Comment Vodo (Score 5, Informative) 109
I'll leave this here: Vodo
Great stuff there
Comment In the wild (Score 1) 193
In the wild, is that the same as in cyberspace?
Comment Re:Sort of interesting, but... (Score 1) 214
That's more like the neighbour breaking into your house, standing there creepily in your bedroom, only to notify you that your locks suck.
A better analogy would be if he was looking for you to return your drill he borrowed and tried the front door which was locked so he tries the back door which isn't locked and leaves a note to tell you he was looking for you, leaves the drill on the kitchen table and that the back door was unlocked.
Comment those were the days (Score 1) 156
There was once a time when people just did this kind of stuff without begging for money. The open source community was founded by people who often didn't have the money so they created stuff themselves and now every idea that spawns needs to be funded.
Now git off'a ma lawn
Submission + - Flightgear 2.10 released (flightgear.org)
arnodf writes: "The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.10 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator. This new version contains many exciting new features, enhancements and bugfixes. Highlights in this release include improved usability, better terrain rendering and a fully scriptable 2D rendering system."
"Highlights to FlightGear 2.10 include improved usability, a fully-scriptable 2D rendering system, and better terrain rendering. There's also improved modularization, atmospheric light scattering, improved performance, better internationalization support, Rembrandt renderer improvements, AI improvements, and much more. An extensive list of FLightGear 2.10 changes can be found from their Wiki-based change-log. "
"Highlights to FlightGear 2.10 include improved usability, a fully-scriptable 2D rendering system, and better terrain rendering. There's also improved modularization, atmospheric light scattering, improved performance, better internationalization support, Rembrandt renderer improvements, AI improvements, and much more. An extensive list of FLightGear 2.10 changes can be found from their Wiki-based change-log. "
Comment less water (Score 1) 228
Fracking trades water for energy, and lack of water limits fracking in many parts of th world.
So what we need is less water!
Comment Re:Belgians drilling a hole in the ocean?? (Score 3, Interesting) 242
1. there are no mines near the coast. Who would mine sand since that's all there is?
2. transportation from the sea to the coast would be incredibly expensive because you need to build pipelines, several pumps (as compared to only a few to pump it from the sea into the doughnut). We have (this will sound chauvinistic but I'm allowing my self to do so in this case) the best dredging companies in the world (Jan de Nul and Deme).
3. It's 3km off the coast... that's nothing. The shipping lanes are way out into the see. The only thing that may cause perhaps some problems is the harbour of Zeebrugge. The distance between Calais and Dover is what? 60km?
Comment really? (Score 1) 335
really Slashdot? Has it come to this?
Comment Re:CSS is annoying (Score 1) 144
I suggest a name for the replacement: Advanced Style Sheet or ASS
Comment wrong name (Score 1) 684
it's handegg, not football
Comment Re:The British are proud of their Pound (Score 1) 185
that is an A with a hat followed by the pound sign. Somehow it shows as a pound now
Comment Re:The British are proud of their Pound (Score 1) 185
I'm seeing lots of £ so I wonder which currency you're really referring to. Damn Slashdot encoding
Comment Re:Crazy! (Score 2) 244
Another Belgian cunt here. I just don't understand what the English have against us. Even on the BBC (which should be considered of higher quality) you often hear them joking about Belgians and not the kind of joking we and the Dutch do about each other in a more friendly way.
Comment Re:Crazy! (Score 0) 244
Let me guess, you're English?
What is it with them and their hatred (and I do say hatred because we've long passed the 'jolly fun' teasing) towards us when I hear so many people who have actually been here say we're a very kind people?
But I guess I'm just rendering myself to flamebait...*sigh*
Submission + - Belgian trades EU for US to build Star Trek medical device (euobserver.com)
arnodf writes: tfa: 'Start Trek fans will know about the Tricorder, a handheld device used by Captain Kirk and company to, among other things, scan the biological state of the living creatures they encountered on their interplanetary voyage.'
'The Tricorder, he says, will be not much more than a smartphone extension and be able to monitor and diagnose your health conditions without needing blood, urine, saliva, physical contact or even cooperation from the patient.
Instead, the Tricorder works with light, says De Brouwer, without going into details. “Advanced optics. Everything is light.”'
'The advent of the Tricorder came a step closer in January when Qualcomm, an American telecommunications company, launched a $10 million prize for whoever builds the device first. De Brouwer is officially competing.
'De Brouwer takes the example of the VScan handheld ultrasound device, recently presented by General Electric. “In Europe, people would say: It can’t be done. In the US they say: It will be done.”'
'The Tricorder, he says, will be not much more than a smartphone extension and be able to monitor and diagnose your health conditions without needing blood, urine, saliva, physical contact or even cooperation from the patient.
Instead, the Tricorder works with light, says De Brouwer, without going into details. “Advanced optics. Everything is light.”'
'The advent of the Tricorder came a step closer in January when Qualcomm, an American telecommunications company, launched a $10 million prize for whoever builds the device first. De Brouwer is officially competing.
'De Brouwer takes the example of the VScan handheld ultrasound device, recently presented by General Electric. “In Europe, people would say: It can’t be done. In the US they say: It will be done.”'
