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and basically makes people who post long html links look like a moron too.

Comair's pilot scheduling software was apparently written by a company in Montreal called Ad Opt Technology (according to this press release. http://tinyurl.com/6z4hk). Ad Opt was recently acquired by Kronos (http://tinyurl.com/69xku)

Comair's pilot scheduling software was apparently written by a company in Montreal called Ad Opt Technology (according to this press release. http://tinyurl.com/6z4hk). Ad Opt was recently acquired by Kronos (http://tinyurl.com/69xku)

I'm going to have to keep an eye on ebay for a Starbird so I can be 10 again. ;-)

Here's a Starbird Command Base on ebay now.

And here's a web site with more photos and an article about the toy.

Sam

I learned a great deal from this book. (Note: By saying this, I'm not pronouncing this book as the bible on China. Don't box me in. Slashdot is good for that.)

• Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World

An excellent review can be found here.

I made these cookies

On this page there are photos of exosuits which were at Robonexus in October in a mecha lifting contest.

Mechanicus is another home-made exoskeleton from Austin, TX.

Large photo here.

Apparently she works from prison. Note what she's holding up as a sample of her work.

Ugh:
Link here
Here's another good one on an interview with the apparent owner: Here

Ugh:
Link here
Here's another good one on an interview with the apparent owner: Here

http://tinyurl.com/44yspProgramming Pearls by Jon Bently
http://tinyurl.com/5k9o4More Programming Pearls by Jon Bently

If you're even a little bit of a programmer, you'll be glad to have read these books. The second edition of Programming Pearls is online for your reading pleasure at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/

http://tinyurl.com/44yspProgramming Pearls by Jon Bently
http://tinyurl.com/5k9o4More Programming Pearls by Jon Bently

If you're even a little bit of a programmer, you'll be glad to have read these books. The second edition of Programming Pearls is online for your reading pleasure at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/

well the article is 503'ing, and it didn't get coralized, so here is a link to the google cache'd copy.

You think that's cool? I got a copy of the paper version of the ad and the image revealed under UV light is pretty cool. I guess they used some kind of special ink (which must've been expensive). Very clever!

I draw the line here, how about you?

As anyone who knows about photography would know this is total tosh. The depth of field depends upon the aperture of the iris.

Actually, the depth of field depends primarly on the size of the aperature, the focal length of the lens, and the size of the circle of confusion at the film/sensor plane. Any spheric and chromatic abberation in the lens elements can also have an effect, but this is not as important as the first three.

I sentence you to a beating with a copy of Photographic Materials and Processes.

So now Monsieur Piquepaille has been shamed by scornful posters into including a link to the actual article (instead of harvesting page views), but he'd still really, really like you to click through to his page....

if you want to meet some *real* Willy Wonkas goto:

Grenada Chocolate http://grenadachocolate.com/

also, they have an amateurish but sweet promo video at:

http://tinyurl.com/6jmgf/
actual url: http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?colle ction=opensource_movies&collectionid=Radical_Choco late_unedited

oh, and the chocolate is very dark and rich, mmm . . .

The above article was directed at this post, I clicked the wrong reply link :(

more like - take it here... http://tinyurl.com/6632t/ (googlefight)

Some of the texts on the Free Dictionaries project are listed as being licensed under the GPL. Can you mingle public-domain text with GPL'ed text?

This is a matter of practical concern. I'm overseeing a project which is digitizing copyright-expired dictionaries of the early Germanic languages. Some of the texts on my site are in German, and I'd like to use the GPL'ed Free Dictionaries German-English word list to add a feature to my project which allows you to click a German word to get a translation for that word.

Question 1: Are there provisions of the GPL which would prevent the a GPL'ed dictionary from being intermingled in this matter with existing public domain texts?

Another problem. The texts in my project contain many rare German words relating to Iron Age technology which are unlikely to be in the Free Dictionaries list, so I'd like to add my own supplemental list of words.

Question 2: Can I assign my supplemental word list to the public domain, or do I have to license it under the GPL as a modification to the original word list?

