Even at that cost, to put something in high LEO (approx. 1,500 Km or 1,000 Miles) would only cost 1/10 of what it costs to put something in space the traditional way using liquid/solid fuel propelants.
I would imagine that the vehicles/control systems are a little more up to date than those being used by NASA for the past 40 years
"They've already experienced too many different kinds of Aliens."
The fact that they've introduced so many alien species may have to do with the fact that there are many alien species that become members of the federation in the future.
"What would be better, IMO, is to concentrate on building the foundations of what would become TOS - shakey aliances with some of the alien species we've already come to know, maybe fighting with them and then subsequent treaties."
I believe they did this in the first season (or maybe the second) when they rescued Klaang for the Klingons, had crew members stranded on a Klingon Ship, as well as Archer facing a Klingon tribunal. And lets not forget the episode this season where Archer teams up with the Andorian Cmdr., Shran, and is later betrayed by him.
This looks like an interesting proposal. I get $100 to give to the artist(s) of my choice, I get a tax break on it, and the artists I like actually get the whole amount (provided I send it to them and not an intermediary). In turn, I go out and give them free promotion by placing their music on P2P networks, burning CDs for my friends, etc. and they end up getting a few more vouchers in their name.
People that don't want their work funded by the AFV can choose not to. They can instead go to the RI/MPAA and choose to get only small fractions of sales whilst still having their music illegally traded on P2P networks. But this alternative doesn't seem so pleasing.
This also promotes a system where the end-users decide who is popular, not the corporations telling us who is popular. No-talent hacks such as Brittney Spears would fail miserably while truly gifted artists would be successful.
People are saying that this would destroy the GPL, but as someone mentioned, this would render the GPL useless as everything would be in the public domain.
This guy is more of an Internet Content Provider. For the FBI to classify him as an ISP and therefore hold him to the same regulations for providing information is ridiculous, but not surprisingly, expected.
Watch out Insane Clown Posse. The/. crowd are about to infringe on your copyright.
Really? Then why is it whenever I drive to Toronto, I'm getting passed on the left and right when I'm doing 30 kph over the speed limit. Hell, police officers even pass me without their cherries blazing.
This is so stupid. If we were to leave the finding and patching of security holes, etc. to the companies in question, attacks, virii, etc. would be even more prevalent then they are today. By increasing the number of sources for reporting these flaws to basically the population of the world, we significantly increase the chances that these problems will be discovered before they can be exploited.
The DMCA (which IIRC correctly makes pointing out security flaws illegal) needs to be severely looked over or things like the MS Blaster virus are only going to be the beginning of a much larger, nastier problem. Thankfully, it's only applicable in the U.S.
It's been a while since I've looked into optics, but with having to basically display the same image on each half of the screen, won't monitors have to become extremely large to make any kind of 3D display worth while? Or is there some special property I'm overlooking that would allow functional 3D displays on todays "small" LCD screens?
I could see this becoming very useful for building 3D UI's where you could technically stack things on top of each other. Might have to play around with the point-and-click ability, but nevertheless cool.
"I look at some businesses that do hard drive recovery - the prices are exhorbitant! I could buy 2 replacement drives for those prices."
He seems somewhat surprised that the price of repairing a hard drive is more than buying a couple of new ones. You are paying to get the data salvaged, not the physical disk back.
Having worked in technical support with a database company, I can tell you how upset people can get when you tell them it's going to cost almost $400/hr to salvage their database. Sometimes it could take upwards of 16 hrs to do it depending on the size and extent of the damage.
How far a little proactiveness and an occasional backup of important data will go.
"...what right does anybody else have to tell them what they can and cannot say, do, smoke, eat, drink when it does affect other people."
When it does affect other people?? I think the government has quite a bit of right when damaging acts such as smoking, rape, and murder adversly affect the surrounding public. I'm personally quite glad that a lot of cities in Ontario having inacted anti-smoking by-laws.
I think in the mind's of the general public, it's already past the point of harrasment and/or malicious prosecution.
However, the RIAA is the bosom-child of the government and until this changes, they'll be able to get away with a lot more than they should legally be able to. Just look at the fact that they are a cartel, but are passed off as only being a monopoly (which is just sligtly less evil).
...let's make all forms of exchanging information illegal. Search engines, private servers, radio and television, etc. because I could possibly copy a television show on to VHS or DVD and give it to my friend.
Funny that you don't see attacks against other countries who have similar beliefs to America, i.e. Canada.
