This was invented now?
I thought they used it in Terminator movies.:-)
For those who find "vacancies" troubling, think of the Terminator character who flows.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched an associated membership program. Support Free Software by becoming an FSF associated member. From the FSF website: On Monday 25 November 2002, we launched the FSF Associate Membership program. Now, you can support FSF by becoming a card-carrying associate member. You can find out about the rates and benefits of membership, sign up to be an Associate Member, login to edit your membership options, and even read briefly about some current projects of FSF.
Good features:
Fanless operation Eq to Pentium 533 (< 10db?)
integrated decent graphics with iDCT compensation for DVD
ATA-33/66/100 support
10/100 Mbps Ethernet
MC 97 Fax/Modem
TV-Out (S-video)
1394
USB 2.0
AC 97 codec Compact package
Quiet HDTV home entertainment with following add-ons:
Ultra-quiet DVD drive
160G HD HDTV Card
Decent 5.1 sound card
Roll your own software
Estimated cost $900
Connected to a 5.1 receiver w/speakers, this gives you a good sytem which plays all music formats, DVD player, acts as a DVR (for both NTSC and HDTV formats, > 40 hrs.), file server, reasonable gaming.
1) Collect e-mail address then say "will mail username, passwd". If they had said it upfront and if it was immediate, it would be much more friendlier.
2) Install spy-ware without public notice.
3) Infect registry(for M$), store/replace files in strange non-obvious places.
4) Difficult to uninstall.
5) Send info about user without permission.
6) Source not available.:-)
An ancient underwater city has been discovered
off the coast of south-eastern India.
Divers from India and England made the
discovery based on the statements of local fishermen and the old Indian legend of the Seven Pagodas.
The ruins, which are off the coast of
Mahabalipuram, cover many square miles
and seem to prove that a major city once
stood there.
A further expedition to the region is now
being arranged which will take place at the beginning of 2003.
'International significance'
The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset.
Expedition leader Monty Halls said: "Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man-made attributes.
"The scale of the site appears to be extremely extensive, with 50 dives conducted over a three-day period covering only a small area of the overall ruin field.
"This is plainly a discovery of international significance that demands further exploration and detailed investigation."
During the expedition to the site, divers came across structures believed to be man-made.
One of the buildings appears to be a place of worship, although they could only view part of what is a huge area suggesting a major city.
Jealous Gods
The myths of Mahabalipuram were first set down in writing by British traveller J. Goldingham who visited the South Indian coastal town in 1798, at which time it was known to sailors as the Seven Pagodas.
The myths speak of six temples submerged beneath the waves with the seventh temple still standing on the seashore.
The myths also state that a large city once stood here which was so beautiful the gods became jealous and sent a flood that swallowed it up entirely in a single day.
One of the expedition team, Graham Hancock, said: "I have argued for many years that the world's flood myths deserve to be taken seriously, a view that most Western academics reject.
"But here in Mahabalipuram we have proved the myths right and the academics wrong."
Scientists now want to explore the possibility that the city was submerged following the last Ice Age.
If this proves correct, it would date the discovery at more than 5,000 years old.
I think you are missing the point.
Stallman specifically states (if you've read the article)
that software is different from physical objects.
He explains why software can be created, be complex and copied
without spending "3 billion $".
Only MSFT would need 3 billion$ to convert an idea into software
A dream home/car entertainment would be
mini-ITX
all on board
Athlon 1GHz
Nvidia graphics chipset with
tv out/video spdif to normal TV and HDTV
sblive or comparable with digital sound out
radio tuner
tv tuner
256 RAM
180 GB harddisk
ethernet chipset
all for under $500.
I'm sure if you can pitch this to the Big 3 automotive guys
as a cheap car entertainment center, you have a valuable
option for cars.
Your point is right in letter not spirit.
I believe that the waste disposal majors should ensure that waste is handled properly and not used as landfill. Waste disposal guidelines are lax in quite a few countries. Some care on how such waste (asbestos, heavy metal contaminated , if you watch CNN) is disposed of, will do a lot to make sure they don't turn up alongside rivers.
I have nothing against reuse. Reuse is always good. My concern is about proper treatment of this waste.
To respond to your humour hat, the buying is not by the nations themselves. The buyers are unscrupulous corps who use lax laws to dump them.
Remember everybody on this planet has an interest in recycling.
This has been widely debated in the local language press.
Here are a few mainstream (English) links http://www.businesstimes.com.mt/2002/0123/l6.htm l
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2002/Jan/25776.htm
http://www.nriol.com/content/snippets/snippet710.h tml
These links were chosen for their detailed location and transaction information. You will find a lot more on the web.
Where do you think the millions of tonnes of waste from WTC bombing is being dumped?
They are being dumped in India and China. Already the local population is protesting the long line of ships waiting to unload the crap.
While people are concerned about pollution at WTC site, nobody cares about where the waste is dumped.
Whatever goes up must come down -- even nations and civilizations.
Hi,
Singapore implemented toll roads Electronic road pricing (links :
http://www.lta.gov.sg http://www.mita.gov.sg/bksltp.htm). All you need is a regime which tells people what to do and what to think.
Slashdot Mirror
This was invented now? :-)
I thought they used it in Terminator movies.
