(Entirely from memory)
Look, Beaker! A throw cushion featuring the Periodic Table of the Elements! [Honeydew, B. et al. Mupp. Sh. Ton. (1988)]
I've been searching for this item for many years, but no luck yet.
What would be good would be to see the GPL used to cover the 'open sourcing'. The article clearly envisages developments that are not protected against becoming non-free (is that the same thing as enslaved?)
Obligatory HHGTTG reference "The best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it" If you can't be bothered to say 'the other Sheltenach's Juple-berry bush is a more mauvish shade of pink' then you don't care!
> s/God/aliens/
Why is it that this confusion exists in so many minds? I happen to have watched Contact again last night, and I'm with Jodie Foster: I don't understand the relevance of the question. Aliens are not gods. Period. Aliens will not substitute for Gods. Meeting aliens will not settle the question of whether God exists. It will be interesting to see if they have Gods of their own, of course, but we already coexist with cultures who have different Gods.
IMHO open plan is certainly best for a team of that size - split them up and they'll be several factions instead. But think hard about the sound deadening. Acoustic panels on the ceiling, and sound-absorbent dividers between desks if you have them butted up together. Phones that ring unobtrusively, and cut to voicemail after a few rings.
And plenty of meeting space away from the office floor, so that people don't have too many desk-side conferences. Although, of course, eavesdropping on other people's conversations is one of the productivity bonuses of open plan.
Jonathan
I read her whole site carefully the first time Slashdot referred to it, and have just revisited. Clearly the pictures did not come from a single visit; in one Elena is wearing green kawasaki leathers and in another a black jacket. On the lone/accompanied front, she explicitly says she went to the ghost town, where the most poignant pictures come from, with someone else, and consistently talks about where "we" went. If the impact of the pictures has been enhanced with some artistic licence, that's fine by me. Call 'fake' if you like, but those pictures aren't PovRay and they aren't PhotoShopped up from snaps of rural Pennsylvania, either. Volunteers for a perfectly fact-checked dry-as-dust photographic reconnaisance, one pace forward! Hmm. Thought not. Dismiss.
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Well, maybe not *anyone*. From the SEC filing: We have not undertaken any efforts to qualify this offering for offers to individual investors in any jurisdiction outside the U.S. Therefore, individual investors located outside the U.S. should not expect to be eligible to participate in this offering.
For me, a combination of privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) and Konqueror set to ask before opening a window with javascript prevents any of the demos from showing. Why don't companies invest all this effort in making it easy to find out about stuff I'm seeking to buy, instead of shoving crap in my face on the off-chance that my annoyance will be low enough that I'll consider buying what they're advertising. My annoyance threshold is low, so they're on a loser...
There's a lot of stuff about nuclear aircraft engine research around, for a spoof. E.g. [1] http://www.idahoptv.org/buildingbig/buildings/inee l.html "Interesting points: Two prototype nuclear aircraft engines are on public display near the EBR-I reactor facility."
[1] There are no spaces in that URL, but the posting form seems to want to put one in...
Gee, great idea! If everyone does this, then the web server log files will be able to prove that we're all using IE, and the moron developers will have even less incentive to test against minority browsers. [This is Konqueror. I make sure it doesn't tell anyone it's IE]
A recent programme on TV in the UK showed how easy it is to masquerade as someone else by stealing their identity - the reporter managed to get a driving licence which identified him as the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP, who is in reality both the Home Secretary and registered blind! Now, you may think that this is a reason for biometric cards (assuming that they are reliable) but no! What level of assurance must be applied to verifying the identity of applicants for a biometric card? I would recommend sworn affidavits from at least 4 verified blood relatives... oh, hold on...
The clue is in the url of the first [1] and on the page of the second. [2]
[1]/shop/ [2] PayPal account
There isn't an ounce (28 g) of scientific method in the analyses I've just looked at; lots of buzzwords like plasma vortex and telluric fields, though. C'mon guys - form a testable hypothesis and then *test it*.
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(Entirely from memory) Look, Beaker! A throw cushion featuring the Periodic Table of the Elements! [Honeydew, B. et al. Mupp. Sh. Ton. (1988)] I've been searching for this item for many years, but no luck yet.
