Faster, more expandible, and more affordable than ever... The Power Mac G4 also comes with a library of creative, productivity and communications-specific third-party applications that leverage the strengths of Mac OS X.
My Nokia 3310 has taken a lot of abuse (dropped, taken hiking in the Arctic, spilled upon, and regularly used to open bottles). Pleasingly, it now cuts out after about a minute or two, but recovers quickly. Maybe I should patent the technique.
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Frankly I'm appalled that Rossalina dares to plagiarise Amazon -- on Slashdot, of all places. Can't she steal reviews from B&N, or some other site that doesn't abuse the patent system?
Hmmm. Maybe we need a "-1, blatant plagiarism" mod option;-).
The hot to cold transition that Swedes practice is something I don't think I could tolerate. I've tried turning the shower nozzle to cold, and I could just feel myself starting to go into shock.
That's a very different experience to coming out of a sauna. Sitting in there for an extended period heats you so thoroughly that coldness is a blessed relief. Even better, the heat goes so *deep* that you emerge from the lake or snowbank still feeling warm inside (provided you don't stay there too long). I think doctors call it "core temperature" or something -- the difference between a reading from your armpit and one from your arse;-).
It's also worth remembering that snow doesn't actually conduct heat very well, since there's so much air in it. So rolling in snow is less terrifying than it sounds. Snow at -15 Celsius feels about as cold as water at +5...
And, as has already been stated, Swedes (in general) don't tend to be as keen on hardcore Sauna-ing as the Finns. A Finnish relative of mine was working on a construction project in Libya a while back, and the first thing the Finns did was build themselves a sauna -- the daytime temperature in the shade was already about that of a Swedish sauna:-). For some reason the Libyans thought this a little odd. Can't think why...
If you actually have read this book, why are you plagiarizing Mike Blaszczak's Amazon review in a fairly unsubtle manner?
OK, it's good Slashdot Karma, but think what this is doing to your *real* karma -- much more of this and you're heading for reincarnation as a nematode worm;-).
I'm intrigued by the assertion that "the interesting bit" of this is that it's running Linux. So just plain old robotic brain surgeons on their own are pretty boring, hmmm?
Under the United Kingdom's PLR Scheme authors receive payments from government funds for the free borrowing of their books from public libraries in the United Kingdom.
It would appear that the system works so well that most people haven't even heard of it;-).
I suppose I can't comment on UK free speech laws, but in the US, parodies are protected.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Turns out they're not. For example, the excellent cartoonist Martin Rowson produced an excellent, inventive parody of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. It was published in full in the US. In the UK, the estate of T. S. Eliot threatened to sue the pants off the publishers unless they removed *every* direct reference -- even including lines which were merely quoted from other sources by Eliot! Needless to say the publishers complied.
Protection of parodies? We don't even have a written constitution. And if the govt keeps introducing legislation like the R.I.P. bill this place could be a police state within a decade...
Personally I've never seen the attraction of "For Dummies". Why would you want to mock your own intelligence to learn HTML or C++ or whatever? But clearly it's catching on: I've seen a rival series entitled "for complete idiots". I think they're going for more market share by being more insulting.
So who's going to get in there first and trademark "For complete drooling cretinous morons who can't find their arse with both hands and military GPS"?
Next week on Slashdot: IDG patent the concept of publishing books targeted at the mentally subnormal.
So I think that instead of having the industry leaders battle about language features for a decade, ending up with no result to speak of (as has happened many times with this kind of thing), they should simply hand the project to, say, IEEE or IETF or whatever, and then take whatever has come of it and implement it as-is in their own devices.
Not really viable. The personal/portable market is moving quite quickly, to put it mildly. If Nokia, IBM et al. hand it off to IEEE then sit and twiddle their thumbs waiting for a spec., they'll find that, say, Microsoft and Ericsson have developed their own proprietary standard which dominates the entire market. pIf you want something done quickly, do it yourself. If you want it done well, do it openly (check the website... they invite anyone to participate... well, any company...). I think they're on to a winner here:-).
I remember seeing this on BBC tech programme "Tomorrow's World" years and years ago. And the website seems to confirm that it's been around for a while:
The after-sales service of ELP is perfect. Although I had a failure on LT in 1990, I am fully satisfied with the LT...
Anyway, for a roundup of the most fantastically cool conventional turntables (all of which beat the laser one hands down on looks;-) check out this site.
