"with Microsoft not anticipating the storage that user of the free email accounts."
I think I know what this says, it seems to change whenever I read it.
"Hotmail Hopes To Block Spam with New Fee"
babelfish.av.com Bullshit -> English > Microsoft want to charge more people, and realised that they can do this by stopping outlook and hotmail working together for free. When the new Asok type intern said people might be upset, they look around and saw that thier secret hidden spam division were using outloko to send hotmail users spam. A few days later when the penny dropped they gleefully crafted some press released to give to the whoring IT news community. Unfortunately a/. troll babelfished thier press release, and found this secret message.
OK so babelfish isn't good at 1:1 translations.
Have you seen how good babelfish and google translating is now? *impressed* I write all my posts in klingon, like any true/., and use google to englishize them.
They harp on about oxygen levels. I started to wonder - what gas other than nitrogen would be good to compose the other 80% (assuming we reach earth density - could we have a 1/5 less atomosphere than was 99% 02?
So I think (although mars contains nitrogen - composition) the matter is how to make nitrogen and oxygen and enough co2.
Nitrogen in the air is vital for plant life also, so I think a valid nitrogen cycle, water cycle and healthy o2/co2 ratios would need to be established.
Would they find thier own levels, or will it be *bloody* hard to establish a balanced eco system?
My first thoughts about this were about re-calculating and re-imaging possible crash zones.
What would happen if hubble could image on mars? I suspect the optics are not designed to image something like mars, and wouldn't be effective?
Otherwise surely we would have close to 1m resolution of mars?
Am I missing something? Or is hubble too busy?
are visible in this image from the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. North is up in this image I think the images released are not the full resolution, or if they are then they at least with less compression (unless they transmit them compressed - which would be an insane idea) it should be clearer.
I would guess that they transmit all data back in raw, with lots of error checking.
al-EEE have a story on using small nuclear batteries, duct tape, and a grenade, to produce a nice dirty bomb.
Seriously, the problem with safety is, you never know what it will be used for.
Anything that leaks something something as invisible and deadly as radioactive substances into the general populace (not saying it will be! I mean, this has uses for the space program right?) might be safe, until you realise some half crazed idiot will exploit it.
I bet you law enforcement would JUMP at a digital file format where they have an encapsulated proof within an image that the image has not been adultrated
I pity you, perhaps these pictures of you and soon-to-be-ex-pres bush, playing with a banjo in the nude might accidentally end up signed sying that they haven't been altered.
Or maybe 'the camera never lies'.
Heck, as a photographer, I'd like it for protecting my own copyright
Again - look at PDF, look at the lawsuites, I hope my half hearted 'I hope the worse doesn't happen' doesn't turn out to be true.
I remember reading it the first time, the rock fals (that might have been the game...), or some of Lovelaces stories about dark edifices and caves.
"It's not my favourite cave, because it's about 3 degrees at the bottom and it's muddy and you have to dive in one part. But it's a great challenge and a bit of a thrill to stand somewhere where no human being has ever stood before."
He gets his name on a cave, and says 'It's not my favourite cave', that is like landing on the moon and saying, well, I was a bit dissapointed, I would have preffer a nice weekend in Prague with a couple of scantily clad eastern european woman.
I was only joking about the auzzies, everyone knows that they don't hug possums!!
(ok I admit I might be 1/8 of 3/16 half Australian because of my convict fore-fathers.)/me loves auzzies!
People are comfortable with the idea of 'negatives'. If Adobe can make a market for this format, it will tie people into using thier tools (or thier tools will have an additional 'incentive')
I have read up on how using the raw format of the camera, and using the software on the PC you can use the additional information the camera would have thrown away, to do things such as save areas that would have been captured to dark otherwise.
Of course, each cameras format for RAW is basically that, RAW format, and this proposed file format should be nothing more than making sure each software can access it seamlessly.
So in fact, reading the article, it woudl seem like a good idea...
until you look at PDF. I just hope they don't try and put some tagging / watermarking / superflous junk into it.
My DVD player supports MP3, CDA, region free DVD, VCD, SVCD et al.
