It shows the continuing problems of patents. Although patents were initially intended to stop techniques being kept secret or lost from the public or King in England, then extended with the intentions to assist the small inventor to protect itself from larger predators, it has done neither of these.
Patents are mainly used by the large companies to keep out competition. Competition being the only great thing that produces innovation and efficiency in a competitive capitalist economy that has served the world so well.
While patents continue to be a hindrance on new entrants to the market, Copyright and Design law, in additiona to Trademark law continues to help protecting innovation and innovative products while maintaining a competitive capitalist economy, where continued competitiveness in a fair market is the most important factor contributing to a nation's lead in the world.
Indeed it is great to build on the work before us - so not everything can be questioned in infinitesimal detail from infinite directions, that certainly would stop anyone from getting anywhere (except those using Calculus).
However, Some thought is required by each individual to question the truthfulness of what other people state as 'obvious' or 'clear' or 'righteous' or when stating that 'God certainly wouldn't have design a world as/like...'. Questioning those statements and step by step individual reasoning will help to come to the truth much more quickly.
Doing this is certainly not deconstructive skeptisms right?
Regarding God and Nature... I think of it more along the lines of 'the way things flow' in this Universe. The Universe of course including everything - hence 'Uni-'. In this way it could be interpreted by some as saying 'God has a hand in everything'. (Also that 'Nature has a hand in everything', equating God == Nature).
Of course, regarding 'Interpretation', one can use reasoning to say that roughly: Interpretation = Opinion = Bias
The best thing his noodly mightiness gave us was the ability to reason and think for ourselves.
I would say it is a test of if we follow others like sheep without reasoning and thinking individually, or if we use our god given minds to understand the objects provided by the natural environment around us to discover the truths for ourselves.
PS. God == Nature.
Try reading anything about god with that in mind! And then you can understand its true meaning...
A drop of world currency with respect to what? World currency is not absolute but a relative measure for trade that people are willing to deal in.
The first interest/nation to utilize space technology in order to make a profit (i.e. greater gain received from a venture than effort put into achieving it) will certainly be able to acquire a greater amount of that currency that you so mention.
In order to do this, then the supplier of those special metals etc. will have to sell at a lower cost or higher grade than current market supplies. Therefore everyone trading (buyers and sellers) will gain ultimately.
There was some debate some time ago about the interpretation of the photonic conservation of momentum, and weather a black sail or a mirrorred sail (on the illuminated side) would produce more thrust.
Has this been settled?
The problem was, the conservation of momentum equations most commonly used as a short cut in QM were very simplified compared to the classical step by step derivation, and were thus being incorrectly applied...
So what is the best deal? Black sail or white sail or mirrorred sail on the illuminated side? And what about the back side too?
I was very interested in the discussion, and it seemed the argument was still going when I last checked a few years back...
And buffets are certainly great things.
If one customer makes a non-exclusive consumer-oriented deal with a company, and then that same customer gets upset that other customers are making the same deal with the company, then that first customer has got some kind of attitude problem. I advise a visit to the doctor or to see a councillor.
On a second note, BitTorrent was designed for the distribution of files. I use it often to share my groups of photos that I and my friends have taken (Yes, they are copyrighted! - By me and my friends respectively), and for downloading Linux etc. (Which is copyrighted by the programmers of Linux and freely distributable under the terms of the GPL2).
If a Service providing is limiting Internet services and stopping the sharing of files then that Service 'semi'-provider is pretty nasty and has no respect for their customers. Their customers should drop their ISP.
Learning by looking closely at something (often by taking the thing apart) as been a part of human learning for thousands of years, and is the reason the West advanced ahead of the East hundreds of years ago. - By looking closely at things and resoning how that object works, understanding the processes involved then imagining an improved version. This is progress,
However, as current big companies want to kill competition in the market and gain market share, DRM (Digital Restrictions Managaement) ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html/ ) makes it extremely hard to learn by this natural reverse-engineering process, and by circumventing the encryption in the DRM combined with laws have been heavily lobbied and passed, such as the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) in the USA, then the natural process has been for ever damaged.
