This has been known since at least the 18th century when a Swedish clergyman reported to the Swedish Academy of Sciences that "the sea was disappering slowly".
The phenomenon in central Sweden was then and still is apparent, with an approximate uplift of 2 cm per year; in 50 years that is an uplift of one meter! This has an obvious effects for the boat traffic and harbours along the very shallow coast line of that region; the Norwegian side has steep slopes. Old coast line maps soon become outdated, borders between neighbors become fuddled, etc.
However, the clergyman was ridiculed in part because other, foreign scientists in France, England, and elsewhere had not noted the issue nor could confirm it, it was all considered a scam. The fact that allusions to The Bible's flooding began to pop up and the first reporter was a countryside clergyman did not help the issue.
The matter was a local controversy until about a hundred years ago.
"On AugustÂ26, 2002, Caldera International,ÂInc. announced that it would change its name to The SCO Group,ÂInc. ("SCO") pending stockholder approval. The name change is in response to the strong brand recognition related to the SCO OpenServer and SCO UNIXWare product lines that has been created over the last several years. ...
The Company has an arrangement with Novell, Inc. ("Novell") in which it acts as an administrative agent in the collection of royalties for customers who deploy SVRx technology. Under the agency agreement, the Company collects all customer payments and remits 95 percent of the collected funds to Novell and retains 5 percent as an administrative fee. The Company records the 5 percent administrative fee as revenue in its consolidated statements of operations. The accompanying October 31, 2002 and 2001 consolidated balance sheets reflect the amounts collected related to this agency agreement but not yet remitted to Novell of $1,428,000 and $1,894,000, respectively, as restricted cash and royalty payable to Novell. The October 31, 2001 balances were reclassified from cash and equivalents and other royalties payable to conform to the current year presentation."
Well, in this case it may be had to fight for intellectual property.
Where's the pdf/ps/etc? Ok, I know, pdfs are not GNU, but still. I like reading tutorials in paper form rather than html. I'm sure there is a way for "rapid" translation.
"their characters were so detailed that people looked at them and expected to see the performance of an actor, which made the characters seem like zombies in their computer animated facial expressions and movements"
And, since Doom 3 contains zombies we won't be too dissapponted seeing them all stiff, despite all details.
Yes, today I associate the name Reiser with the Reiser filesystem. But, first I thought of a French cartoonist Jean Marc Reiser (see a tribute page[no, I'm not French]). If you haven't seen his cartoons before, go check them out. Beware, it is dirty underware humor, literally, and any connection with file systems seem farflung indeed.
Even if I have quite a few books on computer science, I still use www much more. It has far more than 246 pages and is near fully indexed through Google. And, cut'n'paste makes my life much more easier.
Why not scout in Arkansas instead? All people I've met from there had a strong Chewbacca-like appearance. Oh, yes, I live in Europe so I haven't met that many (three in fact); but, it all seemed so much more than coincidental.
Well, semi-on-topic, sort of...
The e-mail from farthest away I have ever received was from - Antarctica! I got it from a colleague back in 1991 (or was it 1992?) who was on a research vessel visiting Antarctica.
I had it printed in my drawer for years, as a collectible, and after few room switches and h/d-crashes all traces are lost... sigh
Where is the laughing Gnome?
on
MIT Gnome Invasion
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I was walking down the High Street When I heard footsteps behind me And there was a little old man (Hello) In scarlet and grey, shuffling away (laughter) Well he trotted back to my house And he sat beside the telly (Oaah..) With his tiny hands on his tummy Chuckling away, laughing all day (laughter)
Oh, I ought to report you to the Gnome office (Gnome Office) Yes (Hahahahaha)
CHORUS
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Said the laughing Gnome
Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass of dandelion wine (Burp, pardon) Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne Carried his bag and gave him a fag (Haven't you got a light boy?) "Here, where do you come from?" (Gnome-man's land, hahihihi) "Oh, really?"
In the morning when I woke up He was sitting on the edge of my bed With his brother whose name was Fred He'd bought him along to sing me a song
Right, let's hear it Here, what's that clicking noise? (That's Fred, he's a "metrognome", haha)
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee "I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me" Ha ha ha, hee hee hee "I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
(Own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right, haha) "Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?" (No, we're gnomads) "Didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at school?
you look like a rolling gnome." (No, not at the London School of Ecognomics)
Now they're staying up the chimney And we're living on caviar and honey (hooray!) Cause they're earning me lots of money Writing comedy prose for radio shows It's the-er (what?) It's the Gnome service of course
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee "I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me" Ha ha ha, oh, dear me
(Ha ha ha, hee hee hee "I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee "I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me")
(One more time, yeah)
Blatantly from Teenage Wildlife, David Bowie fansite. Oh yes, he wrote the song, back in 1968 or 1969.
