I would have picked LOX/Kerosene for the propellants. Both are widely available and cheap as hell. Not to mention high performance. But no... he just had to try to get a working H2O2 monoprop engine (which would have less performance mind you) which several people have tried to get working decently in the past and failed. Oh well.
libz and libpng are opensource (their libraries match the OSI definition) and several closed-source apps use it: including Internet Explorer...
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Mozilla comes from Netscape. IE came because of Netscape. They were both either clones or directly based on Mosaic. Which was made by academia (you know, NSF funding, which some people say isn't useful for anything).
Several things had plugins before Active X. Cubase has had plugins for yonks.
Microsoft Office started with Word and Excel. Word is a Wordperfect clone and Excel a Lotus 1-2-3 clone.
FTP was also file sharing before Napster. It just wasn't p2p. p2p apps predate Napster (e.g. the military has used them for a long time for massive distributed networks). Napster however, sucked.
Napster was basically IRC with DCC and a search engine tacked on top. Hardly innovative, and I still remember how it was lame at resuming broken downloads, how it didn't segment downloads and did not check if files had errors in it.
BitTorrent on the other hand segments downloads, does proper checking, and works well for downloading large files. Napster didn't. Napster was for mp3 files, and sharing anything else was broken.
Before PHP and ASP there was cgi-bin, which you could write in shell script, which predates either of those by a long time.
Everyone and their grandmother has done SQL after IBM. Including large closed-source companies like Oracle. Does not mean theirs aren't better in some way of course. Just because you made the first version does not mean your version will always be better.
Besides these are non-sequitor, because I didn't see the parent poster mention them. You just threw them in to prove your point. If anything you just proved closed-source commercial works are as big a bunch of cloners as opensource, if not more.
He produced a better SCM, when opensource SCMs already existed. So he's the great innovator, but if someone in the opensource community makes an even better SCM than his, then opensource is just a bunch of copiers and fakes. Nice kool-aid.
In fact, I think opensource would drive innovation forward faster.
Less resources wasted reinventing the wheel, because you can re-use everyone else's software without paying them a dime.
The fact that software programmers only earn money with opensource by actually working (i.e. doing support or adding new features with contract work) mean software will move forward in stability and/or features instead of being milked to death by the creator company (Quark XPress anyone?)
So for you GCC, glibc, and the kernel are useless contributions?
RedHat is a major contributor to both GCC and glibc, not to mention the kernel.
Regarding subversion, that is bollocks. The subversion people used to program CVS, which is opensource, and which larry also copied significantly to make his beloved subversion.
Oh yeah, nearly forgot to say. All the talk about Project Prometeus being about making nuclear power reactors for deep-space observation in the Jovian Moons, etc seems somewhat bunk. It fits in much better with the DoD talk of high-power RADAR satellites. Those need as much juice as they can get, and solar pannels are probably not up to it.
Part of the objectives were propaganda, but there was much militarisation as well. In fact, the military and intelligence community combined spent more on space in either the USA or the USSR than the pseudo-civilian propaganda programs. Compare the budget of the DoD+NRO for space vs NASA's budget. In the USSR, Korolev had to keep convincing the upper echelons that his programs had military use to get funding. Remember, R-7 Soyuz, the rocket which put Gagarin in orbit and from where the current rockets used by the Russians to service ISS come, was sold and used as an ICBM.
The initial military vision involved manned orbital space stations doing Earth reconaissance, supression of enemy use of space or even orbital bombing runs (more problematic because launching mass to orbit is expensive).
Improved computers, and the fact that computers do not need ressuply (computers feed off the fat of the space land via their solar panels, while humans do not), or sleep killed manned military space for Earth observation duties.
IMO if we get into space combat per se, the human element will eventually need to be as close to the action as possible to ensure a rapid response time (communications are only as fast as the speed of light). Space-space or land-space anti-satellite weapons, and space bombers will be with us in the future. Space bombers will likely round up mass from asteroids, etc and launch them at Earth. Cheaper than nuclear weapons and no fallout.
For now, the military only seems to be working on how to supress enemy satellites and launch more of their own. Their own satellites being for space observation via Optical, RADAR and LIDAR or positioning systems ala GPS.
Most things were already in prototype stage before the military got their hands on it. But it was the money funneled into the military which improved the prototype to be more functional and mass produced. Oh, and let's not forget many large modern airstrips (requisite for modern aviation) started as military bases.
If you compare, for example, the work done by private rocket funding in Germany before the Nazis got their hands into it, you would see that despite the basic technology having prototypes, their scale and production rates were abysmally low. It takes a lot of money to take the bugs out and making something that can be mass-produced.
It is not as much a myth as a fallacy. I try to steer and avoid if possible when I know braking would be unsafe to brake, but sometimes there is *no way* to steer and avoid. You need to stop. If there is a car going in the opposite direction and walls on both sides of the road, you have to brake.
