FTA: "However, it was not exactly the same, Dr Gallagher added, because on the Sun, magnetic fields also helped the waves along. The phenomenon is therefore known as a magneto-acoustic wave.
so your name should be something to do with magneto-acoustic waves... Magnecoustami sounds a bit lame, maybe someone else can come up with one better...
... On fresh installs, many former Windows 2000 users would routinely disable the extra services and eyecandy that were so prominent in XP, trying in vain to negate the loss in performance that came with the move to the newer Microsoft OS... I'm the IT-go-to guy for my friends, and time after time I'm in this situation: I constantly hear complaints about how slow Vista is (admittedly usually on cheap PC's). My first suggestion is to disable all the eye candy and go back to the 2000-style blocky theme. This makes a huge improvement to Vista.
I know, probably not as good as previous versions, but better than how it's shipped.
Looks like plasma.kde.org is Slashdotted right now, so hey -- Wikipedia to the rescue. from the wiki:
...providing an API for developers to write widgets and mini-applications called plasmoids, to place on the desktop and panel. why plasmoids? If they're using the plasma theme, why not cells, which are suspended in blood plasma. Or perhaps ions if we're talking physics. While I'm at it, how about crystals (mineral plasma); songs (Plasma the album); nucleii (cytoplasm); germs (germ plasm); or even enzymes (nucleoplasm). Ahh, wikipedia, shall I compare thee to a summer-of-code day? Thou art more lovely and temperate.
Google is now shutting down servers and re-routing as they try and halt the spread of the newly-detected worm that tries to do a DOS on google, by making affected machines do a google search with random strings that look like 0cfa9f600839f57e90e5559b8ee54864
But seriously, as fun as it is to look up all your hashed responses on google, I'm going back to por... work:)
This is quite amazing... in a disturbingly peeping-tom kind of way!
Some bits from Icepick.com A wired house:
Everytime the doorbell is rang the computer will take a picture of the person ringing the doorbell. Since 20-Jun-1998 the doorbell has been rang 2815 times. An average ring lasted for 0.62 seconds.
Everytime the fridge is opened the computer will take a snapshot and record the date, time and duration of the fridgedoor opening.
Since 12-Jul-1998 the fridge has been opened 47811 times. An average dooropening lasted for 31.87 seconds. Check out how often his cat eats, and the temperature in his toilet!
neat.
I find it hard to see how this "kite" technology works. At such a height, any movement from the air foil would be diminished to a few degrees or less at the generator on the ground.
Also, From the blurb, "the holding structure grows exponentially heavier, more unstable and above all more expensive with the height." Actually the larger the tower and therefore the larger the rated capacity means the price per kWh gets cheaper, not more expensive. That's why wind turbines are getting ever larger.
And finally "... a wind turbine, whose most efficient part are the wing tips - in red - where the highest speeds are reached". The power you can harvest from the wind is not purely related to the tip speed, but rather to the "swept area". The power is not even related to the number of blades, just the area. So the blue circle is not representative of the power output of a turbine.
The tips have a maximum speed of course above which turbulence starts to work against the blade.
But give it a go - lets see one in action. When they start producing more power for a lower cost, then we'll start using them!
I agree with you - I never implied anyone _should_ visit, just that I thought with the +5, more than a few mods and people with nothing better to do (eg. myslef) _would_ have visited. It's interesting to see the difference between what someone thinks is "informative" and what they actually click on to see.
"Novell has just signed a deal with the Australian Government" and from the article "Novell has signed a deal with the NSW Department of Commerce, being a department of the NSW Government at that.
Contrary to popular belief, Sydney is not the capital city of Australia, and The New South Wales Government is not The Australian Government.
I tried to dig out the story, but all I have to go on is my (leaky) memory. Apparently, [he] was fired for buying IBM, because he bought IBM just because "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", not because "IBM is the better option".
What a fantastic idea! It's good to see someone can think of new idea's (although the Simpsons et al have been doing the same thing for years, but it's not [usually] advertising...) instead of the usual advertisement tripe.
[rant] I hate ads. I listen to radio stations that don't play ads, I mute the tv / change channel during the ads, I'll do anything to avoid them. If TV doesn't make you a zombie already, the ads do. Have you watched people watching ads? They just sit there with mouths open, staring.
When I first subscribed to AUSTAR (Australian Pay TV over cable), they could fit 3 simpsons episodes in an hour, with the only ads being the station's "watch Austar" (uh, ok!). Now, there are more ads than free to air TV. Isn't this the reason I pay for it?
We should be putting the same effort in getting rid of ads that we do to getting rid of spam, we're just numb to ads as a part of life... [/rant]
I know I've contradicted myself in calling it a good idea and simultaneously hating ads, but oh well...
