Oops. Seems "Parlophone" is a division of EMI Records. Amazon.co.uk are just not polite enough to inform about it. Amazon.de are more informative and state that "Capitol (EMI)" is the label.
2. The disk *IS* copy controlled in Europe - which is standard policy for all Capitol/EMI titles (and a policy used by ALL major labels in Europe).
Not quite true. I just purchased a copy from amazon.co.uk:
They don't retail the EMI version at all, but a label named "Parlophone" instead. I'll get back to it if it turns out to be un-playable on Linux.
Amazon's german counterpart, amazon.de, DO retail an EMI version however, under the Capitol label.
It this some OO ripoff? It has the exact same errors in interpreting my xls speadsheets as OO has. I downloaded, unpacked, ran it, tried to open 2 files, saw the same errors OO shows, and deleted the whole thing. In less than 2 minutes:) Gnumeric still rules.
I too find the use of "prominent" unsuitable in this context. Ben Goodger and a handful friends merely nicked the work of hundreds of Mozilla developers and testers. "We're standing on the shoulders of a Giant" Goodger wrote - with his head in the sky and an unusually clouded vision. Firefox code isn't optimized like he claims. All optimization has till now happened in the Seamonkey code first. Firefox' contribution to "new" is mostly hype, headlines and funny name changes. Oh.. and new graphics! They are nice. But they don't make Firefox faster. If Firefox is at all measurably faster it's because they ripped out fat features and intestines alike. But the diet smell of politics and stopwatches. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". "We've slimmed it down - Now reinstall it!"
Cause as it turns out: An equal amount of implants are required to compensate for the digital liposuction. You loose some, you win some. Rejoice: Even the GO-button is an extention now! Firefox "developers" most innovative contribution to the browser is a tool to repair broken installations. Broken by the very "extentions" needed to replace the features they ripped out. Lucky end user. He now has to update not only the browser, but also a shitload of addons for each upgrade. Or of course pay the price: Bugs galore.
Less isn't more, Ben Goodger. Less is just bloody less.
One gigapixel is one gigapixel. Perhaps you meant to ask about the size on disk? The Max Lyons picture (recently exhibited) chomps up 2,068,654,055 bytes of diskspace somewhere. He achieves a LOT with affordable means, and is a also a wonderful photographer. I never tire of that site.
That one really deserved top score. To evolve on this further: The replica of Poussin's painting "Les Bergers d'Arcadie" is *mirrored* on the monument and provides the first key to the slightly twisted nature of this enigma. As well as to what letters are twisted, and where:
-The "angel" in the image looks towards the END of the letters when mirrored. -The three shepherds indicate the number of characters in question. So we can concentrate on the three last letters. The shephers arms reveal the rest: When mirrored, the first shepherds arm forms the letter L. The second shephers arm form the letter V The third shepherds *arms* (both) together, shape the letter W.
Now: Pointy hands / arms are easily transfigured to the pointing handles of a watch. And hints that we should twist something clockwise.
Yet an indication that we're dealing with "a timepiece" is how the letters are organized: The lower location of the "D" and "M" shape a dial, the letters are placed on the top of a circle.
So what the picture says is approximately "Turn the letters clockwise. Switch L for V. Then turn again, the last one too, and you get a "W".
It really spells the issue out so loud and clear it's hard to ignore..
So - Apply this to the three last letters on the "Shepherd's monument", and what looked like a latin enigma change nature and suddenly read as three simple english words.
And still.. it is indeed a reference to the location of the holy grail - the legends clue was right there: In a tongue in cheek manner it refers to the ONLY holy grail known to man. One which when applied right is indeed powerful enough to give eternal life - passed on from generation to generation.
So again: The carving's humorous message to future readers is simply:
D.O. U.O. S.V.A.L.L.W.
