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Google cache of site...
I had trouble going to the website. So here is the Google cache of mikerowesoft.com.
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Here's the google cache of mikerowesoft.com
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Re:Bush AWOL ! OT like a mo-fo.AWOL
Cocaine (from a right wing puplication!)
I'm sure you can find more sources if you look, I just went as fast I could, and tried to pick sources that are generally trusted to be accurate.
There will always be those who say 'if the records aren't there, how can it be true?', but when you are in charge of who keeps them, where they are kept, and who has access to them, you can certainly manipulate them.
Does the head IT guy at a company ever get busted for looking at porn?...
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Grid Computing != Ubiquitous Computing
I think that a lot of people are missing that there are two concepts here. The first is grid computing, which is as far as I understand being able to offload processing to multiple computers. The second is ubiquitous computing, which is being able to use computers anywhere you want and access data anywhere you want in a natural fashion such that you're not even thinking about the fact that you're using a computer. See this google-cached page for an example. The two may be used together but are not dependent on each other.
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Re:Save Disney site.It's not worth saving.
"Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie. .
The Village Voice declared Miramax/Disney's Kill Bill "The Most Violent American Movie Ever Made," and the Hollywood Reporter warned it "oozes, drips, flows, gushes, splatters... scalps, limbs and heads are freely removed from characters' bodies."
You'd think that Disney would tone it down for a Christmas movie. Sorry, no Miracle on 34th Street here. In Bad Santa, Miramax/Disney features a disgusting Santa that yells at a kid, several times: "G**-d***it! Are you f**king with me?" Another scene depicts a barmaid having sex with Santa in his car outside of the bar: "F**k me, Santa! F**k me, Santa!"
Disney-owned [television] channels account for the overwhelming number of erotic and pornographic network programs on air. -- FFA
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Re:Based upon OpenBSD
They also used Ogg Vorbis in Halo. Your point?
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"In this special issue, I cover where Panther stands, why the Dock (still) sucks, and how you can trick out your personal Macintosh today to turn it into a high-productivity machine.
Make Your Mac a Monster Machine
How to equip your Mac today with a handful of simple shareware add-ons to turn give your supercomputer the super-interface it deserves.
Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
An in-depth look at Apple's OS X 10.3 release. What's working, what's not, and what Apple needs to do about it.
Top 9 Reasons Why the Dock Still Sucks
The Dock is the most notorious interface element ever to appear on a Macintosh, the first one that is provably bad in almost every way. I systematically review why it is still bad and explain why Apple hangs onto it anyway." -
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"In this special issue, I cover where Panther stands, why the Dock (still) sucks, and how you can trick out your personal Macintosh today to turn it into a high-productivity machine.
Make Your Mac a Monster Machine
How to equip your Mac today with a handful of simple shareware add-ons to turn give your supercomputer the super-interface it deserves.
Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
An in-depth look at Apple's OS X 10.3 release. What's working, what's not, and what Apple needs to do about it.
Top 9 Reasons Why the Dock Still Sucks
The Dock is the most notorious interface element ever to appear on a Macintosh, the first one that is provably bad in almost every way. I systematically review why it is still bad and explain why Apple hangs onto it anyway." -
Re-linked to the Google cache
"In this special issue, I cover where Panther stands, why the Dock (still) sucks, and how you can trick out your personal Macintosh today to turn it into a high-productivity machine.
Make Your Mac a Monster Machine
How to equip your Mac today with a handful of simple shareware add-ons to turn give your supercomputer the super-interface it deserves.
Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
An in-depth look at Apple's OS X 10.3 release. What's working, what's not, and what Apple needs to do about it.
Top 9 Reasons Why the Dock Still Sucks
The Dock is the most notorious interface element ever to appear on a Macintosh, the first one that is provably bad in almost every way. I systematically review why it is still bad and explain why Apple hangs onto it anyway." -
Oh Man, Hilarity About to Ensue!
I can't wait to see this fly. When I worked at EB, we had problems with customers mixing up the power cable with the A/V cable. They thought the memory card fit into the controller slot. We had one guy who came in to buy a Dreamcast jump pack (generic tremor pack) because he couldn't jump high enough to get a certain part of the game. Did you see the back of the Phantom? Dear God, this'll be great. Obviously, they're going for a more mainstream audience than the PC niche crowd, since those people already have PCs AND broadband AND the patience to install hardware and software and patches. So the question is literally: who's dumb enough to buy this?
