Very nicely put, artistically elevated post, I guess.. but there is one tiny-miny detail that brings it all down: the plane will be remotely controlled. This means, it's about as autonomous as your average TV set, which you can control with the remote.
But I'm sure you have some literary talent, there.
...are not running Linux on the PS2? In other words, would it be possible for me to hook up my monitor on the PS2, for those times that the TV is in use for other (non-gaming) purposes? Or just so that I can use the Linux kit and later play some of the games, without the need to move back to the TV.
The 9/11 had nothing to do with religion. It was about an ethnic group of people striking back at the nation that keeps pouring money and weapons to their oppressors. Makes perfect sense. Perfect sense? None of the terrorists in 9/11, including Bin Laden, was a Palestinian, they were from the Magreb and Saudis. And they were all well-off, spoiled brats that think they can solve problems by blowing things up.
I am not a gamer, but armed with a little bit of knowledge and common sense, find many posts a bit strange.
People say: 150$ to get online is a lot/not a lot. Well, 150 is the HD + Eth. card, but since you don't need the HD, you can get online for 40$ (price of the Eth. addon).
People say: PS2 doesn't have an advantage because Xbox will have online games, too. Well gee, PS2 has an online game right fucking now. If that's not an advantage, I don't know what is. And FF fanatics will get on the bandwagon, I believe. The Xbox doesn't have a title with a solid reputation and broad following.
I see that all the striked-through names are of female physicians. Is this on purpose?
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But I just discovered that we actually need StarOffice over OpenOffice, because of the support for WordPerfect documents. So, at least in our case, we -do- get something important and useful with the StarOffice.
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Thanks. I heard/read somewhere that WordPerfect document format is, actually, publicly available? It was mentioned with regards to the fact that there have been several WordPerfect document "reanimators", which were able to reconstruct deleted WP documents by searching the disk, and knowing the structure of these files.
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In this NGO where I help out from time to time, there are a few computers and I have installed OpenOffice to see how it will compare to the current solutions. Well, the reason why it's not working for us is, we have a lot of documents written and some still being written in WordPerfect for Linux. In order to use OpenOffice, we have to export to.RTF. The problem is, some Finnish characters are lost in the process. Don't ask why, I have no idea.
Anyway, you see the problem. So I am wondering if StarOffice 6.0 has the possibility of editing WordPerfect docs?
The Nintendo games, I think, are not only for kids. I would rather say, it's for the entire family. Most of the games on the Playstation2 (except Spyro and perhaps FF) I would not play with my wife, but I definitely play most of those for Nintendo consoles. The Xbox titles, on the other hand, are all unwelcome in our home.
You don't understand what is good about this news? You must be dumb, then.
This is good news because media companies can feel how bad DMCA is, on their own skin. This could turn out to be the only way for the DMCA to be overturned in the end. More events like this, the better.
This mobile telecom company wanted to demo a new service at an important telecoms fair in Germany. They absolutely had to have the whole system installed and tested by monday morning. Since the whole process of installing and expecially testing requires more than 30 hours, we needed the equipment - two racks of Netras and other stuff - at the telecom's premises by Friday at noon.
It was supposed to be delivered by a third pary. And deliver they did, Friday morning-ish, the equipment arrived in good condition, it was carefully unpacked at the customer's premises.
But at the wrong address.
It turns out, this telecom company had two locations in that area, with server farms, and somehow the shipping co. picked the wrong one.
The rest is easy to imagine: pack the whole crap up again, up the trucks, bring to the correct location etc... and os the equipment was physically isntalled sometime the night between friday and saturday. And of course, us lowly engineers had to work around the clock with doubled efficiency, to have the thing working and tested by monday morning. And so we did.
To me, English is a fourth language, and I am in the process of learning a fifth one, but I really suck at it. Gone are the days when learning a new language was easy for my, once intelligent, brain. I am in that age when I.Q. is on its way down:o(
BTW, I was aware of those three types of English, but I would always put the first two categories into one. Instead, I would like to add a different kind of English which you have not mentioned: the English of Shakespeare, Shelley, Hopkins and Wilde. It's the least useful and most difficult to master.