How can the West expect to stay on top with new laws like this which severely hinder human ingenuity? For our short term greed, our long term lead will lose out.
Its a pity!
Einstein could clearly see there were problems in the 'interpretation' of the results of the mathematical quantum mechanical equations, especially considering that the Quantum mechanics is really just a statistical model, and tried to derive a theory based on more fundamental physics.
May be this was the correct way after all. Check out the research being done at the Calphysics Institute.
It may be possible that Gravity is not a fundamental force after all. It may be derived from the three fundamental quantum forces: Strong, EM, and Weak.
Mass may be derived from these forces. Hadrons (comprised of quarks) which feel the Strong force (and also the Weak and EM forces) have a stronger opposing force from the Zero Point Field (ZPF) and therefore have a high induced mass (i.e. have a higher measured mass). Electrons don't feel the Strong force - only the EM and Weak force - and so feel a lesser force from the ZPF and thus have a smaller induced mass. And finally, neutrinos only feel the Weak force and so have a tiny induced mass.
Furthermore, as Gravity is not a fundamental force, but is a derived force along with its equivalent derived force - inertia, then the ZPF can be real, without producing infinite curvature of space. The gravitational force actually comes from an anisotropic ZPF caused by the scattering of the ZPF off local matter. In flat space though far from any masses, the ZPF is on average isotropic causing only microscopic jiggling of Strong, EM, and Weakly charged particles leading to the normal quantum uncertainty and heisenburg uncertaintu principal.
Of course this is only a rough overview, there is a lot more in the links above. Check them out for a fuller understanding!
I think you overestimated how much it is costing them.
That is at the rate they charge to make a profit - it comes to 65 cents (US Dollars).
Really may we expect about $0.40 (40 cents (USD)) or thereabouts for Skype's Premium Service?
Saying that, thats a kind $0.40 or so, thanks n all. But, I'd rather stick with a SIP standard-compliant phone.
VoIP not only needs to catch up but also be open like email, and unlike the divided IM space.
Unfortunately Skype is not the application which connects to an open network.
Only applications like Gizmo http://www.gizmoproject.com/ and many other ones (which I don't use) connect to the International Standard-compliant Protocol known as SIP.
If you want voice chat (VoIP) on Linux then you have a good selection too (I don't know which are SIP compliant and which are not though):
I generally use Gizmo http://www.gizmoproject.com/ as it is Internation Standard SIP compliant, whereas Skype is not compatible with any other service.
But there are also lots of other Applications out there which are standard compliant and work on a large number of different platforms.
Antigrav is a bit early at this stage, but it still may ultimately be possible. In the sense that the 'vacuum' energy state may be able to be adjusted to provide gravitation, and uni-directional forces.
For a start, so far, conservation of momentum is just an observation of normal matter on average, and the equations of physics is taken from there. If conservation of momentum was really understood then it could be found if it always holds or just holds under certain conditions. This is just a piece of the work being done by the Calphysics Institute:
There are a number of papers now available on http://arxiv.org/ which indicate that the infinite vacuum energy may be real and not 'virtual' merely to satisfy Quantum Electrodynamics (QED).
Researchers include:
Alfonso Rueda
Bernard Haisch
Daniel Cole
Yi Zou
L. Nickisch
Jules Mollere
York Dobyns
I thought the whole point of FUSE was to put all the FileSystems in it, or am I mistaken?
Will all the other FSs go under FUSE? Like ext2, ext3, XFS, JFS, etc?
Thats absolutely right. Since the dawn of time humans have been trading in a free competitive market economy, sharing ideas, changing (modding) their tools to better suit themselves and their needs, and overall pushing forward technology and innovation.
The US of A, became powerful, just like Britain before it, by having a competitive free market economy where ideas are shared and move everyone forward. But now the US is leading the world in restrictive laws and monopolies on ideas - i.e. restricting others from using ideas.
