I'm quite happy with raidarray.net, which I've been using for the past year. Their offer is very affordable (100$ for 25 Gb a year long) and it has all the Unix bells and whistles you need (rsync, ftp, etc). They also have a very helpful support team who helped me out with a sticky rsync-problem.
Oh and for backup software I use Rdiff-backup, which is able to make reverse incremental backups.
And it shows; when I checked it, the names of my fine country (The Netherlands) and our southern neighbours (Belgium) were exchanged on one scale. When I zoomed further, they displayed just nice.
you click on "Internet Explorer" to "Explore the internet". That's why its such a great name for a web browser...
I beg to differ that the name is involved that much. "Explorer" only means something if you're English-speaking (which, FYI, isn't done in great parts of the world). The desktop default shipping of IE with windows and the desktop icon (which apparently isn't monopolistic behaviour:P) make all the difference methinks.
It rocks if it wasn't for the lack of a proper undo. Scribus has many great feautures and a decent GUI (I like the automatic unit conversion) but because you can't undo most of the times it is practically unusable for me.
I would have probably bought an eBook reader by now if there was one reasonably priced which could display the content that I want. Most eBook readers allow you only to buy some pre-selected content in a propriety format, but what I'd really want is to read articles, essays and magazines I find or buy on the internet in a convenient matter and in bed or while travelling. If somebody made an eBook reader which could display my content instead of theirs (and which isn't particulary expensive), I'm all for it.
DjVu also supports real text embedded together with the image, plus their position in tscanned bitmap. So you can search for text within a DjVu file. Works really neat.
Also, notice that the other apes' tongue and throat do not have the structure/control that would ever let them pronounce as many different sounds as humans do.
I have been told that, in addition, humans are the only primates that possess "voluntary breathing", that is, primates cannot control their breathing at will (most animals don't, humans have this characteristic in common with aquatic animals, which is another story alltogether). For apes to control their breath by will is like for humans controlling their hart rate by will. So apes can use their breath for making single or rythmic cries and that kind of sounds, but words and sentences require a lot more effort.
The debate over animal language is very heated, but it intrigues me that researchers on both sides of the "camps" almost always start flaming without definig what language is. I actually get the impression that they all more or less are saying the same, the men-is-only-capable-of-language camp saying that some animals are capable of some form of language but not to the extent of humans and the some-animals-use-language camp saying that, well, some animals are capable of some form of language but not to the extent of humans. The only thing is that the one group defines language as "language as used by humans" and the second group as "communicating by means of symbols".
Bush is saying something like "Gee, you scientists can't prove something is going to happen, so let's do nothing", which in my opinion is equivalent to saying something along the lines of "Gee, I can't prove that this plant is poisonous (or for that matter that some dog urinated on it), so it's save to eat it".
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I'd rather call you old;-) AFAIK taxonomic names have, except for in the very early days, been arbritarliy chosen. Especially if genera consist of many species it can be very hard to come up with a useful and descriptive name.
This sounds cool, but it looks like the page author has to specify what has to be pre-fetched. Due to the relatively small marker-share of mozilla, there will probably be few sites which implement this feature. Too bad, because it looks like a nice feature to me.
"I think they should not just target a particular distro (i.e., RH and Mandrake) but maybe target LSB?"
I think they are trying to build a complete operating system to install on a blank computer. But IIRC the source code is open so you can put it evrywhere you want.
I still dont get it; everybody and their dog downloads music and burns it on CD instead of buying it in the store. Yet, every story here on \. claims that the drop in CD sales is not caused by illegally copying and how bad the RIAA is (sure, the RIAA is bad). Could somebody please explain this to me -- I've never followed economy class, but to me all the music industry bashing just sounds like some crappy arguments to cover the fact that file sharing is just convenient (in many ways, not just economically).
"In this case, alfalfa was chosen as a model plant system for studying the ability of plants to extract gold from various growth media."