Quote Homer Simpson: "It's funny cause it's true":)
You're all wrong. The letters - for some reason - are turned clockwise as they go along. They are screwed, so to speak. So what looks like VV is actually LL. And what looks like a M is actually a W. Thus, it all boils down to one simple question:
For the last year I've run mIRC (for Windows) under Crossover Office, currently 2.0 - runs like charm.
If you want a native Linux app resemblant of Mirc, grab Kvirc. Needs the Qt toolkit, but not KDE. (Allthough you CAN build with a KDE dependency as well, it isn't the default, or wasn't when i last built it at least). Fun to script with:)
1: IglooFTP-PRO
2: latest nVidia driver
3: build latest trunk CVS of the one and only Mozilla Suite
4: install some native plugins (Java, Flash, RealONE)
4: Crossover Plugin + some alien plugins: Quicktime, MSMP, Shockwave for Director
5: Crossover Office + Mirc
6: Oh what the heck.. get Opera for Linux as well
7: xawtv
8: alevt
9: Xine
10: Lean back, find much pleasure in knowing that OpenOffice, Gimp, Ethereal and some insane number of other apps are already installed
Re:For me, its the optical zoom ability
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"What do we do? We swim we swim..." [Finding Nemo].. this was fun:
The cameras below all have 3x or 4x digital zoom in addition to the optical zoom:
That pic isn't blurred because of a bad lens or low res CCD: It's obviously blurred because the camera wasn't still as the shot was taken. 10x or 20x zoom is only fit to make photos unsharp, unless you use a tripod. To really avoid any movement during the shot, in addition use a delay or a remote shutter.
That spawned an alert: "One or more effects that you have chosen could not be applied because the selected style does not support them, they have therefor been disabled." I'll stick with my current Kde-XP style and no transparency then.
Kicker/panel took transparency nicely though, but looks rather ugly since the taskbar has no transparency. It it possible to set transparency for apps in the taskbar?
You've got to be kidding. Fonts look at least as nice under a modern system as they do on a Windows box -- good fonts (like Vera) are finally included, and the rendering and antialiasing is certainly on par with any other rendering system I've seen.
They indeed look crap'ish.
1: Users are forced to use antialiasing, or the fonts look like haywire.
2: If antialiased, they look fat and unreadable UNLESS you have a version of freetype and whatever fontserver you use, compiled *with the patentet hinting technology turned ON*. There's your headache.
Did it really..? I had no idea some of those features existed either. And I *still* don't have any idea how to enable them. I have 3.2 installed, but i don't get thumbnails like those "even thumbnails have thumbnails" images he displays. And how on earth do I make menus semi transparent? A nice little new addon in 3.2 - kmag - isn't even mentioned. Well hidden little goodie of a utility - at least it wasn't added to my menus after install. And I still miss some easy to find info about how to get something as "simple" as the blue speaker icon/volume control onto the kicker bar. (One has to add a "system tray" applet first, and then add kmix to the system tray. Not intuitive.) But by all means - thanks a million for all the good work.
Huh.. modded DOWN? I thought I was rather funny. And I intend to go on writing THE SAME FUNNY QUESTION each time Slashdot break the AOL Porche story anew. So there.
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Oops. Seems "Parlophone" is a division of EMI Records. Amazon.co.uk are just not polite enough to inform about it. Amazon.de are more informative and state that "Capitol (EMI)" is the label.
Not quite true. I just purchased a copy from amazon.co.uk:
They don't retail the EMI version at all, but a label named "Parlophone" instead. I'll get back to it if it turns out to be un-playable on Linux.
Amazon's german counterpart, amazon.de, DO retail an EMI version however, under the Capitol label.
Just mailed you a slightly modified version of one of the spreadsheets, a shift-plan. Nice if you can fix it.
If Planmaker is related to the OpenOffice codebase, please port eventual fixes back to OpenOffice.
It this some OO ripoff? It has the exact same errors in interpreting my xls speadsheets as OO has. I downloaded, unpacked, ran it, tried to open 2 files, saw the same errors OO shows, and deleted the whole thing. In less than 2 minutes :)
Gnumeric still rules.
