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some can add belgium and netherdlands to that too

despite im portuguese, belgium scene is huge, and has its own authors, culture, comic book dedicated streets etc

Apparently, not too many Asterix fans here.
Too bad most of the US is oblivious to the wonders of Tintin and Asterix.

For those interested in the value of refactoring (whether it's merely a buzzword), I can refer to a research project of ours, at http://win-www.uia.ac.be/u/lore/refactoringProject

By the way: since the article does not go into behaviour-preserving restructuring of JUnit, they shouldn't mention 'refactoring' in the title.

Disney had a rich culture of stories to draw from and reinterpret. They are trying to prevent the next generation of storytellers and media producers from doing to them what they did to earlier content creators.

What stops you from making your own interpretation of any Grimm, Andersen, Carrol or even Disney story? Want to interpret the interpretation of the interpretation of Snowwhite? Please go ahead, but please draw your own fucking 24 pictures per second of animation. The idea of Snowwhite, and any interpretation thereof, is forever free as long as you put your own labor into the presentation, and as long as it isn't a genuine ripoff.

Arne Anka (Arne Duck) [http://www.lysator.liu.se/~mosh/arne_eng.html] is an interpretation of Donald Duck as a Slashdot geek or something, and it is a perfectly legal interpretation, despite the resemblance with the real duck. It so happened [http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/~erikt/comics/arneAnka.h tml] that when Disney complained, Arne was supplied with another bill, but later attached a loose bill to regain his initial Donald-like features... Disney gave up.

It's called FVWM95. It's close enough to the so-called interface that Redmond pumps out that few would notice the difference. Additionally, you could just put icons on the desktop for the applications to be used (browser, office apps, etc.)

At any rate, it certainly wouldn't cost thousands of dollars. You simply make a background image that gives the details (we use this at my uni to let people know they should put their documents on a floppy).

It's interesting to me that Apple would make a big fuss over this when it pertains to the open source community, but leaves M$ untouched. I mean after all, Bill stole the GUI from Apple. Think about it, the original Mac menu was on top and had an apple icon in the top left corner that allowed the user to access many programs. All that our "friend" Bill did was move the menu (aka taskbar) to the bottom of the screen and change the apple-icon menu button to a "start" button. In response to Apple, even as evil as M$ is, they didn't make anyone remove FVWM-95 or QVWM from themes.org.
Just putting in my 2 cents....

• Industrial processes
• Environmental toxins and pollutants
• Space station air quality
• Medicine / body functions
• Food processing
• Military enviromnent
• Toxicology

• Quotidiano: Researchers developing an electronic nose
• JSOnline: Electronic nose takes on a higher profile
• Electronic Nose Club
• Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense of Smell Caltech Microelectronic Research Group
• Warwick-Southampton Electronic Nose Group
• Isoen2000 Olfactory and Electronic Nose 2000
• Press Releases: Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Fresh Fruit
• Electronic Nose Workshop
• Food Explorer Electronic Nose
• Electronic Nose User Forum
• An Electronic Nose For Business, NSF, NASA, and Others
• Wired: Electronic Nose

If you don't mind switching window managers fvwm95 looks just like Windows.

There are a number of computerized sinffers available and have been for quite a while. Some that yes, even sniff for drugs. One was even approved by the government. Very cheesy site but contains alot of information. Also there are many others that are here.

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Researchers are still submitting research to the classical (high impact) journals because it is their only way to gain prestige, and be eligable for grants or tenure positions. e-journals can only provide a way out of this, if the the transfer of copyrights could be stopped. If universities and research institutions would make a global pact not to allow transfer of copyrights, and distribute their results freely, publishers would be forced quite soon to accept papers without gaining the copyright. This is of course nice and idealistic, and not likely to happen. But one can dream.