Because that AC didn't post the original message, I did. And I didn't get the columns straight without the those underscores. Yes they are ugly. Sorry.
Actually, they were aiming for full IA-32 compability back in 1996-1997 when "Merced" (the first iteration of Itanium) was first announced. Then, a few years later (1999?) when it was too blunt that IA-32 performance was a failure Intel skipped it. Maybe, a Yamhill will go up the hill.
From the page: "Rice-Boy is a stereotype. The typical Rice-Boy can be identified by his car, or rather what he does to it. Generally, Rice-Boy will start out with a car that was not meant to go fast (typically a Honda Civic), and attempt to "fix it up," usually consisting of aftermarket rims, lowering springs and an aftermarket exhaust system with a large exhaust tip.
Most Rice-Boy cars (or "Rice Rockets") have the usual complement of stickers proudly displaying features that the car might or might not have, most notably, the Honda VTEC sticker from the later model Preludes, and the plaques from the later model Integras."
The similarity with Duron owners pretending to be Cray owners are amusing. Don't miss out on that Rice boy site's Hall of shame!!!
"anachronism"?!
What?! If the Concorde is an anachonism in the sense it is old-fashioned, it is none-the-less among the most futuristic of its kind, something in the league of a 30 year old Lamborghini Countach.
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This has been known since at least the 18th century when a Swedish clergyman reported to the Swedish Academy of Sciences that "the sea was disappering slowly".
The phenomenon in central Sweden was then and still is apparent, with an approximate uplift of 2 cm per year; in 50 years that is an uplift of one meter! This has an obvious effects for the boat traffic and harbours along the very shallow coast line of that region; the Norwegian side has steep slopes. Old coast line maps soon become outdated, borders between neighbors become fuddled, etc.
However, the clergyman was ridiculed in part because other, foreign scientists in France, England, and elsewhere had not noted the issue nor could confirm it, it was all considered a scam. The fact that allusions to The Bible's flooding began to pop up and the first reporter was a countryside clergyman did not help the issue.
The matter was a local controversy until about a hundred years ago.
First, I though, hey I want to be his distributor.
Then, I thought, hey it is already distributed on Slashdot.
Then, I realized, the poor guy is probably no longer having a working server...
Heck, I thought, someone else can just as well be his distributor...
Here is another link to the same content" in case it "disappears". Copy protection at its best, multiple links to copies... ;)
Directly from the mouth of a horse named: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549)
...
...
Check out Commission file number: 0-29911:
"On AugustÂ26, 2002, Caldera International,ÂInc. announced that it would change its name to The SCO Group,ÂInc. ("SCO") pending stockholder approval. The name change is in response to the strong brand recognition related to the SCO OpenServer and SCO UNIXWare product lines that has been created over the last several years.
The Company has an arrangement with Novell, Inc. ("Novell") in which it acts as an administrative agent in the collection of royalties for customers who deploy SVRx technology. Under the agency agreement, the Company collects all customer payments and remits 95 percent of the collected funds to Novell and retains 5 percent as an administrative fee. The Company records the 5 percent administrative fee as revenue in its consolidated statements of operations. The accompanying October 31, 2002 and 2001 consolidated balance sheets reflect the amounts collected related to this agency agreement but not yet remitted to Novell of $1,428,000 and $1,894,000, respectively, as restricted cash and royalty payable to Novell. The October 31, 2001 balances were reclassified from cash and equivalents and other royalties payable to conform to the current year presentation."
Well, in this case it may be had to fight for intellectual property.
There is no difference between ATMs and humans. They are no better than they are made, just like the bills.
This has all ingredients of a banana republic.
Where's the pdf/ps/etc? Ok, I know, pdfs are not GNU, but still. I like reading tutorials in paper form rather than html. I'm sure there is a way for "rapid" translation.
"Need to calculate something?"
:(
Huh? I tried to calculate the risk of SCO winning the case. However, your link didn't help me at all...
Which, while slightly off-topic, makes me wonder why it is called a blow-job? Ok, so moderate me deep down, but, I still wonder.
"their characters were so detailed that people looked at them and expected to see the performance of an actor, which made the characters seem like zombies in their computer animated facial expressions and movements"
And, since Doom 3 contains zombies we won't be too dissapponted seeing them all stiff, despite all details.
