Since your text says it all, I shall let it suffice to say, that your views are those, that I have spent the last 25 hours spreading. It is comforting to learn, that I am not alone.
Having written a few articles on Nostradamus, I am not surprised to see him mentioned in this context. "Two brothers": do you know, how many royal males where "brothers" in his time (not to mention, how many of them became enemies)? Fortresses where not peculiarities, and in 1654, you had 3 choices for "the big city": Rome (as the catholic center of the world), Paris (as Nostradamus' capital), and, of course, Babylon (as in the revelation. Sure, you can draw paralels to NY, but do you want to?).
Do you remeber the verse mentioning Hitler? Oh, well, he wrote "Hister", but perhaps he didn't hear it right. Everyone just forgot, that "Hister" was the ancient name for the river Danube. With Hister=Danube, the whole verse makes sense, but with Hister=Hitler, only 1/2 of it does. Doesn't matter though, 'cause it sounds like Hitler, eh...?!?
Many of you will find this to be of poor taste, but I translated a Danish article on the technical aspects of the reason why the two towers collapsed. The orignal (in Danish) article is here, and my translation is here
Although many may find it a bizarre area of interest, I happen to know a bit about the design of the design of the WTC. The problems were not the shocks, which they withstood, but the fact, that most skyscrabers are not designed to withstand excessive heat.
Read my latest post to see an article about the matter.
As a Danish citizen, and a member of the Danish equivalent of the national guard, I hope that my next few remarks may be considered.
Having speculated on the prospect of going to full military awareness level, I would fully agree to going to such an excess. Noone can deny, that the attack on the US is one of the most abonimable acts of terrorism ever, but the largest threat lies not in the scale of theese events, but in the aftermath, that we are about to witness. I am not one to dispute, that the US is entitled to a retaliation, but imagine the scenario, where the US targets the wrong country/area/terrorist faction. Then we have a scenario where we have a united Middle East (well, almost) against the US, and a NATO, that cannot approve of an attack against virtually innocent civilians (let's face it. One cannot retaliate this event by attacking purely military installations). This would leave a shattered NATO (and hence a shattered UN), which would leave us all open to just about everything. I, for one, is happy, that we do no longer have the cold war to worry about...
Thus, I would strongly advice to put a lid on the initial anger, and think of the bigger perspective.
Not hiding behind a nickname, I submit my views as Sune Mølgaard, Århus Denmark
Whereas the file format is finished, their current en- and decoders may still have bugs, but AFAIK you will always be able to playback older files with newer software.
Furthermore, iObjects have announched support for Ogg Vorbis in their Dadio 2.0 OS for portable players.
It's all in the FAQ.
Well, living in a flat with a most bizarre electrical circuit (we hired an electrician to just tell us, how it was set up, and he looked, laughed, shook his head and said "no way") sometimes means "rebooting" (does anyone have a cheap UPS or three for sale? I'm a student). Also, the AC outlet in the Danish trains flicker, if the train brakes or accelerate too hard. Not good on an old laptop with no more battery (yes, I know fsck takes some time after that).
Am I wrong, or does Linux not depend on the bios detection for hardware (it could be only HDD geometry, that's where I read it)?
But in the end, yes, you could deem it useless, but never underestimate the argument "because we can, damn it":-)
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Since your text says it all, I shall let it suffice to say, that your views are those, that I have spent the last 25 hours spreading. It is comforting to learn, that I am not alone.
/Sune
Having written a few articles on Nostradamus, I am not surprised to see him mentioned in this context. "Two brothers": do you know, how many royal males where "brothers" in his time (not to mention, how many of them became enemies)? Fortresses where not peculiarities, and in 1654, you had 3 choices for "the big city": Rome (as the catholic center of the world), Paris (as Nostradamus' capital), and, of course, Babylon (as in the revelation. Sure, you can draw paralels to NY, but do you want to?).
Do you remeber the verse mentioning Hitler? Oh, well, he wrote "Hister", but perhaps he didn't hear it right. Everyone just forgot, that "Hister" was the ancient name for the river Danube. With Hister=Danube, the whole verse makes sense, but with Hister=Hitler, only 1/2 of it does. Doesn't matter though, 'cause it sounds like Hitler, eh...?!?
Many of you will find this to be of poor taste, but I translated a Danish article on the technical aspects of the reason why the two towers collapsed. The orignal (in Danish) article is here, and my translation is here
I beg to differ.
Although many may find it a bizarre area of interest, I happen to know a bit about the design of the design of the WTC. The problems were not the shocks, which they withstood, but the fact, that most skyscrabers are not designed to withstand excessive heat.
Read my latest post to see an article about the matter.
As a Danish citizen, and a member of the Danish equivalent of the national guard, I hope that my next few remarks may be considered.
Having speculated on the prospect of going to full military awareness level, I would fully agree to going to such an excess. Noone can deny, that the attack on the US is one of the most abonimable acts of terrorism ever, but the largest threat lies not in the scale of theese events, but in the aftermath, that we are about to witness. I am not one to dispute, that the US is entitled to a retaliation, but imagine the scenario, where the US targets the wrong country/area/terrorist faction. Then we have a scenario where we have a united Middle East (well, almost) against the US, and a NATO, that cannot approve of an attack against virtually innocent civilians (let's face it. One cannot retaliate this event by attacking purely military installations). This would leave a shattered NATO (and hence a shattered UN), which would leave us all open to just about everything. I, for one, is happy, that we do no longer have the cold war to worry about...
Thus, I would strongly advice to put a lid on the initial anger, and think of the bigger perspective.
Not hiding behind a nickname, I submit my views as Sune Mølgaard, Århus Denmark
Whereas the file format is finished, their current en- and decoders may still have bugs, but AFAIK you will always be able to playback older files with newer software. Furthermore, iObjects have announched support for Ogg Vorbis in their Dadio 2.0 OS for portable players. It's all in the FAQ.
Well, living in a flat with a most bizarre electrical circuit (we hired an electrician to just tell us, how it was set up, and he looked, laughed, shook his head and said "no way") sometimes means "rebooting" (does anyone have a cheap UPS or three for sale? I'm a student). Also, the AC outlet in the Danish trains flicker, if the train brakes or accelerate too hard. Not good on an old laptop with no more battery (yes, I know fsck takes some time after that). :-)
Am I wrong, or does Linux not depend on the bios detection for hardware (it could be only HDD geometry, that's where I read it)?
But in the end, yes, you could deem it useless, but never underestimate the argument "because we can, damn it"
Then you would also want to direct Santa to this page