I don't rememeber who came up with the original theory, but grass browsing in dinosaurs has been suspected for decades. For example the molar teeth in triceratops (and allies) and in the duck billed all are made for grass grinding, not those licking angiosperms which are much softer. Was it "wild and hairy ideas" Bakker who first proposed it?
As a long time KDE and Mandrake/Mandriva user, I doubt and lament Mandriva will be among 'major distributions' if they hold on to KDE. It ought to be (financially) hard to be the sole large supporter of a 'desktop'.
If the copyright is lost who cares. Well, Disney perhaps.
I love these projects which OCRs old books where the copyright is no longer active. As for new books, I think it is a bad idea unless the author gave his permission.
This project may fail. But then not for technological reasons.
Several previous attempts of multibillion-dollar, EU-funded projects in that region have failed somewhere between Rome and Palermo. Money, people, and concrete have disappeared and there were never any witnesses. Hope things have changed.
In this case, I think Nokia need it. They have had the same lead designer for ten years or so; which might explain why their phones all look so similar too.
Anyhow - fresh blood and ideas are always welcome. Think Appple, they do have some wacko ideas coming out regularly. Who else would have suggested an iPod, or those ****ugly iMac? Nokia need som more weird things too, after a decade of mobile traditionalism.
"There's no rule in English that says a "g" followed by a vowel must be a hard "g"."
Well, there is a rule to pronounce 'g' as 'j' in front of the soft vowels, 'e', 'i', 'y', as in 'j' - 'gentle', 'gin', and 'gyro'. Whereas 'g' in front of hard vowels, 'a', 'o', 'u' and consonants it should be hard, as in 'gate', 'goat', 'guts', and 'gloat'. As all rules it has exceptions. And with the number of recent loan words in English the exceptions tend to be many.
FlashEarth, based on Google Maps!
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FlashEarth is soo much better (for me). You even get the coordinates in real time as you move around the map (which is important for me).
No, I am not even an astronomer.
But, stealing research results happens. It may happen unwittingly over a cup of coffee or it may be someone actively snooping.
Anyhow, results published by the 'wrong team' may lead to less or even no funding. Several years of funding may dissappear in a puff and no editor would ever re-publish your 'scientific news'.
Novell to Offer MySQL Network - 9 Aug 2005. From here:
"SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo) - Novell and MySQL AB today announced an agreement to deliver enhanced, combined support for key components of the popular open source LAMP infrastructure stack. Under the reseller and joint-support agreement, the only accord of its kind between a Linux* vendor and MySQL AB, Novell will now offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network commercial database service directly to its customers. As a result, customers can now deploy a true enterprise-class open source foundation for their IT infrastructure with confidence."
Of course MySQL AB must have made Novell aware of this before it happened, SCO vs Novell is fairly well known in the industry... Maybe MySQL AB are just getting ready for Novell's takeover of SCO? After all SCO owe Novell quite some money and maybe MySQL wants to be on the SCO "I owe you" list too. Investing in debts anyone, may that be done?
"SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo) - Novell and MySQL AB today announced an agreement to deliver enhanced, combined support for key components of the popular open source LAMP infrastructure stack. Under the reseller and joint-support agreement, the only accord of its kind between a Linux* vendor and MySQL AB, Novell will now offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network commercial database service directly to its customers. As a result, customers can now deploy a true enterprise-class open source foundation for their IT infrastructure with confidence."
Maybe MySQL AB are just getting ready for Novell's takeover of SCO?
There may well be a risk that what is done now will be too little and too late, where the ultimate risk is that Linus lose control over his trademark 'Linux'. Anyone with a better perspective?
You write we should "wait for better yields". What? After reading two articles about this card it is my impression these 7800 GT are the left over cards from the 7800 GTX cards, and were the faulty GTX ones (with only seven out of eight pipes working).
Maybe this is along the very same path as was announced by Sony for the Playstation 3, where the eight vector processors turned into seven (insisting on 'high' yields). Cost per gain.
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I don't rememeber who came up with the original theory, but grass browsing in dinosaurs has been suspected for decades. For example the molar teeth in triceratops (and allies) and in the duck billed all are made for grass grinding, not those licking angiosperms which are much softer. Was it "wild and hairy ideas" Bakker who first proposed it?
Well, I would imagine that just by posting to Slashdot you are registered 'for all eternity' in some federal register. So, what's your point?
As a long time KDE and Mandrake/Mandriva user, I doubt and lament Mandriva will be among 'major distributions' if they hold on to KDE. It ought to be (financially) hard to be the sole large supporter of a 'desktop'.
But NASA is busy in space! See for yourselves, here!
If the copyright is lost who cares. Well, Disney perhaps.
