ESA fingerprint?

Is it just me or the ESA logo indeed looks like a fingerprint? Turns out, they wanted to represent a planet. I learned this while reading the ESA Visual Design Guidelines. Do you see a planet on the picture?

Is it just me or the ESA logo indeed looks like a fingerprint? Turns out, they wanted to represent a planet. I learned this while reading the ESA Visual Design Guidelines. Do you see a planet on the picture?
В этих самых интернетах очередной скандал: все сливают некую российскую компанию, которая продаёт некачественные автокресла в интернете.
По поводу автокресел в 2008 году вышло исследование американского экономиста Стивена Левитта, который более известен как автор книжки Freakonomics. Стивен на свои деньги заказал испытания ремней безопасности по программе испытаний автокресел. С макетами детишек разных возростов, датчиками, замедленной съёмкой. Короче, полный фарш.
The recent Doing Business '2011 report states on page 98 that Belgium has no limit on the maximum length of fixed-term contracts. AFAIK, this is wrong. The maximum length of fixed-term contracts is 2 years (exceptionally, 3 years). In some sectors, this is down to 6 months. My knowledge dates from 2007, but I bet nothing changed since then.
Here's a prooflink from 2006.
Assuming that the internal screen is LVDS and the external screen is DVI-0. inotifywait comes from the inotify-tools package.
# Wait for the changes detected by the kernel laptop mode.
while inotifywait -e modify /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
do
laptop_mode=`cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode`
# If on battery, switch on the internal screen.
if [[ $laptop_mode -gt 0 ]]; then
xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800
xrandr --output DVI-0 --off
# Otherwise,
elif [[ $laptop_mode = 0 ]]; then
# if the external screen is connected, switch it on.
if [[ `xrandr -q|grep DVI-0|cut -f2 -d\ ` = connected ]]; then
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200
xrandr --output LVDS --off
fi
fi
done
I recently bought an Asrock ION 330 Pro HTPC which supports VDPAU, an NVIDIA API for Linux that offloads parts of video processing to the GPU. The upgrade from the old HTPC went smoothly with a mere dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb and a few system tweaks. However, it turned out that Mplayer in Debian Lenny that I was running on my new HTPC box did not support VDPAU. Checking the usual places, like backports and debian-multimedia did not help, either.

Вчера смотрел последнюю серию Lie to me, там Лайтман вымучивал из себя книгу на новеньком макбуке, параллельно расследуя некое происшествие на конкурсе красоты. Вымучивал он книжку на протяжении всей серии, а под конец показали кадр, в котором он сидит за ноутом с виндовс и упоённо строчит текст новой книжки.
«Сядь за венду, займись делом.» © popular stereotype
Even Metro can be source of insightful information. Look, 1.4 mln belgians get luncheon vouchers, 0.35% of luncheon vouchers stay unused, so how much do the distribution companies pocket each year on these unused luncheon vouchers?
1.4 mln people * 6€ *22 days *11 months * 0.35% = 7 114 800 € per year
And what if Fedis is right and 5% of luncheon vouchers get unused? Then, Sodexo and Accor would make a whopping 100 mln per year out of the holes in our pockets!