You can look up works with Firefox with the right mouse button... if you highlight a word, then click 'search web for ' it will open a new tab with the search results... I've not been using it, but its pretty useful..
Here in the Netherlands about two months ago a bunch of cities were subjected to sonic booms of 2 F16's scrambling to intercept a commercial airliner that wouldn't respond to any sort of radio contact. It was some sort of charter from Scandinavia to Spain if I remember right (I can't find any news article about it any more). Later turned out to be a huge misunderstanding, but I guess they didn't take any chances and had the jets intercept.
It was pretty cool... a very low boom as if someone had set off explosives somewhere a distance away. The windows rattled in their frames. I didn't know it was a sonic boom at the time, but it was mentioned on the news later.
The scenes are pretty impressive, although many of the stills don't exactly look like you need Blender or any 3D app to make them. The GIMP would suffice. Like 'Lily' and 'Old Man Willow'? I mean, isn't it masochistic to do something like this in a 3D rendering program? Seems like the wrong tool for the job.
The animations were really nice and impressive... I especially liked the one-eyed guy from Monsters, Inc with the Monty Python voice over. Very funny.
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I don't know what you use for default settings for reading Slashdot comments, but I read at threshold 3, nested, and highest comments first... the nested option makes it a lot easier to read.
There is a huge loop of fiber going all the way around Africa that was put there during the dotcom boom by a company called Africa One. Apparently it is mostly dark, because no one can pay to use it:
So this is interesting for wireless sake, but not interesting for the sake of Internet connectivity in Africa. This fiber loop needs to be put to use to enable cheap Internet in Africa. Many Internet connections are still done by satellite, which is expensive and slow.
Holy shit! This makes a HUGE difference. Thanks! Some pages load slow even though I am on a really fast link with a fast computer, and so it had to be the rendering... but this makes a world of difference. Thanks!
As a Dutch citizen I just voted too... and we have electronic machines here...and guess what? THey work. No one has ever complained about them. No one has ever found any problems with them. They are used in all but a few cities here in the Netherlands.
WHAT THE FUCK IS SO HARD ABOUT MAKING AN E-VOTING MACHINE?
Every time I read anything about the fiasco of the evoting machines in the US, I am flabbergasted, amazed, astounded that this could be happening. This is the country that has always stood for democracy, and there is so much weird shit going on with the basis of the democratic system, voting...
I have an iRiver IMP400 MP3CD player and I am very happy with it. Lots of features and it hasn't had any glitches yet. THe nice thing about iRiver products is that they are firmware upgradeable (most new ones are anyways), so users will request for features and file bugs and iRiver will listen and put out new firmware, which I think it pretty cool.
Anyways, I highly recommend iRiver. I'm not sure how hackable the new ones are, but I'm sure you could probably mess around with the firmware if you wanted to.
I'm sorry, but Kenya is not an Islamic country. Granted, there are a lot of Muslims, especially at the coast, but the majority of Kenyans are Christians.
For the rest you have painted a pretty good picture of Kenya. Too bad the elections last year haven't really improved anything.
You should read the novel 'Noir' by KW Jeter. Its set in the near future, and business men have their hands wired so when they shake hands they exchange information.
They have a part of the book online. Click on the central image until you get to page 14, halfway down the system is described.
For the rest the novel is a good read, if you like Neal Stephenson or William Gibson. Same sort of writing style and setting.
Yeah, there are hospitals using Linux. A huge university based one I know of uses a proprietory system to manage all patient data from a vendor who makes stuff that runs on Linux. Granted the IT staff at the hospital only have to manage the application. But the application uses Linux as an OS, which I think is pretty cool. And this is a mission critical application.
Of course all the rest of the staff uses Windows PCs, which either have a native application that interfaces with the backend servers or a terminal program.
Yeah, I would like to add my own experience about this. I've been using the GIMP a lot the past couple months in Fark photoshop contests. Its been working great for me. The 1.2 and less versions were pretty bad UI-wise. But the 2.0 version is so much better.
The interesting thing was that I then recently tried out Photoshop CS to see what all the fuss was about, and I could not use it. I couldn't find how to do anything! So my point of view was that Photoshop had the unusable interface, because I was used to the GIMP.
Granted, I'm not someone who does image stuff professionally, so there's a lot of things I'm gonna be unaware of that others might gripe about (as is seen in this thread).
But still... it's all about what you are used to. I can understand that when you are used to Photoshop you can't get the GIMP to work the way you want to (as the submitter and article writer), and the other way around (as I have experienced).
Yes, I RTFA, and they mention the Imagica 4000 lines/frame scanner and the 600 Macs, but not what the Macs are used for. Only that the frames are offloaded to a server with a large hard disk.
So WHAT part of the process are they being used for? Someone enlighten me please.
Actually pilots like to land themselves most of the time, but when the visibility goes down to less than 50 meters or so, they are pretty much required to let the autopilot land the plane. A human isn't that precise at reading the instruments and flaring the plane at the right moment in heavy fog.
This was what a airline pilot friend of mine told me, at any rate.
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You can look up works with Firefox with the right mouse button... if you highlight a word, then click 'search web for ' it will open a new tab with the search results... I've not been using it, but its pretty useful..
cheers
So do you need to install SP1 before you can install SP2?
So where are the Slashdot browser stats? I'd be very interested.
Here in the Netherlands about two months ago a bunch of cities were subjected to sonic booms of 2 F16's scrambling to intercept a commercial airliner that wouldn't respond to any sort of radio contact. It was some sort of charter from Scandinavia to Spain if I remember right (I can't find any news article about it any more). Later turned out to be a huge misunderstanding, but I guess they didn't take any chances and had the jets intercept.
