until the shiny new model arrives from the dealership.
But according to the local law - its not.
So since in some countries the age of consent is 12 or 13 - does that mean any porn containing 13 year old is perfectly legal anywhere else?
Just because you're country does it - doesn't mean everyone else can.
Otherwise we'd all have the Dutch laws and be smoking canabis happily while watching the hookers in the shop windows advertising.
The problem with this is changing the culture.
Everyone wants to use their car because its convient and you avoid the annoying people with their walkman , cellphones, etc. who always are annoying on public transport.
Why put up with a train or bus when you can sit in personal climate controlled comfort and listen to the tunes of choice?
Scooters are a motorised vehicle and should be used on the road. Its not as if you'd allow the chopper motorbike on the sidewalks, so why allow its smaller cousin?
What Bill of Rights?
:-)
I know of "Bill of London" and a "Bill of Idle" (small town in Yorkshire, with a Workingmans Club - so you can be a member of the Idle Workingmans Club)
but I don't know of Rights or any Bill from there.
No, the airlines are probably going to keep the restrictions in coach and only allow Business and First passengers to use their phones.
If you want to use the phone - then pay for the priviledge (or get a nice upgrade).
I thought the Digital team were rumoured to have "borrowed" code from MICA (VMS sucessor) and thats why DEC sued Microsoft. MS paid up and agreed to support NT on the Alpha (an agreement which ended when Compaq bought them out).
An article on the LinuxInsider site (Sept 6th) said that of the 283 patent violations, 27 were for MS patents. All of the patents had been issued, but not validated.
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The search of the kernel code was done by Open Source Risk Management (who sell insurance).
Their report is available http://www.osriskmanagement.com/press_release_080
Why Mr Gates?
Mr Allen (Microsoft co-founder) has been funding the Scaled Composites X-Prize entry Space Ship One.
Just because Bill Gates is the best known man with money, doesn't mean that all the others are ignoring the field.
DEC addressed with with FX!32 a very nice emulator for Alpha to run ia32 apps on Alpha, often faster than on Intel platforms. Seem to remember in the docs that it remaps the calls to the Intel Windows API to the Alpha Windows API, and the more times you ran the apps - the more they were optimised for running on Alpha under FX!32.
Still use it on my Multia when I fire the thing up.
Actually - the license is for the reception of TV signals. So PC TV-tuner cards and such are also required to have a license even if you don't have a TV.
You can own a TV and not pay the license fee - if you can clearly show that the TV receiver is not used. (eg - detuned with no plug and ariel attached and its in a the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard")
When I stopped watching TV - I gave the TV away to a friend and put the video recorder under the back seat of the car with no plug, before eventually giving that away too.
They stopped sending me letters demanding I pay them when I pointed out that sending offensive threats through the post is in fact illegal in the UK.
(I've now moved house and am paying the license fee again seeing as I have a TV)
A lot of technology comes out of the BBC - its not just a media broadcaster.
Why stop with tunes?
Why not go for every camera manufacturer.
Afterall, they have the ability to copy any copyrighted image or text instantly an then produce multiple copies.
Damn, better register my memory and brain while where at it - I have a pretty good memory and could possible copy any image, text or tune without any DRM restrictions.
You might demand the benefits of an open market, but the USA also employs all the restrictions and protectionism of a closed market too.
:-)
Oddly enough, in Europe (and other places where they have a national healthcare/social security system in place), you are able to make yourself rich by your own accomplichments and ambition. You are also able to benefit your country by contributing to the national welfare system too.
I think its called having a social conscious and respect for your fellow man.
Actually, it would be more like labelling the South as Yankees.
I don't see anything wrong with the Subway ad.
I don;t see anything wrong with the way the Americans portray the UK and the rest of Europe in their media.
While they are complaining about the use of the Statue of Libery in the Subway ad, perhaps they should make a note of the words at the bottom of the statue.....
The chief CPU architect at AMD helped design the Alpha. A lot of Digital people also ended up there.
When Compaq got rid of its Alpha stuff when it merged with HP - it sold it all off to Intel, which is using the technology in the new Pentium-M processors.
So while the Alpha as a chip might be about to die, its children live on.
But some of the people named as terrorists in the aircraft on 9/11 have shown up walking and talking - so the identifying of people clearly hasn't worked.
Some of their so-called associates have shown to not be associates at all.
Or is that just government finger pointing?
People still forget that it was INTERNAL flights that were used on 9/11, not INTERNATIONAL ones.
The TSR-1 & TSR-2 were not really follies.
They were - like the Avro Arrow, technologically advanced aircraft, which unfortunately was not able to be properly developed with the funding from one country alone.
What they should have done was had a number of Commonwealth countries pool their resources to develop a single aircraft.
Aircraft these days aren't built by single countries - even the JSF (F35) is being developed and built by an international consortium - they should have started this practice in the 50's
Erm - learn your history.
t m
Lindburgh was not the first to fly the Atlantic, it was Alcock and Brown.
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.h
Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, in a modified Vimy IV they made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. They took off from Lester's Field, near St. Johns, Newfoundland on June 14,1919. They landed June 15,1919 at Clifden in Ireland. The time for the crossing was sixteen hours, and twenty seven minutes.
The news of the adventure spead like wildfire and the two men were received as heroes in London. For their accomplishment they were presented with Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail prize of £10,000 by Winston Churchill who was then Britain's Secretary of State. A few days later both men were knighted at Buckingham Palace by King George V for recognition of their pioneering achievment.
You do know that Scaled Composites has done stuff for NASA and DARPA too? They're slightly closer to the big boys than they make out (stuff for Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, McDonald Douglas, Orbital Space Corp, etc).
Their Proteus aircraft (forerunner to White Knight) is used by NASA (laser target deployment).
You mean like the developers from Digital did when they left DEC and started the work on Windows NT.
Why do you think NT and beta versions of Win2k worked on the Alpha - but got canned when Compaq bought Digital out.
One of the largest fibre networks in the UK has been setup by British Waterways (they manage the canals and navigable rivers) mainly by burying the cables in the canal towpaths.
Not sure what the situation is with the railways here since I don't have much to do with them.
The right of way only exists for the power lines.
It does not exist to pull fibre or install any equipement not related to the transmission of the power.
Energis found this in the UK when some farmers actually knew their rights and stopped them working on putting their fibre on the high voltage transmission lines.
oooooh - I wonder who will be on the board of the "non-profit" organisation that gets the patents.
:-)
Does this mean that the wages of the board members will swallow up any excess money that the organisation has?
Seen that before - organisations which never make a profit because the board keeps getting more money.
They are profitting from it though.
No need to pay licensing costs that all the other pyrotechnic companies will have to pay.
Plus, whats the tax breaks on "donating" all that R&D and the subsiquent licensing fees?
Do you really think that Disney won't benefit from this?
But its not being given away for free.
:-)
All the other pyrotechnic companies will still have to pay a licensing fee to use the technology.
They don't actually say what "non-profit organisation" will be receiving the donated patents.
Lets wait until the smoke clears before deciding if its good or not
But why would they need handheld Blackberry units for that scheme?
It would be hardwired into the scanning console, like the X-ray machines at the moment for scanning baggage where the operators can see the images, but the passengers cannot. Doesn't need to be handheld and doesn't need to be wireless.
Using handheld units means that the Security Guards will be able to stop anyone in the airport, get their ticket or passport info (or any other information the system holds on them) and put it into the Blackberry to get their details.
This means that anyone in the airport will be open to investigation of suspicious behaviour.
These days it seems that wanting to fly at all is classed as suspicious.