It appears most of the 8 bit personal computers do work. A lot of the DEC hardware works as well. It's the IBM mainframe stuff that's only front panels.
You miss the point. You need a magnetic field. It deflects the ionized particles in the solar wind. I'm Not implying that humans can't do fine in a magnetic field. Im Am implying that humans won't do well when continuously exposed to rads of radiation. By the way, you don't need a particularly strong magnetic field. You just need a large one.
Well, rigging up some enourmouse artificial magnetic shield has another side benefit: It protects you from the charged particles in the solar wind. Humans don't react well to massive doses of radiation in the form of energetic alpha, beta, and protons.
Not every business cares about what's Legitimate and Fair. The care about contracts and money. If there are contracts in place, which preclude use of this software in it's open source form, then there's not much you can do. However, if you need modification made and do have an enterprise level contract or agreement with the company, you might have mechanisms in the contract to request the changes.
I missed part of the last sentence. You're obviously aware that a lot of what occurs, in terms of legislation or executive action is a knee jerk reaction to some event. Homeland Security being a response to 9/11 for example. It usually get's undone in an election cycle or two if the results really are bad.
Some will argue with me (I occasionally have to respectfully disagree with some of my co-workers) that once a law is put in place, it's nearly impossible to remove. Same is true of social programs. I admit there is some difficulty there; but, I don't see this as a roadblock preventing the system from righting itself, one way or another, in the long term.
You know, it's not a perfect system and this is why, as I said, it sometimes takes a LONG time to fix a problem. Look at how long it's taken the court system to throw out frivolous patents. For that matter, look how long it took to extend civil rights to everyone.
It's a government of the people by the people. So, it's going to make mistakes (no man being perfect, and all that).
This is why our government is composed of three branches which have external regulation. Just because the Executive office wants something, doesn't mean Congress will fund it or pass corresponding laws. Even if they do, the Court system can find it unconstitutional and have it thrown out. Finally, the regulation can kick in when things go wrong. It's a government by the people, for the people. If the people are unhappy with the way the government is working, they can express that by voting in a new Executive and a new Congress. Sometimes this takes a LONG time to happen, but it does work.
This may not be a done deal. Some stockholders are suing, trying to block the sale, because the price is equivalent to the cash on hand, investments, and tangible assets. It appears to value the IP at $0 and the stockholders think Transmeta is worth more.
Of course people are emotionally invested. Think about it for a minute...
*waits*
It is not unusual for someone to put in 10 years of their life planning and building one of these things. They you have to wait for the launch, wait for it to reach Mars, and hope you get some good science out of it.
This rover was supposed to last at least 90 days. It's still going 5 years later. They're still getting good science out of it.
Now, with some of the people on the project having 15+ years of their lives invested in this, you expect them to NOT be emotionally invested?
This has been covered before... Anyway, here's the deal: 1.) The wiper would add weight and cost. 2.) The wiper would require power. 3.) The wiper would eventually wear out. 4.) The wiper might get stuck mid-"wipe", blocking the solar energy incident on the panels. 5.) The wiper would scratch the surface of the solar panel, reducing the amount of absorbed light. Either 4 or 5 would reduce the amount of power generated.
Until the controller (single point of failure) on your fault tolerant RAID array fails, either mirroring the errors or corrupting multiple disks simultaneously. Have seen that happen twice.
My experience is 3-4 years on a desktop machine, heavy usage. If they make it through the first month that is. One exception was when we bought a case of WD drives which apparently came from a bad batch. All of those suffered spindle bearing failures between 9 and 12 month (high pitch whine which grew louder until the drive would one day refuse to spin up).
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Yes, but this is just one step in their plan. They hope to get the Falcon 9 and Dragon man-rated and there's a Falcon 9 Heavy in the works.
So... Who wants to be the first one to try violating one of Microsoft's software patents and test it in court? Hmmm?
It appears most of the 8 bit personal computers do work. A lot of the DEC hardware works as well. It's the IBM mainframe stuff that's only front panels.
Oh, and if you combined all the "nuclear waste" we have ever generated, and implanted it into Mars' core, it would have negligeable affect.
You miss the point. You need a magnetic field. It deflects the ionized particles in the solar wind. I'm Not implying that humans can't do fine in a magnetic field. Im Am implying that humans won't do well when continuously exposed to rads of radiation. By the way, you don't need a particularly strong magnetic field. You just need a large one.