There's another one that's been missed: MMM, which runs on most Unices and is available here. It's written in Objective Caml and seems a little outdated (1997). I haven't tried it myself (it wants old versions of libtk and libtcl which I can't be arsed to install) but even if it's of no practical use, it lets us say "There are n+1 browsers available for Linux!".
There's another one that's been missed: MMM, which runs on most Unices and is available here. It's written in Objective Caml and seems a little outdated (1997). I haven't tried it myself (it wants old versions of libtk and libtcl which I can't be arsed to install) but even if it's of no practical use, it lets us say "There are n+1 browsers available for Linux!".
There's another one that's been missed: MMM, which runs on most Unices and is available here. It's written in Objective Caml and seems a little outdated (1997). I haven't tried it myself (it wants old versions of libtk and libtcl which I can't be arsed to install) but even if it's of no practical use, it lets us say "There are n+1 browsers available for Linux!".
A famous quote is that the reason the US lead the space race for so long, was that their Nazis were better than the Russian's Nazis.
Yes, Wernher von Braun being the canonical example. The Russian moon programme was plagued with rocket trouble while the USA had its lovely new hydrogen-fuelled Saturn V.
The reason that the USSR was ahead in the earlier stages of the space race was that they had a head start. Russia has a long history of interest in space travel and rocketry, going all the way back to Konstantin Tsiolovsky's science fiction in the 19th century. In the 20s and 30s the government supported rocket research (although the purges were something of a setback).
The USA, OTOH, didn't take much of an interest in space or rockets until they perceived a threat from the USSR, and even then the funding was slow in coming. Although the USA had the pick of the German scientists at the end of WW2, the USSR had a lot more experience to start off with.
The books of my youth - that were books by Stanisl/aw Lem, the polish sf writer (he's also #1 in Germany, and quite known in the States AFAIK). He described an informalypse for the first time in a book entitled "A diary found in a bath" - a book written in the early sixties. This disaster doesn't play an important role in the whole story, it is only mentioned in the "introduction" - written by an editor somewhere in the far future, a representant of an other civilization, which arouse on the Earth after the fall of our civilization - which was due to a viruse eating... paper.
If anyone's interested, the English translation (by Kandel, natch) is entitled Memoirs found in a Bathtub and is an excellent read. It's a claustrophobic, Kafkaesque black comedy set in a vast underground military establishment. There's a lot on information and particularly encryption... in one particularly brilliant scene, a cryptographer runs lines of Shakespeare through his computer to discover their "true" meaning.
It's a/the major UK paper, considered the official text record of events for some purposes but of course that doesn't mean this story went to a tech guy.
Personally I reckon whatever credibility the Times had went out of the window (no pun intended;-) when they allowed Microsoft to buy up their entire print run for a day and give it away free to advertise the launch of Win95...
Acme has historically been a good choice for a company name because:
It means "highest point, pinnacle of perfection" or something along those lines.
It comes very near the start of the phone book.
... however, I suspect the name dropped in popularity after the Road Runner cartoons;-). BTW, in case there's anyone on the planet who hasn't seen it, here's the Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme Co. lawsuit.
Put together, though, it occurred to me how ironic it was that, while the availability of both guns and condoms clearly does involve a statistical increase in the chances of something going wrong (a gun being mistakenly fired, a condom failing or being used incorrectly), resulting in injury (transmission of sexual disease for a condom) or death (ditto, or an abortion later on)...
I think this is something of a stretched analogy. Remember that the desire for sex is a very strong, fundamental instinct built into (virtually) everybody. And while a lot of people get a kick out of firing a gun, I doubt that many would rate it as more pleasurable than an orgasm. Would you prefer never to fire a gun, or lifelong celibacy?
The fact is, young people *do* have sex, whether society condones it or not. Either you teach them to do so safely or you end up with lots of STDs, unwanted pregnancies and abortions.
For the love of god, LAUNCH RIGHT! Don't say you can index 800 million pages in three months when your database gives less results that Lycos circa 1996.
Puts me in mind of GPLTrans. "Tests have shown it's more reliable than Babelfish and InterTran," they claimed. Which was actually correct, provided you only want to translate the one sentence they tested it with:-).
Great, we imbue a token with some value, then when easy creation of that token becomes possible, we outlaw such creation instead of picking a new token? So, pacific islanders should start massive projects to poison sea creatures with shells, to prevent the devaluation of a shell-based economy? And those people who use large carved stones for money, they should outlaw a hammer and chisel?
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
"... Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich... But we have also run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut... So in order to obviate this problem and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and... er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances."
