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We don't need no vector graphics, what's wrong with bitmapped GUI's?
Actually, there is (was?) an open source alternative to vector based graphics long before Microsoft thought up this feature. It was available as the Pico GUI project. I just recently browsed their site, so it may just be down or... dead -- in which case there's always Google's cache. It's also still on SourceForge and freshmeat. It was originally meant for handhelds, but was supposed to expand onto the desktop.

Yeah, but a light bulb never won an "employee of the week" award.

If you connected these in series could you eventually liquefy the surrounding air?

The cryogenic temperature of released liquid hydrogen can liquefy ambient air, which can cause the same frostbite hazard as the liquid hydrogen. It is more likely to get in contact with condensed (liquid) air than it is with liquid hydrogen.

Can air be liquefied?

The software giant managed to further offend the Saudis by creating another game in which Muslim warriors turned churches into mosques. That game was also withdrawn.

Except this actually did happen. The Hagia Sophia Church/Mosque , anyone? it's like american white folk getting pissed because a game has them killing the American Indians and burning down their villages. gimme a break.

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Heisenberg's ultimate theory!

Frankly, the odds of a September 11th-type terrorist attack happening again are a million to one.

In 1999, the total number of airline passengers was over 3 billion people. If you consider a very generous 500 people per flight (equivalent of everyone flying in a maxed out 747 for every flight), that's still over 6 million flights per year. Your million to one odds would mean that a September 11th scale attack would happen every 2 months.

Googles cache Wayback machine Unfortionately neither have pictures...

Are you sure it was the sig? Go look at the cache of a page from Slashdot (what Google indexed).

Here's the first cache I pulled up from a "site:slashdot.org 2004" search. You'll notice there are no sigs in it.

Google does see the links you put in your personal info, so that can help your PR.

The board I bought was a generic with an Intel Triton VX chipset. Very much like this one. USB headers included.

LK

Sorry, my SQL server seems to be down, try this google cache of the page... it will show the pictures.

Windows of course Google cache

Am I the only one that saw the name and immediately thought: "Semprini!?" [Google cache]

Google'd cache

Did I hear you right?
Did I hear you sayin'
You were gonna make a copy
Of a game without payin'?
Come on guys...
I thought you knew better!
Don't Copy That Floppy!

No more Carmen Sandiego,
No more Oregon Trail.
Tetris and the others,
They're all gonna fail!

All of Tetris was stolen into the United States and modified against the original. Tetris originated from a talented man of Russia; programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. The MPAA is showing a derivitave work in their "Don't Copy That Floppy" video which infringes on Alexey Pajitnov's intellect; yet the MPAA is not enforcing Alexey Pajitnov's intellect; the MPAA is enforcing the copyrights to the corporations that stole and cloned Tetris. They don't care because all the pirates are generating taxes for the United States' income. Also, all the sideshow freak interviews are of programmers complaining about someone playing their "game" without paying for it, and every single one of those programmers has been proven they stole even content from others to make their pirated "game" and then complain to the MPAA. United States is a pirate!

I am on a notebook that is compiled for a 386 enviroment so I cannot be of any use for compiling this code for a 586 enviroment. However, I would not regard that as a straight up gpl violation, so much as lazy packaging.
here is one instance of linphonecore.h

and here is osipua.h

it is also worth noting: That there have been issues getting linephone 0.8 working, thanks to the latter file.

good luck, and I hope someone with the right enviroment can compile this. :-)

Wow, never thought I'd have to use a Google cache for Slashdot!!

Work with me...I've got the Mondays...

