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Read up on Mars Direct. It's a plan to do Mars missions on the same budgetary scale as the Apollo missions. Those were done for about the same budget that NASA currently gets.

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ah, yes, the red-headed stepchild of the conjecture family - Collatz!

People have been going at Collatz Conjecture For Years, and maybe this recluse is giving that a swing next time.

For Information regarding Collatz Conjecture seek The Collatz Conjecture

There are so many ways to reach people and poll them this days that this is harldy going to make a difference. If you run a telephone poll and, say, an internet poll (more seriously than these obviously) you can quickly figure out the missing bits. Furthermore nowadays you have technologies that let you know a lot about your customers/voters without polling.

On the other hand, it seems that nowadays politics is very influenced by polls. So what could happen is that horrible, privacy-killing laws could be passed because the politicians rely too much on telephone polls, and don't realize that cell-phone users value their privacy too.

dashpc.com is the headquarters for linux car computing enthusiasts. The site seems to be down right now, but if you google for dashpc you can find a ton of info. A cached link to the discussion forum can be found here.

Here's a start

Alan Ralsky's brand new 8,000-square-foot luxury home near Halsted and Maple in West Bloomfield has been a busy place this month.......It's an operation still very much in business, despite last month's much-hyped settlement of a lawsuit against Ralsky by Verizon Internet Services. The suit used Virginia's tough anti-spam laws to get Ralsky to promise to stop using Verizon servers and pay an undisclosed fee for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mails to its customers.

I know nothing about the history behind that effort but isn't that the purpose of a gasoline tax? The more you travel, the more gas you buy and therefore pay more taxes? That system leans harder on those that get less MPG but I also read a study referenced on /. many moons ago that showed as weight per axle of a vehicle increased, the damage it does to the asphalt goes up by a much larger factor. In fact, you could infer that same thing based an Oregon state study (Google cache)

With that in mind, a gas tax would seems like the best choice.

Eando Binder actually wrote a tale called "I Robot" in 1939, which predates Asimov's story by 11 years. It was apparently in the "Adam Link" series, and it appeared in Amazing.

Please see this page.

40% of the purchase goes to iTunes, 30% goes to the label (which may or may not be an RIAA member), 10% goes to an intermediary middleman (if one exists) such as Amazon.com or AOL, 8% goes to the publisher (I think this is ASCAP, but I'm not really sure), and the remaining 12% goes to the artist. According to the article on Business 2.0 entitled The MP3 Economy: How labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar that these statistics were taken from, "twelve percent is average, but successful bands often hammer out better contracts. In many major-label contracts, charges for 'packaging' and promotional copies are subtracted from the artist's cut, leaving the talent with a measly 8 percent. BMG, Universal, and Warner have announced plans to do away with such deductions for digital downloads."

Nah, Boba utilizes his honeypot at bobafett.org.
He read securityfocus's article about making one here: securityfocus.org/infocus/1747
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i think this site here has a better explanation

You could apply the same kind of technique to spamhole - adding one second of delay per message to your SMTP responses is enough to drop a bunch of 3KB spams to about 24kbps (and almost all the bandwidth is inbound, so if you're on ADSL or cable modem with a slower upstream, it won't bother you, unlike a _real_ open relay which would be transmitting N copies of spam for each N-recipient message received.) More delay -> Lower bandwidth!, and you're wasting the spammer's time. You'd probably be better off adding a bunch of sub-second waits during the session rather than one long wait, in case it's checking for timeouts, or if you want to get fancy, don't do the waiting phase when you're giving the spammer their one free test message.

Project: OpenRISC 1000

Silicon Implementations

Several companies are making silicon implementations (ASICs) of OR1200 using different library vendors and foundaries, process geometries from 0.35um to 0.13um. For references contact lampret@opencores.org.

Here is an example of System-On-Chip (SOC) from Flextronics Semiconductor. It is a 32-bit general-purpose microcontroller implemented on UMC 0.18um targetting embedded applications with maximum clock frequency of 160MHz.

