H264 is not royalty free. It never has been. They don't currently charge a web site for providing H264 content, and extend that part of free. But encoders and decoders still need to be licensed and are not free, never have been free and never will be free (well until the patents expire).
Does the artist get paid for each visitor of the web site too? This is why people like us get fed up with copyright crap. I write code, copyright is part of my paycheck. But dam i don't expect to get paid each time someone runs a part of my program. Why the hell do you guys expect such special treatment. If you are really so badly ripped off. Get a different job.
Unfortunately they really are not taught how to be critical of "peer" reviewed papers. Remember that even on/. there was a article about shell peer reviewed journals, just so that the funding drug company got its "findings" published.
It comes back to true economic incentives vers the public good. I can't see any real free market working in health and medicine. The balances and cost just don't work.
The hypersonic Skylon design from Reaction Engines is projected to get an awesome 10.5 km/sec equivalent exhaust velocity till it runs out of air.
But whats the drag coefficient and the weight compared to just a pure rocket? The numbers really don't look good for realistic air intake drag and engine weight parameters in general. (ie all the papers on the mater require at least one step of unverified performance breakthrough).
Fact is that rockets with power to weight ratios in the 100:1 and no such thing as air intakes with associated drag, and no velocity dependent thrust. Are a pretty good match for 9km/s vehicle speed.
Delta V for a plane change is not quite so bad. You can go into a elliptical orbit and then plane change at lowest momentum. But its still very expensive, yes. Generally easier to just launch into the correct plane in the first place, in which case an extra 24 tones may make enough difference to matter assuming nothing else is the problem.
I have never seen a big transformer without a breaker. So OK I only worked with the utility for 2 years, but still. A breaker does a lot more than protect against a solar storm.
Breakers protect against far more than just a solar flare. Why your house probably even has some. The blackouts where in fact caused in part by the breakers, protecting equipment from very serious damage.
And at that massive scale I think you completely underestimate just what we are capable of.
Also its not going to be everything. Breakers do protect against this sort of thing, and hell some transformers are not even at risk (DC isolation). We really won't need to replace everything. Well not from any report I have ever read on the matter.
When the city i was in had blackouts guess how much the traffic suffered? None. There were *less* accidents etc. Traffic based infrastructure was largely unaffected. Most gas stations pulled the base cover off the pumps and hand pumped the gas (That was where i was working part time at the time). We had the OMG disaster that the ice-creams melted. But milk etc was fine since it was delivered every day. They delivered less to avoid wastage. The hospitals had enough fuel for 3 months, and even provided the local grid. I could go on.
I'm not saying it won't be disruptive. What i am saying is its not a OMG we going to all die lets panic situation. Its quite manageable if people keep their heads on straight.
I was basing this on reports I have read by some experts. Admittedly one was referring to nuclear induced EMP blackouts. But the mechanism is the same. I can't find the reference right now.
As for the level of disaster. Its not like it doesn't happen. Its not going to kill everyone and the experts *do* say that. You know not having the internet/phone etc for a few weeks is not the end, though I can understand why some my feel this way.
Sorry, by US news story... I don't mean US news only about the US. I mean US news media... in particular I was Referring to the recent earth quake... not in America.
But in all seriousness. I have been in this situation twice. Everyone pulled together, not apart. And though huge amounts of property and money was lost. We all carried on just fine.
Also I think you are over estimating the importance of electricity. It really isn't the end of the world not having power for a bit. Hell some rural areas a reliable grid is a joke.
What happened to the breakers...We are not talking about a totally borked transformer!
The grids went down (in the US) because the breakers protected all the transformers and other expensive equipment. Other grids around the world are in fact better maintained... but still have breakers.
When did i suggested it was a friken train set. We are talking national level emergency here. There are lots of options, including but not limited to fixing a chuck of infrastructure that's not badly damaged.
I'm really glad i don't live in your country... Having been in a few natural disasters, and even persistent blackouts. I can say people don't behave like that where i live. I was hoping the US type news stores were blowing it out of proportion.
Any excuse to be an asshole eh.
And if you really don't have power for months. Why the frak wouldn't repair some transformers...?
No i know that it would be a very big deal. But months without power? Much of the other infrastructure would still work. Like airplanes can and will still fly, trucks can still drive. Gas will be far less disrupted and still capable of heating. We would adapt for the short term until and to help things get restored. Remember that local grid infrastructure would be far less affected, hence local generation and grid use could be set up reasonably easily.
I lived in the Central area of Auckland NZ when they had blackouts. Its was disruptive. But it wasn't the end of the world.
But hay I come from a place where people help each other with things go a little pear shaped.... rather than some disturbing things i have seen from another country.
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H264 is not royalty free. It never has been. They don't currently charge a web site for providing H264 content, and extend that part of free. But encoders and decoders still need to be licensed and are not free, never have been free and never will be free (well until the patents expire).
When someone says crowbar, I think of a bugler. I tried to play half life. But 10 mins of not killing anything put me off.
Do you get paid each time someone visits the news site?
I got a better idea. Stop selling photos, that way you can relax in the comfort of knowing that nobody looks at photos you have taken without paying.
