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Did you even google it? Here's the book I found on one of the first result pages.. There were some other interesting-sounding pages about microwave cooking too.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0882894560

I have no idea if it's a good book, didn't even read the Amazon reviews.

Ok what then? Do you want to take the protectionist approach? Well this topic has nothing to do with the recession for crying out loud.

I think the American invention of the internet and all the investment is definately something to be proud of. It has brought the best of America to the world, freedom of speech, better media, etc. It has brought without any doubt more freedom than any premptive war has done...

I also think it had brought more jobs to America that if they would have patented it or used some form of protectionism. I think the investment in the free, sharing and open qualities of the net has not only payed out itself financially, but also intellectually and morally.

The reason America once prospered as worlds wealthiest creditor nation. They had a comparative advantage in economic freedom. Taxes were much lower and the government was less intrusive. They borrowed a lot of money from the Europeans in the 19th century. America used that money for like infrastructure and factories; they did capital investments. And by building factories they became the worlds leading manufacturer and exporter of high quality, low cost consumer goods, also even when the paid the highest wages in the world. And because they made productive use of the money they borrowed of the Europeans, they were able to repay the debt by selling those manufactured consumer goods to Europeans. By 1980 Americans owned more foreign assets than all the creditor nations in the world combined, they were the worlds most wealthy lenders with a high savings rate.

Today is the exact opposite. They no longer flood the world with low cost high quality goods, but they flood the world with dollars. The United States routinely borrows from the poorest nations in the world. The relationship is now: America consumes and everybody else produces. America borrows and everybody else saves. Without American consumption, what would all these Chinese do for jobs? Well it's not about jobs. You don't want jobs so you can work, you want jobs so you can consume; a higher standards of living. The fact that the Chinese get jobs in exchange for the products they give us doesn't do any good for the Chinese. The Chinese are perfectly capable of consuming their output themselves. They don't need their government to artificially suppress the exchange rate of the Yuan so that they can artificially elevate the value of the Dollar so that the Americans get to consume all the goods that the Chinese could have consumed had it not been for that monetary policy.

This current dynamic where Americans don't save and not produce is not viable. America convinced the foreigners painting their fence and pay them is a privilege. But the minute the Chinese, the Japanese stop buying these Dollars, the show is over.

All this borrowed consumption is going to have to be paid. American consumers are now loaded up with debt to their eyeballs, and the very nature of that debt.

It is stupid from the governent to stimulate ownership of residential property by stimulating people and banks to use NINJA-mortgages(No Income, No Jobs or Assets). Credit for people with no money is insane, ofcourse they cant pay back. Ofcourse that means trouble for banks, and so on. Predatory lending also took a part of the blame. Also not wise was to use the value of a house as a kind of slot machine. It was a mania on the housing marktet that made it to a bubble bound to collapse.

I can strongly advice you to read the standard economic work of Niall Ferguson: "The Ascent of Money" . Innovation in financial products has always followed a bust and boom cycle.

Having no supervision on complex financial products like derivations is insane, even by any measure of common sense. The innovated product of securitizes mortgages in trenches for mortgages give to people with no income, no jobs or assets is also insane. Especially when it gets a AAA stamp fr

My MIL had cancer & switched to a largely raw, vegan diet based on this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Your-Life-Hands-Understanding-Preventing/dp/0312275617
She says she's never felt better, and after 3 rounds of chemo she's still going strong. I'm not all the way there yet, but I'm moving towards raw and vegan myself.

I second the motion. Cook's Illustrated and by extension America's Test Kitchen are top quality technique and recipe resources. I also recommend The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion as a great resource for anyone who wants to know everything about baking. King Aurthur Flour really make incredible products and know how to use them. Their flour is worth the money and once you stop using Gold Medal and the other cheap gross kinds you'll notice a BIG difference in the quality of your food.

My personal favorite of all the introductory cookbooks I have ever seen is, "How to boil water",
( http://www.amazon.com/Boil-Water-Food-Network-Kitchens/dp/0696226863 ). It has labeled pictures of things you might find in a kitchen, so when a recipe says to use a "frying pan", you can go look at the picture and get the right thing out of the cabinet. The first recipe is "coffee". The next chapter is "things you can eat without having to cook them first".