A lot of recent terrorist activities have been targetted at one country and one country alone. The United States. What is so different about their beliefs from those of others that has put them under the proverbial microscope?
I think it's pretty obvious to a lot of people that a part of the cause of terrorism is having others ideals forced upon you.
IANAA (I am not an American), but I see enough American television up north to see why some of these groups do feel threatened. America is trying to enforce it's ideals on the rest of the world. Democracy and Capitalism. I'm all for democracy. I think it's a great system. But you don't see Canadians going off on a tangent and forcing their views on the rest of the world. On the contrary, we believe that people should be allowed to express themselves in a manner appropriate to soceity (read: Human Beings). America needs to understand that even though it's the biggest kid on the block, it doesn't have the right to police it. That's what the UN and, to a lesser degree, INTERPOL are for.
If America wants to help eliminate terrorism in the World, they need to take a look at the policies of some of the other larger powers in the World, Canada being one of them. We are viewed throughout the world in a much better light than Americans, yet we have a lot of the same beliefs. We just don't force them upon the rest of the world.
America needs to join the international community on this effort. Going it alone reduces the legitimacy of the effort and causes the rest of the world (with a few exceptions) view America in a similar manner as Iraq: An oppresive regime trying to force it's beliefs and policies. Only this time, they're forcing them on someone else.
Note: When I refer to America, I mean more specifically, the American Government.
This is no different than a lot of companies in general. Another good example I can think of is the console market, in particular the XBox.
M$ sells these below manufacturing cost IIRC, but then locks up the insides so tight (or at least tries to; thank you MOD chips) that you are forced to pay outrageous prices for the games themselves. They aren't the only ones, but they're the best example of selling the hardware for cheap to rope you in.
And if you think you can go and make your own games, think again. The XBox SDK will run you about $10,000. Thankfully, Playstation released a relatively cheap Linux Kit for the PS2. If only other companies realized the benefits of competition and variety over monopolies and no choice.
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Even at that cost, to put something in high LEO (approx. 1,500 Km or 1,000 Miles) would only cost 1/10 of what it costs to put something in space the traditional way using liquid/solid fuel propelants.
I would imagine that the vehicles/control systems are a little more up to date than those being used by NASA for the past 40 years
"but are 71% of the chinese spammers?"
Reverse the words chinese and spammers and your answer is most likely yes.
Also, pretend that the source code is yours. And don't forget to obfuscate it as much as possible. It would only be fair.
that, with all the nanobacteria at the Mayo Clinic, Mr. Burn's got Three Stooges Syndrome.
"They've already experienced too many different kinds of Aliens."
The fact that they've introduced so many alien species may have to do with the fact that there are many alien species that become members of the federation in the future.
"What would be better, IMO, is to concentrate on building the foundations of what would become TOS - shakey aliances with some of the alien species we've already come to know, maybe fighting with them and then subsequent treaties."
I believe they did this in the first season (or maybe the second) when they rescued Klaang for the Klingons, had crew members stranded on a Klingon Ship, as well as Archer facing a Klingon tribunal. And lets not forget the episode this season where Archer teams up with the Andorian Cmdr., Shran, and is later betrayed by him.
You have it backwards. Parker Bros. should sue Microsoft for defimation of character as MS is clearly giving a bad name to the word Monopoly.
Neither are Windows and Lindows. Look what happened there.
than if I named my company "One Hundred Billion?" (raises pinky finger to corner of mouth)
Can you get a copyright/trademark on a number?
SCO CEO Darl McBride was quoted commenting on their current case against IBM as "This is like...nothing."
It's a good thing they're sending a ham radio up. I think they've had one to many themselves.
will be their bandwith bill after having their site posted on /.
This looks like an interesting proposal. I get $100 to give to the artist(s) of my choice, I get a tax break on it, and the artists I like actually get the whole amount (provided I send it to them and not an intermediary). In turn, I go out and give them free promotion by placing their music on P2P networks, burning CDs for my friends, etc. and they end up getting a few more vouchers in their name.
People that don't want their work funded by the AFV can choose not to. They can instead go to the RI/MPAA and choose to get only small fractions of sales whilst still having their music illegally traded on P2P networks. But this alternative doesn't seem so pleasing.
This also promotes a system where the end-users decide who is popular, not the corporations telling us who is popular. No-talent hacks such as Brittney Spears would fail miserably while truly gifted artists would be successful.
People are saying that this would destroy the GPL, but as someone mentioned, this would render the GPL useless as everything would be in the public domain.
