You probably already know this, but that was probably an effect of aerogel being extremely absorbant. If it wasn't so expensive to manufacture, it would probably make an ideal replacement for kitty litter for cleaning up oil spills and the like.
It can be treated to become extremely hydrophobic, though, allowing it to be cut with precision water jet cutters and such.
In my KDE control panel, I have a GTK Theme tab which I got when I installed the gtk-qt theme engine for GTK. In it, I can choose to apply the currently chosen KDE theme to GTK apps, and I can tweak the chosen font a bit to make it perfect. It works absolutely brilliantly.
Many (all?) KDE apps have adopted saner dialog choices. For instance, KWrite has a warning with "Save", "Discard" and "Cancel" buttons if you try to close the program without saving your work.
I honestly can't remember when I last saw an "OK/Cancel" box on my KDE desktop, and that was probably an old non-KDE, non-Gnome, pure GTK or Qt app or something.
And [SCRATCH] me too[POP]... I love [RUMBLE] rummaging [RUMBLE] around [RUMBLE] with vinyl [HISS] when [SCRATCH] I have [POP] the [SCRATCH] time, but CDs are so much more convenient. And quite a bit hardier, too;-)
My CD version of the same album has that turnie-disky-thingie, too:-)
I love recording companies who get the point and release proper re-issues, with all the quirks and cute ideas of the original vinyl covers.
And now that I think of it, almost every single one of my CDs has the full lyrics to every song on the album, and sometimes even a few amusing stories from the production along with them. Well ok... The instrumental releases don't have the lyrics, but you get the point...
Perhaps I'm just lucky enough to have a taste in music which fits nicely in to the "we like our fans and recognize that without them, we would be nothing" types of bands:-)
Exactly. They way I see it, it's the "carrot, not whip" method. And it sure works for me:-)
I bought Galciv: Gold Edition and Galciv2 a few days ago and I absolutely love both games. I didn't even know about them until this whole Starforce affair, but now they have my business and my attention, and if they continue to put out such great games, I am definitely a loyal customer.
My guess is that some people simply find analog watches easier to read.
Like yourself, I'm a student, but I like mechanical analog pocket watches for the mechanics and geek value. I recently found a cheap "skeleton" analog pocket watch (it has the entire inner workings exposed so you can look at it and marvel at the tiny springs and gears inside) which is now part of my small collection. Everything about old-style pocket watches fascinate me, the mechanics, the craftsmanship involved in making a precise analog clock movement, the often very finely detailed engravings...
I don't use them on a day to day basis though, my mobile phone is a perfectly adequate keeper of time, although I guess it is kinda pocket watch-ish... Though unfortunately, it's not mechanic:-P
It's done the same way in C&C: Renegade (and quite a few others, but that's the only one I can remember right now.)...
I think it's because they want to use the engine, but they also want some details in the cutscenes which are only visible on the highest quality levels. That way, they get (possible on high-end hardware) in-game graphics, but also the details they need for the cutscenes.
I just tried it out when I was shopping for a new phone, and I absolutely hated it. It does look rather cool, though, and an all-aluminium phone? that's just cool. Too bad I hated everything else about it, because I really wanted to like it.
Don't. They're horrid. The keypad is uncomfortable, the message dictionary is awkward, and as an earlier reply mentioned, you changing the speaker volume (for calls) switches off vibrate mode.
I had a Nokia 3510i for a few years, which I replaced with a Samsung X660. Both have great keypads, standard T9 dictionary and silent mode is actually silent. The Samsung even asks you if it should play sound if you try to change a ring tone while in silent mode. Ok, it doesn't have bluetooth, but that's the only feature I kinda sorta miss from it.
I know it's probably not going to do you much good, but all B&O cordless phones (and the new Serene mobile, I believe) have a "quite time" setting. By default it's set to be quiet from 22:00-07:00. Basically, if the phone knows that it will have an alarm (low battery etc.) in during that time, It will remind you beforehand. Of course, calls will still come through, but if you don't want that, you can always switch off the phone:-P
I would be surprised if B&O is the only company to have such a feature in their phones. Surely Nokia or Samsung or whoever have thought of some similar?
I tried it out at CeBIT a few years ago, and it's actually surprisingly comfortable. And oddly enough, I was even able to touch type just a wee bit better than usual.
The price kinda held me off, though. And it didn't really seem all that sturdy, either.
Well, how would you fire a gun in real life? Exactly. Stop, aim and shoot.
Besides, the game works very very well. It's by far the best Resident Evil game of them all. And the graphics are quite stunning, too, even on the PS2.
In essence, what IC3.dk says is that each 3 car train set has 2 engine cars, each equipped with 2 8-cyl. Deutz BFBL513CP diesel engines for a combined output of 1.600hp and roughly 1 metric fuckton of torque. They are connected directly to the wheels (no electric nonsense here!) through Ecomat 5HP600 5-speed automatic gearboxes.
I ride them every weekend for roughly 500kms combined, so I ought to know a thing or two about them by now;-)
I never said I that I "just" went to their place. Like I wrote earlier, I go there during periods where I have some time off, and once in a while during a weekend, too.
