In Denmark, all owners of any device that is able to connect to the Internet with more than 256 kbps (and is able to display graphics) are supposed to pay an annual "media license fee" that amounts to EUR 300 (USD 400).:(
Am I the only person who upon reading the title had the sudden mental image of flora with glowing plasma leaves that devour trash like venus fly-traps devour flies?
Come on. The average age seems to be less than 30 years on the 1978, hence the average would be less than 60 today. I'd say the chances that all the people still being alive are pretty good.
Cheers.
It's only certain parts of the website. Like if you click on the books.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/book_fb.html [hp-lexicon.org]
Try that link in IE and you get the message "copyright 2001-2006 The Harry Potter Lexicon"
I don't have MSIE. All mousebuttons work as expected in Firefox on Linux.
[...], that's not the weirdest thing of all. That honor is reserved for the Lexicon itself, which certainly takes liberal advantage of fair use to print hundreds of little snippets from the Harry Potter books. But try to copy one line from the site for purposes of commentary and criticism, and you're met with the dialog box, "copyright 2001-2006 The Harry Potter Lexicon." Nice.
I have no problems copying snippets off the HP Lexicon site, do you?
A Danish linux guy, Peter Toft, actually tested this one month ago and found that it uses 10 W during bootup and just over 6 W once it's up and running.
PTO's previous articles about the Fit-PC can be found here, here and here (all in Danish).
More than one year ago, BBC mentioned the LifeStraw that filters water as you drink. It's able to filter 700 litres of water and was at that time priced at less than two quid (probably the wholesale price).
See also the inventor Torben Vestergaard Frandsen's website.
Case Western Reserve University physicists are theorizing that trillions of years from now the universe will become 'static'.
Give us a break. Scientists can hardly predict tomorrow's weather, and now you want us to believe that you can predict what the universe will look like trillions of years from now? C'mon...
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On the desktop I've switched to Newsbeuter, and I'll probably skip reading feeds on my phone.
The only truly effective spam prevention technique I've seen is greylisting.
In Denmark, all owners of any device that is able to connect to the Internet with more than 256 kbps (and is able to display graphics) are supposed to pay an annual "media license fee" that amounts to EUR 300 (USD 400). :(
Look at this guy navigating by clicking his tongue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI9cGYWKs_8.
You were not alone... ;)
I guess it's the parantheses they're talking about. In an email address like
the name John Doe is a comment.
It seems most people in this thread forgot to turn on their humor meter...
Beautiful regexp that validates RFC 822 addresses: Mail-RFC822-Address.html
The plural of nucleus is nuclei, please!
Digsby is unavailable for Linux.
How Acoustic Guitars Work shows that 120 Hz is in-between B and A#, and 60 Hz is exactly one octave lower than 120 Hz.
The short review uses the word extremely 4 times in just a few paragraphs, and that made me a bit skeptic...
You could submit the case anonymously to the Freenet Crime Tips Site.
Come on. The average age seems to be less than 30 years on the 1978, hence the average would be less than 60 today. I'd say the chances that all the people still being alive are pretty good. Cheers.
This site's been up for quite some time in response to t-mobile's claim: Free Magenta.
There are several readers available, not only covering Nokia and Symbian phones:
There are also several other 2D "bar" codes in use besides QR-code: quickMark, trillCode, mCode, shotCode, semaCode, beeTagg, ... You name it!
More than one year ago, BBC mentioned the LifeStraw that filters water as you drink. It's able to filter 700 litres of water and was at that time priced at less than two quid (probably the wholesale price). See also the inventor Torben Vestergaard Frandsen's website.
Hot Air suggests this is the offending comic strip. Read the full story at Hot Air.