I can confirm that, being there for the summer. Google cache is not accessible from mainland China. One can always route through a Korean or Taiwanese router of course, but not everyone knows how to do that.
Not true at all. I have been to many major cities in mainland China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzho), and in my ten years there I have never seen a single unlocked bicycle that lasted more than 48 hours.
And that's OLD bicycles. If a new, shiny bicycle is left in a moderately public place and not bolted to the ground, it gets stolen, period. Lock or not. They just take it and deal with the lock later.
I am not saying that parent said is absolutely false, but I have never seen more than a few unlocked bicycles throughout YEARS, let along a "bike pool". Perhaps parent is talking about certain small-population suburbs.
but make a protocol that doesn't allow anonymous sending of mail and you defeat spam.
Show me a non-spoofable (or so difficult to spoof it would not be profitable sending spam through) protocol that doesn't allow anonymous sending of mail, yet still allows normal communications*, and I'll send you a copy of Duke Nukem Forever. On a stick.
*i.e. not a whitelist, because then legitimate but not-yet-on-your-whitelist people can't contact you
It's features which are being spoken of, remember?
No, it's the features that the CUSTOMER CARE ABOUT which are being spoken, and grandparent has done a good job of listening them. This is because CUSTOMERS choose what set of features to care about, remember?
Mr. Invisible and the Secret Mission to Hollywood By JOHN HODGMAN
Article Photo (c) Catherine Ledner, The New York Times
Kerry Conran is not what you would call descript. He has very short, tan-colored hair, usually covered with a clean, logoless baseball cap. He is 37, somewhat baby-faced and often quiet, with a smile in the corner of his pale blue eyes that suggests he is observing you from a far-off world of his own. And while he can be genial and funny, his default setting seems to be self-deprecation to the point of self-erasure. The second thing of any note he ever said to me was ''I am basically an amorphous blob of nothing.'' The first thing was ''I'm shy.''
This was on the set of his movie ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.'' You might expect a little more brio from a writer-director who is making a summer blockbuster with almost unlimited creative control. Set in 1939, the movie stars Jude Law as the daring flying ace Sky Captain, who teams up with his former flame, the intrepid reporter Polly Perkins, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, as they track down a mysterious mad scientist named Totenkopf. It is in part a nostalgic homage to the movies of the 30's and 40's: the hammy fisticuffs and golly-inspiring proto-technology of sci-fi cliffhangers like ''Flash Gordon'' alongside the snappy patter (and even snappier clothes) of the era's noir thrillers.
But like the old serials it emulates, ''Sky Captain'' is mainly preoccupied with the strange promises of the future. The astonishing things you will see in the world of tomorrow include: an immense, silvery zeppelin docking at the Empire State Building; an elephant that fits in the palm of your hand; a troop of giant robots marching down Sixth Avenue and the carpet at Radio City Music Hall. None of these things actually exist, though. Conran has not constructed a single set or miniature. Rather, they are computer images, built and animated in a virtual 3-D environment, or stitched together from photographs, which are then draped around the flesh-and-blood actors, who have been shot separately on an empty set in front of a blank ''blue-screen'' background, along with those few minimal props with which they actually interact (a ray gun, a robot blueprint, a bottle of milk of magnesia). The film, in other words, is one long special effect with Jude-Law-size holes in it.
''The goal was to make a live-action film, but to use conventions of traditional animation,'' Conran said. The reason? ''First and foremost, to do it cheaper.'' It's a model that would appeal to anyone who, like Conran, does not seem entirely comfortable spending other people's money; to anyone who might dream of shooting in Nepal or Paris (or in the 1930's) but doesn't have the means to get there; to anyone who is shy.
For Conran, the question, as he put it, was ''Could you be ambitious and make a film of some scope without ever leaving your room?'' And so 10 years ago, Kerry Conran went into a room in his apartment to make a movie. In some ways, he is just now beginning to come out of it.
