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The Paper Clock always fascinated me. I stumbled across this in an Edmund's store in Toronto several years ago, and built it; it's a large project, 160 pieces, but it actually is constructed entirely out of paper (included in the book) and a couple of paper clips (and some rocks for weight in the weights).

It has a pendulum, gears, two hands, and can wind up and keep time! The design is ingenious, and apparently comes from an old book the other found in a book store (of german origin, I believe).

Fryer's Kits also had a more simplified paper clock, with just a single dial that rotates with the time; I won't link to them, since their site redirects to a non-existant domain now. Does anybody know where I can find this plan now that Fryer's seems to be defunct??? (They also had a free plan for a paper trebuchet that could launch a grape 30 feet.)

Paper construction of kinetic models fascinates me; it's such an elegant demonstration of construction ingenuity. I would love to see other examples that people might post (other than simple dancing animals and such, which seem to be mostly what one finds when searching the 'net for moving paper models).

How come nobody has mentioned, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060910666/002-19 26716-9392801?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v =glance I'm sure every geek has tried making one? I've got a working one, took me about a week and a half.

The Cosmologist Lee Smolin has a theory very much like yours. In fact he wrote a book about it. The title of his book is: Life of the cosmos. A very good read. You can find it in amazom.com Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195 10837X/qid=1132874086/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103- 4515307-2195841?v=glance&s=books/

Google says that they are building up Google Base and other moutains of information not for human consumption, but for an AI.

AI has been solved but the first instances of artificial intelligence are so primitive and infantile that Google has a long way to go in winning the race to Superintelligent AI.

Novamente by Dr. Ben Goertzel is a leading contender in the race towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Mind.Forth AI Engine by Mentifex is another leading, but controversial, AI project.

Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies) is Dr. Goertzel's new book on apart-from-Google AI.

Artificial Intelligence For You (AI4) is the Mentifex book on theory-based Open-Source AI.

For everybody's AGI Radar Screen, both these stop-Google AI books need associative tagging with such tags as AI, artificial intelligence, cognition, future, linguistics, mind, open source, programming, psychology, neuroscience, robotics, Singularity, transhumanism, or whatever occurs to you.

Google says that they are building up Google Base and other moutains of information not for human consumption, but for an AI.

AI has been solved but the first instances of artificial intelligence are so primitive and infantile that Google has a long way to go in winning the race to Superintelligent AI.

Novamente by Dr. Ben Goertzel is a leading contender in the race towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Mind.Forth AI Engine by Mentifex is another leading, but controversial, AI project.

Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies) is Dr. Goertzel's new book on apart-from-Google AI.

Artificial Intelligence For You (AI4) is the Mentifex book on theory-based Open-Source AI.

For everybody's AGI Radar Screen, both these stop-Google AI books need associative tagging with such tags as AI, artificial intelligence, cognition, future, linguistics, mind, open source, programming, psychology, neuroscience, robotics, Singularity, transhumanism, or whatever occurs to you.

Sounds like it's about time to read Atlas Shrugged and wonder what direction our society is going and ask yourself the question "Who is John Galt."

For those of you who are not familiar, the book deals w/ the ideas of capitalism vs. socialism, and specifically the stealling of intellectual property for the "greater good" of the "state"....which basically meant for the benefit of politicians and their friends....

Interesting read...

If you look at the Amazon.com product info page for this thing:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 7O22WI

There's a "See more products by this manufacturer," and the manufacturer is "Dr. MOZ," so once again this is just a guy/corporation spamming Slashdot with his product as a way to line his own pocket. Additionally, Amazon lists this product as having been first released on January 29, 2005, nearly 10 months ago, so this isn't even a new product. I wonder how many times this guy has submitted this thing before it was finally accepted?

It would be great if the Slashdot admins would make some sort of statement about the clear increase in press release/marketing material that's wending its way into Slashdot as "Stuff that matters," because the last I heard about it was the supposed April Fools joke about Slashvertisements, but it seems to be happening for real more and more - yesterday's "story" about a "blazingly fast" USB thumb drive was almost sickening in that not only was it a crappy ad disguised as a pseudo-article, it was for a crappy product! This GoodFather thing is neither relevant nor new. I don't mind off-topic discussions (I'm really not a "THAT'S NOT NEWS FOR NERS!!!!!" type), but if you're going to be running ads as stories, at least follow Google's lead and make them targeted.

