So, the great FPS game will be back before the end of the year 2009. Either the launch campaign started early in Nepal or the bus drivers are using their vehicles as video game weapons (the latter would explain the extraordinarily high frequency of dramatic road accidents there).
Microsoft Project is expensive, very expensive. But once you started using it, you can’t stand not having a nice clean GANTT project chart. Why not get a free Microsoft Project? Even better than downloading MS-Project for free, I am proposing you to use an on-line GANTT chart/project builder that is completely free and works on-line: Gantter.
Gantter
I have been really impressed by the quality of such a software program. It may need to get some interface polish for Opera users (I had a couple of little display bugs), but the operation is fully adequate for many projects.
Sometimes an image (from Nepal or elsewhere) hesitates on the better orientation to give to the photographer. Which one of these two Nepalese paddy fields would you choose?
Copyright (C) 2009 Yves Roumazeilles - All rights reserved - Click on the thumbnail to enlarge it
Copyright (C) 2009 Yves Roumazeilles - All rights reserved - Click on the thumbnail to enlarge it
The arrival of Windows 7 also annonces the arrival of a new updated DirectX to serve the PC gamers’ community. We already knew that Vista did not have the favour of the gamers (who often stayed with Windows XP) and that had (among other things) some significant impact on DirectX 10 that required Vista. Will gamers now run to Windows 7? It’s possible, but if you want to see the real progress brought to video games (here, to the very popular Crysis FPS) by the various version of DirectX, check the video below:
When visiting Nepal, I could take a plane trip for some sight seeing, from Kathmandu to the Mount Everest (the highest point of our world at 8848m or 29028ft).
Its Nepalese name is SagarmÄthÄ (Nepali: सगरमाथा), and it is very near to the Lhotse, another 8000-summit (precisely 8516m or 27940ft).
Everest and Lhotse
The image here was taken from the pilot seat when we were at the nearest point to the Everest during the flight (click on the small image to enlarge it).
The unlabeled peak on the right is probably the Makalu (8463m or 27766ft). But this needs to be confirmed by somebody more expert than I am.
The ICANN started to allow non-latin alphabet to be used in the domain names to support half of the word which is actually using a non-latin alphabet (Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, etc.)
Google decided to celebrate with an anti-latin graphic to great their visitors.
It’s been quite some time already that a company named Red prepares not only a photo camera but a full photo & video system with a very high level of configurability. I recently stumbled upon the description of the various sensors that intend to included in their cameras.
See the size of the larger sensor: The RED 617 Mysterium Monstro sensor has 261,352,000 pixels (about the same number as sensitive cells at the back of a human eye).
The images to come out of it will certainly be monstrous as suggested by the sensor name.
Magnetic levitation is considered by some as the future of train technology. Several real trains have actually been created (the German industry has been a pioneer and is in a strong competition with Japan for the development of such MagLev trains or Magnetic Levitation trains). But did you really see how it works? It’s easy. Check this demonstration with maglev toy trains.
The tracks are made of traditional magnets and the train contain a big super-conducting magnet (cooled down by liquid nitrogen to maintain its super-conducting characteristics). Everything is relying heavily on magnetic fields. So, not surprisingly, these fields can be observed in the real train. The following video — shot on the Rokko Liner in Kobe, Japan — shows metal paper clips dancing on the stray magnetic fields of such a Maglev train, going through the floor of one of the passenger cars.
The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America that is most recognizable as the national bird and symbol of the United States of America.
See what happens to video game players, when a real World Rally Championship (WRC) pilot takes them to the real dirt. “Are you ready for the real thing?” Ken Block is not only a good driver, he’s trying his best to have them p…ing their pants.
Martin Luther King Jr has been inspiring for many great people and a lot of other human beings. This is a Bible-inspired speech I found.
I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.
You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.
You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand.
Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety.
And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.
You died when you refused to stand up for right.
You died when you refused to stand up for truth.
You died when you refused to stand up for justice.
You can’t read Chinese? That’s a pity. You would learn from this official announcement that some foods should not be eaten together (it is not clear how the exact risk was identified, though).
According to Xinjiang, the list of terrible mixtures is:
Pork + water chestnuts = a stomach ache
Beef + chestnuts = vomiting
Lamb meat + watermelon = a decreased vigor for life
Dog meat + green beans = poisonous to the body
Rabbit meat + celery = loss of hair
Chicken + celery = a decreased vigor for life
Goose meat + chicken eggs = a decreased vigor for life
Turtle meat + amaranth (a nutritional herb) = poisonous to the body
Carp + liquorice (not the candy) = poisonous to the body
Crab + persimmon fruit = diarrhea
Chicken eggs + saccharin = poisonous to the body, potentially fatal
Brown sugar + preserved eggs = poisonous to the body
White wine (白酒) + persimmon = chest pains
Onions + honey = damaged vision
Radish + fungus = dermatitis (a skin disease)
Bean curd + honey = makes you deaf
Potatoes + bananas = (not translated)
Bananas + sweet potato = a bloated belly
Peanuts + cucumbers = harmful to the body
Sweet potatoes + persimmon = lithiasis (formation of stones, such as the kidney stone)
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