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Why funny? I'd like to see Zelda entering final.

Of course, the World's standard is big boobs in tight. :)

Notice the Stripe on the Hat

It's called subliminal advertising and the good folks on Madison avenue and elswhere have been putting images like that in your face for more than 60 years. Try laid by the best as a very old example. Images like that fill cartoony comercial art and more hideous images can be hidden in photographs. Computers have been very helpful at putting pornography right in your face many times a day.

The more advertising you are exposed to the worse off you are. It is agitating and more anoying than you think it is.

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Who are the fuckin' Gideons? Ever meet one? No. Ever seen one? No. But there all over the fuckin' world puttin' Bibles in hotel rooms.

Listen to it here.

The only thing really useful here is the color-combining software, and anyone reasonably competent with a good image editing program can do it manually.

I've been taking crossed-eye stereograms for years - take a photo, move sideways a few inches, take another, then place the images side-by-side and cross your eyes until you see one combined stereoscopic image. The main problem with this method (as with the kit being discussed in this story) is the delay between shots - fine for still life, lousy for action shots (or even still life with moving stuff like wind-blown trees, or running water).

Turns out those old stereo viewers are quite useful: http://www.threedview.com/Images/showstereo.jpg They may be antiques, but they really work well, as long as you're content with a 3x3 image (which works just fine for most shots). And you can print a pretty high-quality image pair on any inkjet printer these days.

The TRUE benefit of stereo viewers that don't depend on color shifting is that the colors look completely natural, and they're a lot easier on the eyes than color mixing.

But you can get the same effect with crossed-eye stereograms, with ZERO equipment, as long as you're physically capable of crossing your eyes and refocusing.

Here's an excellent primer on setting up and viewing crossed-eye stereograms. http://www.angelfire.com/ca/erker/freeview.html

Well, I use DOS to access several linux partitions on my 80 GB HDD, using loadlin. I use a menu, like the one at this address used to load Arachne. I gave up on lilo, although If I set up each linux partition with lilo in the partition itself, rather than the MBR, then installing System Commander will pick all of them up. The menu setup is easier, and always works. I don't have to bother to install lilo or grub anywhere, but I do have to get the kernel and put a copy of it in the DOS partition for loadlin to use:

loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 ro mem=256m

I have Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, Win 98, Arachne 1.70 in my menu for this box. I do use System Commander to bring up only two choices, 1. for the menu, and 2. for the floppy (in case I have to use BootE Linux for repairs). When the menu is chosen, the Windows 98 "splash screen" comes up, then the menu, with a 30 second timeout per the original DOS setup. While the menu is up, I can select "Slackware 8.1", for instance, by hitting the "s" key. I use the linux frame buffer X server, so I get the little penguin at the top of the kernel bootup messages. I'm using KDE, and kdm, and have both KDE and FVWM2 installed. Wouldn't know what to do without my menu!

Oh you mean this guy?

So why are you bringing up silly things like "incredible new species" that occur spontaneously? That's not what I'm talking about.

Because there is zero evidence in the fossil record of gradual changes to species to develop into new ones.
If someone does manage to come up with something that looks good at first glance, further investigation reveals startling difficulties with the evidence.
For example, the rib count problem with horses. While lining up the number of toes to follow the evolutionary pattern, the number of ribs is all over the map. Put the ribs in order, and the number of toes is inconsistent.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/horse.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/29178/horse.htm
I could find plenty more examples like this, but I don't see the point. You're just as blinded by your presuppositions as you claim that I am.

"did get off the ground, but never more than a low hover."

The functional test that destroyed the DCX involved lifting to a hover, rotating around a horzontal axis, translating laterally, rotating back to vertical and translating down and laterally again. The destruction was caused when a landing strut failed to 'lock', and the whole thing toppled over.

The thing about the DCX is that it was unmanned, SSTO, powered throughout and scarily good, but it didn't impress people that liked the renderings of the X-33. Gotta remember those oversight committees love renderings.