The theory goes, if a vehicle is reusable you can save money on testing. You need less prototypes to qualify a vehicle, and you can more often can do non-destructive aborts and not cause million dollar satellites to explode.
Unfortunately, the cost of developing a reusable is way, way higher than an expendable. Not to mention that all orbital "reusables" built so far are *not* 100% reusable and are hard to repair (read: costly) or monitor. Think Space Shuttle or Energia+Buran here.
The problem is usually materials. Once we get better materials a reusable might make sense. You want something light which can take a lot of reentry temperature and not deform easily (i.e. unobtainium). Unfortunately, the pace of materials improvements is usually quite slow.
5) The private sector has been gearing up on non-shuttle launches for the past 8 years or so. This has made the Delta II one of the most popular launch vehicles while the Shuttle finds less and less work.
That must be why ILS is the current launch market leader then (Hint: Delta II is from Boeing and ILS is a consortium of Lockheed-Martin and Russians).
No you do not need to use RAW. "RAW" is the name we usually give to uncompressed images without any metadata whatsoever, just the content. What you do need is a high resolution non-lossy image.
A 16-bit per channel PNG would fit the bill. If you can use it for satellite photos, you sure can use them for land photos at a short range. As would a TIFF with RAW or LZW compressed data, etc. You would want some extra metadata however.
Mount-Rainier was supposed to make CD drives seem more like random read/write devices, but few devices support it. Dunno if its because of expensive licensing fees, expensive support hardware or what.
phpbb may be poorly coded and ridden with security holes, but there are loads of themes for it, there are loads of third party extensions for it, loads of support since loads of people use it, and like you said, everything is free.
Even Wolfenstein 3D was obviously inspired by Eye of the Beholder and other old RPG games. You can see with Quake that ID has tried to make First Person RPGs, but making the engine has always turned out to be so much work, they soon give up trying to add too many RPG elements to it.
All of the free Civilization 3 mods for tilesets are tainted. They all are based on the standard Civilization 3 graphics. Compare Womoks to the Civilization 3 tileset side by side to see what I mean.
FYI, Freeciv does have support for Civilization 3 like base terrain tiles, but no one has made a tileset which uses it.
The copyright license of a program does not extend to the data you produce with it AFAIK. See the Electronic Arts Paint program case for more info on this. Their license used to imply that any art you created with it was theirs, and it was shot down. It is nice that the license clarifies this though.
Sorry, but I got no case reference, I got it from Wikipedia here.
If I sell chocolate to a person with a history of stroke or tobacco to someone with lung cancer, I am also assisting in a suicide. So what? Not everyone who uses drugs is interested in suicide you know.
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I would have picked LOX/Kerosene for the propellants. Both are widely available and cheap as hell. Not to mention high performance. But no... he just had to try to get a working H2O2 monoprop engine (which would have less performance mind you) which several people have tried to get working decently in the past and failed. Oh well.
libz and libpng are opensource (their libraries match the OSI definition) and several closed-source apps use it: including Internet Explorer...
Mozilla comes from Netscape. IE came because of Netscape. They were both either clones or directly based on Mosaic. Which was made by academia (you know, NSF funding, which some people say isn't useful for anything).
Several things had plugins before Active X. Cubase has had plugins for yonks.
Microsoft Office started with Word and Excel. Word is a Wordperfect clone and Excel a Lotus 1-2-3 clone.
FTP was also file sharing before Napster. It just wasn't p2p. p2p apps predate Napster (e.g. the military has used them for a long time for massive distributed networks). Napster however, sucked.
Napster was basically IRC with DCC and a search engine tacked on top. Hardly innovative, and I still remember how it was lame at resuming broken downloads, how it didn't segment downloads and did not check if files had errors in it.
BitTorrent on the other hand segments downloads, does proper checking, and works well for downloading large files. Napster didn't. Napster was for mp3 files, and sharing anything else was broken.
Before PHP and ASP there was cgi-bin, which you could write in shell script, which predates either of those by a long time.
Everyone and their grandmother has done SQL after IBM. Including large closed-source companies like Oracle. Does not mean theirs aren't better in some way of course. Just because you made the first version does not mean your version will always be better.
Besides these are non-sequitor, because I didn't see the parent poster mention them. You just threw them in to prove your point. If anything you just proved closed-source commercial works are as big a bunch of cloners as opensource, if not more.
He produced a better SCM, when opensource SCMs already existed. So he's the great innovator, but if someone in the opensource community makes an even better SCM than his, then opensource is just a bunch of copiers and fakes. Nice kool-aid.
Less resources wasted reinventing the wheel, because you can re-use everyone else's software without paying them a dime.
