It is hard to implement a hard and fast plan on money that has already been spent on projects that don't have an end goal, or method of recovering benefits. So, for your plan:
I like the idea of compelling secondary/trinary versions releasing the source code. I don't have a problem with buying software, but I do have trouble with completely proprietry products. Maybe we should fork/upgrade GPL2 to say something like this. Then we could have top level competition, commercial viability, but reasonable openness and transparency for obsolete products.
I keep hearing vague innuendos about KDE but the closest anyone has been able to point the 'faults' of it are the ok and cancel buttons are the 'wrong' way around.
I'm more worried that people believe products need those prices to make a reasonable profit. My brother, a financial adviser, believes it. How are the Jones going to think otherwise if one purporting to understand economics can't see past the gouging?
One must then question your attendance. It was quite well known bridge (I'm an Australian...) that was destroyed several decades ago by structurally damaging resonance from the moderate wind on the day. Now, a geek would potentially have enough imagination to believe that the bridge may just possible have been built as there was a reason for it being built in the first place. Something like the rebuilding of the WTC. (The Freedom towers or something? Should have been called democracy... eh...)
Unless of course the Rocket was running Vista, then it would be three weeks.
Three days searching for a version that actually does what you want before giving up in disgust and using the "Recommended" version. Four days installing software to use the on-board hardware. Two days to leave orbit, then five days confirming you wished to leave in the current direction. Twenty seven days searching for the planet you were heading directly for anyway. Thirty three days are spent at 5%-10% of the Rockets specs because some fool scientist wanted to do experiments in micro-gravity on the way. Ten days are spent defraging. A day stopped for a celebration at JPL because the project is only two months behind schedule. Then on reaching Mars vicinity, **** Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
I think that people are putting the laser on the ship. I surmise from previous personal research that an array of lasers would be in orbit around the Earth. Perhaps a polar orbit to be in full view of the ship at all times. Yes, they would be nuclear fission powered.
Not really because then you need to build the ship twice, designed for both directions. With small chemical rockets (retro rockets) you can spin the ship around the centre of gravity as a pivot point. Shouldn't be all that more difficult than calculating slingshots and other maneuvers.
A better Idea(tm) would be to have another laser on the Mars end, so it is easier to line up. However I imagine the principle of achieving this with a solitary Earth (orbit?) laser (an array?) would be similar to 'tacking' for sailing ships.
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You don't come down here very often, do you? ...
Space is big as in astronomical. It won't matter which direction you shoot it. Besides, batch processing is your friend.
Aye, it almost makes you want to vote against them... :s Why did they have to pick that to be unreasonable on?
And you are no fanboi yer self... Totally unbiased observations...
hear hear. Well said monsieur
Yeah, but it is free to bug test...
That doesn't work either because people looking for Jesus know to go to the Bible, not Google.
Xenophiliac Xerus?
I like the idea of compelling secondary/trinary versions releasing the source code. I don't have a problem with buying software, but I do have trouble with completely proprietry products. Maybe we should fork/upgrade GPL2 to say something like this. Then we could have top level competition, commercial viability, but reasonable openness and transparency for obsolete products.
I agree! I hate monopolies where everyone is allowed to compete equally. They are terrible.
I keep hearing vague innuendos about KDE but the closest anyone has been able to point the 'faults' of it are the ok and cancel buttons are the 'wrong' way around.
I'm more worried that people believe products need those prices to make a reasonable profit. My brother, a financial adviser, believes it. How are the Jones going to think otherwise if one purporting to understand economics can't see past the gouging?
Grishnakh's committee law: "The sum of the parts is inversely proportional to the individual parts"
What!!? Why are you here?? Did you take a wrong turn on the internet?
One must then question your attendance. It was quite well known bridge (I'm an Australian...) that was destroyed several decades ago by structurally damaging resonance from the moderate wind on the day. Now, a geek would potentially have enough imagination to believe that the bridge may just possible have been built as there was a reason for it being built in the first place. Something like the rebuilding of the WTC. (The Freedom towers or something? Should have been called democracy... eh...)
Unless of course the Rocket was running Vista, then it would be three weeks.
Three days searching for a version that actually does what you want before giving up in disgust and using the "Recommended" version. Four days installing software to use the on-board hardware. Two days to leave orbit, then five days confirming you wished to leave in the current direction. Twenty seven days searching for the planet you were heading directly for anyway. Thirty three days are spent at 5%-10% of the Rockets specs because some fool scientist wanted to do experiments in micro-gravity on the way. Ten days are spent defraging. A day stopped for a celebration at JPL because the project is only two months behind schedule. Then on reaching Mars vicinity, **** Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
only on weekends
Hmmm... no, it is called a fishing line. Would you like to learn?
Actually the funny part is, I was confused. I thought I had misunderstood my physics education.
Supply drops a week away are a lot better than 3 months - 2 years away. (or was it 4? hmmm...)
Scaled up, doesn't have to be bigger, it can be multiples of. Come on, Believe!
I think that people are putting the laser on the ship. I surmise from previous personal research that an array of lasers would be in orbit around the Earth. Perhaps a polar orbit to be in full view of the ship at all times. Yes, they would be nuclear fission powered.
Not really because then you need to build the ship twice, designed for both directions. With small chemical rockets (retro rockets) you can spin the ship around the centre of gravity as a pivot point. Shouldn't be all that more difficult than calculating slingshots and other maneuvers.
A better Idea(tm) would be to have another laser on the Mars end, so it is easier to line up. However I imagine the principle of achieving this with a solitary Earth (orbit?) laser (an array?) would be similar to 'tacking' for sailing ships.
Damn, now I'm going to read the article... :s