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Now if only the RIAA could follow this lead. I don't seen anyone hating disney - oh wait, they're not suing the youth of America.

Disney has a music branch, Walt Disney Records that is a member of the RIAA, so yes, they are suing the youth of America.

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Lo and behold, technical literature. I can't believe no one ended up hearing about this. For a price-factor difference of five hundred, I can't see a reason that NASA wouldn't have gone with the skinsuit. Other than pork-barrel bureaucracy, that is...

--grendel drago

Thanks!

The device (Google HTML cache of a whitepaper in DOC format) was in fact designed and tested, but NASA junked it. Bastards.

And yes, heat is boiled off by evaporating water, both in the NASA suit and the SAS. Seems wasteful, but apparently it works.

Thanks again---I'm amazed that this was actually invented.

--grendel drago

They probably come from sites like this:

... and finally WETA who did Lord of the Rings effects. The first film was rendered on Linux, and for the second film they were using Linux on desktops too...

And this:

[Talking about Gollum] The most incredible special effects in recent movie history were not created on high-end Silicon Graphics workstations running Unix. They were built on farms of industry-standard servers and workstations with Intel processors and running Red Hat Linux ... To Weta Digital's delight, performance with Linux has been exceptional. As a former user of Silicon Graphics systems and the Irix operating system (based on Unix), the company now runs its high-end applications on Linux, including Alias|Wavefront's Maya, Apple's Shake, and Pixar's RenderMan and Alfred

And this:

Wellington-based digital effects facility Weta Digital, Ltd. will move a significant proportion of production work related to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy onto IBM Intellistations running Linux ... The first of the new machines were installed at Weta Digital in early May for use by the special effects artists working on The Two Towers, the second film in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

(I couldn't provide a link to IBM as their site was broken when I tried to access the article.)

So where do the rumors come from? WETA and IBM, apparently. (Not to mention various little Linux sites that jump all over press releases like this)

Oh wow...a front-end web "developer."
I don't ever remember using IE1. However, IE2 and IE3 were pure crap. They didn't even support HTML 3.2, let alone HTML 4.0. I remember them because I was in 9th grade back then, back in my front-end web "developer" days. Now, I have a learned a bit more since then, and gone on to do a tad more complicated things.

However, if you don't believe me, here is a link

I definitely seeing stupid web pages that stated, "This site best seen with IE4+ and NS3+." Also, IE4 was the first IE that integrated with the OS.

IE4 (later revisions) didn't start to dominate till NS4 came out. I personally thought NS4 was a worse browser then NS3. It added many additional features, at a cost of stability. If they had take a bit more to fine tune the code, I bet Netscape wouldn't have choked out so fast.

So, no...IE3 was no match for NS3.

In case the cnet is /.'tted, here's link to Google cached page.

Well, quoted from here, a ps2 has 6.2 gflops of CPU power in its FPU. There are 17,496 of these units. So that is roughly 108475 gflops of CPU power.

Quoted from a slashdot article here, there are "over 2000" Xeon 2.8 GHz in the render farm for ROTK. Pulled from google cache as intel's website is crap, here, I learned that a pair of 2.8 ghz xeons has 5.6 gflops of FPU power. Thus, 5.6 * 2000 is 11200 gflops of power for the render farm of ROTK.

Thus, take 108475 and divide by 11200 and those playstations equal roughly 9.68 ROTK rendering farms.

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>> or for those with text browsers or aol

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:x0Hrwxt5378 J: www.kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/+&hl=en&start=1&ie= UTF-8

Have a nice day

Looking here, one can see that the second greatest source of fraud in Australia seems to be the Netherlands.

However, what you refer to as Nigeria, would actually be the Nigerian spam, which most often involves some sort of "meet me in Amsterdam". Amsterdam, of course, is in the Netherlands.

So arguably, you could be right.

According to the list, Hungary is on the list of fraud involving Australia, led by Czech Republic, Germany, and the Netherlands.

But as for that 55% statistic, I'm pretty sure he got it from here. Needless to say, if you see it on that site, and it is related at all to anything tech, you can be pretty sure it's correct.

There's always HerrGoogleCache

Welding was tried in space (on Mir), using an electron beam instead of flame.

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:FOhL0ah_AIQJ: www.cyber.com.au/users/conz/linux_vs_sco_matrix.ht ml+Linux+vs.+SCO:+The+Decision+Matrix&hl=en&ie=UTF -8 Slashdot. The fastest crasher on the web.

Hi,

Site seems down already. Read it at google:

That was fast... IIS is complaining of too many users.

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Sure have. Also Visual Basic. I don't know of any decent support for layout managers. Except third party things.