10 PRINTLN "Let KDE 4.0 and Gnome 3.0 be the same"
20 IF RMS > KDE + Gnome GOTO 10
30 PRINTLN "This is good (TM)"
Yes, today I associate the name Reiser with the Reiser filesystem. But, first I thought of a French cartoonist Jean Marc Reiser (see a tribute page[no, I'm not French]). If you haven't seen his cartoons before, go check them out. Beware, it is dirty underware humor, literally, and any connection with file systems seem farflung indeed.
"But it was almost like an underground movement because, politically, ESTs were a four-letter word[...]"
Four-letter word? Hrrrmm... Celera.... Hrrrm... Then it must be ACGT.
Even if I have quite a few books on computer science, I still use www much more. It has far more than 246 pages and is near fully indexed through Google. And, cut'n'paste makes my life much more easier.
Paper is near passé.
And, new topics like this is often extensively referenced at popular sites like Slashdot; do yourself a favor and check it out!
Why not scout in Arkansas instead? All people I've met from there had a strong Chewbacca-like appearance. Oh, yes, I live in Europe so I haven't met that many (three in fact); but, it all seemed so much more than coincidental.
Well, semi-on-topic, sort of... The e-mail from farthest away I have ever received was from - Antarctica! I got it from a colleague back in 1991 (or was it 1992?) who was on a research vessel visiting Antarctica. I had it printed in my drawer for years, as a collectible, and after few room switches and h/d-crashes all traces are lost... sigh
I was walking down the High Street
When I heard footsteps behind me
And there was a little old man (Hello)
In scarlet and grey, shuffling away (laughter)
Well he trotted back to my house
And he sat beside the telly (Oaah..)
With his tiny hands on his tummy
Chuckling away, laughing all day (laughter)
Oh, I ought to report you to the Gnome office
(Gnome Office)
Yes
(Hahahahaha)
CHORUS
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Said the laughing Gnome
Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass of dandelion wine (Burp, pardon)
Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne
Carried his bag and gave him a fag
(Haven't you got a light boy?)
"Here, where do you come from?"
(Gnome-man's land, hahihihi)
"Oh, really?"
In the morning when I woke up
He was sitting on the edge of my bed
With his brother whose name was Fred
He'd bought him along to sing me a song
Right, let's hear it
Here, what's that clicking noise?
(That's Fred, he's a "metrognome", haha)
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
(Own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right, haha)
"Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?"
(No, we're gnomads)
"Didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at school?
you look like a rolling gnome."
(No, not at the London School of Ecognomics)
Now they're staying up the chimney
And we're living on caviar and honey (hooray!)
Cause they're earning me lots of money
Writing comedy prose for radio shows
It's the-er (what?)
It's the Gnome service of course
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, oh, dear me
(Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me")
(One more time, yeah)
Blatantly from Teenage Wildlife, David Bowie fansite. Oh yes, he wrote the song, back in 1968 or 1969.
Because that AC didn't post the original message, I did. And I didn't get the columns straight without the those underscores. Yes they are ugly. Sorry.
Panther for the IBM's 64-bit CPU "ppc 970"
Suddenly, I feel this is old news... It came out five hours ago for gossake!
_ ____Very good____Good
Nonetheless here is the condensed version:
_____________Server_______Workstation
Opteron_
Xeon_________Good_________Very Good
"they're not aiming for the desktop with IA-64"
Actually, they were aiming for full IA-32 compability back in 1996-1997 when "Merced" (the first iteration of Itanium) was first announced. Then, a few years later (1999?) when it was too blunt that IA-32 performance was a failure Intel skipped it. Maybe, a Yamhill will go up the hill.
As long as that clause does not also include "no Linux version" or something similar, I really don't care.
From what I have seen of Doom 3, there will be a LOT of discussions surrounding gaming and graphic violence.
Intestinal gore anyone?
Oh yes, I will buy it. I am such a sucker for id products...
What is a Rice boy?
From the page:
"Rice-Boy is a stereotype. The typical Rice-Boy can be identified by his car, or rather what he does to it. Generally, Rice-Boy will start out with a car that was not meant to go fast (typically a Honda Civic), and attempt to "fix it up," usually consisting of aftermarket rims, lowering springs and an aftermarket exhaust system with a large exhaust tip.
Most Rice-Boy cars (or "Rice Rockets") have the usual complement of stickers proudly displaying features that the car might or might not have, most notably, the Honda VTEC sticker from the later model Preludes, and the plaques from the later model Integras."
The similarity with Duron owners pretending to be Cray owners are amusing. Don't miss out on that Rice boy site's Hall of shame!!!
"anachronism"?! What?! If the Concorde is an anachonism in the sense it is old-fashioned, it is none-the-less among the most futuristic of its kind, something in the league of a 30 year old Lamborghini Countach.