The Audiotron is a bit more open to customer added radio stations. The device forces you to use the turtleradio web service, but you are able to add your own stations to your personal turtleradio directory. That's a plus.
On the negative side: you HAVE to use the turtleradio.com directory, and I don't like it. The webinterface is ugly and it takes a lot of clicks to add a single station. You can't load a personal station list directly to the device.
The people at Turtlebeach could be a bit more open here!
I worked for some time with a Sun. The one key I really missed on the pc keyboard is "front".
There are always too many windows on the screen, of course. But raising windows to the front with one keypress or sending them to the very back (the important 2nd function of this key) is so ergonomic, it's just perfect.
I'm using "autoraise" now, but it's different, the active window is always in front. It's a compromise.
I don't like raising windows by a mouseclick - you may click on some button accidentally.
[rant on]
It's just damn stupid, stupid, stupid, that everyone here in Switzerland has a rifle in their closet.
[rant off]
The amount of training varies, since not everyone is so motivated when it comes to military service and training (though you are forced to attend).
It is not so difficult to get ammunition, as another post states. It is sold at the mandatory yearly shooting exercise.
Bad accidents happen, when the weapon gets into the hands of the wrong people (children!)
Well and speaking of suicide, you don't really care, when you have to open a sealed box of ammunition in this situation, do you? Sure there are other ways to accomplish this goal, but a rifle comes in as an easy way.
My point: When Switzerland is cited as an example for rifle-in-closet, keep in mind that it's a stupid, stupid, stupid idea.
And yes, accidents happen, if seldom. Every single one is one too much.
My first Linux computer was an Alpha. It was a relatively cheap motherboard sold by DEC with a 21066 processor. This was the smallest incarnation of the Alpha Architecture and the board didn't outperform a Pentium board, even at that time.
But I had the idealism of not buying an Intel!
Installation of Linux was a pain, a special bootloader had to be installed, there was a Linux distribution called "BLADE" and soon RedHat started to support Alpha with it's distributions.
Most applications could be compiled from source, but there was no decent web browser available. The solution was to "borrow" a binary of Netscape from DEC Unix.
But here it comes, why breaking the "everlasting circle" is so hard: You're forced to use an old version of the browser (or some software is simply not available at all), because there is no user base for your platform.
So, pure idealism, but life is so much easier when you're swimming with the big swarm...
> The Oresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden is amazing
Yes it is! You can drive over it by car or by train (on two different levels) if you don't want to fly (like another reader suggested).
Or I recomend the other big Danish bridge, the Storebaelt Bridge. Here you drive over by car (the trains go in a tunnel), or - like I did this year - pass under the bridge on a ferry. It's a huge bridge.
Over 10 years after DEC introduced Alpha ....
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AMD's 64-bit Plot
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I'm amazed to read the discussion, wether or not 64 bit will succeed over 32 bit processors.
This is 10 years after DEC has introduced the Alpha Architecture (in spring 1992).
The Alpha was fun to work with, not only because of it's 64 bit architecture, but because of the clean orthogonal instruction set and it's outstanding performance.
> As a Briton who has to use our sorry excuse for a rail network can I invite any of our European partners to come over and run our trains?
> German, French, Italian - we don't care, we'd just like something that moves at a reasonable speed.
Well German, French... I agree! But Italian?? You must be joking!! The Italian high-speed trains run regularily with delays, if they run at all (because of strike).
I'm speaking of the CISalpino trains Firenze-Milano-Zurich.
I'm not so up to date what's the current state of the art, but some years ago, when I was applying DHTML, I always found Dan Steinman's Tutorial Dynamic Duovery helpful (thanks Dan!).
I bought 4 CDs in the last couple of weeks due to internet radio. I would have never heard of the artists, if I wouldn't have listened more intensly to intenet radio. You learn about a much greater variety of music. It's not all "Britney Spears and clones" as on FM broadcast radio. At least for me, the internet radio/mp3 filesharing *increased* the CD purchases.
Though this post might be redundant, I have to vote for this book! I very much enjoyed reading it, and I like the food for thought it provides.
It gets a bit hard to understand near the end, but it provides a good introduction to relativitiy and quantum mechanics at the beginning. It would make a good basic reading.
The first non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in a hot air balloon was achieved in March 1999 by the Swiss Bertrand Piccard and his British co-pilot Brian Jones.
Their voyage lasted 19 days. It started in Chateau d'Oex and ended in a desert in Egypt.
Bertrand is the grandson of Auguste Piccard and the son of Jacques Piccard.
Copy the config.status from the old apache install directory.
Copy modules (I have 'fastcgi' and 'php4') in src/modules from the old directory.
Call config.status, type 'make'.
Make a backup copy of the old httpd
Type 'make install'
'apachectl stop' and 'apachectl start'
I live in Switzerland and I participate in the market analysis studies for radio stations.