The SOC features:

• OR1200 processor
• Memory Controller (FLASH, SDRAM, SRAM, DPRAM)
• PCI 2.2 32-bit interface 33/66MHz
• Ethernet MAC 10/100
• UART16550
• GPIO
• JTAG/Debug Interface

The OR1200 is implemented with 8KB instruction and 8KB data caches, I/DMMU with 64 TLB entries each, power management unit, debug unit, tick timer and interrupt controller. Its 32x32 multiplier is coupled with a 64-bit MAC unit.

Test board for testing the SOC has 64MBytes of SDRAM, 32MBytes of FLASH, RS232 transceiver, Ethernet 10/100 PHY. Connectors are for RS232, Ethernet, JTAG/Debug and several Mictor logic analyzer connectors. The board has its own DC/DC regulators for 3.3V IO power supply and 1.8V core power supply. It can be used as stand alone board or as PCI standard form plugin board. Software running on the SOC is Embedded Microcontroller Linux (uClinux) with a console on serial RS232. The console shows a network ping to a local network host - the ping shows the Ethernet 10/100 capability.

This board was the first prototype built (not fully assembled at the time)

Dynamic power of the entire test board is 1.4W. Dynamic current of the SOC IO power supply is 52mA (3.3V) and dynamic current of the SOC Core power supply is 86mA (1.8V). These are nominal values measured at 100MHz system clock. Maximum system clock frequency of the SOC is 160 MHz. System clock is used to clock not only the OR1200 processor but the entire chip (exception is memory controller which can also run at 1/2 system clock). Max system clock 160MHz was obtained at 25C ambient temperature, 3.3V IO and 1.8V core.

Test boards are available to Flextronics Semiconductor ASIC customers. For more information about the test boards, the SOC technical details and business engagement please contact Flextronics Semiconductor. IMPORTANT NOTE: For a live demonstration of the SOC in Silicon Valley, California during Dec 8th 2003 and Dec 15th please contact Damjan Lampret.

I not sure how you got it into your head that you're an authority on this subject, but you're 100% wrong.

I didn't claim to be any kind of authority, I'm just writing what I know from my own experience and research. My original post was from memory, but this time I did some quick Google searches to backup my claims with some evidence. Anyone could learn this information on their own. However, I do know a few things about GPS:

• I've used several civilian GPS receivers, from handheld models for hiking or hunting, to a marine model mounted on a boat for fishing, to aircraft mounted models. In a geography class I took in college, we did some labs to observe variation in GPS readings, both over time at one location, and at the same time at different locations. It was very interesting.
• I'm a surveyor by trade, and have used different types of differential GPS surveying, like post-processing, telemetry-based, and now real-time kinetic.
• I'm an Air Force veteran, and have training and field experience with the Rockwell PLGR handheld (the term handheld being used very loosely) GPS receiver, which can decode the P signal when using the decryption key. (Read this [scroll down to multi-color highlighted paragraph] to see how carefully the key is protected.)
• While I was in the Air Force, I took the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) course called: Mapping, Charting and Geodesy for the Warrior (scroll to bottom of page).

I still don't claim to be any kind of expert on GPS, but I probably know more than your average person.

I'm not about to give out anymore information than is publicly availible on the 'net, but I suggest you start with those two sites. The Zyfer site has a number of highly informative PDF's.

My point is that they DO give out military GPS receivers (and codes, duh) for select non-military applications. The first site was one which sells these revievers.

Did you actually read any of the PDFs on the site you reference? The very first PDF on the page has this to say:

• Under FEATURES -> GPS Reveiver:
  • Standard 8-channel C/A
  • Optional SAASM PPS (for approved users)
• Under the model description: the FEI-Zyfer GSync can provide you with either Standard Positioning Service (SPS) GPS or the very latest in GPS technology SAASM PPS GPS receivers (for DoD authorized users only).
• Under SPECIFICATIONS -> Reference Options: Standard GPS (SPS C/A) 8 channel, (L1)
  SAASM GPS (PPS, C/A P-Y) For approved users (L1/L2)

So the evidence you're citing actually undermines the point you were trying to make.

