So what, in your opinion, constitutes a MODEL ROCKET?
A MODEL rocket is a scale or semi scale model of a real rocket. It is NOT a research vechile, does not carry a payload (some larger model rockets DO carry small cameras, or transmitters. Some hobbiest launch raw eggs to prove they can bring them back alive). Weight of the propellant is limited to 4oz or less, and the rockets at liftoff must weight less than 1lb. THAT is a MODEL rocket. Anything outside of those parameters is an AMATEUR rocket and falls under FAA regulations before it can legally fly. Past a new threshold, it now appears to fall under even more strict regulations regarding explosives. Other than limitations on shipment, MODEL ROCKET engines do NOT fall under government regulations. These are the 1/4A through F engine sizes with less than 4oz of fuel. Such engines can still power a well designed rocket past the speed of sound and to altitudes of several thousand feet. (far enough away to loose it!)
If you try to remember the "inches to meters" conversion factor, you will screw it up. I just use the inverse, sorta. The number of Centimeters to the inch is 2.54 EXACTLY. Now divide that by 100 to get meters per inch, or.0254 Now hit that 1/x button on your calculator. Aha!
When DVD came out, you couldn't just copy all of your VHS tapes to 'em. Hell, you can't even right now, but that's more of an analog-to-digital issue more than anything else, at this point. Actually most of the new dvd recorders have analog video inputs and will copy your vhs tapes. You just need to connect the boxes with the correct patch cords. Now the dvd player might not record if the vhs copy has macrovisioncrud on it, but those tapes you made off the cable will record just fine. Of course you probably want to stand by the remote control of the dvd recorder to edit out the commericals....
I used to work in a unix shop ('bout 20 years ago, which is before Linux. I used nroff and roff to write documents (which is sorta like Tex). Reminds me of HTML actually, the way you have to insert commands to do formating. Got the job done, but we didn't have a print preview, so I wasted a LOT of paper getting it right!
The space shuttle isn't a 'safe' technology. In fact space travel itself is dangerous. Astronauts must know their line of work has it's risks and they accept this much as firefighters, police, and military personal accept the risks in their chosen professions. So why limit the shuttle to the ISS (ie: let hubble die) because it's risky? DUH! That hasn't changed since the first astronaut climbed atop a redstone. The shuttles will have to be replaced by something else, and that something won't be any safer. (It may be cheaper to use, carry more payload, be more available, etc., but it WON'T be any safer). We've lost fewer astronauts to space accidents then the miltary has lost test pilots (not to mention fighter pilot trainees) and we havn't canceled the airforce (yet). Maybe fewer people would want to become astronauts (outside the military) if the REAL risks were made clearer, but I doubt we would have a shortage of personal. Keep the shuttles flying as long as needed. Develop a replacement (a good one, and keep poltics and pork out of the process).
I'm surprised that the miltary sees no value in a moon base. The scientific values are sure there. Building a long term base on the moon will serve to develop the technology to go to Mars. But until the red planet has been thoughly expolored by robots, there won't be any need for man to go there in person.
It's also possible that the emission of the cathode of the pencil tube used in the transmitter has fallen off to the point where the tube doesn't generate a usefull signal anymore. And the spacecraft doesn't have a spare tube.
That tube has been going longer than most tv picture tubes.
I think the original point was made in jest, and SCO would have to be idiots not to request electronic versions of the documents. IBM would probably face a contempt charge if it did sent over that much paper. Would someone face a contempt charge if they paid a fine in PENNIES! How could they, it's LEGAL TENDER!
As for IBM, did SCO specify what form they wanted the information in, paper or electronic?
As for the trees, guess some people saw Penn and Teller's BULLSHIT show on recycling. The point of that was that if you consider the Energy used to recycle paper and the pollution recycled paper production produces, it just MIGHT be better NOT to recycle paper at all! Actually scrap wood and sawdust left over from sawmill operations and construction where wood is used should be recycled into paper.
