Btw, I once read Tolkien was strongly opposed when a boat company named one of their hovercrafts "Shadowfax". He found it unfitting that a dead technical device would carry the name of such a great animal.
The Afghan Taleban Mission to the UN had a web site at http://www.taleban.com/. [...] It will be interesting to see if this page gets any further updates now.
As it seems, someone read your comment and defaced the page.
The famous Czech Sci-Fi author who first used the term "robot". His most famous novel "War With the Newts" is a classic utopy because it's not really about the future, but about the present. His sarcastic style makes this book very readable.
A second intelligent race is found on earth: The Newts. They are treated as animals and are enslaved. But the first conflicts arise...
It's possible to use sort of WMs in Windows. You can install an alternative shell which is started instead of the MS GUI. Just change the EXPLORE keyword in win.ini (?) to some executable. There are clones for enlightenment and so around.
On Cebit 1998 in Hannover the Apple folks inofficially demonstrated Rhapsody (which has now turned into MacOS X) running X-Apps. Perhaps they will ship something similiar with their new OS...
Just to support my point that no single geek can be credited for the radio (despite US patents):
It is rumoured that he transmitted signals between two mountains 18 miles apart in 1866, 21 years before Heinrich Hertz did in 1887. There should be some documents around to support this. One I found right now: Dentist Hall of Fame. Critics say that he used clouds to transmit signals but others say his apparatus was quite similar to those of Marconi and others.
From the IEEE Microwave Symposium 1997: "In 1895 Bose gave his first public demonstration of electromagnetic waves, using them to ring a bell remotely and to explode some gunpowder. In 1896 the Daily Chronicle of England reported: "The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted signals to a distance of nearly a mile and herein lies the first and obvious and exceedingly valuable application of this new theoretical marvel." Popov in Russia was doing similar experiments, but had written in December 1895 that he was still entertaining the hope of remote signalling with radio waves. The first successful wireless signalling experiment by Marconi on Salisbury Plain in England was not until May 1897. The 1895 public demonstration by Bose in Calcutta predates all these experiments." Source
Tesla may have been first but Marconi succeeded in making wireless telegraphy popular. He was the first one to sell wireless telegraphy commercially and in a larger scale.
Marconi worked hard to improve wireless transmission, but he was not the only one. Definitely he was the first one to send a morse signal across the atlantic, but he broke many other distance records the years before. To call Marconi a thief is very much unjustified.
Braun can be credited a lot for the theory, Hertz was the first to do wireless telegraphy without knowing it, Popoff created a receiver and made transmissions as well, Tesla was first to register a patent, and Marconi was constantly increasing the range of these devices from a kilometer to the first transatlantic broadcast between 1895 and 1902. There is no single inventor for the radio, even though Teslas part may be highly underestimated.
The invention of the radio - like many other inventions - cannot be credited to one man alone. The experiments and creations of Maxwell, Hertz, Popoff, Marconi, Braun and many others lead to what we know today under the vague term "radio". Perhaps we as nerds tend to like the idea that there's an oppressed and ignored geek (like us) behind all of our modern toys.
However, Gugliemo Marconi was first to establish wireless telegraphy (first transatlantic morse signal) even though his work was far from original. He realized the importance of this technology (contrary to the opionion of the scientific elite), improved it until it was mature thus making it popular and lucrative. Not just "being the first" but this mixture of a brilliant scientist, unconventional thinker and businessman made him go into our history books.
(My essay on Marconi and Wireless Telegraphy can be found here)
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I'm not an Irish speaker but afaik "orc" means "pig" in Irish, which also would make more sense. It's supposed to be derived from the Latin "porcus".
Btw, I once read Tolkien was strongly opposed when a boat company named one of their hovercrafts "Shadowfax". He found it unfitting that a dead technical device would carry the name of such a great animal.
Here is an interesting tutorial on writing your own OS
As it seems, someone read your comment and defaced the page.
A second intelligent race is found on earth: The Newts. They are treated as animals and are enslaved. But the first conflicts arise...
I also made some screenshots of LiteStep:
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On Cebit 1998 in Hannover the Apple folks inofficially demonstrated Rhapsody (which has now turned into MacOS X) running X-Apps. Perhaps they will ship something similiar with their new OS...
It is rumoured that he transmitted signals between two mountains 18 miles apart in 1866, 21 years before Heinrich Hertz did in 1887. There should be some documents around to support this. One I found right now: Dentist Hall of Fame. Critics say that he used clouds to transmit signals but others say his apparatus was quite similar to those of Marconi and others.
From the IEEE Microwave Symposium 1997: "In 1895 Bose gave his first public demonstration of electromagnetic waves, using them to ring a bell remotely and to explode some gunpowder. In 1896 the Daily Chronicle of England reported: "The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted signals to a distance of nearly a mile and herein lies the first and obvious and exceedingly valuable application of this new theoretical marvel." Popov in Russia was doing similar experiments, but had written in December 1895 that he was still entertaining the hope of remote signalling with radio waves. The first successful wireless signalling experiment by Marconi on Salisbury Plain in England was not until May 1897. The 1895 public demonstration by Bose in Calcutta predates all these experiments."
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- Tesla may have been first but Marconi succeeded in making wireless telegraphy popular. He was the first one to sell wireless telegraphy commercially and in a larger scale.
- Marconi worked hard to improve wireless transmission, but he was not the only one. Definitely he was the first one to send a morse signal across the atlantic, but he broke many other distance records the years before. To call Marconi a thief is very much unjustified.
Braun can be credited a lot for the theory, Hertz was the first to do wireless telegraphy without knowing it, Popoff created a receiver and made transmissions as well, Tesla was first to register a patent, and Marconi was constantly increasing the range of these devices from a kilometer to the first transatlantic broadcast between 1895 and 1902. There is no single inventor for the radio, even though Teslas part may be highly underestimated.--
However, Gugliemo Marconi was first to establish wireless telegraphy (first transatlantic morse signal) even though his work was far from original. He realized the importance of this technology (contrary to the opionion of the scientific elite), improved it until it was mature thus making it popular and lucrative. Not just "being the first" but this mixture of a brilliant scientist, unconventional thinker and businessman made him go into our history books.
(My essay on Marconi and Wireless Telegraphy can be found here)
Does not sound strange to me at all. I'm neither
an admin nor a pervert. Mhm...