Beyond that, the DOS version runs great under DOSBox, and uses dosbox's built-in IPX system for multiplayer over TCP/IP. That also works crossplatform between Windows and Intel macs.
The other great thing about duke3d was the unique sounds on each level. In multiplayer you hear where people are when they open doors, break mirrors, or trigger a certain area's unique thing, and you know where to go to get 'em. Quake sounds were too generic to do that.
It depends on where you live. In New York state, you can pick your own energy providers. This includes "green" electricity from places like http://www.ecny.org/ . It's a great choice to have; I'd imagine other states will gain the same kind of option with time.
There's a good industry-news site on the 787 (and its Airbus competitors) that I've been following for a while at http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/ - there's a lot of background and good technical stuff there.
My favorite weekly column, Ask the Pilot by Patrick Smith, is on Salon. I think a lot of us geeks would enjoy his anecdotes and perspective. I look forward to it each week, but I wouldn't have gone past a paywall for it.
"We measured shear thinning, a viscosity decrease ordinarily associated with complex liquids, near the critical point of xenon. The data span a wide range of reduced shear rate... The measurements had a temperature resolution of 0.01 mK and were conducted in microgravity aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia to avoid the density stratification caused by Earth's gravity."
I'm surprised this Wired story doesn't mention the awesome, in-depth article Neil Stephenson wrote in 1996 that chronicled the birth and construction of the FLAG cable:
Mother Earth Mother Board - The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.
I think one of their best is This American Life, a weekly show of snapshots of interesting events of everyday people. Their site has a pretty good description of each show, and you can download the most recent as a good old MP3.
Groklaw ran a story in early May about the ODF plugin - it was ready with screenshots back then, but wasn't available for download. Almost seems like there's more info there than in the RFI !
"The OpenDocument Foundation has notified the Massachusetts ITD that we have completed testing on an ODF Plugin for all versions of MS Office dating back to MS Office 97. The ODF Plugin installs on the file menu as a natural and transparent part of the open, save, and save as sequences. As far as end users and other application add-ons are concerned, ODF plugin renders ODF documents as if it were native to MS Office.
The testing has been extensive and thorough. As far as we can tell there isn't a problem, even with Accessibility add ons, which as you know is a major concern for Massachusetts."
Definitely - I work in a 100-person IT department, for a local company in western NY, and their philosophy is to get people who can learn, and KEEP THEM. There are folks here who started on the mainframe and can school me in large java web-app stuff.
It does raise the bar, but once you're in, keep learning and you'll do fine.
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Agreed the history tab needs work; some devs are working on just that, I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/19185
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-January/065556.html
Another very good book on the Enigma history is David Kahn's
"Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-boat Codes".
Someone's apparently working on an open-source input method for stenotype (Plover):
http://lwn.net/Articles/475408/
This is true; Yahoo just opened a "green" datacenter in Lockport (near Buffalo and Niagara Falls).
http://tonawanda-news.com/local/x1391190391/Yahoo-makes-its-WNY-debut
There's a lot more info on the C919, for those of us curious about it on the technical level, at http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/11/05/349329/china-special-c919-update.html .
There's an article, by a commercial pilot, about the myths of jets able to "fly themselves" at http://www.salon.com/technology/ask_the_pilot/2009/11/19/askthepilot342 . You have to scroll down a little to get to the meat of it, but there's plenty up there to keep 2 people busy.
He also talks about how busy things can get in an earlier article http://www.salon.com/technology/ask_the_pilot/2007/08/31/askthepilot243/index.html .
Duke3D is still a lot of fun to play, especially for those of us who had a blast with it at LAN parties.
There are excellent ports and improvements on the sourcecode, like eduke32.
Beyond that, the DOS version runs great under DOSBox, and uses dosbox's built-in IPX system for multiplayer over TCP/IP. That also works crossplatform between Windows and Intel macs.
The other great thing about duke3d was the unique sounds on each level. In multiplayer you hear where people are when they open doors, break mirrors, or trigger a certain area's unique thing, and you know where to go to get 'em. Quake sounds were too generic to do that.
It depends on where you live. In New York state, you can pick your own energy providers. This includes "green" electricity from places like http://www.ecny.org/ . It's a great choice to have; I'd imagine other states will gain the same kind of option with time.
There's a good industry-news site on the 787 (and its Airbus competitors) that I've been following for a while at http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/ - there's a lot of background and good technical stuff there.
This student posted his own story at http://www.salon.com/life/pinched/2009/12/06/living_in_a_van/index.html - I think it's a much more interesting link.
My favorite weekly column, Ask the Pilot by Patrick Smith, is on Salon. I think a lot of us geeks would enjoy his anecdotes and perspective. I look forward to it each week, but I wouldn't have gone past a paywall for it.
No, just a curious observer; I found it by googling the journal name in the blocksandfiles article, and digging from there.
For anyone curious about the actual experiment whose data was recovered:
... The measurements had a temperature resolution of 0.01 mK and were conducted in microgravity aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia to avoid the density stratification caused by Earth's gravity."
The abstract for the science experiment is at http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v77/e041116 (or in the table of contents issue is http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=PLEEE8&Volume=77&Issue=4 ).
"We measured shear thinning, a viscosity decrease ordinarily associated with complex liquids, near the critical point of xenon. The data span a wide range of reduced shear rate
I'm surprised this Wired story doesn't mention the awesome, in-depth article Neil Stephenson wrote in 1996 that chronicled the birth and construction of the FLAG cable: Mother Earth Mother Board - The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.
I think one of their best is This American Life, a weekly show of snapshots of interesting events of everyday people. Their site has a pretty good description of each show, and you can download the most recent as a good old MP3.
I've always had good results with Request Tracker, which does a lot of this for you and is time-tested open-source:
http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/features.html
That's not cool at ALL. I turn cleartype on or off, and it should stay that way. I don't want to do it 20 times in 20 places if this catches on.
How can anyone know if the registrar is trustworthy?
Definitely - I work in a 100-person IT department, for a local company in western NY, and their philosophy is to get people who can learn, and KEEP THEM. There are folks here who started on the mainframe and can school me in large java web-app stuff.
It does raise the bar, but once you're in, keep learning and you'll do fine.
Well, the guy's page lists some papers about it. Maybe it's something that'll work, maybe not, but they're well past the write-it-once stage.