I really don't get upset by the M$ ads in Linux Magazine or on Linux Today. (GWB's negative tv ad's for his re-election irk me more). Let Bill bankroll Linux web sites and magazines with ad's that Linux people will just laugh at. If they are foolish to take out a centerfold magazine ad, use it to wrap fish!
Long answer: CD burning software companies will HAVE to support the new copyright schemes, lest they get blown out of the water by RIAA et all saying "We gave you a copyright scheme, now use it". Watch and see. If "copyright management through litigation" takes off with DRM, you won't be able to purchase a burning program in a few years that doesn't support these schemes. And free software versions will be more or less sued out of existence. Free software will just end up being posted from countries that couldn't give a shit about the RIAA, or on floating platforms in the middle of the altlantic. Does the RIAA intend to start a WAR with the third world and the block of nations that are anti us?
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That's not true. You can buy buffalo steaks at the local whole food's store. Buffalo made a comeback.
Outlaw the production of ALL gas guzzling SUV's NOW! Anything that gets less than say 20mpg combined average fuel consumption should be made ILLEGAL. Trucks and other special vechiles used for industry would be given exceptions, but to buy and use these you would now need a special licence, and their use would be restricted (limited highway access, limited number of passengers....those extended cab cowboy Catilac's would be illegal, etc). Gawd, just think how much gas this country would save if all the damn hummers and excursions were put in car crushers!
The transmitter in the phone can and will cause fires, there are eyewitness accounts to that effect. I don't think a transmitter will start a fire. If it could, then both hams and police operating their two way radios (with many times the power of a cell phone) should have been blowing up gas stations for years, and this has never happened. (Not to mention amateur radio field day operations near a running gas powered electric generator)
for your cell phone to ignite a fire from gas fumes. But it's the pizo-electric buzzer that would cause it. Most cell phones have a pizo-electric transducer that generates the ring tones. Pizo electric devices can generate high voltage discharges, in fact they are used in ignitors for gas grills. But this would only happen if your phone rang while you were pumping gas, not if you were to make an outgoing call. The transmitter in your phone CAN'T cause a fire.
He claims that outsoucing gives away our IP (true) and that the only reason the third world can do the job cheaper is becuase THEY HAVE OUR IP. Circular logic!
Open source will only destroy programming jobs for those that make 'off the shelf' software. But that is only the tip of the iceburg. Almost ALL software being written is NOT off the shelf stuff, but custom written for a single customer, or embedded for sale in a specific product.
Lets see you have a movie that you didn't buy. How the fuck did you get it if you didn't steal it! Yes you did infringe on the copyright, WHEN YOU STOLE THE MOVIE, and so did the guy who gave it to you. QED.
Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
If you downloaded that file illegally using their service then they CAN demand that you destroy it, OR GO TO JAIL for the THIEFT of the movie. How often is it that a THIEF is allowed to go free if he returns the stolen goods? You're getting a good deal, so shut up.
OTOH if your copy of that file is legal (you ripped a dvd that you own to view it on your pc) and allowed someone else to upload it they want you to prevent this from happening again. Either remove the file from your pc or block it from bit torrit, your choice. If you don't know how to block it from bit torrit you have to remove it. Again, you are being given a good deal, how many dealers in stolen goods are let off the hook by promising never to do it again?
If a US company is selling product in China or India, they SHOULD have some employees there to deal directly with their customers. But if an American company moves operations overseas ONLY to serve the bottom line and SCREW UP the American economy by putting Americans out of work, then take away their tax advantages, pile MORE taxes on them, and DENY them government contracts.
I remember converting a version of trek from MS basic to PT (remember Processor Technology?) 5K basic which only had one dimensional arrays (what a pain. You DO know how to simulate a two dimensional array with one dimensional ones don't you?).
But my favorite was 'hunt the wumpus'! I made my own version of that game and called it 'Jabborwock'.
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Actually the Nazi party and the SS made him an offer he couldn't refuse. (You have family in Germany?)
So what, in your opinion, constitutes a MODEL ROCKET?