Their net connection must be using TCP/IP over bongo drums; it's already slashdotted. :P

I think their network needs some load balancing using separate networks. Here are my suggestions:

With open hands:
gently slap top of head
gently slap cheeks
gently slap chest between neck and breast
gently slap hollow-sounding stomach
gently slap thighs/hips
gently slap just above each elbow, with crossed arms
clap flat hands, cupped hands touching like fingers, cupped hands crossing them
rub hands together: up and down, sideways, and in a circle

With fingers:
snap
tap one finger on each hand together, two fingers, three fingers, four fingers, five fingers

With mouth:
breathe out slowly
breathe out using voice sound
pant
sigh
slurp
make buzzing sound--wet lips, closing them in the position to say "m,"
pulling the skin tight by smiling, then blow
trill the tongue
let more air out as the lips vibrate like a horse sound
make "p" popping sounds
make letter sounds without the voice, such as "sh" or "qu"
make tocking sound with tongue
whistle
quack
fill one cheek with air, blow out through teeth for Donald Duck sound
make frog sound--breathe in, low voice sound
snore
put open mouth on hand or arm and blow
burp
hold out letter sounds: sh, ch, s

With feet:
stomp
tap--keep heels on floor and tap toes
clap feet together in the air
slide

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(note: taken from here) ;)

Lets not forget the many species of ferns. There are tree fern species that date back to the carboniferous era.

Here's some more info.

I often ALT-F2 and start wvdial and Firestarter there, then logout. That way, you have to #firestarter --start, and get no GUI, but when you return to ALT-F1, and #start, none of the wvdial or firestarter stuff gets in your way, it's already done. I agree, XP is too expensive, and requires new hardware, but to be fair, I had the same experience with Redhat 9, got turned down without clear reason by RHL 9's installer. That's why I like Debian, but I still dual boot Win98, too.

Josie and the Pussycats DVD: 17.99 pounds ($29)

Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack CD: 19.99 pounds ($32)

Same retailer, same movie, two pounds ($3) less for the DVD than the soundtrack CD ! It's ironic really, because the movie is only OK, but the soundtrack is utterly fantastic - I have it on auto-repeat at the moment...

They are called the Lagrangian points.

L1-L3 are on the earth-sun line but aren't stable. L4 and L5, which lie in earth orbit +/- 60 dgrees, are! And all of them orbit earth in a year. (of course, the centers of the orbits aren't earth, they're close to the sun, but they still take a circular path arround us every year).

NASA is currently using L1 (SOHO, ACE) with plans to use L2 for deep space observations.

Of course none of these are practical for a stationary elivator because the earth spins faster than 1/year (unless the end 'dangles' over the equator and moves east-west). And they are too far away.

How about we use an Orion, but leave off the shields to "save weight". One shot oughta do it...

Refutation of Bishop Berkely After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."

This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to dogs. It's us. Only us.

FYI, Mt. Megiddo really exists and more information can be found here. IIRC, I think it's the site of the final battle between good & evil when the messiah finally comes 'round in judaism.

The best translation I can give is "to get with it," although it also means apurar (hurry up), and sometimes "wake up" also. "Espabilado" means "on the ball," "street smart," and "brilliant" (like a source of light). Si usted quiere saber por que la palavra parece muy rara, es porque no se usa mucho en mexico o espana--pero es comun en otras partes del mundo latino, especialmente centroamerica.

But I think what you want to know is where that confounded quote came from. It's from a song by Mano Negra (fronted by Manu Chao), called "La Vida"(sorry about the backdround image). They have songs in Spanish, English, French, and Farsi. Manu Chao has a couple songs in Portuguese, too.

Here is a funny list of things that you might learn from video games if you are an alien

Actually, the two people whose mention of the R1's availability are listed in this story are simply the first two submitters who I saw that linked to it. Things don't always work that way (often submissions are unrunnable for some reason or another ... broken links, baffling content, etc, too many submissions on a given topic for us to use them all, etc.), but in this case it did.

Addressing the idea that this is an ad, the answer is pretty easy: Nope -- it's not. :)

[Second layer answer is, there are always going to be people who will actually be convinced by any such answer that the exact opposite is true, to which I can only shrug and think of other things. For nearly any Slashdot post, I guess you could come up with a theory that it was paid for by someone to promote commercial interests in some manner. One guy in this thread suggests -- jokingly -- that budgetlinuxcds was linked to by a competitor.]

So, thanks to adjacent submissions about the release, I linked to a bittorrent file and a company selling cheap ISOs by mail.
(I'd never heard of budgetlinuxcds before this post, but a quick google search convinced me they seemed legitimate; I *can* vouch that I've been a happy cheapbytes customer, though.)

If you have bandwidth and interest, the bittorent seems like a good idea; if you have only the interest part, maybe a mailed ISO makes sense. For a good part of yesterday, I was working from a slow dialup connection, and wasn't about to download 3 CDs worth of data ;) YMMV, and probably does.

A lot of stories on Slashdot mention companies or their products, sometimes with links to particular ones. This is because we're interested in a particular technology or product, for good or ill.

