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No guarantees, I haven't even tried this, and /. may kill it, but try here. Google cached it here.

Google's got the dope yo!

Google doesn't retain the images, so check it out before MS pulls those too.

Google's cache of the second link.

Google Cache

If you look at those SCART pinouts, you'll notice that SCART also carries seperate Sync and Audio signals in addition to both component RGB and Composite. Oh, and it can carry some data, too.

S-Video on the other hand...doesn't.

Composite can do the RGB seperation, but not the Sync and certainly not the Audio.

So SCART is a little more than just the connector. SCART gives you component RGB, seperate sync and Audio in one cable.

You can do S-Video over SCART, too, but almost nobody does (Usually it is RGB, and only Composite when thats all you can get).

As for "most consumer kit", that may be the case in the US, but in Europe every TV, Video, Cable Box and DVD player has at least one SCART output, usually supports RGB, and SCART cables are nice and cheap (Even for fully wired, Gold Plated ones).

So when we're saying SCART is better than S-Video, we do mean RGB SCART is better than S-Video. Because it is.

Working link to google cache.

Working link to google canada cache (?)

You may have some bizarre definition of "not making money". From a 4/01 News.com article:

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Saying the U.S. Patent Office is already functioning poorly, trade groups and companies such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard are fighting a Bush administration plan to divert about 15 percent of patent fees from the office to other government programs.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is funded entirely by fees companies pay when they apply for patents or trademarks. President George W. Bush seeks to let the agency keep $1.14 billion, a boost of $100 million over last year, out of an anticipated $1.35 billion in fees to be collected in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. But the fee percentage he's suggested for other programs is the highest ever.

The companies that pay the fee say it's important that the patent office use all the fees it collects to clear up a backlog of applications; companies now wait more than two years for a decision. Congress has used some of the office's income for other purposes in recent years. The $207 million Bush proposed yesterday is the most ever.

Linux doesn't compete against other operating systems? Damn, someone's going to have to tell Microsoft and Sun about that. They seem to be under a different impression.

Also, you and the FSF seem to be in a disagreement about the commercial nature of free software. Check out this page. (Scroll down to the paragraph that starts: "Free software" does not mean "non-commercial")

Sorry, I wanted to address this earlier, but in wanting cover the IP issues first, I forgot, but BlueGecko is wrong. First of all, Apple never sued any theme developers. What they did, however is send a cease and desist letter to all of the theme markers who used Apple trademarks. I hope you can at least understand that trademarks are a form of consumer protection, and that allowing people to clone established company's marks is confusing and hurtful to the consumer.

You want a world where one person discovers something useful, and then no one else can use that something without paying them.

Um, yeah that's exactly what I'm saying, and that's also what the Constitution says in Article 1 Section 8:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Now I agree that the most important clause of that section is "for a limited time". I don't think people should have an unlimited monopoly, but in order to encourage people to develop things we have the let them profit off from them.

The end goal is to either eliminate intellectual property all-together, or vastly reduce its duration and scope.

Is that the goal of the FSF? I hardly think so. Again if you can back that up with a link, I'd love it. If that really were the goal, then you'd think they'd be opposed to copyrighting their work, but if you look at the bottom every single page on gnu.org, guess what you'll see? Yep, a copyright notice

As far as who came up with the dock first, that's a nice screen shot of twm, but it's obviously a modern one (Netscape, Realplayer in what I'm guessing is the dock). Looks like NeXTStep and twm came out about the same time. NextStep 1.0 was released in 1986, with early releases as far back as 1989. TWM came with X11R1, and assuming the dock was a part of that it'd place it at about September 1987. So neither predates the other, but I did find an interesting usenet post from 1990 about how to configure your twm to look like NeXTStep. It atleast shows that the NeXTStep dock was significantly different/advanced from than whatever was included at the time in twm.

Actually David Hannum said that about PT Barnum. It all had to do with the "stone giant" that was found. The best part is when they wouldn't sell it to Barnum (or lease it), Barnum made a copy of it and said that his was the original. The link is found here, its actually a pretty humorous read.

According to this, NT was originally developed for the i860 so it wouldn't be tied to x86. It's a pretty smart idea for somebody developing a portable operating system, and I applaud Microsoft for the good decision.

Right, well, he frequently used to post on YNOT News - an adult webmaster information board.

Doesn't mean he was one, of course. He definitely used to be 'chief operating officer' of Infonent.com, Inc. His current fax is (408)979-7969... and an example of his current work is here.

Of course, he also gets mentioned in Sex Tracker press releases. He claims to be an 'anti-porn advocate', which is interesting, given the work he does protecting the valuable intellectual property of Cinnamonbunz, 'the largest collection of sexy, erotic models!' and Suze Randall the erotic photographer.

