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This was a great little Apple IIe style game that I enjoyed in elementary school. Looking back, I now see that it taught basic electronics and logic. It was lots of fun at the time. More info can be found here.

AOL browser IS still built atop IE. There are some fancy interface changes, but its IE "technology" Occasionally AOL threatened to use other browsers, but its never followed through.
http://downloads.channel.aol.com/browser

Does this mark the end of netscape?

I'm not an AOL user, so I don't know if AOL even uses Netscape anymore. But their Downloads page says that AOL Explorer is based on IE.

In any case, there's always Mozilla/Firefox...

AOL's free webmail is available through IMAP as well.

Did you know that John C. Dvorak gets no spam?

I remember an old Tom Lehrer album where the lead in to "National Brotherhood Week" had the lead in:

"I know there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man. And I hate people like that!"

Thanks to Richard C Hoagland's Enterprise Mission web site for the information. Richard is way out there sometimes, but he definately has great credentials.

Are you fucking kidding me? The guy is a kook and a fraud

He repeatedly takes credit for others works and/or claims others have taked credit for his. His claims are beyond reason. And his supposed "credentials" are fraudulent.

Bullshit.

I don't have a PhD, and I've managed to get every font I've ever wanted installed, with far nicer results than are possible with Word (being able to kern in 1sp units (about the size of a nitrogen atom) doesn't compare to .rtf's limitation of a twip (1/20th of a PostScript (Big) point).

I'm also currently finishing up a typeface design which'll push the boundaries of what TeX can handle, and which can't be easily managed in InDesign 'cause of it's OpenType UI/feature-access limitations.

Hanging punctuation, to quote DEK's TeXbook ``is an easier problem'' and there's code for it --- you can see an example of this in use at http://www.tug.org/texshowcase --- look for Okakura Kakuzo's _The Book of Tea_ pdftex makes it happen automagically in the tex engine itself, see _The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Edition_ for an example of this done for a dvips processed file.

XeTeX ( http://scripts.sil.org/xetex ) allows one to access _any_ OpenType or AAT font installed in Mac OS X and have access to _all_ of its features. There's been some discussion of making a version not tied to Apple's pdf engine.

Funny you should mention Zapfino --- here's a technique for fully taking advantage of it in TeX (well, Omega):

http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77ada ms.pdf

and here's an example file:

http://members.aol.com/willadams/portfolio/typogra phy/peace_on_earth.pdf

William
(who would be glad of further translations for ``Peace on earth, good will to men.'' --- I've gotten Arabic, and am going to extend it beyond using just Zapfino)

Andy has more stores at folklore.org, previously covered here. He didn't say anything about joining Google.

Here is an interesting encapsulation of the quality of discussion on IM.

if you'd like to spam a human being, here is a link

ARinteela@aol.com

Email Me

ARinteela@aol.com

email me for more info on posiedon...

ARinteela@aol.com

How can you post a story about a lunar penguin with no pictures?

I know penguins, and that, sir, is no penguin.

Dearest Mods: No, this is not a troll, just a potentially lame attempt at humor. This is a troll.

My wife's company prohibits them from installing IM client software so, naturally, everyone uses a web-based client (AIM Express or MSN's web-based client). Does anyone know of a web-based Jabber client? Hopefully one that doesn't suck? I don't use the web-based AIM or MSN clients, but from hearing my wife gripe about them they sound less than desireable.

I noticed that you used the term "obvious" several times. It's not to me.

There's a species of lizard that reproduces parthenogenically. Conception doesn't occur. Does that mean that it isn't a new member of a species? That it's not alive?

It's entirely possible that at some point in the future, something that sure looks like a human being will be created using methods other than conception. Somatic cell nuclear transfer is a likely candidate. If this happens, does that mean that it's not alive? Can it be treated as a slave?

As people's understanding and capabilities advance, things like this will become increasingly possible. What parts of a person are considered "self"? Can a doctor ethically remove parts of someone's brain? If I culture a mass of cells from my bone marrow and turn it into brain cells, does it have legal rights? If I inject the cells into my own brain and they integrate, should I be considered cojoined twins?

Science is weird and it's up to medical ethics to deal with these sorts of issues.

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
Only be sure always to call it please, "research".

The full lyrics are available at http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/lobachev. htm. Buying one of Tom Lehrer's CDs is highly recommended, he's an extremely funny songwriter!

