Comment automatic flying robot car? (Score 1) 308
The moment someone predicts the advent of personal flying cars, i know their predictions are just plain wishes and not grounded in any research whatsoever.
Comment Re:Do Belgian radio stations pay? (Score 1) 337
yes, the radio stations here also pay SABAM. This 2nd tax is part of a broad agreement between SABAM and the employers-organisations, which in essence states that when you're playing copyrighted material in the workspace, you have to pay a fee (just like organizers of parties have to pay a fee, etc). Since a truck is indeed some subclass of workspace, they will have to pay too.
Another lame rule for instance: Hairdressers and other shops have to pay SABAM when they have a radio that's hearable in an area that the customer can enter. So, even when you have a radio somewhere back in the storage area - but it can be heared in the shop if you put the volume really loud, you have to pay for publicly broadcasting copyrighted material. A few years back, they were focussing on hairdressers and hotels and restaurants. Seems that source has dried out and they're looking for fresh water to quench their thirst
There's multiple exceptions though, 1 of them: Companies who host less than 9 employees in total, are exempt.
Comment Robert J. Sawyer (Score 1) 272
sound like someone read Robert J. Sawyer's Wake
http://www.sfwriter.com/exw1.htm
Comment Re:F U F Me (Score 1) 366
Man! That's been a while someone mentioned FUFME! Was already a meme when i started to read /. in the late 90's.
Astronomers Discover 33 Pairs of Waltzing Black Holes 101
Astronomers from UC Berkeley have identified 33 pairs of waltzing black holes, closing the gap somewhat between the observed population of super-massive black hole pairs and what had been predicted by theory. "Astronomical observations have shown that 1) nearly every galaxy has a central super-massive black hole (with a mass of a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun), and 2) galaxies commonly collide and merge to form new, more massive galaxies. As a consequence of these two observations, a merger between two galaxies should bring two super-massive black holes to the new, more massive galaxy formed from the merger. The two black holes gradually in-spiral toward the center of this galaxy, engaging in a gravitational tug-of-war with the surrounding stars. The result is a black hole dance, choreographed by Newton himself. Such a dance is expected to occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy in about 3 billion years, when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy."
Comment Re:Bye bye marvel... (Score 3, Interesting) 423
while the Grimm brothers just penned them down from oral tradition. They didn't do 'original' work either..
Comment facebook senior manager uses Twitter? (Score 1) 841
"First reported on social networking site Twitter, Facebook's Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin blogged"
In all this story, that's what surprised me most. A Facebook executive using a competing social network. I would have thought he'd facebooked about it..
In all this story, that's what surprised me most. A Facebook executive using a competing social network. I would have thought he'd facebooked about it..
(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? 702
haroldag writes "I thoroughly enjoyed the recent post about Unix tricks, so I ask Slashdot vim users, what's out there? :Sex, :b#, marks, ctags. Any tricks worth sharing?"
Comment Not exactly complete books (Score 1) 288
I just downloaded Veronika decides to die, and you just get a pdf with the first chapter of the book, just as Coelho himself puts on his website. It's not the complete book.
If all pdf's are like this, this article is a blatant lie.
