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Yo! I found a European pyramid!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefz/115233678/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius

As the photographer says:
"What makes my head spin is the thought that this was built 2,000 years ago, as a copy of the Great Pyramid which was built 2,500 years before that"

Please mod parent up. The videos in the linked article have horrible quality, not to mention they are clipped.

On another note, it's sad to see that digg is censoring that article:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=137823232& size=o

I could say, it was really funny.
Look at the pictures of the auction http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernandomohr/13512673 3/in/photostream/
And this is Stallman receiving the donation http://smyows.multiply.com/photos/photo/5/99 . They said there was a hundred coins of one cent of real(0,24 of cent of dollar).
He do whatever he wants to do with his pictures and autographs. And we do whatever we want with our coins. So, we made this "donation" for him.

Here are some pictures of the auction, as well as the receipt given by RMS for the donation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/executive_override/se ts/72057594117016306/

I don't think what he was doing was exactly bad, but he was just asking for misunderstanding...

But... but... why overcomplicate things by using Google Pages? Flickr is pretty badassed, and is geared directly towards what she's trying to do.

Casual consumers won't remember what it's called, they'll just want to look at the pretty colours.

What color is your Wii?

The jokes aren't going away. There's an endless stream. You may be prepared to drink in the Wii, but the thing is going to be mocked endlessly.

Here's a better picture of his girlfriend.

fUUK u

FreedoM is Gay

i liek china communism

The cell phone solution to add twelve buttons instead of five like the ipod has. Put the buttons in a standard dial-pad orientation. Then replace the wheel shape with a rectangular touchpad.

I think someone already perfected a rotary dialing interface.

There are a couple web sites dedicated to running chemical and physical experiments on Peeps. They are quite entertaining.

http://www.peepresearch.org/
http://www.keypad.org/bunnies/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoneofdreams/sets/72 057594096761868/
http://www.tenholder.net/peeps/

http://lowendmac.com/quadra/q610dos.shtml http://flickr.com/photos/jotefa/123832903/

I highly doubt that the wikipedia would pay money to publish this photo. At least there's no mention about any such fee paid on the photo page. And the "creative commons" license refers to the copyright of the photo, not of the sculpture.

Also, Flickr has many of these too, and I somehow doubt that Flickr would pay the sculpture's creator (or coerce the uploaders of such photos to pay the sculpture's creator).

Oh, and here some enterprising photographer has found a way to violate two copyright's in one go, the sculptor's and the painter's, hehe ;)

I highly doubt that the wikipedia would pay money to publish this photo. At least there's no mention about any such fee paid on the photo page. And the "creative commons" license refers to the copyright of the photo, not of the sculpture.

Also, Flickr has many of these too, and I somehow doubt that Flickr would pay the sculpture's creator (or coerce the uploaders of such photos to pay the sculpture's creator).

Oh, and here some enterprising photographer has found a way to violate two copyright's in one go, the sculptor's and the painter's, hehe ;)

The complete parts list and how-to are posted in a comment at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffb/sets/7205759409 4739914/comments/

Found while poking around. There are some curiously interesting pics in there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffb/87732326/

I even had a conversation with the online sales staff to ensure that yes, I could download at 100% of my rate 100% of the time if I so chose (something I have done on and off for several years now). Screenshots of the conversation is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/76331315/

And what happened? Later they told me that I need to curb my usage, or be terminated. After months of bickering, they finally told me to "keep it to 100 megs a month". That wasn't really possible for me, however, as they didn't even give me a month of time before terminating my service.

I was very lucky that Verizon & Covad actually didn't screw it up, and my new DSL came only 6 days later. And because the termination date was a friday, I got usage until monday (25 gigs baby!).

So: Don't believe your ISPs lies. I'd advise going with a smaller mom-and-pop shop than a big corporate ISP like SpeakEasy or EarthLink.

Buyer beware.

(They tried to use a $300 cancellation fee to bribe me out of writing about this, but I'd rather pay $300 if it saves someone else from my experiences. I can't be bought off so easily...)

I prefer his other project : http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffb/82039232/in/set -1671423/

Firefox is reported to pass the ACID2 test as well. Though it's just a development branch and there's still a load of work to do, it's nice to see they are finally getting to the finish.

I logged on this morning and created a new calendar, made a few screenshots here. Looks nice, didn't see much in the way of gmail integration but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough.

"Camera phones are not for people that want artistic or even "good" pictures."

wouldn't be so sure about that. what if crappy cams like the one on your phone are the lomo of the future?