This guy is more of an Internet Content Provider. For the FBI to classify him as an ISP and therefore hold him to the same regulations for providing information is ridiculous, but not surprisingly, expected.
Watch out Insane Clown Posse. The /. crowd are about to infringe on your copyright.
Really? Then why is it whenever I drive to Toronto, I'm getting passed on the left and right when I'm doing 30 kph over the speed limit. Hell, police officers even pass me without their cherries blazing.
Yeah, scratch that second correctly. Wrote that post at the end of the day at work. Bleh!
This is so stupid. If we were to leave the finding and patching of security holes, etc. to the companies in question, attacks, virii, etc. would be even more prevalent then they are today. By increasing the number of sources for reporting these flaws to basically the population of the world, we significantly increase the chances that these problems will be discovered before they can be exploited.
The DMCA (which IIRC correctly makes pointing out security flaws illegal) needs to be severely looked over or things like the MS Blaster virus are only going to be the beginning of a much larger, nastier problem. Thankfully, it's only applicable in the U.S.
It's been a while since I've looked into optics, but with having to basically display the same image on each half of the screen, won't monitors have to become extremely large to make any kind of 3D display worth while? Or is there some special property I'm overlooking that would allow functional 3D displays on todays "small" LCD screens?
I could see this becoming very useful for building 3D UI's where you could technically stack things on top of each other. Might have to play around with the point-and-click ability, but nevertheless cool.
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He seems somewhat surprised that the price of repairing a hard drive is more than buying a couple of new ones. You are paying to get the data salvaged, not the physical disk back.
Having worked in technical support with a database company, I can tell you how upset people can get when you tell them it's going to cost almost $400/hr to salvage their database. Sometimes it could take upwards of 16 hrs to do it depending on the size and extent of the damage.
How far a little proactiveness and an occasional backup of important data will go.
When it does affect other people?? I think the government has quite a bit of right when damaging acts such as smoking, rape, and murder adversly affect the surrounding public. I'm personally quite glad that a lot of cities in Ontario having inacted anti-smoking by-laws.
I think in the mind's of the general public, it's already past the point of harrasment and/or malicious prosecution.
However, the RIAA is the bosom-child of the government and until this changes, they'll be able to get away with a lot more than they should legally be able to. Just look at the fact that they are a cartel, but are passed off as only being a monopoly (which is just sligtly less evil).
...let's make all forms of exchanging information illegal. Search engines, private servers, radio and television, etc. because I could possibly copy a television show on to VHS or DVD and give it to my friend.
Funny that you don't see attacks against other countries who have similar beliefs to America, i.e. Canada.
A lot of recent terrorist activities have been targetted at one country and one country alone. The United States. What is so different about their beliefs from those of others that has put them under the proverbial microscope?
I think it's pretty obvious to a lot of people that a part of the cause of terrorism is having others ideals forced upon you.
IANAA (I am not an American), but I see enough American television up north to see why some of these groups do feel threatened. America is trying to enforce it's ideals on the rest of the world. Democracy and Capitalism. I'm all for democracy. I think it's a great system. But you don't see Canadians going off on a tangent and forcing their views on the rest of the world. On the contrary, we believe that people should be allowed to express themselves in a manner appropriate to soceity (read: Human Beings). America needs to understand that even though it's the biggest kid on the block, it doesn't have the right to police it. That's what the UN and, to a lesser degree, INTERPOL are for.
If America wants to help eliminate terrorism in the World, they need to take a look at the policies of some of the other larger powers in the World, Canada being one of them. We are viewed throughout the world in a much better light than Americans, yet we have a lot of the same beliefs. We just don't force them upon the rest of the world.
America needs to join the international community on this effort. Going it alone reduces the legitimacy of the effort and causes the rest of the world (with a few exceptions) view America in a similar manner as Iraq: An oppresive regime trying to force it's beliefs and policies. Only this time, they're forcing them on someone else.
Note: When I refer to America, I mean more specifically, the American Government.
This is no different than a lot of companies in general. Another good example I can think of is the console market, in particular the XBox.
M$ sells these below manufacturing cost IIRC, but then locks up the insides so tight (or at least tries to; thank you MOD chips) that you are forced to pay outrageous prices for the games themselves. They aren't the only ones, but they're the best example of selling the hardware for cheap to rope you in.
And if you think you can go and make your own games, think again. The XBox SDK will run you about $10,000. Thankfully, Playstation released a relatively cheap Linux Kit for the PS2. If only other companies realized the benefits of competition and variety over monopolies and no choice.