This trend is indeed bad for all of society. For society to improve, it must be able to freely share ideas and to change (mod) and their tools in the way the people see fit.
These restrictive practices will become evident within a generation how negative an effect it can have on society and the USs technological lead.
5.
The GNU Organisation for the development of software, its
official stance on the negative effect of IP on software
development: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml
Thats absolutely right. Since the dawn of time humans have been trading in a free competitive market economy, sharing ideas, changing (modding) their tools to better suit themselves and their needs, and overall pushing forward technology and innovation.
The US of A, became powerful, just like Britain before it, by having a competitive free market economy where ideas are shared and move everyone forward. But now the US is leading the world in restrictive laws and monopolies on ideas - i.e. restricting others from using ideas.
This trend is indeed bad for all of society. For society to improve, it must be able to freely share ideas and to change (mod) and their tools in the way the people see fit.
These restrictive practices will become evident within a generation how negative an effect it can have on society and the USs technological lead.
I have experience of train toilets...
The toilets on the new Virgin Trains between Glasgow and London are particularly frightening. It was maybe a 10 or 12 carriage train, of which 5 toilets failed completely with 1 hour of the journey, then to top it off, shit started overflowing from one of the toilets and was rolling down the corridor.
This is typical of Virgin Train technology. However the staff kept smiling... Their training must be impressive.
Yeah, in particular, whatever happened to hypersonic engines as the first stage?
The first stage could tranfer a large load to about a 20km height at Mach 8 then off you go from there. Or something along those lines, including a combined hypersonics and rocket vehicle.
Well, thats for sure. The Security Services are just gonna love what these companies are doing [sarcasm].
With everyone moving to VoIP as VoIP applications are now so abundant and easy to use, this will only spur the adoption of encryption enabled VoIP applications, also that may run from a distributed directory (AKA Gnutella-like or bittorrent-like), or call direct Point 2 Point using IP addresses etc.
Most people are quite happy with the way VoIP is now, it is only the greed of these companies blocking open VoIP packets that will drive these encrypted and identity-scrambled VoIP Apps.
Then how are terrorist chat ever going to be discoved amongst all that encrypted chat?
Do you mean, does it run coLinux?http://www.colinux.org/I wonder...
This is the best way to try linux on Windows, however, maintain the instabilities and insecurity of Windows...
Slashdot Mirror
"...put up a sign "Toll Road Ahead" "
Agreed, the simplest solution is often the best!
It shows the continuing problems of patents. Although patents were initially intended to stop techniques being kept secret or lost from the public or King in England, then extended with the intentions to assist the small inventor to protect itself from larger predators, it has done neither of these.
Patents are mainly used by the large companies to keep out competition. Competition being the only great thing that produces innovation and efficiency in a competitive capitalist economy that has served the world so well.
While patents continue to be a hindrance on new entrants to the market, Copyright and Design law, in additiona to Trademark law continues to help protecting innovation and innovative products while maintaining a
competitive capitalist economy, where continued competitiveness in a fair market is the most important factor contributing to a nation's lead in the world.
Indeed it is great to build on the work before us - so not everything can be questioned in infinitesimal detail from infinite directions, that certainly would stop anyone from getting anywhere (except those using Calculus).
However, Some thought is required by each individual to question the truthfulness of what other people state as 'obvious' or 'clear' or 'righteous' or when stating that 'God certainly wouldn't have design a world as/like...'. Questioning those statements and step by step individual reasoning will help to come to the truth much more quickly.
Doing this is certainly not deconstructive skeptisms right?
Regarding God and Nature... I think of it more along the lines of 'the way things flow' in this Universe. The Universe of course including everything - hence 'Uni-'. In this way it could be interpreted by some as saying 'God has a hand in everything'. (Also that 'Nature has a hand in everything', equating God == Nature).