1. The metacity "activation follows mouse" option is good except when the mouse moves from the center of the active window to, say, the panel. Any windows which show even a pixel in the way will get raised in turn as the mouse moves over them. This means that when the mouse reaches the panel, the window you were looking at is now longer the active window.
So what? Well, if you have 5x web browser windows, the window list distinguishes between the active one and the others by making it bold. So if you want to minimise the window which you've been viewing, suddenly it's not bold anymore, and you don't know which one it was, because one of the background windows has become active in the movement from screen center to panel.
This is quite unintuitive! The simple solution would be to add a small activation delay for "focus follows mouse". This works in other window managers that provide the same activation feature.
2. Metacity "edge stickyness" so you can easily line up windows to the screen edge, or other windows. The traditional problem with wm's implementing this, is the window can snap to the edge ok, but to un-snap the window then jumps a bit, meaning that you can't position the window anywhere within 10 pixels of said edge. The snap is good, but it shouldn't remove the fine pixel by pixel control you can have with positioning windows.
Even the window-menu "move", arrow up/down/left/right option snaps to the edge in some wm's (which is good) but often you still get a large "jump" when the window unsnaps with this method.
You can already image a piece of paper with a digital camera -- and some digital cameras are very tiny indeed. But they don't include the ability to correct the image for the arbitrary positioning of the camera. Invent that, and you'd have a handheld scanner worth talking about.
My el-cheapo 6MP casio (QV-R61) digital camer can take photo's of business cards, whiteboards, etc, AND it processes the image with a special mode that straightens up edges and curves, due to my crooked eye, and the "fish eye" syndrome (don't know what it's really called).
It cost me AU$600 about 15 months ago, now it's down to AU$341.00
Admitedly it's more a camera than a scanner, so this mode could do with a bit of work, but it works good enough, and its portable.
I'm more likely to have the camera around when I happen to see an interesting document in a museam, say, than whip out my portable scanner! And it doesn't require me to touch the original either...
> > Wait... why dinosaurs dissapeared again?:-)
> I thought it was because they took up smoking...
No, no! It's because Homer sneezed when his modifed toaster took him back in time, remember?
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FTA: "However, it was not exactly the same, Dr Gallagher added, because on the Sun, magnetic fields also helped the waves along. The phenomenon is therefore known as a magneto-acoustic wave.
so your name should be something to do with magneto-acoustic waves... Magnecoustami sounds a bit lame, maybe someone else can come up with one better...
the results properly on your plain old RGB monitor / LCD.
... On fresh installs, many former Windows 2000 users would routinely disable the extra services and eyecandy that were so prominent in XP, trying in vain to negate the loss in performance that came with the move to the newer Microsoft OS... I'm the IT-go-to guy for my friends, and time after time I'm in this situation: I constantly hear complaints about how slow Vista is (admittedly usually on cheap PC's). My first suggestion is to disable all the eye candy and go back to the 2000-style blocky theme. This makes a huge improvement to Vista.I know, probably not as good as previous versions, but better than how it's shipped.
I've been meaning to block those for a while now...
...providing an API for developers to write widgets and mini-applications called plasmoids, to place on the desktop and panel. why plasmoids? If they're using the plasma theme, why not cells, which are suspended in blood plasma. Or perhaps ions if we're talking physics. While I'm at it, how about crystals (mineral plasma); songs (Plasma the album); nucleii (cytoplasm); germs (germ plasm); or even enzymes (nucleoplasm). Ahh, wikipedia, shall I compare thee to a summer-of-code day? Thou art more lovely and temperate.Google is now shutting down servers and re-routing as they try and halt the spread of the newly-detected worm that tries to do a DOS on google, by making affected machines do a google search with random strings that look like 0cfa9f600839f57e90e5559b8ee54864
:)
But seriously, as fun as it is to look up all your hashed responses on google, I'm going back to por... work
You might also want to check out http://utilitymill.com/utility/Goog_Your_Hash to see if your password is 'safe'.
If third world countries got just half of that market, a lot of lives would be changed.
won't somebody think of the children?I find it hard to see how this "kite" technology works. At such a height, any movement from the air foil would be diminished to a few degrees or less at the generator on the ground.
Also, From the blurb, "the holding structure grows exponentially heavier, more unstable and above all more expensive with the height." Actually the larger the tower and therefore the larger the rated capacity means the price per kWh gets cheaper, not more expensive. That's why wind turbines are getting ever larger.
And finally "... a wind turbine, whose most efficient part are the wing tips - in red - where the highest speeds are reached". The power you can harvest from the wind is not purely related to the tip speed, but rather to the "swept area". The power is not even related to the number of blades, just the area. So the blue circle is not representative of the power output of a turbine.
The tips have a maximum speed of course above which turbulence starts to work against the blade.
But give it a go - lets see one in action. When they start producing more power for a lower cost, then we'll start using them!
