Jeeze, this makes you wonder if there is going to be "dot.space" phenomena where people will throw money at anything that hints of private spaceflight. I envy the folks like Rutan who are positioned to catch this cash. Hopefully they'll hang on to it, unlike a lot of dot.com folks who thought the gravy train would never end.
For about $210,000 a pop, the two men intend to offer seats in SpaceShipOne, or a similar craft, for anybody eager to be thrust into space. For that amount, well-heeled customers will get three days of training before being treated to about three minutes of weightlessness. The first customers are expected to go into space in 2007.
Hopefully we can get to something more along the lines of spending the night in space for, say,$50,000. If we could do that within five years that would be awesome. I don't think I would spend 210K for three minutes even if I had it.
I already understood that and assume others do as well. I don't see any stories attributed to Google. If it's the BBC then it's attributed to the BBC, who, in turn, attributes it to the writer. Is that what you meant?
This happened to me before though it's been a while. I swapped out the power supply and that fixed it. Do you have a spare p/s you can try? Even if it doesn't fit you could use it to determine if that is the problem.
All of which would be fine except that so many people go to Google for news that they have come to think its actually a really good source for news.
Does he have any idea how insulting that is? Why do so many journalists not only want to decide what the news is, they also want you to get it from certain sources only and they don't want you think critically about the news or the source. Well, that's how I feel, anyway. Bastards.
Often they cite bizarre news sources for stories way out of their specialty. Why else would we be seeing Al Jazeera as the top listing for a story on Kobe Bryant?
So? I am smart enough to click on the part that says, for example, "..and 650 more.." and look for sources that make more sense. I like having the option to read five or six or 50 different write-up's of the same story. I can tell when the first source or two are inappropriate and I can move on. I suspect the person who wrote in prefers the CNN or FOX, etc. format of deciding what should be the news for the day. Google dumps it all out there and in quantity. For a news junky, I think Google is great! I do read the CNN online news as well but sometimes I am astounded at the difference between CNN's version (which can lean left just as the Fox version can lean right) versus the BBC version or one of the India newspapers.
This will surely get me modded down....but....I have been doing a informal count of posts that are pro or against Bush. So far I am showing about six to one, against Bush versus pro-Bush. I don't know if that means the Slashdot crowd is overwhelmingly democrat and/or liberal, or, the pro-Bush side is unusually quiet?
I read the article and even googled a bit but I can't come up with even a guess concerning why the FBI made off with their hard drives. A translation of the blurb on their site indicates that they have a server in reserve that they are trying to bring up but they have lost, obviously, all of their content.
At some point these patent suits are going to gridlock the tech industry. The gov't should intervene, perhaps having a court with jurisdiction staying all of these suits until the patent office or whoever, decides how to handle these suits. We are going to see a landslide of these as companies dig through their 10+ year old stash of patents looking for a gold vein.
You only really support him by clicking ads on his website. Otherwise, you are simply consuming bandwidth which, given how much traffic Slashdot can bring to bear, could actually cost him money. I don't click on the ads.
If he wasn't running all of the ads on his site then he would be okay, for the most part, under "fair use." Running the ads makes his site commercial so he does need permission from copyright holders to reprint/reproduce their work. I have no idea if he does this or not.
Most articles in that blog are an excercise in mental masturbation. Lately the Slashdot crowd has seemingly been subject to every thing that Roland P. finds important enough to write about. I read this article because it actually did sound interesting. Well, it either isn't interesting (at least to me) or the "writer" did a lousy job. Or both?
Especially when you get two packets in the mail from two companies, both claiming to own this "redirect" patent. What do you do? I can't see people writing two checks. Acacia Technologies and Nomadix are both going to take everyone to court? This reminds me of the protection rackets from the early 1900's - you could end up paying multiple parties. In this case, the protection money/royalties, keep you out of court.
This guy must be a ton of fun at children's parties....
We have $30 million in the bank and we have the resources to enforce the patent as necessary," Berman said.
"Those who license earlier on get the best deals," Berman said.
"The user has recurring revenue, the manufacturer is a one-time sale," said Berman. (cacia chose to approach operators that use products that do redirect rather than offering licenses to manufacturers because it can potentially earn more money from operators.)
It's all perfectly legal. And it is so much easier to buy patents and sue people than to take, oh, say, $30,000,000 and innovate.
I don't have that icon . . . I do however, have atom-envy.
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So what's a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes. The show isn't live, so you can listen to it whenever you want.
I can think of a lot of free content that would work great with this. And while there are things that could be done that wouldn't be illegal, I don't think that trumps the legal uses.