Does the artist get paid for each visitor of the web site too? This is why people like us get fed up with copyright crap. I write code, copyright is part of my paycheck. But dam i don't expect to get paid each time someone runs a part of my program. Why the hell do you guys expect such special treatment. If you are really so badly ripped off. Get a different job.
I have been living the EU for 4 years now. But i don't think i can fill in a petition.
..he said he made up his mind then to move to America, where work actually pays off.
So he has the same stuff as before but feels hes getting ahead because others have less?
It's a shame that copyright prevents this.
I didn't think copyright did prevent that.
It has been suggested that the "scar" response is prevents regeneration, and is "fitter" because infection is less likely.
Unfortunately they really are not taught how to be critical of "peer" reviewed papers. Remember that even on /. there was a article about shell peer reviewed journals, just so that the funding drug company got its "findings" published.
It comes back to true economic incentives vers the public good. I can't see any real free market working in health and medicine. The balances and cost just don't work.
no, its Rome post 300AD....
Doctors don't know jack about stats. In my stats classes I use examples from medical journals all the time, to show the "dam lies" part of statistics.
Free lunch? They give us a lot more than a free lunch.
The hypersonic Skylon design from Reaction Engines is projected to get an awesome 10.5 km/sec equivalent exhaust velocity till it runs out of air.
But whats the drag coefficient and the weight compared to just a pure rocket? The numbers really don't look good for realistic air intake drag and engine weight parameters in general. (ie all the papers on the mater require at least one step of unverified performance breakthrough).
Fact is that rockets with power to weight ratios in the 100:1 and no such thing as air intakes with associated drag, and no velocity dependent thrust. Are a pretty good match for 9km/s vehicle speed.
Delta V for a plane change is not quite so bad. You can go into a elliptical orbit and then plane change at lowest momentum. But its still very expensive, yes. Generally easier to just launch into the correct plane in the first place, in which case an extra 24 tones may make enough difference to matter assuming nothing else is the problem.
I worked with utility for 2 years. Everything had a friken breaker on it.
I have never seen a big transformer without a breaker. So OK I only worked with the utility for 2 years, but still. A breaker does a lot more than protect against a solar storm.
Breakers protect against far more than just a solar flare. Why your house probably even has some. The blackouts where in fact caused in part by the breakers, protecting equipment from very serious damage.
Which begs the question. Whats the point of insurance?
And at that massive scale I think you completely underestimate just what we are capable of.
Also its not going to be everything. Breakers do protect against this sort of thing, and hell some transformers are not even at risk (DC isolation). We really won't need to replace everything. Well not from any report I have ever read on the matter.
When the city i was in had blackouts guess how much the traffic suffered? None. There were *less* accidents etc. Traffic based infrastructure was largely unaffected. Most gas stations pulled the base cover off the pumps and hand pumped the gas (That was where i was working part time at the time). We had the OMG disaster that the ice-creams melted. But milk etc was fine since it was delivered every day. They delivered less to avoid wastage. The hospitals had enough fuel for 3 months, and even provided the local grid. I could go on.
I'm not saying it won't be disruptive. What i am saying is its not a OMG we going to all die lets panic situation. Its quite manageable if people keep their heads on straight.
I was basing this on reports I have read by some experts. Admittedly one was referring to nuclear induced EMP blackouts. But the mechanism is the same. I can't find the reference right now.
As for the level of disaster. Its not like it doesn't happen. Its not going to kill everyone and the experts *do* say that. You know not having the internet/phone etc for a few weeks is not the end, though I can understand why some my feel this way.
Sorry, by US news story... I don't mean US news only about the US. I mean US news media... in particular I was Referring to the recent earth quake... not in America.
But in all seriousness. I have been in this situation twice. Everyone pulled together, not apart. And though huge amounts of property and money was lost. We all carried on just fine.
Also I think you are over estimating the importance of electricity. It really isn't the end of the world not having power for a bit. Hell some rural areas a reliable grid is a joke.
What happened to the breakers...We are not talking about a totally borked transformer!
The grids went down (in the US) because the breakers protected all the transformers and other expensive equipment. Other grids around the world are in fact better maintained... but still have breakers.
When did i suggested it was a friken train set. We are talking national level emergency here. There are lots of options, including but not limited to fixing a chuck of infrastructure that's not badly damaged.
I'm really glad i don't live in your country... Having been in a few natural disasters, and even persistent blackouts. I can say people don't behave like that where i live. I was hoping the US type news stores were blowing it out of proportion.
Any excuse to be an asshole eh.
And if you really don't have power for months. Why the frak wouldn't repair some transformers...?
No i know that it would be a very big deal. But months without power? Much of the other infrastructure would still work. Like airplanes can and will still fly, trucks can still drive. Gas will be far less disrupted and still capable of heating. We would adapt for the short term until and to help things get restored. Remember that local grid infrastructure would be far less affected, hence local generation and grid use could be set up reasonably easily.
I lived in the Central area of Auckland NZ when they had blackouts. Its was disruptive. But it wasn't the end of the world.
But hay I come from a place where people help each other with things go a little pear shaped.... rather than some disturbing things i have seen from another country.