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Unless that distributor has an office or store in the state you're in.

Which pretty much lets out all the big chain stores.

Oh, and Amazon for California residents, iirc.

If there's no fork, then how do you eat your meat

The answer may be found in:
Henry Petroski's The Evolution of Useful Things

Barnes and Noble is selling this book for $17.95, but Amazon.com is only selling it for $12.74!
 
Save yourself $5.21 by buying the book here: Who won?. That's a total savings of 29.03%!

you didn't even do any research before you slung that last insult. In fact my first game (star Miner / asteroid miner) has its source code freely available, its linked to on a number of gamedev sites. I made it available about 3 years ago, way before your ten year deadline. In fact, a quick google found this:
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Beginners-G uide-CD-ROM/dp/1568811934
a book that has the games source code in it. (i didnt even know about the book till just now).
I also did it with Rocky Racers, another old game of mine, and fully intend to do it with my other games in a few years.
I'm opposed to rootkits and other silly tactics, in favour of a right to backup, and a right to format shift.Anyone who buys a mac copy of my games can request a free pc copy, and vice versa (where available).
Not everyone who is opposed to people illegally torrenting stuff is automatically an evil MPAA shill. Some of us just care about being paid when we create something popular.

In the fantasy world of Slashdot world every site that goes down reveals the light at the end of the tunnel.
Meanwhile, the righta agencies gain experience and precedent, so that each take-down comes easier than the one before.

As these stories grow they continue to be seen as the greedy bullies they truly are. The main purpose of the RIAA and MPAA these days is to do the dirty work for the actual labels/studios and absorb the backlash. People get mad at the RIAA, not Sony. Or so the strategy goes. As anti-RIAA and anti-MPAA sentiment grows in severity and spreads into the mainstream, there will start to be bleedthrough to the actual labels and studios.

These stories make headlines on Slashdot.

Elsewhere they get less coverage than the filling of the pothole at Third and Main.

How many parents know the title of the last Harry Potter novel, how many have it on pre-order? More than have heard of IaoHunt. When Amazon publishes its holiday list of DVD favorites, the Top 100 Bestsellers. which studios do you think dominate the list?

> Personally, I suspect the kid ran away and eventually hooked up with some random guy that let him live there.

Or may be he really was kidnapped, but wasn't too fond of his family.

When I was a kid I had a sincere fantasy, hoping to be kidnapped by pirates and spend my teenage years robbing spanish galleons, courting lovely young ladies, and counting my piasters (yeah, I had been reading Captain Blood :) Life as a regular nerd in a big city just couldn't compare to the glory of the high seas...

Even more scary is the thought that Shawn may have been a replacement for someone else.

Men and woman are paid the same. You should read a thorough study of the issue. Basically, men and women in the same career with the same qualifications and experience are generally paid the same. However, women tend to value family and pleasant working conditions and hours over raw earning power, so they tend to bring home less bacon, in absolute terms, around 75 cents on the dollar. Many people see this as some sort of a problem, but the only way to change it is to change women's fundamental priorities. I'm not convinced that any brain-washing program will ever accomplish this.

In short, the answer to the question "Why do men earn more?" is "because they deserve to".

There was a young male child that had an accident while being circumcised. He was brought up to be a female and forced (yes, this is the correct usage) to play with dolls and wear dresses. The doctor cited this as proof of nurture over nature....though all evidence was to the contrary. Scientists skewing results to further a personal agenda...perish the thought.

As Nature Made Him

If I'm gauranteed freedom of the press why can't I publish a paper called "Fuck niggers and ya know what hitler was right about dem jews", legally I cannot publish such "obscenities".

Anyone interested in the results of the Fairness Doctrine from the first time around should check this book out. It was a bad idea then and a bad idea now.

Even then it isn't easy - my company is a member but it's easier for me to go to the store and buy a copy of the Anderson book on PCIe than to get the official spec.

There appears to be quite a disconnect between vision, sales and development at IBM.

Louis Gerstner performed more or less a miracle by getting these (technically extremely competent) people to actually work a bit together (in a fairly brutal way, read Who says elephants can't dance) but either the visionaries are getting too old at IBM (because new talent cannot reach the top without going native) or there's not enough stewardship from the top to contain the internal strife that holds the company back.

IBM has never had a problem doing good things technically, but I personally feel they wasted a Godawful time on Lotus. The user interface still sucks big time, and it's only saving grace was that it was so awkward it stopped virus infections dead in their tracks (OK, and inter-user crypto is better than MS Exchange because it actually exists :-).