Of course, regarding 'Interpretation', one can use reasoning to say that roughly: Interpretation = Opinion = Bias
The best thing his noodly mightiness gave us was the ability to reason and think for ourselves.
I would say it is a test of if we follow others like sheep without reasoning and thinking individually, or if we use our god given minds to understand the objects provided by the natural environment around us to discover the truths for ourselves.
PS. God == Nature.
Try reading anything about god with that in mind! And then you can understand its true meaning...
Maybe he'll use this neat little futuristic Apple Multitouch Graphical User Interface
Also check out the Multi-Touch Interaction Research website
A drop of world currency with respect to what? World currency is not absolute but a relative measure for trade that people are willing to deal in.
The first interest/nation to utilize space technology in order to make a profit (i.e. greater gain received from a venture than effort put into achieving it) will certainly be able to acquire a greater amount of that currency that you so mention.
In order to do this, then the supplier of those special metals etc. will have to sell at a lower cost or higher grade than current market supplies. Therefore everyone trading (buyers and sellers) will gain ultimately.
This is certainly good for the average Joe.
The greatness of the Capitalist way!
There was some debate some time ago about the interpretation of the photonic conservation of momentum, and weather a black sail or a mirrorred sail (on the illuminated side) would produce more thrust.
Has this been settled?
The problem was, the conservation of momentum equations most commonly used as a short cut in QM were very simplified compared to the classical step by step derivation, and were thus being incorrectly applied...
So what is the best deal? Black sail or white sail or mirrorred sail on the illuminated side? And what about the back side too?
I was very interested in the discussion, and it seemed the argument was still going when I last checked a few years back...
And buffets are certainly great things.
If one customer makes a non-exclusive consumer-oriented deal with a company, and then that same customer gets upset that other customers are making the same deal with the company, then that first customer has got some kind of attitude problem. I advise a visit to the doctor or to see a councillor.
On a second note, BitTorrent was designed for the distribution of files. I use it often to share my groups of photos that I and my friends have taken (Yes, they are copyrighted! - By me and my friends respectively), and for downloading Linux etc. (Which is copyrighted by the programmers of Linux and freely distributable under the terms of the GPL2).
If a Service providing is limiting Internet services and stopping the sharing of files then that Service 'semi'-provider is pretty nasty and has no respect for their customers. Their customers should drop their ISP.
Links here for related papers:
Gravitational solution to the Pioneer 10/11 anomaly
Galaxy Cluster Masses Without Non-Baryonic Dark Matter
Galaxy Rotation Curves Without Non-Baryonic Dark Matter
Other Interesting stuff:
The Calphysics Institute and my earlier post about the Calphysics research.
The Duke Nukem Forever Delayed jokes may now be dead but we now have the undying ID (Intelligent Design) joke, which may indeed be forever.
Joke Intelligent designers:
Aliens(1)
Aliens(2)
God(1)
God(2)
General:
The Skeptic's Dictionary
Creation & Intelligent Design Watch
National Center for Science Education
Learning by looking closely at something (often by taking the thing apart) as been a part of human learning for thousands of years, and is the reason the West advanced ahead of the East hundreds of years ago. - By looking closely at things and resoning how that object works, understanding the processes involved then imagining an improved version. This is progress,
However, as current big companies want to kill competition in the market and gain market share, DRM (Digital Restrictions Managaement) ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html/ ) makes it extremely hard to learn by this natural reverse-engineering process, and by circumventing the encryption in the DRM combined with laws have been heavily lobbied and passed, such as the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) in the USA, then the natural process has been for ever damaged.
How can the West expect to stay on top with new laws like this which severely hinder human ingenuity? For our short term greed, our long term lead will lose out.
Its a pity!
Einstein could clearly see there were problems in the 'interpretation' of the results of the mathematical quantum mechanical equations, especially considering that the Quantum mechanics is really just a statistical model, and tried to derive a theory based on more fundamental physics.
May be this was the correct way after all. Check out the research being done at the Calphysics Institute.
