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The CEO of Microsoft just sold 2.3 billion
dollars worth of shares last month.
cached story here.

Just once I'd like to read one of these reviews before some shit crashes and burns.

Whoops ... Google Cache

The infamous RIAA "Dentist":
"You don't want to have another visit with a dentist like me"
-- Matt Oppenheim, RIAA senior vice president of business and legal affairs

There is a Matthew Oppenheim listed as a '93 graduate of Cornell law. link here: [google cache]

Matthew Oppenheim, a lawyer representing SDMI, said the group doesn't want to limit academic freedom or research, "but if somebody releases a paper that provides very specific information about how to attack that type of technology, it's problematic."
link here: [google cache]

re: the felten paper that the RIAA implicitly threatened to sue a princeton prof et al. over:

Matthew Oppenheim, head of litigation for the association, said he found the lawsuit mystifying, "It's like a bully who is looking for a fight, and the other kid doesn't want to fight, he said. "He just keeps pushing you and pushing you and pushing you."

what a bloody fool and hypocrite oppenheim is. everything the lawyer stereotype is all about.

The infamous RIAA "Dentist":
"You don't want to have another visit with a dentist like me"
-- Matt Oppenheim, RIAA senior vice president of business and legal affairs

There is a Matthew Oppenheim listed as a '93 graduate of Cornell law. link here: [google cache]

Matthew Oppenheim, a lawyer representing SDMI, said the group doesn't want to limit academic freedom or research, "but if somebody releases a paper that provides very specific information about how to attack that type of technology, it's problematic."
link here: [google cache]

re: the felten paper that the RIAA implicitly threatened to sue a princeton prof et al. over:

Matthew Oppenheim, head of litigation for the association, said he found the lawsuit mystifying, "It's like a bully who is looking for a fight, and the other kid doesn't want to fight, he said. "He just keeps pushing you and pushing you and pushing you."

what a bloody fool and hypocrite oppenheim is. everything the lawyer stereotype is all about.

It looks like they took the MyUtahSearch.com graphic down pretty quickly. Here is a Google Cache for those that want to still experience the thrill of clicking the graphic.

Pictures: http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:oz6LlRLvxhEJ: www.mongabay.com/external/glowing_fish.htm+Taikong +Corporation&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8

They use carbon dioxide now.

Methylene chloride is used as an industrial solvent and as a paint stripper.

Google cache.

Buy one now.

Forums.

Like the "safe deposit box" part.

Yeah, CDs will fall apart or die faster in non-optimal environments. But a safe deposit box is not one of those.

Oh you mean a nice safe environment like the "Lock-Box"?

All the info you'll ever need about FILE_ID.DIZ

Funny - Clinton was the only President who stepped forward and actually called for repealing it.

That was about a two weeks ago. Here's the cached google link

But don't let little things like facts get into the way of your petty partisanic and ignorant rantings.

Have a nice day :)

That statement was supposed to be a reference from this Seinfeld episode. Okay, I'll grant that it's maybe a little too obscure.

I agree wholeheartedly that competition is good for everyone and that Netflix can only get better for it (or go under, thereby yielding to a better player).

I guess I should've went with my comparison of the Netflix spokeswoman to the Iraqi information minister when she said that "Wal-Mart and Blockbuster will end up in a battle for the No. 2 spot." Okay, maybe that one wasn't great either!

... and it seems like caffeine might actually prevent Alzheimers.

Brought this one on yourself, you did. ;)

-T

I recently got a , which has a color palm integrated. The link is to the cached page with Google as Samsung's website seems to be /.'d before my posting this.

I run Top Gun SSH and it rocks.

With my Sprint plan (It also can be used with Verizon) I get unlimited web connectivity which doesn't eat the minutes of my plan.

I like clickable links

Apple Store
Google cache

Take a look at Justin's .plan from March 10th. (Thank you google cache) He was working on WASTE then. I think it is safe to say that this was not a hack, and I believe that Justin has the authority for such a release. Gnutella was retractable because the license agreement it was released under allowed for that.