It was pretty cool... a very low boom as if someone had set off explosives somewhere a distance away. The windows rattled in their frames. I didn't know it was a sonic boom at the time, but it was mentioned on the news later.
The scenes are pretty impressive, although many of the stills don't exactly look like you need Blender or any 3D app to make them. The GIMP would suffice. Like 'Lily' and 'Old Man Willow'? I mean, isn't it masochistic to do something like this in a 3D rendering program? Seems like the wrong tool for the job.
The animations were really nice and impressive... I especially liked the one-eyed guy from Monsters, Inc with the Monty Python voice over. Very funny.
Cheers
Its a standard DivX codec with an MP3 sound layer. Works fine under MPlayer in Linux.
Cheers
Hella fast... 375 KB/sec!
Nice!
I don't know what you use for default settings for reading Slashdot comments, but I read at threshold 3, nested, and highest comments first... the nested option makes it a lot easier to read.
A place to submit feature requests is at Slashcode sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
More slashcode stuff at the Slashcode site. Dunno if you can submit bug reports and feature requests there though.
Cheers.
That is pretty scary. Hope not too many people read your post... did you write Google about it?
Cheers
Its not a joke... I wish.
Besides, does anybody still call it the Dark Continent? A colonial era colloquialism.
There is a huge loop of fiber going all the way around Africa that was put there during the dotcom boom by a company called Africa One. Apparently it is mostly dark, because no one can pay to use it:
See here for a large pic.
More info:
Wired News
Lucent
Some interview
So this is interesting for wireless sake, but not interesting for the sake of Internet connectivity in Africa. This fiber loop needs to be put to use to enable cheap Internet in Africa. Many Internet connections are still done by satellite, which is expensive and slow.
Holy shit! This makes a HUGE difference. Thanks! Some pages load slow even though I am on a really fast link with a fast computer, and so it had to be the rendering... but this makes a world of difference. Thanks!
As a Dutch citizen I just voted too... and we have electronic machines here...and guess what? THey work. No one has ever complained about them. No one has ever found any problems with them. They are used in all but a few cities here in the Netherlands.
WHAT THE FUCK IS SO HARD ABOUT MAKING AN E-VOTING MACHINE?
Every time I read anything about the fiasco of the evoting machines in the US, I am flabbergasted, amazed, astounded that this could be happening. This is the country that has always stood for democracy, and there is so much weird shit going on with the basis of the democratic system, voting...
Again: WHAT THE FUCK?
I have an iRiver IMP400 MP3CD player and I am very happy with it. Lots of features and it hasn't had any glitches yet. THe nice thing about iRiver products is that they are firmware upgradeable (most new ones are anyways), so users will request for features and file bugs and iRiver will listen and put out new firmware, which I think it pretty cool.
Anyways, I highly recommend iRiver. I'm not sure how hackable the new ones are, but I'm sure you could probably mess around with the firmware if you wanted to.
Cheers
I'm sorry, but Kenya is not an Islamic country. Granted, there are a lot of Muslims, especially at the coast, but the majority of Kenyans are Christians.
:-)
For the rest you have painted a pretty good picture of Kenya. Too bad the elections last year haven't really improved anything.
Ah well, it was fun growing up there...
You should read the novel 'Noir' by KW Jeter. Its set in the near future, and business men have their hands wired so when they shake hands they exchange information.
They have a part of the book online. Click on the central image until you get to page 14, halfway down the system is described.
For the rest the novel is a good read, if you like Neal Stephenson or William Gibson. Same sort of writing style and setting.
You owe me a new keyboard. :-) And some way to clean up my monitor. Hilarious!
Yeah, there are hospitals using Linux. A huge university based one I know of uses a proprietory system to manage all patient data from a vendor who makes stuff that runs on Linux. Granted the IT staff at the hospital only have to manage the application. But the application uses Linux as an OS, which I think is pretty cool. And this is a mission critical application.
Of course all the rest of the staff uses Windows PCs, which either have a native application that interfaces with the backend servers or a terminal program.
Yeah, I would like to add my own experience about this. I've been using the GIMP a lot the past couple months in Fark photoshop contests. Its been working great for me. The 1.2 and less versions were pretty bad UI-wise. But the 2.0 version is so much better.
The interesting thing was that I then recently tried out Photoshop CS to see what all the fuss was about, and I could not use it. I couldn't find how to do anything! So my point of view was that Photoshop had the unusable interface, because I was used to the GIMP.
Granted, I'm not someone who does image stuff professionally, so there's a lot of things I'm gonna be unaware of that others might gripe about (as is seen in this thread).
But still... it's all about what you are used to. I can understand that when you are used to Photoshop you can't get the GIMP to work the way you want to (as the submitter and article writer), and the other way around (as I have experienced).
Its only google.ca. And the site is microsoft.ca, so its a Canadian only thing. Dunno if that makes any difference.
Question: do you know how to get the rear speakers working under 2.6? I've tried the emu-tools, but I just keep getting an error. Very annoying.
:-)
And yes, the amount of settings for SB-lives is truly amazing. Like looking at a frikkin' studio mixer.
I didn't see the second page. Oops. :-) I've read it now.
Aw geez... there was a second page... oops. :-) Didn't see that. Thanks.
What are the Macs being used for?
Yes, I RTFA, and they mention the Imagica 4000 lines/frame scanner and the 600 Macs, but not what the Macs are used for. Only that the frames are offloaded to a server with a large hard disk.
So WHAT part of the process are they being used for? Someone enlighten me please.
Actually pilots like to land themselves most of the time, but when the visibility goes down to less than 50 meters or so, they are pretty much required to let the autopilot land the plane. A human isn't that precise at reading the instruments and flaring the plane at the right moment in heavy fog.
This was what a airline pilot friend of mine told me, at any rate.