A MODEL rocket is a scale or semi scale model of a real rocket. It is NOT a research vechile, does not carry a payload (some larger model rockets DO carry small cameras, or transmitters. Some hobbiest launch raw eggs to prove they can bring them back alive). Weight of the propellant is limited to 4oz or less, and the rockets at liftoff must weight less than 1lb. THAT is a MODEL rocket. Anything outside of those parameters
is an AMATEUR rocket and falls under FAA regulations before it can legally fly. Past a new threshold, it now appears to fall under even more strict regulations regarding explosives. Other than limitations on shipment, MODEL ROCKET engines do NOT fall under government regulations. These are the 1/4A through F engine sizes with less than 4oz of fuel. Such engines can still power a well designed rocket past the speed of sound and to altitudes of several thousand feet. (far enough away to loose it!)
That doesn't make sense...if he has Ballmer, what does he need the sheep for????
An orgy.
If you try to remember the "inches to meters" conversion factor, you will screw it up. I just use the inverse, sorta. The number of Centimeters to the inch is 2.54 EXACTLY. Now divide that by 100 to get meters per inch, or .0254 Now hit that 1/x button on your calculator. Aha!
When DVD came out, you couldn't just copy all of your VHS tapes to 'em. Hell, you can't even right now, but that's more of an analog-to-digital issue more than anything else, at this point.
Actually most of the new dvd recorders have analog video inputs and will copy your vhs tapes. You just need to connect the boxes with the correct patch cords. Now the dvd player might not record if the vhs copy has macrovisioncrud on it, but those tapes you made off the cable will record just fine. Of course you probably want to stand by the remote control of the dvd recorder to edit out the commericals....
I used to work in a unix shop ('bout 20 years ago, which is before Linux. I used nroff and roff to write documents (which is sorta like Tex). Reminds me of HTML actually, the way you have to insert commands to do formating. Got the job done, but we didn't have a print preview, so I wasted a LOT of paper getting it right!
The space shuttle isn't a 'safe' technology. In fact space travel itself is dangerous. Astronauts must know their line of work has it's risks and they accept this much as firefighters, police, and military personal accept the risks in their chosen professions. So why limit the shuttle to the ISS (ie: let hubble die) because it's risky? DUH! That hasn't changed since the first astronaut climbed atop a redstone. The shuttles will have to be replaced by something else, and that something won't be any safer. (It may be cheaper to use, carry more payload, be more available, etc., but it WON'T be any safer). We've lost fewer astronauts to space accidents then the miltary has lost test pilots (not to mention fighter pilot trainees) and we havn't canceled the airforce (yet). Maybe fewer people would want to become astronauts (outside the military) if the REAL risks were made clearer, but I doubt we would have a shortage of personal.
Keep the shuttles flying as long as needed. Develop a replacement (a good one, and keep poltics and pork out of the process).
I'm surprised that the miltary sees no value in a moon base. The scientific values are sure there. Building a long term base on the moon will serve to develop the technology to go to Mars. But until the red planet has been thoughly expolored by robots, there won't be any need for man to go there in person.
It's also possible that the emission of the cathode
of the pencil tube used in the transmitter has
fallen off to the point where the tube doesn't generate a usefull signal anymore. And the spacecraft doesn't have a spare tube.
That tube has been going longer than most tv picture tubes.
I think the original point was made in jest, and SCO would have to be idiots not to request electronic versions of the documents. IBM would probably face a contempt charge if it did sent over that much paper.
Would someone face a contempt charge if they paid a fine in PENNIES! How could they, it's LEGAL TENDER!
As for IBM, did SCO specify what form they wanted the information in, paper or electronic?
As for the trees, guess some people saw Penn and Teller's BULLSHIT show on recycling. The point of that was that if you consider the Energy used to recycle paper and the pollution recycled paper production produces, it just MIGHT be better NOT to recycle paper at all! Actually scrap wood and sawdust left over from sawmill operations and construction where wood is used should be recycled into paper.
I really don't get upset by the M$ ads in Linux Magazine or on Linux Today. (GWB's negative tv ad's for his re-election irk me more).