I wish it played OGG! I guess I need one of those quirky WiFi streaming thingies(TM) that will allow me to play audio from my computer, to my input on the DVD, and play it through my nice speakers... and the video too...
How do you go about making your computer (which is tucked away nicely in todays equivilent of a shed, where you can erm, smoke you pipe and not be hassled by your partner) the center of your multimedia experience in the living room? With you nipple erecting projector screen and 5.1 surround?
People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council....
In seriousness:
Seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed significantly during the past 24 hours and the changes make us believe that there is an increased likelihood of a hazardous event, which warrants release of this Notice of Volcanic Unrest.
So there have been changes of a large magnitude, in a small time scale.
The swarm of very small, shallow earthquakes (less than Magnitude 1) that began on the morning of 23 September peaked about mid-day on 24 September and slowly declined through yesterday morning. However, since then the character of the swarm has changed to include more than ten larger earthquakes (Magnitude 2-2.8), the most in a 24-hr period since the eruption of October 1986. In addition, some of the earthquakes are of a type that suggests the involvement of pressurized fluids (water and steam) or perhaps magma. The events are still occurring at shallow depths (less than one mile) below the lava dome that formed in the crater between 1980 and 1986.
I think it is time to change the alert, even if it means changing the lightbulb!
I always wanted to be the first man to mars, I think the current speculation is a 2 year trip there and back.
I have child-like [ie non seriously] sketched is a ship with a rotational gravity ring [stabalizers and counterweights] or a partial ring to allow 2 years of centrifugal gravity^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hforce.
It would unfurl from its stored position about 2 days into the trip. I am sure there are more problems, such as micro-particle belts or other wierdness of space we haven't seen.
Oh and I would want some half mad sentient glowing computer to control all vital environment controls. Funded by a rival space company. In [thinks of most dubious and untrustworthy country on earth] the US.
I am always conscious of 2nd level correlations. Perhaps the dogs found a 'correlation' between urine scent and cancer because of the diet of the person. Indeed the dogs may have been inaccurate and only chosen those with a diet with a high disposition for bladder cancer.
Of course, this means those who were marked positively should be careful. Perhaps try and find any other common traits ammongst those who were selected, perhaps the sex / age of the people correlates to bladder cancer and this also was detected somehow by the dogs.
Of coruse, I am sure they thought of all this, I can just imagie health insurance door to door guys fleecing you over with a poodle before giving you a quote.
They are shaped like flowers and have bendy piping, and comically rave around when the water flows through them, and waters your garden through thier rose flower heads (the sprinkly bit)
I think sprinkers should be used at a minimum, if you put a timer on a permanent water coneciton, have an absolute minimum, also water after sundown (less evaporation) and not when it rained.
You can try a simple water detection system rather than sat weather - or soil moisture content meteres around the flowerbeds.
Just kidding. The original radio series was not available for some time, until recently. I am glad someone MP3'd the LP.
I agree with you point, that they have a DRM free version for sale and a free broadcast (that went well for me) available right now.
If I want to listen to it in 12 months, I will hope they have thier store open, and a non DRM copy then ey?
Re:Brings up a startling question
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I think the inevitability of a MMO closing doors is sad...:-( a good network model wuold mean you could upgrade 'software' like windows, and keep playing the essence.
Good point about PC software, I know that my amstrad copy of elite doesn't work on my PC anymore:-( It used to work at least 10% of the time on the amstrad:-(
Seriously though, originals of frontier, and frontier 2, DOTT, Sam and Max, all these DOS days games.... *sniff* haven't figured out how to get them runnig on SCUMMVM (haven't tried, well how replayable is an adventure game?)
I hope frontier first encounters is released for the Pocket PC. I noted David Braben about it... would be aaaaaace.
Maybe some enterprising Russians sold it to someone with a lot of money (hmmm, anyone like that in Bahrain?) and convinced them that they could use it to begin an Islamic space program. Then they towed it out to the desert before anyone found out how gullible and backward they were (or how much money they got taken for).
