amazing news, guys: two of the most developed countries in Africa can also do software! I bet that soon they will find out that not only Ghanians and Kenyans can do software, they also
- do not live on trees
- do not believe the Earth is flat
- occasionally have PhDs!
Buy any random computer with a camera, and use crazy glue to attach a small flat piece of metal on the camera lens. Security guards know that metal is opaque.
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You get the original flv video, no ads, no adware, nothing to install, just the video. But, of course, if you just cannot live without a "Save as" option in a menu...
> Effects of unprotected exposure to space on Wikipedia
I believe that if Wikipedia was exposed to space unprotected, nothing much would happen. Massive information structures have very high tolerance to extreme environments.
Telecom Italia, back when it still was the monopolist, tried to set up DECT networks in cities. The idea was that you would have this DECT cordless phone that you would also carry outside your home. In fact, on some phoneboxes you can still see the typical twin DECT base station antennas.
The idea was completely killed by the explosion of GSM cellphones. Smaller, nicer terminals with complete roaming and interoperability no matter where in Europe (and actually, large parts of Asia and Africa) you are. And not so expensive, if you look into it.
regarding the.edu domain trick: it looks brilliant, but may I remind you that there is a large chunk of the academic world that is outside the US, and thus does not rejoice in an.edu email address?
The building will have to be changed, rest assured, and this is why contemporary buildings are not done in solid granite, but rather distinguish between an untouchable structural framework, and a very flexible partition system (drywall, glass, metal) that can be moved around.
The building of course has to interoperate with other buildings (the underground parking lot, the mall next door, the convenience store on the corner), and of course it also has to work in a complex network of streets, power lines, data connections, zoning laws etc. etc.
Don't think that everything outside software is easy.
It is peculiar that this tribe at first was not interested enough in the elder to record him: and then suddenly so interested as to go after the linguist. The linguist, after all, did the recordings with his own equipment, on his own time. Can't they just pay?
If I fail for twenty years to take a photo or video recording of my grandfather, and then he dies, and I locate a professional photographer that happened to take photos of him, should I be surprised that he makes me pay for the negatives or digital files?
> The Apollo 13 unit fell in the Troga Trench and has been sitting there unpenetrated.
Meanwhile, deep in the ocean, a subacquean race of sentient beings is slowly unravelling the mysteries of nuclear power. In a few centuries they will emerge from the waters in their might! Beweaponed with terrifying RTG powered... mmm... cuttlefish?
Film also really lends itself to literary tropes like symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony. This kind of thinking is just not possible (or at least very difficult) without prevalent access to technology.
Yes, and everybody knows that symbolism, foreshadowing and irony are completely impossible without a big, electronic, heavy-duty, class-wide technological base. Those poor bastards in ancient Greece were only thinking that they were using rhetorical devices: in fact, irony and sarcasm became possible only recently, with the advent of the Internet.
Notice that fiber to the premises has been an option in many urban areas of Italy for the past five years - http://www.fastweb.it/ is the provider. They are famous for the good quality of the connectivity, and notorious for the unpredictability of the setup times. Once you are in, it is good, but it can take ages to get in. A flat rate connection will cost about 40 Euro per month, including 100 Minutes of VoIP and a three-port hub.
the reviewer seems to lack some very important clue points about cameras and phones. The phone doesn't have infrared? You are not going to miss it! It doesn't have vibration? Who needs vibration!
And I will not even get started about the surreal comparison with digital prosumer cameras... dude, those things have manual focus and manual exposure. I hope that at least Nokia gave him one free phone.
Your argument applies, if at all, only to a minority of countries in the world. There are many more where revolution is possible (and indeed it happens) - we don't need to list them here.
Regarding the US, though, what with the US's ass being currently kicked all over the place in Iraq through very low tech means, it is very sweet that you should think that revolution is unthinkable. Think asimmetric threat.
compressed air is used commercially to power tools and machinery in places where electricity would be dangerous/unpractical to use: you can get compressed air drills, angle grinders etc. etc.
Et: and, or also in: in, related to being in a fixed place Arcadia: a region of Greece, but also the background for pastoral poetry. It can also stand for the "perfect" place Ego: I (as subject of a sentence)
consider that in Latin you can frequently omit the verb "to be". The sentence thus means, more or less, I, too, am in Arcadia.
http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/engversio n/ culture/clasarcadia/etinarc.html In Poussin's painting it makes perfect sense, since it is written on a tomb. Death itself is speaking.
http://www.galleriaborghese.it/barberini/it/arca di a.htm In an earlier painting (1618-1622) by Guercino the allegory is even more transparent, since a skull is speaking. This seems to be the first appearance of the sentence - though frequently attributed to Vergil, it doesn't show up in his works.
I would like to point out that, thanks to Linux, computers are once again programmable. They come with (draws long breath) Python, Perl, Awk, C, LISP, Tcl, various shells...