I wondered if this had anything to do with him (if it does, he's got some nerve 'I hope you don't mind me taking a graphic from your homepage!') particularly given the reference to driving and the Skyline Blvd. address again. He works for an erotic photographer, amongst others.

Let's see what else; if that is him, he has a web page on AOL of all places
. Plugging that new information into Google we also get maki177@aol.com as a potential address; if you search Google for maki177, you discover 'makiboy' is an alias apparently used by whichever Mark Ishikawa this one is, and taking this chain of improbability to its logical conclusion we discover makiboy@hotmail.com, NYC Jock/Ballet Sissy, and, last but not least, In Search Of... Men Seeking Men. The last includes the interesting blurb, "would like to hear from or meet other trim, athletic guys, 18 - 30s, who enjoy footed nylon or lycra tights. Shiny lycra is best, but nylon is okay too, as long as the tights are footed."

Oh, and he lies to his ballet-loving pals about his age :-)

Hey, makiboy, it's all publicly available information. Now you see why people don't go snooping - they might come to the wrong conclusion - if this is wrong?

Answers on a postcard please to:

"We lurve those tights!",
19020 Skyline Blvd.
Los Gatos, CA 95033

The small print: Half of this information is speculative, uncertain, and totally devoid of context. Don't think of it as fact. But it's a similar style to the information he'll use to report you to the cops - therefore, I would consider it to be poetic justice of a sort.

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:eTm4KN-KJxgC: www.baytsp.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

t's nice to know, as some of you sometimes forget, that the USA do not own the internet (and Al Gore didn't invent it).

Al Gore never said he invented the internet. Here is a defense of Gore from two guys whose views should really count.

Gore said he "took initiative" in creating the internet. It is a bum rap -- very unfair, and if we really are geeks here on slashdot, who care about what matters, we should quit repeating it, OK?

The ostracod is likely to be the oldest anus as well, since they did have an anus [google cache].

SSE can store and operate on 128-bit registers that represent 4 32-bit(24-bit precision) floats. SSE2 can use the same registers as a pair of 64-bit(53-bit precision) floats. The registers on the stack based x87 FPU are 80-bits(64 bit precision) wide.
It's my understanding that the majority of current non-x86 workstation CPUs, including the current Alpha, have 64-bit(53-bit precision) registers.

What exactly is Odessey 5?

And why is it such a security risk that us subversive Canadians must be kept from it

Well, I can't tell you what it is, 'coz I've not really read much yet, but I can tell you that Google is your friend (you want to be clicking on those cached links if, like me, you're outside the US =).
Oh, and here's a few more links about it...

HTH, etc... (=

In case you cant use google yourself... no need to mod me i am at +@ already so this is not a whore... good luck loading the pics but this way you at least know what they are of :)

Guess I'm not the only one to dream of owning a nuke-resistant bunker.

Here's the Google cache of the site map to salivate over...

Good news if you're back east or in the Bay Area, bad news otherwise.

Say, wonder if Mrs. Moody would mind running a home daycare out of one of these?

Here's a reality check for the people who think that they should be able to control what their presentation looks like via the web: The only way you can achieve that is to require that anyone who looks at your stuff uses exactly the same hardware and software you do. That means no using your website from a handheld or a web-enabled phone (wrong size screen, maybe wrong OS), no access for the blind (are you subject to the ADA? Are you sure?), no using a browser you didn't think to code for. You are discriminating against more than just the people like me who use Mozilla and lynx; you are also discriminating against the high-disposable-income folks who use the latest wireless gadgets. If you lard your site up with a bunch of pretentious, bandwidth-consuming garbage, you irritate influential, high income folks who don't have broadband.

One point that the article's author made which I thought was very good was this:

`` The irony is that no one beside Yahoo's management cares what Yahoo looks like. The site's tremendous success is due to the service it provides, not to the beauty of its visual design ...''

During the Gulf War, Iraq had chemical weapons. Did they use them? No...

Uhh, yes they did...

Read this document. The US had its own crummy reasons for saying Iraq didn't use those weapons. Both acts are horrible.

However, it does seem unlikely that China would risk (conventional) war with the US over Taiwan; they may have over one billion people, but much of their military technology dates back to the fifties. In the case of invasion, the US would almost certainly come to Taiwan's aid, for better or for worse.

Perhaps you've fallen behind in recent arms trades... Muzi

Also, China's missiles don't seem to shabby... News Max

I'm sure there are other deals going on. Russia's willing to sell anything to make a buck. You might say that their technology is behind the times as well, but it's a funny thing. If you have the airpower, then there is a lot of things you can do with a billion people...

Not only has it been posted before...

It's a complete rip from google-cache://spiralx.dyndns.org/texts/troll1.htm l !!!

Mod this down...it's karma whoring!

