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We never really had the Apple-1 here, but you can re-live the heady days of the British equivalent, CLive Sinclair's MK14.. (Precursor to ZX-80/81/Spectrum etc)

http://users.aol.com/mk14emu/emulator.htm

Edison did NOT invent light bulb

Thats what I love about Outer Limits...are they still producing it? Seems to be just old reruns from mid-90's.

You have your ten's digit upside down.

Rudolf told me to tell aunt bea to make him some hard sex with aligators.
So have fun, eat, and be safe, bitch.

- Mad Money G THUG

Nope.

I saw the message, not that the little kid they used happened to be white.

I'd rather see the idea that other poster mentioned (show a bunch of geeks with glee in their eyes, each in a different country, and state "They are working on your future; for free. Linux: the future is open.") be implemented, that would give the right message. One of the geeks should be Linus himself, others could be e.g. Andrew Trigell, Brian Behlendorf, etc. and the names could be printed onscreen, to introduce each of them.

That wouldn't have the same meaning or symbolism.

Wouldnt have brought a tear to my eye.

Wouldnt have shown WHY they were working on our future;for free.

did you miss that Mr. Gates as well as Mr. ali are both black???

you were so worried they used a little white kid, you missed the message.

You are projecting your(possibly subconsious) racism upon all of us.

IMHO the message you want to project is crap.(no disrespect to linus, tridge et al)

look at She who used to be the beautiful Heaulmiere

I bet all you see is a statue of an old woman.

You cant even tell she was once stunning.
or look at The caryatid who has fallen under the weight of her stone

All fine art requires some abstraction to understand.

I consider this the first ad I've ever seen that qualifies as "art"

• The Expansionist Party (feeling that Geo. W. Bush is a pansy and not being agressive enough in the expansion of the USA throughout the world)

I find it strange that the page is encoded in Japanese Shift-JIS character set:

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=Shift_JIS,ISO-8859-1'>

• The National Pot Party
  
• Pan-sexual Peace Party
  
• The Internet Party
  
• The Expansionist Party (feeling that Geo. W. Bush is a pansy and not being agressive enough in the expansion of the USA throughout the world)
  

There now, I feel I've done my little tiny part. :)

- No toque los gatos en mis pantalones, senior!

I heard they are already recruiting orbital fuel station attendants who chainsmoke.

2.3mb PDF file on Apollo

Especially check out pages 15 and 16.

Science Question
What would the moon's sky look like to an Apollo astronaut during daylight? Would it be:

a) Black and full of bright stars.
b) So full of sunlight reflected from the moon's surface and from the earth that no stars can be seen.
c) Black, but the stars would be too dim for the astronauts to see thru their tinted helmets.
d) None of the above.

NASA claims the correct answer is b, which is why the astronauts never talked about the stars. Is NASA correct? Or is the PDF file correct? Can you figure it out?

If you have trouble getting the PDF file, you can also get it here:

Conspiracy Party

2.3mb PDF file on Apollo

Especially check out pages 15 and 16.

Science Question
What would the moon's sky look like to an Apollo astronaut during daylight? Would it be:

a) Black and full of bright stars.
b) So full of sunlight reflected from the moon's surface and from the earth that no stars can be seen.
c) Black, but the stars would be too dim for the astronauts to see thru their tinted helmets.
d) None of the above.

NASA claims the correct answer is b, which is why the astronauts never talked about the stars. Is NASA correct? Or is the PDF file correct? Can you figure it out?

If you have trouble getting the PDF file, you can also get it here:

Conspiracy Party

that image ought to be linked in Hi Res!

I find it disappointing that you are blocking content linked from such a popular site as LiveJournal based on referrer headers (see this slashdot discussion: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/205724 2&mode=thread&tid=120&tid=187&tid=96&tid=9 9). I have recommended your services in the past, but that will stop now. Further, I will inform AOL customers whom I have recommended AOL to that their content is not available to sites that AOL seems to disapprove of for no stated reason.

Changing your policy regarding this may defer my judgement about your "service", but your reputation has been irrecoverably tarnished in my view. Additionally your subsidaries, such as Netscape, will no longer be recommended by me.

You may be thinking "Who cares? This is someone who isn't even our customer", but I have become the technology "guru" for over 100 people in my personal life and have input on technology decisions at my workplace. What should worry you is that for every peice of feedback you recieve like mine, there are hundreds of technologically literate people who will simply downplay or berate your services and will not do you the professional courtesy of informing you.

Formerly Respectfully Yours,
BrynM

Following the second link in the text, I ended up at this image.
Yet another reason not to like AOL users. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go wash out my eyes with nitric acid.