CSI: Miami - The Game!

Just in case the Calvin and Hobbes title didn't make sense... :-)

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I have looked into this a couple of months ago -- and ran away screaming at all I had to do to migrate to BIONIC.

I've got the Seti current client. I should just have a button to push. I shouldn't have to re-create accounts and step through all kinds of crap that only a programmer would love, or think up and would embarass the hell out any programmer with GUI/HMI training in the 21st century.

Yes, I know they're largely a volunteer organization. And that affects my observation just how? If they wanna have lots of people, they've gotta move some ass to make it more user friendly to switch. I care not that the underlying mechanism of distributed computing is changing.

Software Factories:Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools by Jack Greenfield, Keith Short, Steve Cook, Stuart Kent, John Crupi (Foreword)

I recommend starting at page 509.

I ordered it recently from Bookpool.com and although they claim that it's out of stock, I still ordered it and recevied it not too long after. Otherwise, if you'd rather get it a little sooner, try out Amazon.

Also, a very interesting resource is available through Pragmatic Programmer, a beta book which means you can get PDF updates as they are written until it is shipped in hard copy in Feb. 2006. Already a book of 160+ pages, they already had a section on creating your own version of Google Maps (and more relating to SAJAX and other PHP implementations). The beta book, while only a little extra, is highly recommended!

Well, the page is slashdotted so I can't see the vendor images, but judging by the image on the Amazon product info page, it doesn't look that cool.

Well, the page is slashdotted so I can't see the vendor images, but judging by the image on the Amazon product info page, it doesn't look that cool.

For more info Leninggrad Cowboys and also Leningrad Cowboys Go America

That's an interesting program, but I still find full-screen G-FORCE + William Orbit, JS Bach, or Rachmaninoff to be most effective.

That's an interesting program, but I still find full-screen G-FORCE + William Orbit, JS Bach, or Rachmaninoff to be most effective.

That's an interesting program, but I still find full-screen G-FORCE + William Orbit, JS Bach, or Rachmaninoff to be most effective.

I can make my own crappy MP3s from the CD if I want (wait no I can't, there is no CD avilable).

Except since I can't buy the CD, I have no choice but to listen to utterly crap sounding material.

Amazon.com: Barenaked for the Holidays: Music

> Heh. I suppose what would've been an even better gimmick would be if they
> had released this USB drive in a package that includes a blank CD with
> artwork specific to this album. Then you could record it yourself...

Or you could just buy the audio CD for $20 retail, and skip the "pine for a blank CD to be included with the USB music key so that I can burn the mp3s onto the blank audio CD" step entirely.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 2XED3A/qid=1132718208/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-2866 403-0780624?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

I think this is a cool progressive step for a mainstream band. Kudos to them.

Tom

Here's the link on Amazon.

Awesome idea!

More pedantically detailed:
$13.99 - Barenaked for the Holidays CD on Amazon - (Not BNL's new CD, by the way. It's been out for over a year.)
$14.99 - Show from last year's holiday tour in FLAC format (songs may vary from tracks on USB stick, but you also get quite a bit more live stuff)
----
Total = $28.98, with perfect audio quality, and a few extra live songs

So, for a dollar, you get a USB stick, a couple of extra songs, fewer live songs, some video, and an unspecified cut in audio quality (likely negligible to most). (Source: Packaging.)

The stick's not necessarily interesting for fans who have most of this stuff already or for audiophiles, but it's good if you'd be somewhat interested in the album and also want a USB stick. <shrug>

More generally, don't try to memorize tens of different reactions. Just remember the important principles, like how to draw lewis structures, which atoms are nucleophiles and which are electrophiles and Markonikov's rule etc. And solve as many mechanism/synthesis problems as you can find.

The summary is actually wrong -- this isn't a new album. It's been out on CD for over a year. The concert recordings are likely from last year's holiday tour, which has been available in mp3, FLAC, or on CD, basically since the shows happened.

So, you can get most of the music, but it'd cost ~$30, and you don't get the extra stuff or a USB stick out of the deal. (Buying on your own though, you get a CD and a full show in perfect quality, so I guess it's a tossup which you prefer.)

