A few years ago I saw a fairly long report on the presence of a massive supervolcano under Yellowstone national park, which had erupted something like 60K years ago and which seems to erupt at regular intervals, the next eruptino being a few years late right now. This is probably a wild guess, but does anyone else think that perhaps lava from the present bassins under Yellowstone might be tunneled to Mt St-Helens?
It may be kind of far for lava to travel, but you never know, considering what I remember hearing about the imensity of the supervolcano potentially involved.
"Written by special contributor Stéphane Rieppi on 2005-01-15 04:36:21 UTC"
that isn't even funny!
heh.. anyway, since january things have come a LOOOONGG way in the IM world. take a look at the CVS of aMSN if you'd like more info - it's got webcam, doodles, nudges and more (but there might be things i don't know about, i haven't been keeping track of it lately)
as the number of new computer users increases, their average level of intelligence decreases. same thing happens when it comes to IT professionals, sorry to say.
yes. the CVS (development) version of amsn supports msn webcam (not videoconference)...it uses libmimic, which has previously been reported on slashdot.
"Already, synthetic biologists have created a polio virus and another smaller virus by stitching together individual genes purchased from biotechnology companies."
so... i see we can patent life now? perhaps we should attempt the founding of a free(speech+beer)/open genetic library... come to think of it, that would seriously kick ass:) it would be like the next step for computer geeks' war against boredom.
how do you expect me to believe this?
but yeah.... perhaps this could be used for further google earth developments.
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"Windows has supported hardware alpha blending since Windows 2000. OS X has supported it since about the same time. When will X.org and desktop environments bring this capability to linux?"
well, the current composite in xorg is mostly software accelerated, irrc... it's there, but it's kind of buggy... and slow. however this article seems to explain that Xorg will support better acceleration of Xrender, which is used for this kind of eyecandy.
from the article:
"New Acceleration Architecture for X.org:
At the recent European X.Org Developers Meeting KDE developer and Trolltech employee Zack Rusin presented a new acceleration architecture named Exa (eyecandy X architecture) for X.org. Being based on KAA (KDrive acceleration architecture) it's designed to be an alternative to the currently used XAA (XFree86 acceleration architecture) with better acceleration of XRender which is used by composite managers for desktop eyecandy effects. The next X.org release which is expected to contain Exa is planned to be released in September."
not sure if this is what you're looking for/thinking about... i believe it is though. right?
Umm, let me correct you there: gaim-vv and msn videoconferencing no longer work as of the latest gaim-vv release, for which the changelog notes that it will be using Farsight for msn webcam/videoconferencing...
...I guess you didn't get that having an msn webcam codec is a big advancement for the Farsight project, which I am told will be ready for use with many IM clients within 2-3 months.
This site has links to sites with linux drivers for several Logitech webcams... It's thanks to this site that I got my "QuickCam Messenger" working in linux... IMO it's running better in linux... But no big surprise, there, eh...
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A few years ago I saw a fairly long report on the presence of a massive supervolcano under Yellowstone national park, which had erupted something like 60K years ago and which seems to erupt at regular intervals, the next eruptino being a few years late right now. This is probably a wild guess, but does anyone else think that perhaps lava from the present bassins under Yellowstone might be tunneled to Mt St-Helens?
Here's a bit of searching I made on Google Maps
It may be kind of far for lava to travel, but you never know, considering what I remember hearing about the imensity of the supervolcano potentially involved.
For more information about Yellowstone
god! have you seen the date on that article?!!?!
"Written by special contributor Stéphane Rieppi on 2005-01-15 04:36:21 UTC"
that isn't even funny! heh.. anyway, since january things have come a LOOOONGG way in the IM world. take a look at the CVS of aMSN if you'd like more info - it's got webcam, doodles, nudges and more (but there might be things i don't know about, i haven't been keeping track of it lately)
my guitar wants to kill your mama.
wow, k.. i'm sorry then... i read something false on the internet :(
...because they wanted to stay at no.1 in the box office
as the number of new computer users increases, their average level of intelligence decreases. same thing happens when it comes to IT professionals, sorry to say.
NOTE - never use the term "energy source" when referring to hydrogen because it only carries energy that has to come from somewhere else
...just like every other energy source?
Just give your computer *Zed* for a hostname...then you'll enjoy the meticulous job, Marcellus...
heh...
(ironically, today's CAPTCHA image for me was 'horses')
yes. the CVS (development) version of amsn supports msn webcam (not videoconference) ...it uses libmimic, which has previously been reported on slashdot.
"Already, synthetic biologists have created a polio virus and another smaller virus by stitching together individual genes purchased from biotechnology companies."
:) it would be like the next step for computer geeks' war against boredom.
so... i see we can patent life now?
perhaps we should attempt the founding of a free(speech+beer)/open genetic library... come to think of it, that would seriously kick ass
"It's constantly amazing to see the extent to which people will abuse the DMCA to get what they want."
...money.
...what if he setup an automated spambot on a remote shell? it's still running, we can't.
s/military/fucking military/g
how do you expect me to believe this? but yeah.... perhaps this could be used for further google earth developments.
"Windows has supported hardware alpha blending since Windows 2000. OS X has supported it since about the same time. When will X.org and desktop environments bring this capability to linux?"
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umm, next release? in september?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/28/12452
well, the current composite in xorg is mostly software accelerated, irrc... it's there, but it's kind of buggy... and slow. however this article seems to explain that Xorg will support better acceleration of Xrender, which is used for this kind of eyecandy.
from the article:
"New Acceleration Architecture for X.org:
At the recent European X.Org Developers Meeting KDE developer and Trolltech employee Zack Rusin presented a new acceleration architecture named Exa (eyecandy X architecture) for X.org. Being based on KAA (KDrive acceleration architecture) it's designed to be an alternative to the currently used XAA (XFree86 acceleration architecture) with better acceleration of XRender which is used by composite managers for desktop eyecandy effects. The next X.org release which is expected to contain Exa is planned to be released in September."
not sure if this is what you're looking for/thinking about... i believe it is though. right?
Umm, let me correct you there: gaim-vv and msn videoconferencing no longer work as of the latest gaim-vv release, for which the changelog notes that it will be using Farsight for msn webcam/videoconferencing...
i can't check right now, but i used this driver to get it working ;-) (linked from the previous url i posted)
...I guess you didn't get that having an msn webcam codec is a big advancement for the Farsight project, which I am told will be ready for use with many IM clients within 2-3 months.
This site has links to sites with linux drivers for several Logitech webcams... It's thanks to this site that I got my "QuickCam Messenger" working in linux... IMO it's running better in linux... But no big surprise, there, eh...
oh, come on, man... leave me my bias fun ;)