It's the LGPL you want.
I too find the use of "prominent" unsuitable in this context. Ben Goodger and a handful friends merely nicked the work of hundreds of Mozilla developers and testers. "We're standing on the shoulders of a Giant" Goodger wrote - with his head in the sky and an unusually clouded vision. Firefox code isn't optimized like he claims. All optimization has till now happened in the Seamonkey code first. Firefox' contribution to "new" is mostly hype, headlines and funny name changes. Oh.. and new graphics! They are nice. But they don't make Firefox faster. If Firefox is at all measurably faster it's because they ripped out fat features and intestines alike. But the diet smell of politics and stopwatches. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". "We've slimmed it down - Now reinstall it!"
Cause as it turns out: An equal amount of implants are required to compensate for the digital liposuction. You loose some, you win some. Rejoice: Even the GO-button is an extention now! Firefox "developers" most innovative contribution to the browser is a tool to repair broken installations. Broken by the very "extentions" needed to replace the features they ripped out. Lucky end user. He now has to update not only the browser, but also a shitload of addons for each upgrade. Or of course pay the price: Bugs galore.
Less isn't more, Ben Goodger. Less is just bloody less.
One gigapixel is one gigapixel. Perhaps you meant to ask about the size on disk? The Max Lyons picture (recently exhibited) chomps up 2,068,654,055 bytes of diskspace somewhere. He achieves a LOT with affordable means, and is a also a wonderful photographer. I never tire of that site.
That one really deserved top score. To evolve on this further: The replica of Poussin's painting "Les Bergers d'Arcadie" is *mirrored* on the monument and provides the first key to the slightly twisted nature of this enigma. As well as to what letters are twisted, and where:
:)
-The "angel" in the image looks towards the END of the letters when mirrored.
-The three shepherds indicate the number of characters in question. So we can concentrate on the three last letters. The shephers arms reveal the rest:
When mirrored, the first shepherds arm forms the letter L.
The second shephers arm form the letter V
The third shepherds *arms* (both) together, shape the letter W.
Now: Pointy hands / arms are easily transfigured to the pointing handles of a watch. And hints that we should twist something clockwise.
Yet an indication that we're dealing with "a timepiece" is how the letters are organized:
The lower location of the "D" and "M" shape a dial, the letters are placed on the top of a circle.
So what the picture says is approximately "Turn the letters clockwise. Switch L for V. Then turn again, the last one too, and you get a "W".
It really spells the issue out so loud and clear it's hard to ignore..
So - Apply this to the three last letters on the "Shepherd's monument", and what looked like a latin enigma change nature and suddenly read as three simple english words.
And still.. it is indeed a reference to the location of the holy grail - the legends clue was right there: In a tongue in cheek manner it refers to the ONLY holy grail known to man. One which when applied right is indeed powerful enough to give eternal life - passed on from generation to generation.
So again: The carving's humorous message to future readers is simply:
D.O. U.O. S.V.A.L.L.W.
Quote Homer Simpson: "It's funny cause it's true"
You're all wrong. The letters - for some reason - are turned clockwise as they go along. They are screwed, so to speak. So what looks like VV is actually LL. And what looks like a M is actually a W. Thus, it all boils down to one simple question:
Do you swallow?
word != grammar
Excerpt from Cambridge Dictionaries Online:
word (LANGUAGE UNIT)
noun
1 a single unit of language which has meaning and can be spoken or written
grammar
noun
(the study or use of) the rules about how words change their form and combine with other words to make sentences
That isn't grammar. It's spelling .