If they had the guts to go Open Source all the way (for example, pick an Open Source replacement for Lotus and put resources behind it) they may do something good. At present it looks like everyone is just using corporate inertia to last a couple more years before it falls apart for good (classic example: looking at turnover instead of turnover trending).

The seniority of a board always plays a big role. I remember fighting an uphill battle in another biggie for a project that, at the time, was revolutionary and I was held back every step of the way by oldies who didn't want to rock the boat running a risk only a few years from their pension (it was, of course, called "not exposing the company to risk", forgetting the adage that "ships are safe in the harbour - but that's not what ships are for"). I only won this battle, btw, because I found one senior person heading for retirement in that club who didn't mind going out with a bang and we thus ended up building something that is still working almost 15 years later - and I left after that because I got sick and tired of having to explain the obvious time and time again.

That company needs help, but their Board will have to see that first. Not sure if they have another visionary around - doesn't look like it. If they can't shake off that corporate dullness at the top they'll die like that too. All IMHO, though, but the signs are all there.

Start slow:

Cattus Petasatus
Virent Ova! Virent Perna!!
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit

and work your way up:

Winnie Ille Pu
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Then there's always:

Latin for Dummies

Start slow:

Cattus Petasatus
Virent Ova! Virent Perna!!
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit

and work your way up:

Winnie Ille Pu
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Then there's always:

Latin for Dummies

Start slow:

Cattus Petasatus
Virent Ova! Virent Perna!!
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit

and work your way up:

Winnie Ille Pu
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Then there's always:

Latin for Dummies

Start slow:

Cattus Petasatus
Virent Ova! Virent Perna!!
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit

and work your way up:

Winnie Ille Pu
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Then there's always:

Latin for Dummies

Start slow:

Cattus Petasatus
Virent Ova! Virent Perna!!
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit

and work your way up:

Winnie Ille Pu
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Then there's always:

Latin for Dummies

Start slow:

Cattus Petasatus
Virent Ova! Virent Perna!!
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit

and work your way up:

Winnie Ille Pu
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Then there's always:

Latin for Dummies

This book goes into a lot of depth about child porn and the laws surrounding it. It essentially says that we have lost the "war on KP" as it is both readily and cheaplily available to anyone who wants some.

Does learning another language make you less susceptible to dementia, or does being the sort of person who learns another language mean that you already were less susceptible?

The majority of the world is bilingual or multilingual. Especially in the countries refered to as Third World, people are forced to pick up at least one second language in childhood, and often continue learning languages throughout life. John Edward's Multilingualism (New York: Penguin, 1996) is an eye-opening introduction to the field. It seems really strange now to hear well-off Americans complain that learning languages is "too hard" and requires special talent, when one can plainly see that any poor and uneducated peasant does it succesfully and without complaint.

So when you say "being the sort of person who learns another language", I hope you aren't suggesting that only language nerds with special brains do so. Multilingualism is a general human phenomenon, it's people in the West who are usual.

The Bell inequality rules out the "hidden parameter" explanation.

At least that's what "Quantum Reality" says...

Barnes and Noble is selling this book for $20.80, but Amazon.com is only selling it for $17.16!
 
Save yourself $3.64 by buying the book here: The Trouble with Physics. That's a total savings of 17.50%!

Does anyone else find it strange that with all the public support moon missions received in the past, that nobody has gone to the moon in so long? The guy who wrote the book that Oliver Stone's JFK was largely based on had some ideas about this... Only book I've ever read like this that used appropriate qualifiers and didn't just present evidence that argued for UFO's (i.e. he presented information which made it clear that many witnesses were lying or unreliable. That still left a whole lot of reliable ones though!)

I've got a Rayovac 1 hour charger. Takes all brands (and does NiMH/NiCad). Individually charges each battery. Yeah, I've seen those chargers which stop when the first battery is full. Unfortunate. Here is a highly regarded (and quite geeky) charger for $37, shipped: http://www.amazon.com/LaCrosse-Technology-BC-900-A lphaPower-Battery/dp/B00077AA5Q/

It would be great for conditioning the cells and monitoring their capacity.

Yes, you're right about the weakest battery being the bad link. Although matched batteries doesn't protect you from a weak cell (happens all the time in laptop battery packs... once of the cells in the pack goes bad, and it brings the whole thing down). But you're right, you're probably more likely to run into that issue when you mix and match. To date, it hasn't been a problem for me. Although it would be nice to have a charger (like the one above) so that you can detect and weed out the bad cells from your collection.