Initially Hubble cost $1.5 billion to build and put into orbit.
Hubble's total budget in one year is in the range $230-250 million. That money does more than simply keep Hubble operating on a daily basis. In addition to operational costs, the total dollar figure includes funds for scientific data analysis, as well as for the development of future hardware and its associated software.
The concept of servicing Hubble to upgrade its instruments rather than launching a whole new telescope has saved billions of dollars.
The Hubble has a reflecting (mirror) optical telescope as well as imgaging instruments such as cameras, spectrometer, photometer, spectrograph, etc. I am not sure if all of the instruments are still in service, certainly not all of the gyros are.
There seems to be more modding down then up lately or so it seems. I don't get mod points very often so I have, so far, only used my points to mod people up. When I do have mod points and I am looking at posts for a new topic, the "mod downs" come so fast that it makes my head spin. Anyway, it's a lot more fun to look for posts that really contribute something to a topic and mod those up then to find the "trolls," "off-topics," "flamebaits," etc.
They are examples of the media reporting the story.
That's all. I actually prefer Google for news because I can click on the "..and 4,200 related" and pick out papers and other sources throughout the world. I prefer a Reuters version over an AP for example. The BBC usually gives a very dry but very accurate account of an event so I check there. Interestingly, there are often a few tidbits in newspapers from India that I don't see here. But, the previous poster felt that there wasn't enough coverage of Coopers death and I was reassuring him/her with some examples. There are, of course, many many more.
NAME: Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
NASA Astronaut (former)
PERSONAL DATA: Born March 6, 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His hobbies include treasure hunting, archeology, racing, flying, skiing, boating, hunting and fishing.
EDUCATION: Attended primary and secondary schools in Shawnee, Oklahoma and Murray, Kentucky; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in 1956; recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Oklahoma City University in 1967.
ORGANIZATIONS: The Society of Experimental Test Pilots, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The American Astronautical Society, The Blue Lodge Masons, The York Rite Masons, The Scottish Rite Masons, The Royal Order of Jesters, The Sojourners, The Rotary Club, The Daedalians, The Confederate Air Force, The Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts of America.
SPECIAL HONORS: The Air Force Legion of Merit, The Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, The Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross Cluster, The NASA Exceptional Service Medal, The NASA Distinguished Service Medal, USAF Command Astronaut Wings, The Collier Trophy, The Harmon Trophy, The Scottish Rite 33, The York Rite Knight of the Purple Cross, The DeMolay Legion of Honor, The John F. Kennedy Trophy, The Ivan E. Kincheloe Trophy, The Air Force Association Trophy, The Primus Trophy, The John Montgomery Trophy, The General Thomas E. White Trophy, The Association of Aviation Writers Award, The University of Hawaii Regents Medal, The Columbus Medal, The Silver Antelope, The Sport Fishing Society of Spain Award.
EXPERIENCE: Cooper, an Air Force Colonel, received an Army commission after completing three years of schooling at the University of Hawaii. He transferred his commission to the Air Force and was placed on active duty by that service in 1949 and given flight training.
His next assignment was with the 86th Fighter Bomber Group in Munich, Germany, where he flew F-84s and F-86s for four years. While in Munich, he also attended the European Extension of the University of Maryland night school.
He returned to the United States and, after two years of study at AFIT, received his degree. He then reported to the Air Force Experimental Flight Test School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and, upon graduating in 1957, was assigned as an aeronautical engineer and test pilot in the Performance Engineering Branch of the Flight Test Division at Edwards. His responsibilities there included the flight testing of experimental fighter aircraft.
He has logged more than 7,000 hours flying time--4,000 hours in jet aircraft. He has flown all types of Commercial and General aviation airplane and helicopters.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Colonel Cooper was selected as a Mercury astronaut in April 1959.
On May 15-16, 1963, he piloted the "Faith 7" spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission which concluded the operational phase of Project Mercury. During the 34 hours and 20 minutes of flight, Faith 7 attained an apogee of 166 statue miles and a speed of 17,546 miles per hour and traveled 546,167 statue miles.
Cooper served as command pilot of the 8-day 120-revolution Gemini 5 mission which began on August 21, 1965. It was on this flight that he and pilot Charles Conrad established a new space endurance record by traveling a distance of 3,312,993 miles in an elapsed time of 190 hours and 56 minutes. Cooper also became the first man to make a second orbital flight and thus won for the United States the lead in man-hours in space by accumulating a total of 225 hours and 15 minutes.
He served as backup command pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup commander for Apollo X.