WASTE was released under GPL, and as far as I can tell, it has no such provisions. In fact, it seems to be the contrary. If you accept the agreement, you are given the right to redistribute as long as the GPL is included.

Here are a few reasons why Google is the
Coolest. Thing. Ever.

Three words: Lunar solar power. From a long term perspective, lunar solar power is the only idea that makes sense. (It also has the virtue of being the only method we've yet discovered that would allow 1st world levels of energy consumption for everyone on Earth.)

Space exploration has languished without a raison d'etre for decades now. What better motivation could there be than eliminating the largest source of pollution on Earth, providing for the energy needs of the entire planet in the process? More info here, if you're interested.)

Reading some of the history between Corbin Motors and MCM (Google cache here), Corbin seems to have bet the farm on the Merlin roadster. Specifically, they decided to build their own engine (for what possible reason, I dunno.) Here's a link to the MCM engine being developed for the Merlin. It's a cute engine, but it's development seems to have caused a rift between Corbin and MCM, resulting in litigation that eventually led to Corbin's demise. They should have just purchased an engine from Honda or Suzuki or anyone else who's willing to OEM one to them. It was a very bad decision to roll-their-own.

There's a lesson here for most engineers. Building something from scratch, while cool, may not be the best decision. It's hard to stay in business if you make decisions that bankrupt the company.

Apple doesn't sell "-est" machines. Not the fastest, not the thinnest, not the lightest, not the most durable, not the most reliable, not the longest battery life, not the cheapest -- they're not really the best at anything.

Apple sells the "lightest value laptop" -- according to none other than PC Magazine!

And of course they sell the "lightest full-featured notebook that burns DVDs."

And the "best looking" notebook, according to The Register.

And the "world's lightest full-featured notebook."

And the biggest display on a laptop.

Hmm... I've found quite a few "-est" attributes.

the rest of the Desaware team on the help file on the CD-ROM: Stjepan Pejic, Roan Bear, Marian Kicklighter, Karyn Duncan, Josh Peck, Levy Ring, Edo Mor, Michael Dickman, and Matt Solnit-thank you all for your help

And in case you're wondering, I know you worked for Desaware in the 90s, but I had to come up with some sort of proof, ergo the Google cache link.

I'm sorry (not really), but this smells of blatant advertisement, which fortunately for Dan is coupled by Slashbork's glee at posting anything that smells remotely like anti-Microsoft drivel.

The average book review here gets between 100 to 200 comments. Extrapolate that to page views and ad impressions. This one's up to 300+ and counting.

This page:

http://www.accessdmv.com/

is fantastic. Clean, simple, gets to the point. Lets me renew my car registration in (literally) 45 seconds. Love it.

I _love_ simple, mid-90's-era web pages. I haven't updated it in a while, but my page:

www.osxadm.com

is just like that. You can read it, some simple icons, but no fluff. In fact, at one point osxadm inspired this guy's page:
bowdenj (hey, someone noticed!)

Clearly it's novel, if absolutely no one did it, while such technology existed for a long time, and no one did it. It most definitely has utility, it is useful.

Now the last standard is this: non-obvious

Now go all the way to the bottem of that, and we might see what the problem is...Looks like the patent office, has a problem with web-based technology. If you can't find documentation where you take an idea from documents A, B, and C, and get the idea in the patent. What if the problem is, it's the god damn web, and it's all oral tradition?

You might have a case for non-obvious, but clearly a judge didn't agree with Barnes and Noble on the point. Now it might be obvious to most people now, but was it obvious in 1996-7 when they applied for that patent. Not sure, I didn't know enough about the web at the time to have been considered an expert in the area. At the time, I didn't know what a cookie was.

I think the Internet is too much of a land grab at the moment, and that too many simple basic ideas right now are coming out, which make things tricker on the internet.

Again, I'm still standing up being a devil's Advocate. I really, really wish, that it was just over.

I think that concept of saying: "Put it on my tab", existed in the real world for a long time, and that this is merely an application of such an idea to the internet. I think that the referral business relationship where by Amazon pays you a piece of the pie if the referral comes from your website, and the associated technology is stupid. I think that saying, well I'm going to automate my process using a computer, shouldn't be patentable, however, doing that falls well within the definition of what is patentable.