Where I was born, in Eastern Europe, this (methinks) eight centuries old story is well known. There are countless references to that in literature, starting from Apollinaire (yeah, he was polish) and ending with Lewis Wallace.
The Wandering Jew makes an excellent appearance in Jan Potocki's Manuscript found in Saragossa - an incredible book which probably deserves a Slashdot review.
Since GPLTrans' German translations are working now, I thought I'd give it a go. Giving it the URL didn't work, so I cut-and-pasted, and three minutes later GPLTrans came up with this:
Windows 2000 impends truncated Bann one component from Windows 2000 stammt from einer Scientology-Firma. that Defragmentierungsprogramm "Diskeeper" desired im february than fester ingredient des NT-Nachfolgers to come onto the market developed becomes it from the inc Executive software des bekennenden Scientologen Craig Jensen, as c't into issuance 25/99 refered. tue chaining among dem Psycho-Konzern and dem Softwareriesen is Sektenbeauftragten the großen churches truncated thorn im eye. "Das becomes doesn only tue katholische church interessieren, sondern also all Bundesländer, den... etc. etc.
Not quite useable yet then. I have my doubts about the effectiveness of brute-force word lookup, no matter how many people you have adding to your database.
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Faster, more expandible, and more affordable than ever... The Power Mac G4 also comes with a library of creative, productivity and communications-specific third-party applications that leverage the strengths of Mac OS X.
But evidently not a spell-checker...
My Nokia 3310 has taken a lot of abuse (dropped, taken hiking in the Arctic, spilled upon, and regularly used to open bottles). Pleasingly, it now cuts out after about a minute or two, but recovers quickly. Maybe I should patent the technique.
Frankly I'm appalled that Rossalina dares to plagiarise Amazon -- on Slashdot, of all places. Can't she steal reviews from B&N, or some other site that doesn't abuse the patent system?
;-).
Hmmm. Maybe we need a "-1, blatant plagiarism" mod option
The hot to cold transition that Swedes practice is something I don't think I could tolerate. I've tried turning the shower nozzle to cold, and I could just feel myself starting to go into shock.
;-).
:-). For some reason the Libyans thought this a little odd. Can't think why...
That's a very different experience to coming out of a sauna. Sitting in there for an extended period heats you so thoroughly that coldness is a blessed relief. Even better, the heat goes so *deep* that you emerge from the lake or snowbank still feeling warm inside (provided you don't stay there too long). I think doctors call it "core temperature" or something -- the difference between a reading from your armpit and one from your arse
It's also worth remembering that snow doesn't actually conduct heat very well, since there's so much air in it. So rolling in snow is less terrifying than it sounds. Snow at -15 Celsius feels about as cold as water at +5...
And, as has already been stated, Swedes (in general) don't tend to be as keen on hardcore Sauna-ing as the Finns. A Finnish relative of mine was working on a construction project in Libya a while back, and the first thing the Finns did was build themselves a sauna -- the daytime temperature in the shade was already about that of a Swedish sauna
If you actually have read this book, why are you plagiarizing Mike Blaszczak's Amazon review in a fairly unsubtle manner?
;-).
OK, it's good Slashdot Karma, but think what this is doing to your *real* karma -- much more of this and you're heading for reincarnation as a nematode worm
I'm intrigued by the assertion that "the interesting bit" of this is that it's running Linux. So just plain old robotic brain surgeons on their own are pretty boring, hmmm?
in today's world, the author doesn't receive a royalty everytime someone reads a book from the library
;-).
Well, actually, in the UK they do. See The Public Lending Right Website:
Under the United Kingdom's PLR Scheme authors receive payments from government funds for the free borrowing of their books from public libraries in the United Kingdom.
It would appear that the system works so well that most people haven't even heard of it
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Turns out they're not. For example, the excellent cartoonist Martin Rowson produced an excellent, inventive parody of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. It was published in full in the US. In the UK, the estate of T. S. Eliot threatened to sue the pants off the publishers unless they removed *every* direct reference -- even including lines which were merely quoted from other sources by Eliot! Needless to say the publishers complied.
Protection of parodies? We don't even have a written constitution. And if the govt keeps introducing legislation like the R.I.P. bill this place could be a police state within a decade...
So who's going to get in there first and trademark "For complete drooling cretinous morons who can't find their arse with both hands and military GPS"?
Next week on Slashdot: IDG patent the concept of publishing books targeted at the mentally subnormal.