What would be good would be to see the GPL used to cover the 'open sourcing'. The article clearly envisages developments that are not protected against becoming non-free (is that the same thing as enslaved?)
Obligatory HHGTTG reference "The best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it" If you can't be bothered to say 'the other Sheltenach's Juple-berry bush is a more mauvish shade of pink' then you don't care!
> s/God/aliens/ Why is it that this confusion exists in so many minds? I happen to have watched Contact again last night, and I'm with Jodie Foster: I don't understand the relevance of the question. Aliens are not gods. Period. Aliens will not substitute for Gods. Meeting aliens will not settle the question of whether God exists. It will be interesting to see if they have Gods of their own, of course, but we already coexist with cultures who have different Gods.
IMHO open plan is certainly best for a team of that size - split them up and they'll be several factions instead. But think hard about the sound deadening. Acoustic panels on the ceiling, and sound-absorbent dividers between desks if you have them butted up together. Phones that ring unobtrusively, and cut to voicemail after a few rings. And plenty of meeting space away from the office floor, so that people don't have too many desk-side conferences. Although, of course, eavesdropping on other people's conversations is one of the productivity bonuses of open plan. Jonathan
I surely am ready for a revamp, Lord. What should I snort up?
I read her whole site carefully the first time Slashdot referred to it, and have just revisited. Clearly the pictures did not come from a single visit; in one Elena is wearing green kawasaki leathers and in another a black jacket.
On the lone/accompanied front, she explicitly says she went to the ghost town, where the most poignant pictures come from, with someone else, and consistently talks about where "we" went.
If the impact of the pictures has been enhanced with some artistic licence, that's fine by me. Call 'fake' if you like, but those pictures aren't PovRay and they aren't PhotoShopped up from snaps of rural Pennsylvania, either. Volunteers for a perfectly fact-checked dry-as-dust photographic reconnaisance, one pace forward!
Hmm. Thought not. Dismiss.
Well, maybe not *anyone*. From the SEC filing:
We have not undertaken any efforts to qualify this offering for offers to individual investors in any jurisdiction outside the U.S. Therefore, individual investors located outside the U.S. should not expect to be eligible to participate in this offering.
Come on, chaps. I know you *pronounce* it 'missles' that side of the Pond, but it isn't written that way, you know.
>or if I visit my mistress for an extra-martial screw. Well, that would be interesting. Is it your wife or your mistress that's the martian?
For me, a combination of privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) and Konqueror set to ask before opening a window with javascript prevents any of the demos from showing. Why don't companies invest all this effort in making it easy to find out about stuff I'm seeking to buy, instead of shoving crap in my face on the off-chance that my annoyance will be low enough that I'll consider buying what they're advertising. My annoyance threshold is low, so they're on a loser...
Great news for your grandad.
There's a lot of stuff about nuclear aircraft engine research around, for a spoof.e l.html
E.g. [1] http://www.idahoptv.org/buildingbig/buildings/ine
"Interesting points: Two prototype nuclear aircraft engines are on public display near the EBR-I reactor facility."
[1] There are no spaces in that URL, but the posting form seems to want to put one in...
Either that apostrophe is in the wrong place, or NASA has recruited a Pearson's Puppeteer. I think we should be told!
Of course he's unionized. Otherwise he'd be on a charge, wouldn't he?
Gee, great idea! If everyone does this, then the web server log files will be able to prove that we're all using IE, and the moron developers will have even less incentive to test against minority browsers. [This is Konqueror. I make sure it doesn't tell anyone it's IE]
A recent programme on TV in the UK showed how easy it is to masquerade as someone else by stealing their identity - the reporter managed to get a driving licence which identified him as the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP, who is in reality both the Home Secretary and registered blind!
Now, you may think that this is a reason for biometric cards (assuming that they are reliable) but no! What level of assurance must be applied to verifying the identity of applicants for a biometric card? I would recommend sworn affidavits from at least 4 verified blood relatives... oh, hold on...
The clue is in the url of the first [1] and on the page of the second. [2]
/shop/
[1]
[2] PayPal account
There isn't an ounce (28 g) of scientific method in the analyses I've just looked at; lots of buzzwords like plasma vortex and telluric fields, though. C'mon guys - form a testable hypothesis and then *test it*.