Not a lake by far, compare this pic to the other ones posted by the GPP, this is just a detail shot of the surface. At most it's a small puddle, as it does look like a liqiud of some kind to me, due to the fact that if you look at the puddle's right side, it seems as if the surface disappears with lessening visibility under the puddle's surface. Also the shadow overlaying part of the puddle is a lot darker than the surroundings. This is the same kind of behaviour you would expect on Earth.
I got a Libretto 75CT here, lovely machine. Together with the extender for vga/serial it makes a very nice console terminal for servers. And yes, mine runs Debian (wireless too;)
no, that would be The Netherlands, where even when something's not legal, they just turn the other cheek... (drugs for instance)
Not that I approve of this....
Not just me then, I'm over in Europe (Belgium) and Google is failing to react over here... All I get is the FP and every query I do returns "service unavailable". All the other static pages work tho.
Most unusuall, I've never seen Google fail like this for such a relatively long period before (over 20 minutes as of now)...
Bullshit, due to circumstances I happen to drive a 2004 Mercedes C200 CDI for 2 weeks, and I can tell you my mobile phone is quite at home in it's Bluetooth enviroment:)
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And as my own car is a 2004 Alfa Romeo 156, I wish it had some integrated way of connecting my phone... Too bad tho that what's going to be implemented into the newer models will come from Microsoft and have nothing to do with accessing the car from the outside for consumers, but merely allowing service people and the likes to easily diagnose car problems without the need to take a few seconds extra to hook it up to a machine instead.
Quote from the Senate (?) when Sen. Hatch proposed the bill, pay special notice to the lines in bold
"I also want to thank everyone who has worked with us to craft a bill that addresses this serious threat to children and copyrights without unduly burdening companies that engage in lawful commerce in the wide range of devices and programs that can copy digital files. As (the) Sony (ruling) illustrates, clear knowledge that a copying device can be used to infringe does not provide evidence of intent to induce infringement. It was critical to find a way to narrowly identify the rare bad actors without implicating the vast majority of companies that serve both consumers and copyright-holders by providing digital copying devices--even though these devices, like all devices, can be misused for unlawful purposes. In particular, I would like to thank the Business Software Alliance for its invaluable assistance in crafting a bill that protects existing legitimate technologies and future innovation in all technologies--including peer-to-peer networking."
What bothers me more actually, is that he routinely talks about "protecting the American artists, children and taxpayers" Most of the kids out there by now know exactly what they are doing when downloading or swapping music.
The difference this time round is this:
Back then people with money could simply invest in stuff like that, and send out people on their own.
Say for instance you had a billion bucks right now, there is no way in hell you would be able to privately fund a mission to Mars. Look at the Azanti (?) X Prize, every team needs special licenses from the FAA (or something like that), they need a launchpad, etc etc. Stupid Government regulations would sadly kill any such venture.....
For instance, check out BackBase, a company which provides almost the same functionality. I can't really give a good outline of their products, besides that they are supposedly coming over to give a presentation any time soon at our company. It sounds good tho...
To quote some of their website: "Backbase offers products and implementation services that allow our clients to develop rich user interfaces that move beyond the limitations of traditional HTML web interfaces. Our technology is based on open industry standards (W3C) and offers out-of-the-box integrations with leading IT-platforms and applications."
I am a bit wary of a Linux company that posts screenshots of their 'product' while being root every time. What kind of message does this send out... "Yeah, it's ok to log in as root all the time" ?
... they postponed yet another piece of software?? See me not being amazed here, I mean, it seems to be the trend at MS currently to announce new software and then postponing it due to "problems"... I wonder why. Would it be because the want to see what OSS has to offer first so they can steal the ideas and then sell 'em off?
On the other side, if developers start saying this "slip" is becoming "a credibility issue", then maybe certain OSS apps will finally be accepted in full as being grown-up pieces of software. At best this will cause MS to loose a few points in goodwill with a large group of people that still (foolishly) place their trust in them.
"from the this-changes-everything-and-nobody-cares dept."
