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Just to sap AOL for all its worth... make sure to pick up the Animatrix if you haven't already.

For whatever reason I missed the 3rd episode of the Animatrix being announced on /. (I'm sure it was); the download link is here.

What, haven't heard? (Too many blue pills?) It's an animated series done by several famous film directors. It's good too. Check it:
1st Episode: The Second Renaissance - Part 1
2nd Episode: Program
3rd Episode: Detective Story

Get all the details at theanimatrix.com.

Just to sap AOL for all its worth... make sure to pick up the Animatrix if you haven't already.

For whatever reason I missed the 3rd episode of the Animatrix being announced on /. (I'm sure it was); the download link is here.

What, haven't heard? (Too many blue pills?) It's an animated series done by several famous film directors. It's good too. Check it:
1st Episode: The Second Renaissance - Part 1
2nd Episode: Program
3rd Episode: Detective Story

Get all the details at theanimatrix.com.

A little experimenting indicates that there are other resultions:

640 pixels (58 MB) and 320 pixels (17.4MB) are available.

There may be others as well, I didnt try many posibilities.

A little experimenting indicates that there are other resultions:

640 pixels (58 MB) and 320 pixels (17.4MB) are available.

There may be others as well, I didnt try many posibilities.

Alternatively, you can download the small, medium or Large versions.

Alternatively, you can download the small, medium or Large versions.

Alternatively, you can download the small, medium or Large versions.

who actually mixes them them the actual search results? NO ONE. no search engine of any size does this period. just because you say "they" do, and don't say who "they" are, doesnt make it true.

OMG, yes! I remember this program. At the time (10yo, I think), I didn't even realize what AND and OR gates were, and I was using them to solve the problems. It's an excellent program.

Yeah I remember that one too. My favorite (in high school) was its sequel: Robot Odyssey, made by the same company, The Learning Company. This game is more advanced. It takes the concept of Rocky's Boots and turns it into an adventure game where you use 4 robots to try to escape from a mysterious underground world. You have to program one or more robots, using logic circuits, to accomplish goals on each level. You use the same principles of AND, OR, and NOT gates, plus flip-flops. I think it eventually gets into the realms of muxes and demuxes as well, but I didn't get that far...

You can find it here. It provides links to download the game, and an Apple II emulator.

I agree that finding an interesting programming language for children can be a challenge these days. Back in the 80s it used to be easy. Programming languages came with the computers, they were simple, and had easy-to-use features that usually allowed access to fun things like graphics and sound. Nowadays, I'd suggest VB. It's not the BASIC we grew up with (with the line numbers, etc.). It's more like Pascal in syntax, plus it has commands for graphics, animation, and sound on Windows. Plus I bet you'd be able to find some easy to follow, beginner programming books for it.

Good luck.

Show me a AOL beta that uses Gecko and I'll show you some Duke Nukem beta footage.

I believe you nailed with "in just about any country you can imagine". It's the automobile unit of SI. Hardly any other car is as ubiquitous -- you can go to the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and you're likely to see a Bug.

Not only that, they are one of the few cars that can evoke this kind of emotional reminiscence.

Actually, a quick googling found this:

r0=2GM/c^2 (Eqn 10.1.5)

So it is directly proportional. However, I didn't look closely at the units that they are using here, but thta shouldn't matter to the solution at hand.

This link contains a good analysis of changes in income distribution in the US:

Pyramidal Economics

Link to Hi-res (104487 KB)

Hammer away- I just finished downloading :)

1. Afghanistan 1998
2. Bosnia 1994, 1995
3. Cambodia 1969-70
4. China 1945-46
5. Congo 1964
6. Cuba 1959-1961
7. El Salvador 1980s
8. Grenada 1983
9. Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
10. Indonesia 1958
11. Iran 1987
12. Iraq 1991-2000
13. Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
14. Kuwait 1991
15. Laos 1964-73
16. Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
17. Libya 1986
18. Nicaragua 1980s
19. Panama 1989
20. Peru 1965
21. Somalia 1993
22. Sudan 1998
23. Vietnam 1961-73
24. Yugoslavia 1999

How does Rush do it?