For anyone interested in this sort of book, I'd also recommend Cookwise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking by Shirley O. Corriher. Not nearly as geeky as this book sounds, but it does incorporate a great deal of science into nearly every recipe. And it does it in a way that probably won't scare off non-geeks, either.

So if you remove the WWW, the internet basically drops dead.

Email, IM, BitTorrent, VOIP, networked games, and mobile phone apps are already using more bandwidth than the WWW.

What are you gonna do ? Use Gopher to find files to FTP ?

I'm personally looking forward to a Daemon darknet, probably built out of I2P or TOR.

...you assume a high degree of income disparity throughout society. But if the middle class becomes proportionally much larger, then trust becomes less of a problem.

The Changing Face of Control Room Design

Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics [Hardcover]

"instead of about $3 every 6-12 months on batteries?"

citation needed: why do the rechargeable batteries require replacing every 6-12 months? After being charged 180-360 times (full charge each day) they can't hold a charge anymore?

Modern NiMH rechargeable batteries like Sanyo Eneloop retain 85% of full capacity even after a year in storage and can charge up to 1,000 times without experiencing any memory effect while only costing $2.50 a battery. I wouldn't mind replacing the batteries every 3 years or so.

I think that's the hard part.

Think about developing a handheld game that needs to work on all screen sizes (iPhone, iPad, Android, Simbian, etc etc....). There have been efforts to minimize these problems.

Then think about the UI for a web page or game. There have been some pretty successful results, while they are anything but simple.

Now think about adding a 3rd dimension to all those problems. It's not as easy as saying "just make it realistic". There is a reason why lives are spent on UI. It's not an easy task and it just got a 3rd Dimension.

Oh and was it just me or did anyone think it was just a 3D FPS (Like Tribes, Q3, you know.... All FPS?) and not a 3D Displayed FPS.

Better safe than sorry!

The purpose of an MBA course is not to make strong leaders... or at least it shouldn't aspire to be. Looking at the curriculum, most of what it does is teach business administration tools and skills. Leadership skills? Not really. The sad thing is that a lot of MBA graduates do precisely that: they go into middle and upper management, often with little or no real experience at leading.

Managers, not MBAs offers a good insight into the MBA program and into all the things wrong with it today. The thing is, the MBA is not a bad course to take in itself... except that it reinforces bad behaviour in some cases, like making uninformed snap decisions. One of the bigger problems, according to the author, is that most MBA courses focus on the "science" side (analysis), and more or less completely avoid the "art" (vision) and "craft" (experience) aspects. And isn't this exacly what we most often see when we look at all the lousy managers in our own places of work? Making snap decisions on a whim, lacking a coherent vision and instead always reading up on the latest management techniques. They are often very poor at managing people and teams, but oh, they are good with numbers and spreadsheets. And numbers and spreadsheets is what is driving many companies today, rather than vision and insight.

The skills taught in an MBA can be very useful, and an MBA can offer a valuable additional set of skills to managers, consultants and even techies. But an MBA alone is insufficient to become a good manager, just like an engineering master's degree doesn't make one a good engineer.

I can't believe there's this entire story AND thread without a mention of Shatnerquake.

all my kids loved jumpstart baby/preschool/kindergarten/1st/etc. jumpstart baby is a simple as it gets. there's this little bear and the kid can make him do things by clicking [virtually] any keyboard or mouse button. so the bear will be like "can you help me put on my shoes" and any action works and the bear is like "wow thanks so much". http://www.amazon.com/Vivendi-Universal-3549-JumpStart-Baby/dp/B000028F4I

I object to your characterization of my comments as "bashing".

I'm pleased you found relief, but post hoc ergo propter hoc does not Science make.

I hope you'll consider reading Dr. Singh's (co-written by Dr. Ernst, former Professor of Complementary Medicine) book, Trick or Treatment.

Just to make one key point that you seem to be unclear on, the thesis isn't that symptoms such as yours can't resolve after Chiropractic treatment. The book is a survey of clinical trials and, more convincingly, meta-analysis of clinical trials.

The fact is that any number of variables changed in your life between onset and resolution. You can't draw a reliable conclusion for or against any treatment based on an anecdote.

It is also notable that Dr. Singh is not an M.D. He's a Particle Physicist. His involvement with the book isn't as a defender of the Medical establishment, but as a Scientist applying the Scientific method to try to reveal the truth about the physical world. They extensively discuss the sort of human flaws that lead us to the wrong conclusions when the Scientific Method isn't applied with adequate rigor.