Well, rigging up some enourmouse artificial magnetic shield has another side benefit: It protects you from the charged particles in the solar wind. Humans don't react well to massive doses of radiation in the form of energetic alpha, beta, and protons.
Not every business cares about what's Legitimate and Fair. The care about contracts and money. If there are contracts in place, which preclude use of this software in it's open source form, then there's not much you can do. However, if you need modification made and do have an enterprise level contract or agreement with the company, you might have mechanisms in the contract to request the changes.
I missed part of the last sentence. You're obviously aware that a lot of what occurs, in terms of legislation or executive action is a knee jerk reaction to some event. Homeland Security being a response to 9/11 for example. It usually get's undone in an election cycle or two if the results really are bad.
Some will argue with me (I occasionally have to respectfully disagree with some of my co-workers) that once a law is put in place, it's nearly impossible to remove. Same is true of social programs. I admit there is some difficulty there; but, I don't see this as a roadblock preventing the system from righting itself, one way or another, in the long term.
You know, it's not a perfect system and this is why, as I said, it sometimes takes a LONG time to fix a problem. Look at how long it's taken the court system to throw out frivolous patents. For that matter, look how long it took to extend civil rights to everyone.
It's a government of the people by the people. So, it's going to make mistakes (no man being perfect, and all that).
except that it would induce additional vortex currents around the device.
This is why our government is composed of three branches which have external regulation. Just because the Executive office wants something, doesn't mean Congress will fund it or pass corresponding laws. Even if they do, the Court system can find it unconstitutional and have it thrown out. Finally, the regulation can kick in when things go wrong. It's a government by the people, for the people. If the people are unhappy with the way the government is working, they can express that by voting in a new Executive and a new Congress. Sometimes this takes a LONG time to happen, but it does work.
I'm pretty sure *checks* yep, I was running RedHat in 1995. And it was version 2.0
Most of their $250M is from a recent settlement with Intel. They won't be getting any more money from THAT source.
This may not be a done deal. Some stockholders are suing, trying to block the sale, because the price is equivalent to the cash on hand, investments, and tangible assets. It appears to value the IP at $0 and the stockholders think Transmeta is worth more.
Why is it that Firefox has been out since my early college days
Why you young whipper snapper. I remember when Lynx and Mosaic first came out. When pages were all TEXT. And we LIKED it.
For that matter, I remember computers before any of this fancy "graphics" stuff was common. Before X. Before the Mac. Before Windows.
*grumble* firefox *grumble* young people *grumble
That's good actually, since Mammoth don't eat ice.
We already do export coal to the world market. Lots and lots of coal.
Good, the AI needs a backup site where it can remain hidden when it begins the takeover of the world and elimination of the human scourge.
Of course people are emotionally invested. Think about it for a minute...
*waits*
It is not unusual for someone to put in 10 years of their life planning and building one of these things. They you have to wait for the launch, wait for it to reach Mars, and hope you get some good science out of it.
This rover was supposed to last at least 90 days. It's still going 5 years later. They're still getting good science out of it.
Now, with some of the people on the project having 15+ years of their lives invested in this, you expect them to NOT be emotionally invested?
This has been covered before... Anyway, here's the deal: 1.) The wiper would add weight and cost. 2.) The wiper would require power. 3.) The wiper would eventually wear out. 4.) The wiper might get stuck mid-"wipe", blocking the solar energy incident on the panels. 5.) The wiper would scratch the surface of the solar panel, reducing the amount of absorbed light. Either 4 or 5 would reduce the amount of power generated.
You're taking a NASA centric perspective there; and, even still, you're missing a whole bunch of orbiters...
Good. Most people (mistakenly) do. I like redundancy.
Until the controller (single point of failure) on your fault tolerant RAID array fails, either mirroring the errors or corrupting multiple disks simultaneously. Have seen that happen twice.
My experience is 3-4 years on a desktop machine, heavy usage. If they make it through the first month that is. One exception was when we bought a case of WD drives which apparently came from a bad batch. All of those suffered spindle bearing failures between 9 and 12 month (high pitch whine which grew louder until the drive would one day refuse to spin up).
come on guy. Do an analog loop back and use Audacity to capture it.