The fact that software programmers only earn money with opensource by actually working (i.e. doing support or adding new features with contract work) mean software will move forward in stability and/or features instead of being milked to death by the creator company (Quark XPress anyone?)
RedHat is a major contributor to both GCC and glibc, not to mention the kernel.
Regarding subversion, that is bollocks. The subversion people used to program CVS, which is opensource, and which larry also copied significantly to make his beloved subversion.
Nothing is created out of a vacuum.
Other examples would be libz, libpng, etc.
GZip and PNG were "invented" for opensource use and now everyone uses them.
Oh yeah, nearly forgot to say. All the talk about Project Prometeus being about making nuclear power reactors for deep-space observation in the Jovian Moons, etc seems somewhat bunk. It fits in much better with the DoD talk of high-power RADAR satellites. Those need as much juice as they can get, and solar pannels are probably not up to it.
Part of the objectives were propaganda, but there was much militarisation as well. In fact, the military and intelligence community combined spent more on space in either the USA or the USSR than the pseudo-civilian propaganda programs. Compare the budget of the DoD+NRO for space vs NASA's budget. In the USSR, Korolev had to keep convincing the upper echelons that his programs had military use to get funding. Remember, R-7 Soyuz, the rocket which put Gagarin in orbit and from where the current rockets used by the Russians to service ISS come, was sold and used as an ICBM.
The initial military vision involved manned orbital space stations doing Earth reconaissance, supression of enemy use of space or even orbital bombing runs (more problematic because launching mass to orbit is expensive).
Improved computers, and the fact that computers do not need ressuply (computers feed off the fat of the space land via their solar panels, while humans do not), or sleep killed manned military space for Earth observation duties.
IMO if we get into space combat per se, the human element will eventually need to be as close to the action as possible to ensure a rapid response time (communications are only as fast as the speed of light). Space-space or land-space anti-satellite weapons, and space bombers will be with us in the future. Space bombers will likely round up mass from asteroids, etc and launch them at Earth. Cheaper than nuclear weapons and no fallout.
For now, the military only seems to be working on how to supress enemy satellites and launch more of their own. Their own satellites being for space observation via Optical, RADAR and LIDAR or positioning systems ala GPS.
If you compare, for example, the work done by private rocket funding in Germany before the Nazis got their hands into it, you would see that despite the basic technology having prototypes, their scale and production rates were abysmally low. It takes a lot of money to take the bugs out and making something that can be mass-produced.
Yes and the second law of thermodynamics says that will eventually lead to a bunch of dead humans.
It is not as much a myth as a fallacy. I try to steer and avoid if possible when I know braking would be unsafe to brake, but sometimes there is *no way* to steer and avoid. You need to stop. If there is a car going in the opposite direction and walls on both sides of the road, you have to brake.
Doesn't seem to stop spam by snail-mail or telephone.
Unfortunately, the cost of developing a reusable is way, way higher than an expendable. Not to mention that all orbital "reusables" built so far are *not* 100% reusable and are hard to repair (read: costly) or monitor. Think Space Shuttle or Energia+Buran here.
The problem is usually materials. Once we get better materials a reusable might make sense. You want something light which can take a lot of reentry temperature and not deform easily (i.e. unobtainium). Unfortunately, the pace of materials improvements is usually quite slow.
That must be why ILS is the current launch market leader then (Hint: Delta II is from Boeing and ILS is a consortium of Lockheed-Martin and Russians).
A 16-bit per channel PNG would fit the bill. If you can use it for satellite photos, you sure can use them for land photos at a short range. As would a TIFF with RAW or LZW compressed data, etc. You would want some extra metadata however.
A hot-swap HD in a mounted on a special enclosure (like so many racks have now), is removable pretty easily. Just somewhat bulky.
Mount-Rainier was supposed to make CD drives seem more like random read/write devices, but few devices support it. Dunno if its because of expensive licensing fees, expensive support hardware or what.
phpbb may be poorly coded and ridden with security holes, but there are loads of themes for it, there are loads of third party extensions for it, loads of support since loads of people use it, and like you said, everything is free.
Even Wolfenstein 3D was obviously inspired by Eye of the Beholder and other old RPG games. You can see with Quake that ID has tried to make First Person RPGs, but making the engine has always turned out to be so much work, they soon give up trying to add too many RPG elements to it.
I still prefer the Simtex originals though. Even with their SVGA graphics.
Not to mention square, cylinder and donut maps.
FYI, Freeciv does have support for Civilization 3 like base terrain tiles, but no one has made a tileset which uses it.
Sorry, but I got no case reference, I got it from Wikipedia here.
If I sell chocolate to a person with a history of stroke or tobacco to someone with lung cancer, I am also assisting in a suicide. So what? Not everyone who uses drugs is interested in suicide you know.