Well, you could - for example - look at the photo of Earth and moon together that was taken from the European Mars Express half way enroute to Mars. You can clearly see Earth & moon as small spots in the universe. Very interesting photo, I think!
You might want to try the KDE program Kaspaliste which is more or less what you are looking for.
Kaspaliste is a literature database. It handles all kinds of books, articles, journals, webpages etc. The database goes beyond storing bibliographical information. There is the possibility to create annotated links between pieces of information (like the content of a book chapter) and to group links into categories.
The user interface works just like a web browser: You may follow the links to open records. You may walk back and forward through previously edited records, change fields, and create or delete links, publication, authors etc. on the fly with just one mouseclick.
Kaspaliste does not only store pieces of information about publications. It stores files as well. Kaspaliste handels various formats like html, pdf, ps, dvi and pictures (depends on your KDE-installation since the kpart-technology is used). You can for example store ocr'ed parts of interesting publications. The fulltext search covers these files.
I still use it to play many old games. These games did not use any MS-DOS, but instead you would just put the disk into the drive and directly boot into the game. I have such classics as Burgertime, Donkey Kong and Dig Dug as original PC versions, even Moon-Patrol from 1980. Luckily, my mainboard is able to swith processor speed down to the original 4.77 MHz of an original 8088 Pc.
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That's the thing we all have been waiting for:
Waive your rights concerning the secrecy of letters, let them spy on you much easier and PAY FOR IT!
Maybe the underfunded intelligence agencies can use this business model to raise even more money. At the same time they save money and manpower, because they no longer need to sniff around in your waste... What a wonderful idea !
No, AFAIK these licenses do not include some sort of monopoly on mobile internet access.
However, the mentioned ISPs are not among the biggest ISPs (compared to AOL, MSN or the national European telecom companies). The big companies like Deutsche Telekom (in Germany it is the most used ISP) especially prohibit the use of NAT in their EULA (I do not even dare to imagine what they would think of wireless NAT for an entire neighbourhood).
Being pessimistic as I am, I can easily imagine them try to lobby the government to introduce some kind of regulation on these WLAN access-points. After all, frequency rights are still government dependant. And with all this ongoing discussions about tracking people's whereabouts using their mobile phone to detect "possible terrorists", it is IMHO more than likely that this is going to happen
It is indeed good news that some ISPs apparently accept reality (since they can't detect NAT on their nodes anyhow).
However - especially here in Europe - many big Telecom companies have paid a huge amount of money (several US-billon $) to the governments to get a UMTS license because they thought it to be the only way of getting mobile Internet access.
Now, when these ISPs actually do not prevent their customers from using their node as a WLAN access point for everybody, these ISPs could quickly become a target of the major telecom companies' law departments. For them, it is much easier to sue ISPs than single "abusers".
And I think, regarding the momentary state of the economy and the possible mis-investment in the UMTS market, this is more than likely to happen.
I wonder what happens if enemy troops develop some kind of mirrors to reflect the ray back to its origin. The beam must be easily detectable once the fighter plane starts to shoot. With a quickly erected, computer-guided mirror one should be able to shoot down or blind the actual fighter pilot as well.
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Well, you could - for example - look at the photo of Earth and moon together that was taken from the European Mars Express half way enroute to Mars. You can clearly see Earth & moon as small spots in the universe. Very interesting photo, I think!
Kaspaliste is a literature database. It handles all kinds of books, articles, journals, webpages etc. The database goes beyond storing bibliographical information. There is the possibility to create annotated links between pieces of information (like the content of a book chapter) and to group links into categories.
The user interface works just like a web browser: You may follow the links to open records. You may walk back and forward through previously edited records, change fields, and create or delete links, publication, authors etc. on the fly with just one mouseclick.
Kaspaliste does not only store pieces of information about publications. It stores files as well. Kaspaliste handels various formats like html, pdf, ps, dvi and pictures (depends on your KDE-installation since the kpart-technology is used). You can for example store ocr'ed parts of interesting publications. The fulltext search covers these files.
I still use it to play many old games. These games did not use any MS-DOS, but instead you would just put the disk into the drive and directly boot into the game. I have such classics as Burgertime, Donkey Kong and Dig Dug as original PC versions, even Moon-Patrol from 1980. Luckily, my mainboard is able to swith processor speed down to the original 4.77 MHz of an original 8088 Pc.
Waive your rights concerning the secrecy of letters, let them spy on you much easier and PAY FOR IT!
Maybe the underfunded intelligence agencies can use this business model to raise even more money. At the same time they save money and manpower, because they no longer need to sniff around in your waste... What a wonderful idea !
No, AFAIK these licenses do not include some sort of monopoly on mobile internet access.
However, the mentioned ISPs are not among the biggest ISPs (compared to AOL, MSN or the national European telecom companies). The big companies like Deutsche Telekom (in Germany it is the most used ISP) especially prohibit the use of NAT in their EULA (I do not even dare to imagine what they would think of wireless NAT for an entire neighbourhood).
Being pessimistic as I am, I can easily imagine them try to lobby the government to introduce some kind of regulation on these WLAN access-points. After all, frequency rights are still government dependant. And with all this ongoing discussions about tracking people's whereabouts using their mobile phone to detect "possible terrorists", it is IMHO more than likely that this is going to happen
It is indeed good news that some ISPs apparently accept reality (since they can't detect NAT on their nodes anyhow).
However - especially here in Europe - many big Telecom companies have paid a huge amount of money (several US-billon $) to the governments to get a UMTS license because they thought it to be the only way of getting mobile Internet access.
Now, when these ISPs actually do not prevent their customers from using their node as a WLAN access point for everybody, these ISPs could quickly become a target of the major telecom companies' law departments. For them, it is much easier to sue ISPs than single "abusers".
And I think, regarding the momentary state of the economy and the possible mis-investment in the UMTS market, this is more than likely to happen.
What do the others think?
I wonder what happens if enemy troops develop some kind of mirrors to reflect the ray back to its origin. The beam must be easily detectable once the fighter plane starts to shoot. With a quickly erected, computer-guided mirror one should be able to shoot down or blind the actual fighter pilot as well.