It'll probably stop most empirical space research for years...
i don't usually care about people i don't know dying, but since i'm a techno-romantic....
this makes me think of a song btw, really apropriate,
the phoenix by julia ecklar:
in a tower of flame in capsule twelve i was there i know not where they layed my bones, it could be anywhere but when fire and smoke had faded the darkness left my sight, and i found my soul in a spaceships hull, riding home on a trail of light and my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel i am the joy of terra for the power that i wield once upon a lifetime i died a pioneer
now i sing within a spaceship's hull, does anybody hear?
before each mornings launch, they know that i am there to the soul that warms this vessels hull they say a silent prayer
i am father, ship and spirit of the dream for wich they strive
for i am man at the hands of man, see us rocket for the sky
and my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel i am the joy of terra for the power that i wield once upon a lifetime i died a pioneer
now i sing within a spaceship's hull, does anybody hear?
my thunder rends the morning skies, yes i am here, though lost to flame when i was man , now i ride her without fear for i am more than man now, and man built me with pride
i led her the way, and i lead the way, of mans future in the sky
and my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel i am the joy of terra for the power that i wield once upon a lifetime i died a pioneer
now i sing within a spaceship's hull, does anybody hear?
I've handled a couple of these cases from the ISP side, they seem to just connect to different p2p networks and search for stuff they represent, then send the time, date, username, ip and filename to the isp in an email saying that the isp should take proper action against the user.
They do NOT seem to download the stuff to check if it's really what it seems to be though, i've tried to take this up with them, (thinking about fakes and stuff like that) but they don't seem to want to have that discussion.
Not to belittle his role in the software world, but i don't really agree that linus torvalds should be named as one of the top software innovators. Imho linux is really unix done all over again, just under a different kind of licensing. If that's software innovation then go for stallman instead...
I'd probably go for people more like the woz, carmack, etc. (and of course some of the good ol' guys, turing, davies, babbage etc.)
Some thoughts: The inventor of hypertext? The inventor of compression? The inventor of linked lists? The inventor of multitasking? and on and on and on...
Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And gnod learns more every day. Enjoy:o)
I mean, come on, how can someone fuck up a desktop with only a fluxbox menu showing "web browser" "word processor" "shut down computer" and "my documents"...
and of course, dyndns so i can do support with ssh if needed, browser - mozilla, openoffice for word processing (don't think i can get my parents to use TeX yet;)) and perhaps some kind of im so they can reach me if online.
Well, it don't need to be... here in sweden a bottle of beer is about $1.50 , but i know other european countries where they sell one for like thirty cents....
(actually, in hungary it's not uncommon to see signs outside small pubs etc. that say like "a mug of beer - 100 forint", a hungarian mug of beer is like a litre if i'm not mistaking. afaik 100 forint is like fourty cents )
so if a third of those prices are deposit, you do the math;D
I and a friend (me and a friend? , i'm not a native english speaker) put together 14 systems in three hours.
We were pissed because the company who were (where? was?) to provide us with computers didn't deliver on time, so i talked to the manager and convinced him to let us build them ourself with a rebate.
We rented a mini-van and drove the three hours to the place they built their systems, borrowed a couple of groundable electrical screwdrivers and went to work...
The guys working there usually built about two machines / hour, so they where nothing short of amazed:) After about three hours of building we packed our new boxen in the van, went to the warehouse to pick up the k/v/m + speakers and went to lunch.
(not that smart now that i think about it, but it went ok, so what;))
Three hours later, we put the boxen in place at my job.
You should have seen the look on my boss'es face the next morning!
And i believe i have a couple of clarifications to make - The espresso also has s-video out, it doesn't have rca, but it has an internal 16-bit soundcard. Saintsong where talking about "linux compabílity" on the espresso too - i havent tried it yet though. Mine is equipped with a dvd docking station, 128m and p3 700mhz, under windows it doesn't feel like a 700, it's actually rather slow but it's kinda cute laying there on my tv playing divx's connected to the wireless k/b and mouse;) , sucks having to use usb ethernet though...
