Renewable energy plants are also a lot less susceptible to terrorist attack.
Presumably this is just because renewable sources produce less energy individually; rather than blow up a single power station they'd have to take down hundreds of wind turbines.
Is this really such a good thing to boast about? "They're less susceptible to terrorist attack because there are going to be thousands of the damn things scattered all over the countryside"...
The east and especially the south coast of Britain has possibly the highest concentration of disused airfields anywhere, dating back from the war. Fields in the south east were to ensure a wide spread of fighter cover, and airfields further north in counties such as Lincolnshire and Essex were bomber bases.
Many of these have dissappeared completely; some remain as private airfields, while others are converted for other purposes such as racetracks.
Try finding army bases on UK ordanance survey maps. Quite often they are missing and in other cases they are shown quite a way from their actual location.
I have an overhead picture of the town in which I used to work. There were two defence-related sites on it; they had been carefully replaced with playing fields and grasslands. Very carefully... there were even tracks and areas of wear drawn on.
I found quite comical that I used to work in the middle of a field...
Then again, some 50K people in the US died as the result of traffic accidents in 2001. Better hope Osama doesnt get his hands on a car manufacturing plant.
That would certainly be useful for those times when you're hopelessly lost, find yourself and spend ages wondering exactly where you went.
I spent two hours last month hacking round in a forest after going off the track while cycling; I'd _love_ to know where I went, and how close to various paths I must have gone...
What happened to it? I remember back on the Amiga demos were a hot topic... they would be all over magazine coverdisks (disks, not CDs! Aaah...); some of them were extremely impressive - they did things you'd never thought possible with an Amiga 600.
But now... you don't really see them any more. Pity, really; there were some truly impressive ones./me goes to dig out the Amiga again...
Someone here did a project last year to "derive" a new symphony by a composer. The idea was to analyse various pieces written by the chosen composer, find the common themes, and then use them to produce new pieces which would have the same "feel" as the originals.
That way you end up with more music you like without making you think you've overdosed...
The Register has a story about it. I like the paragraph at the end...
Twente's high-speed network was originally constructed to provide students with access to high-speed Internet access for their studies. It soon became one of the major hubs for peer-to-peer exchange programs like KaZaA. This perceived misuse of Internet resources caused former Dutch education minister Loek Hermans to comment: "It would be nice if the students at Twente University would use their fast connections for information and education purposes, instead of downloading huge amounts of porn."
Note to the PFY of the world. Find a crusty old BOFH, be patient with them and learn slowly from them. No book, or certfication comes close to haing a good mentor when learning the craft of system administration. Not even close.
You learn quickly, or you get locked in the hub room for the weekend.
The sad thing is it's actually true... I recall the days of using tin, pressing the wrong button and resorting to restarting the terminal to leave the editor...:)
I think you've got something there... a bit of pokin' around seems to suggest "boxen" first started in the same way "virii" started, but now seems to mean something.
All the same, it still looks silly, in my opinion...:)
Tell that to the guys who earn a wage from linux coding, supporting linux, all the rest. If Microsoft stuff gets to the point where linux alternatives aren't viable for companies and the like, there goes a lot of linux support down the drain.
Yes, linux won't die because there'll always be the hackers and free-time coders, but without the support of large, money-making organisations that's where it'll stay.
From dictionary.com... "Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations."
"The Department of Informatics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, BRAZIL, is now running a WWW Server. Please note : our link is slow = 9600 bps."
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Clicking the middle button over a link does the same thing. Finding that made things so much easier!
Renewable energy plants are also a lot less susceptible to terrorist attack.
Presumably this is just because renewable sources produce less energy individually; rather than blow up a single power station they'd have to take down hundreds of wind turbines.
Is this really such a good thing to boast about? "They're less susceptible to terrorist attack because there are going to be thousands of the damn things scattered all over the countryside"...
Phil
The east and especially the south coast of Britain has possibly the highest concentration of disused airfields anywhere, dating back from the war. Fields in the south east were to ensure a wide spread of fighter cover, and airfields further north in counties such as Lincolnshire and Essex were bomber bases.
Many of these have dissappeared completely; some remain as private airfields, while others are converted for other purposes such as racetracks.
Try finding army bases on UK ordanance survey maps. Quite often they are missing and in other cases they are shown quite a way from their actual location.
I have an overhead picture of the town in which I used to work. There were two defence-related sites on it; they had been carefully replaced with playing fields and grasslands. Very carefully... there were even tracks and areas of wear drawn on.
I found quite comical that I used to work in the middle of a field...
Then again, some 50K people in the US died as the result of traffic accidents in 2001. Better hope Osama doesnt get his hands on a car manufacturing plant.
Maybe he already did...
You know, how about we try seeing how ants tunnel in Lunar Regolith, or Martian soil. That would be intersting.
Yay, teeny weeny ant spacesuits!
You play for hours, not because you're "enjoying" it, but because your brain is too numbed to stop.
While saying "Just one more game, then I'll stop, honest!" throughout...
I spent two hours last month hacking round in a forest after going off the track while cycling; I'd _love_ to know where I went, and how close to various paths I must have gone...
Phil, just me
Has anyone actually tried ascii-art in a text-to-speech browser? Hmmmm...
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...and I thought it was just a motorbike game.
Phil, just me
Ah yes, the frequent cries of "AGA only? Damn!"...
Phil, just me
What happened to it? I remember back on the Amiga demos were a hot topic... they would be all over magazine coverdisks (disks, not CDs! Aaah...); some of them were extremely impressive - they did things you'd never thought possible with an Amiga 600.
But now... you don't really see them any more. Pity, really; there were some truly impressive ones. /me goes to dig out the Amiga again...
Phil, just me
Usually it's selling computer hardware and the like, but still... does it really get in the way so bad?
Phil, just me
Someone here did a project last year to "derive" a new symphony by a composer. The idea was to analyse various pieces written by the chosen composer, find the common themes, and then use them to produce new pieces which would have the same "feel" as the originals.
That way you end up with more music you like without making you think you've overdosed...
Phil, just me
Would be rather cool, tho'... a phone with a little flip-out bottle opener! Now that's what I call progress!
Phil, just me
Can you get bolts small enough to go through the neck of a blob in a petri dish? Phil, just me
Twente's high-speed network was originally constructed to provide students with access to high-speed Internet access for their studies. It soon became one of the major hubs for peer-to-peer exchange programs like KaZaA. This perceived misuse of Internet resources caused former Dutch education minister Loek Hermans to comment: "It would be nice if the students at Twente University would use their fast connections for information and education purposes, instead of downloading huge amounts of porn."
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Phil, just me
You learn quickly, or you get locked in the hub room for the weekend.
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Phil, just me
All the same, it still looks silly, in my opinion... :)
Phil, just me
M$, however, is not a threat to Linux.
Tell that to the guys who earn a wage from linux coding, supporting linux, all the rest. If Microsoft stuff gets to the point where linux alternatives aren't viable for companies and the like, there goes a lot of linux support down the drain.
Yes, linux won't die because there'll always be the hackers and free-time coders, but without the support of large, money-making organisations that's where it'll stay.
Phil, just me
From dictionary.com... "Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations."
Did they think of that?
(Boxes, dammit!)
Phil, just me
"The Department of Informatics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, BRAZIL, is now running a WWW Server. Please note : our link is slow = 9600 bps."
Phil, just me