Hahaha that was great, I laughed so hard I probably extended my life by a good few minutes!
Earth & Beyond is no longer in service. After an amazing two years of galactic adventure, Electronic Arts has made the decision to close Earth & Beyond in order to focus resources on future games.
We hope you've enjoyed the game as much as we have and we'll see you again in another great EA game!
Thank you,
So, you pays your money, and then you are no longer able to play that game.... I am not fully up on the details, but I would be fskd is GTA VC stopped working on my PC one day (ok it ain't a MMORPG, but it is a game - I just don't play MMORPGS)
So what is the deal with that? [airline peanuts?]
If a game relies on these servers, and content, do the users know the minimum time they will be supported?
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Forgive my poor sentence structure, it happens when you reword a sentence in your head but keep typing regardless.
:-) [sorry old wavelet joke!]
I said, the originals must be: larger, less compressed (if compressed at all!)
The version shown was far too compressed.
Haar Haar Haar
"with Microsoft not anticipating the storage that user of the free email accounts."
/. troll babelfished thier press release, and found this secret message.
/., and use google to englishize them.
I think I know what this says, it seems to change whenever I read it.
"Hotmail Hopes To Block Spam with New Fee"
babelfish.av.com Bullshit -> English > Microsoft want to charge more people, and realised that they can do this by stopping outlook and hotmail working together for free. When the new Asok type intern said people might be upset, they look around and saw that thier secret hidden spam division were using outloko to send hotmail users spam. A few days later when the penny dropped they gleefully crafted some press released to give to the whoring IT news community. Unfortunately a
OK so babelfish isn't good at 1:1 translations.
Have you seen how good babelfish and google translating is now? *impressed* I write all my posts in klingon, like any true
Take an audio system with a line in. Put some WiFi enabled wireless doodah (TM) in there.
Place PC / Laptop in boot (babelfish: trunk) and stick another WiFi doodah (TM) [i think thompson make those doodahs (TM)]
Viola. Now you need a PDA running linux, ripping OGG streams, and using SCP to xfer them to the lappy in the back.
*thinks* maybe the PDA can play your OGG direct to your system, using the headphone jack.... *.,.*
I think you are fretting with WiFi and copying things. A bit of a non-story - either use CDA / CD-MP3 (I am sure you can buy MP3 player for car).
For added geek value, have a CD/SD/Memstick/pigeon carrier input to an ogg player. Less fuss more music.
Geek value points: avian carrier IP dataram transmission
OGG audio
A little article with two boffins talking abour terraforming mars.
They harp on about oxygen levels. I started to wonder - what gas other than nitrogen would be good to compose the other 80% (assuming we reach earth density - could we have a 1/5 less atomosphere than was 99% 02?
So I think (although mars contains nitrogen - composition) the matter is how to make nitrogen and oxygen and enough co2.
Nitrogen in the air is vital for plant life also, so I think a valid nitrogen cycle, water cycle and healthy o2/co2 ratios would need to be established.
Would they find thier own levels, or will it be *bloody* hard to establish a balanced eco system?
Any other thoughts on mars ecosynthesis?
My first thoughts about this were about re-calculating and re-imaging possible crash zones.
What would happen if hubble could image on mars? I suspect the optics are not designed to image something like mars, and wouldn't be effective?
Otherwise surely we would have close to 1m resolution of mars?
Am I missing something? Or is hubble too busy?
are visible in this image from the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. North is up in this image I think the images released are not the full resolution, or if they are then they at least with less compression (unless they transmit them compressed - which would be an insane idea) it should be clearer.
I would guess that they transmit all data back in raw, with lots of error checking.
Officer Barbrady, the chicken fucker is here!
OK Kids, nothing to see here.
al-EEE have a story on using small nuclear batteries, duct tape, and a grenade, to produce a nice dirty bomb.
Seriously, the problem with safety is, you never know what it will be used for.
Anything that leaks something something as invisible and deadly as radioactive substances into the general populace (not saying it will be! I mean, this has uses for the space program right?) might be safe, until you realise some half crazed idiot will exploit it.