I see. Uhhh, that can be pretty nasty. Thanks for enlighting me. There is a lot of the English language I can't learn from the Internet.. or, in this case, I can:o)
Nokia started with rubber boots. At the same time, they were in the paper industry, too, and even nowadays, there is a company called "Nokia" that makes really good paper towels.
The mobile phone business came into the picture with another little company that merged with Nokia. The company was called "Mobira" and many a Finn still remember them and their "portable" (really freaking heavy boxen) phones:o)))
Hey, this is cool, expecially if it's possible to program "close to the metal", which is what I really like. So, maybe I don't need to build my own robot, after all. This one could provide me with all the thrill and technical excitement, without the nuisance of putting together the electronics and the mechanics. And maybe, by studying this SDK, I can learn how to expand the Aibo, with additional motors, stronger activators, what you have.
It all depends how much freedom does this SDK provide.
I am skeptical about the insulation. No matter how good the insulation is, sooner or later the cold sinks in. There should be a (minute) source of heat.
Where is the power coming from? I read the article, and it is not explained where does this device get it's power. I imagine that should be quite a challenge by itself, since a) at those low temperatures batteries do not work at all. b) 6 months in a row each year it's dark, so solar panels are not a viable source of energy.
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Very nicely put, artistically elevated post, I guess.. but there is one tiny-miny detail that brings it all down: the plane will be remotely controlled. This means, it's about as autonomous as your average TV set, which you can control with the remote.
But I'm sure you have some literary talent, there.
...are not running Linux on the PS2? In other words, would it be possible for me to hook up my monitor on the PS2, for those times that the TV is in use for other (non-gaming) purposes? Or just so that I can use the Linux kit and later play some of the games, without the need to move back to the TV.
Don't complain. I was playing, in my BBS days, a MUD, purely text-based, where the greatest thrills would be provided by somethinglike this:
The 9/11 had nothing to do with religion. It was about an ethnic group of people striking back at the nation that keeps pouring money and weapons to their oppressors. Makes perfect sense.
Perfect sense? None of the terrorists in 9/11, including Bin Laden, was a Palestinian, they were from the Magreb and Saudis. And they were all well-off, spoiled brats that think they can solve problems by blowing things up.
I am not a gamer, but armed with a little bit of knowledge and common sense, find many posts a bit strange.
People say: 150$ to get online is a lot/not a lot. Well, 150 is the HD + Eth. card, but since you don't need the HD, you can get online for 40$ (price of the Eth. addon).
People say: PS2 doesn't have an advantage because Xbox will have online games, too. Well gee, PS2 has an online game right fucking now. If that's not an advantage, I don't know what is. And FF fanatics will get on the bandwagon, I believe. The Xbox doesn't have a title with a solid reputation and broad following.
I see that all the striked-through names are of female physicians. Is this on purpose?
But I just discovered that we actually need StarOffice over OpenOffice, because of the support for WordPerfect documents. So, at least in our case, we -do- get something important and useful with the StarOffice.
Thanks. I heard/read somewhere that WordPerfect document format is, actually, publicly available?
It was mentioned with regards to the fact that there have been several WordPerfect document "reanimators", which were able to reconstruct deleted WP documents by searching the disk, and knowing the structure of these files.
In this NGO where I help out from time to time, there are a few computers and I have installed OpenOffice to see how it will compare to the current solutions. Well, the reason why it's not working for us is, we have a lot of documents written and some still being written in WordPerfect for Linux. In order to use OpenOffice, we have to export to .RTF. The problem is, some Finnish characters are lost in the process. Don't ask why, I have no idea.
Anyway, you see the problem. So I am wondering if StarOffice 6.0 has the possibility of editing WordPerfect docs?
The way you present humans, it would appear we are unable to learn from our won mistakes.