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Re:Phantom publishers/games
Weird...the page was there yesterday.
Anyway, here's Google's Cache of the listing of games/publishers for the phantom.
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Re:That's weirdAccording to the specs in the Google cache (thanks AKAImBatman, there is a docking cable. I quote:
OQO docking cable includes
* 3D accelerated 1280 x 1024 video output (VGA and LVDS)
* Serialized PCI
* Additional USB
* Additional FireWire (IEEE1394)
* Ethernet
* DC power
* Audio out
So my guess is that the weird port is the port for the docking cable.
"Serialized PCI". Cool. You could make a docking port with PCI cards in it!
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Re:That's weird
Okay, I managed to grab a Google Cache of the specs. No mention of RS232, but lots of mention of FireWire. Still, I have FireWire on my Mac and the port looks all wrong. It's too bad that photo is so low-res or I might actually be able to make it out.
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A link to a page full of images on slashdot... This website will die.
Please use this:
Google cache for the pictures
And this:
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The more slashdotted the site is, the more I wanna view it!!!
Here's the google cache version of THG, for the impatient people like me.
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What this article doesn't touch upon: NIMS AI.
What this article really doens't say much about is that NIMS isn't just an open source program for controlling robots, it's a program developed by grants given to UCLA to develop AI, or Ambient Intelligence in this isntance. This robot isn't entirely remote controlled, and though the article touches on continual monitoring, it doesn't say that it's using open source robot AI developed by UCLA.
For more info about NIMS:
UCLA doc in PDF
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Re:Lindows referenceTechnically, the trademarked names here are "Microsoft Windows" and "LindowsOS". So, um, yeah...not really the same at all.
Not according to Microsoft.(Google Cache) According to Microsoft, Windows is its own seperate registered tradmark. "Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries."
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Which religion?
Jainism? Sikhism? Shinto? Hinduism? Bhuddism? Taoism? Zoroastrianism?
Four of the above do not formally recognize the existence of One True God, so your question makes no sense.
Speaking as a pantheist and a Universalist Unitarian, your question doesn't work for me either. You may as well ask if my neoteric ether has transflogistanized! (uh, I don't know the answer to that one either, perhaps somebody else does.)
However, if I twist my mind back into the contorted, tiny blinders of my fundamentalist christian childhood, I think I can answer your question from that perspective. I imagine the same answer would work for fundamentalist Judaism or Fundamentalist Islam, which seem to work pretty much the same way. Here goes: "YOU ARE EVIL!!!! YOU HAVE WICKED THOUGHTS!!! YOU MUST BOW DOWN TO THE MAJESTY OF THE ONE TRUE LORD!!! YOUR FLESH MUST BE MORTIFIED!!! KILL THE UNBELIEVERS!! KILL!! KILL!!"
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Re:No parity between uploading and downloading
The purpose of the analogy is to illustrate that an action from one perspective does not imply the opposite action from the opposite perspective. The flipping of legality with the perspective is only there to illustrate clearly that reversing the action is not equivalent, and thus you can't use upload and download interchangably on the same transaction.
It's an analogy on grammatical usage of the verbs to upload and to download, not on the legality of uploading and downloading.
But if we were to apply it in the legal sense, you have an agent for the CRIA. He downloads something from your system--which is a legal action--then turns around and claims that you uploaded it to him, thereby making you responsible for his action (in absentia I might add). That is unreasonable, and so reversing uploading and downloading is also unreasonable.
If you put a pie on a windowsill to cool, that is not an invitation for someone to take it. For sake of argument, let us assume that the pie was purchased from a vendor who had you agree to a license that it was licensed to you for your personal consumption only. (Silly, I admit, but for the sake of argument, assume it, and that it is a legally binding agreement.) Still, you are not obligated to provide security for it from the unscrupulous.
It is reasonable for one to secure one's possessions, but it is not an obligation. Theft is theft regardless of security or lake thereof. Same goes for copyright infringement.
Putting your licensed pie on a windowsill with a sign that says, "Take this!" though is an encouragement to others to sample it in violation of the license. That's what one does with P2P file sharing: the purpose of the software is to share files, you're putting files on it to be shared, so you intend that others take copies of the files.
But you're offering them for download, not upload. You're not pushing them; you're allowing others to pull them. It appears then that it is still legal in Canada.
