Why not combine this gamma producing technogy with the nuclear reactor waste processing technology (which conveniently requires gamma rays) and everyone can be happy?
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 94056> waste processing
Water is for all practical purposes uncompressible. It's viscosity at depth will still be similar to what it is at sea level. By the same token, high pressure won't change the aero/hydrodynamics of the craft. Lift/dive force is still going to be the difference between the pressures on the top and bottom of the 'wing'. They will need to design the craft to withstand those pressures and that will change how it looks and handles, but the rules of the game won't change.
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Watching aforementioned thief get dragged, kicking and screaming, from his parents basement by the cops because his address was on the drivers license.... Priceless
Perhaps combining a computer with image recognition software and a scanner could be used. The scanner could be contained in a box with a hole just big enough for a hand and fore-arm. The image recognition software could be trained to recognize a unique hand shadow made by the 5 or 9 year old, which even if the 8 year old learned the gesture, his hand shadow would hopefully by sufficiently different to disallow his access. This system could be rekeyed frequently to allow for growth, 'cracked' keys, etc.
Here is a similar system applied to controlling a cat door. LINK
You will note that the article said 'methods of information suppy.' Last time I checked, information is supplied in many more ways than through a computer. If you stop and think, you will realize that, through the course of the 20th century, the amount of info delivered through a computer, whether push, pull, or other, is trivial compared to the mainstream push methods; newspapers, magazines, billboards, sports announcers, etc.
This is just a Peltier device in reverse. Instead of using a forced flow of electrons to drive heat from a cold surface to a warmer one, it is using the flow of heat from a warm surface, through the Peltier element, to a colder surface to drive electrons, generating current.
When I installed Debian for the first time, I wanted to to the same thing, ie. install stable and immediately upgrade to unstable for X4. I found that the easiest way to accomplish this was to do a minimal install of stable, then to modify the apt.source file for unstable, then to dist-upgrade and install X4 and everything else. No X3 packages to worry about at all.
KDE3.0 isn't in unstable yet because of the room it would take on the mirrors. They are waiting for Woody to release before bringing KDE3 into unstable. I don't have the reference in front of me, but there is a deb repository with KDE3 debs for unstable and they work great.
How about not only taxing everyone interested in space, but taxing everyone that has benefited from the space program, as well. Let's tax everything from GPS systems to freeze dried ice cream, if it was directly or indirectly influenced by the space program it should be able to be used to fund the continuation of the program.
What all of your calculations don't include is the standard 200% markup that companies apply when supplying something custom-built to the gummit. Anyone remember the $7000.00 screwdriver ?
There are a lot of factors that lead to high prices for government purchased items.
First, the product must comply to whatever specifications they give you and you must test and document the compliance. That process alone can add thousands of dollars to the cost of a part.
Second, custom, one-of-a-kind items always cost many times more than their mass produced counterparts. It doesn't have anything to do with a '200% markup.' It's merely economics of scale. If you have to produce 1 million widgets/year you buy a plant and dedicated, specialized tooling and make them for a penny apiece, sell them for a dollar and make a huge profit. If you have to make three, ever, you hire a machinist and make them for $300 apiece. Of course, with only three parts the engineering development time will only be split 3 ways, resulting in an even higher actual cost.
It is safe to say that the contractor selling the $7000 screwdriver is making far less profit, no matter how you define it, than manufacturer cranking out millions of consumer grade tools.
Sony could possibly be described as a vertical monopoly. They own a significant portion of their own supply chain. This is different than a horizontal monopoly where one company owns most of one specific market. Both monopolies can be abused, but a vertical monopoly is more likely to manifest itself as less expensive and/or higher quality products for the consumer. This is because there is still competition at the consumer level and the vertical monopoly has the advantage of not paying any markup on its raw materials.
The only leverage a horizontal monopoly is the economies of scale and being the only game in town. Neither of these are beneficial to the consumer.