Point taken on the weakest link.

The use of "they" as a generic pronoun with a singular antecedent goes back at least to Middle English and has been used by many of the best writers of the English language. The idea that it is "incorrect" is a modern notion promulgated by people who believe there's some sort of Platonic perfect English out in the aether somewhere and only human failings keep us from reaching this ideal.

The better way to determine usage is to look at distribution in actual use (see The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language), not lists of pet peeves of Victorian and Edwardian era English professors and writers in book form *cough*Strunk & White*cough*.

With a scene that's much sexier than it has any right to be, a Tinkerbell-like spark enters the ship, finds a sleeping Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), moves under her covers, and impregnates her. The alien baby starts to grow much faster than a normal gestation period, shrinking the time frame down to a couple of days. Worf wants to terminate the pregnancy, Data wants to study the life form, and Troi decides to keep the baby no matter what anyone thinks. Once born, the boy continues its rapid growth, but is discovered to have an adverse effect on the specimens of a dangerous plasma plague they are carrying to a scientific research facility. None too subtly, the whole episode explores ideas about family.

While preparing to transport samples of a lethal plasma plague, the crew receives some startling news: Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) is pregnant.

According to Troi, she was impregnated by a glowing white light. The ship's new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kate Pulaski (Diana Muldaur), watches in amazement as Troi gives birth to Ian, a half-human, half-Betazoid boy who ages eight years in one day.

General Motors isn't in charge of providing my food, thankfully.

Here is a clue for you

So someone if finally making sequel to "Night of the Comet". Awesome! :P

Yes, it's true, I'm a dumbass for not properly reading your post. *slaps head*

The actual Linksys iPhone page on Amazon has two product images on it:

• The original image, an oblique shot of the phone with no brand marking between the screen and keypad, that was uploaded on 28-Nov-2006 18:15:15 GMT.
• The user-supplied image by Ben Boyle, a "full frontal" shot of the phone with an "iPhone" brand marking between the screen and keypad, that was uploaded on 19-Dec-2006 06:53:16 GMT.

Also, compare the product image here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JI75GU/ref=pd _cp_e_title/002-3832442-2513669

To this one here: http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?product s_id=2248

Again, Photoshopped or actual product photograph, anyone own one? It seems if nothing else that Voipsupply is more responsive to Cisco's product photo updates. I wonder why Amazon couldn't be bothered to play ball.

For social anxiety, I highly recommend the following book: Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety & Phobia. It has helped me greatly.

I offer the suggestion to you or the parent anyone else, as someone who has struggled with social anxiety and depression all his life and has underachieved as a result.

I have on several occasions tried to give several security tips to average computer users about using WiFi host spots. In two instances, I barely got started before they complained that I was talking way over their head and had used unfamiliar jargon such as browsers, IE, cookies, packet sniffing, encryption and phishing. It was clear that they did not not even want to try to understand what to understand what I was trying to warn them about. They just wanted to access their email and do their on-line banking. It would be scary having some people like that in a jury in a case like that. They could easily understand the idea of someone illegally downloading child porn but not the alternative explanations of how the files got there.

That reminds me of some scenes in the movie "Idiocracy". In that movie, for the last 500 years, the dumb people in the world have been having more children than the smart people. The smart people would postpone marriage and children until they complete college and establish their careers and can afford children. By then in many cases they are less fertile. By contrast the dumb people supposedly don't worry about when they can afford to have children and frequently forget to use birth control methods so they out breeded the smarter people. After 500 years, the average IQ has fallen to an amazingly low level.

In a forgotten suspended animation experiment conducted by they Army, a soldier and a civilian hooker were test subjects who accidentally end up in suspended animation for about 500 years. After waking up, he went to a hospital but was not able to pay the hospital bill because he did not have a bar code on his forearm. He was arrested and put on trail for being un-scannable and for not paying his hospital bill. In court, he said that he was not guilty and tried to explain the Army suspended animation experiment that that he had been part of. They did not even understand much of anything that he was talking about. The prosecutor used a more effective simplistic emotionally charged strategy with little consistent logic. The jury found him guilty but he soon managed to escape from the poorly run jail.