For those who find "vacancies" troubling, think of the Terminator character who flows.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched an associated membership program. Support Free Software by becoming an FSF associated member. From the FSF website: On Monday 25 November 2002, we launched the FSF Associate Membership program. Now, you can support FSF by becoming a card-carrying associate member. You can find out about the rates and benefits of membership, sign up to be an Associate Member, login to edit your membership options, and even read briefly about some current projects of FSF.
It runs Symbian OS not Java OS.
It runs a J2ME VM on symbian.
Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola, all have color phones with java VM. You can download midilets into these phones.
Ericsson -T68
Nokia -- Communicator 9210, 6610
now Motorola
Via EdenManufacturer's page
Good features:
Fanless operation
Eq to Pentium 533 (< 10db?)
integrated decent graphics with iDCT compensation for DVD
ATA-33/66/100 support
10/100 Mbps Ethernet
MC 97 Fax/Modem
TV-Out (S-video)
1394
USB 2.0
AC 97 codec
Compact package
Quiet HDTV home entertainment with following add-ons:
Ultra-quiet DVD drive
160G HD
HDTV Card
Decent 5.1 sound card
Roll your own software
Estimated cost $900
Connected to a 5.1 receiver w/speakers, this gives you a good sytem which plays all music formats, DVD player, acts as a DVR (for both NTSC and HDTV formats, > 40 hrs.), file server, reasonable gaming.
Gerry
my $0.02
Manufacturer's page
Review1
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1) Collect e-mail address then say "will mail username, passwd". If they had said it upfront and if it was immediate, it would be much more friendlier. :-)
2) Install spy-ware without public notice.
3) Infect registry(for M$), store/replace files in strange non-obvious places.
4) Difficult to uninstall.
5) Send info about user without permission.
6) Source not available.
http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archiv e/02-028.shtml
Divers from India and England made the discovery based on the statements of local fishermen and the old Indian legend of the Seven Pagodas.
The ruins, which are off the coast of Mahabalipuram, cover many square miles and seem to prove that a major city once stood there.
A further expedition to the region is now being arranged which will take place at the beginning of 2003.
'International significance'
The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset.
Expedition leader Monty Halls said: "Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man-made attributes.
"The scale of the site appears to be extremely extensive, with 50 dives conducted over a three-day period covering only a small area of the overall ruin field.
"This is plainly a discovery of international significance that demands further exploration and detailed investigation."
During the expedition to the site, divers came across structures believed to be man-made.
One of the buildings appears to be a place of worship, although they could only view part of what is a huge area suggesting a major city.
Jealous Gods
The myths of Mahabalipuram were first set down in writing by British traveller J. Goldingham who visited the South Indian coastal town in 1798, at which time it was known to sailors as the Seven Pagodas.
The myths speak of six temples submerged beneath the waves with the seventh temple still standing on the seashore.
The myths also state that a large city once stood here which was so beautiful the gods became jealous and sent a flood that swallowed it up entirely in a single day.
One of the expedition team, Graham Hancock, said: "I have argued for many years that the world's flood myths deserve to be taken seriously, a view that most Western academics reject.
"But here in Mahabalipuram we have proved the myths right and the academics wrong."
Scientists now want to explore the possibility that the city was submerged following the last Ice Age.
If this proves correct, it would date the discovery at more than 5,000 years old.
I think you are missing the point.
Stallman specifically states (if you've read the article)
that software is different from physical objects.
He explains why software can be created, be complex and copied
without spending "3 billion $". Only MSFT would need 3 billion$ to convert an idea into software
A dream home/car entertainment would be mini-ITX all on board Athlon 1GHz Nvidia graphics chipset with tv out/video spdif to normal TV and HDTV sblive or comparable with digital sound out radio tuner tv tuner 256 RAM 180 GB harddisk ethernet chipset all for under $500. I'm sure if you can pitch this to the Big 3 automotive guys as a cheap car entertainment center, you have a valuable option for cars.
Your point is right in letter not spirit.
I believe that the waste disposal majors should ensure that waste is handled properly and not used as landfill. Waste disposal guidelines are lax in quite a few countries. Some care on how such waste (asbestos, heavy metal contaminated , if you watch CNN) is disposed of, will do a lot to make sure they don't turn up alongside rivers.
I have nothing against reuse. Reuse is always good. My concern is about proper treatment of this waste.
To respond to your humour hat, the buying is not by the nations themselves. The buyers are unscrupulous corps who use lax laws to dump them.
Remember everybody on this planet has an interest in recycling.
This has been widely debated in the local language press.m l
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2002/Jan/25776.htm
http://www.nriol.com/content/snippets/snippet710.h tml
Here are a few mainstream (English) links
http://www.businesstimes.com.mt/2002/0123/l6.ht
These links were chosen for their detailed location and transaction information. You will find a lot more on the web.
They are being dumped in India and China. Already the local population is protesting the long line of ships waiting to unload the crap.
While people are concerned about pollution at WTC site, nobody cares about where the waste is dumped.
Whatever goes up must come down -- even nations and civilizations.
Hi, Singapore implemented toll roads Electronic road pricing (links : http://www.lta.gov.sg http://www.mita.gov.sg/bksltp.htm). All you need is a regime which tells people what to do and what to think.
Isn't that why Cheney consulted Enron for Energy policy?