I knew I had seen this piece of text before:

The original link (don't seem to be working though)
http://spiralx.dyndns.org/texts/troll1.html

The Google cache, amen!
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:YFmy6y5PKzMC: spiralx.dyndns.org/texts/troll1.html

what he meant:

Microsoft founder Bill Gates sounded the wake-up call for intellectual property protection of software in 1986. Why would the Chairman of one of the world's biggest companies be concerned about intellectual property protection (a.k.a. IPR)? A quote from Bill Gates puts it bluntly,

"...I feel that some large company will patent some obvious thing related to an interface, object orientation, algorithm, application extension or other critical technique. If we assume that this company has no need of any of our patents, then they have a seventeen year right to take as much of our profits as they want. The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can."

reference

When major religions learned that an invisibility cloak (Google Cache) had been invented many started screaming about how they knew none of this Harry Potter nonsense would come to absolutely no good. In other news, most of world, still awaits Harry Potter Book 5.

When I think of BBS's, I think of "The General" (a huge multi-line board here in Houston that had a lot of .. interesting software). More fondly though, I think of "The Dojo", and the interesting and informative discussions that took place on NirvanaNet. & the Temple of the Screaming Electron" (&totse), one of the boards involved in NirvanaNet, eventually setup a basic website. Fun times. Ah. 20-something, and this story makes me feel old .

You had a cornea transplant a few years ago (Google cache). How's it doing?

Google Cache Here

The Gnome article Stolen from butthead's post.

Here's a link to the google mirror.

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:uauPOD4eZTsC: users.pandora.be/hollemeersch/blackrose/tenebrae/+ Tenebrae+Quake&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Actually, music was illegal in Afghanistan under the Taleban. Seems the U.S. has something else in common with the ter'ists, mm?

This Page [google cache] tested CD Roms to destruction and concluded the fastest a CD rom could spin at without self-destructing was 64x to quote

"A 64x drive using CLV would have to rotate the disc with 33,920 rpm when reading an inner track, exposing the hub of the disk to a tangential force of some 45 N/mm2. A point on the periphery of the disc will be moving with 213 metres per second, slightly more than half the speed of sound. Can the disc take that?
The answer is no. A powerful no.

At about 52x, i.e. 27,500 rpm, most manufacturer's CDs blew up in a rain of plastic particles, leaving their marks on the premises. The result was a pile of shimmering plastic chips."

seems a bit silly/iresponsible to even get close to those speeds if storing data reliably is an issue (especially using 20c media), sure the drive might reach those speeds but will the media ?, has this drive got something special to prevent destruction (multiple heads etc) or is it just using brute force ?

check out AUVSI's Aerial Robotics Competition

Taco probably doesn't care, because intelligent people just use Google and view the cahced copy instead of even trying to get to the real page. If more of you /. effect whiners would try it, maybe these servers wouldn't go down as often.

For the non-inteligent people out there, try this link
Click Here

For example, Sun and Cisco sponsor academia. As long as they don't buy the government and judges, it's OK (they don't, don't they?)

(For other things like cellphones, the ratio of wavelength to body-part size could be critical to efficiency of heating, so frequency can be critical, and is so frequently.)

"FAQs About Water and Steam" (The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam)
"Sometimes you may hear that the microwaves are interacting with a resonant frequency of the water molecule (like a radio gets tuned to a frequency), but that is actually not the case. Anything with a dipole moment will absorb microwave radiation, so microwave ovens will also heat fats and sugars, for example. "
FAQ or cache
Has link to How Microwaves works sites with more links.

The wavelength of the microwaves needs to be comparable to the size of the object which then gets an induced alternating electrical field. That alternating field drives the molecules as little syncronous induction-motor rotors. Heat being just molecular kinetic energy, it is felt as, and cooks, as, any other heat source, but inside-out.

. It is because of the frequency of the microwave photon.

NO! If you check standard texts, you will find that microwave oven performance is largely insensitive to variation in frequency, and indeed may vary within the ISM band. Domestic microwave ovens are at about 2.5GHz in the Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) Band out of historical coincidence (existing allocation, existing equipment) only. Note that has a wavelength of 12cm, a bit long for a molecular resonance. This is very close to the 2.4G part-15 data and part-97 ham bands. The water and water-vapor absorption is quite weak, being on the flank of the 22GHz weak resonance. Any competent microwave design book, whether for data, radio-astronomy, or diathermy, will have the tables and charts. See for example,

"resonance lines of water [are] at 22 GHz and a very very strong line at 183 GHz. "
CEOS or cache

You can see in the diagram there that absorption does decrease from 1G to 2.5G, it's nothing like a resonance, it's considered an edge of the low "window". In the 10GHz range, we consider clouds to be lenses not opaque absorbers, and that's higher up that peak's flank.