After being recaptured and booked in jail again they discovered that he was the smartest guy in the world, so he was released and sent to the White House to become secretary of the Interior and was asked to figure out why the crops weren't growing. With the help of the hooker, they came up with the outlandish idea of watering the plants. One week after trying that, the plants had not yet grown noticeably. For reasons that I won't bother explaining, watering plants with water resulted in millions of employees of the Brondo sports drink corporation being laid off. Mobs of angry unemployed people soon appeared and he was placed on trial. He used his best logic to try to explain everything in the televised court trial. He was sentenced to death by being crushed by monster trucks on live TV, but fortunately the plants finally started to grow just in time. He soon learned to to talk dumb and properly connect with average voters and was elected president of the United States. Rita the hooker became first lady.

It was a good movie with many that in many ways reminds me of how advertising, politicians and perhaps even the courts sometimes act in real life.

You should indeed buy NiMH batteries (not NiCd). I've used Sony and several B-brands, all of them working okay. But beware that not only the batteries are important, but the charger can make a big difference as well. All these batteries suffer from memory-effects (even if they claim NiMH does not). After a while they seem to wear out. At one moment, you charge them, want to use them, and they stop working after a second or so. Then you need to discharge (refresh) them completely. In fact, you should have done this long before. Special rechargers offer the function to discharge them completely before charging. This discharge draws them empty completely.

I use a Sony charger, like the Sony BCG-34HRMF4 Super Quick Charger.

Well, I was going to tag it on del.icio.us as toRead ... and read it later, good thing I read your entry. Joking aside the artice does not say anything about avoiding it, and I've tried everything, from egg timers to google calendar to elastic bands on the wrist (smack yourself when you catch yourself doing a bad habit) (see http://www.amazon.com/Snap-Out-Herbert-S-Cohen/dp/ 0871318962 )

I've given up and now accept my procrastination as a way of life

Here's the direct link to the iPhone on Amazon image:

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-images/by-author /A675KDVLCPUZV

This is a customer uploaded image uploaded by one "Ben Boyle" on December 18, 2006. The main product image has no such iPhone shown:

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000JI5L02

Here's the direct link to the iPhone on Amazon image:

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-images/by-author /A675KDVLCPUZV

This is a customer uploaded image uploaded by one "Ben Boyle" on December 18, 2006. The main product image has no such iPhone shown:

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000JI5L02

Here's the direct link to the iPhone on Amazon image:

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-images/by-author /A675KDVLCPUZV

This is a customer uploaded image uploaded by one "Ben Boyle" on December 18, 2006. The main product image has no such iPhone shown:

      http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000JI5L02

"Mostly my worry would not be documenting "shameful" behavior in itself, but being inaccurate about it, and essentially punishing people that have not actually done anything wrong."

You mean like how slashdot does it? Deciding on the rightness or wrongness based on the "documented shameful" behaviour? Even stooping so far as to give out personal (or not so personal) info and telling others to "/." their phones, E-mail, and (in one case their mail box with phony magazine subscriptions).

"And of course that greatly helps the small minority of people that really do have something to be shameful about; nobody's going to care if a possible pornographer (or rapist, or pedophile) moves into the neighbourhood since any such accusations more than likely are false, and you'd find the same kind of misinformation on two-thirds of all residents anyway."

The boy who cried wolf...one too many times. Keep that in mind slashdot, next time you convene the court of public opinion.

"Noise is not just useless data, it degrades the real data as well. In this case, I think it is a good thing since it effectively restores privacy again."

Alright everyone, go back to whatever petty crimes you were engaged in. Cover has been restored.

Link

His actions had nothing to do with the religion of the people at Waco or Ruby Ridge. Read the letter and the interview afterwards. I think they explain his motivations very well. Read This book.

His association with white supremacist groups was because he identified with their anti government stance, money, and assistance.

His wife 'Gayla' was (thankfully) brutally beaten in the election for City Council. She's also got something to hide, as she can't fill out a simple questionaire. Sadly, Frosty should talk to his wife more, as she's for 'common sense decisions' (Warning: Picture of Gayla at bottom)

Board Member Dave Larson (who's a lawyer, btw) was the one who made the decision to 'ban' the movie, though Frosty's been squeaking his wheel on other topics at school board meetings for awhile. You can email Dave here!

Give Frosty a call and tell him you find his ideas intriguing and ask to subscribe to his newsletter! Frosty Hardison - Federal Way, WA - (253) 528-0343

Or just buy him something from this sad Amazon wishlist. After all, "The more citizen comment you have the better off we are."

Many people believe they are being religious when they are only deluding themselves. Many people in the U.S. feel a lot of stress, and they fantasize about the "end time", and hope that it will come soon, since they don't know how to deal with the conflicts in their lives. Most of those people are "one issue" voters, who don't pay much attention to managerial ability when they vote. Most of them voted for George W. Bush; they believe that George W. Bush is Christian and they believe he cares about them.