NEW YORK (AP) . A plane crashed Monday morning in the Queens section of New York, and buildings reportedly were on fire in the neighborhood.
The plane crashed shortly after 9 a.m. and thick, black smoke could be seen in televised reports.
The type of plane and number of people aboard were not immediately known. CNN reported that American Airlines confirmed the plane was an inbound American Airlines Boeing 767. The airline told The Associated Press it had no immediate comment.
11-12-01 0940EST
If you're looking for silverados... check www.plycon.com. They have them for $60, and they are in the US, so no import hassles. I can't speak for their quality, yet... but mine should arrive tomorrow.
"BTW: if you're opposed to this sort of protection, prepare to go back to a pre-industrial revolution timescale for innovation."
Newtonian physics.
Gunpowder.
Steam Engines.
You are right, those are examples of innovation.
But, did you read the sentence you were replying to? Especially the word 'timescale'? How quickly did these innovations evolve from their previous incarnation? How long did it take for the next innovation to occur?
What would Moore's law say in a world where you had to start from scratch for every advance and couldn't build on the progress of those around you? 'Clockspeed doubles every 18 years, every 18 decades?'
The purpose of patents is to encourage the publication of inventions and advancements so resources aren't wasted reinventing the wheel.
The GPL is a similar concept, shared knowledge with a catch... you have to share whatever you do with this knowledge. With a patent the catch is that you get legal control over the commercial exploitation of the knowledge.
You say that a world without patents would be different, not necessarily worse. I have to agree, it would be different and worse depends on your point of view. I happen to like the standard of living and rate of innovation that patents make possible, as screwed up as the system is sometimes.
Actually, 7K for a license. 4K for a very good NT box, and nobody serious is going to run Pro on Win9X... (NT behaves much better). So the savings are going to be significant. $1K savings vs 11K total purchase.
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Why not combine this gamma producing technogy with the nuclear reactor waste processing technology (which conveniently requires gamma rays) and everyone can be happy? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 94056> waste processing
Water is for all practical purposes uncompressible. It's viscosity at depth will still be similar to what it is at sea level. By the same token, high pressure won't change the aero/hydrodynamics of the craft. Lift/dive force is still going to be the difference between the pressures on the top and bottom of the 'wing'. They will need to design the craft to withstand those pressures and that will change how it looks and handles, but the rules of the game won't change.
Joe
Watching aforementioned thief get dragged, kicking and screaming, from his parents basement by the cops because his address was on the drivers license.... Priceless
Perhaps combining a computer with image recognition software and a scanner could be used. The scanner could be contained in a box with a hole just big enough for a hand and fore-arm. The image recognition software could be trained to recognize a unique hand shadow made by the 5 or 9 year old, which even if the 8 year old learned the gesture, his hand shadow would hopefully by sufficiently different to disallow his access. This system could be rekeyed frequently to allow for growth, 'cracked' keys, etc.
Here is a similar system applied to controlling a cat door. LINK
Joe
You will note that the article said 'methods of information suppy.' Last time I checked, information is supplied in many more ways than through a computer. If you stop and think, you will realize that, through the course of the 20th century, the amount of info delivered through a computer, whether push, pull, or other, is trivial compared to the mainstream push methods; newspapers, magazines, billboards, sports announcers, etc.
Joe
This is just a Peltier device in reverse. Instead of using a forced flow of electrons to drive heat from a cold surface to a warmer one, it is using the flow of heat from a warm surface, through the Peltier element, to a colder surface to drive electrons, generating current.
Apparently, Slashdot's advertisement scheduler has a sense of humor.
Joe
When I installed Debian for the first time, I wanted to to the same thing, ie. install stable and immediately upgrade to unstable for X4. I found that the easiest way to accomplish this was to do a minimal install of stable, then to modify the apt.source file for unstable, then to dist-upgrade and install X4 and everything else. No X3 packages to worry about at all.