In particular:
- Nature of Mass
- Origin of Inertia
- Gravitation
- Zero Point Energy
Also some interesting papers:
- Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum Inertia Hypothesis [pdf]
- Update on an Electromagnetic Basis for Inertia, Gravitation, the Principle of Equivalence, Spin and Particle Mass Ratios
- Connectivity and the Origin of Inertia
- Inertial mass and the quantum vacuum fields
- Stochastic nonrelativistic approach to gravity as originating from vacuum zero-point field van der Waals forces [pdf]
- Zero-point field induced mass vs. QED mass renormalization
- Inertial Mass and Vacuum Fluctuations in Quantum Field Theory
It may be possible that Gravity is not a fundamental force after all. It may be derived from the three fundamental quantum forces: Strong, EM, and Weak.
Mass may be derived from these forces. Hadrons (comprised of quarks) which feel the Strong force (and also the Weak and EM forces) have a stronger opposing force from the Zero Point Field (ZPF) and therefore have a high induced mass (i.e. have a higher measured mass). Electrons don't feel the Strong force - only the EM and Weak force - and so feel a lesser force from the ZPF and thus have a smaller induced mass. And finally, neutrinos only feel the Weak force and so have a tiny induced mass.
Furthermore, as Gravity is not a fundamental force, but is a derived force along with its equivalent derived force - inertia, then the ZPF can be real, without producing infinite curvature of space. The gravitational force actually comes from an anisotropic ZPF caused by the scattering of the ZPF off local matter. In flat space though far from any masses, the ZPF is on average isotropic causing only microscopic jiggling of Strong, EM, and Weakly charged particles leading to the normal quantum uncertainty and heisenburg uncertaintu principal.
Of course this is only a rough overview, there is a lot more in the links above. Check them out for a fuller understanding!
I think you overestimated how much it is costing them.
That is at the rate they charge to make a profit - it comes to 65 cents (US Dollars).
Really may we expect about $0.40 (40 cents (USD)) or thereabouts for Skype's Premium Service?
Saying that, thats a kind $0.40 or so, thanks n all. But, I'd rather stick with a SIP standard-compliant phone.
VoIP not only needs to catch up but also be open like email, and unlike the divided IM space.
Unfortunately Skype is not the application which connects to an open network.
Only applications like Gizmo http://www.gizmoproject.com/ and many other ones (which I don't use) connect to the International Standard-compliant Protocol known as SIP.
If you want voice chat (VoIP) on Linux then you have a good selection too (I don't know which are SIP compliant and which are not though):
http://www.phonegaim.com/
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/
http://www.gizmoproject.com/
http://www.linphone.org/
http://www.wirlab.net/kphone/
http://www.minisip.org/
http://www.sflphone.org/
http://www.sipfoundry.org/
http://www.twinklephone.com/
http://www.openwengo.com/
http://yate.null.ro/
http://www.divmod.org/projects/shtoom
I generally use Gizmo http://www.gizmoproject.com/ as it is Internation Standard SIP compliant, whereas Skype is not compatible with any other service.
But there are also lots of other Applications out there which are standard compliant and work on a large number of different platforms.
Skype are just going for a service lock-in.
Is Skype compatible with other VoIP software and the International Standard SIP?
Antigrav is a bit early at this stage, but it still may ultimately be possible. In the sense that the 'vacuum' energy state may be able to be adjusted to provide gravitation, and uni-directional forces.
For a start, so far, conservation of momentum is just an observation of normal matter on average, and the equations of physics is taken from there. If conservation of momentum was really understood then it could be found if it always holds or just holds under certain conditions. This is just a piece of the work being done by the Calphysics Institute:
http://www.calphysics.org/
There are a number of papers now available on http://arxiv.org/ which indicate that the infinite vacuum energy may be real and not 'virtual' merely to satisfy Quantum Electrodynamics (QED).