I keep Canon EOS 20D, three lenses (a wideangle zoom, a fast 50mm prime lens for low light/thin DOF situations and a tele zoom) and some miscellaneous tools such as extension tube set and a combined timer/remote with me most of the time. I'm not even doing it for any money; I'm just shooting for my own fun, whatever happens to catch my eye, whether it's a couple of sparrowsor a beach in infrared.

I realize that most people might find carrying ~2.5 kilograms of photography equipment around somewhat uncomfortable, but then again, there are plenty of people in the world doing things that I would think as uncomfortable. I'll leave mountain climbing, body piercings and swimming in freezing water to them, just like they leave camera-lugging to me :)

(Well, obviously I won't take the camera equipment with me to places where it's not welcome, but then again

I keep Canon EOS 20D, three lenses (a wideangle zoom, a fast 50mm prime lens for low light/thin DOF situations and a tele zoom) and some miscellaneous tools such as extension tube set and a combined timer/remote with me most of the time. I'm not even doing it for any money; I'm just shooting for my own fun, whatever happens to catch my eye, whether it's a couple of sparrowsor a beach in infrared.

I realize that most people might find carrying ~2.5 kilograms of photography equipment around somewhat uncomfortable, but then again, there are plenty of people in the world doing things that I would think as uncomfortable. I'll leave mountain climbing, body piercings and swimming in freezing water to them, just like they leave camera-lugging to me :)

(Well, obviously I won't take the camera equipment with me to places where it's not welcome, but then again

Yes.. because, after all, vegetable oil is a horribly inappropriate solution for their recycled cluster. Sigh.

-DrkShadow

Dang! I remember Deluxe Paint. I used to use Deluxe Paint to upgrade 4 bit game graphics to 8 bit graphics back in the day for a gaming company. I also used Deluxe Paint on my Amiga to make a product called Digital Collage.

I have to agree with both the parent AND your comment. Although it is true that the de-emphasis on drawing by curriculum can be at fault (and the influence still of the "anything goes" style of rendering introduced by abstract expressionism), I began updating my portfolio in a new direction a few months ago and discovered to my horror that I had lost many of my basic skills. Oh, I remembered, but my hand didn't. So I've started from scratch (as part of the flickr community here.) I'm picking up speed to be sure, but all that photoshop work I did over the past several years took me away from the desk and adversely affected my skills.

This isn't rocket science, though. If you don't use it, you lose it. I think bringing awareness to the problem is a good thing, however. If it was such an obvious conclusion as some of the cheekier posters contend, why would so many artists be experiencing this problem? We'll just have to work harder to make time for the pencil and paper (Sorry, but graphic tablets just aren't there yet...too much lag and who can afford a Cintiq?)

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22:16:40 up 550 days, 11:40, 8 users, load average: 0.02, 0.13, 0.16

...(this is a redhat 9 machine, no uncontrolled reboots, restarts, or failures, powered by a 1500 watt 100% online [sinewave] UPS.) Backup is every evening to a separate machine done via cron controlled copy, then archive and copy. If the main server fails, I can log into the backup machine. It's been up less time because I stuck a sound card in it (cheap Dell server — no sound) and had to turn it off to do so. Just 403 days. So as you can see, I don't much worry about my mail system going down when I go out of town. :-)

either way I'm betting Google is more reliable.

I bet they're not. My arrangement has been rock solid, and Google's complexity is its own curse. :-)

You still need a telnet client.

Not a problem. I have one on a USB drive in my man-purse (yes, I carry one... so I have wallet, some tools, pocket knife, palm, PSP, reading glasses (I'm old), all manner of stuff.) In the USB stick is a copy of Putty which covers PCs. I also have my PSP and my Palm, both of which have secure clients (the Palm one is wonderful, but I have to take off my glasses to read the fonts... they're insanely small, yet readable. Here's a pic of it I just took.) I don't have a real keyboard for the PSP so it is my last choice, but it *is* there. And if the PC can't read the USB stick, Putty is available all over the net. If it's a modern Mac, then it's already got the software it needs, because underneath, a modern Mac is a *nix creature at heart. If the PC itself has a firewall that doesn't allow outgoing SSH ports (I've never run into this, btw) or it's a stone-age Mac (which I really don't know much about in its pre-*nix configurations, and which I have run into), then I can find a wifi connection somewhere and slip in that way using the Palm. It's really not a problem — I have considerably more options than you do with a browser, and btw, no, there are no browsers on a lot of the older machines. Hard to run a GUI browser in 64k of ram, but a terminal emulator will still run just fine.