Google's cache for those who can't access the site.

babelfish's tranlation sucks
google seems to do a better tranlation

Resident of Munich town councillor segnet concept for Linux migration off

30 million euro the expensive project LiMux can start: The town councillor Muenchen adopted the stage plan on today's Wednesday for the conversion of the entire computer landscape for those approximately 16,000 coworkers of the city administration officially. For the Linux migration tuned the red-green coalition governing in the city hall together with representatives of FDP, OEDP and the Party of Democratic Socialism. Alone the CSU governing in Bavaria votierte against the introduction of the penguin into the offices. Conservative politicians expressed doubts that the "end of workday programmers" would destroy the IT economy of Munich from the open SOURCE corner. They were afraid also risks for the persons employed, who must learn now above all handling a new text processing. Announcement

With LiMux the migration of approximately 13,000 Desktop computers and the pertinent servers lines up. First the project responsible persons in the city hall want to select concrete open SOURCE products in the framework of bidding procedures. IBM and the Novell daughter Suse are not only to come to the course, even if the original LiMux Design of the two sizes comes in the Linux market. One of the main goals of the migration is it however to create jobs directly in the residents of Munich IT economy and to receive a competitive market. "we must now watch out that we some monopolist loose will want by we the next global giant to use up", explained themselves the green town councillor Jens Muehlhaus already first under allusion on Microsoft and Big Blue. It wants to bring the small and medium-size IT companies into and around Munich particularly with the necessary specialized technical and special solutions in the play. Opposite heise on-line regretted Muehlhaus the decision of the CSU, which did not understand yet that at free software money is made main with services.

In detail the migration is to take place in three steps: First in this year all computers in the administration, which run so far still on Windows NT, are equipped with open Office and Mozilla as Browser. "first the transformation lines up to that approximately 7000 Office macros for forms such as vacation requests or travel expenses accounts, which can be finally centralized thereby ", are pleased Muehlhaus. 2005 and 2006 go it then to the migration of all office PCS to the new operating system Linux, which is to finally work completely with free software. Until 2008 then the difficult adjustment of specialized's applications lines up, for which according to Muehlhaus creativity and a good co-operation between the administration and open SOURCE developers are necessary. The know-how developed thereby might be internationally in demand however and "also exported themselves and sell to let", is safe itself of Muehlhaus.

The migration motivation is not only to be reported for this reason with the coworkers concerned in the meantime again risen, white the green town councillor. In January from individual city hall departments warning voices had to be heard that the problems with the conversion could grow the residents of Munich over the head. "in the meantime we have the full support for LiMux", get straight Muehlhaus. All involved ones would regard the project as feasible and meaningfully. The timetable for the Green has a who courage drop still: The residents of Munich schools are to be reequipped only in two years on Linux, so that the training grow up up to then still with the Windows world. Microsoft offers very cheap licenses for the education sector "on". There it falls heavily, which political will for rapid migration to bundle ( Stefan Krempl )/( jk /c't)

Another reason that SCSI drives perform better in RAID arrays is that SCSI permits out-of-order I/O request execution.

It also has great command queuing as part of the out of ourder command execution. Serial ATA supports Native Command Queuing, providing these features plus First Party DMA and Interrupt Aggregation. Hardware support is relatively new. Seagate was the first to make a drive that supported it. My understanding is that the majority of Serial ATA drives out there essentially have parallel IDE controllers with a Serial ATA converter.

Here is a great article from Intel on NCQ: PDF HTML.

IDE performs blocking I/O, so everything would have to wait until drive 3's read was complete. I don't know if this also applies to SATA.

Interrupt Aggregation and First Party DMA were designed to limit the effects of this. SCSI still has an advantage with its offloading controller though. I also understand that the maximum queue depth for commands on the SATA is 32, while it is 256 for SCSI.

Karma-whoring free.

You've been reading Bill Parish (Google cache link because the site seems to be down - at least for me, right now).

It's funny because one of the large ways MS is committing "fraud" is via their stock purchase plan. Something MS has done away with and Bill (Parish) doesn't seem to comment on.

Anyway, it's certainly true that MS represents a good amount of large cap index funds. But your percentage may be a little high (it's certainly closer to 3%). MS was 4% in Bill's paper, and it's probably come down since then. Not only did MS lose a large amount (~50%) of it's value when the bubble burst, it really hasn't seen any gains since then (while other tech stocks are up ~30%). It's gotten to the point that some value funds are looking at purchasing (or have purchased on dips) MS shares. So anyway it may even be less than 3% these days...