At first, he was a mystery. Word of ''Sky Captain'' began to spread around the Internet only after Conran finished primary shooting in London last spring -- extraordinarily late for the Internet, which often seems invented specifically to track movies with giant robots in them. Even then, no one knew who Kerry Conran was. Google couldn't touch him. He was so undocumented in the world of Hollywood that I briefly wondered, when I began pursuing him, if perhaps he was just a front for his producer and partner and mentor Jon Avnet, who is well known for producing ''Risky Business'' and directing ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' but who is not so well known for retro-science-fiction summertime blockbusters, and who unlike Conran seems to have been photographed at least once in his life. I don't think Conran would mind that I doubted his existence. In fact, for a long time, that w
For those who are being persuaded by the troll, here's a repost of a comment:
"I use iTunes, so why should I send you my bottlecap code? You shouldn't! If you use the iTunes Music Store, we don't want the cap, you should redeem it yourself. However, we would strongly encourage you to use the cap to buy music that's not from one of the 5 major labels. The website RIAA Radar can help you figure out if music that you're thinking of buying is put out by a member of the RIAA. Use the tree to see what labels are just major label fronts."
Ergo, if you use iTunes, they WANT YOU TO USE THE CAP YOURSELF! (preferably to support Independent music) It is only when the cap is of no use to you (i.e., you don't want to install iTunes, iTunes doesn't run on Linux, etc, etc), that you donate the code to them, for it is better than throwing it away.
Actually, I would make sense for them to have an almost-primary computer be the competing OS. This way they'd have to get used to it and see the good points as well as the bad.
Yeah, but the problem with that is Torvalds aside, neither Jobs or Gates do much of the programming or designing.
There is indeed a Soyuz for emergency
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ISS May Have A Leak
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· Score: 5, Informative
You remember correctly.
"A Soyuz capsule will always be docked at the ISS, capable of carrying two people in a medical emergency, or three people in other emergencies. A crew will take a fresh Soyuz capsule to the station every six months." http://science.howstuffworks.com/space-station11.h tm
"I have been unable to find any record of a higher resolution photographic (i.e. non-scientific) digital image that has been created without resizing a smaller, lower resolution image or using an interpolated image."
wtf. What kind of spelling and grammar is this? Who the hell ? ? ? Do you know what a joke is? Do you realize the slight difference in informational posts and humor posts ? ? ? Not to mention the problem of people like you contributing to neither information nor humor of Slashdot.
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But it should not be forgotten that the UK Government, like the rest of us, is already a major user of open source software, just because so much of the net's infrastructure depends on it.
Exactly the point. What does this testing actually accomplish? The existing projects aren't getting funded; the existing open-source software are still going to be used as usual; the testing derives very little solid evidence of superiority; and the entire thing is just that the government might or might not open-source some of their software projects.
So we need to be reassured that we, both as taxpayers who are paying for the work and as members of the open source community, will have full access to the code as it is being developed.
Which doesn't make sense to me. What does being taxpayers have to do with open source?
The system of French units looks great on paper, but it's dumb in practise. Our system looks strange on paper, but it actually makes quite a bit of sense, and it's a joy to actually use.
Now, let's see you convert these in your head. 4.126 miles = ? yards = ? inches 7.823 tons = ? pounds = ? ounces 3.245 square miles = ? acres = ? sqare feet
Security is not that easy. It's called common sense. Would Joe Sixpack know how to put locks on the doors? What would locks on the doors be good for if there's a flood outside (kiddy DoSing you)?
Why don't you RTFComments and get it through your head that there are plenty of legitimate uses for SmartCard devices?
Do you buy goods from stores that tell you what they're selling you is illegal to possess because its only useful purpose is illegal?
Yeah, even though that turned out to be untrue statement...
And thus you are using it in your argument why?
(which you somehow are assuming all of them intended to use legally in some non-DirecTV use or not use at all...)
No one said all of them used it in a legal manner. It seemed to me that they said it is outrageous for those who did use them for legitimate purposes to have several grand, or more if they try to resist, ripped out from them for absolutely no reason.
When you walk through the storm... And don't... be afraid... of the dark! At the end of the storm...... is a golden sky... And the sweet silver songs of the lark...
Revised impact time fifteen seconds fellas... Walk on through the wind... Walk on through the rain... Though your dreams be tossed and blown... Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart... And you'll never walk alone...
Impact minus five seconds, it's been great knowing you guys, God bless... You'll ne... ver... walk... alone!
(Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Chapter 18)
No, you're just playing with the word "branch", and you know it.
RELENGS are not the same "sized" branches as CURRENT and STABLE. A RELENG is a "twig" of either a CURRENT branch or a STABLE branch, and RELENG from CURRENT is not as stable as a RELENG from STABLE.