(On the front page right now is a story that there are two new models of the Roomba automated vacuum cleaner. I realize there are people who sincerely believe that this means Roomba and Slashdot are plotting to promote Roomba in secret Dr. Strangelove black-and-white war-room sessions. Nope to that one, too.)

Is every mention of AMD an advertisement for AMD? Game reviews are often positive, and often link to merchants selling the games mentioned. [Conspiracy.] Should we replace every company or product name (and their URLS) with asterices? What if I'd linked to several ISO providers (adding in cheapbytes, say)? Should every link to commercial sites or mentioning available products in a positive light be stripped from submissions? These are supposed to be rhetorical questions ( ;) !) , but I'm sure some people really believe the answer to that last one is Yes.

I think if I *had* linked to cheapbytes, an instant conspiracy theory would pop up that Slashdot posts are really the manifestation of shadowy bidding wars among low-margin free software purveyors, who are using their vast gains to purchase evil patent portfolios from gnomes, take over the world, etc etc. (I have seen one episode of the animated show "Stripperella" -- it was about the world's cheapest criminal mastermind; he might want to get it on this at the ground floor ...)

timothy

You remember this one? I do. Well sort of...Ouch!

A number of people have requested a borg-ish SCO icon for SCO stories. It's not my best work, but here ya go.

I sent a copy to Michael and CmdrTaco, though I wonder if they'll see it buried in the huge piles of spam they must receive.

MigraineMan

But, IMHO it's better than KDE (or Gnome), and you can get all the free support you need in the fully commented file shown in MozillaFirebird's url area in the screenshot.

Now for the fun part: Run this screenshot at 800x600 fullscreen on Opera (F11) and then tell your roommate that You've Just Installed Linux! See!

Of course the jig's up when the buttons don't work...

Yes, I know, don't actually run this thing as "root". Well, then here's your "user" .fvwm2rc

By 'we', you mean you and the publishers of various UFO magazines?

Perhaps he refers to the majority of people who realize that they can only observe a relatively small portion of the universe. And anyone with common-sense can easily realise the 90% figure is used metaphorically so get a clue.

And what UFO magazine did you pull "dyson spheres" out of? Its a pretty safe assumption that dyson spheres won't make up any of the so-called "dark matter" out there.

Perhaps some people really need to read a bit more, some suggested material:

BIG BANG THEORY UNDER FIRE

Why the Big Bang is Wrong

ENDLESS, BOUNDLESS, STABLE UNIVERSE

Hubble's Constant in Terms of the Compton Effect

This detachment from the fans of their games spells potential lawsuits coming. There are two fan-based Might and Magic games in being produced, and judging from the technical demo I've played, they look great. Fans were extremely active in other areas as well. They released a patch that fixed the otherwise disastrous Might and Magic IX, which 3DO toletrated even though it was a blatant violation of the EULA (no files modification clause). There is a whole host of fan fiction available. In fact, 3DO often embraced the fans' efforts, including the 20 best maps from a contest into the second Heroes of Might and Magic expansion. I'm afraid that UBI Soft won't be as lenient. I've seen them sending cease-and-desist letters for lesser offenses, and that makes me worried that they'll destroy one of the most devoted fan communities in no time.

Are you perhaps refering to "Project Orion"?

Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson
PROJECT ORION LINKS

http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/orion.htm

Seri ously, this is very interesting. It reminds me of the spacecraft that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle used as the saviour of the human race in "Footfall," which used a similar series of controlled atom bomb explosions underneath a spaceship, in order to propel it.

Others, like the one below, state that initial tests that cleared him were "errors".

The Rostov Ripper

By September 1983 ... They watched and noticed as Chikatilo tried to pick up girls. The police never approached him. Weeks later after they caught Chikatilo fondling an intoxicated girl they finally approached him, asked for his papers and arrested him.

Fetisov hired Victor Burakov, who was an experienced crime investigator and took DNA samples from the sperm left on the bodies. They then took a blood sample from Chikatilo and since it did not match he was released. It later revealed the it did match his blood type. And they also later released him for lack of evidence.

This link says:

Although he was twice suspected, he got away from arrest when his Sperm blood tests did not match his victims. Little did the Russian detectives know, such a case is rare in few people, whose blood DNA doesnt match their sperm DNA.

Apparently HBO made a movie, Citizen X about this case. I haven't seen it, so I don't know how it deals with the DNA aspect.

a good example of the dictum that if you make enough laws then everyone can be a criminal

Very succinctly put. I like to refer to a passage from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" which says essentially the same thing, with more words:

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

So, I guess my main complaint with Linux has to be those darn error messages.