Why would we, as a people, not care? I think it's pretty interesting to know why a complete range of species died so 'sudden'. (or not sudden, as now pointed out by the article)
It might even in the long run help us prepare if such a thing ever happened in modern times... Our good earth-saving friend Bruce Willis (and hopefully Hollywood) won't be around forever.
Dunno, but I've been playing this Eve Online stuff and it seems pretty realtime to me. And it supports 7500 people at the same time with no lag... And I must say it's pretty fun to play too, if you like space rpg's;)
So when can I get my version with a cockpit and some nice turbojets? I mean, with an add-on kit you could turn it into a gundam or a macross:) Or am I the only wishing he had a real gundam in the backyard... ?
And here I thought all this time it was "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM".
You are correct of course, but I think the saying should be changed to "No one ever got fired for choosing $MONOPOLY", which would be true. From personal experience I can tell you people in my enviroment actually have been fired for suggesting/choosing a hardware/software solution which is not industry standard and 10 times more expensive.
Luckily, the climate is changing, but it is ever so slowly...
... the old adage "No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" is true after all. Look what happens when you actually try speaking ill of the beast...
And yet they still use Apache 1.3.26? Which by now is known to have some nice exploits and other faults... no disrespect to apache here though, it's still far superior to that IIS crap.
Seriously, I totally dislike these laptop carrying bags. They're too bulky to hold comfortably and/or heft around. I simply carry mine in my back pack wherever I go. I bought a Gravis backpack which is made for laptops. It has a studded main laptop compartment with an extra soft cover which you can slip over your laptop. I put everything in that bag, laptop, power supply, usb keyboard, mouse, pcmcia cards, digital cam, and then it stll has space left for a good deal of A4 sized papers and magazines. On the whole, even though it may sound as a humungous backpack, it doesn't look big. Don't know if you know a Dell Latitude D800, but they're huge. It fits snugly. It may have cost a good deal (around 140 Euro's here in the Netherlands) but it's more than well worth the money. The first link I found after a small bit of googling: Gravis Backpack.
Good luck!
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Not a lake by far, compare this pic to the other ones posted by the GPP, this is just a detail shot of the surface. At most it's a small puddle, as it does look like a liqiud of some kind to me, due to the fact that if you look at the puddle's right side, it seems as if the surface disappears with lessening visibility under the puddle's surface. Also the shadow overlaying part of the puddle is a lot darker than the surroundings. This is the same kind of behaviour you would expect on Earth.
I got a Libretto 75CT here, lovely machine. Together with the extender for vga/serial it makes a very nice console terminal for servers. And yes, mine runs Debian (wireless too ;)
no, that would be The Netherlands, where even when something's not legal, they just turn the other cheek... (drugs for instance)
Not that I approve of this....
Not just me then, I'm over in Europe (Belgium) and Google is failing to react over here ... All I get is the FP and every query I do returns "service unavailable". All the other static pages work tho.
Most unusuall, I've never seen Google fail like this for such a relatively long period before (over 20 minutes as of now)...
just wondering, where is the flame in my supposed bait? :)
Bullshit, due to circumstances I happen to drive a 2004 Mercedes C200 CDI for 2 weeks, and I can tell you my mobile phone is quite at home in it's Bluetooth enviroment :)
... Too bad tho that what's going to be implemented into the newer models will come from Microsoft and have nothing to do with accessing the car from the outside for consumers, but merely allowing service people and the likes to easily diagnose car problems without the need to take a few seconds extra to hook it up to a machine instead.
Back to On-Topic:
And as my own car is a 2004 Alfa Romeo 156, I wish it had some integrated way of connecting my phone
Quote from the Senate (?) when Sen. Hatch proposed the bill, pay special notice to the lines in bold
"I also want to thank everyone who has worked with us to craft a bill that addresses this serious threat to children and copyrights without unduly burdening companies that engage in lawful commerce in the wide range of devices and programs that can copy digital files. As (the) Sony (ruling) illustrates, clear knowledge that a copying device can be used to infringe does not provide evidence of intent to induce infringement. It was critical to find a way to narrowly identify the rare bad actors without implicating the vast majority of companies that serve both consumers and copyright-holders by providing digital copying devices--even though these devices, like all devices, can be misused for unlawful purposes. In particular, I would like to thank the Business Software Alliance for its invaluable assistance in crafting a bill that protects existing legitimate technologies and future innovation in all technologies--including peer-to-peer networking."