Seriously, I've read/heard such claims, probably from creationists with anti-evolution agendas. After all, Karl Marx was such an admirer that he offered to dedicate volume 2 of Das Kapital to Darwin. Carleton Coon's popular 1962 book The Origin of Races (I'm not making that title up) claimed five major human races evolved independently, with "black people" evolving last.

Interesting (IMO) related links:

• Abusive Ad Hominem page on EvoWiki.
• Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould.

Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CECR4Q/104-79 10483-1384741?v=glance&n=541966&n=507846&s=pc&v=gl ance

The notion that the Catholic church shut down Galileo has been debunked long ago. Among many other places you can read about it in Nisbet's Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary (see here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067470066X/002-28 75384-3978402?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance/).

You can get an overview here http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg052 499.html

In short, Galileo's Aristotelean peers caused him far more trouble for challenging the scientific theories of the day, than the Church did. That's not to say that this is the case today, but the invocation of Galileo as a symbol of religious oppression of scientific inquiry shows that you put as much independent thought into this as those you deride.

...developers need to be aware of how to write secure server-side code. Joseph Hemler's book Network Security Tools has a chapter about finding security flaws with static analysis tools like PMD.

Arguably, much of our current understanding of biology and bioscience ... and many things that may surprise you are due to a fundamental understanding of biology. Try future developments in body armor, engineering, acoustics, propulsion and search algorithms on for size.

The really scary thing is that this is the same position described by Naipul in his book Among the Believers. People he met ostensibly rejected the West and many of its ideas, but they took the products of Western science and technology as a given, as though it existed independently of the society that created it.

6009 years, 1 month, 1 day, and (checks watch) about 14 hours; and those skeletons are a joke of God's that the palentologists haven't gotten yet. You'd think examining the duckbill platypus would give folk a hint about Her sense of humor, but the fundamentalists don't seem to understand that either.

In the Declaration of Independence (shown below) that Thomas Jefferson drafted, he wrote:

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Franklin argued successfully for substituting "self-evident" for sacred and undeniable." It was a significant and fortuitous change. Jefferson's wording implied a divine origin for men's rights. Franklin used a term from science and based the rights on reason. All men, he implied, could investigate and prove the proposition. Franklin made natural rights sacred because they were true, while in Jefferson's version they were true because they were sacred.

As an outsider watching from the far north, I've always thought Franklin's substitution of truths as self evident relfected the ideas put forth by Euclid. Jefferson OTOH towed the line from Aristotle. The early chrisitian church fathers adopted the ideas of Aristotle. Aritotle's ideas on teleology inform the christian ideas of intelligent design. These same ideas were first succinctly put forth in 'The Great Chain of Being'...'the historian of ideas Arthur Lovejoythere thus resulted a...'

"conception of the plan and structure of the world which, through the Middle Ages and down to the late eighteenth century...most educated men were to accept without question - the conception of the universe as a "Great Chain of Being", composed of an immense, or...infinite, number of links ranging in hierarchical order from the meagerest kind of existents...through "every possible" grade up to the ens perfectissumu"'

Religion is an evolutionary adaptations' ploy wherein if you want to get along you go along, and, as the better fit suggests the better ploy, the benefits are seen as the blessings of god. Any adaptation is necessarily more good or more bad and thus morality is born. It amounts to a patriarchical ploy (a pick up line) that says I'm a big man in the community and made in the image of the biggest man in the universe, won't you come home with me and let me impregnate you, please I really gotta spread my seed, my god says I'm gonnna have children greater than all the sands on the beach.

It doesn't form part of his evolutionary work per se but he _did_ write about this. In his autobiography, he mentions things which are included in an excerpt. He began as an orthodox christian but was agnostic by the end. I still don't feel he had an agenda about it and can find no evidence of such a thing but only he really knew for sure.

Actually, Nintendo make awesome games. Unfortunately, hardly anyone else makes games for Nintendo consoles at all.

However, back in the NES and SNES era, when Nintendo were the biggest thing in the industry, they were incredibly evil. Evil in a way that would have Bill Gates hiding in the largest church he could find. Spectacularly and monumentally evil. Google 'nintendo lawsuit' and see a history of litigation that would shock the Nazgul themselves. Or read this - they weren't nice at all.