I'm trying to say what Lessig says so much better: Read it here

Yeah, here's the google cache Jeez, were they hosting the server on the Palm?

google mirror if you want to read the article on ALTQ and ACK prioritization.

Just please don't make any ASCII pr0n movies...

The Ascii Art Ensemble
"the Ascii Art Ensemble has taken the 1972 porn movie 'Deep Throat' and converted it into moving ascii"

Link

Alright, let's try and squeeze as much PowerPC in to your $5000 ballpark figure as possible:

Xserve Dual 1.33 base model - $2699 USD

Xserve Dual 1.33 base model - $2699 USD

Total: $5398 USD

Accumulative peak theoretical FLOPS: 38 GigaFLOPS

And against this, a Dual Xeon 3.06Ghz workstation, within the $5000 price range would give you an estimated:

Accumulative peak theoretical FLOPS: 12.24 GigaFLOPS

My figure regarding the Xeon's peak performance is based on the only data I could readily find - from a 2.53 Ghz P4 (@ 5.06 PTGigaFLOPS) - keep in mind that the P4/Xeon's now have a faster bus and 512k L2 cache - I'd suspect these factors might afford a dual 3.02Ghz Xeon rig another 10-30% on top of my peak theoretical figure.

IOW, Take the above Xeon figure with a grain of salt - but also acknowledge that $5000 would buy you around double the peak theoretical floating point performance if you were to go the Apple route.

This is actually Apple's top-end solution - buy as much power as you need - and cluster.

When You'd have to distribute the After Effects rendering in the exact same manner on Dual Xeons/XP (as to my knowledge, AE-for-Windows doesn't multithread natively either) what difference does it make if you pump your frames out of one enclosure or two (or 16?)

The only flaw is, would two separate instances of Adobe's "Render Engine" run on the auxillary XServe (to take advantage of both of its CPU's) without a gruelling software hack? Dunno... On the other hand, I would assume Apple's Shake rendering distribution system properly multithreads on dual systems...

Here
You can go there to view a few items for sale. Two of those items are cases with filtered fans.

Also you could check out Here

From about 2/3 of the way down the page:

The cell phone is projected into the Matrix world by the Nebuchadnezzar's computer, 114 peter b. lloyd along with the avatar's body and clothes--and the weapons that Neo and Trinity eventually bring in with them. The software that simulates the cell phones is running inside the Nebuchadnezzar's computer, not the Matrix's computer

What's with the "114 peter b. lloyd" ? Or was that the Maxtrix subconsciously telling everyone about this guy who's figured it out?

Three comments and already Slashdotted? Damn.

Here's the Google cache.

"just heard this report [realimpact.net] by investigative journalist greg pallast that says she been tasked with re-writing iraq's intellectual property laws."

I found an excerpt of the RIAA Management Fast Track Manual she's referring to in drafting these new IP laws. Find it here.

So what's up with HAL (the Smash Brothers / Earthbound people?) are they an owned subsidiary of Nintendo or what? Or does nintendo just have an unlimited license to use their IP?

According to Nintendo's May 2002 financial report, HAL Laboratory Inc. is a Nintendo subsidiary. HAL Laboratory's biggest threat is probably Precious Moments Inc., who may threaten a lawsuit based on the appearance of the "Ness" character in SSB Melee.

Who owns the StarFox characters?

Nintendo does. Star Fox for Super NES (aka Starwing) and Star Fox 64 for Nintendo 64 (aka Lylat Wars) were made completely without Rare. The fact that Rare did Star Fox Adventures was a response to the fact that Rare was developing a game with character races similar to those from the Star Fox series, and Nintendo just licensed the characters to Rare.

And i assume nintendo still owns all the donkey kong IP, even though SSBM clearly uses lots of the Rare DK Country character models?

Nintendo could probably find modelers to make its own DK meshes in the next Super Smash Bros. game, which is rumored to be cel-shaded like The Wind Waker was.