If you look at the lists on that second page, you can see a list of projects which have these recievers.

The projects listed on that page are DOD projects. Obviously, the corporations manufacturing the devices need access to the decryption key to test their products. But, like all defense contractors working on classified projects, every employee who needs access has to obtain the appropriate DOD security clearance.

That you'

I not sure how you got it into your head that you're an authority on this subject, but you're 100% wrong.

I didn't claim to be any kind of authority, I'm just writing what I know from my own experience and research. My original post was from memory, but this time I did some quick Google searches to backup my claims with some evidence. Anyone could learn this information on their own. However, I do know a few things about GPS:

• I've used several civilian GPS receivers, from handheld models for hiking or hunting, to a marine model mounted on a boat for fishing, to aircraft mounted models. In a geography class I took in college, we did some labs to observe variation in GPS readings, both over time at one location, and at the same time at different locations. It was very interesting.
• I'm a surveyor by trade, and have used different types of differential GPS surveying, like post-processing, telemetry-based, and now real-time kinetic.
• I'm an Air Force veteran, and have training and field experience with the Rockwell PLGR handheld (the term handheld being used very loosely) GPS receiver, which can decode the P signal when using the decryption key. (Read this [scroll down to multi-color highlighted paragraph] to see how carefully the key is protected.)
• While I was in the Air Force, I took the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) course called: Mapping, Charting and Geodesy for the Warrior (scroll to bottom of page).

I still don't claim to be any kind of expert on GPS, but I probably know more than your average person.

I'm not about to give out anymore information than is publicly availible on the 'net, but I suggest you start with those two sites. The Zyfer site has a number of highly informative PDF's.

My point is that they DO give out military GPS receivers (and codes, duh) for select non-military applications. The first site was one which sells these revievers.

Did you actually read any of the PDFs on the site you reference? The very first PDF on the page has this to say:

• Under FEATURES -> GPS Reveiver:
  • Standard 8-channel C/A
  • Optional SAASM PPS (for approved users)
• Under the model description: the FEI-Zyfer GSync can provide you with either Standard Positioning Service (SPS) GPS or the very latest in GPS technology SAASM PPS GPS receivers (for DoD authorized users only).
• Under SPECIFICATIONS -> Reference Options: Standard GPS (SPS C/A) 8 channel, (L1)
  SAASM GPS (PPS, C/A P-Y) For approved users (L1/L2)

So the evidence you're citing actually undermines the point you were trying to make.

If you look at the lists on that second page, you can see a list of projects which have these recievers.

The projects listed on that page are DOD projects. Obviously, the corporations manufacturing the devices need access to the decryption key to test their products. But, like all defense contractors working on classified projects, every employee who needs access has to obtain the appropriate DOD security clearance.

That you'

Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on the computerized world was the greatest.

Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."

--Erik Meltzer, rec.humor.funny

Found here (I couldn't reach the original page today; this is a link to google's cache of the page)

"Insofar as this interrogatory seeks information as to whether plaintiff has ever distributed the code in question or otherwise made it available to the public, SCO has never authorized, approved or knowingly released any part of the subject code that contains or may contain its confidential and proprietary information and/or trade secrets for inclusion in any Linux kernel or as part of any Linux distribution."

Cross your heart and hope to die, SCO? Or cross your fingers behind your back? Let's see what the evidence shows.

SCO has specifically mentioned the following four as being code at issue in this case: JFS, NUMA, RCU, and SMP, and while it is conceivable that the "subject code" they are talking about in this response to IBM's interrogatory is referring to some other code, it seems reasonable to look at the code they have mentioned publicly. Actually, it's more than reasonable. It's our only choice, until they tell us exactly what code they are complaining about with specificity. Is it true that they never "authorized, approved or knowingly released" any of this code for inclusion in any Linux kernel or as part of any Linux distribution?

