Not really. For example, take his Cuba trip. Yea, foreigners with large pocketbooks, for example, say, an independent movie producer trying to make a point, can get top-notch health care in Cuba from a really good medical facility. However, the Cuban population in general does not have access to said health care. To drive the point home further - when Castro went through his ordeal last year, did he have his operation performed by a Cuban doctor? No. He had a Spanish doctor.
To go with your analogy...
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It's like a restaurant chef refusing to tell you what's in your dinner. Sure, it's the chef's recipe...but it's your dinner. You're the one about to put the mystery food into your belly. You have a right to know what's going to go into your stomach. That doesn't mean you intend to steal the chef's recipe, but daggumit...it's your stomach! You have a right to know what's going in'it!
And if you don't like the fact that the good chef won't tell you what's in your dinner, then you have every right to leave and not purchase dinner.
In my opinion, that's where tivoization should be fought. with the pocketbook, not a license.
There is a distinct difference between a ham radio satellite and habitable crew modules. The first merely requires a few thermal considerations and lots of power. The latter requires a lot of thermal considerations, power, airtight construction, etc. Also bear in mind the materials and construction methods being used are brand spanking new - NASA is licensing them for future use. The past radio balloon satellites were mere mylar baloons. No structural integrity and you'd have to be crazy to even think about putting a human in one.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a ham, and I have a great appreciation for the AMSAT program. But this is a whole different ball game.
these little things called rivets, which appear in many lines along a metal airplane wing, cause enormous stress concentrations. Which lead to microcracking, under the rivet. Which leads to corrosion. Which leads to failure modes hard to see with the naked eye.
Composites, while not completely inert (IE, they will corrode when bound to certain metals) are not riveted: rather they are much larger homogenous entities without the stress concentrations. Lighter and flexible to boot.
there **is** a physical limit to how fast a 787 can travel (and no, it's not the speed of light). Push it to those boundaries, times a safety factor, if it doesn't break it doesn't need breaking.
I have rarely seen a safety factor of 1.5 for something that involves human life.
space hardware. Although one could argue there you are volunteering to use the hardware, versus consumer hardware anyone can buy off the shelf without a second thought.
I admit I'm a bit of a hack, helping someone out with a web site, and a c++ coder by day... yeah... all of a sudden sh*t stops working, and I didn't edit the code! I just added comments! wtf... 20 minutes later I figure it out. Sadly this happens multiple times:P
US's tourism accounts for 0.9% of GDP... that's nothing compared to china (5.4%), New Zealand (10%), Italy (12%), even Canada (2.5%)... get the point? It is insignificant to the US, but critical to many other areas of the world...
Yeah, just like all the people who stop buying gas one day of the year cause the gasmakers to realize that the American people won't take high gas prices anymore!
so... it's not taught in engineering schools, but it is taught in engineering schools?
He talks about standards of safety before talking about the Tacoma Narrows bridge, which yes I think is applicable. I think you can even infer it was a margins issue, the margin of the resonant frequency to the driver.
Actually I find the signal to noise ratio is a lot higher on Windows Live Search. People have figured out how to game Google, and you don't even have to leave the first page to come across irrelevant ad pages.
Of course, Google doesn't mind, because they make a tidy profit off of the google ads on these pages...
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Consumers have the choice of purchasing a Blu-Ray player, a HD DVD player, both or neither.
Jeff Bezos' work and home numbers are both phone numbers to amazon.com, neither direct to his desk.
it's hard to dispute Moore's facts
Not really. For example, take his Cuba trip. Yea, foreigners with large pocketbooks, for example, say, an independent movie producer trying to make a point, can get top-notch health care in Cuba from a really good medical facility. However, the Cuban population in general does not have access to said health care. To drive the point home further - when Castro went through his ordeal last year, did he have his operation performed by a Cuban doctor? No. He had a Spanish doctor.
It's like a restaurant chef refusing to tell you what's in your dinner. Sure, it's the chef's recipe...but it's your dinner. You're the one about to put the mystery food into your belly. You have a right to know what's going to go into your stomach. That doesn't mean you intend to steal the chef's recipe, but daggumit...it's your stomach! You have a right to know what's going in'it!
And if you don't like the fact that the good chef won't tell you what's in your dinner, then you have every right to leave and not purchase dinner.
In my opinion, that's where tivoization should be fought. with the pocketbook, not a license.
Maybe instead of finishing their presentation at the last minute, they went to white castle.
There is a distinct difference between a ham radio satellite and habitable crew modules. The first merely requires a few thermal considerations and lots of power. The latter requires a lot of thermal considerations, power, airtight construction, etc. Also bear in mind the materials and construction methods being used are brand spanking new - NASA is licensing them for future use. The past radio balloon satellites were mere mylar baloons. No structural integrity and you'd have to be crazy to even think about putting a human in one.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a ham, and I have a great appreciation for the AMSAT program. But this is a whole different ball game.
hard turn to the left ought to do it :P
gah, beat me to it! those things were great ...
for some reason my copy of vim isn't syntaxing it ...
these little things called rivets, which appear in many lines along a metal airplane wing, cause enormous stress concentrations. Which lead to microcracking, under the rivet. Which leads to corrosion. Which leads to failure modes hard to see with the naked eye.
Composites, while not completely inert (IE, they will corrode when bound to certain metals) are not riveted: rather they are much larger homogenous entities without the stress concentrations. Lighter and flexible to boot.
there **is** a physical limit to how fast a 787 can travel (and no, it's not the speed of light). Push it to those boundaries, times a safety factor, if it doesn't break it doesn't need breaking.
I have rarely seen a safety factor of 1.5 for something that involves human life.
space hardware. Although one could argue there you are volunteering to use the hardware, versus consumer hardware anyone can buy off the shelf without a second thought.
I want to see the 787 do the Y-M-C-A :)
I admit I'm a bit of a hack, helping someone out with a web site, and a c++ coder by day... yeah... all of a sudden sh*t stops working, and I didn't edit the code! I just added comments! wtf... 20 minutes later I figure it out. Sadly this happens multiple times :P
US's tourism accounts for 0.9% of GDP... that's nothing compared to china (5.4%), New Zealand (10%), Italy (12%), even Canada (2.5%) ... get the point? It is insignificant to the US, but critical to many other areas of the world ...
Mmmm.... University of Bologna
Yeah, just like all the people who stop buying gas one day of the year cause the gasmakers to realize that the American people won't take high gas prices anymore!
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Oh wait, it accomplishes nothing
The reverse is true. You don't get a say until you start paying taxes....
That being said, why not start working in your own country with respect to streaming audio, if it means something to you?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora... [pandora.com]
:)
You mean, what you are not listening to on Pandora!
so... it's not taught in engineering schools, but it is taught in engineering schools?
He talks about standards of safety before talking about the Tacoma Narrows bridge, which yes I think is applicable. I think you can even infer it was a margins issue, the margin of the resonant frequency to the driver.
An untapped market of what, ~5% of computer users?
The market segment is abysmally small. It just isn't worth it.
Actually I find the signal to noise ratio is a lot higher on Windows Live Search. People have figured out how to game Google, and you don't even have to leave the first page to come across irrelevant ad pages.
Of course, Google doesn't mind, because they make a tidy profit off of the google ads on these pages...
google is an advertising company that pimps their advertisements via a search engine
never forget.
I too live near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge - and no, that is not how the bridge collapse is taught in engineering schools.
Uh, it was a lesson taught when I went to engineering school. The Tacoma Narrows engineers f*ed up and didn't take all of the variables into account.
Spectra. It was in TFA.