The roman empire didn't "fall", it lost its western half. The byzantine empire is the roman empire. For more than a century, the scientific and cultural center was already Constantinople, not Rome, and everything was preserved there. Out of the roman realm, western Europe couldn't benefit from well-maintained roman infrastructure and administration, life was much, much harder for a long time, but civilization did not go backward,
Myrtle is also used in the zoroastrian religion, which was the state religion in Iran before islam, and is still very present in today iranian traditions (like Noruz).
If there really is something about this "myrtus", maybe it's more about the target than the origin. As others have noted, it's a bit far-fetched to think that the authors would leave a clue about themselves like Hollywood villains.
On the other hand, I've never seen a single OS using that much memory. These machines are meant to be, and usually are, partioned. I believe the largest RAM I've seen allocated to a partition was about 64 GB.
That's absolutely true : when I was a student in the early 90s, we used to watch the first season of Twin Peaks on a 5-inch B&W TV set, and there were 5 or 6 of us gathered around this mini thing every monday evening... It may seem an extreme example, but really nothing can beat a good idea, not even the most incredible technology.
Shinkansens have an emergency stopping system for earthquakes, linked to the seismic stations of the country; that's why the Shinkansen have also been chosen by Taiwan. There have been no deadly accidents on Shinkansen related to earthquakes or typhoons. TGV and, I believe, all high speed trains, run on protected tracks, cattle are not a concern.
I've yet to see a site where I did want to scale images
While I agree with you that I wouldn't want to see JPEG zoomed in, it's not only about photos; when you zoom in, you might want to have also the logos, the image-bullets, and every PNG or GIF in the page to zoom in accordingly, as to preserve the layout and the design of the page.
Actually I'm not sure that's relevant to the browser, I believe it's more a CSS thing. I've seen it done using em width for images, it works fine, and it lets you controls which images have to be zoomed in.
What's with all those predictions recently on Slashdot? Is that really a worthwhile content? Enough to be posted on Slashdot? Rumours for nerds, stuff that might be...
You might as well post some Nostradamus' quatrain and pretend you've seen the future of Apple in it.
Until Gimp actually supports more than 8 bits per color, it's useless to try and do some photo enhancement with it, the final quality will be much lower than with Photoshop.
I've done a lot of photo enhancement with the Gimp and it suited me perfectly at the time, but now that I've got a Nikon LS50, which scans at 14bits per color, I am forced to use Photoshop. I will happily switch back when Gimp solve this problem.
And I'm quite surprised to see someone who calls himself a "pro" wishing to scan his slides with a flatbed scanner... Even I as a pure amateur can understand that there is something very wrong there.
Well, do go on looking, old fellow. But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a whip-toting archaeologist-hero to stumble out of a collapsing jungle temple with a quipu-to-English dictionary under his arm.
Besides the Rosetta stone, it happened also with cuneiform script, which was deciphered in 1839 thanks to an inscription on a cliff in Bistun, Iran; a pretty large inscription, by the way, not something Indiana would have to fight nazis and snakes to obtain. The inscriptions was written in Elamite, Akadian, and Old Persian; the real tour de force is, none of these languages were known (except Old Persian is somewhat vaguely related to nowadays Persian), but the fact that the text was written in 3 different languages allowed Rawlinson to locate common words, thus isolating proper nouns, and slowly beginning to translate the Old Persian text. Much more hard work gave the key to the complex Elamite and Akadian writings.
So, it happened twice before, why not a third time?
It seems obvious that this classic has completely destabilized this guy! Actually, it's a great fun to spot the invaders mosaics in the streets of Paris; a friend setup a website to try and shoot'em al.
If the Firebird/Thunderbird/Mozilla/Phoenix people actually want real humans to learn about and use their software, they really need to come up with some better, more relevant, more original names.
You see, for non english speakers, program names like "windows", "word", "notes", etc., do not mean anything. Yet they are popular.
It seems you belong to this current trend thinking users will never be anything more than "learning monkey", and who slaughtered the once brillant Gnome 1 into this tetraplegic Gnome 2.