To get more exact results than answering a questionnaire, a "radio control watch" is used (since about 1-2 years).
It's a wristwatch with additional features:
- A microphone which records for 3 seconds every minute
- A motion detector to determine if the watch is worn
- A button to switch between "at home"/"out of home"
The recorded audio signal is frequency analyzed and stored in a compressed form in the watch. After some days I have to send the watch back to the institute. They compare the recorded signal spectrum with the one of all radio stations receivable in Switzerland and determine, what I was listening to, and how long. It even works in a noisy environment.
This procedure is repeated with different test persons in an intervall of several months.
Probably I'm falling out of the normal scheme, since I'm listening more and more to internet radio:-).
Everybody knows, that one of the biggest problems with time travel is *grammar*. If you don't believe me, go and read that part in "the restaurant at the end of the universe". - It's big time fun!:-)
At this year's world orienteering championships in Finland a GPS based tracking system has been used to track the competitors (and provide this information to the spectators).
Technically it is a mobile phone from Benefon integrated into a vest and a seperate GPS antenna (also in the vest) to improve reception. Every 20 seconds a SMS is sent to a server with the position information.
I have experience with "gestures" or "mouse strokes" with a schematic entry tool called Concept that was part of Cadence (a chip and PCB design framework) about 8 years ago.
Various gestures were used, e.g. for "zoom in" (you draw a "Z" over the region you want to zoom into), "move" (you grab a symbol and draw a "M" with the mouse), "delete" (you draw a "^" over the symbol).
My experience was: though it sounds crazy, you get used to it very quickly. It's a very quick and natural flow of work.
Brian R. Greene, The Elegant Universe, Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, 1999, Random House, 448p, illustrated
Gives a summary of special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, an introduction to superstring theory, the current state of the research, and the search for the 'final' theory.
Written for the interested reader with some pre-knowledge in physics. I thought it was a very enjoyable reading.
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The Audiotron is a bit more open to customer added radio stations. The device forces you to use the turtleradio web service, but you are able to add your own stations to your personal turtleradio directory. That's a plus.
On the negative side: you HAVE to use the turtleradio.com directory, and I don't like it. The webinterface is ugly and it takes a lot of clicks to add a single station. You can't load a personal station list directly to the device.
The people at Turtlebeach could be a bit more open here!
I worked for some time with a Sun. The one key I really missed on the pc keyboard is "front".
There are always too many windows on the screen, of course. But raising windows to the front with one keypress or sending them to the very back (the important 2nd function of this key) is so ergonomic, it's just perfect.
I'm using "autoraise" now, but it's different, the active window is always in front. It's a compromise.
I don't like raising windows by a mouseclick - you may click on some button accidentally.
I'd love to see BSOD ported to Linux ...
[rant on]
It's just damn stupid, stupid, stupid, that everyone here in Switzerland has a rifle in their closet.
[rant off]
The amount of training varies, since not everyone is so motivated when it comes to military service and training (though you are forced to attend).
It is not so difficult to get ammunition, as another post states. It is sold at the mandatory yearly shooting exercise.
Bad accidents happen, when the weapon gets into the hands of the wrong people (children!)
Well and speaking of suicide, you don't really care, when you have to open a sealed box of ammunition in this situation, do you? Sure there are other ways to accomplish this goal, but a rifle comes in as an easy way.
My point: When Switzerland is cited as an example for rifle-in-closet, keep in mind that it's a stupid, stupid, stupid idea. And yes, accidents happen, if seldom. Every single one is one too much.
Agree!
My first Linux computer was an Alpha. It was a relatively cheap motherboard sold by DEC with a 21066 processor. This was the smallest incarnation of the Alpha Architecture and the board didn't outperform a Pentium board, even at that time.
But I had the idealism of not buying an Intel!
Installation of Linux was a pain, a special bootloader had to be installed, there was a Linux distribution called "BLADE" and soon RedHat started to support Alpha with it's distributions.
Most applications could be compiled from source, but there was no decent web browser available. The solution was to "borrow" a binary of Netscape from DEC Unix.
But here it comes, why breaking the "everlasting circle" is so hard: You're forced to use an old version of the browser (or some software is simply not available at all), because there is no user base for your platform.
So, pure idealism, but life is so much easier when you're swimming with the big swarm...
> The Oresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden is amazing
Yes it is! You can drive over it by car or by train (on two different levels) if you don't want to fly (like another reader suggested).
Or I recomend the other big Danish bridge, the Storebaelt Bridge. Here you drive over by car (the trains go in a tunnel), or - like I did this year - pass under the bridge on a ferry. It's a huge bridge.
I'm amazed to read the discussion, wether or not 64 bit will succeed over 32 bit processors.