Their conclusion was that properly designed, properly executed, properly controlled studies show that Chiropractic treatments aren't effective at treating this sort of problem. I am interested, as I'm sure they would be, in Scientifically valid data in your possession to the contrary.

-Peter

FWIW. I knew who Singh was before this case came up.

Indeed, he wrote The Code Book (which has a place of honor on my bookshelf). It's a great (and easy to digest) book on the history of cryptography. He also wrote Fermat's Enigma which I believe is/was quite popular (I haven't read it). That's where I personally know Singh from. I had no idea he was involved in a libel suit.

FWIW. I knew who Singh was before this case came up.

Indeed, he wrote The Code Book (which has a place of honor on my bookshelf). It's a great (and easy to digest) book on the history of cryptography. He also wrote Fermat's Enigma which I believe is/was quite popular (I haven't read it). That's where I personally know Singh from. I had no idea he was involved in a libel suit.

See Michael Pollan's writings, such as "In Defense of Food": http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/0143114964/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

I heard Pollan while listening to a podcast this past week. I like his guideline that you should avoid anything at the grocery store that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

I think my favorite thing about asking parenting questions on the internet is the number of "holier than thou" answers you'll get in response. Actually, scratch that - if you ask a straightforward, scope-limited parenting question specific to your needs and situation anywhere in the world and you'll get an answer that basically boils down to "you're doing it wrong." It's all part of the experience, so I've learned to chuckle at the cognitive disconnect that comes from asking about the right age to introduce popcorn and getting a lecture on the best way to wring out dirty rags in return.

Anyway, to actually answer your question, I believe you're looking for this:
    http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Keyboard-Mouse-Pad-Bundle/dp/B001KVNRXU

As for software, I've found that creating a password-protected guest account on the machine with a limited number of pre-screened options to be best. Individual hyperlinks to YouTube videos on subjects your child enjoys (for us, it's Pocoyo videos, parrots, and babies laughing) on the desktop largely do the trick, along with links to kid-friendly sites ( http://pbskids.org/ , http://www.nickjr.com/kids-games/ being two examples, depending on your tolerance for advertising ). Others have mentioned games like minesweeper, solitaire (even if they don't grasp the actual game itself), or even Portal. These are all good choices. I'm sure you'll know of some more options based on what your child enjoys.

Best of luck!

I got this keyboard for my kids, it's really nice and has stood up to their button mashing without a problem:
http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-11071-Keyboard/dp/B00167ZYMK

That's a good direction for software.
Found this for hardware:
Crayola Kids PC Trackball
http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Innovations-Crayola-Kids-Trackball/dp/B00004W40X

and a "Microsoft Easyball", which looks very cool, yet isn't manufactured anymore. (yet they're acquired online)

I bought this right here for my kiddo when he was around 14 months.

It has different sections, based on what you want the kid to do. So for example, you can enter the "Keyboard" activities section, and the adult would drive the mouse and control the activity while the kid would be able to mash the keyboard and make things happen on the screen. To give you a taste of what it's like, imagine hearing the song "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and each key press causes a star to appear on the screen.

My kid loved it. And it's PC & Mac! (Sorry no Linux, I did spend five minutes trying to get it to work in WINE and gave up.)

As a father of five, I can testify that as long as you don't abuse it, computers are just as healthy and stimulating as a block of legos. My two year old spends most of his time with cars, blocks, and books; but he enjoys getting on the computer as well. We password protect it so he can only get on with our permission, but he has his own account configured with links to youtube videos of planes and bugs, toddler friendly websites, and games such as Minesweeper and Portal. We fully supervise when he is on the computer and limit how much time he can be on it, but overall it's quite beneficial. He no longer has a paranoia of bugs and he's improved quite a bit with identifying different types of colors and shapes. We credit his ability to recite his ABCs to his Vtech and the games we play with him, but the reinforcement from the computer certainly helps.

Regardless, no matter how a child is raised, it is mostly important to be involved with their day to day actions. Watching them soak up information and apply it is a huge testament to how incredible they are, which is also why it's important to remain involved and direct them.

Do you just mean you don't want them mashing the keys on a normal keyboard?

You can get giant-key kids keyboards like this, you can also get trackballs like this. Of course, if you go for a more unusual input device you may run into the problem of not being easily able to find software that will play nice with it (unless you also want to fiddle with key mappers).

