Just a little ways over to the east you can notice that the satellite resolution drops off precipitously. If the satellite had just switched off a few seconds earlier (or is it on a few sconds later?) I guess that this villa would have remained unfound.
are pretty lousy quality - and just a screen to the southwest, the resolution picks up again. Phooey.
The other thing annoys me is that they don't pixelate the image when you zoom in, they just cut it off. Check around here, for instance. It would be nice to have the general diffuse pixellated background anyway, if only to get a rough idea of the terrain when you're in Overlay mode. Notice also that if you zoom out even one step you can't get the little side streets anymore. No-fun at all!
Interestingly enough, there was a well-developed ice trade in 1885. People would chop it out of lakes in the winter (especially up north) and keep it in warehouses lined with sawdust. They would ship it out via the railways and big old boats during the summer. For a modest price you could easily get a big block and use it for cooling, or split it up for a few weeks' worth of iced tea, probably with less expense and effort than Doc must have expended to build and run his contraption.
I like music because it plays directly upon your emotions more so than other mediums. Want a spooky scene in the movie? Is some menace lurking just around the next corner? Just drop in the right music in the movie and the audience is *yours*. Love? Hate? Sorrow? Tragedy? Joy? Bumbling clownish incompetence? Say it with music.
Well, that took longer than ten seconds, but I had STARTED within ten seconds. I could have split it among several messages...
Please. There are other wikis out there besides Wikipedia. Calling Wikipedia 'Wiki' is roughly analogous calling Slashdot 'Website'. "Oh, did you see that crazy supernova article posted on Website earlier today?" Just because Wikipedia is the #1 example of a wiki and Slashdot is the #1 example of a website (har har) doesn't mean you're not abusing the term. Next thing you know you'll be calling that little blue E 'the Internet' and thinking that Microsoft crashed whenever you get a BSOD.
News for Nerds. People who are impeccably picky about usage of technology terms. =b
Have you recompiled MySQL? If so, have you changed anything in the source, and are you going to sell this modified version? If so, you must include the source of your modified version with any sales, under the terms of the GPL. If not, you're probably okay without switching at all. This is probably the case if you can ship MySQL separately from whatever application that you're developing, and if you can use an existing MySQL database without installing a new one yourself. (obligatory IANAL bit here)
Well, tough shit. Get more people on board and raise the application fees.
Actually, I just go this letter the other day at my school...
We have received a call from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, DC. They want to recruit at WFU this fall. They are seeking applicants who will be either December 2005 or May 2006
graduates from the programs of biology, chemistry, computer science, and physics for Patent Examiner positions. Students who are interested in applying to this position posting must be registered with
the Office of Career Services to apply through our online system ECHO (Explore Career Happenings Online). The deadline for application will be Sunday night, Sept. 18 so that interviews can occur on
campus on the last week of September.
I was vaguely interested but don't graduate in 2005/2006, so... ah well.
Please-kindly-note that while YOU may release anything you write on Wikipedia into the public domain, Wikipedia itself IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN, it's available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), thankyou-verymuch.
You guessed it, the pharmaceutical industry. After all, anti-rejection drugs are a tidy little market for them.
So they lose one tidy little market. So what? You don't think that the potential market in pro-regeneration drugs (and other drugs used during these sorts of surgeries) looks the least bit enticing, and potentially even MORE lucrative, than anti-rejection drugs? If they have ten to fifteen (or more) years, don't you think they will conduct studies left and right and get with the times? Pharmaceutical companies are not exactly the recording industry, they have some smart people working there...
a reputation system for sites who don't try to slam you with a ginormous Flash advertisement the minute you load their site? Good Lord, and thank goodness for FlashBlock...
Otherwise don't be deluded by a perceived lack of quality of life because I still say that the control messaging infrastructure, and most of this page, is superfluous, uncompressed nonsense.
s/page/comment/ I agree with the nonsense part, but I think Slashdot has mod_gzip running.
- This is all seven bit stuff, every single line of it, yet we use no basic compression on the Internet to send pages, because somehow, that would be evil. It's called mod_gzip. Maybe you've heard of it.
- Dynamic HTML is fatter still, including the page you're reading Slashdot? Dynamic HTML? Umm.... You really have no clue what dynamic HTML is, do you? Here's a tip: Dynamic HTML is not forms, or server-side-generated pages. It usually involves a little JavaScript and something called the Document Object Model.
- CSS simply adds to the problem by oversending code/data So instead of loading style.css once per site, and keeping it in cache, and defining per-tag styles and, when that's not enough, using neat short little class="" attributes... we should instead use big ugly tags on everything? And tables and images for layout, I suppose?
- XML is another bucket of overkill; every page sends a new schema, and a bunch of unneeded, duplicate info
Umm, I'm not about to call XML a 'compact' file format (until you pipe it through gzip or something) but do you really have any idea how XML is typically used in Internet applications? I'm interested to know how you think the XML page sends a schema in a neat little HTTP attachment or something.
The idea of using more compression in more places isn't a terribly bad idea, you just don't seem to have a particularly good grasp on the reality. It's in decently widespread use already.