Let's start with JFS. In the case of JFS, they not only distributed Linux with JFS, one of Caldera's employees, Christoph Hellwig, contributed code to JFS, as Groklaw reported on July 18. Here is a snip from that article:

"Here is an email in which he tells an inquirer how to contribute to JFS, including this tidbit: 'I've run native sysvfs tools under linux, but as now that I'm Linux sysvfs maintainer I'm looking into implementing free versions of it. . . . The JFS/Linux core team has setup a CVS commitinfo, but currently I'm the only one who receives it.'

"And here he encourages someone to donate to the main JFS repository at IBM and talks about his role:

"'I'm one of the main commiters to JFS outside IBM and I'm really happy to see more people involved :)

"'First I'd like to encourage you to contribute your userspace changes to the main JFS repository at IBM. For the 1.0.11 release I have added autoconf/automake support to easify portability and a bunch of portablity patches (mostly getting rid of linuxisms) is under way to the Core team.'

"He also posts to the freebsd list as freebsd-fs at freebsd.org.

"Here is the press release when SCO in 2002 released 'SCO Linux Server 4.0 for the Itanium (R) Processor Family' and which mentions that the product is based on United Linux. This SCO page lists JFS as one of its features. . . .

"They are complaining that IBM contributed JFS to Linux, but their own employee, from this evidence, was involved in helping out. On the day IBM announced JFS was being given to Linux, Hellwig is listed as making five contributions to the kernel."

And he is listed on this page of JFS contributors. Here is IBM's page on Who Is Using JFS? and it lists United Linux. So they not only released a distro with JFS in it under the GPL, their employee helped make it h

Basically, it would simply be a touch-sensitive dumb terminal for a "central server" or master machine on my desk or in my closet.

You've pretty much described the Zenith Data Systems CruisePAD, another bit of tablet technology that failed to find a market. CSO was practically giving them away not long ago.

This was covered Ready to Ware in the October 2003 issue of IEEE Spectrum, now only available in the Google cache linked in this sentence.

It specifically covers "[a]n e-textile shirt from New York City-based Sensatex, Inc. [which] promises to put an end to SIDS by alerting parents the moment a baby stops breathing." Other bits of the article talk about the U.S. Navy's Wearable Motherboard project, and other smart fabrics capable of accomplishing the tasks of which you speak.

If your lab has a grant application coming up, it might be worth putting in for some of this stuff.

Note that EAL2 is something that provides essentially no assurance of security. You can find details of this in Google's cache (www.commoncriteria.org is no longer alive).

This isn't the first time FatWallet.com has stood up to DCMA-pushers.

>McFact #5: Since the lawsuit, McDonald's has
> reduced the temperature of their coffee from 185
> degrees to 158 degrees. They knew 185 wasn't safe
> before, but served the coffee at those
> temperatures anyway. This is precisely why we
> have punitive damages.

If 185 degrees isn't safe, then I don't want safe coffee. 158 is way too cool. According to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, the optimal water temperature for coffee is 92 - 96C (197.6 - 204.8F).

I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a country in which chainsaws and nail guns are outlawed and everyone drinks luke warm coffee and uses plastic knives. Some things I buy I can hurt myself with; I accept this risk as a part of life. It's not the government's job to protect me from my own stupidity.

The download versions from our web site last for 10 days following installation. Re-install will not allow an additional 10 days. Sorry. If you download and install Ability Write in January and then download and install Ability Spreadsheet in May, then Spreadsheet will not run since Ability shares the trial period across all Ability applications.

10 days? 10 days?
Who just allows 10 freaking days for evaulation these days?

However... according to their FAQ, the software can import/export Microsoft documents upto XP. Looks like 2003 is not supported yet.