What bothers me more actually, is that he routinely talks about "protecting the American artists, children and taxpayers"
Most of the kids out there by now know exactly what they are doing when downloading or swapping music.
The difference this time round is this: Back then people with money could simply invest in stuff like that, and send out people on their own. Say for instance you had a billion bucks right now, there is no way in hell you would be able to privately fund a mission to Mars. Look at the Azanti (?) X Prize, every team needs special licenses from the FAA (or something like that), they need a launchpad, etc etc. Stupid Government regulations would sadly kill any such venture .....
For instance, check out BackBase, a company which provides almost the same functionality. I can't really give a good outline of their products, besides that they are supposedly coming over to give a presentation any time soon at our company. It sounds good tho...
To quote some of their website: "Backbase offers products and implementation services that allow our clients to develop rich user interfaces that move beyond the limitations of traditional HTML web interfaces. Our technology is based on open industry standards (W3C) and offers out-of-the-box integrations with leading IT-platforms and applications."
Exactly my point. If that is the reason, it's most definatly NOT a Good Thing(tm).
You work there by any chance? :)
I am a bit wary of a Linux company that posts screenshots of their 'product' while being root every time. What kind of message does this send out ... "Yeah, it's ok to log in as root all the time" ?
to think of "May the Schwartz be with you!" when I read that name? :)
Not being a native english speaker, I think I am allowed some errors in my writings, you grammar-nazi :) But thanks for pointing it out anyway.
... they postponed yet another piece of software?? See me not being amazed here, I mean, it seems to be the trend at MS currently to announce new software and then postponing it due to "problems" ... I wonder why. Would it be because the want to see what OSS has to offer first so they can steal the ideas and then sell 'em off?
On the other side, if developers start saying this "slip" is becoming "a credibility issue", then maybe certain OSS apps will finally be accepted in full as being grown-up pieces of software. At best this will cause MS to loose a few points in goodwill with a large group of people that still (foolishly) place their trust in them.
Could this probably be because UUNet in my understanding is one of the largest ISP's?
Dunno, but I've been playing this Eve Online stuff and it seems pretty realtime to me. And it supports 7500 people at the same time with no lag... And I must say it's pretty fun to play too, if you like space rpg's ;)
So when can I get my version with a cockpit and some nice turbojets? I mean, with an add-on kit you could turn it into a gundam or a macross :) Or am I the only wishing he had a real gundam in the backyard ... ?
Luckily, the climate is changing, but it is ever so slowly...
... the old adage "No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" is true after all. Look what happens when you actually try speaking ill of the beast...
right here! :)
Although the end result seems ok
And yet they still use Apache 1.3.26? Which by now is known to have some nice exploits and other faults ... no disrespect to apache here though, it's still far superior to that IIS crap.
Seriously, I totally dislike these laptop carrying bags. They're too bulky to hold comfortably and/or heft around. I simply carry mine in my back pack wherever I go. I bought a Gravis backpack which is made for laptops. It has a studded main laptop compartment with an extra soft cover which you can slip over your laptop. I put everything in that bag, laptop, power supply, usb keyboard, mouse, pcmcia cards, digital cam, and then it stll has space left for a good deal of A4 sized papers and magazines. On the whole, even though it may sound as a humungous backpack, it doesn't look big. Don't know if you know a Dell Latitude D800, but they're huge. It fits snugly. It may have cost a good deal (around 140 Euro's here in the Netherlands) but it's more than well worth the money. The first link I found after a small bit of googling: Gravis Backpack. Good luck!
Evolution is my favourite tool, or my worst nightmare, as I read email from clients with it :)
Good job guys, another OS project well on it's way!