They do still have launch issues; the GP and I would argue that the issues are engineering related; orbital mechanics and fluid dynamics, for instance, are not being revised after these issues occur. In other words, the science is solid and the engineering is evolving to avoid future issues.
IMO, it is not entirely inappropriate to let private industry discover new sciences and engineering philosophies, even as it would pertain to space travel. It's great to see competitions like X-Prize, but it's easy to feel that private sector approaches have been hamstrung with respect to NASA development.
The GP would likely agree with your assessment of NASA's experience and knowledge, and [s]he even explicitly suggests that they should use that knowledge for the "rocket science business - deep space, new technologies, etc."
The quote from Andrew Ford is misleading for today's gun control.
From gun violence statistics and gun laws, leaders in per capita gun homicides, such as Maryland, Arkansas, California, parts of Nevada, and Michigan, require no such permit to purchase firearms.
IP-for-profit is all about controlling the rights to distribution. It's nice that distribution used to be a great avenue for revenue to compensate the research and development (contrary to your claim that reproduction always has been effortless), but yes, distribution is now effortless. Even though the business models of both buggy whips and IP differ tremendously, they're still ineffective, hence the analogy.
Also, there is a brave new industry making something better than what the [IP-holding-to-generate-revenue] software makers are making now: the free, open source software industry. Here, people have realized that not only is distribution effortless, they can do development in a shared and peer-reviewed environment [financially] effortlessly, although the product likely will not be created instantly.
And, is software piracy (other than copies of Microsoft Windows, Adobe CS3, and video games) really that rampant anymore? Do I just live in an alternate universe where open source software is abundant, accessible, and available for all of my platforms? If anything, I think most of us can safely agree that the rate of software piracy is declining because of the availability of open source.
I can't speak on behalf of frederec, but I've found a couple of resources to be immensely useful:
1. Tutorial
Covers a breadth of topics and provides enough detail to layout any document.
2. Reference Manual
I mostly use this as a character reference, but it should contain the depth of information that [1] might not provide.
For installation and configuration, there shouldn't be anything google can't find for you. MikTeX is great (Windows) and your GNU/Linux distribution's package manager likely has an all-in-one LaTeX package.
Right - the questions were about as long as the responses!
Speaking of forward thinking, the question about China really left me confused. Mitt correctly pointed out that China doesn't respect our intellectual property but proposes to "get serious with our Chinese friends and say guys you just cant do that or you're going to suffer consequences in our markets."
How the interviewer restrained themselves for asking HOW the Chinese would respect intellectual property is beyond me.
In the words of Arie Gold, "Yeah, and Hilary Swank has a vagina and she won an Oscar pretending she has a dick. That's what actors do, they pretend." Also, I thought "Clerks 2" was incredibly good.
The money goes to the lawyers and c-level executives that represent the RIAA because they're the ones organizing all of the suits against the illegal distribution mechanisms (and its participants). Musicians create music to be sold; they don't sue people for the abuse of IP they don't own.
this is why it's good that a mouse is not the only common input device. companies willing to invest in this technology can use two keys on the keyboard to express depth, instead of waiting for your device which may handle this problem more elegantly. also, you could take the common WASD FPS layout since millions of people seem to be fluent with that.
As pictured in the article, the 15 states are Maine, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, South Dakota, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Washington.
4 months after the release, people are still not seeing the xbox360 on the shelves. Perhaps Microsoft, in addition to increasing security, has made it incredibly difficult for hackers to exploit the x360 because of lack of availability.
the grandparent was not talking about the semantics of seeding one file. he was simply stating that if he was appointed as a seeder, he would have access to all the content (because he's serving it), not someone else, so everyone else would be trying to catch up to all of his content (presumably spread out through other torrents) but they would never be able to have more than him.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like some of the anti-pirates made it to slashdot already.
They do still have launch issues; the GP and I would argue that the issues are engineering related; orbital mechanics and fluid dynamics, for instance, are not being revised after these issues occur. In other words, the science is solid and the engineering is evolving to avoid future issues.
IMO, it is not entirely inappropriate to let private industry discover new sciences and engineering philosophies, even as it would pertain to space travel. It's great to see competitions like X-Prize, but it's easy to feel that private sector approaches have been hamstrung with respect to NASA development.