AFAIK alfalfa is a fast-growing and quite easy plant, so it makes sense to use it as a model plant. The entire research was about
"Will plants make gold nanoparticles?"
Moreover, the entire meaning of the research was not to harvest gold, but to find a better way to produce these particles, which requires a lot of nast chemicals right now. The alfalfa plants were grown on gold-rich soil.
Who said it was ethical to gimp up other people's free code with adverts to begin with?
If I understood correctly, this is not what the article is all about. It's about programs (like desktop environments) that show an ad to its users in order to gain some money for development of that program.
To me this sounds like a reasonable method, under certain circumstances. If it's a non-intrusive and non-permanent ad, I wouldn't mind tipping the project just by looking at a picture once in a while, but only to cover development costs; once a project is mature enough that no intensive development is needed the ad has to go.
Yes, but as I understood those kind of pens can be used to circumvent the copy protection of some CD's. So now the RIAA can point to this thing and say that those pens should be made illegal since an alternative is available. Yeah, that's it, it's one big conspiracy;-)
Funny thing to mention, I just saw a program with Boney M a few hours ago. The guy isn't really poor, but he's certainly not rich, because his music company screwed him completely over and out. I think that's pretty ironic in this context.
I second that completely. There are however a few occasions on which downloading of music is IMO more or less justified:
If I would not buy it if I couldn't download it. If I in any other case would buy it, I still buy it now. Especially for an album I think its really cool to have the original.
If it's not possible to buy it. For example some mixes broadcasted on the radio are not available on CD (yes you're still stealing the songs, but a lot of them you have bought anyway). Or like the "O Fortuna" song from Apotheosis, which got retracted (due to legal issues) shortly after it was released.
If you buy the CD-single and the they didn't include the radio version where you bought it for in the first place, like the "Gigi d'Agostinit - l'Amour Toujours" single.
Of course, it is also weird that you have to pay rights for every copy of a song you buy. It would be more logical (but logistically nearly impossible) to pay only for the songs you don't already have on a CD, most of the time I already have some of them on other CD's.
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Ah...I already wondered where all these ghost cars came from...
I'm quite happy with raidarray.net, which I've been using for the past year. Their offer is very affordable (100$ for 25 Gb a year long) and it has all the Unix bells and whistles you need (rsync, ftp, etc). They also have a very helpful support team who helped me out with a sticky rsync-problem.
Oh and for backup software I use Rdiff-backup, which is able to make reverse incremental backups.
And it shows; when I checked it, the names of my fine country (The Netherlands) and our southern neighbours (Belgium) were exchanged on one scale. When I zoomed further, they displayed just nice.
I beg to differ that the name is involved that much. "Explorer" only means something if you're English-speaking (which, FYI, isn't done in great parts of the world). The desktop default shipping of IE with windows and the desktop icon (which apparently isn't monopolistic behaviour :P) make all the difference methinks.
From my minimal experience with DTP - this rocks!
It rocks if it wasn't for the lack of a proper undo. Scribus has many great feautures and a decent GUI (I like the automatic unit conversion) but because you can't undo most of the times it is practically unusable for me.
I would have probably bought an eBook reader by now if there was one reasonably priced which could display the content that I want. Most eBook readers allow you only to buy some pre-selected content in a propriety format, but what I'd really want is to read articles, essays and magazines I find or buy on the internet in a convenient matter and in bed or while travelling. If somebody made an eBook reader which could display my content instead of theirs (and which isn't particulary expensive), I'm all for it.
DjVu also supports real text embedded together with the image, plus their position in tscanned bitmap. So you can search for text within a DjVu file. Works really neat.
And [Ff]ree DjVu viewers can be obtained for multiple platforms.
RPMFind and its mirror sites are closed as well. Not the front page, but after a search query you get the warning. They say it's temporarily though.
And it was intended as a joke...
Maybe with this card.