That is, if they didn't live 250kms away from where I live. Which basically means it takes me more than three hours by train to get there, plus the hassle of bringing my things with me.
Oh yes indeed, I do like free things. Quite a lot actually.
Yes, sometimes I do miss some extra space. I'm planning on construcing a pair of speakers for myself, and my apartment doesn't really lend itself to carpentry, and definitely not to painting.
But that's where my parents enter the picture. Their house is plenty big for all those kinds of things. About half of their 800m^2 is my dad's company, and since he does a fair bit of installing radio communications equipment in cars, he's got a nice big garage where DIY stuff just seems to fit in very well. And of course, I absolutely don't mind him helping out, either;-)
Yes, you're right, you sorta condition yourself to a smaller living space. But I genuinely don't mind.
Keep it to yourself then, I don't need your pity. Really, I don't:-)
As far as I'm concerned, I'm doing fine. I fiddle around with computers, fiddle around with electronics, play bass guitar, play console games, watch movies with friend (6 friends, no problem, as long as we've got a sofa and a few bean-bag chairs to go around.) and generally, not much of what I do needs a lot of space. Well... Driving around a car does, but I usually do that outside;-)
Never had a lack of space so far. Not that having more space for leaving stuff laying about wouldn't be nice, but I just keep my place reasonably tidy (ie. I can see my carpet... in spots... sometimes...)...
(I had a pretty good reply typed up about how I don't mind people living in big houses, but then my browser found it neccesary to crash... Isn't technology great?)
Please understand that I wasn't trying to be elitist. I was simply pointing out how silly the "crammed into..." comment in TFA was.
And please, quit the ameri-dick waving, ok? We're trying to have a reasonable discussion here, and going "RAH, RAH, USA, USA!" isn't helping at all.
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You probably already know this, but that was probably an effect of aerogel being extremely absorbant. If it wasn't so expensive to manufacture, it would probably make an ideal replacement for kitty litter for cleaning up oil spills and the like.
It can be treated to become extremely hydrophobic, though, allowing it to be cut with precision water jet cutters and such.
The M-Audio Revolution 5.1 and 7.1 cards seem to be rather popular with Linux geeks, and ALSA support for them is second to none, apperantly.
But please check out the list of supported sound cards on the ALSA site. Plenty of choice, I would say.
In my KDE control panel, I have a GTK Theme tab which I got when I installed the gtk-qt theme engine for GTK. In it, I can choose to apply the currently chosen KDE theme to GTK apps, and I can tweak the chosen font a bit to make it perfect. It works absolutely brilliantly.
Many (all?) KDE apps have adopted saner dialog choices. For instance, KWrite has a warning with "Save", "Discard" and "Cancel" buttons if you try to close the program without saving your work.
I honestly can't remember when I last saw an "OK/Cancel" box on my KDE desktop, and that was probably an old non-KDE, non-Gnome, pure GTK or Qt app or something.
Han Solo used Luke's lightsaber to slice open the Tauntaun on Hoth.
:-P
Please hand over your nerd license
And [SCRATCH] me too[POP]... I love [RUMBLE] rummaging [RUMBLE] around [RUMBLE] with vinyl [HISS] when [SCRATCH] I have [POP] the [SCRATCH] time, but CDs are so much more convenient. And quite a bit hardier, too ;-)
My CD version of the same album has that turnie-disky-thingie, too :-)
:-)
I love recording companies who get the point and release proper re-issues, with all the quirks and cute ideas of the original vinyl covers.
And now that I think of it, almost every single one of my CDs has the full lyrics to every song on the album, and sometimes even a few amusing stories from the production along with them. Well ok... The instrumental releases don't have the lyrics, but you get the point...
Perhaps I'm just lucky enough to have a taste in music which fits nicely in to the "we like our fans and recognize that without them, we would be nothing" types of bands
Exactly. They way I see it, it's the "carrot, not whip" method. And it sure works for me :-)
I bought Galciv: Gold Edition and Galciv2 a few days ago and I absolutely love both games. I didn't even know about them until this whole Starforce affair, but now they have my business and my attention, and if they continue to put out such great games, I am definitely a loyal customer.
My guess is that some people simply find analog watches easier to read.
:-P
Like yourself, I'm a student, but I like mechanical analog pocket watches for the mechanics and geek value. I recently found a cheap "skeleton" analog pocket watch (it has the entire inner workings exposed so you can look at it and marvel at the tiny springs and gears inside) which is now part of my small collection. Everything about old-style pocket watches fascinate me, the mechanics, the craftsmanship involved in making a precise analog clock movement, the often very finely detailed engravings...
I don't use them on a day to day basis though, my mobile phone is a perfectly adequate keeper of time, although I guess it is kinda pocket watch-ish... Though unfortunately, it's not mechanic
It's done the same way in C&C: Renegade (and quite a few others, but that's the only one I can remember right now.)...