Do you just mean you don't want them mashing the keys on a normal keyboard?

You can get giant-key kids keyboards like this, you can also get trackballs like this. Of course, if you go for a more unusual input device you may run into the problem of not being easily able to find software that will play nice with it (unless you also want to fiddle with key mappers).

Several years ago we had 3 or 4 different pieces of software that each came with a keyboard overlay. The overlay was a big, fancy plastic "toy" that strapped over the keyboard. Interacting with the toy would press specific keys that the software would react to.

One of them was Thomas & Friends Railway Adventures Playset. I must admit it was pretty cool. It requires a standard external PC keyboard, so it won't work on a laptop keyboard or any funky ergonomic ones. Just your plain jane keyboard.

Speaking of laptop, I have 4 kids, the youngest still being a toddler, and every single one of them loved to rip keys off of my laptops at that age. I'm an expert at reassembling those little hinges and keys now, unfortunately. Their little fingers pop those suckers off with ease.

Check out your local Wal*Mart like store for stuff like this Fisher-Price edu-toy. My nephew has something a little less complex (and more appropriate, possibly, for your situation) but I cannot remember the name of it, only that it's from Fisher-Price. (:

This might be helpful, too.

it has a linux version. i've been using it for years. http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html

also, some linux media players are integrating the amazon mp3 store directly: http://abock.org/2010/07/13/amazon-mp3-store-in-banshee

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

by Stephen Hawking

I agree with m50d that it is not relevant for the reason he gives above.

The Gödel theorems are interesting for the study of the foundation of mathematics and more specifically for the study of the relation between logic and mathematics. Using it outside that field is at least tricky, and more often than not crackpottery.

Out of a set of axioms (or out of a set of hypothesis) you use deductive logic to prove some theorems which are true if the axioms are true. The axioms together with the theorems form a theory. The question of completeness is: can we construct a proof for every true stament in that theory, or do there exist true statements which cannot be proven. The question of (in)consistentcy is: can we construct a proof for a false statement? All this is about the internal properties of a theory.

Now back to your question: relativity theory and quantum mechanics have different sets of axioms. The axioms of relativity do not lead to theories which are in contradiction with other theorems of the same theory (I am not sure about this for general relativity, there are however several sets of axioms for special relativity which have proofs of consistency*). I guess the same holds for QM**. The problem is: theorems of relativity are in contradiction with theorems QM, so this is a problem between two theories. The problem is that both theories are very solid and well-tested on their own right. A theory which tries to combine relativity and QM on a logical level is Branching Space-Time by Nuel Belnap.

* For axioms of special relativity, check: - Optical geometry of motion, a new view of the theory of relativity by A. A. Robb, 1911
- A theory of time and space by A. A. Robb
- The absolute relations of time and space by A. A. Robb, 1921
- Geometry Of Time And Space by A. A. Robb, 1936
- Orthogonality and Spacetime Geometry by Robert Goldblatt, 1987 (this is a first oder theory, so it is both complete and consistent - however it is not categorical
- Independent axioms for Minkowski space-time by John W. Schutz, 1997. This theory is of second order, so it suffers from the problems caused by the Gödel theorems.

** Check Quantum Logic by J. von Neumann (yes, the guy of the "Von Neumann Concept") and G. Birkhoff.

i have a similar setup to op, ubuntu + samba. i have an asus o!play it plays all the files i have ripped in both .avi and .mkv, and some of the newer .flv from youtube. the only big gotcha was i had to lower the security on the samba settings. evan plays the 14gb bd rip of dark knight no hickups. and your usual pics and music etc...

"#6 in the Amazon sales charts is a movie made in the 1960s that has been available for piracy for many years."

I had to look -- it's "The Man with No Name Trilogy" in Blu-ray. Go Clint!

I'm not sure why you got modded funny. That was insightful/informative. That link/review is worth reading. The vet points to alternatives:

The War Tapes

Taking Chance

I'm not sure why you got modded funny. That was insightful/informative. That link/review is worth reading. The vet points to alternatives:

The War Tapes

Taking Chance

Scientifically, philosophically and theologically "the beginning" is just something we can't figure out.

Why would you declare this knowledge impenetrable? Hawking discusses this specifically in A Brief History of Time.