Here are some links to some sites that teach you how to build a Linux PVR:

http://www.mythtv.org/
http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2190
http://www.linuxprofessionalsolutions.com/pavlicek /tv.html
http://ozzzy.dhis.org/poorpvr-gtk.html
http://www.bluelightning.org/ebox/status.html
http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/

This distribution could prove very useful in recording videos such as these.

Well it is true that Red Hat has the highest market share out of all Linux servers.

According to Netcraft, most Linux servers are running Red Hat:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/07/12/sligh t_linux_market_share_loss_for_red_hat.html

The other distributions each by its own numbers do not make a difference at all!

Red Hat is single handedly the most easy to use and biggest known Linux brand name. Most of the IT people I know use Red Hat interchangably with Linux. It's like Kleenex or Aspirin Aspirin. It has become an every day household name.

didn't you get the memo? red is good now.

You can take your flash media into just about any place these days and have the pictures on it produced with the same machines they use to print negatives. And the cost is about $0.20 per print. At those prices, why mess with lousy inkjets?

http://tinyurl.com/58g98

run through a flock of penguins to see if it would it be anything like running through a flock of pigeons

hmm.... Pigeons - "flying rats" - can fly and penguins - "flightless wonders" - can't, therefore it seems that it would be a completely different experience.

Random link

You mean like this ?

Anonymous post to prevent karma whoring: Court papers, in PDF

Get yourself a nice little corner desk at office depot or something. You should then be able to get a gate like this one at babies-r-us: http://tinyurl.com/4y3u8

It basically bolts to the wall on both ends and had a built in door, providing a barrier around your toys so the kid can't get to them and drool all over them...

And then you end up with walls and a door, but no privacy. It's just like being at work! Wheee!

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1. New mime system
2. easily edit file associations (no more confusing file types capplet)
3. lengthy transfers now give a time to completion
4. FTP authentication (and new, improved FTP module)
5. browse network services via Rendezvous (now called OpenTalk)
6. new printer selection dialog
...

The full list of Gnome 2.8 changes can be found here.

Non-photorealistic photo images

The images look so real you'll never forget them!

thats the movie Quiz Show.

That's an article mentioning the patent application. The application itself (not including diagrams) is here.

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They wanted that new version of Internet Explorer with the fancy built-in pop-up blocker.
Looks like they got a deal; they got the version that also blocks viruses, worms, and abuse of Solitaire! ;)

Writing article about Free iPod. Please help out.

They probably wanted to block assholes who disguise 'Free iPod' links in the sigs. 'TinyUrl' my ass. If you want an iPod, ask your parents to raise your allowance. Otherwise, I heartily encourage you to fuck off.

This book goes into this in great detail:

Waiting for the Weekend
by Witold Rybczynski
http://tinyurl.com/6kt4r [amazon.com]

The author discusses the disruption of the development of leisure time and it's implications for modern society. It's not a pretty picture. Welcome to salary slavery.

are Crystal Meth addicts

This thread from the gentoo-users mailing list provides several points of view regarding portage and binary packages.

perhaps "greatest" is subjective...

Time to expand your horizons, fan-boy. THE WATCHMEN is the "War And Peace" of the comics world.

Some people are getting motion sickness from this game. See this newsgroup thread.

it was a guy, i think. woulda been better if it was a girl.

sadly, someone modded your warning as a troll. what have we come to? wait... it's slashdot... nevermind.

the real info is here.

Humanity is Forgotten, Dogs Eat the Corpses

This photo agrees with you.

Hi,

but if you were the one who asked me about that, I'd modified the answer to something appropriate ;)

And here is a link to the google translation of the howto : http://tinyurl.com/6hgr4

regards,
Guyzmo

I have no idea if the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle is still being made, but it should be. This was the Evel Knievel action figure that rode on top of a motorcycle that had a gyro inside to keep it upright. You put it on the platform and gave the crank a couple of turns and hit the trigger, and it would take off and do a wheelie. It was able to make a jump and land properly, so we had hours of fun setting up more and more death-defying stunts for poor old Evel, such as the "Flaming Hoop of Death". We even did a remake of the classic "Jump the Shark" Happy Days episode starring our toy rubber "Jaws" shark. :-)

http://tinyurl.com/7odu

And for those who want to see them, there they are

indemnify

IANAL, YMMV. TTFN.