...
This is 10 years after DEC has introduced the Alpha Architecture (in spring 1992).
The Alpha was fun to work with, not only because of it's 64 bit architecture, but because of the clean orthogonal instruction set and it's outstanding performance.
Rest in peace
> As a Briton who has to use our sorry excuse for a rail network can I invite any of our European partners to come over and run our trains?
... I agree! But Italian?? You must be joking!! The Italian high-speed trains run regularily with delays, if they run at all (because of strike).
> German, French, Italian - we don't care, we'd just like something that moves at a reasonable speed.
Well German, French
I'm speaking of the CISalpino trains Firenze-Milano-Zurich.
I'm not so up to date what's the current state of the art, but some years ago, when I was applying DHTML, I always found Dan Steinman's Tutorial Dynamic Duo very helpful (thanks Dan!).
It has been continued as DynAPI
I bought 4 CDs in the last couple of weeks due to internet radio. I would have never heard of the artists, if I wouldn't have listened more intensly to intenet radio. You learn about a much greater variety of music. It's not all "Britney Spears and clones" as on FM broadcast radio. At least for me, the internet radio/mp3 filesharing *increased* the CD purchases.
Though this post might be redundant, I have to vote for this book! I very much enjoyed reading it, and I like the food for thought it provides.
It gets a bit hard to understand near the end, but it provides a good introduction to relativitiy and quantum mechanics at the beginning. It would make a good basic reading.
The first non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in a hot air balloon was achieved in March 1999 by the Swiss Bertrand Piccard and his British co-pilot Brian Jones.
Their voyage lasted 19 days. It started in Chateau d'Oex and ended in a desert in Egypt.
Bertrand is the grandson of Auguste Piccard and the son of Jacques Piccard.
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Copy the config.status from the old apache install directory.
Copy modules (I have 'fastcgi' and 'php4') in src/modules from the old directory.
Call config.status, type 'make'.
Make a backup copy of the old httpd
Type 'make install'
'apachectl stop' and 'apachectl start'
This worked (for me).
I live in Switzerland and I participate in the market analysis studies for radio stations.
To get more exact results than answering a questionnaire, a "radio control watch" is used (since about 1-2 years).
It's a wristwatch with additional features:
- A microphone which records for 3 seconds every minute
- A motion detector to determine if the watch is worn
- A button to switch between "at home"/"out of home"
The recorded audio signal is frequency analyzed and stored in a compressed form in the watch. After some days I have to send the watch back to the institute. They compare the recorded signal spectrum with the one of all radio stations receivable in Switzerland and determine, what I was listening to, and how long. It even works in a noisy environment.
This procedure is repeated with different test persons in an intervall of several months.
Probably I'm falling out of the normal scheme, since I'm listening more and more to internet radio :-).
Everybody knows, that one of the biggest problems with time travel is *grammar*. If you don't believe me, go and read that part in "the restaurant at the end of the universe". - It's big time fun! :-)
For those Europeans among you: Damian Conway will speak tomorrow (monday) evening in Zurich/Switzerland at the ETH
> Access to the internet is done with floppies. =(
What RFC is this?
How many 'fps' do you achieve?
:-)
Right. When viewed with Mozilla (0.95 on Linux), they recomend me to upgrade to MSIE for Mac or Windows (great idea!).
...).
Netscape 4.7 renders the background and is immediately crashed (... I don't miss this browser, since Mozilla runs rock stable
But I stay calm about this mess. I never ever had the urge to visit MSN anyway.
Boy, this is sick ...
At this year's world orienteering championships in Finland a GPS based tracking system has been used to track the competitors (and provide this information to the spectators).
Technically it is a mobile phone from Benefon integrated into a vest and a seperate GPS antenna (also in the vest) to improve reception. Every 20 seconds a SMS is sent to a server with the position information.
I have experience with "gestures" or "mouse strokes" with a schematic entry tool called Concept that was part of Cadence (a chip and PCB design framework) about 8 years ago.
Various gestures were used, e.g. for "zoom in" (you draw a "Z" over the region you want to zoom into), "move" (you grab a symbol and draw a "M" with the mouse), "delete" (you draw a "^" over the symbol).
My experience was: though it sounds crazy, you get used to it very quickly. It's a very quick and natural flow of work.
There already is one gesture for "Page Back":
:-)
Hold down the right mouse button, move the mouse in lower right direction and release mouse button
A recommended reading:
Brian R. Greene, The Elegant Universe, Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, 1999, Random House, 448p, illustrated
Gives a summary of special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, an introduction to superstring theory, the current state of the research, and the search for the 'final' theory.
Written for the interested reader with some pre-knowledge in physics. I thought it was a very enjoyable reading.
I have taken some photographs of our early Alpha Prototype board. Have fun!