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Yeah, they do:

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:1i0prMhBa54C: www.google.com/+=en=UTF-8

for those of you interested in bands that promote the distribution of their live material try FurthurNet It's very similar to Limewire in look/feel but only allows the trading of music by artists that allow the taping of their shows (and videotaping as well).

Thanks for the suggestion. I've mostly gone back to listening to my own CD collection, but for a long time I was listening one of the various SomaFM streams, sitting back, coding, and occasionally writing down the name of a new group or album that I had never heard. I have made dozens of CD purchases based on that list. That source is gone now, and the list (along with CD purchasing for the last few months) is frozen with its departure.

Another funny anecdote: While driving (the only time I ever consider subjecting myself to broadcast radio) recently, I actually heard a song I liked. Missed the name of the artist, but I paid close attention to the lyrics to see if I could pick out keywords. Went home, logged in to the nearest P2P network and had that exact song in less than 30 minutes.

If someone would develop a system with that kind of response time, that would allow me to download what I want by the song, I'd pay for that. The RIAA has had at least half a decade to develop such a system, yet instead they have tried to legislate the technology back into Pandora's Box.

This disgusts me to no end, and I think I'm now fed up enough where this will now become a personal crusade for me. These leeches do the public, and the arts no good. They've refused to evolve, so now it's time for their extinction.

If you are going to bother to karma whore like that at least do two things.
1) Make it a clickable link.
2) Make the link right. (It has a space in it)

Corrected:

Google Cache Link
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:v1jL4n4FTLkC: www.xentex.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

For the lazy people who don't want to copy and paste. click here

It seems to me, that you comment is really extra lame.

Not a stupid question at all. The answers are...no, and nothing. Critics will argue that the kids who do not participate will 'feel bad' or something like that, but participation is entirely voluntary.

Not true. There are some states that mandate the recitation of the pledge. Even in states that don't, many school districts do. And even if your state or school district makes it optional, what happens if your son's first grade teacher decides that your son is a trouble maker and gives him detention because he doesn't want to recite the pledge, or wants to recite it without the "under god" line, or in some other way deviates from what that teacher thinks he should do? I know, it sounds ridiculously far-fetched, but then again having an assistant principal checking girls underwear at a high school dance (in the presence of a police officer no less!) to make sure that they weren't wearing thongs sounded ridiculously far-fetched to me a month ago. (That's a cached Goodle page, BTW.)

Pity that ufoscotland went low on cash and went offline now. You can have a look on some pictures of the "evidence" at the wayback machine archives here.

By the way, I am living in the West coast of Scotland for the last six years. I 've never seen UFOs, ghosts or Nessie :) Maybe aliens prefer beautiful Edinburgh and the Highlands.

I think the story is good for a tourist boost! Weather has been horrible last couple of months!!

Just slightly off topic here, but interesting nonetheless.

The reason that explosive crews use "Turn off Transmitter next X miles" is not because they use radio detonation (its dangerous, expensive, and unneccesary unless you are trying to be covert), but because squibs and blasting caps can actually set off by the small amount of current generated through the inductance caused by nearby radio transmissions.

It sounds implausible, and like it would never happen, but there were a couple guys who did some tests a few years ago and found that while unlikely, it was indeed possible. While it seems their site is currently down, there is a google cache of it here.

All of that said and done though, your points are still valid. :-)

That Tad - by his own admission - isn't that hot on writing to a schedule. And I agree with him on this; when left to his own devices, he produces seriously high quality work. When the deadlines kick in, he becomes much more generic and (dare I say it?) can border on the mediocre.

Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy his work, I just think this ticking-clock scheme was a bad idea for his style of uncompromising "it's done when it's done" creativity.

Sure if it's your own recorded media you can make a backup before it's too late, but if it's a commercial video, sorry pal, be seeing you again at the video store soon (and your little wallet too)!

The days of Tape/VHS cassettes were glorious for the record and movie industries. They'd sell a cassette, and the customer's tape deck or VCR would promptly munch it. Back to the store where you're obviously not going to get a refund for mangling the merchandise. Instant repeat revenue.

Then CDs and DVDs were born. Cheap, durable, and reliable. TOO durable and reliable. Sure if you're a moron you can scrape them up, but if you're a moron you can scrape up your nose picking it too. Careful and responsible owners were no longer victims of freak munchings, and the industry never forgave themselves for not making the damn things shatters inside the players (most of the time... hey, remember those gimmicky ads for 100x players back before DMA66?).

Right now, the movie and record industries are salivating all over themselves trying to figure out how to sell you the same damn thing over and over again (like teeny pop and the late 90's onslaught of natural disaster cinema). Like Circuit City's DIVX (the scam disc format, not the codec) was one of the first examples. Now the music industry wants to let us buy digital music, in multiple proprietary formats, and pay for it for each playback device we own, even when we've already bought the physical album!