Does anybody know if Australia already has something similar to uce@ftc.gov? I know they used to have sweep.day@accc.gov.au, but that address bounces nowadays. I ask because lately I've been getting a lot of that $25 MLM scheme with Australians at the top of the list. You know the one, where you pay 5 people five dollars each for the reports, blah blah blah. I know that the FTC (or FCC?) finally started cracking down on U.S. citizens participating in that scheme, and it seems that it's illegal in Australia too, according to this site[google.com, using the cache because the actual site is not responding well today].

You can see the image discribed in the original post here Beware, there are a few popups from the link though...

The professionals say different.

Betamax is widely accepted as being superior to VHS at the time; there are many docs online to "prove" it.

Google's cache of liftport.com: http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:TiE-9Ofu6fUC: www.liftport.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

This seems to indicate otherwise. The indirect phone taps use a coil placed at a fixed point next to a line allowing AC signals to be detected. It's similar to a regular AM loop antenna which can pick up AC signals without moving.

For the bike, the movement of the loop isn't doing anything, but the fact that the current is time-varying means the magnetic field is time-varying. Thus the flux is non-zero.

I have not been able to find a definition of the word. The closest I've found is from a google search (from a cached page):

Re: Performant - is it a word

Subject: Re: Performant - is it a word
From: Jim Aikens
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:45:51 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: Brierley, Sean
>
>Anyway, I saw an earlier post that said "performant" is
Canadian-French. I
>have yet to see a definition for this word. Does anyone have a
definition
>for it?

It's a French word -- French French, Canadian French, Swiss French and
all the other Frenches in the world. It's actually quite a common word,
especially in advertising. In French it has come to mean "high
performance" or "works really well". However, when I see it in an
English context, especially about software, I take it simply to mean "it
works". Which is already quite an accomplishment.

jim aikens

From ???@??? Sun Jan 00 00:00:00 0000=

The possibilites are endless. The generalized overloading mechanism described here has been in experimental use for some time and it is expected that most major C++ compiler vendors will ship it as an integral part of new releases in the near future.

By all means give the original link, but if there's a google cache entry then why not give that link first? (of course, stating that it's a cache of the page, may not reflect recent updates, etc).

This way slashdot would not be to blame if the cache was out-of-date (which seems to be a big issue in the FAQ) and wouldn't have to ask permission to cache the page either.

And for those who doubt the power of the google cache - here's the links from the story in cache form:

1. Susan Kare's homepage,

   The original mac icons ... and ...

   The windows 3.0 icons

There - was that so hard, now?

By all means give the original link, but if there's a google cache entry then why not give that link first? (of course, stating that it's a cache of the page, may not reflect recent updates, etc).

This way slashdot would not be to blame if the cache was out-of-date (which seems to be a big issue in the FAQ) and wouldn't have to ask permission to cache the page either.

And for those who doubt the power of the google cache - here's the links from the story in cache form:

1. Susan Kare's homepage,

   The original mac icons ... and ...

   The windows 3.0 icons

There - was that so hard, now?

By all means give the original link, but if there's a google cache entry then why not give that link first? (of course, stating that it's a cache of the page, may not reflect recent updates, etc).

This way slashdot would not be to blame if the cache was out-of-date (which seems to be a big issue in the FAQ) and wouldn't have to ask permission to cache the page either.

And for those who doubt the power of the google cache - here's the links from the story in cache form:

1. Susan Kare's homepage,

   The original mac icons ... and ...

   The windows 3.0 icons

There - was that so hard, now?

Sure. See page15 of the following document:

http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:QtQ4ibDrm_sC: www.heuni.fi/uploads/6mq2zlwaaw3ut.pdf+world+wide+ population+prison+percentage+statistics&hl=en&ie=U TF-8

As at 2000.

The only country that had a higher prison population percentage at that time was Russia.

I didn't search for more recent studies, but it is possible that the USA's percentage has climbed even higher in recent years; even as at year 2000, there wasn't much growth required in USA figures for USA to overtake Russia.

Here is a suggestion on how to skip the dependency on X, altogether, using Qt embedded.