Finally MS has masive cash funds. Supposedly they're going to announce what they'll be doing with those funds (in July?). But if they were to say, take ~30billion and buy back stock they'd add a huge amount of value to their shareholders. They'd also still have massive cash reserves greater than any of their competitors. And they'll continue generating whatever the article said (was it 15bil? That seems high to me). Just stop and think about those numbers for a minute.

Minutes up? Now think what MS could do with $30billion dollars. They could, if they wanted, abandon their software development. That would cut costs to zero. They'd continue getting $15billion / year for ~3 years, and then they'd start to see it dwindle. Using that cash supply they could fund a space shuttle program. Now mind you MS has no experience in this area, bu they have billions of dollars to spend and people are doing much less with X-Prize. They could just hire everyone who's competing for X-Prize.

Or, they could run the entire software profit at a complete loss for long periods of time. Can't compete with free? Well, given enough time, maybe MS can.

Or they could fire all the software staff, milk the money, and go searching for the secret to eternal life. There's all sorts of advances, and with billions of dollars maybe MS will find the answer. And when they do they'll have all sorts of patents, and they'll make tons of money again.

Or they could lower their prices while expanding development. Sure their profit margins will be hurting, and maybe they'll be forced into negative spending every now and then, like maybe businesses, but with billions in the bank they can afford that.

Or maybe they'll scrap the software business and go into the business of energy. If MS can discover a brand new renewable energy source (maybe in space? - It'll be like XP Home and XP Professional. Tourism and industry!). After all energy is certainly a captive business - everyone needs it - and with billions in the bank MS can certainly bring a lot to the table.

Finally I'd like to propose that MS can always get into the business of robots. They'll need a software platform too, and I think they're bound to be plentiful at some point.

So I think the idea of MS crashing and burning are unrealistic. They certainly have some room to breath with all their money in the bank. That's not to say MS will last forever, as all things must come to an end. But it's certainly not going to happen soon, and it will also take a very long time to happen.

The ultimate comparison is of course IBM, who went through anti-trust and then hit crisis. MS is in a much better position. They have a much smaller workforce (lower costs), and much more money in the bank.

Link has been Slashdotted...

Here is the Google cache of the PDF in HTML format.

Reminds me of propeller clocks (also here, here, here...)
...or the similar mechanically scanned displays.
Spacewriter sells some very cool full-color displays. Their iBall 3D display is also sold at AudioVisualizers - check their site out for more animated demos.
There's also the Virtual Game System (Google cache) which was amazing; unfortunately the site is down so you'll have to settle for text and no pictures.

The last two paragraphs of this MSNBC article hints at the profit motive. As long as we keep including nifty new features on phones, we can keep consumers extending their phone contracts indefinitely into the future in exchange for phone upgrades.

Haven't you noticed the advertising for camera cell phones recently? It's time to upgrade! Last time it was color screens. Who knows what it will be next time -- this is just testing the waters.

FWIW, most people replace their phones because they lost the previous one, and need to get back up and talking in a jiffy.

The last two paragraphs of this MSNBC article hints at the profit motive. As long as we keep including nifty new features on phones, we can keep consumers extending their phone contracts indefinitely into the future in exchange for phone upgrades.

Haven't you noticed the advertising for camera cell phones recently? It's time to upgrade! Last time it was color screens. Who knows what it will be next time -- this is just testing the waters.

FWIW, most people replace their phones because they lost the previous one, and need to get back up and talking in a jiffy.

Here is a mirror link, for it seems to be getting slashdotted to hell. Mirror Link

...And the Google cache as well

Freaking PDF files. Link to a version translated into HTML. By the time this goes live, maybe the FTP will be slashdotted, too. Thanks, Google.

I suppose I should make a comment. Okay, here it is: looks like users are still the weakest link in security. Whoever said that social engineering was the ultimate hack is a genius.