I love these projects which OCRs old books where the copyright is no longer active. As for new books, I think it is a bad idea unless the author gave his permission.
Of course it should be the from the futhark. After all, who were more acqainted to rough seas than vikings! The aleph comes from a desolate desert.
This project may fail. But then not for technological reasons.
Several previous attempts of multibillion-dollar, EU-funded projects in that region have failed somewhere between Rome and Palermo. Money, people, and concrete have disappeared and there were never any witnesses. Hope things have changed.
In this case, I think Nokia need it. They have had the same lead designer for ten years or so; which might explain why their phones all look so similar too.
Anyhow - fresh blood and ideas are always welcome. Think Appple, they do have some wacko ideas coming out regularly. Who else would have suggested an iPod, or those ****ugly iMac? Nokia need som more weird things too, after a decade of mobile traditionalism.
Microtel SYSWM5014 Desktop PC, 1.5 GHz AMD Sempron 2200+ Processor!!!
Wow! Reeeading the fine print:
"Not included: Hard drive, CD-ROM drive, modem, floppy disk drive, operating system."
and on a separate line:
"Purchase your choice of monitor separately"
errrrr... no thanks
"There's no rule in English that says a "g" followed by a vowel must be a hard "g"."
Well, there is a rule to pronounce 'g' as 'j' in front of the soft vowels, 'e', 'i', 'y', as in 'j' - 'gentle', 'gin', and 'gyro'. Whereas 'g' in front of hard vowels, 'a', 'o', 'u' and consonants it should be hard, as in 'gate', 'goat', 'guts', and 'gloat'. As all rules it has exceptions. And with the number of recent loan words in English the exceptions tend to be many.
FlashEarth is soo much better (for me). You even get the coordinates in real time as you move around the map (which is important for me).
Steve, who needs no balsam, might skip his vacation. Munching, again...
This IS old news... I have had this service for three years, but in Sweden.
The cool thing, apart from the bandwidth is that it comes directly through the telephone jacket. No need for new cables.
Some people die, but that is life.
It sounds cynic, a bit like life.
Praising LaTeX normally is associated with Slashdot reg numbers way below 10,000. Why were you so late?
No, I am not even an astronomer. But, stealing research results happens. It may happen unwittingly over a cup of coffee or it may be someone actively snooping. Anyhow, results published by the 'wrong team' may lead to less or even no funding. Several years of funding may dissappear in a puff and no editor would ever re-publish your 'scientific news'.
Novell to Offer MySQL Network - 9 Aug 2005. From here:
"SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo) - Novell and MySQL AB today announced an agreement to deliver enhanced, combined support for key components of the popular open source LAMP infrastructure stack. Under the reseller and joint-support agreement, the only accord of its kind between a Linux* vendor and MySQL AB, Novell will now offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network commercial database service directly to its customers. As a result, customers can now deploy a true enterprise-class open source foundation for their IT infrastructure with confidence."
Of course MySQL AB must have made Novell aware of this before it happened, SCO vs Novell is fairly well known in the industry... Maybe MySQL AB are just getting ready for Novell's takeover of SCO? After all SCO owe Novell quite some money and maybe MySQL wants to be on the SCO "I owe you" list too. Investing in debts anyone, may that be done?
Novell to Offer MySQL Network - 9 Aug 2005
"SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo) - Novell and MySQL AB today announced an agreement to deliver enhanced, combined support for key components of the popular open source LAMP infrastructure stack. Under the reseller and joint-support agreement, the only accord of its kind between a Linux* vendor and MySQL AB, Novell will now offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network commercial database service directly to its customers. As a result, customers can now deploy a true enterprise-class open source foundation for their IT infrastructure with confidence."
Maybe MySQL AB are just getting ready for Novell's takeover of SCO?
From the link " Enlightenment has grown to be much more than a window manager."
But, do we want it to be any of that? To me it sounds like it will be very much bloat, too, after some more years.
There may well be a risk that what is done now will be too little and too late, where the ultimate risk is that Linus lose control over his trademark 'Linux'. Anyone with a better perspective?
You write we should "wait for better yields". What? After reading two articles about this card it is my impression these 7800 GT are the left over cards from the 7800 GTX cards, and were the faulty GTX ones (with only seven out of eight pipes working).
Maybe this is along the very same path as was announced by Sony for the Playstation 3, where the eight vector processors turned into seven (insisting on 'high' yields). Cost per gain.
That's the first one I learned. Now I'm in to the lasagna model, with nice layers. Anything beyond that? Well, not me.
Close enough for my purposes, creating maps in vector formats - QuickGrid.
And this message is scary:
"I predict that Google announces that they hired him in a week."
He was wrong by a few days...
To get the meaning of a Scandinavian troll, please check the art by John Bauer.