Look at the right below of the picture, where the following is stated:
Software:
Photoshop V6
Processing:
Cropping / Resizing
Layers
JPG Compression
I have been told that, in addition, humans are the only primates that possess "voluntary breathing", that is, primates cannot control their breathing at will (most animals don't, humans have this characteristic in common with aquatic animals, which is another story alltogether). For apes to control their breath by will is like for humans controlling their hart rate by will. So apes can use their breath for making single or rythmic cries and that kind of sounds, but words and sentences require a lot more effort.
The debate over animal language is very heated, but it intrigues me that researchers on both sides of the "camps" almost always start flaming without definig what language is. I actually get the impression that they all more or less are saying the same, the men-is-only-capable-of-language camp saying that some animals are capable of some form of language but not to the extent of humans and the some-animals-use-language camp saying that, well, some animals are capable of some form of language but not to the extent of humans. The only thing is that the one group defines language as "language as used by humans" and the second group as "communicating by means of symbols".
Just my 0.02 euro.
Bush is saying something like "Gee, you scientists can't prove something is going to happen, so let's do nothing", which in my opinion is equivalent to saying something along the lines of "Gee, I can't prove that this plant is poisonous (or for that matter that some dog urinated on it), so it's save to eat it".
I'd rather call you old ;-) AFAIK taxonomic names have, except for in the very early days, been arbritarliy chosen. Especially if genera consist of many species it can be very hard to come up with a useful and descriptive name.
For taxonomic curiosities, see this link.
Water AND computers don't mix? I guess then its "You can either make fun of water-cooling XOR make computers out of water"
This sounds cool, but it looks like the page author has to specify what has to be pre-fetched. Due to the relatively small marker-share of mozilla, there will probably be few sites which implement this feature. Too bad, because it looks like a nice feature to me.
Well, as the page clearly mentions, you should turn on "Caret Browsing (hit F7)", otherwise you won't see a cursor.
I also wonder if the fact that you lose work when hitting the "return" button is because it is only a demo version?
I think they are trying to build a complete operating system to install on a blank computer. But IIRC the source code is open so you can put it evrywhere you want.
I still dont get it; everybody and their dog downloads music and burns it on CD instead of buying it in the store. Yet, every story here on \. claims that the drop in CD sales is not caused by illegally copying and how bad the RIAA is (sure, the RIAA is bad). Could somebody please explain this to me -- I've never followed economy class, but to me all the music industry bashing just sounds like some crappy arguments to cover the fact that file sharing is just convenient (in many ways, not just economically).
From the press release:
AFAIK alfalfa is a fast-growing and quite easy plant, so it makes sense to use it as a model plant. The entire research was aboutMoreover, the entire meaning of the research was not to harvest gold, but to find a better way to produce these particles, which requires a lot of nast chemicals right now. The alfalfa plants were grown on gold-rich soil.
If I understood correctly, this is not what the article is all about. It's about programs (like desktop environments) that show an ad to its users in order to gain some money for development of that program.
To me this sounds like a reasonable method, under certain circumstances. If it's a non-intrusive and non-permanent ad, I wouldn't mind tipping the project just by looking at a picture once in a while, but only to cover development costs; once a project is mature enough that no intensive development is needed the ad has to go.
Yes, but as I understood those kind of pens can be used to circumvent the copy protection of some CD's. So now the RIAA can point to this thing and say that those pens should be made illegal since an alternative is available. Yeah, that's it, it's one big conspiracy ;-)
Funny thing to mention, I just saw a program with Boney M a few hours ago. The guy isn't really poor, but he's certainly not rich, because his music company screwed him completely over and out. I think that's pretty ironic in this context.
I second that completely. There are however a few occasions on which downloading of music is IMO more or less justified:
Of course, it is also weird that you have to pay rights for every copy of a song you buy. It would be more logical (but logistically nearly impossible) to pay only for the songs you don't already have on a CD, most of the time I already have some of them on other CD's.