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The roman empire didn't "fall", it lost its western half. The byzantine empire is the roman empire. For more than a century, the scientific and cultural center was already Constantinople, not Rome, and everything was preserved there. Out of the roman realm, western Europe couldn't benefit from well-maintained roman infrastructure and administration, life was much, much harder for a long time, but civilization did not go backward,
Myrtle is also used in the zoroastrian religion, which was the state religion in Iran before islam, and is still very present in today iranian traditions (like Noruz).
If there really is something about this "myrtus", maybe it's more about the target than the origin. As others have noted, it's a bit far-fetched to think that the authors would leave a clue about themselves like Hollywood villains.
In french:
Me: est-ce que... ... Google nous rend idiot?
Google:
(Does... Google make us stupid?)
Already done: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1677&aid=-1
On the other hand, I've never seen a single OS using that much memory. These machines are meant to be, and usually are, partioned. I believe the largest RAM I've seen allocated to a partition was about 64 GB.
IBM p595 can have 1TB of RAM too. And yes, they run Linux.
That's absolutely true : when I was a student in the early 90s, we used to watch the first season of Twin Peaks on a 5-inch B&W TV set, and there were 5 or 6 of us gathered around this mini thing every monday evening... It may seem an extreme example, but really nothing can beat a good idea, not even the most incredible technology.
Shinkansens have an emergency stopping system for earthquakes, linked to the seismic stations of the country; that's why the Shinkansen have also been chosen by Taiwan. There have been no deadly accidents on Shinkansen related to earthquakes or typhoons. TGV and, I believe, all high speed trains, run on protected tracks, cattle are not a concern.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of slashdotters suddenly booked a one-way ticket to New Delhi.
While I agree with you that I wouldn't want to see JPEG zoomed in, it's not only about photos; when you zoom in, you might want to have also the logos, the image-bullets, and every PNG or GIF in the page to zoom in accordingly, as to preserve the layout and the design of the page.
Actually I'm not sure that's relevant to the browser, I believe it's more a CSS thing. I've seen it done using em width for images, it works fine, and it lets you controls which images have to be zoomed in.
What's with all those predictions recently on Slashdot? Is that really a worthwhile content? Enough to be posted on Slashdot? Rumours for nerds, stuff that might be...
You might as well post some Nostradamus' quatrain and pretend you've seen the future of Apple in it.
But "Esc-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift" is much more evocative!
Or the next versions of Episodes I, II and III.
You know they're coming!
Until Gimp actually supports more than 8 bits per color, it's useless to try and do some photo enhancement with it, the final quality will be much lower than with Photoshop.
I've done a lot of photo enhancement with the Gimp and it suited me perfectly at the time, but now that I've got a Nikon LS50, which scans at 14bits per color, I am forced to use Photoshop. I will happily switch back when Gimp solve this problem.
And I'm quite surprised to see someone who calls himself a "pro" wishing to scan his slides with a flatbed scanner... Even I as a pure amateur can understand that there is something very wrong there.
Manix is a condom brand in France...
And it should be noted that the KISS DVD player code source is released under the GPL!
These players definitely look like the most interesting at the moment; anyone would like to share their experience with this one?
Yes indeed, the world would definitely be a better place if Internet Explorer never had that much sequels.
Besides the Rosetta stone, it happened also with cuneiform script, which was deciphered in 1839 thanks to an inscription on a cliff in Bistun, Iran; a pretty large inscription, by the way, not something Indiana would have to fight nazis and snakes to obtain. The inscriptions was written in Elamite, Akadian, and Old Persian; the real tour de force is, none of these languages were known (except Old Persian is somewhat vaguely related to nowadays Persian), but the fact that the text was written in 3 different languages allowed Rawlinson to locate common words, thus isolating proper nouns, and slowly beginning to translate the Old Persian text. Much more hard work gave the key to the complex Elamite and Akadian writings.
So, it happened twice before, why not a third time?
It seems obvious that this classic has completely destabilized this guy! Actually, it's a great fun to spot the invaders mosaics in the streets of Paris; a friend setup a website to try and shoot'em al.
You see, for non english speakers, program names like "windows", "word", "notes", etc., do not mean anything. Yet they are popular.
It seems you belong to this current trend thinking users will never be anything more than "learning monkey", and who slaughtered the once brillant Gnome 1 into this tetraplegic Gnome 2.
So I propose:
Simurgh: a bird so old it has seen the world destroyed and rebuilt three times.
And what about butter overflow?
They reinvented Python?