In fact, there is a growing community online that uses car engines in airplanes for exactly the reasons you listed. Subaru engines seem to be popular, although people have used engines from Mazda, Ford, and even Chevy.

One opinion on the subject. Another opinion. These guys have a wealth of information about using other engines.

Bumblebee Man isn't Brazilian, though I guess the equivalent of him would be Chaves. I don't know if they would recognize it as a caricature of US views of Mexican children's programming or not.

It's not an imagined caricature; actually it's a parody of a real mexican show.

From http://www.newspringfield.com/info/trivia/
"The Bumble Bee character was inspired by the Mexican comedy series Chesperito. That show had a man dressed in a bee outfit talking in comical Spanish phrases"

The Real Chespirito

Good point. Most users are total morons and think they need more power and storage than their work warrants. However, only time will truly tell if iSCSI will really be the "winner" in all of this. I couldn't find the link for an open source project the I'd seen before that would actually export SCSI, USB and Firewire over IP, so here's this

Copy of 'back side down' image here -> Image

It's on an AOL account, hidden in a 'private' directory. Kinda funny.

With cool stuff like this, it's no wonder MIT is number one in engineering.

Now that sounds awfully familiar... So Easy To Use, No Wonder It's Number One

...as long as it has lasers you should do all right. (-:

AOL Journals is either in beta or already launched. And you can post by AIM.

I was getting a ton of disconnects with the URL that is on the Matrix website, so I searched for another way.

i just examined the URLs of other trailers and got lucky i guess.

By the way, this is officially the 3th Trailer:

• 1st was at the end of Reloaded,
• 2nd was at the end of the Enter the Matrix (crap) game (only the Hacking-system was moderately cool). (extra footage that isn't shown in the third one, namely "the Trainman" (played by Bruce Spence of "Mad Max" fame -- the pilot with the bad teeth))
• Third: this one.

anyway, there are already numerous attempts to figure out the storyline, most of which is fairly obvious/predictable... but who cares.

agent smith rules.

If you like Infocom adventures you should Download Frotz! 2.4.1. This interpreter installs into /usr/local/bin and runs in the Terminal. It would be nice to have a Cocoa front-end for this. Perhaps some cool Mac Geek will find the time....

Frotz! 2.4.3 is also available in source code form if you're into building from source. You just have to make sure you have the ncurses library installed (Fink helps). I had to rename the "init_process" function (in src/common/process.c and src/main.c) to "my_init_process" before it would build. Some kind of symbol conflict with libSystem....

You can play Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the web but I don't think it allows you to save the game.

Fortunately you can download the HHGG data file (option-click) right off the web and play it in Frotz!

As for other Infocom and Z-engine games, here are some links to resources straight out of the Mac Frotz readme file:

• Interactive Fiction Archive
• Baf's Guide
• XYZZYnews
• Infocom (unofficial)
• Infocom (unofficial)
• Infocom Documentation Project
• Infocom Gallery
• InterData Development
• Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe
• IF Database
• Doe's IF Page
• "Infocom Games"

I say we rename it Liberty Window...

That is to say, a French window!

Google apparently turns up a number of unfortunate persons by the very same name.

I feal very sorry for most of the Jay Nelson's of the world. Except for this guy. In fact I almost feal sorry for the eBay scammer. Almost.

However after reading the story of a similar scammer* maybe I should cut the spammer some slack.
*Look at the last "bad trader".

I know spammers can be evil but spammers just don't get this evil.

IANAWE (I am not a wireless engineer - though I am a wireline engineer and know the basics of CDMA and wireless tech), but AFAIK the problem is due to multipath delay (creating Rayleigh Fading/ Frequency-Selective Fading). The effect of Rayleigh fading is that while the signal may be fine right now and right here, if you move the phone (or something in the area moves) a half-wavelength to the left or right (at 900 MHz, about 6.5 inches. Less at higher frequencies), the signal may suck. Hard.

If you're moving quickly (say, in a car), this effect is ameliorated somewhat as you zip in and out of the fades and your average SNR isn't too bad. Standing still (slow-fading), however, the phone can't deal with being in a fade for that long and drops the call.

are a million to one...

but still, they come!

Finally I have a chance of getting to the top of something !!

When you have a crime to investigate, and you have no suspects, where do you start? Obviously you begin by looking at the person or persons who have the most to gain by perpetrating the crime.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/

The whole world is literally at your finger tips. Here are a few examples.

That's not a real Babelfish though, it's just a Beta

Are you joking, or are you perhaps confusing Spike Jones and Spike Jonze? Or both?

For example, Mp3.com beam-it doesn't apply, because the people involved aren't shareholders.