Or Quake 2 on an unpatched AMD K6-2
quake2-patch stayed on my desktop for about 3 years before I upgraded.
I bet you law enforcement would JUMP at a digital file format where they have an encapsulated proof within an image that the image has not been adultrated
I pity you, perhaps these pictures of you and soon-to-be-ex-pres bush, playing with a banjo in the nude might accidentally end up signed sying that they haven't been altered.
Or maybe 'the camera never lies'.
Heck, as a photographer, I'd like it for protecting my own copyright
Again - look at PDF, look at the lawsuites, I hope my half hearted 'I hope the worse doesn't happen' doesn't turn out to be true.
I remember reading it the first time, the rock fals (that might have been the game...), or some of Lovelaces stories about dark edifices and caves.
:-)
/me loves auzzies!
"It's not my favourite cave, because it's about 3 degrees at the bottom and it's muddy and you have to dive in one part. But it's a great challenge and a bit of a thrill to stand somewhere where no human being has ever stood before."
Ungrateful lager swilling, possum hugging, 'roo eating, croc' buggering auzzie!
He gets his name on a cave, and says 'It's not my favourite cave', that is like landing on the moon and saying, well, I was a bit dissapointed, I would have preffer a nice weekend in Prague with a couple of scantily clad eastern european woman.
I was only joking about the auzzies, everyone knows that they don't hug possums!!
(ok I admit I might be 1/8 of 3/16 half Australian because of my convict fore-fathers.)
People are comfortable with the idea of 'negatives'. If Adobe can make a market for this format, it will tie people into using thier tools (or thier tools will have an additional 'incentive')
I have read up on how using the raw format of the camera, and using the software on the PC you can use the additional information the camera would have thrown away, to do things such as save areas that would have been captured to dark otherwise.
Of course, each cameras format for RAW is basically that, RAW format, and this proposed file format should be nothing more than making sure each software can access it seamlessly.
So in fact, reading the article, it woudl seem like a good idea...
until you look at PDF. I just hope they don't try and put some tagging / watermarking / superflous junk into it.
*cough*
i shot some photos last week in seattle, next project is to outfit the dog with a camera for a week.
/.'d :-) aaaaw man, I hope his dog doesn't snif around goatsy type people!
:-)
1: Attach camera to dog
2: make crotchsniffingcam.com
3: get
4: Profit!
I admit, his project are great, but why did he go sticking those shiney things on his PDA!?
I was dissapointed he used VNC to make his PDA work...
The kite pictures are cool though, I might try that with my $11 digicam!
My DVD player supports MP3, CDA, region free DVD, VCD, SVCD et al.
I wish it played OGG! I guess I need one of those quirky WiFi streaming thingies(TM) that will allow me to play audio from my computer, to my input on the DVD, and play it through my nice speakers... and the video too...
How do you go about making your computer (which is tucked away nicely in todays equivilent of a shed, where you can erm, smoke you pipe and not be hassled by your partner) the center of your multimedia experience in the living room? With you nipple erecting projector screen and 5.1 surround?
Worse could happen:
People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council....
In seriousness:
Seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed significantly during the past 24 hours and the changes make us believe that there is an increased likelihood of a hazardous event, which warrants release of this Notice of Volcanic Unrest.
So there have been changes of a large magnitude, in a small time scale.
The swarm of very small, shallow earthquakes (less than Magnitude 1) that began on the morning of 23 September peaked about mid-day on 24 September and slowly declined through yesterday morning. However, since then the character of the swarm has changed to include more than ten larger earthquakes (Magnitude 2-2.8), the most in a 24-hr period since the eruption of October 1986. In addition, some of the earthquakes are of a type that suggests the involvement of pressurized fluids (water and steam) or perhaps magma. The events are still occurring at shallow depths (less than one mile) below the lava dome that formed in the crater between 1980 and 1986.
I think it is time to change the alert, even if it means changing the lightbulb!
Damn I love British comedy!!!
I always wanted to be the first man to mars, I think the current speculation is a 2 year trip there and back.