Languages with different kinds of learning curves, but you can do something which is interesting (and has teaching value) with one line of Awk or Perl on a 486.
Notice that we are talking about a planet where a vastmajority of people has difficulties programming a VCR, or where trains are missed because the alarm clock either went 12:00 or thought that it was PM while it was AM - or viceversa.
A planet were auto-defrosting refrigerators occasionally will decide that they want to defrost no matter what.
A planet, ultimately, where systems whith the level of complexity and interrelation that the article implies (like, a cluster of servers) require personnel totally dedicated to administration.
What you are implying is that anyone can at any time take away something that I pay for is that right? Why dosn't anyone have any right to post to usenet? Who says? I mean if I pay $$ to post and access usenet then that's what I am paying for.
My friend, you seem to be terribly confused. You pay an ISP to have the right to call it, and exchange unmusical noises with it modems, and maybe transfer information. That is what you pay for. If the ISP suddenly turns off all of its modems, you can sue it. You don't pay to access the USENET: for one reason, the USENET does not really exist. What exist is a bunch of systems that share naming conventions and occasionally agree to carry each others traffic (and not all of it). Of course, if your ISP was unwise enough to write in the contract you agreed upon that you will have access to USENET (for some definition of USENET, mark you), then you can sue the ISP.
I would say that this would be descrimination same as if for some reason every time I tried to post to slashdot malda decided that no matter what nic I got every post [snipia] was not allowed to post to slashdot.
Yes, but it would be perfectly within slashdot rights to discriminate against your posts. Let me make it clear: Slashdot is not a right. The USENET is not a right. IRC is not a right. Photo Net is not a right. They are privileges and favours: as such, they can go away at any time. Just get yourself banned from a MUD/MOO/chat and try to sue...
As for you "legal entitlement" to using the net in all its forms, I wonder where you heard about it. Is it in your Bill of Rights ? Or in a previously unknown amendment ?
Free Speech is being infringed when you have limited resources (not everybody can have his own newspapers, and for every town there is at most one Speaker's Corner) - but on the Internet anybody can build its own web site.
I really hate it when people build something with their work and patience and time, and then a random guy shows up and says: I have a right to this.
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amazing news, guys: two of the most developed countries in Africa can also do software! I bet that soon they will find out that not only Ghanians and Kenyans can do software, they also
- do not live on trees
- do not believe the Earth is flat
- occasionally have PhDs!
Buy any random computer with a camera, and use crazy glue to attach a small flat piece of metal on the camera lens. Security guards know that metal is opaque.
Acclair provides security and marketing solutions based on advanced neurometric technology. Acclair offers its members priority security checkpoint clearance using Brain Fingerprinting technology and opportunities to capitalize on their brain's neuro-activity using its Neurocapital(TM) System (a unique financial remuneration and amnesty process).
I have seen people writing control software for robots that updates 10K times per second using Matlab + Simulink.
You get the original flv video, no ads, no adware, nothing to install, just the video. But, of course, if you just cannot live without a "Save as" option in a menu...
> Effects of unprotected exposure to space on Wikipedia
I believe that if Wikipedia was exposed to space unprotected, nothing much would happen. Massive information structures have very high tolerance to extreme environments.
Telecom Italia, back when it still was the monopolist, tried to set up DECT networks in cities. The idea was that you would have this DECT cordless phone that you would also carry outside your home. In fact, on some phoneboxes you can still see the typical twin DECT base station antennas.
The idea was completely killed by the explosion of GSM cellphones. Smaller, nicer terminals with complete roaming and interoperability no matter where in Europe (and actually, large parts of Asia and Africa) you are. And not so expensive, if you look into it.
yeah, but it is all your fault. You just had to cursor down while doing a witchspace jump, right?
regarding the .edu domain trick: it looks brilliant, but may I remind you that there is a large chunk of the academic world that is outside the US, and thus does not rejoice in an .edu email address?
The building will have to be changed, rest assured, and this is why contemporary buildings are not done in solid granite, but rather distinguish between an untouchable structural framework, and a very flexible partition system (drywall, glass, metal) that can be moved around.
The building of course has to interoperate with other buildings (the underground parking lot, the mall next door, the convenience store on the corner), and of course it also has to work in a complex network of streets, power lines, data connections, zoning laws etc. etc.
Don't think that everything outside software is easy.
It is peculiar that this tribe at first was not interested enough in the elder to record him: and then suddenly so interested as to go after the linguist. The linguist, after all, did the recordings with his own equipment, on his own time. Can't they just pay?
If I fail for twenty years to take a photo or video recording of my grandfather, and then he dies, and I locate a professional photographer that happened to take photos of him, should I be surprised that he makes me pay for the negatives or digital files?
> The Apollo 13 unit fell in the Troga Trench and has been sitting there unpenetrated.