FAQ (google) 110k

Anyway, good luck. I think we all agree that it does not matter if it's OpenOffice or this software package, any competition against the giant is good competition.

Um... Notice the low infant mortality rates in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong as compared to the US (and the UK for that matter).

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Just count me as someone who's seen enough engineering prototypes that foundered when scaled up to real, usable technologies. This has been the story of the battery powered electric car to a T.

Except that there's nothing new here. Battery-powered cars? They ruled the market a century ago, and it took some time and many improvements for combustion engines to displace them. Inverter drives for induction motors? In extremely broad use in industry. Batteries? Going into everything, reliable enough to be taken as a given if not for granted, and the appetite for more and more capacity is nearly insatiable.

The prototype has an extremely light chasis, and probably won't make side or front impact safety standards. Add more weight. How about air bags? Add more weight.

Use a stock steering column with an air bag: 15 pounds. Passenger-side airbag: 5 pounds, max. Front impact is probably better than Detroit iron, because there is no engine and the whole nose is available as crush space. Finally, side impact probably beats anything on the market, because the side rails are where the batteries are kept. Any side impact has to come through hundreds of pounds of batteries and its supporting structure before it can get to the occupants.

If you had read the acpropulsion.com site, you'd probably have discovered this. I've been following their news releases and brochures for a couple of years. Unfortunately the AC-150 system is far too expensive at its current low production volume for casual experimentation.

What happens to the batteries in a collision?

What happens to gasoline tanks in a collision? You can't equip them with fusible links or inertial disconnects.

Now we need Air Conditioning. And heat, since we don't get that for free from the engine.

Both the inverter and motor generate heat, and if you have enough batteries you can spend a few ounces on a resistance heater. (I'd direct you to the VW Vortex page on the one-liter concept car, except it appears to have been removed; here is the Google cache.) That said, the tzero is a balls-out sports car aimed at rich Californians. They don't need heat. Air conditioning is trivial, you just put a 3-phase electric compressor on it and the rest of the system is off the shelf (the Prius is going with electric A/C for 2004). Electric A/C is also coming to everything else, and has the advantage that you can get rid of the flexible hoses to the engine and the refrigerant leakage problems they cause.

A practical vehicle for today would be a "depletion mode" hybrid. If/when you ran out of battery power for propulsion and heat, you'd just fire up the sustainer and keep going. We could have done this ten years ago; we should certainly be doing it today.

This also doesn't answer the long term costs of battery replacement and life. I was glad to see that they were using a battery that lacks a memory effect, but the LiIon batteries in my laptop are still classified as hazardous waste.

So is the lead-acid battery under the hood of your car, but those have an extremely high recycling rate because you get the "core charge" back when you return one. If you are replacing 500 pounds at a time instead of 50, and doing it in a shop that does several a week, you can bet that your recycling rate is going to be close to 100%.

Finally, what powers a toy for the rich won't work for long haul trucking.

The best point you've made so far. But have you looked at what lots of trucks do all the time, especially in the east and west? They don't just fly down highways all day, they labor up hills at a snail's pace and then have to crawl down the other side on their Jake brakes, so they

Do you think so? You think there's never been a case where a crash caused by MS's hopeless security and reliability endangered or even cost lives?

There was a recent case where a MS security flaw took out the signaling on an American railway. I would have thought that might be a safety issue.

Did the last 20 years pass you by or something? Computers are pretty common in life-critcal situations nowadays. Having the field dominated by a monopoly (ie, a company that knows that no matter what the quality of their product they're the only game in town) is an issue where people can die in the street.

TWW

This technology had a couple false starts and inital designs sucked in terms of ROI for energy spent, but company called "Changing World Technolgies" built a demonstration plant that worked and then built a plant next to a turkey processing plant that digests the left overs from the turkey plant into 40 weight oil and gas (which it uses as fuel in the first stage of the digester).