George Reeves the real Superman!

http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/maficstudiosisbad
kris@maficstudios.com
sales@maficstudios.com
jobs@maficstudios.com

some guy proposed doing something similar on an atol in the pacific ocean (iirc) I can't remember what it was called now. ts probably on here somewhere. I'd assume anyone could claim it.

Although there is more work to be done with the AcceleGlove, Hernandez-Rebollar is not sure if he will have the necessary financial support to continue his research after his dissertation.

Here you go!

Feh! I still want a Maibatsu Monstrosity. Mine's Bigger!

Just claim you're quoting the Simpsons episode where Homer gets Bart a microphone and dreams of all the things he could've done (including saying that).

Nope, Homer quoted the old 70's Ronco commercial for Mr. Microphone. Check it out. (Ctrl-F that page for "good-looking").

What crap. You are talking about a company that got it's start from dumpster diving someone else's BASIC. Their whole business model is raping what they call "loss leaders" and publically state they will never enter a "market" untill it's "mature", in other words, they stay out of a technology until someone else has done all the work. Then they come in with the famous $500,000 check to aquire, shutdown or destroy ala Netscape, DRDOS and others. They also advocate "Extreem Programming" in which source code is not touched for the most part, only modified slightly. I imagine that most M$ developer time is put in trying to "integrate" the vast Byzantine raft of other people's code that they have aquired, one way or another. Yeah, and they steal code too, that's why they keep losing lawsuits.

1. Stac
2. Quicktime
3. Eolas
4. and many others collected right here

Either you are deluded enough to think M$ cares about anyone or you are an Astroturfer. What version is the Steve Barkto program up to?

Now, if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office, we'd be set!

As this time-travelling picture from the year 2006 shows, the pantsless office policy at Slashdot was not such a great idea.

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like, what was he downloading when the bombs were dropping on Iraq?

Perhaps it was You Dropped A Bomb On Me, by the Gap Band? :-)

They'll have to rename it "The Little Prince".

(Posting anonymnously since I feel guilty karma whoring)

The onion recently had an article about NASA and NASCAR merging. They seem to have taken it down, but here's the text.

My favorite line: "The shuttle encountered further problems in lap 271, when its massive first-stage solid fuel rocket boosters jettisoned into the Talladega Speedway grandstand, killing more than 1,500 spectators."

>It was just an example

It was indeed a perfect example of how vague handwaving and "oh, but of course" economics fall flat on their face when you're not living in your parents' basement.

>If you are hiring a webguy and doing all this stuff, you better be a damn good band.

But if you can't afford a webguy, how do you let people know how good you are. Hmm, that reminds me of something:

Bill: Ted, while I agree that in time our band will be most triumphant, the truth is Wyld Stallyns will never be a super band until we have Eddie Van Halen on guitar.
Ted: Yes Bill, but I do not believe we will get Eddie Van Halen until we have a triumphant video.
Bill: Ted, it's pointless to have a triumphant video before we even have decent instruments.
Ted: Well how can we have decent instruments when we really don't even know how to play.
Bill: That is why we need Eddie Van Halen.
Ted: And that is why we need a triumphant video.
(Pause)
Both: Excellent. (Air Guitar.)

You see the problem? Sure, tell yourself that you can set up a fan site for peanuts, but the first time it falls over with an "Out of Cheese" error, you have lost your revenue stream. Better hope your cupboard is full of those noodles.

>I was being very conservative when I came up with the 5000 number, any good musician should be able to do 15-20,000 easy

Which end of you did that number get pulled from? I'd like to know before I touch it. Can you provide examples of several non-RIAA bands that have managed to set up fan sites that have 20,000 subscribers at $12 a year? Note "several", because "any good musician". If it's that easy, let's see the examples.

If, as I suspect, you're pulling all this out of your quivering pick ass, and you're living in the aforementioned basement (or otherwise living off of handouts) and have no idea what the phrase "working musician" actually implies, at least have the good grace to acknowledge it.

Here is what I found, when I searched for Mozilla.

I hope everyone can enjoy. I thought it was sweet =)

And if Saddam being in power isn't what the protesters wanted, then what on earth DID they want? WE all knew the UN sanctions weren't ever going to work, and that they were only starving his subjects. We all knew he wasn't going to step down of his own accord. And we all knew the UN wasn't going to oust him so long as most of the Security Council had a vested interest in keeping him there. So what's left?