The basic idea is that time is a dimension. Do you say that before the Big Bang that length always existed? Width or depth? If not, then why time? There is no 'before the Big Bang' because you need time to explain that concept, and there was no time.

So, then you can play Zeno's Paradox with time, and try to get asymptotically close to it, but Hawking's insight is that time is closed near the beginning. Try to get to zero and you come back out into the positive again, as if it loops back on itself. I'm sure I have the details wrong, I seem to recall irrational numbers are required to do the math, but the basic point is that there is no time zero in our universe, so there's no possible way to get to zero much less -1.

Start with this http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-IONITX-90-Watt-Intel-Motherboard/dp/B002BA5IHC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1283483342&sr=8-3

Get a small case, some ram and a small laptop HD. You could do SSD if you wanted really quiet. Then install xbmclive, once setup, configure it to use hdmi. I have three HTPC's based on that board and they can be run fanless and with the dual core and the Nvidia VDPAU i'm doing 1080p over the network to my NAS.

I've tried the WDlive, the seagate, AppleTV, xbox360... none are as flexible as xbmclive.

SQL Antipatterns may interest you. As one of the reviews says, "An excellent guide to database design tradeoffs".

I think you'll find you are completely wrong, and they are completely right in their assertions. It's all here, in this book.

Why are you bothering with ebay? Why not just buy it from Amazon or something. Like this one that only costs $140: http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fighter-FightStick-Tournament-Playstation-3/dp/B001M22WN8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1283354269&sr=8-2

Halo: Reach already has controllers. (Amazon) Still the old style.

You don't need to go all the way to #28, the bible-thumping starts earlier than that:

#9 The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54.

My eyes have been opened! I'm going to burn my heathen physics textbooks at the first opportunity!

Or you know those dang aliens will stake a claim first and ambush us at the dry gulch.

For some very good science fiction about this, read the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter

You may want to read a bit about denialism so you can recognize it when you see it.

There was a time...

The CD-ROM version is available for $215. They really ought to make it available for e-book readers.

Apple and Microsoft doesn't "hate" eachother or they don't conspire eachother. I bet MACBU (at MS) is one of the most privileged Developer teams on Apple's OS X Development, I mean for bug reports, help etc.

MS Office is always and always on top 10 of Amazon's best selling software. Even more interesting, in current (dynamic) list, Mac version is just 1 place below Win32 version.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/software

I bet not using ATSUI has something to do with Apple's "font display philosophy" and "MS font display philosophy". Yes, both companies have their own take on how fonts should be displayed on screen. Apple prefers strict display, MS prefers more relaxed/looks better on monitor display. That is why first Safari for Windows looked alien on Windows (besides widgets).

While on it, as I just "cleaned Adobe font caches" of a designer running OS X, Adobe uses their own engine which wants a perfect "cache" to work right.

Hamlet in Klingon was published about 10 years ago.
ISBN-13 - 978-0671035785 (Amazon

Much Ado about Nothing was published in 2003
ISBN-13: 978-1587155017 (Amazon).

There's also Gilgamesh, also published in 2003.
ISBN-13: 978-1587153389 (Amazon).

As for why - well, why not? It's an activity they're interested in, and if people can communicate meaningful information, is it less a language than the artificial ones we use to program our computers with? C/C++/Java/PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/Assembly/Machine Code/etc are all just artificial languages as well

Hamlet in Klingon was published about 10 years ago.
ISBN-13 - 978-0671035785 (Amazon

Much Ado about Nothing was published in 2003
ISBN-13: 978-1587155017 (Amazon).

There's also Gilgamesh, also published in 2003.
ISBN-13: 978-1587153389 (Amazon).

As for why - well, why not? It's an activity they're interested in, and if people can communicate meaningful information, is it less a language than the artificial ones we use to program our computers with? C/C++/Java/PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/Assembly/Machine Code/etc are all just artificial languages as well

Hamlet in Klingon was published about 10 years ago.
ISBN-13 - 978-0671035785 (Amazon

Much Ado about Nothing was published in 2003
ISBN-13: 978-1587155017 (Amazon).

There's also Gilgamesh, also published in 2003.
ISBN-13: 978-1587153389 (Amazon).

As for why - well, why not? It's an activity they're interested in, and if people can communicate meaningful information, is it less a language than the artificial ones we use to program our computers with? C/C++/Java/PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/Assembly/Machine Code/etc are all just artificial languages as well