I hope you are joking, i didn't believe that there actually where americans still thinking usa is "the best country in the world"... Of course you have advantages to most countries in some ways, mostly because of the massive ammount of money in circulation, but i would definitely not say that "the whole purpose of the student visa was give foreign students who couldn't attend college in their home country a place to learn", most of the swedes I know who go to college in the us does it as a complement to their swedish education, mostly to get better at english and to be enabled to put international experience on their resumés. The us should definitely look over their immigration rules, a lot of people over here can't get a green card and go over there to work, this could damage the future development of as there _is_ good talent in other countries than the us (just look at linux, nokia, ericsson, mercedes benz, bmw, volvo etc. all european companies/products (ok, some of them bought, but you see what i'm pointing at...)
btw, you should keep in mind that the largest reason us colleges accept foreign students is that they want them to stay and work in the us. This isn't some kind of charity, it would be stupid to educate people and then send them away. One of swedens largest problems with foreign students is that they come here, take their education and then leave the country to work elsewhere - you can't get any work or money out of them that way - can you ?;)
/Daniel
yep, i've probably managed get a couple of grammatical errors in there, but you'll probably understand anyway...
Slashdot Mirror
A whole generation of "leapsters" getting bullied for having parents that got them the leapster instead of a gba for x-mas.
Poor bastards.
So when can i use this to build my own free-form foam-igloo?
Great, this means i should keep to my habit of being drunk shitless whenever installing software!
fucking filter. (and, yeah, DOH for not making it a link)
t ml
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/index.en.h
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/index.en.ht ml
no?
Put up a CVS repository somewhere you have a shell, create a script that does things in this order:
;))
1: updates your bookmark file against the cvs
2: starts mozilla
3: commits any changes (to be run when mozilla exits, of course)
Of course this seems like overkill, but it'd work
(now i know what i'll be doing the rest of the afternoon.
BTW. This would have the added bonus of having the possibility to delete bookmarks you haven't used for a while without loosing them for ever...
It'll probably stop most empirical space research for years...
i don't usually care about people i don't know dying, but since i'm a techno-romantic....
this makes me think of a song btw, really apropriate,
the phoenix by julia ecklar:
in a tower of flame in capsule twelve
i was there
i know not where they layed my bones, it could be anywhere
but when fire and smoke had faded
the darkness left my sight, and i found my soul in a spaceships hull, riding
home on a trail of light
and my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel
i am the joy of terra for the power that i wield
once upon a lifetime i died a pioneer
now i sing within a spaceship's hull, does anybody hear?
before each mornings launch, they know that i am there
to the soul that warms this vessels hull they say a silent prayer
i am father, ship and spirit of the dream for wich they strive
for i am man at the hands of man, see us rocket for the sky
and my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel
i am the joy of terra for the power that i wield
once upon a lifetime i died a pioneer
now i sing within a spaceship's hull, does anybody hear?
my thunder rends the morning skies, yes i am here,
though lost to flame when i was man , now i ride her without fear
for i am more than man now, and man built me with pride
i led her the way, and i lead the way, of mans future in the sky
and my wings are made of tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel
i am the joy of terra for the power that i wield
once upon a lifetime i died a pioneer
now i sing within a spaceship's hull, does anybody hear?
(something like that)
at least i can't come through...
nsa homepage
I've handled a couple of these cases from the ISP side, they seem to just connect to different p2p networks and search for stuff they represent, then send the time, date, username, ip and filename to the isp in an email saying that the isp should take proper action against the user.
They do NOT seem to download the stuff to check if it's really what it seems to be though, i've tried to take this up with them, (thinking about fakes and stuff like that) but they don't seem to want to have that discussion.
Not to belittle his role in the software world, but i don't really agree that linus torvalds should be named as one of the top software innovators. Imho linux is really unix done all over again, just under a different kind of licensing. If that's software innovation then go for stallman instead...
I'd probably go for people more like the woz, carmack, etc. (and of course some of the good ol' guys, turing, davies, babbage etc.)
Some thoughts:
The inventor of hypertext?
The inventor of compression?
The inventor of linked lists?
The inventor of multitasking?
and on and on and on...
(sry for my crappy english btw.)
FAT FUCKING CHANCE.
It's gnod.