This "throatless" engine seems more useful for testing injectors than actually extracting impluse (propulsion). The narrow throat of engine followed by a expanding nozzle allows for the chamber pressure to be high (good) while the exhaust pressure is lower (also good). This site explains much this and in fact says, "If the pressure ratio (and thus expansion ratio) [like Carmak's design] is 1, then F = 0. The only thrust produced by such a nozzle is the pressure thrust, or Ftotal = (Pe-Pa)Ae. Such a nozzle, of course, would have no divergent portion, since A*/Ae=1, and would be a badly designed rocket nozzle!"

Simon ;)

This statement shows that you know absolutely nothing on the subject of hamartiology and Cristology. The Bible is clear on this. The age of accountability must be reached before someone has the possibility of going to hell.

I already boycott IE, even in tech support calls I tell end users to check out www.getfirefox.com to prevent most spyware from being put on your system.

Microsoft has to know by now that web developers and power users want a standards compliant browser for once. Even with competition (Mozilla, Opera, Apple/Mac)... they still can't strive to meet the basic expectations.

Also, IE7 breaks Trillian, as evidenced by http://journals.aol.com/gregsblog/aimInfo/entries/ 417

I'd be wary of upgrading IE7 and Windows Vista. :(

Just in case he needs more help on that

http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/

Just in case he needs more help on that

http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/

http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/

You can download new messages, old messages, saved messages, etc. Combined with an IMAP-aware utility that can download all mail from an account (imapsync, fetchmail, whatever) you're set.

First, get your mail into outlook/thunderbird using AOL's IMAP Server.

Then use your email program's Forward/Redirect (if it has it) function to forward it to your gmail/current account.

If you want to spend $20, TrueSwitch will automatically do this all for you AND transfer your address book and forward your mail for a month and notify all of your contacts of your address change. This service is free for many ISPs (AT&T, SBC, Yahoo, and MSN come to mind) which is how I know about it...

You could use IMAP to grab the mail off of AOL's servers in any IMAP-capable email client, according to their site.

"this is an example of some of our new AIM server APIs that we expect to make public in the near future"

"Surviving sperm will be returned to Earth"

Does that imply that dead sperm will be jettisoned into orbit? At least Poole will have company out there.

Properly designed testing can improve reliability. See this article. Statistical models can be used to estimate and measure reliability, and to design a testing process that will ensure that a product meets its reliability requirements.

Don't kill me, but I am using AOL Explorer (http://beta.aol.com/aolbrowser) and it is the best tabbed browser out there.

Firefox is nice, but I do not trust sites really support them.

AOL Explorer uses IE, which I know will work.

I am sold.

Spaceballs... Watch out, 'cause we're the Spaceballs! http://members.aol.com/houdini994/index6.html/

I don't know what your specific situation is but I thought I would mention that when I noticed my e-mails starting to get rejected by various ISP's (I actually noticed it first with AOL accounts)it turned out to be that many ISPs do an NSLookup on the domain name and if it doesn't resolve it gets blocked. I Went to my ISP and had to ask them to put in an NSLookup value in the DNS system (I had to explain it a bit to the tech I got). But once they did it I haven't had any more trouble with servers rejecting e-mail from my server. You may want to try that. Check out http://postmaster.info.aol.com/tools/dns.html for the test to perform to see if this may be the cause e-mail from your server is being rejected.

Build a Pringles can antenna and start homing in! Good resources here: http://members.aol.com/homingin/

The Transformers series offshoot, Beast Wars, so polluted the net that for the longest time I couldn't find a trace of one of the most innovative homebrew robot projects ever published. Subsumption architecture is the way to go.

Either you really fucked up your links, or you plagiarized ( "Let no one else's work evade your eyes" )...

Most people are quite capable of educating themselves; in many ways the school system is designed to prevent that skill from developing.

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tma68/7lesson.htm

The Seven-lesson Schoolteacher.

Forgive me. You're correct. The file extension on those free music files is not mp3... a distinction that I'm sure is highly significant to you and perhaps five other people.

This is Slashdot, I hope that distinction is significant for just about everyone reading this site. If not, can I suggest http://people.aol.com/people?

Yep. http://members.aol.com/drcompany/tragedy1.htm

So parrots grow grey hair just like us too?