You can argue that "technically it is defined as a branch", but if everyone argued classifications I dont' think humanity would exist.
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Huh. Shouldn't someone pulling negative G's red out instead of black out?
Meh... too much flight sims.
I can confirm that, being there for the summer. Google cache is not accessible from mainland China. One can always route through a Korean or Taiwanese router of course, but not everyone knows how to do that.
I can confirm that, being there for the summer. Google cache is not accessible from mainland China.
Not true at all. I have been to many major cities in mainland China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzho), and in my ten years there I have never seen a single unlocked bicycle that lasted more than 48 hours.
And that's OLD bicycles. If a new, shiny bicycle is left in a moderately public place and not bolted to the ground, it gets stolen, period. Lock or not. They just take it and deal with the lock later.
I am not saying that parent said is absolutely false, but I have never seen more than a few unlocked bicycles throughout YEARS, let along a "bike pool". Perhaps parent is talking about certain small-population suburbs.
*i.e. not a whitelist, because then legitimate but not-yet-on-your-whitelist people can't contact you
Mr. Invisible and the Secret Mission to Hollywood
By JOHN HODGMAN
Article Photo
(c) Catherine Ledner, The New York Times
Kerry Conran is not what you would call descript. He has very short, tan-colored hair, usually covered with a clean, logoless baseball cap. He is 37, somewhat baby-faced and often quiet, with a smile in the corner of his pale blue eyes that suggests he is observing you from a far-off world of his own. And while he can be genial and funny, his default setting seems to be self-deprecation to the point of self-erasure. The second thing of any note he ever said to me was ''I am basically an amorphous blob of nothing.'' The first thing was ''I'm shy.''
This was on the set of his movie ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.'' You might expect a little more brio from a writer-director who is making a summer blockbuster with almost unlimited creative control. Set in 1939, the movie stars Jude Law as the daring flying ace Sky Captain, who teams up with his former flame, the intrepid reporter Polly Perkins, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, as they track down a mysterious mad scientist named Totenkopf. It is in part a nostalgic homage to the movies of the 30's and 40's: the hammy fisticuffs and golly-inspiring proto-technology of sci-fi cliffhangers like ''Flash Gordon'' alongside the snappy patter (and even snappier clothes) of the era's noir thrillers.
But like the old serials it emulates, ''Sky Captain'' is mainly preoccupied with the strange promises of the future. The astonishing things you will see in the world of tomorrow include: an immense, silvery zeppelin docking at the Empire State Building; an elephant that fits in the palm of your hand; a troop of giant robots marching down Sixth Avenue and the carpet at Radio City Music Hall. None of these things actually exist, though. Conran has not constructed a single set or miniature. Rather, they are computer images, built and animated in a virtual 3-D environment, or stitched together from photographs, which are then draped around the flesh-and-blood actors, who have been shot separately on an empty set in front of a blank ''blue-screen'' background, along with those few minimal props with which they actually interact (a ray gun, a robot blueprint, a bottle of milk of magnesia). The film, in other words, is one long special effect with Jude-Law-size holes in it.
''The goal was to make a live-action film, but to use conventions of traditional animation,'' Conran said. The reason? ''First and foremost, to do it cheaper.'' It's a model that would appeal to anyone who, like Conran, does not seem entirely comfortable spending other people's money; to anyone who might dream of shooting in Nepal or Paris (or in the 1930's) but doesn't have the means to get there; to anyone who is shy.
For Conran, the question, as he put it, was ''Could you be ambitious and make a film of some scope without ever leaving your room?'' And so 10 years ago, Kerry Conran went into a room in his apartment to make a movie. In some ways, he is just now beginning to come out of it.
At first, he was a mystery. Word of ''Sky Captain'' began to spread around the Internet only after Conran finished primary shooting in London last spring -- extraordinarily late for the Internet, which often seems invented specifically to track movies with giant robots in them. Even then, no one knew who Kerry Conran was. Google couldn't touch him. He was so undocumented in the world of Hollywood that I briefly wondered, when I began pursuing him, if perhaps he was just a front for his producer and partner and mentor Jon Avnet, who is well known for producing ''Risky Business'' and directing ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' but who is not so well known for retro-science-fiction summertime blockbusters, and who unlike Conran seems to have been photographed at least once in his life. I don't think Conran would mind that I doubted his existence. In fact, for a long time, that w
For those who are being persuaded by the troll, here's a repost of a comment:
"I use iTunes, so why should I send you my bottlecap code?