From the page:
Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And gnod learns more every day. Enjoy :o)
Has ask slashdot turned into a fscking software problems/bug report board?
Ask the fucking support department of MSN for god's sake.
Please be a little more selective; job ads, hormones, wtf news for nerds? - you're better than this guys...
no?
have the editors gone blind?
repost after repost,
have you guys stopped reading the site or what?
laserdisc, quite sure of it... check out -> The laserdisc FAQ
I mean, come on, how can someone fuck up a desktop with only a fluxbox menu showing "web browser" "word processor" "shut down computer" and "my documents" ...
;)) and perhaps some kind of im so they can reach me if online.
and of course, dyndns so i can do support with ssh if needed, browser - mozilla, openoffice for word processing (don't think i can get my parents to use TeX yet
...ever heard of dyndns?
Well, it don't need to be...
;D
here in sweden a bottle of beer is about $1.50 , but i know other european countries where they sell one for like thirty cents....
(actually, in hungary it's not uncommon to see signs outside small pubs etc. that say like "a mug of beer - 100 forint", a hungarian mug of beer is like a litre if i'm not mistaking. afaik 100 forint is like fourty cents )
so if a third of those prices are deposit, you do the math
Sorry about my crappy english;
first, what i meant was "to be _able_ to take care of it and love it".
there are far to many unwanted children born nowadays anyway, imho there's no need to increase the numbers...
second, i don't apply this thinking to individuals, i don't see a featus as an individual as it haven't had the time to take in any expressions yet.
Who gives a shit if it's alive or not? , that's not the issue in my opinion;
rather; will it have parents to love it and care for it.
You should probably go vegan to - just use the same type of "deliberate thinking" to sort the issue of eating dead animals out.
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That's what we get for trying to keep religious belief out of our schools. (nope, i'm not an american)
Heh, reminds me;
:)
;))
I and a friend (me and a friend? , i'm not a native english speaker)
put together 14 systems in three hours.
We were pissed because the company who were (where? was?) to provide us with computers didn't deliver on time, so i talked to the manager and convinced him to let us build them ourself with a rebate.
We rented a mini-van and drove the three hours to the place they built their systems, borrowed a couple of groundable electrical screwdrivers and went to work...
The guys working there usually built about two machines / hour, so they where nothing short of amazed
After about three hours of building we packed our new boxen in the van, went to the warehouse to pick up the k/v/m + speakers and went to lunch.
(not that smart now that i think about it, but it went ok, so what
Three hours later, we put the boxen in place at my job.
You should have seen the look on my boss'es face the next morning!
er... pII even...
And i believe i have a couple of clarifications to make - The espresso also has s-video out, it doesn't have rca, but it has an internal 16-bit soundcard. Saintsong where talking about "linux compabílity" on the espresso too - i havent tried it yet though. Mine is equipped with a dvd docking station, 128m and p3 700mhz, under windows it doesn't feel like a 700, it's actually rather slow but it's kinda cute laying there on my tv playing divx's connected to the wireless k/b and mouse ;) , sucks having to use usb ethernet though...
I hope you are joking, i didn't believe that there actually where americans still thinking usa is "the best country in the world"...
;)
/Daniel
yep, i've probably managed get a couple of grammatical errors in there, but you'll probably understand anyway...
Of course you have advantages to most countries in some ways, mostly because of the massive ammount of money in circulation, but i would definitely not say that "the whole purpose of the student visa was give foreign students who couldn't attend college in their home country a place to learn", most of the swedes I know who go to college in the us does it as a complement to their swedish education, mostly to get better at english and to be enabled to put international experience on their resumés. The us should definitely look over their immigration rules, a lot of people over here can't get a green card and go over there to work, this could damage the future development of as there _is_ good talent in other countries than the us (just look at linux, nokia, ericsson, mercedes benz, bmw, volvo etc. all european companies/products (ok, some of them bought, but you see what i'm pointing at...)
btw, you should keep in mind that the largest reason us colleges accept foreign students is that they want them to stay and work in the us. This isn't some kind of charity, it would be stupid to educate people and then send them away. One of swedens largest problems with foreign students is that they come here, take their education and then leave the country to work elsewhere - you can't get any work or money out of them that way - can you ?