It doesn't matter who the copies are for, or whether the copies themselves would be fair use (they wouldn't be, in this case, either, but let's leave this aside for the moment). Basically anything a for-profit company does is presumed to be for profit. And when you copy a whole song for profit, according to the law, you have to get a license.

Mp3.com failed in court not because they were trying to make money from copies (though you could argue that that's the real motivation behind the RIAA lawsuit), they lost in court because they created an illegal public database of music.

This is closer to the truth than most assertions about the mp3.com case. But they got slapped with making copies for their gain. Fair use law pretty plainly shows, if you make the copies for your gain, it's not fair use. Even if the copies for mp3.com's subscribers or this company's shareholders would, of themselves, be fair use, as soon as the company makes those copies for its profit, it's not a fair use copy by the company. Judge Rakoff spends much of his opinion on the question of whether mp3.com's copies were fair use, as they asserted. He says, on the commercial test, "defendant does not dispute that its purpose is commercial," and, on the question whether it would harm the copyright holders' ability to future license their works, "defendant's activities on their face invade plaintiffs' statutory right to license their copyrighted sound recordings to others for reproduction." Both of these conclusions are clearly true about Mr. Cringley's company, even if the shareholders have a right to make 60 million "fair use" copies of a CD (which I'd assert they don't, but I don't have specific case law to back me up).

According to the "Origin of Phrases" page:

One red cent

Meaning: A single symbolic penny.
Example: I refuse to pay even one red cent for the work until you complete the whole job.
Origin: The "Red" refers to both the color of a penny (one cent) and the image that used to be on the penny, an American Indian head. Redskin is a slang term used for American Indians.
Before today's Lincoln penny was the Indian Head penny.

The Indian Head penny was first issued in 1859 and looks just like that as issued in 1908 (before the Lincoln Cent). The only difference was that those from 1859-1864 were of a different copper-nickel alloy while 1864 started the common bronze, which was used until 1982. (You didn't know it changed then, did you?)

The copper-nickel alloy has a reddish tint, which turns redder with time and skin oil.

Before the Indian Head penny was the "Buzzard Cent", as the One Cent coins in 1856-1858 were called. The flying eagle on the coin was damned as an ugly bird and it wasn't popular.

However, it was the first "small cent" using about the same size as our penny today. In the half century before this, One Cent coins were about the size of today's Half Dollar! (of course they were also worth something then)

In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -

(1)

the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2)

the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3)

the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4)

the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

You can find lots of scientific equipment, computers, and generally obscure technological devices such as surplus atomic bomb detonating cables for $2.

Actually, this is the only space-based hamburger related object we need to worry about.

'Beer bellies' are caused by food/drinks with yeast, including beer, bread, and the like. It's not an issue of 'fat', it's an issue of bloating in the digestive tract. More info. Cut back on the beer.

If you read the old icelandic sagas, you'll find that all documented attemts to colonize Vinland - which most likely was the area around Newfoundland - failed. The longest semi-permanent settlement I can recall, was no more than two years before they had to withdraw; partly because of external treats (ie; the native americans), partly because of internal quarrels.

As far as the Kensintongton rune stone goes, it is widely accepted as a hoax (allthought I did find and include a link claiming the opposite). To sum up; The inscription doesnt follow the formula commonly used on runestones in scandinavia, use of a word not used in the scandinavian languages at the time, date (1362) out of whack with reality (by 1362, the old vikings had long since settled down and stopped exploring - and the tradition of putting up runestones had died out as well), the runic alphabet used to write the stone is younger than the date placed on the stone (in particulary the J-rune, which wasn't in use until around the mid 1500's).

Before anyone goes apeshit on me here; yes, runes was in common usage among norwegians and other scandinavians at the time the stone is supposed to date from; we have plenty of evidence of that from archeological digs in our old cities. But this sort of text, and so long texts, are not found in scandinavia. The vikings and their decendants were not a people of the book, allthought quite a lot of ordinary people could read and write in a fashion.

I have no explonations why you got a group of "fair-skinned" and "fair-haired" indians up in Michigan thought - but it's probaly just a coincidence of genetics. Blue eyes and blond hair are both recessive genes; meaning that if norse and native american mixed blood, those traits should be gone in a few generations anyway.

Yup... I almost trust Iomega, too!

I mean, why would I need it. I already have two. What, do I have to buy every "Dracula versus Van Helsing" game I see?