Yes, Notes works in Linux under WINE (but you probably shouldn't bother, it's not worth it- even on my 3Ghz box with 2 gigs of RAM it barely manages a crawl). The next version of Notes is apparently going to be based off Eclipse and SWT and all those shiny Java things, however. Google for Lotus Notes Hannover for more details. It looks shiiiiiiiny.
I'll admit it: I am an intern. As a matter of fact, I'm one of the best interns money can buy. (oooooh look shiny resume). But it's only a summer internship and has nothing repeat NOTHING (sort of quasiobligatory disclaimer here in case someone IBM is watching) to do with my work with this web site management position, which I mostly do during the school year (and is officially some sort of part-time salaried position with a university's economics department, if I recall correctly).
Slashdot Mirror
I'm also a little bitter because the satellite maps around where I live
are pretty lousy quality - and just a screen to the southwest, the resolution picks up again. Phooey.The other thing annoys me is that they don't pixelate the image when you zoom in, they just cut it off. Check around here, for instance. It would be nice to have the general diffuse pixellated background anyway, if only to get a rough idea of the terrain when you're in Overlay mode. Notice also that if you zoom out even one step you can't get the little side streets anymore. No-fun at all!
Nononononono, this sucker's electrical! You'll need a nuclear reaction to generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity...
They're white, rounded, kind of oblong, maybe two inches? three? on their long axis... if you keep them warm long enough they'll hatch.
I was actually thinking more Moon Unit, myself.
Here, have this random link to a book about The Frozen-Water Trade.
A solution is 'bullshit that we want to sell you'.
Bah. Forget the iPod Flea, give me the iPodling any day of the week!
Well, that took longer than ten seconds, but I had STARTED within ten seconds. I could have split it among several messages...
News for Nerds. People who are impeccably picky about usage of technology terms. =b
Have you recompiled MySQL? If so, have you changed anything in the source, and are you going to sell this modified version? If so, you must include the source of your modified version with any sales, under the terms of the GPL. If not, you're probably okay without switching at all. This is probably the case if you can ship MySQL separately from whatever application that you're developing, and if you can use an existing MySQL database without installing a new one yourself. (obligatory IANAL bit here)
Actually, I just go this letter the other day at my school...
I was vaguely interested but don't graduate in 2005/2006, so... ah well.
Please-kindly-note that while YOU may release anything you write on Wikipedia into the public domain, Wikipedia itself IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN, it's available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), thankyou-verymuch.
So they lose one tidy little market. So what? You don't think that the potential market in pro-regeneration drugs (and other drugs used during these sorts of surgeries) looks the least bit enticing, and potentially even MORE lucrative, than anti-rejection drugs? If they have ten to fifteen (or more) years, don't you think they will conduct studies left and right and get with the times? Pharmaceutical companies are not exactly the recording industry, they have some smart people working there...
152.17.48.117.
a reputation system for sites who don't try to slam you with a ginormous Flash advertisement the minute you load their site? Good Lord, and thank goodness for FlashBlock...
Actually, there was a poll just a while back about it. You should have posted, really.
What the hell is a jigawatt?
s/page/comment/
I agree with the nonsense part, but I think Slashdot has mod_gzip running.
It's called mod_gzip. Maybe you've heard of it.
- Dynamic HTML is fatter still, including the page you're reading
Slashdot? Dynamic HTML? Umm.... You really have no clue what dynamic HTML is, do you? Here's a tip: Dynamic HTML is not forms, or server-side-generated pages. It usually involves a little JavaScript and something called the Document Object Model.
- CSS simply adds to the problem by oversending code/data
So instead of loading style.css once per site, and keeping it in cache, and defining per-tag styles and, when that's not enough, using neat short little class="" attributes... we should instead use big ugly tags on everything? And tables and images for layout, I suppose?
- XML is another bucket of overkill; every page sends a new schema, and a bunch of unneeded, duplicate info
Umm, I'm not about to call XML a 'compact' file format (until you pipe it through gzip or something) but do you really have any idea how XML is typically used in Internet applications? I'm interested to know how you think the XML page sends a schema in a neat little HTTP attachment or something.
The idea of using more compression in more places isn't a terribly bad idea, you just don't seem to have a particularly good grasp on the reality. It's in decently widespread use already.
Yes, Notes works in Linux under WINE (but you probably shouldn't bother, it's not worth it- even on my 3Ghz box with 2 gigs of RAM it barely manages a crawl). The next version of Notes is apparently going to be based off Eclipse and SWT and all those shiny Java things, however. Google for Lotus Notes Hannover for more details. It looks shiiiiiiiny.
If not?
Why should that be any sort of dissuasion? This is the patent office we're talking about here.
This is pure speculation based on your post, but at a guess... I don't suppose there is a Mrs. Timesprout, now, is there?
I'll admit it: I am an intern. As a matter of fact, I'm one of the best interns money can buy. (oooooh look shiny resume). But it's only a summer internship and has nothing repeat NOTHING (sort of quasiobligatory disclaimer here in case someone IBM is watching) to do with my work with this web site management position, which I mostly do during the school year (and is officially some sort of part-time salaried position with a university's economics department, if I recall correctly).
Actually.... I already do, in combination with emacs and tidy. It's still very tedious work.