*puts down the pom-poms* I think this technology is great. It's not perfect because it still keeps us dependant on oil (just not oil from foreign contributors) however, I think it's a step in the right direction.

I went looking for the link I read in the Discover magazine and it seems dead, so I've put in the google cache link instead.

Anything into oil

were found on the premises of Troy McClure's personal bedroom collection.

You are completely wrong. There must be witnesses? That's absolutely ludicrous. Do you have any idea how many crimes have no witnesses?

Brief Google just for a couple examples of statements relating to circumstantial evidence:

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

"Moreover, this Court has established that circumstantial evidence alone can be sufficient to convict a person of a crime."

The Supreme Court of New Hampshire upholding a conviction based solely on circumstantial evidence.

"When the evidence presented is circumstantial, it must exclude all rational conclusions except guilt in order to be sufficient to convict."

The Tennessee Appeals Court

"However, a conviction may be based entirely on circumstantial evidence where the facts are 'so clearly interwoven and connected that the finger of guilt is pointed unerringly at the Defendant and the Defendant alone.'"

The Louisana Appeals Court

"The rule as to circumstantial evidence is that, assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, in order to convict, it must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence."

You are completely wrong. There must be witnesses? That's absolutely ludicrous. Do you have any idea how many crimes have no witnesses?

Brief Google just for a couple examples of statements relating to circumstantial evidence:

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

"Moreover, this Court has established that circumstantial evidence alone can be sufficient to convict a person of a crime."

The Supreme Court of New Hampshire upholding a conviction based solely on circumstantial evidence.

"When the evidence presented is circumstantial, it must exclude all rational conclusions except guilt in order to be sufficient to convict."

The Tennessee Appeals Court

"However, a conviction may be based entirely on circumstantial evidence where the facts are 'so clearly interwoven and connected that the finger of guilt is pointed unerringly at the Defendant and the Defendant alone.'"

The Louisana Appeals Court

"The rule as to circumstantial evidence is that, assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, in order to convict, it must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Another manifesto/thesis/rant, "World of Ends", raised similar problems, although from a more limited, technical perspective. And it was a shorter document overall. There was a Slashdot discussion of it too.

mozilla.org is totally slashdotted already. Anyone got a mirror of the list of mirrors!
The google cache for the mirror list is here, and the torrent for the Windows release of Firebird 0.7, which I downloaded at 60kb/s, is here .

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:_PnqbgP1GpIJ: www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF -8
or
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http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:y_kcJKU-rtsJ: www.crazyengineer.net/projects/skittle.php+&hl=en& ie=UTF-8

"The GameCube doesn't have support for hardware bumpmapping."

Wrong. Wrong. WRONG!

You're thinking of the PS2. It doesn't have hardware bump-mapping. Fortunately the processor in it is slick enough to pull it off anyway.

They may not use it in every game, but the machine can certainly do it. It also does hair and shadow rendering.

Ever heard the Three 6 Mafia's somewhat hit Sippin on Some Syrup?
It was pretty big in Memphis a few years ago.

Google Cache

Fax.com response to lawsuit

Quote from the article:
"... Katz refutes such charges and says that any recipient who wishes not to receive fax advertisements need only call the toll free number that appears on every fax distributed by Fax.com in accordance with California law"

Yeah right! If it was only that easy to remove yourself from their lists.

Anyone else read the Microserf book? Same thing as the campus living and whatnot...

Oh and here is the Google Cache of the Chenbro site, its already getting slow!!

Pretty cool article though... I'm suprised at the amount of work that goes into one.

"In book 3, at the flying party, Arthur meets an actor who won an award. In the British version, the award was for "The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word 'Fuck' in a Serious Screenplay". In the American edition, the word 'fuck' was replaced with 'Belgium', and about half a page was added explaining why Belgium was such a horribly taboo word everywhere except Earth. There are a few other differences too, mostly revolving around the difference between the American and British billion. "