For a more thorough history of the Swahili language, check out The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 by Derek Nurse and Thomas Spear. You might also want to read "The World of the Swahili" by John Middleton. As you'll see, quite a lot of scholarship about Swahili has been done since the time of Sir Richard, and even in the 45 years since Moorehead. It is an interesting reference, though - thanks for bringing it up, it really shows how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go, in Euro-American attitudes toward Africa and African languages.

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Won't play on any open systems or open source operating system, won't play in any open-source player, can't be burned to an audio CD, won't play in either of my MP3 players (only one of which is an iPod), won't even play on Windows 2000 unless I agree to let Microsoft install a rootkit called Windows Media Player 9 (Windows XP comes with Microsoft's rootkit pre-installed, which is another reason I'm sticking with Windows 2000 for my game console).

Since I don't have a Golden Ear, I'll stick with the honor-system DRM that iTMS uses, or buy physical CDs since they're often cheaper than iTMS for classical music, and there's a much better range available, and the great stuff I find on audioblogs is rarely available through label-driven digital music stores anyway.

For more information about Microsoft DRM, click here.

Well they are just changing along with their competition:

They started out competing against this.
Now they are competing against this.

Finished reading 'The World is Flat' by Thomas L. Friedman http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312425074/104-96 58154-8360738?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v =glance who actully talked about home sourcing by Jet Blue. About how instead of sourcing their customer support overseas they work with mothers who want to work and need to stay at home to take care of their kids. This just reminded me of that.

I've been using this site for 6 years and it is an excellent resource. It's not very much like a wiki however. It's not user-editable and I believe most of the submitters are academic types like professors at the University of Dar. It still doesn't hold a candle to the Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu though. That book has many more words, better example usages and the occasional proverb that uses the word.

And when else could I post my favourite methali ya kiswahili to Slashdot and have it be vaguely relevant?
Ukimwiga tembo kunya utapasuka mkundu.
If you imitate an elephant shitting you'll burst your asshole.

'Freefall' by Hoffer is an awesome book which is actually non-fiction but reads like a novel.

It details the events leading up to, and covering a Canada Air Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel in mid-flight. But it wasn't all drama - he went into GREAT detail about how the internal systems of the plane are tied together. Describing everything from the fuel quantity processors, to the electrical distribution systems, to the metric conversion at the time, to the multitude of human errors that caused the incident.

A MUST read for ANY and ALL ENGINEERS!!!

Check it out here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312922744/104-36 39831-6353510?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

I heard Sony management got a great deal on this book: Rootkits : Subverting the Windows Kernel.

Buy this book with 'Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition...' by Mark E. Russinovich today!

That recommendation is just... the glazing on the pig

Hmmm- learn your WWII history-
Here are some book to get you started. I am not a big francophile, but nor am I a France hater. But the Poles played a big part in liberating Paris.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullvie w/3DRV4RIE2IBVW/104-1606606-3940704?_encoding=UTF8

True

In the meantime, you could always play The Simpsons: Road Rage

With all due respect, you seem to be letting your dislike of economic markets prevent you from seeing the metaphore. You like science, you don't like free markets, so they can't be similar.

Metaphores with Linux work the same way. Linux is often said to be similar to communism, and in many cases this is a good analogy. In other cases a market (or bazaar) makes more sense. Michael Tiemann even quotes Adam Smith as part of the philosophy that makes Lunux possible.

I guess I just want you to know that it's a good analogy, and that by dismissing it, you're losing out on a chance to see something from a different perspective. If I had blown off the first post I responded to as angry anti-capitalistic trash, I never would have gotten to understand your perspective.

China is doing well because 1) they have influx of foreign investment and 2) the communist party kept political control.

So pre-communism does well if it can 2) maintain power and 1) return a profit for investors. That sounds just like your description of the "capitalist elite"!

I should have been more specific, I wasn't talking about international business, I was talking about poor, rural farmers. By the mid-70s, some areas weren't producing enough food on their collective farms to feed the farmers themselves. The government started allowing people to grow food on personal plots and let the farmers trade or sell the excess above their quotas, as part of "New Communism". All of the sudden, they have excess food production. Similar things apparently happened in Russia, where small, personal gardens produced more food than large, collective farms.

In between voluntary communist cooperation makes more sense than free markets. ... improving lifes of people today is also important.

As long as people are free to disagree, that's fine with me. May the best ideas on the "market" win! :)

This article is exactly like "How to Talk to a Liberal", but in code!