Meanwhile, deep in the ocean, a subacquean race of sentient beings is slowly unravelling the mysteries of nuclear power. In a few centuries they will emerge from the waters in their might! Beweaponed with terrifying RTG powered... mmm... cuttlefish?
Yes, and everybody knows that symbolism, foreshadowing and irony are completely impossible without a big, electronic, heavy-duty, class-wide technological base. Those poor bastards in ancient Greece were only thinking that they were using rhetorical devices: in fact, irony and sarcasm became possible only recently, with the advent of the Internet.
Notice that fiber to the premises has been an option in many urban areas of Italy for the past five years - http://www.fastweb.it/ is the provider. They are famous for the good quality of the connectivity, and notorious for the unpredictability of the setup times. Once you are in, it is good, but it can take ages to get in. A flat rate connection will cost about 40 Euro per month, including 100 Minutes of VoIP and a three-port hub.
the reviewer seems to lack some very important clue points about cameras and phones. The phone doesn't have infrared? You are not going to miss it! It doesn't have vibration? Who needs vibration!
And I will not even get started about the surreal comparison with digital prosumer cameras... dude, those things have manual focus and manual exposure. I hope that at least Nokia gave him one free phone.
Your argument applies, if at all, only to a minority of countries in the world. There are many more where revolution is possible (and indeed it happens) - we don't need to list them here.
Regarding the US, though, what with the US's ass being currently kicked all over the place in Iraq through very low tech means, it is very sweet that you should think that revolution is unthinkable. Think asimmetric threat.
Compounded with:
the current Italian government (the useless slimeball Berlusconi) being in trouble at home right now, so needing to show some measure of backbone
the Italian tradition of paying ransom, which Americans really do not like but do their best to ignore, since you cannot very well spank allies
the age-honored tradition of keeping allies in the dark as much as possible
Result: one dead cop.
compressed air is used commercially to power tools and machinery in places where electricity would be dangerous/unpractical to use: you can get compressed air drills, angle grinders etc. etc.
Notice how Sony's latest digital cameras, starting with the F828, have both MemoryStick and CompactFlash slots that can even harbor microdrives.
In the same product line, now the RAW files are more accessible.
And this is the farang price... I am sure that those friendly guys at Pantip Plaza also do discounts on mass purchases.
Et: and, or also
in: in, related to being in a fixed place
Arcadia: a region of Greece, but also the background for pastoral poetry. It can also stand for the "perfect" place
Ego: I (as subject of a sentence)
consider that in Latin you can frequently omit the verb "to be". The sentence thus means, more or less, I, too, am in Arcadia.
http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/engversi
In Poussin's painting it makes perfect sense, since it is written on a tomb. Death itself is speaking.
http://www.galleriaborghese.it/barberini/it/arc
In an earlier painting (1618-1622) by Guercino the allegory is even more transparent, since a skull is speaking. This seems to be the first appearance of the sentence - though frequently attributed to Vergil, it doesn't show up in his works.
Languages with different kinds of learning curves, but you can do something which is interesting (and has teaching value) with one line of Awk or Perl on a 486.
A planet were auto-defrosting refrigerators occasionally will decide that they want to defrost no matter what.
A planet, ultimately, where systems whith the level of complexity and interrelation that the article implies (like, a cluster of servers) require personnel totally dedicated to administration.
Will your ma turn sysop ? Mine sure will not ...
My friend, you seem to be terribly confused. You pay an ISP to have the right to call it, and exchange unmusical noises with it modems, and maybe transfer information. That is what you pay for. If the ISP suddenly turns off all of its modems, you can sue it.
You don't pay to access the USENET: for one reason, the USENET does not really exist. What exist is a bunch of systems that share naming conventions and occasionally agree to carry each others traffic (and not all of it). Of course, if your ISP was unwise enough to write in the contract you agreed upon that you will have access to USENET (for some definition of USENET, mark you), then you can sue the ISP.
I would say that this would be descrimination same as if for some reason every time I tried to post to slashdot malda decided that no matter what nic I got every post
[snipia]
was not allowed to post to slashdot.
Yes, but it would be perfectly within slashdot rights to discriminate against your posts. ...
As for you "legal entitlement" to using the net in all its forms, I wonder where you heard about it. Is it in your Bill of Rights ? Or in a previously unknown amendment ?Let me make it clear: Slashdot is not a right. The USENET is not a right. IRC is not a right. Photo Net is not a right. They are privileges and favours: as such, they can go away at any time. Just get yourself banned from a MUD/MOO/chat and try to sue
Free Speech is being infringed when you have limited resources (not everybody can have his own newspapers, and for every town there is at most one Speaker's Corner) - but on the Internet anybody can build its own web site.
I really hate it when people build something with their work and patience and time, and then a random guy shows up and says: I have a right to this.