But I'm not arguing the legality of offering those files in Canada. The nuances of applying the concept of a loaned physical item being copied by someone else while it is in their possession and applying it to unfixed data that can be copied without it changing possession are hard to work out while avoiding, as Douglas Adams had Ford Prefect say, "trying to think of a way of looking at it which means we get to eat it."
I'm arguing that it is not "uploading", and more specifically that someone downloading from you is not the same thing as you uploading to him. You can't just swap the subject and verb for another pair and describe the same action because that changes the actor.
And assigning the actions to the machines instead of the people is just a means either to avoid responsibility for the actions (for the person doing something that would be illegal for him) or to assign responsibility for the actions to another (for the person looking to make something illegal that isn't).
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Re:Great, first Playstation...now Pornstation!
When Queerio gets tired the girls will just have to find other ways to pleasure themselves.. Queerio's pet Aibo
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Re:Wow
It's curious that no one mentioned the problems of imagery and ambiguity. This is the stuff that feeds poetry; but it poisons programming.
What I mean is - good poetry strives on association, connotation, and ambiguity. First, with linguistic surface features. We can bring about feeling or imagery by only hinting at it. Sometimes we don't even need to hint, but merely picking the right sounds. [1] And this requires an extraordinary amount of intuition about how we read.
And then there are higher-level ambiguities, such as when by deliberately masking elements of the situational frame (who is speaking? to whom are they speaking? what are they speaking about?) we can achieve multiple meanings, which will lead to completely different interpretations of the entire piece.
But this goes completely against the rules governing computers, which require their commands to have absolutely clear semantics. You just can't give the computer ambiguous code; indeed, ambiguous code doesn't exist (except when the ambiguity is in the inexperienced programmer's head; the computer always knows exactly what it means).
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Re:Xmms on Windows?Winamp was Shareware for a time. It's never been free as in speech, to this date Nullsoft has not released the source to Winamp itself.
However, Winamp has pretty much always been free as in beer. Even when they had registration, there was a distinction between the Lite version and the Pro version. At one point I think they were even planning to do "adware" though I'm not sure if a release with that was ever done.
Over here is a complete archive of Winamp releases, except the none of the frelling links work. But you can see the release history at least. At a certain point, Nullsoft was bought by AOL and thus didn't need to do the shareware/registration thing anymore.
As for Open Source, Nullsoft has released a lot of OpenSource stuff, pretty much all for Windows. The most useful being their installer program, I've seen a lot of freeware packages use NSIS. Here's all the programs Nullsoft has released recently. I've always liked Nullsoft's naming approach...
(Historical note: One of the most popular plugins for Winamp has been Geiss, developed by Mr. Ryan Geiss. He originally wrote it independently. Then he got a job with Creative Labs working on Oozic, Creative's own idea for a media player with nifty visuals. Oozic started life as Lava but had to change names, probably for trademark reasons. Sadly, Creative Tech turned asswipe with Oozic, declaring it only available for those who bought their hardware and had it on the driver CD. Anyways, Mr. Geiss left Creative to go work for Nullsoft! Where he developed some more nifty visualization tools such as Milkdrop and Geiss II.)
(BONUS Historical note: Before Winamp, before multi-media players with visualization plugins, there was Cthugha by Kevin "Zaph" Burfitt. Cthugha started life as a DOS freeware program that did pretty VGA animations in synch with music from an audio CD. Eventually a version was developed for Windows 95, and 3D support was even added providing you used a 3DFX card. Sadly the project has languished for years now but not before Kevin released source and a number of folks ported Cthugha to MacOS, Linux, Java and yes, even a Winamp plugin!)
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Google Cache for Karma
Google Cache to the rescue. What do I win?
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That's the wrong page!
Link to privacy policy returns 404
Winamp's privacy policy is at http://www.winamp.com/disclaimer.php. It used to be on another page (Google chache here), but it was never at http://www.winamp.com/privacy, which the parent linked to - that's why you're getting a 404 error. Just in case you were wondering about that. -
Re:Aerospace analysts are always too optimistic
Ah hem. The MIG-25 used jet engines...
Standard production Mig-25s had jet engines. Many of the Mig-25s used for breaking records were often either rocket-powered or rocket-assisted, like the E-266.
Ok, so it trashed its engines each time it did mach 3.2
The US clocked a Mig-25 over Israel flying Mach 3.2 in 1973, but like you said, its engines were completely destroyed (beyond a simple rebuild I think).