Researchers include:
Alfonso Rueda
Bernard Haisch
Daniel Cole
Yi Zou
L. Nickisch
Jules Mollere
York Dobyns
Has this Operating System been openly and publicly vetted or peer reviewed?
How can we trust this operating system?
Can't Reiser4 go under FUSE as it is?
Is this not the option they are taking?
I thought the whole point of FUSE was to put all the FileSystems in it, or am I mistaken?
Will all the other FSs go under FUSE? Like ext2, ext3, XFS, JFS, etc?
Thats absolutely right. Since the dawn of time humans have been trading in a free competitive market economy, sharing ideas, changing (modding) their tools to better suit themselves and their needs, and overall pushing forward technology and innovation.
s sue_07/free_matter_economy/ s sue_08/free_matter_economy_2/
1 65105685
y .cfm?story_id=5014990
7 37218&tid=187&tid=155
c discussions_activeclubreflections&key=1046014645
The US of A, became powerful, just like Britain before it, by having a competitive free market economy where ideas are shared and move everyone forward. But now the US is leading the world in restrictive laws and monopolies on ideas - i.e. restricting others from using ideas.
This trend is indeed bad for all of society. For society to improve, it must be able to freely share ideas and to change (mod) and their tools in the way the people see fit.
These restrictive practices will become evident within a generation how negative an effect it can have on society and the USs technological lead.
And some links:
1.1 Free Matter Economy, Part 1:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/i
1.2 Free Matter Economy, Part 2:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/i
2.
A Groklaw article complete with discussion:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051025
3.
An Economist article:
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystor
4.
Slashdot discussion on Economist article:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/23/1
5.
The GNU Organisation for the development of software, its official stance on the negative effect of IP on software development:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml
6.
A longish non-academic article, but starts getting to the point eventualy:
http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml
7.
A pdf:
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/pci23.pdf
( http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/pci23.htm )
8.
Discussion on the above pdf:
http://activeclub.homeip.net/forums/view.php?bn=a
Thats absolutely right. Since the dawn of time humans have been trading in a free competitive market economy, sharing ideas, changing (modding) their tools to better suit themselves and their needs, and overall pushing forward technology and innovation. The US of A, became powerful, just like Britain before it, by having a competitive free market economy where ideas are shared and move everyone forward. But now the US is leading the world in restrictive laws and monopolies on ideas - i.e. restricting others from using ideas. This trend is indeed bad for all of society. For society to improve, it must be able to freely share ideas and to change (mod) and their tools in the way the people see fit. These restrictive practices will become evident within a generation how negative an effect it can have on society and the USs technological lead.
I have experience of train toilets...
The toilets on the new Virgin Trains between Glasgow and London are particularly frightening. It was maybe a 10 or 12 carriage train, of which 5 toilets failed completely with 1 hour of the journey, then to top it off, shit started overflowing from one of the toilets and was rolling down the corridor.
This is typical of Virgin Train technology. However the staff kept smiling... Their training must be impressive.
Yeah, in particular, whatever happened to hypersonic engines as the first stage?
The first stage could tranfer a large load to about a 20km height at Mach 8 then off you go from there. Or something along those lines, including a combined hypersonics and rocket vehicle.
Well, thats for sure. The Security Services are just gonna love what these companies are doing [sarcasm].
With everyone moving to VoIP as VoIP applications are now so abundant and easy to use, this will only spur the adoption of encryption enabled VoIP applications, also that may run from a distributed directory (AKA Gnutella-like or bittorrent-like), or call direct Point 2 Point using IP addresses etc.
Most people are quite happy with the way VoIP is now, it is only the greed of these companies blocking open VoIP packets that will drive these encrypted and identity-scrambled VoIP Apps.
Then how are terrorist chat ever going to be discoved amongst all that encrypted chat?
Do you mean, does it run coLinux? http://www.colinux.org/ I wonder...
This is the best way to try linux on Windows, however, maintain the instabilities and insecurity of Windows...