I forgot this one:

http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_/gbyW1ZzOAcb1xKlksD IQWixD7Jku51QjotC7kSWUU4=

blakespot

If there was natural gas to spare, this wouldn't matter so much. Unfortunately, North American gas production has already peaked ; I'm sure Britain's situation is no better. We cannot afford to sacrifice efficiency to sequester CO2.

What we could use is technologies which allow CO2 to be captured and simultaneously boost efficiency. Solid-oxide fuel cells and molten-carbonate fuel cells, which can operate at substantial pressure, are good candidates for these. SOFC's in particular look good to me; their charge carriers are oxygen ions (O--) so the mixture on the fuel side of the cell shifts from fuel to CO2 and H2O. This means you don't have to exhaust CO2 along with the air feed, and it's easier to capture.

High-efficiency combined-cycle gas turbines can convert natural gas to electricity with an efficiency on the order of 60%, but they require large, central installations. SOFC's could conceivably be made in home-sized units without losing efficiency, and the waste heat from the process could be used for space heat and hot water. Heating with them would result in a substantial excess of electricity over local needs, which could be diverted to heat pumps to reduce the overall fuel required. (If you can get 60% out of the fuel cell and 3.3:1 out of the heat pump, the total CoP of the system can go as high as 2.4.) Run CO2 exhaust lines in parallel with the natural-gas supply lines, and you've really got something.

Rinji news o moshiagemasu! Rinji news o moshiagemasu! Gojira ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu! Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai! Daishikyu hinan shite kudasai!

Here is a link showing once person's experience and opinion on how dangerous it is: Aircraft Wire Arc Tracking. The fellow was an ex-boeing employee (retired after 36+ years) who has since passed away. Read his 'qualifications' link.

There are tonnes of news articles in the google link, and more if you play with the search query. $1,500.00 for a power cable? Not for me.

Here is a link showing once person's experience and opinion on how dangerous it is: Aircraft Wire Arc Tracking. The fellow was an ex-boeing employee (retired after 36+ years) who has since passed away. Read his 'qualifications' link.

There are tonnes of news articles in the google link, and more if you play with the search query. $1,500.00 for a power cable? Not for me.

Build some cheap speakers to go along with the player http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/Debertin/spbuild.htm

>>Except the US did not catalyze the rise of the Nazis (while, thanks to Pat Buchanan-types, the US sure sat back and watched them grow!)


You might want to read some REAL history, intead of the redneck propaganda they tout in your public schools:

http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/99/hhr99_2.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-s emitism/ford1.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holoca ust/IBM.html
http://aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com/reviews/0609607 995.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Henry_Ford _and_Nazism

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23193426
http://www.answers.com/topic/appeasement

OK, the poms are more to blame for the last two, but they had already become a puppet regime of the Americans by then and Chamberlain could not have signed the Munich pact without the discreet endorsement of your government.

Bear in mind that British appeasement of Germeny ended when the Labour party came to power, the same people you hate as "commies".


>>>While the US did engender the Mujahadeen rebels in Afghanistan, it did not engender Al-Quada

Use spellchecker, it's Al Qaeda or Al-Qa'ida (using the standard phenomes characteristic to the Semitic family of languages).

Know your enemy before trying to defeat them.

And yes, Americans did engender Al-Qaeda. They existed back then too, and were it not for stinger missiles supplied by your country to their leaders, the Russians would have crushed Afghanistan like a bug. Were it not for that western-sympathising idiot Gorbachev and his obsession with weakenening Soviet power with all that Perestroika nonsense, Iran would be a puppet government under Soviet control, Afghanistan would be broken, there'd be no 9/11 today, and all nuclear technology would be in the hands of countries run by stable SANE people, intead of mad mullahs who will paint moons and stars on warheads and USE THEM!!!

Wow, that sure reminded me of old man Lehrer!

http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/newmath.h tm

Website with pics here (yeah, I know, AOL sucks, but I've had this site since before ISPs were common)

http://radaol-prod-web-rr.streamops.aol.com/radio/ radioclient/usbb/html/sorry.html

Attention Firefox Users:
Currently AOL Radio does not support Firefox. Please come back next month, when Firefox support will be available.

I just tried out the beta version of the new aol start page at http://startpage.aol.com/beta.adp and it looks like a nice interface for your average web user.

Its not that complicated, the ads don't scream at you too much...and it is customizable.

That being said, it is still a "me-too" start page experience. AOL is going to have to offer more than an email account to be profitable.

Here's hoping American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake will make it to the big screen soon, too.

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