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OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit: Moving the Discussion Forward - Articles
by karlcow
GeoREL is now an ISO standard. The most visible efforts of the working group involved a pilot for ORCHESTRA, an effort to outline some possible licenses. The group extended the existing Creative Commons licenses with a few extra licenses to cover non-disclosure, commercial use and emergency use.
Site de Pilot Systems dédié à nos supports de cours — Supports de cours Pilot Systems
by Emaux
Pilot Systems intervient dans différentes écoles d'ingénieurs informatique pour donner des cours, notamment concernant Python, Zope et Plone. La formation permet de doter les étudiants d'un bagage technique large, facilitant leur insertion dans le monde du travail.
For Young Japanese, It’s Back to the Farm - NYTimes.com
by karlcow
He is part of Japan’s 2,400-strong Rural Labor Squad, urban trainees dispatched to the countryside under a pilot program to put Japan’s underemployed youth to work tilling its farms.
US Airways airplane crashes in Hudson River - Hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger III saves all aboard
by znarf
1 comment
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It appeared to be the first time in 45 years that a major aircraft crash-landed in the water - and every passenger on board made it out alive.
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2008
Nimbus
by camel
Nimbus provides a free, open source infrastructure for remote deployment and management of virtual machines, allowing you to:
* Create compute clouds (make your own EC2 style service). For examples, see the science clouds page.
* Deploy "one-click" auto-configuring virtual clusters (see the cloud clusters page). They adapt on the fly into new network and security contexts so you can set them up once and run them over and over again, even across different clouds.
* Serve clients that are compatible with the Amazon EC2 service, see What is the EC2 frontend?
* Integrate VMs on a set of resources already configured to manage jobs (i.e., already using a batch scheduler like PBS). See What is the Workspace Pilot?
* Interface to Amazon EC2 resources, see What is the EC2 backend?
* Easily experiment with new remote protocols and backends, see What is the RM API?
Déchets radioactifs: à votre meilleur souvenir !
by xibe
"Aux Etats-Unis, sur le site de WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant), dans l'Etat du Nouveau Mexique, réservé aux déchets d'origine militaire, les chercheurs qui travaillent sur plusieurs milliers d'années envisagent de graver des messages --écrits, symboles et dessins-- sur de gigantesques blocs de pierre."
Library of Congress Flickr pilot
by Paykhan
The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections.
2007
ivan krstić · code culture » First OLPC deployment: now it’s real.
by karlcow
L'enfant regarde l'objet, Il veut découvrir. L'homme regarde la caméra, il est juste le distributeur, à la recherche de la bonne image pour le projet. L'homme ne regarde pas l'enfant. Peut-être qu'une minute après il s'est investi avec l'enfant dans la découverte. Mystère des images et du hors contexte.This week, Uruguay became the first-ever real, non-pilot deployment site of OLPC XO laptops. And I was there to hand out the first one.
The Original 1939 Futurama
by rike_
In the pilot of the animated comedy Futurama, the protagonist awakens from a millennium of cryogenic slumber to find himself in the year 3000. The first thing he hears is a portentous, booming voice: "Welcome...to the world of tomorrow!" The speaker is soon revealed to be a lab technician with a flair for the melodramatic. The scene riffs on a 70-year-old fair ride, a vision of the future that's been so influential it'll probably seem familiar even if you've never heard of it.
The direct reference is to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, whose tagline was a promise to show visitors "the world of tomorrow." The most memorable exhibit at the fair was the General Motors Pavilion, and the most memorable feature in the General Motors Pavilion was a ride called the Futurama. People stood in line for hours to ride it and experience the exciting possibilities of life in the distant future —the year 1960.
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot - CollegeHumor video
by bouilloire
Et merci à MagicFred pour l'éclat de rire :)
Main Page - Citizendium
by pyxosledisciple
& 3 others
The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names. We launched a pilot project in November 2006 and launched publicly in March 2007.
Second Brain™ - Organize Everything in Your Internet Library - Apply For Test Pilot Access
by oseres
& 1 other
Une surcouce du web2
Sign up early, and get in first.
Développement - hébergement - formations - Zope | Plone - Gestion de contenus - Pilot Systems remporte l'appel d'offre portant sur la réalisation de l'intranet de l'ÉNA
by bluetouff
Pilot Systems vient de remporter un appel d'offre portant sur la réalisation du nouvel intranet de l'École Nationale d'Administration (ÉNA).
AHN | Hackers Invited To Break Into Philippine Internet Voting System | April 20, 2007
by padawan
Manila, Philippines (AHN) - Local and foreign computer hackers will be tapped to try and break into an Internet-based voting system that will be pilot tested by the country's Commission on Elections (Comelec) starting July 10.