D-VHS probably will and should replace Beta, et.al. in the professional sector, but I don't think it would have ever seen the light of day in video stores if the media was as durable as some of the new high capacity DVD/optical technology coming out.

But maybe I'm just biased against magnetic media because of all the data I've ever lost!

In other words, we want more things made out of meat.

Here is the old story. Unfortunately the link is down.

Here is the google cache for his site.

Cnn money filed for bankruptcy after the bandwidth of a slashdotting was paid. Google cache here

This always makes me laugh... oh that Linus. Anyway, no karma whoring have 50 anyway.

Which is a completely idiotic idea, and which is only just another example
of how absolutely and stunningly _stupid_ Hurd is.

Later on...


Trust me. The people who came up with MAP_COPY were stupid. Really. It's
an idiotic concept, and it's not worth implementing.

And this all for what is a administration bug in the first place.

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
people.

All by Linus found here lkml

1394 Trade Association

No pictures but its a start.

Since it's already slashdotted, you can view Google's cache here

I know all about recoupable expenses and I also know that if you want to recoup your expenses more quickly, you set the price of the product higher from the outset.

Yobviously don't know "all about" recoupable expenses. Did you even read one word of what I wrote? The label doesn't want to "recoup its expenses" from the artist (even though most of those "expenses" are bogus), because as long as the artist is indebted to them, they're legally compelled to work off their debt. It's a modern permutation of sharecropping.

Does that mean all CDs should be a lot less so that record labels can't "strike it rich" when they discover an artist that's really hot?!? I don't think so - that's never going to fly because they won't ever take any risks if there isn't a good chance that they'll "RECOUP" their expenses.

You're a fucking moron. The record company will recoup their money no matter what. If they advance an artist $300,000 to make a record, that money is essentially a loan. If the album tanks, guess what? The artist STILL HAS TO PAY BACK THE MONEY, even if they have to work at Burger King to do it.

Build Your Own LCD Video Projector

Some of the more useful software available for RISCOS is online here, in a searchable directory. More information is also up on my friend Dr. Pearson's page.

./ effect. Here is the google cache.

Because it's *been* ported to Win32. Point your browser to:

http://main.mswinxp.net/~lpackham/smbclient/

Unfortunately, the site seems to be down at the moment . . . here's the Google cache. The package is also mentioned at the Cygwin Contributed Packages Page.

How do I know all this? I asked the same question last week. Thanks to ashpool7 for answering *my* question. Heh.

A Google search turns up a few ways to put a UI on it. My favorite way is use a .REG file as described (and google-cached) here. The article also mentions putting a shortcut to regsvr32.exe on the desktop, then dragging and dropping DLLs and OCXs onto it.

Yes, it would be awful if Yahoo got slashdotted, wouldn't it?

Hey, it could be worse, how long to people link to google cache's of the API's in Google Releases an API for Their Database?

But someone might yet post a link to the google cache of his post, just in case!

try google's cached version
I don't know if this works completely because the page seems to require flash, something that I don't have.

It's going fast. See http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:-aZjsTBQ3rYC: www.sentex.net/~mwandel/+&hl=en for a Google cache.

This is so cool...

Bohm further proposed that the holomovement I mentioned consists of two parts - an explicate order and an implicate order. I will clarify this difference with an example that Bohm himself developed.

Imagine a jar filled with thick, transparent fluid-like glycerin, a highly viscous fluid. In the center of the jar is a cylinder rod with a handle so you can turn the rod. You add a drop of ink into the glycerin, and the ink just sits there. But when you turn the inner cylinder around, it pulls this drop of ink and stretches it out. If you continue turning, the ink is drawn out into longer, ever finer and fainter lines. Eventually, if you keep doing this, the ink actually disappears completely. You can no longer see it.

Now at this point, it's very tempting to conclude that the order that was originally present in the drop has now been rendered completely random and chaotic by thorough mixing of the ink into the glycerin. So much so that you can no longer even see the ink. However, if you now reverse the direction of the rotation, what you find is that this thin long line of ink will begin to reappear. And as you continue the reverse rotation, it will continue to get thicker and more clearly defined, and eventually, it will completely reconstruct itself.

Now this is a mechanical metaphor for what Bohm talks about. What it tells us is that a hidden order may be present in what appears to be random. That's a very important insight that Bohm had, so I'd like to repeat it. With reference to this example and with references to reality in general, what appears to be random may, in fact, contain a hidden order. And unless your epistemological net is sufficiently fine, or sufficiently broad, you may miss that hidden order.

Bohm call this order the implicate order, because although the ink is dispersed to the point of not being visible, its order has, in some way, been preserved. Or, I should rather say it's been transformed into a different form, but it has not been destroyed. And it can then move from being implicate into what Bohm would call the explicate order, where the order has been made visible and made manifest. So we than have this ink dot reappearing.