A Bush administration insider, David Kuo, wrote a book titled Tempting Faith in which he tells of the dishonesty of the Bush Administration. Crazily, he says he still believes that George W. Bush is a Christian, even though people at the top of the Bush administration, he says, call people like him &%^#$ evangelicals.

Karl Rove wrote scripts for George W. Bush to read that would manipulate evangelicals to think that G.W.B. is a Christian. If that deception had not worked, the average person in the U.S. would have a lot more money, the U.S. would be a more peaceful place, the U.S. would still be respected by other countries, we wouldn't have to watch so many stories about violence every day on the news, and we wouldn't have to watch comedians joke that the President of the United States is an idiot.

If you don't educate yourself about this, you are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Here's my effort to do something more than just vote: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. Here's another Slashdot reader's effort: Letter to Congress regarding Iraq. What is yours?

On the other hand, Cisco hasn't been doing too good of a job defending their trademark so far.
Amazon
Google


It looks like there's at least 2-3 other products called 'iPhone' currently on the market. Perhaps more. A few of them are voip products.

A record company selling Beatles music sued a computer company selling microcomputer hardware, the former having a red apple logo, the latter using a rainbrow-striped apple with a bite in it. Which "Apple" was doing the steamrolling, here?

I mean, should Anya Seton's estate executors be suing Toyota and Marion Bradley?

The standards regarding "infringement" require than the trademark similarity be prone to cause marketplace confusion between the products, diluting the brand.

Of course, Apple's prima facie argument that VOIP and cellular phones are too dissimilar to cause confusion remains highly questionable. It's true that the two are fairly dissimilar markets, but that could easily change, especially given Cisco's otherwise-spurious "interoperability" line. That request alone may prove to a judge that there's at least a case that the two markets are insufficiently dissimilar to allow Apple to use the same trademark.

I suggest the following survival guide: How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

If you want to spend a few bucks more you could take a look at the Sony Ericsson W950i.
On the upside it features Symbian 9.1 with the UIQ 3.0 user interface, 3G support, 4GB of flash memory coupled with a powerful music player, a touchscreen, a slick and stylish appearance. What also convinced me was the excellent C++ API for writing native applications for Symbian and Java MIDP 2.0 Support.
On the downside the phone lacks a camera (although for many business users this may actually be more of an advantage). It has no Wifi Support, so you're basically bound to use the 3G network for fast data transfer which can, frankly, be quite expensive. The only thing that annoys me sometimes is that the user interface is not as responsive as I would like it to be, but I hope future firmware upgrades will address this.
I spent about 100 EUR with the extension of my contract, you should however expect it to be a bit more expensive in the states.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Ericsson-W950i-Mystic-U nlocked/dp/B000LDNKCG/sr=8-1/qid=1168621329/ref=pd _bbs_1/104-5277645-6583106?ie=UTF8&s=wireless

The problem is that so many neophyte progrrammesr jump into PHP to create something visible and useful. Which they succeed in doing, more often that not, I guess. But without a proper background in security and proper practice, there's a ton of vulnerabilities that get created, accidentally, over and over again by every new PHP programmer.

the demise of popular electronics and the slate of similar magazines, in which you had both semi-interesting one or two element circuits to learn off of as welll as more advanced functional items is badly missed.

There are still some good electronics magazines published. There's Everyday Practical Electronics for instance. Steve Ciarcia's Ciruit Cellar , I used to love to read his "Circuit Cellar" column in the print edition of "Byte" magazine, is good though works mainly with microcontrollers. Ooh I see you mention both "Byte" and "Ciruit Cellar" later. Then there's Make zine, which is about hacking most anything, an example is one issue on hacking plants. One article was on how to setup a mycology lab and grow mushrooms. So though it's not just electronics they do have some electronics projects.

as is heathkit

Heathkit is still around but I don't know how good they are now.

Yeah. That was kinda planned from the beginning. That's why his last name is Dutch for "Father." George was wowed by Joseph Campbell. All in all an interesting piece of theory, but not as applicable to real life as a lot of literature teachers would have you believe.

Don't higher end TVs have "integrated digital cable tuners" where you put a card in and be able to receive the digital channels? From my understanding, the only thing you'd be missing is the "special" services from your cable provider, mainly guide information.

Like this tv:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-KDFE42A10-Rear-Projecti on-Television/dp/B000A2K3XW

Grump.