If you want a native Linux app resemblant of Mirc, grab Kvirc . :)
Needs the Qt toolkit, but not KDE. (Allthough you CAN build with a KDE dependency as well, it isn't the default, or wasn't when i last built it at least). Fun to script with
11: Xscreensaver (can't live without 'em)
1: IglooFTP-PRO
2: latest nVidia driver
3: build latest trunk CVS of the one and only Mozilla Suite
4: install some native plugins (Java, Flash, RealONE)
4: Crossover Plugin + some alien plugins: Quicktime, MSMP, Shockwave for Director
5: Crossover Office + Mirc
6: Oh what the heck.. get Opera for Linux as well
7: xawtv
8: alevt
9: Xine
10: Lean back, find much pleasure in knowing that OpenOffice, Gimp, Ethereal and some insane number of other apps are already installed
The cameras below all have 3x or 4x digital zoom in addition to the optical zoom:
Canon PowerShot S1 IS 3.2MP, 10x opt
Fujifilm FinePix S5000 Zoom 3.1MP, 10x opt
Kodak EasyShare DX6490 Zoom 4.0MP, 10x opt
Minolta DiMAGE Z1 3.2MP, 10x opt
Olympus Camedia Ultra Zoom series: from 3.2 to 4.0 MP, 10x opt
(C-750, C-760, C-765, C-770)
Sony CyberShot DSC-F717 5.0MP, 5x opt (+10x dig)
Oops...I'm sadly outdated: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10, 4MP, 12x optical zoom.
Review
There's one I wouldn't mind to own.
Olympus Camedia C-730 Ultra Zoom, 3MP, 10x optical zoom
Hewlet Packard Photosmart 850, 4MP, 8x optical
Nikon Coolpix 5700, 5MP, 8x optical zoom
Panasonic Lumix FZ-1, 2MP, 12x optical zoom(!)
Olympus C-8080 WZ, 8MP, 5x optical zoom
That pic isn't blurred because of a bad lens or low res CCD: It's obviously blurred because the camera wasn't still as the shot was taken. 10x or 20x zoom is only fit to make photos unsharp, unless you use a tripod. To really avoid any movement during the shot, in addition use a delay or a remote shutter.
That spawned an alert: "One or more effects that you have chosen could not be applied because the selected style does not support them, they have therefor been disabled." I'll stick with my current Kde-XP style and no transparency then.
Kicker/panel took transparency nicely though, but looks rather ugly since the taskbar has no transparency.
It it possible to set transparency for apps in the taskbar?
You've got to be kidding. Fonts look at least as nice under a modern system as they do on a Windows box -- good fonts (like Vera) are finally included, and the rendering and antialiasing is certainly on par with any other rendering system I've seen.
They indeed look crap'ish.
1: Users are forced to use antialiasing, or the fonts look like haywire.
2: If antialiased, they look fat and unreadable UNLESS you have a version of freetype and whatever fontserver you use, compiled *with the patentet hinting technology turned ON*. There's your headache.
Did it really..? I had no idea some of those features existed either. And I *still* don't have any idea how to enable them. I have 3.2 installed, but i don't get thumbnails like those "even thumbnails have thumbnails" images he displays. And how on earth do I make menus semi transparent?
A nice little new addon in 3.2 - kmag - isn't even mentioned. Well hidden little goodie of a utility - at least it wasn't added to my menus after install. And I still miss some easy to find info about how to get something as "simple" as the blue speaker icon/volume control onto the kicker bar. (One has to add a "system tray" applet first, and then add kmix to the system tray. Not intuitive.) But by all means - thanks a million for all the good work.
Huh.. modded DOWN? I thought I was rather funny. And I intend to go on writing THE SAME FUNNY QUESTION each time Slashdot break the AOL Porche story anew. So there.
Unless (heaven forbid) ALL spammers driver Porche?!?!
Isn't "Mesa" the (or "the major") Open-Source interpretation of it?
Jan 16th 2002: SGI transfers 3D graphics patents to MS
Jul 09th 2002: Microsoft Claims IP Rights on Portions of OpenGL
Jul 11th 2002: 3D graphics world shaken by patent claims
Jul 13th 2002: Microsoft patent claims may affect OpenGL
Mar 3rd 2003: Microsoft quits OpenGL board