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Jeeze, this makes you wonder if there is going to be "dot.space" phenomena where people will throw money at anything that hints of private spaceflight. I envy the folks like Rutan who are positioned to catch this cash. Hopefully they'll hang on to it, unlike a lot of dot.com folks who thought the gravy train would never end.
Hopefully we can get to something more along the lines of spending the night in space for, say,$50,000. If we could do that within five years that would be awesome. I don't think I would spend 210K for three minutes even if I had it.
I already understood that and assume others do as well. I don't see any stories attributed to Google. If it's the BBC then it's attributed to the BBC, who, in turn, attributes it to the writer. Is that what you meant?
This happened to me before though it's been a while. I swapped out the power supply and that fixed it. Do you have a spare p/s you can try? Even if it doesn't fit you could use it to determine if that is the problem.
Does he have any idea how insulting that is? Why do so many journalists not only want to decide what the news is, they also want you to get it from certain sources only and they don't want you think critically about the news or the source. Well, that's how I feel, anyway. Bastards.
Often they cite bizarre news sources for stories way out of their specialty. Why else would we be seeing Al Jazeera as the top listing for a story on Kobe Bryant?
So? I am smart enough to click on the part that says, for example, "..and 650 more.." and look for sources that make more sense. I like having the option to read five or six or 50 different write-up's of the same story. I can tell when the first source or two are inappropriate and I can move on. I suspect the person who wrote in prefers the CNN or FOX, etc. format of deciding what should be the news for the day. Google dumps it all out there and in quantity. For a news junky, I think Google is great! I do read the CNN online news as well but sometimes I am astounded at the difference between CNN's version (which can lean left just as the Fox version can lean right) versus the BBC version or one of the India newspapers.
And your point is?
This will surely get me modded down....but....I have been doing a informal count of posts that are pro or against Bush. So far I am showing about six to one, against Bush versus pro-Bush. I don't know if that means the Slashdot crowd is overwhelmingly democrat and/or liberal, or, the pro-Bush side is unusually quiet?
Well, somebody is going to find anything that the FBI does to be politically motivated.
I read the article and even googled a bit but I can't come up with even a guess concerning why the FBI made off with their hard drives. A translation of the blurb on their site indicates that they have a server in reserve that they are trying to bring up but they have lost, obviously, all of their content.
At some point these patent suits are going to gridlock the tech industry. The gov't should intervene, perhaps having a court with jurisdiction staying all of these suits until the patent office or whoever, decides how to handle these suits. We are going to see a landslide of these as companies dig through their 10+ year old stash of patents looking for a gold vein.
You only really support him by clicking ads on his website. Otherwise, you are simply consuming bandwidth which, given how much traffic Slashdot can bring to bear, could actually cost him money. I don't click on the ads.
If he wasn't running all of the ads on his site then he would be okay, for the most part, under "fair use." Running the ads makes his site commercial so he does need permission from copyright holders to reprint/reproduce their work. I have no idea if he does this or not.
Most articles in that blog are an excercise in mental masturbation. Lately the Slashdot crowd has seemingly been subject to every thing that Roland P. finds important enough to write about. I read this article because it actually did sound interesting. Well, it either isn't interesting (at least to me) or the "writer" did a lousy job. Or both?
Especially when you get two packets in the mail from two companies, both claiming to own this "redirect" patent. What do you do? I can't see people writing two checks. Acacia Technologies and Nomadix are both going to take everyone to court? This reminds me of the protection rackets from the early 1900's - you could end up paying multiple parties. In this case, the protection money/royalties, keep you out of court.
We have $30 million in the bank and we have the resources to enforce the patent as necessary," Berman said.
"Those who license earlier on get the best deals," Berman said.
"The user has recurring revenue, the manufacturer is a one-time sale," said Berman. (cacia chose to approach operators that use products that do redirect rather than offering licenses to manufacturers because it can potentially earn more money from operators.)
It's all perfectly legal. And it is so much easier to buy patents and sue people than to take, oh, say, $30,000,000 and innovate.
I don't have that icon . . . I do however, have atom-envy.
So what's a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes. The show isn't live, so you can listen to it whenever you want.
I can think of a lot of free content that would work great with this. And while there are things that could be done that wouldn't be illegal, I don't think that trumps the legal uses.
Initially Hubble cost $1.5 billion to build and put into orbit. Hubble's total budget in one year is in the range $230-250 million. That money does more than simply keep Hubble operating on a daily basis. In addition to operational costs, the total dollar figure includes funds for scientific data analysis, as well as for the development of future hardware and its associated software. The concept of servicing Hubble to upgrade its instruments rather than launching a whole new telescope has saved billions of dollars.