The Guinness Book of World Records, which is meticulous in verifying records, lists the SR-71 as the Fastest Jet. They have a separate category for the Mig-25, Fastest Combat Jet. According to this, the SR-71's top speed is over Mach 3.2. Its actual top speed is still classified.
According to the organization that certifies aviation world records, the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the SR-71 still holds the Absolute record for Speed over a closed circuit. The Mig-25 has no records listed, but its variants the E-266 and E-266M still hold some current records.
One record the E-266 still holds is Speed over a closed circuit of 100 km without payload, at 2605.10 km/h. I'd assume the SR-71 wasn't even submitted in this category, since its record in the category Speed over a closed circuit of 1000 km without payload of 3367.22 km/h greatly surpasses the other record, and over a longer distance. -
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Slashdotted?
Am getting some weirdo JSP errors.
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Re:That's not the *complete* source code
lkml.org seems to be having issues. Here's a link to the google cache of that post where Linus talks specifically about signed kernels:
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Re:Should Vegetarians Play Video Games?
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Should Vegetarians Play Video Games?
Apparently, vegetarians should stop watching Matlock, too. I guess Matlock doesn't eat babies.
Matthew Elton
Department of Philosophy
University of Stirling
1. An Absurd Question?
Many video games feature animated agents that the player attacks with the aim of maiming or
killing. Less dramatically the animated agents may be treated instrumentally, herded or goaded
with no regard for potential suffering, injury, or death. Such activity would be utterly
unacceptable if directed at people. And for many, but clearly not all, it would be repugnant if
directed at animals. For simplicity, if not accuracy, let me call those who do take the latter
attitude ?vegetarians?. In this paper I want to raise the question of whether such vegetarians
ought to refrain from playing video games on the grounds that the animated agents in the game
require of us the same sort of treatment as animals do in our natural environment. Should, that
is, vegetarians play video games?
My answer may strike some readers as absurd, for I shall argue, with some important
qualifications, that vegetarians should not play video games. That is, I shall argue that
between real animals and some of the animated agents that feature in video games there are no
differences that make a moral difference, and hence no ground for a difference in treatment. Of
course, many readers may share with me the overwhelming intuition that there must be some
relevant difference, and this may suggest that there is something awry with my arguments.
But if this is so, I shall at least have shown that the relevant difference is not obvious, and,
hence, that the vegetarian has work to do in justifying her playing of video games.
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Re:How many operating systems, you say?
doh! that's 15 years for Fermilab's 4381, retired in 1997, search for it on this page
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RTG... Prior art
I knew a fellow in '97 who was wrote a recombinant text generator for AK Dewdney (a prof at my old Uni UWO)
There is a blurb on it here:
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:AcQ0gQ02qrsJ: www.qut.edu.au/edu/cpol/foucault/links2.html+%22re combinant+text+generator%22+%22Freud,+Marshall+McL uhan,+and+Michel+Foucault%22&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8
It actually worked and the stuff it spit out was somewhat poetic nonsense... wonder if it qualifies as prior art?
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Elmetarny, my dear Watson.
Using a GUID or UUID you can track specific computers/users. A little more reliable than a MAC address as far as AOL's software goes (since the guy could have just changed modem/network PCMCIA cards or something). Not to say spoofing isn't a possibility, but the fucker used AOL. How likely is it he knows what the word "spoof" means?
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You just might get it, more or less...
I could rant about how stupid these things are, about all the security holes in the system, about all of the abuses, about the violation of rights, and on and on and on. Instead I'd just like to say that if it does somehow get rammed down our throats then I want chip number 666! Thankyou.
One interesting thing about it all - if they use the general encoding scheme used for UPC bar codes, we'll all have something close to a 6-6-6 on us, though not exactly.
If you look here (cached because howstuffworks.com seems to be flaking out), you'll see that a UPC bar code has a start code, some data, a middle code, some data, and an end code.
Each digit is represented by a set of bars and spaces - 6 is represented by 1-1-1-4, 2 thin bars, close together, followed by a long space. It is the only digit to have 2 thin bars separated by a 1 unit space. Interestingly, the start code (1-1-1), middle code (1-1-1-1-1), and end code (1-1-1) are all 2 thin bars, close together, so if you just look at them, they look very much like an encoded six.
Point is, get yourself a UPC bar code based ship, and you're pretty close to that 6-6-6 you've been hoping for.