Fine... fine, I'll buy it, but this is the last time.... I swear. If a fourth "Helsing vs. Dracula" boardgame comes to my attention, I swear it will sit on the shelf unbought.... There's no way I need four "Helsing versus Dracula" board games, what am I, a crazed monomaniac board game collector.... Um... there isn't a fouth "Helsing vs. Dracula" board game, is there? Heh, heh, I just want to prove my internal resolve against buying such a thing... really...

Besides, no one I know will ever play any of these games. They always want to play, ugh... Monopoly... oh joy, Star Wars Monoply that's just what I want in a board game... see it's Monopoly but they put a Star Wars skin on it so you can pretend that it's a Star Wars game... arrrgh...

IIRC, the V Wing was in one of the computer games from Lucas Arts, "Rogue Squadron", and also cropped up in some of the books as well. One quick Google later and it would appear that there are also K-Wings, T-Wings and W-Wings already as well according to this page.

Three words: click of death. Because Iomega made one bad product, I think that we should all boycott them for the rest of eternity.

Never underestimate the power of a geek boycott. We sunk amazon.com, we sunk the RIAA and MPAA, and now we're going after you for things you did five years ago.

Citing ecumenically allied groups like Anglicans and parts of other denominations is like citing your siblings as proof that you grew up in a nice family.

You had said that Catholics are the only ones who believe that Mary was a perpetual virgin. So I demonstrated that this isn't the case. Anglican belief in this doesn't derive from ecumenicism, as it predates the ecumenical movement.

Remember a while ago, I gave you a nice summary of how to interpret the Bible, a document generally known as the Golden Rule of Bible Interpretation.

Why should I accept this rule? Where is this rule stated in the Bible?

The fact is that it contradicts the Bible. The following sentence: "God, in revealing His Word, neither intends nor permits the reader to be confused" contradicts what Peter says about Paul's epistles: "in which are some things hard to be understood." (2 Peter 3:16)

Dodging the point about Beziers and other RCC atrocities by asking if the Bible gives a required body count to get drunk on the blood of the saints is too blatantly flamebait to be responded to.

I had said that Revelation is speaking here of the Jews, but you replied by saying that the Jews had not killed enough Christians. First, how do we know that the Jews did not kill enough Christians to fulfill what Revelation says? On what do you base this assertion? Second, you said that only the Catholics have killed enough Christians. But others have killed as many (or more) Christians as the Catholics did. The Protestants have possibly killed more (including both Catholics and Protestants), but the Communists have certainly killed more Christians than either the Catholics or the Protestants. Muslims have also killed a lot of Christians over the years.

Just admit, as have so many Catholic sources, how many Manichaeans, Arians, Priscillianists, Paulicians, Bogomiles, Cathari, Waldensians, Albigensians, witches, Lollards, Hussites, Anabaptists, and Jews the RCC has slaughtered.

Most of these groups aren't Christians, and so don't fulfill what the book of Revelation is talking about. The following were Gnostics: Manichaeans, Priscillianists, Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathari, and Albigensians. Also, witches and Jews aren't Christians. It could also be said that the Arians aren't Christians either; but in any case, the Arians did more killing of Catholics than the other way around.

Catholic sources like the Jesuit historian Llorente, who was the last to have access to the source documents about the inquisition. He wrote that between 1481 and 1808 that the Spanish Inquisition condemned 341,000 persons.

This number is way too high. See this page concerning Llorente and how inaccurate he was.

Then you claim that 1Tim 4:1-3 does not apply to the RCC requirement for celibacy in priests

Right, because no one is forbidden to marry. People can freely choose whether they become a priest or get married or remain a single layman.

(instituted at Lateran in 1139, not practiced before then).

No, this isn't true. There were councils around the years 300 or 400 AD that talked about priestly celibacy and continence. See this page.

For a good description of the various types, try here. At least the section on "protoanomaly" matches me to a T. :)

A more visual explanation is available here.

Heh.. I nearly ended up flunking kidergarten until a parent teacher conference; my mother asked if they had tested for it or even considered it, and they said 'no'. $#@$ing crayons boxes with the wrappers removed. :) "Color 4 blue" "Color 5 purple".

Here is a full and high speed mirror: Click here for mirror

>[AOL] have absolutely no spam filtering
AOL maintains an extensive list of open mail relays and proxys to block sources of spam.

In short, he is NOT saying that he thinks the current BG project is of poor quality but rather that die-hard Galactica fans might not like the changes.

I think most of his attitude is probably being caused by the fact that there are probably some shrill BG geeks keeping close track of production and e-mailing him with their complaints.

Here's his personal website: http://members.aol.com/mbeve10258/EddieOlmos.html? mtbrand=AOL_US and here's another page about all this: http://members.aol.com/ejowebmistress/BSG.html?mtb rand=AOL_US