The GP would likely agree with your assessment of NASA's experience and knowledge, and [s]he even explicitly suggests that they should use that knowledge for the "rocket science business - deep space, new technologies, etc."
R. Kelly reads Slashdot?
Right; I rushed through this "research" and missed the part that said "... no licensing or permit to purchase is required for long guns." My mistake.
The quote from Andrew Ford is misleading for today's gun control. From gun violence statistics and gun laws, leaders in per capita gun homicides, such as Maryland, Arkansas, California, parts of Nevada, and Michigan, require no such permit to purchase firearms.
IP-for-profit is all about controlling the rights to distribution. It's nice that distribution used to be a great avenue for revenue to compensate the research and development (contrary to your claim that reproduction always has been effortless), but yes, distribution is now effortless. Even though the business models of both buggy whips and IP differ tremendously, they're still ineffective, hence the analogy.
Also, there is a brave new industry making something better than what the [IP-holding-to-generate-revenue] software makers are making now: the free, open source software industry. Here, people have realized that not only is distribution effortless, they can do development in a shared and peer-reviewed environment [financially] effortlessly, although the product likely will not be created instantly.
And, is software piracy (other than copies of Microsoft Windows, Adobe CS3, and video games) really that rampant anymore? Do I just live in an alternate universe where open source software is abundant, accessible, and available for all of my platforms? If anything, I think most of us can safely agree that the rate of software piracy is declining because of the availability of open source.
I can't speak on behalf of frederec, but I've found a couple of resources to be immensely useful:
1. Tutorial
Covers a breadth of topics and provides enough detail to layout any document.
2. Reference Manual
I mostly use this as a character reference, but it should contain the depth of information that [1] might not provide.
For installation and configuration, there shouldn't be anything google can't find for you. MikTeX is great (Windows) and your GNU/Linux distribution's package manager likely has an all-in-one LaTeX package.
Uhh.. no it isn't. According to wikipedia, there are three "standard" temperatures you can use to calibrate your thermometer for a Fahrenheit scale.
1) 0F - the stable temperature of ice, water, and NH_4Cl
2) 32F - where water freezes
3) 96F - average body temperature
Alcohol is not used anywhere.
Right - the questions were about as long as the responses!
Speaking of forward thinking, the question about China really left me confused. Mitt correctly pointed out that China doesn't respect our intellectual property but proposes to "get serious with our Chinese friends and say guys you just cant do that or you're going to suffer consequences in our markets."
How the interviewer restrained themselves for asking HOW the Chinese would respect intellectual property is beyond me.
In the words of Arie Gold, "Yeah, and Hilary Swank has a vagina and she won an Oscar pretending she has a dick. That's what actors do, they pretend." Also, I thought "Clerks 2" was incredibly good.
The money goes to the lawyers and c-level executives that represent the RIAA because they're the ones organizing all of the suits against the illegal distribution mechanisms (and its participants). Musicians create music to be sold; they don't sue people for the abuse of IP they don't own.
the funny thing is that when 'government' is properly spelled, the 'US Government' destroys 'rest of the world.' check it out
this is why it's good that a mouse is not the only common input device. companies willing to invest in this technology can use two keys on the keyboard to express depth, instead of waiting for your device which may handle this problem more elegantly. also, you could take the common WASD FPS layout since millions of people seem to be fluent with that.
As pictured in the article, the 15 states are Maine, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, South Dakota, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Washington.
4 months after the release, people are still not seeing the xbox360 on the shelves. Perhaps Microsoft, in addition to increasing security, has made it incredibly difficult for hackers to exploit the x360 because of lack of availability.
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's CLOBBERIN' TIME! ... oh THAT rock face... *ducks*
i believe the frequency you're thinking of is 33Hz, according to http://www.liquidinjuredhearing.com/index.php?page =about_interview
the grandparent was not talking about the semantics of seeding one file. he was simply stating that if he was appointed as a seeder, he would have access to all the content (because he's serving it), not someone else, so everyone else would be trying to catch up to all of his content (presumably spread out through other torrents) but they would never be able to have more than him.