Under the terms of my ARS radio license, I know I have to abide by federal human/radio safety standards (which will prevent me from anywhere near our full authorized power on 2.4G any time soon! Just thinking about 5W on 10G with feed and dish gain is enough to worry about.). The scarier thing is those who don't know about them are supposed to too.

The Federal standard for human / radio absorption safety is available from FCC OET RF Safety Home page ; their Consumer Facts watered down version is Human Exposure To Radio Frequency Fields Federal Communications Commission

73 de radio n1vux

When I first saw this I thought "yeah, ok", but after some googling it appears that they are actually real and not some washington post made up crap. This link
Maryland Marine Notes which discusses concerns for Chesapeake bay mentions how the Department of Natural Resources classifies the "nuclear worm" on their list of no known problems but potentially dangerous creatures.This one is by the US Wildlife field service:
more info I've been trying to find a photo but everyone has the same info... basically wildlife angencies are trying to figure out what the hell it is and how dangerous it is... fisherman use it as bait, and the press hypes up the "nuclear" part of it by saying it was created by agent orange and napalm. The actual name nuclear worm was made up by a bait salesman on chesapeake bay because it sounded good. *rolls eyes*

When I first saw this I thought "yeah, ok", but after some googling it appears that they are actually real and not some washington post made up crap. This link
Maryland Marine Notes which discusses concerns for Chesapeake bay mentions how the Department of Natural Resources classifies the "nuclear worm" on their list of no known problems but potentially dangerous creatures.This one is by the US Wildlife field service:
more info I've been trying to find a photo but everyone has the same info... basically wildlife angencies are trying to figure out what the hell it is and how dangerous it is... fisherman use it as bait, and the press hypes up the "nuclear" part of it by saying it was created by agent orange and napalm. The actual name nuclear worm was made up by a bait salesman on chesapeake bay because it sounded good. *rolls eyes*

That's always been how it works, actually... the OEM installs of XP that come with Dells (and other big-name PC makers) do check the BIOS and don't require activation. See MS's "Technical Details on Microsoft Product Activation for Windows XP" (google's HTML version or the original Word doc):

Successfully implemented, SLP uses information stored in an OEM PC's BIOS to protect the installation from casual piracy. No communication by the end customer to Microsoft is required and no hardware hash is created or necessary. At boot, Windows XP compares the PC's BIOS to the SLP information. If it matches, no activation is required.

Ron Rivest (The "R" in RSA) wrote a paper on time locked crypto, which sounds like what you want. But really, what are the chances you have an earth shattering discovery to reveal if you can't even use Google?

Of course, you won't get the purty pictures:

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Zcv7fU8bM28C: www.rctoys.com/draganflyer3.php+&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8

Right here.

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Warning -- the page has a pop-up.

The MCC, or "mobile computer core," is a totally new PC architecture centered around a processor, internal battery, data storage and computer software applications. An additional power supply, display, communications and input/output connectors are accessories that you choose based on your individual preferences and work environment.

The core consists the Crusoe processor by Transmeta, 10 GB hard disk and 256 MB Ram all contained within 3x5x3/4smaller than a typical PDA. Low power consumption makes it ideal for portable applications, and no fan is required. It will automatically identify and adapt its system, power management, thermal, software and user interface behavior, depending on the attached accessory.

Use it to run Windows 2000, WindowsXP, or Linux operating systems. Use it in multiple configurationsdesktop, laptop, handheld, tablet, or wearable. Above all, use it to simplify your life, save time and improve your access.

MCC Specifications:

• 300-800 MHz Crusoe Processor by Transmeta
• Variable voltage 0.9 to 1.3 V
• 256 MB SDRAM
• 10 GB 1.8 ATA-5 Disk
• Silicon Motion Lynx 721 3D Graphics w/8MB
• Core physical specifications:
  • 257 g (9.1 oz)
  • 18.5x72x126 mm, 0.73x2.8x5.0 inches
  • 10.2 cubic inches
• Handheld shell:
  • Display: 5.8 800x600 backlit active matrix
  • Touchscreen
  • Battery: 10.8V 1400mAh 15.1Wh
  • Battery life: approximately 2 hours
  • Weight: 390 g (13.7 oz)
  • I/O: 2 USB, Audio In/Out, DC In
• Core & shell combined specifications:
  • 647 g (1.425 lb)
  • 30.5x170x102 mm (1.20x6.69x4.016 in
  • 32.234 cubic inches
• I/O signals on docking connector:
  • PC Card
  • 3x USB
  • DVI Digital Video
  • VGA Analog Video
  • PS2 Mouse/Keyboard
  • Microphone In
  • Amp Out Stereo
  • Line Out Stereo
  • DC In
  • 2.5V, 3.3V, 5V power to accessories
  • Control signals
  • Docking ID & control
  • Backlight brightness control
  • SMB Bus for battery monitoring.