:o/
If that was true, we'd be still living in caves, hunting and collecting fruits from trees, without computers, taxes, cars, mobile phones...
Fortunately, we do learn and porgress.... er.. okay, maybe this wasn't a good example
The Nintendo games, I think, are not only for kids. I would rather say, it's for the entire family. Most of the games on the Playstation2 (except Spyro and perhaps FF) I would not play with my wife, but I definitely play most of those for Nintendo consoles. The Xbox titles, on the other hand, are all unwelcome in our home.
You don't understand what is good about this news? You must be dumb, then.
This is good news because media companies can feel how bad DMCA is, on their own skin. This could turn out to be the only way for the DMCA to be overturned in the end. More events like this, the better.
This mobile telecom company wanted to demo a new service at an important telecoms fair in Germany. They absolutely had to have the whole system installed and tested by monday morning. Since the whole process of installing and expecially testing requires more than 30 hours, we needed the equipment - two racks of Netras and other stuff - at the telecom's premises by Friday at noon.
It was supposed to be delivered by a third pary. And deliver they did, Friday morning-ish, the equipment arrived in good condition, it was carefully unpacked at the customer's premises.
But at the wrong address.
It turns out, this telecom company had two locations in that area, with server farms, and somehow the shipping co. picked the wrong one.
The rest is easy to imagine: pack the whole crap up again, up the trucks, bring to the correct location etc... and os the equipment was physically isntalled sometime the night between friday and saturday. And of course, us lowly engineers had to work around the clock with doubled efficiency, to have the thing working and tested by monday morning. And so we did.
To me, English is a fourth language, and I am in the process of learning a fifth one, but I really suck at it. Gone are the days when learning a new language was easy for my, once intelligent, brain. I am in that age when I.Q. is on its way down :o(
BTW, I was aware of those three types of English, but I would always put the first two categories into one. Instead, I would like to add a different kind of English which you have not mentioned: the English of Shakespeare, Shelley, Hopkins and Wilde. It's the least useful and most difficult to master.
I see. Uhhh, that can be pretty nasty. :o)
Thanks for enlighting me. There is a lot of the English language I can't learn from the Internet.. or, in this case, I can
Yes, you are right, I meant the Rockridge extensions, actually.
I know pfs_mount, I used it and I hate it, because it caused one too many problems.
Could someone explain me what is the meaning of "head-butt"? Thanks.
Nokia started with rubber boots. At the same time, they were in the paper industry, too, and even nowadays, there is a company called "Nokia" that makes really good paper towels.
:o)))
The mobile phone business came into the picture with another little company that merged with Nokia. The company was called "Mobira" and many a Finn still remember them and their "portable" (really freaking heavy boxen) phones
Could HP be so bold and finally f*cking support iso9660 on HP-UX?
Nah, that'd be too bold...
Looking at the picture, I had the distinct impression that the wolf looked the most advanced of the three.
Hey, this is cool, expecially if it's possible to program "close to the metal", which is what I really like.
So, maybe I don't need to build my own robot, after all. This one could provide me with all the thrill and technical excitement, without the nuisance of putting together the electronics and the mechanics.
And maybe, by studying this SDK, I can learn how to expand the Aibo, with additional motors, stronger activators, what you have.
It all depends how much freedom does this SDK provide.
It should be "borealis"
It's one of the visually most stunning phenomena on earth. Sometimes it's visible even in Helsinki.
I am skeptical about the insulation. No matter how good the insulation is, sooner or later the cold sinks in. There should be a (minute) source of heat.
Where is the power coming from? I read the article, and it is not explained where does this device get it's power. I imagine that should be quite a challenge by itself, since
a) at those low temperatures batteries do not work at all.
b) 6 months in a row each year it's dark, so solar panels are not a viable source of energy.
What, then? Quite an engineering problem, huh?
Well, this will increase future sales of Clawhammer, but it leaves IA64 (Intel's take on 64 bit x86 successors) in the lurch.
Oh well. At least HPaq is going to ditch PA-RISC for IA64, making up for the blow.