When the ink drop disappears, Bohm would say that its order is enfolded in the glycerin. When the ink drop reappears, its order is unfolded back into the explicate order. I am going to be using these terms, so I want you to be come familiar with them.

Taken from http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:rAqZl1UCxFIC: www.fourthturning.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ftopic %3D22%26forum%3D6+ink+rod+glycerin+drop-of-ink+tur n&hl=en.

Interview with him about this very thing Here. Read up on this also here.

All Software Engineers should have a look at Correctness by Construction: Better can also be Cheaper from Crosstalk the Journal of Defence Software Engineering. It contrasts the usual C approach with one using a really tight but powerful subset (SPARK) of an already pretty tight language, Ada

* SPARK code was found to have only 10 percent of the residual errors of full Ada; Ada was found to have only 10 percent of the residual errors of code written in C. This is an interesting counter to those who maintain that choice of programming language does not matter, and that critical code can be written correctly in any language : The claim may be true in principle but clearly is not commonly achieved in practice.

This isn't just an anecdote: there are documented facts. The results (for the problem domain of aircraft avionics and large systems) may not be applicable to the normal b2b and gamezware - but then again, they might. Have a look at the stuff in bold later in this post.

It's not a magic bullet : from the same article:

In December 1999 CrossTalk, David Cook provided a well-reasoned historical analysis of programming language development and considered the role languages play in the software development process. The article was valuable because it showed that programming language developments are not sufficient to ensure success; however, it would be dangerous to conclude from this that they are not necessary for success. Cook rightly identifies other issues such as requirements capture, specifications, and verification and validation (V&V) that need to be addressed.

But the real kicker, one that should cause everyone to sit up and take notice, is this:

• Code quality improved by a factor of 10 over industry norms for DO-178B Level A software.
• Productivity improved by a factor of four over previous comparable programs.
• Development costs were half that typical for non safety-critical code
• With re-use and process maturity, there was a further productivity improvement of four on the C27J airlifter program.

One more thing: the SPARK and similar RAVENSCAR ( pdf, HTML version here) subsets of Ada-95 are just that : (proper)subsets that just omit certain language constructs. Write to the profile, and the code is compileable by any Ada-95 compiler, like the downloadable Free GNU version GNAT 3.14p (though commercial users might want the latest-and-greatest non-free version 3.15a. And the ORK (Open Ravenscar Kernel) is, as the name implies, an Open Source Kernel for reliable real-time embedded systems.

Better, Cheaper, Faster, Open-Source with Free-as-in-Beer downloadable compilers. IMHO worth at least investigating, even if you decide Microsoft's latest language-du-jour is more appropriate for your situation. YMMV, and COBOL, C++, Assembler, C#, Java or even VB might be better in your case. But worth a look.

Found this in google cache. Seems the orginal is inaccessible, anyone have any other info? Intresting to see that some species can survive an hour of autoclaving??!?! And can alter live off a bunch of differnt substances.

Compare Google's cache of Apple's old Powerbook page and Apple's new Powerbook page. They've raised the prices, along with refreshing their product line.

The URL Google gave me has an IP number rather than xxxx.google.com so it looks a little suspicious. If you're worried I'm sending you off to goat sex, do a Google search for "apple store powerbook" and take the second result.

Here's a shot of the plate... looks like an explosion out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon or something.

Also, if anyone's interested, here's the cached version of a supposedly related design contest for the plate. Sounds like they had virtually no requirements except for size. Neato.

In case the site goes under, here here's the Google cache.

What? No one ever uses CDs for anything other then stealing music.
You people are Killing Kid Rock!

Apparently anti-Christian zealots -- as well as shocked Christians who have unwittingly become Mac owners -- are linking to this article.

Fire ant bites sting like fire because the "unbeatables" (S. invicta) spit acid into the bite, and then the bite always develops into a pustule because the ant also spits bacteria, and they take months to go away. How to prevent this (other than not going outside at all in Texas):
When you get ant-bit, immediately rub bleach on the spot. Straight bleach, Clorox or the like. Reason: neutralizes the acid, kills the bacteria. Or so I have been told. Disclaimer: I am no kind of medical professional at all. Also, those bites can kill you if you have an allergic reaction beyond the normal. More than you want to know, with pictures you don't want to see, cached at Google.

And herbalifesigns.com is running Apache 1.3.20, the newest version being 1.3.24. ChangeLog here. Hmm... SecurityFocus discusses a misconfiguration of Apache that allows remote users to determine if a given username exists on a system. Although the advisory mentions Red Hat Linux, the default configuration of Apache 1.3.20 is also affected

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:uosxXkG5bnQC: www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/+&hl=en

Sigh. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. Here's a real link this time: here you go

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