I have child-like [ie non seriously] sketched is a ship with a rotational gravity ring [stabalizers and counterweights] or a partial ring to allow 2 years of centrifugal gravity^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hforce.
It would unfurl from its stored position about 2 days into the trip. I am sure there are more problems, such as micro-particle belts or other wierdness of space we haven't seen.
Oh and I would want some half mad sentient glowing computer to control all vital environment controls. Funded by a rival space company. In [thinks of most dubious and untrustworthy country on earth] the US.
scary! Saw Bourne Supremacy 'tother day, fantastic.
I am always conscious of 2nd level correlations. Perhaps the dogs found a 'correlation' between urine scent and cancer because of the diet of the person. Indeed the dogs may have been inaccurate and only chosen those with a diet with a high disposition for bladder cancer.
/. would love that! :-)
Of course, this means those who were marked positively should be careful. Perhaps try and find any other common traits ammongst those who were selected, perhaps the sex / age of the people correlates to bladder cancer and this also was detected somehow by the dogs.
Of coruse, I am sure they thought of all this, I can just imagie health insurance door to door guys fleecing you over with a poodle before giving you a quote.
I am sure some
They are shaped like flowers and have bendy piping, and comically rave around when the water flows through them, and waters your garden through thier rose flower heads (the sprinkly bit)
I think sprinkers should be used at a minimum, if you put a timer on a permanent water coneciton, have an absolute minimum, also water after sundown (less evaporation) and not when it rained.
You can try a simple water detection system rather than sat weather - or soil moisture content meteres around the flowerbeds.
Or below soil irrigation.
to a lifetime membership that allows for unlimited e-mails
For a service that is for after you die, what use is a lifetime subscription! hahahah no I get it, really I do...
That comment was something out of a Dirk Gently novel, I swear! :-)
Or the Screwdrivers [first ep of the 3ary phase, so long and thanks for all the fish] that have to be hidden in a drawer.
Some sense man! :-)
If the world actually used 403/404/410 and 301 it would indeed be a better place!
Perhaps a neat fix fox apache? if a file is deleted from the system, but it *knows* it was previously served, automagically slap up a 410.
I agree with you - I feel so guilty now...
Just kidding. The original radio series was not available for some time, until recently. I am glad someone MP3'd the LP.
I agree with you point, that they have a DRM free version for sale and a free broadcast (that went well for me) available right now.
If I want to listen to it in 12 months, I will hope they have thier store open, and a non DRM copy then ey?
I think the inevitability of a MMO closing doors is sad... :-( a good network model wuold mean you could upgrade 'software' like windows, and keep playing the essence.
:-( It used to work at least 10% of the time on the amstrad :-(
Good point about PC software, I know that my amstrad copy of elite doesn't work on my PC anymore
Seriously though, originals of frontier, and frontier 2, DOTT, Sam and Max, all these DOS days games.... *sniff* haven't figured out how to get them runnig on SCUMMVM (haven't tried, well how replayable is an adventure game?)
I hope frontier first encounters is released for the Pocket PC. I noted David Braben about it... would be aaaaaace.
Maybe some enterprising Russians sold it to someone with a lot of money (hmmm, anyone like that in Bahrain?) and convinced them that they could use it to begin an Islamic space program. Then they towed it out to the desert before anyone found out how gullible and backward they were (or how much money they got taken for).
:-) it is perfect!
Hahaha that was great, I laughed so hard I probably extended my life by a good few minutes!
Islamic space program
For pure MMORPG's:
Earth & Beyond is no longer in service. After an amazing two years of galactic adventure, Electronic Arts has made the decision to close Earth & Beyond in order to focus resources on future games.
We hope you've enjoyed the game as much as we have and we'll see you again in another great EA game!
Thank you,
So, you pays your money, and then you are no longer able to play that game.... I am not fully up on the details, but I would be fskd is GTA VC stopped working on my PC one day (ok it ain't a MMORPG, but it is a game - I just don't play MMORPGS)
So what is the deal with that? [airline peanuts?]
If a game relies on these servers, and content, do the users know the minimum time they will be supported?