My problem with thin clients comes from the fact that too much power resides with the one who controls the servers.

Imagine if you will, our world 15 or 20 years from now. Let's also imagine that in this future computing moves exclusively to thin clients/big servers. If the government or a large corporation doesn't like the idea of people doing something (political dissent, bad product reviews, unprofitable exercise of fair use rights) all they have to do is convince (legislate, sue, buy out) the one who controls the central server.

If we're all on thin clients and the "computing service providor" of the future decided that we shouldn't be speaking ill of the current president, it won't be hard at all to shut down ALL such dissent.

Think it sounds a little paranoid? So what. I don't care. Recent history bears this out. For example, how many people here know that initially there were reports coming out of Columbine were that a 3rd gunman was lead away in handcuffs?

How about 20/20 investigation that came up with proof that the Justice Department's Executive Secretatiat's Office was recieved a call informing them that "The Oklahoma federal building has just been bombed!", 24 minutes before the explosion.

Consolidation of power makes it easier to quash. On a large scale, Thin Clients could be a very bad thing.

LK

This has me worried though (from the article):
"We know that alpacas are being moved across the border with Bolivia and then on to Chile," Pilar Tuppia from Peru's National Council of South American Camelids told the Associated Press.
This included "unscrupulous individuals" buying top animals from poor people in the countryside, she said."

If these people's animals are such top-notch and pedigree, why are they so poor and living in the countryside? Isn't the Alpaca industry booming?

I'm not the only person to thing that the Alpaca business is a little fishy. See here and here (google cache of geocities page)

"The general objective of the act to guarantee to employees "the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection." The NLRA establishes procedures for the selection of a labor organization to represent a unit of employees in collective bargaining. The act prohibits employers from interfering with this selection. The NLRA requires the employer to bargain with the appointed representative of its employees. It does not require either side to agree to a proposal or make concessions but does that each side bargain in good faith. Proposals which would violate the NLRA or other laws may not be the subject matter of collective bargaining. The NLRA also establishes regulations on what tactics (e.g. strikes, lockouts, picketing) a side in negotiations may employ to further their bargaining objectives."

That's because your website is in your URL (below your username), not your sig. Look for "post humously" which is in my sig:

google search

Only shows up when people comment on it, despite some highly modded posts. Check out the google cache for an article... no signatures get indexed.

Windmill "safe"
* No random slaugher of birds

Not true. (Link is a google cache of a converted PDF.)

Here's another cache of another site that has it at sf.indymedia.org.

When I was young, I was once told not to write my name on the wall at camp. So what did I do once left unattended? Of course, I was a kid.

They indirectly told us we weren't supposed to see that info. Now 10s of thousands of /.ers know all about it - who otherwise wouldn't've cared. Gotta love America, we're not down the tubes yet.

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Z-WUZO6N3oAJ: www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm%3FID%3D15 555%26c%3D262+briefing+schedule+PATRIOT+site:aclu. org&hl=en

Here's Google's cache of the offending press release. Judging from the story link, this looks like the censored text:

"The ACLU has led opposition to controversial portions of the Patriot Act, filing a challenge to Section 215, another provision that allows the FBI to gain access to sensitive records, and filing briefs before the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to oppose expanded wiretaps. With support from a broad right-left coalition, the ACLU has also encouraged passage of approximately 300 local resolutions against anti-civil liberties portions of the law, and has urged Congress to leave in place the "sunsets" for Patriot Act provisions set to expire in 2005."

"The parties have agreed to a briefing schedule in the case. The ACLU will file a summary judgment motion on May 17, 2004; the government will respond on June 7, 2004; all briefing will be completed in July 2004. The court is likely to schedule arguments in the case in late summer 2004. The case is assigned to Judge Victor Marrero."

But wait! I went to the ACLU's actual page and found the same text. Cruising through the most recent press releases turned up a new release that tells the story. Long story short, this story's already out of date (the info has been reinstated)! That doesn't mean that the government didn't fuck up, just that at least one judge hasn't lost his/her mind.