Not really viable. The personal/portable market is moving quite quickly, to put it mildly. If Nokia, IBM et al. hand it off to IEEE then sit and twiddle their thumbs waiting for a spec., they'll find that, say, Microsoft and Ericsson have developed their own proprietary standard which dominates the entire market. pIf you want something done quickly, do it yourself. If you want it done well, do it openly (check the website... they invite anyone to participate... well, any company...). I think they're on to a winner here :-).
The after-sales service of ELP is perfect. Although I had a failure on LT in 1990, I am fully satisfied with the LT...
Anyway, for a roundup of the most fantastically cool conventional turntables (all of which beat the laser one hands down on looks ;-) check out this site.
There's another one that's been missed: MMM, which runs on most Unices and is available here. It's written in Objective Caml and seems a little outdated (1997). I haven't tried it myself (it wants old versions of libtk and libtcl which I can't be arsed to install) but even if it's of no practical use, it lets us say "There are n+1 browsers available for Linux!".
There's another one that's been missed: MMM, which runs on most Unices and is available here. It's written in Objective Caml and seems a little outdated (1997). I haven't tried it myself (it wants old versions of libtk and libtcl which I can't be arsed to install) but even if it's of no practical use, it lets us say "There are n+1 browsers available for Linux!".
There's another one that's been missed: MMM, which runs on most Unices and is available here. It's written in Objective Caml and seems a little outdated (1997). I haven't tried it myself (it wants old versions of libtk and libtcl which I can't be arsed to install) but even if it's of no practical use, it lets us say "There are n+1 browsers available for Linux!".
Well, if it ever gets built, the "largest Tesla Coil system that is theoretically and practically possible" might be a good place to research ball lightning. And many other cool things.
Yes, Wernher von Braun being the canonical example. The Russian moon programme was plagued with rocket trouble while the USA had its lovely new hydrogen-fuelled Saturn V.
The reason that the USSR was ahead in the earlier stages of the space race was that they had a head start. Russia has a long history of interest in space travel and rocketry, going all the way back to Konstantin Tsiolovsky's science fiction in the 19th century. In the 20s and 30s the government supported rocket research (although the purges were something of a setback).
The USA, OTOH, didn't take much of an interest in space or rockets until they perceived a threat from the USSR, and even then the funding was slow in coming. Although the USA had the pick of the German scientists at the end of WW2, the USSR had a lot more experience to start off with.
If anyone's interested, the English translation (by Kandel, natch) is entitled Memoirs found in a Bathtub and is an excellent read. It's a claustrophobic, Kafkaesque black comedy set in a vast underground military establishment. There's a lot on information and particularly encryption... in one particularly brilliant scene, a cryptographer runs lines of Shakespeare through his computer to discover their "true" meaning.
Personally I reckon whatever credibility the Times had went out of the window (no pun intended ;-) when they allowed Microsoft to buy up their entire print run for a day and give it away free to advertise the launch of Win95...
I think this is something of a stretched analogy. Remember that the desire for sex is a very strong, fundamental instinct built into (virtually) everybody. And while a lot of people get a kick out of firing a gun, I doubt that many would rate it as more pleasurable than an orgasm. Would you prefer never to fire a gun, or lifelong celibacy?
The fact is, young people *do* have sex, whether society condones it or not. Either you teach them to do so safely or you end up with lots of STDs, unwanted pregnancies and abortions.
Puts me in mind of GPLTrans. "Tests have shown it's more reliable than Babelfish and InterTran," they claimed. Which was actually correct, provided you only want to translate the one sentence they tested it with :-).
From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
"... Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich... But we have also run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut... So in order to obviate this problem and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and ... er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances."
The Wandering Jew makes an excellent appearance in Jan Potocki's Manuscript found in Saragossa - an incredible book which probably deserves a Slashdot review.
Windows 2000 impends truncated Bann one component from Windows 2000 stammt from einer Scientology-Firma. that Defragmentierungsprogramm "Diskeeper" desired im february than fester ingredient des NT-Nachfolgers to come onto the market developed becomes it from the inc Executive software des bekennenden Scientologen Craig Jensen, as c't into issuance 25/99 refered. tue chaining among dem Psycho-Konzern and dem Softwareriesen is Sektenbeauftragten the großen churches truncated thorn im eye. "Das becomes doesn only tue katholische church interessieren, sondern also all Bundesländer, den... etc. etc.
Not quite useable yet then. I have my doubts about the effectiveness of brute-force word lookup, no matter how many people you have adding to your database.
The bizarre thing is that the guy's web page already has a link to the Linux7k project. With the correct spelling of EPOC too.