I think it's because they want to use the engine, but they also want some details in the cutscenes which are only visible on the highest quality levels. That way, they get (possible on high-end hardware) in-game graphics, but also the details they need for the cutscenes.
No no no...
:-P
By "pop-up window blockers" he obviously means things that pop up and blocks windows, ie. just regular old pop-up ads.
Brilliant wordplay, that
Good for you, then :-)
I just tried it out when I was shopping for a new phone, and I absolutely hated it. It does look rather cool, though, and an all-aluminium phone? that's just cool. Too bad I hated everything else about it, because I really wanted to like it.
Don't. They're horrid. The keypad is uncomfortable, the message dictionary is awkward, and as an earlier reply mentioned, you changing the speaker volume (for calls) switches off vibrate mode.
I had a Nokia 3510i for a few years, which I replaced with a Samsung X660. Both have great keypads, standard T9 dictionary and silent mode is actually silent. The Samsung even asks you if it should play sound if you try to change a ring tone while in silent mode. Ok, it doesn't have bluetooth, but that's the only feature I kinda sorta miss from it.
I know it's probably not going to do you much good, but all B&O cordless phones (and the new Serene mobile, I believe) have a "quite time" setting. By default it's set to be quiet from 22:00-07:00. Basically, if the phone knows that it will have an alarm (low battery etc.) in during that time, It will remind you beforehand. Of course, calls will still come through, but if you don't want that, you can always switch off the phone :-P
I would be surprised if B&O is the only company to have such a feature in their phones. Surely Nokia or Samsung or whoever have thought of some similar?
I tried it out at CeBIT a few years ago, and it's actually surprisingly comfortable. And oddly enough, I was even able to touch type just a wee bit better than usual.
The price kinda held me off, though. And it didn't really seem all that sturdy, either.
Well, how would you fire a gun in real life? Exactly. Stop, aim and shoot.
Besides, the game works very very well. It's by far the best Resident Evil game of them all. And the graphics are quite stunning, too, even on the PS2.
Please note, btw, that ALL "diesel locomotives" are actually 'hybrids", using a diesel engine to generate electricity to run electric motors.
;-)
Apart of course from these, the back-bone of the danish rail system (and also quite an ingenious design):
Wikipedia on the IC3
And a danish page with a few more techinal details:
In danish, I'm afraid...
In essence, what IC3.dk says is that each 3 car train set has 2 engine cars, each equipped with 2 8-cyl. Deutz BFBL513CP diesel engines for a combined output of 1.600hp and roughly 1 metric fuckton of torque. They are connected directly to the wheels (no electric nonsense here!) through Ecomat 5HP600 5-speed automatic gearboxes.
I ride them every weekend for roughly 500kms combined, so I ought to know a thing or two about them by now
I never said I that I "just" went to their place. Like I wrote earlier, I go there during periods where I have some time off, and once in a while during a weekend, too.
Yes, it would be defined as living space...
That is, if they didn't live 250kms away from where I live. Which basically means it takes me more than three hours by train to get there, plus the hassle of bringing my things with me.
So really, it doesn't count.
It definitely is...
But this is just comedy gold... It's just begging to be used as the world's most obnoxious forum avatar.
Oh yes indeed, I do like free things. Quite a lot actually.
;-)
Yes, sometimes I do miss some extra space. I'm planning on construcing a pair of speakers for myself, and my apartment doesn't really lend itself to carpentry, and definitely not to painting.
But that's where my parents enter the picture. Their house is plenty big for all those kinds of things. About half of their 800m^2 is my dad's company, and since he does a fair bit of installing radio communications equipment in cars, he's got a nice big garage where DIY stuff just seems to fit in very well. And of course, I absolutely don't mind him helping out, either
Yes, you're right, you sorta condition yourself to a smaller living space. But I genuinely don't mind.
Oh dear, what has happened to my spelling?
:-P
It should have been "watch movies with friends", of course. I do have more than one friend, despite hanging out here
Keep it to yourself then, I don't need your pity. Really, I don't :-)
;-)
As far as I'm concerned, I'm doing fine. I fiddle around with computers, fiddle around with electronics, play bass guitar, play console games, watch movies with friend (6 friends, no problem, as long as we've got a sofa and a few bean-bag chairs to go around.) and generally, not much of what I do needs a lot of space. Well... Driving around a car does, but I usually do that outside
Never had a lack of space so far. Not that having more space for leaving stuff laying about wouldn't be nice, but I just keep my place reasonably tidy (ie. I can see my carpet... in spots... sometimes...)...
I would definitely consider once that special someone comes along.
What I meant to write, of course, was "I would definitely consider moving into something a bit bigger once that special someone comes along.".
(I had a pretty good reply typed up about how I don't mind people living in big houses, but then my browser found it neccesary to crash... Isn't technology great?)
Please understand that I wasn't trying to be elitist. I was simply pointing out how silly the "crammed into..." comment in TFA was.
And please, quit the ameri-dick waving, ok? We're trying to have a reasonable discussion here, and going "RAH, RAH, USA, USA!" isn't helping at all.