Egypt imports tobacco mainly from China and then italy, greece and brazil

Google it. (look at the 5/13/2003 update on NiN Hotline). Heck, you can even find it in French and German!

Disclaimer: IAAA (I am an American).
The problem is not that Americans tend to see tech solutions for everything, but instead that Americans are very "faith-based" which is a euphemism for "not logically rigorous". In this case, they "trust" computers and technology in general, like they "trust" Microsoft and the Government.

Being fed a healthy diet of misinformation [google cache]is no doubt part of the problem, I'm sure, but root causes also have to do with rampant consumerism, and a fairly apathetic voting public (probably due to a poorly implemented voting system).

Related to previous story on science. in the US

Windows Update is the friendly auto-patcher. AFAIK you can't download patches from there for later use. But the patches are available seperately; I used Firefox to download one of the patches I was missing. (The rest I FTP'd from a coworker who downloaded most of the patches.)

Here is the place to download the MS04-11 patches to prevent the Sasser worm, although for the moment that URL seems hosed. Google cache here.

Sasser detection and treatment info from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/MS security home.

I love to bash Microsoft, but if you'll look carefully there's usually a way around the candy-coated-user-friendly-tools-that-break-when-t hings-go-bad. They even have some handy downloads for detection, treatment and patching.

I didn't know Sony Playstation had these problems, considering they released Xenogears, which depicted the crucifixion of furry critters.

A little late in the post already, but here is the link to Google's cached version since the site is Slashdotted.
Here!

Ahh but reactor four of Chernobyl contained Uranium-235, which has a half-life of 713 million years. Additionally, U-238 decays into a number of isotopes including Pu-239 (not 241), who's half-life is 24,000 years and Americium-241, who's half life is 433 years.

Americium-241 isn't particularly dangerous, however (it's what's primarily used in smoke detectors). It emits alpha particles (He) and low-energy gamma rays.

Oh and by the way, half-life is "The time required for half the nuclei in a sample of a specific isotopic species to undergo radioactive decay." [Stanford's SLAC page]. In other words, half of the nuclei doen't decay in that time, and is still just as potent as before.

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it was called polywater because it was thought to be polymerized water. Because it had a much different freezing point polywater was the inspiration for the cat's cradle story. (ice9). It took a long time to figure out the problem because it was hard to reproduce and only minute amounts could be generated at a time.

here and links to more links

it was called polywater because it was thought to be polymerized water. Because it had a much different freezing point polywater was the inspiration for the cat's cradle story. (ice9). It took a long time to figure out the problem because it was hard to reproduce and only minute amounts could be generated at a time.

Hmmm, how silly of me. You're right, this system won't work anyway! Threat nations can simply coat their missiles with the same material your magic flight helmets are made of. End of problem.

You talk about flight helmets which prevent people from getting blinded by guide beams. Last I checked, they aren't using lasers of that power level to detonate missiles in the air.

And you're right about the US always abiding by the Geneva Conventions. Like treatment of prisoners.

I'm not even going to address the other asinine points you raise. You're out, next batter please.

More like 2 x (four to twelve) = 8 to 24 teats !

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From Erik of oldmanmurray (may it RIP):
"People who don't watch TV love to mention it and never fail to pair that statement with the fact that they read books too. But as long as they're patting themselves on the back for simply not doing something, it seems to me that there are lots of worse things you could be taking credit for not doing. For instance, next time someone decides to lord over you the fact that he doesn't watch TV, go ahead and tell him "Good for you!" Then while everyone around you is reflecting on his massive intellect, up the awful-things-you-don't-do ante by mentioning that you don't rape people and then add that you watch lots of television instead. Not only does that make you a better person - after all what kind of psychotic jerkoff wastes his time not watching TV when he could be busy not commiting violent sex crimes? - but it gives you sort of an air of barely suppressed operatic rage, which makes you more like Batman."

linkified.