KDE3.0 isn't in unstable yet because of the room it would take on the mirrors. They are waiting for Woody to release before bringing KDE3 into unstable. I don't have the reference in front of me, but there is a deb repository with KDE3 debs for unstable and they work great.
Joe
How about not only taxing everyone interested in space, but taxing everyone that has benefited from the space program, as well. Let's tax everything from GPS systems to freeze dried ice cream, if it was directly or indirectly influenced by the space program it should be able to be used to fund the continuation of the program.
What all of your calculations don't include is the standard 200% markup that companies apply when supplying something custom-built to the gummit. Anyone remember the $7000.00 screwdriver ?
There are a lot of factors that lead to high prices for government purchased items.
First, the product must comply to whatever specifications they give you and you must test and document the compliance. That process alone can add thousands of dollars to the cost of a part.
Second, custom, one-of-a-kind items always cost many times more than their mass produced counterparts. It doesn't have anything to do with a '200% markup.' It's merely economics of scale. If you have to produce 1 million widgets/year you buy a plant and dedicated, specialized tooling and make them for a penny apiece, sell them for a dollar and make a huge profit. If you have to make three, ever, you hire a machinist and make them for $300 apiece. Of course, with only three parts the engineering development time will only be split 3 ways, resulting in an even higher actual cost.
It is safe to say that the contractor selling the $7000 screwdriver is making far less profit, no matter how you define it, than manufacturer cranking out millions of consumer grade tools.
Sony could possibly be described as a vertical monopoly. They own a significant portion of their own supply chain. This is different than a horizontal monopoly where one company owns most of one specific market. Both monopolies can be abused, but a vertical monopoly is more likely to manifest itself as less expensive and/or higher quality products for the consumer. This is because there is still competition at the consumer level and the vertical monopoly has the advantage of not paying any markup on its raw materials.
The only leverage a horizontal monopoly is the economies of scale and being the only game in town. Neither of these are beneficial to the consumer.
PLANE CRASHES IN QUEENS, NEW YORK
NEW YORK (AP) . A plane crashed Monday morning in the Queens section of New York, and buildings reportedly were on fire in the neighborhood.
The plane crashed shortly after 9 a.m. and thick, black smoke could be seen in televised reports.
The type of plane and number of people aboard were not immediately known. CNN reported that American Airlines confirmed the plane was an inbound American Airlines Boeing 767. The airline told The Associated Press it had no immediate comment.
11-12-01 0940EST
If you're looking for silverados... check www.plycon.com. They have them for $60, and they are in the US, so no import hassles. I can't speak for their quality, yet... but mine should arrive tomorrow.
KINI is not Illustrator.
"BTW: if you're opposed to this sort of protection, prepare to go back to a pre-industrial revolution timescale for innovation."
Newtonian physics.
Gunpowder.
Steam Engines.
You are right, those are examples of innovation.
But, did you read the sentence you were replying to? Especially the word 'timescale'? How quickly did these innovations evolve from their previous incarnation? How long did it take for the next innovation to occur?
What would Moore's law say in a world where you had to start from scratch for every advance and couldn't build on the progress of those around you? 'Clockspeed doubles every 18 years, every 18 decades?'
The purpose of patents is to encourage the publication of inventions and advancements so resources aren't wasted reinventing the wheel.
The GPL is a similar concept, shared knowledge with a catch... you have to share whatever you do with this knowledge. With a patent the catch is that you get legal control over the commercial exploitation of the knowledge.
You say that a world without patents would be different, not necessarily worse. I have to agree, it would be different and worse depends on your point of view. I happen to like the standard of living and rate of innovation that patents make possible, as screwed up as the system is sometimes.
Actually, 7K for a license. 4K for a very good
NT box, and nobody serious is going to run Pro on Win9X... (NT behaves much better). So the
savings are going to be significant. $1K savings
vs 11K total purchase.