I agree with you - I never implied anyone _should_ visit, just that I thought with the +5, more than a few mods and people with nothing better to do (eg. myslef) _would_ have visited. It's interesting to see the difference between what someone thinks is "informative" and what they actually click on to see.
At the time of my posting, you had a score of 5, informative, for posting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZQ4k7Bi-8 but from youtube:
A hk...4 98519
Sites linking to this video:
826 clicks from http://www.xbox-scene.com/
236 clicks from http://xbox-scene.com/
185 clicks from http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEukZpklF
96 clicks from http://www.xbox-scene.com/index.php?newsview=1
53 clicks from http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=
they haven't been slashdotted yet! Not even 53 clicks from slashdot? oh well...
"Novell has just signed a deal with the Australian Government" and from the article "Novell has signed a deal with the NSW Department of Commerce, being a department of the NSW Government at that.
Contrary to popular belief, Sydney is not the capital city of Australia, and The New South Wales Government is not The Australian Government.
From the article:
While a baby girl copies the scene where Lisa appears to be driving Marg's car.
Does the UK version have Lisa driving? I thought it was Maggie with her toy wheel ;)
If you ask me, the likeness looks pretty lame.
I tried to dig out the story, but all I have to go on is my (leaky) memory. Apparently, [he] was fired for buying IBM, because he bought IBM just because "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", not because "IBM is the better option".
If only I could google my memory...
What a fantastic idea! It's good to see someone can think of new idea's (although the Simpsons et al have been doing the same thing for years, but it's not [usually] advertising...) instead of the usual advertisement tripe.
[rant]
I hate ads. I listen to radio stations that don't play ads, I mute the tv / change channel during the ads, I'll do anything to avoid them. If TV doesn't make you a zombie already, the ads do. Have you watched people watching ads? They just sit there with mouths open, staring.
When I first subscribed to AUSTAR (Australian Pay TV over cable), they could fit 3 simpsons episodes in an hour, with the only ads being the station's "watch Austar" (uh, ok!). Now, there are more ads than free to air TV. Isn't this the reason I pay for it?
We should be putting the same effort in getting rid of ads that we do to getting rid of spam, we're just numb to ads as a part of life...
[/rant]
I know I've contradicted myself in calling it a good idea and simultaneously hating ads, but oh well...
1. The metacity "activation follows mouse" option is good except when the mouse moves from the center of the active window to, say, the panel. Any windows which show even a pixel in the way will get raised in turn as the mouse moves over them. This means that when the mouse reaches the panel, the window you were looking at is now longer the active window.
So what? Well, if you have 5x web browser windows, the window list distinguishes between the active one and the others by making it bold. So if you want to minimise the window which you've been viewing, suddenly it's not bold anymore, and you don't know which one it was, because one of the background windows has become active in the movement from screen center to panel.
This is quite unintuitive! The simple solution would be to add a small activation delay for "focus follows mouse". This works in other window managers that provide the same activation feature.
2. Metacity "edge stickyness" so you can easily line up windows to the screen edge, or other windows. The traditional problem with wm's implementing this, is the window can snap to the edge ok, but to un-snap the window then jumps a bit, meaning that you can't position the window anywhere within 10 pixels of said edge. The snap is good, but it shouldn't remove the fine pixel by pixel control you can have with positioning windows.
Even the window-menu "move", arrow up/down/left/right option snaps to the edge in some wm's (which is good) but often you still get a large "jump" when the window unsnaps with this method.
You can already image a piece of paper with a digital camera -- and some digital cameras are very tiny indeed. But they don't include the ability to correct the image for the arbitrary positioning of the camera. Invent that, and you'd have a handheld scanner worth talking about.
My el-cheapo 6MP casio (QV-R61) digital camer can take photo's of business cards, whiteboards, etc, AND it processes the image with a special mode that straightens up edges and curves, due to my crooked eye, and the "fish eye" syndrome (don't know what it's really called).
It cost me AU$600 about 15 months ago, now it's down to AU$341.00
Admitedly it's more a camera than a scanner, so this mode could do with a bit of work, but it works good enough, and its portable. I'm more likely to have the camera around when I happen to see an interesting document in a museam, say, than whip out my portable scanner! And it doesn't require me to touch the original either...> I hope this emboldens other countries to do the right thing for its citizens.
You mean embiggens right? It's a perfectly cromulent word...
In those pictures, Bill Gates looks entirely too much like most of my other university professors.
You mean the borg-bill picture? What sort of uni do you go to?!! ;)
> > Wait... why dinosaurs dissapeared again? :-)
> I thought it was because they took up smoking...
No, no! It's because Homer sneezed when his modifed toaster took him back in time, remember?
can be a real RSOL...
it's hardly a bargain... yet it's worth every cent I paid.
That's my definition of a bargain...