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  1. Re:Great work, but why? by arth1 · · Score: 1 · on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces
    That's a real step forward in a technological sort of a way, but why?

    Indeed. And who in their right mind would enter a JAS39 "Jordfresare" simulator anyhow?

    Dang

    Oops

    Regards,
    --
    *Art
  2. Re:Great work, but why? by arth1 · · Score: 1 · on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces
    That's a real step forward in a technological sort of a way, but why?

    Indeed. And who in their right mind would enter a JAS39 "Jordfresare" simulator anyhow?

    Dang

    Oops

    Regards,
    --
    *Art
  3. Stringing This One Along by strelitsa · · Score: 1 · on The Expensive Hobby Of Kite Aerial Photography

    Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

  4. Re:What is WITH that category picture? by h00pla · · Score: 3, Funny · on Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta)
    If you don't like the puppet Balok, they could always change it to the picture of the real Balok

    Don't let him freak you out. Relax and have some Trania.

  5. Missing the point of the control location by yummyporkproducts · · Score: 1 · on Review Of GM's HyWire Hydrogen Concept Car

    Everybody seems to assume that the designers moved the controls to the steering wheel just to be different. Driver safety is a big reason to do away with the traditional pedals/steering wheel concept. By disconnecting the controls from a steering column, and removing the pedals, you prevent those controls from being thrust at your chest and legs at high speed in a crash. Saab went further with a joystick controlled 9000 in 1992, and Citroen recently created a new concept with similar steering-wheel mounted controls.

  6. Esperanto community by Pseudonymus+Bosch · · Score: 2 · on Ask William Shatner

    One fairly well regarded count of speakers of world languages came up with two million speakers of Esperanto.

    You could say with the same clean conscience ten million or 100.000. Nobody knows exactly how many people speak Esperanto. You should read "Esperanto sen mitoj"

    The 1997 World Congress had 45,000 visitors.

    Where do you get your data from? UEA lists 1,224 in Adelaide '97. The record is Nuermberg '23 with 4,963. Montpellier '98 had 3,133. Maybe there were more in Zagreb '01.

    want it to replace, well, everything.

    That was never the goal for Esperanto. It's an auxilary language, not a primary one, meant to supplement native languages, not replace them.

    It's a language. It may be used for everything: as an auxiliary, as a substitute (see Lanti), as a hobby, to get rich (well, not now), to get laid,...

    It's true that the majority of the organized esperantists don't intend it as a unique world language, but such freaks do exist.

    By the way, your dhis site is unreachable now.

  7. Re:OS/2's DESKTOP IS STILL KING! by GeZ117 · · Score: 1 · on IBM To Release OS/2 Warp 4 With 'Convenience Packs'
    Some people in the OS/2 world seems not to have exactly the same mind. I've seen this page where a certain Cristoph, nicknamed Birdy, report advancement of porting GNOME, E and KDE to OS/2. They currently need someone to continue the KDE/2 project. If I were them, I'd better search for someone to start the KDE2/2 project. Look also at the Everblue Project whose purpose is to create a "Presentation Manager" version of Xfree86. There is also already a port of Xfree86, named Xfree86/2, but it works full screen. They are at the 3.3.6 version right now, and I think they're working on Xfree4 now. Everblue want to integrate X applications on OS/2 desktop.

    These news are interesting, because I was really thinking OS/2 was OS/dead. But if OS/2 folks successfully make it able to run cleanly both Windows and Linux apps, it could deserve some gigabytes on my hard drives. And it will if it becomes Open Source.

    Hmmm. Sometimes I dream of a world were Windows would be the only proprietary OS out there... With free BeOS, OS/2 and whatever.

    Even more than applications, OS should be free, just because you need an OS to use your computer. The OS and at least one editor and one compiler running on it.