The Hubble Space Telescope Project. This is an excellent guide to the 'scope and instrumentation on board the Hubble.
The Hubble has a reflecting (mirror) optical telescope as well as imgaging instruments such as cameras, spectrometer, photometer, spectrograph, etc. I am not sure if all of the instruments are still in service, certainly not all of the gyros are.
There seems to be more modding down then up lately or so it seems. I don't get mod points very often so I have, so far, only used my points to mod people up. When I do have mod points and I am looking at posts for a new topic, the "mod downs" come so fast that it makes my head spin. Anyway, it's a lot more fun to look for posts that really contribute something to a topic and mod those up then to find the "trolls," "off-topics," "flamebaits," etc.
They are examples of the media reporting the story. That's all. I actually prefer Google for news because I can click on the "..and 4,200 related" and pick out papers and other sources throughout the world. I prefer a Reuters version over an AP for example. The BBC usually gives a very dry but very accurate account of an event so I check there. Interestingly, there are often a few tidbits in newspapers from India that I don't see here. But, the previous poster felt that there wasn't enough coverage of Coopers death and I was reassuring him/her with some examples. There are, of course, many many more.
NAME: Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
NASA Astronaut (former)
PERSONAL DATA: Born March 6, 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His hobbies include treasure hunting, archeology, racing, flying, skiing, boating, hunting and fishing.
EDUCATION: Attended primary and secondary schools in Shawnee, Oklahoma and Murray, Kentucky; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in 1956; recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Oklahoma City University in 1967.
ORGANIZATIONS: The Society of Experimental Test Pilots, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The American Astronautical Society, The Blue Lodge Masons, The York Rite Masons, The Scottish Rite Masons, The Royal Order of Jesters, The Sojourners, The Rotary Club, The Daedalians, The Confederate Air Force, The Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts of America.
SPECIAL HONORS: The Air Force Legion of Merit, The Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, The Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross Cluster, The NASA Exceptional Service Medal, The NASA Distinguished Service Medal, USAF Command Astronaut Wings, The Collier Trophy, The Harmon Trophy, The Scottish Rite 33, The York Rite Knight of the Purple Cross, The DeMolay Legion of Honor, The John F. Kennedy Trophy, The Ivan E. Kincheloe Trophy, The Air Force Association Trophy, The Primus Trophy, The John Montgomery Trophy, The General Thomas E. White Trophy, The Association of Aviation Writers Award, The University of Hawaii Regents Medal, The Columbus Medal, The Silver Antelope, The Sport Fishing Society of Spain Award.
EXPERIENCE: Cooper, an Air Force Colonel, received an Army commission after completing three years of schooling at the University of Hawaii. He transferred his commission to the Air Force and was placed on active duty by that service in 1949 and given flight training.
His next assignment was with the 86th Fighter Bomber Group in Munich, Germany, where he flew F-84s and F-86s for four years. While in Munich, he also attended the European Extension of the University of Maryland night school.
He returned to the United States and, after two years of study at AFIT, received his degree. He then reported to the Air Force Experimental Flight Test School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and, upon graduating in 1957, was assigned as an aeronautical engineer and test pilot in the Performance Engineering Branch of the Flight Test Division at Edwards. His responsibilities there included the flight testing of experimental fighter aircraft.
He has logged more than 7,000 hours flying time--4,000 hours in jet aircraft. He has flown all types of Commercial and General aviation airplane and helicopters.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Colonel Cooper was selected as a Mercury astronaut in April 1959.
On May 15-16, 1963, he piloted the "Faith 7" spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission which concluded the operational phase of Project Mercury. During the 34 hours and 20 minutes of flight, Faith 7 attained an apogee of 166 statue miles and a speed of 17,546 miles per hour and traveled 546,167 statue miles.
Cooper served as command pilot of the 8-day 120-revolution Gemini 5 mission which began on August 21, 1965. It was on this flight that he and pilot Charles Conrad established a new space endurance record by traveling a distance of 3,312,993 miles in an elapsed time of 190 hours and 56 minutes. Cooper also became the first man to make a second orbital flight and thus won for the United States the lead in man-hours in space by accumulating a total of 225 hours and 15 minutes.
He served as backup command pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup commander for Apollo X.
Colonel Cooper has logged 222 hours in space.
He retired from the Air Force and NASA in 1970.
There are "front page" stories on the websites for CNN, USA Today, FoxNews, ABC, and MSNBC.