Also, with Gmail Google is paying for the bandwidth but with Pine you are (cheap as it might be).

Nope. My bandwidth isn't metered — I pay the same if I have no connection or if data is flowing all the time.

There's also the issue of your network going down, your ISP doing maintainance, or whatever else.

Um. Well, mine, Google's, same thing, really. Problem related outages can be reasonably considered random. Except I've not been down in years, and Google is down quite often. Though not for long. Mainly because they're always messing with stuff, and mine is 100% stable.

One more advantage: I have all my incoming and outgoing email all the way back to Compuserve days in the late 1980's. All of it. I can search it, noodle over it, sort it, filter it... it's fun.

In the end, again, I'm not suggesting anyone make the change. If they're comfortable with CLI stuff and *nix they're probably already well aware of the huge number of options available to them. I'm happy with how my stuff works, the reliability and flexibility are awesome and I'm independent of anyone else as far as it is possible to be.

I've even got (very slow) SSH access via encapsulated packet radio (I'm a ham radio person, callsign is AA7AS) from my car and boat if I'm anywhere the hams have packet stuff running. I use this in the summer from my boat out on Fort Peck lake here in Montana — the lake is freaking huge. I rock collect out there, swim, and chase my sweetheart around the boat. Which always works out in my favor, as it's only a 28-footer. :-)

of my own lappy case.

of my own lappy case.

Oh, the huge manatee!

What happened to the days when they ran ads on running Windows 2003 server on their 32 proc machines.?
They had a site, http://www.wehavethewayout.com/ --
Their anti-*nix campaign got insult added to the injury when it was found that the site was hosted on FreeBSD IIRC..
Here is a screenshot of their ad. Suck it unisys.

I also think (but I'm not sure) that you're changing a setting on the iPod itself when you do this. So you may also have a different version of the software for your iPod and that's why the menu is different. I note that your screenshot shows a 1.1 in the corner of the iPod menu, whereas mine says 2.3.

2. I was just trying to be helpful. I'm really sorry you've had problems with iTunes and you have every right not to like it. I don't even like it that much. (I hate that you have to have a music file saved on the iPod as data - not music - in order to be able to take it off the iPod - IOW, to use the iPod like a flash drive. But I still think that might a DRM/industry pressure thing and not an Apple thing.)

The SUVs are getting bigger and bigger. =)

> DVDs were an excellent step. Same form factor of a CD. No rewinding.

Oh really?

There's more on Google if you're REALLY that interested...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreilly/6770009/

http://joi.typepad.com/photos/cc_anniversary_03/ci mg0171sized.html

http://images.google.com/images?q=Annalee+Newitz&h l=en&btnG=Search+Images

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=46278165&size= o

http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/10d-20/annalee-newitz .jpg

As a result, the centuries-old other senses of gay meaning either 'carefree' or 'bright and showy,' once common in speech and literature, are much less frequent. The word gay cannot be readily used unselfconsciously today in these older senses without sounding old-fashioned or arousing a sense of double entendre, despite concerted attempts by some to keep them alive.

Also, cats > ponies. I'm just sayin'

http://static.flickr.com/19/121338473_07823a9da0_b .jpg

yes, the guy in the yellow shirt is the java guy.

http://static.flickr.com/19/121342959_449ed7dea0_b .jpg

it seems that java _can_ defend itself ;)

http://static.flickr.com/19/121338473_07823a9da0_b .jpg

yes, the guy in the yellow shirt is the java guy.

http://static.flickr.com/19/121342959_449ed7dea0_b .jpg

it seems that java _can_ defend itself ;)

Seeing as we're talking about kittens, and this is Slashdot, I ought to link to this:

iCat?

It's not that cute, but...well, it's my cat on an iBook. Kinda seems appropriate given the mood of today.

iqu :D

does Taco has something to do with all the cats on Flickr's Explore page??? It only shows CATS! CATS!

PUPPIES! KITTENS! LOL! OMG, SO MUCH CUTENESS!!! lololoolololololol omg fitlered! so cute! lol not yelling lol omg so dumb!

Hell, there's even free porn on the internet - see thehun.com for example, or so i'm told - ahem. Damn my wrist is sore......

It's working already! We've been Flickr'd! Time for Slashdot to expereince the Flickr Effect first-hand!

They terminated my service today for not restricting my downloads to 100G / month. This is in spite of their 'unlimited' sales pitch, and the conversation I had with pre-sales using a psuedonym: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/tags/speakea sy (read in reverse order)

I don't think I've ever seen an article summary with so many links!