You shouldn't! If you use the iTunes Music Store, we don't want the cap, you should redeem it yourself. However, we would strongly encourage you to use the cap to buy music that's not from one of the 5 major labels. The website RIAA Radar can help you figure out if music that you're thinking of buying is put out by a member of the RIAA. Use the tree to see what labels are just major label fronts."
Ergo, if you use iTunes, they WANT YOU TO USE THE CAP YOURSELF! (preferably to support Independent music) It is only when the cap is of no use to you (i.e., you don't want to install iTunes, iTunes doesn't run on Linux, etc, etc), that you donate the code to them, for it is better than throwing it away.
Actually, I would make sense for them to have an almost-primary computer be the competing OS. This way they'd have to get used to it and see the good points as well as the bad.
Yeah, but the problem with that is Torvalds aside, neither Jobs or Gates do much of the programming or designing.
You remember correctly.
h tm
"A Soyuz capsule will always be docked at the ISS, capable of carrying two people in a medical emergency, or three people in other emergencies. A crew will take a fresh Soyuz capsule to the station every six months."
http://science.howstuffworks.com/space-station11.
Without the original source to IE?
If you would just RTFA:
"I have been unable to find any record of a higher resolution photographic (i.e. non-scientific) digital image that has been created without resizing a smaller, lower resolution image or using an interpolated image."
wtf. What kind of spelling and grammar is this? Who the hell ? ? ? Do you know what a joke is? Do you realize the slight difference in informational posts and humor posts ? ? ? Not to mention the problem of people like you contributing to neither information nor humor of Slashdot.
You mean GandhiCon 3...
Well, us Subscribers tried. Looks like the editor didn't read his/her email.
It is not 0 seconds flat or the force would approach infinity.
Oh yay...
Build your own Space Shuttle
How to make your own space shuttle using only 230 thousand tons of liquid fuel, 23 tons of spacecraft-grade aluminum-titanium-magnesium-iron alloy, and five 1000-cubic-liter combusion chambers. Easy-to-follow blueprints here!
(Read More... | 423 of 756 comments)
Roll your own Lightsaber
Geekandlightsaber.com recently published a guide on producing your own lightsaber with merely 2 hand-held fusion reactors and 2 focusing jewels.
(Read More... | 230 of 1123 comments)
Create your own Universe
Jehovah!God!Heaven has published a guide on making a home-made universe.
(Read More... | 445 of 1022 comments)
Exactly the point. What does this testing actually accomplish? The existing projects aren't getting funded; the existing open-source software are still going to be used as usual; the testing derives very little solid evidence of superiority; and the entire thing is just that the government might or might not open-source some of their software projects.
Which doesn't make sense to me. What does being taxpayers have to do with open source?
4.126 kilometers = 4126 meters = 4126000 centimeters
7.823 (metric) tons = 7823 kilograms = 7823000 grams
3.245 square kilometers = 3245000 square meters
Now, let's see you convert these in your head.
4.126 miles = ? yards = ? inches
7.823 tons = ? pounds = ? ounces
3.245 square miles = ? acres = ? sqare feet
Security is not that easy. It's called common sense.
Would Joe Sixpack know how to put locks on the doors? What would locks on the doors be good for if there's a flood outside (kiddy DoSing you)?
And thus you are using it in your argument why?
No one said all of them used it in a legal manner. It seemed to me that they said it is outrageous for those who did use them for legitimate purposes to have several grand, or more if they try to resist, ripped out from them for absolutely no reason.
When you walk through the storm... And don't... be afraid... of the dark! At the end of the storm... ... is a golden sky... And the sweet silver songs of the lark...
Revised impact time fifteen seconds fellas... Walk on through the wind... Walk on through the rain... Though your dreams be tossed and blown... Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart... And you'll never walk alone...
Impact minus five seconds, it's been great knowing you guys, God bless... You'll ne... ver... walk... alone!
(Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Chapter 18)
RELENGS are not the same "sized" branches as CURRENT and STABLE. A RELENG is a "twig" of either a CURRENT branch or a STABLE branch, and RELENG from CURRENT is not as stable as a RELENG from STABLE.
You can argue that "technically it is defined as a branch", but if everyone argued classifications I dont' think humanity would exist.