Let Bill bankroll Linux web sites and magazines with ad's that Linux people will just laugh at. If they are foolish to take out a centerfold magazine ad, use it to wrap fish!
Long answer: CD burning software companies will HAVE to support the new copyright schemes, lest they get blown out of the water by RIAA et all saying "We gave you a copyright scheme, now use it". Watch and see. If "copyright management through litigation" takes off with DRM, you won't be able to purchase a burning program in a few years that doesn't support these schemes. And free software versions will be more or less sued out of existence.
Free software will just end up being posted from countries that couldn't give a shit about the RIAA, or on floating platforms in the middle of the altlantic. Does the RIAA intend to start a WAR with the third world and the block of nations that are anti us?
That's not true. You can buy buffalo steaks at the local whole food's store. Buffalo made a comeback.
Outlaw the production of ALL gas guzzling SUV's NOW! Anything that gets less than say 20mpg combined average fuel consumption should be made ILLEGAL. Trucks and other special vechiles used for industry would be given exceptions, but to buy and use these you would now need a special licence, and their use would be restricted (limited highway access, limited number of passengers....those extended cab cowboy Catilac's would be illegal, etc). Gawd, just think how much gas this country would save if all the damn hummers and excursions were put in car crushers!
Send all the papers over by carrier pigeons so SCO will not only be buried in paper, but bird shit as well.
I'd like to see someone sioux sco (as in with a
tomahawk).
The transmitter in the phone can and will cause fires, there are eyewitness accounts to that effect.
I don't think a transmitter will start a fire. If it could, then both hams and police operating their two way radios (with many times the power of a cell phone) should have been blowing up gas stations for years, and this has never happened.
(Not to mention amateur radio field day operations near a running gas powered electric generator)
for your cell phone to ignite a fire from gas fumes.
But it's the pizo-electric buzzer that would cause it. Most cell phones have a pizo-electric transducer that generates the ring tones. Pizo electric devices can generate high voltage discharges, in fact they are used in ignitors for gas grills. But this would only happen if your phone rang while you were pumping gas, not if you were to make an outgoing call. The transmitter in your phone CAN'T cause a fire.
That shits and farts were powerfull!
I you smell my farts can you tell
what I had for dinner?
They are NOT going into orbit. This is a sub-orbital flight and it will be many miles below the lowest satelite.
He claims that outsoucing gives away our IP (true) and that the only reason the third world can do the job cheaper is becuase THEY HAVE OUR IP. Circular logic!
Open source will only destroy programming jobs for those that make 'off the shelf' software. But that is only the tip of the iceburg. Almost ALL software being written is NOT off the shelf stuff, but custom written for a single customer, or embedded for sale in a specific product.
Lets see you have a movie that you didn't buy.
How the fuck did you get it if you didn't steal it!
Yes you did infringe on the copyright, WHEN YOU STOLE THE MOVIE, and so did the guy who gave it to you. QED.
Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
If you downloaded that file illegally using their service then they CAN demand that you destroy it, OR GO TO JAIL for the THIEFT of the movie. How often is it that a THIEF is allowed to go free if he returns the stolen goods? You're getting a good deal, so shut up.
OTOH if your copy of that file is legal (you ripped a dvd that you own to view it on your pc) and allowed someone else to upload it they want you to prevent this from happening again. Either remove the file from your pc or block it from bit torrit, your choice. If you don't know how to block it from bit torrit you have to remove it.
Again, you are being given a good deal, how many dealers in stolen goods are let off the hook by promising never to do it again?
If a US company is selling product in China or India, they SHOULD have some employees there to deal directly with their customers. But if an American company moves operations overseas ONLY to serve the bottom line and SCREW UP the American economy by putting Americans out of work, then take away their tax advantages, pile MORE taxes on them, and DENY them government contracts.
I remember converting a version of trek from MS basic to PT (remember Processor Technology?) 5K basic which only had one dimensional arrays (what a pain. You DO know how to simulate a two dimensional array with one dimensional ones don't you?).
But my favorite was 'hunt the wumpus'!
I made my own version of that game and called it
'Jabborwock'.