1) You cant make a beowulf cluster out of moons, so one wouldnt rock (or gas..).
2) No moon has ever done anything to you in Soviet Russia.
3) ???
4) Bankruptcy.
>> They gave a verbal ok that the code would remain his.
Verbal contracts mean absolutly nothing in a court of law, simply because you cannot prove that they ever existed. Unless he pulled a Linda Tripp and recorded his Boss saying that it was his it means exactly jack shit to the judge. Even then his prior written contract would probably trump it anyway. The only way he could get around it would be another written agreement that that particular code would remain his.
>>It might, however, be just what movie studios and record labels need to market and distribute their own content efficiently on the Web
If advertisements are added into the movie, just like it would if you saw it on broadcast TV, they could easily make a profit.
Remember that until the advent of cabel, advertisement was the ONLY source of revenue for TV stations. The signal was just pumped out into the ether and hoped that someone would watch and bring up ratings.
To be honest though, NASA has made a great many mistakes in the recent past and its coming back to haunt them.
Remember the probe that was lost because they forgot to convert from metric to imperial? Thats several million dollars down the drain. Did anyone get fired? They are paying $6 for a pack of AA batteries, a dollar for a bic pen and other such nonsense; the agency in general has a lot of low level bloat. That sort of thing alienates the public who has to pay for it.
I am all for exploration and I think we can get a great deal of useful information out of Voyager, but as a citizen who pays taxes I think NASA management needs to be overhauled. Instead of cutting the programs that WORK they should be cutting out the bloat and administrative inneficiency.
Say what you like about the Bush/Cheny evil corporate takeover that some use to boost tinfoil hat sales, the government needs more people in it who arnt career 'crats, we need people from the business world who can get the job done ontime and onbudget. Look at what Spaceship One has done? it took billions for the governement to put a man on the moon. The guys who run that could probably do it for millions.
>Nice bigotry. In other news, all catholics are child molestors, all hackers write viruses, all OSS software developers are communists, and all Slashdotters are shut-in virgins.
Let me get this strait.
Netscape source was GPLed
Netscape begat Mozilla which begat Firefox.
New Netscape is Firefox-based.
Is Netscape now GPL? Should I write demanding the source code?
This is just another excuse for the Big Man to start implanting our houses with more spyware that will condition our kids to worship the Corporate Machine!
[adjusts tinfoil hat]
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Before anyone else starts...
1) You cant make a beowulf cluster out of moons, so one wouldnt rock (or gas..).
2) No moon has ever done anything to you in Soviet Russia.
3) ???
4) Bankruptcy.
Manned missions wont crash because a doofus forgot to change something from metiric to imperial.
But, more to the point, a manned mission allows tech support to tag along instead of doing it long distance.
>> They gave a verbal ok that the code would remain his.
Verbal contracts mean absolutly nothing in a court of law, simply because you cannot prove that they ever existed. Unless he pulled a Linda Tripp and recorded his Boss saying that it was his it means exactly jack shit to the judge. Even then his prior written contract would probably trump it anyway. The only way he could get around it would be another written agreement that that particular code would remain his.
Xbox 1 had a risc processor.
nothing new
>>It might, however, be just what movie studios and record labels need to market and distribute their own content efficiently on the Web
If advertisements are added into the movie, just like it would if you saw it on broadcast TV, they could easily make a profit.
Remember that until the advent of cabel, advertisement was the ONLY source of revenue for TV stations. The signal was just pumped out into the ether and hoped that someone would watch and bring up ratings.
>>Why should I have to read it to have an opinion on it?
So you can have a valid basis for an opinion...
Since they arnt paying the actors anything I'm not terribly suprised that its not up to Hollywood standards.
Fanfilms are nothing unusual for Star Wars, and there are even contests held by LucasArts.
I would hypothisise that as long as you are not charging for it they dont really give a hoot in hell if you make a fanflick.
THANK YOU for providing a link to the text of the law.
I sincirely belive that most of the posters here havent even read the damn law before posting thier opinions of it.
Dont forget GAIM, its Open.
In Soviet Russia, Rockets Launch You!
>> I mean, if dual cores could cook, I'd marry it.
>You can cook _on_ them... you can't do that with a normal wife, not without handcuffs.
Kinky, I'll suggest it to my Pentium 4.
To be honest though, NASA has made a great many mistakes in the recent past and its coming back to haunt them.
Remember the probe that was lost because they forgot to convert from metric to imperial? Thats several million dollars down the drain. Did anyone get fired? They are paying $6 for a pack of AA batteries, a dollar for a bic pen and other such nonsense; the agency in general has a lot of low level bloat. That sort of thing alienates the public who has to pay for it.
I am all for exploration and I think we can get a great deal of useful information out of Voyager, but as a citizen who pays taxes I think NASA management needs to be overhauled. Instead of cutting the programs that WORK they should be cutting out the bloat and administrative inneficiency.
Say what you like about the Bush/Cheny evil corporate takeover that some use to boost tinfoil hat sales, the government needs more people in it who arnt career 'crats, we need people from the business world who can get the job done ontime and onbudget. Look at what Spaceship One has done? it took billions for the governement to put a man on the moon. The guys who run that could probably do it for millions.
Food for thought.
>Nice bigotry. In other news, all catholics are child molestors, all hackers write viruses, all OSS software developers are communists, and all Slashdotters are shut-in virgins.
The last one is more true than most would admit.
I mean, if dual cores could cook, I'd marry it.
Harry Turtledove nuthing else needs to be said.
Let me get this strait. Netscape source was GPLed Netscape begat Mozilla which begat Firefox. New Netscape is Firefox-based. Is Netscape now GPL? Should I write demanding the source code?
This is just another excuse for the Big Man to start implanting our houses with more spyware that will condition our kids to worship the Corporate Machine! [adjusts tinfoil hat]