He does it by not trying to bullshit people into believing things that just aren't true.

Purposely spreading unsubstantiated rumors and lies is "not trying to bullshit people into believing things that just aren't true?"

Here's just ONE example of the numerous false statements he has made in print and on the air:

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In Chapter 16 of "The Way Things Ought To Be" Rush talked about how Willie Horton brutally raped a woman after he was allowed out of a Massachusetts prison on a furlough program while Michael Dukakis was governor. Rush, of course, refers to this as the "Dukakis furlough program" and blames Dukakis for the whole affair.

What Rush failed to mention was that the furlough law he is talking about was passed when Dukakis was not even governor of Massachusetts. It was signed into law by the REPUBLICAN governor who preceded Dukakis. Dukakis' biggest involvement with that law was that he repealed it. But you would never hear Rush mention this. He doesn't want you to hear the whole truth.
-----

I don't think Rush is an idiot, so he must know that he's lying to all of you.

Look who's talking! It's the head troll!

Why don't you READ my webpage before you assume it's lame? There are a lot of lame websites on *ALL* ISP hosting spaces, but there are a few good ones.

If you think my site is stupid, try this stupid teenage girl's page.

If that happened, I think Our Fearless Leader would step in and set things straight. After all, you can't have "subliminable" messages that work at both speeds!

I have a Streamium MC-i200 in my garage (yeah, I spend a lot of time there). Here's the environment: Connected to the Ethernet port is a D-Link DWL-810 Ethernet-to-wireless bridge, which talks to a Netgear MR314 in my upstairs office. Also in the office is a media server, which is simply an old PC with a big hard drive. Finally, I have an old notebook that sits on my A/V tower downstairs, with a Y-cable from the stereo minijack out to an unused set of audio ins (MiniDisc, I believe). The notebook is perfect for playing Rhapsody through my main receiver.

With that out of the way, here's a quick review of the Streamium:
Good
- Ability to play MP3s from media server anywhere on your network.
- Limited Internet streaming capability. Rhapsody or something similar is needed.
- Really good sound, with decent bass thump.
- Remote control is handy when I'm working underneath the car and want to change tracks.

Bad
- Requires a special version of MusicMatch Jukebox on the "server" PC, even though I had already paid (yes, I paid) for the full version of MusicMatch. Now I have two versions on my music server. This server app must be running for the Streamium to find it and play music from the hard drive.
- Horrid navigation. My music is stored in folders, with an artist at the top level, and album folders underneath. It's a chore to page down through the alphabetized list of artists. So I play more Geoff Achison than I would like, and less of the Zombies.

Bottom Line
- While this is a good first step, $500 is far too much to pay (I evaluate this gear for my job). For that jack I'd buy a two-year-old notebook, PC speakers, and slap in a wireless card.
- Keep an eye out for a Digital Media Adapter from Linksys, which should be released soon. It, too, sits on your A/V tower, hooks into your receiver, and should have an out to the TV, so you can navigate playlists and such on the big screen.

BTW, the Wall Street Journal reviewed the Streamium last month. Yup, you gotta have a subscription.

Hope this helps.

-Ray

if slashdot.org is so low on news, that they're willing to advertise sites, and call it news, well then... someone please tell me where to sign up!

you send me a spam at my hotmail address and you will not get a bounced message. Your message may or may not get to me, though, it depends on my filter rules. You send an email to me at my aol account and you prolly won't get a bounce message, more or likely, but I won't get your email.

Compliant? Who cares? I'm talking about the real world.

I think AOL can hold up aginst a slashdotting...

Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

I think AOL can hold up aginst a slashdotting...

Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

I think AOL can hold up aginst a slashdotting...

Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

Man, you think wood and concrete are bad?

Look at this stuff! DHMO is so dangerous, hell, it can kill a man in mere minutes!

Did you know the majority of people want DHMO banned? The conspiracy of the companies selling this stuff is so obvious it's not even funny!

This substance is so deadly it kills without warning. Strangely enough, there are wacko groups who would support the continued use of DHMO!

Here's some more quality information on DHMO, please read it before you kill yourself with this horrible substance. Just look at the list of people addicted to this substance: The KKK, Hitler, Pedophiles, and Charles Manson. The substance clearly changes one's mood for the worse -- just look at the groups it is linked to.

Please sign the petition to ban this horrible substance now before we all die from it.

Thank you.

>I must admit that being from Norway, Europe
>We're currently strugling with The Sellafield Nuclear plant in England, as they dump their waste directly out in the sea, killing our coastline.

Uhhhh... you do realise that England isn't part of Norway, right? That they aren't even connected in the most remote manner? And that the majority of the radiation leakage ocurred when the plant was called Windscale, eh?

And you would suggest Americans are stupid...

Is it just me that envisions Foghorn Leghorn bossing you around your own desktop whenever you hear about Windows Longhorn?

I mean.. I say! You better put an action verb in that their sentence! Listen up when I talk to ya', boy! That ain't no way to write a sentence! I'm talkin' about punctuation! You need a period right here. Kids these days.

It seems even more apropos when you consider DRM and Palladium. I'll leave that to the imagination of the reader.

It boggles the mind how the admins who choose passwords like "password" or "1234" can keep a job.

Problem is that the "admins" in this case are those who administer their own home computers. I see no reason why sub-$10/hr employees of Wal*Mart or Wendy's would have any appreciable connection between administering their home computers and their standing with their employers.

No system should be cracked by a worm that searches for the sort of passwords you'd expect an idiot (or President Scroob) to have on their luggage.

Then how does anybody prevent idiots from connecting their home machines to the Internet?

However, there's also evidence that the dotcom bust took a lot of money out of the economy. I heard that if investments were calculated into inflation during the late 90's (using value and not earnings models), then we were experiencing triple digit inflation.

Since most of the dotcoms were doomed from the beginning (see "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" by Peter Drucker chapter on technology entrepreneurs), and dotcom investing was more popular than Jesus; it's not surprising that the massive shift in wealth (most went to the already wealthy) will take some time to sort out.

Some think we're headed to a depression again because of the massive shift in wealth to the wealthy. I guess it's our doom to see if it's true. If so, then in the midst of the rubble there may be a chance for America(ns) to take back some ground in the tech field... unless they're being pushed down by the powers that be.

Episode 1
and
Episode 2

Episode 1
and
Episode 2

Clickity Click.

Scroll down a bit for the download link..

If you've read Travis's comments above and want to download, for you, we have a couple of links:

All you Mac fans can click here while all you Win fans can do the same here

As for Linux fans like me? I just use my W2K support-laptop from work to play them back =) - What can I say? The players still need work to match the slickness that is Quicktime.

-Travis (a different one)

If you've read Travis's comments above and want to download, for you, we have a couple of links:

All you Mac fans can click here while all you Win fans can do the same here

As for Linux fans like me? I just use my W2K support-laptop from work to play them back =) - What can I say? The players still need work to match the slickness that is Quicktime.

-Travis (a different one)

OK So let's give this a go:

All you Mad Mac fans can click here while all you Insane Windows fans can do the same here

Later!

OK So let's give this a go:

All you Mad Mac fans can click here while all you Insane Windows fans can do the same here

Later!

Zipped Quicktime, 640 resolution (largest), 149 MB.

END OF LINE.

Direct download for PC

Some of us don't/won't use Quicktime

direct download (157MB)

For backwards compatability, it should probably implement AIM/ICQ or Yahoo suport.

Yeah, and AOL does NOT want you doing that, because they want you to use their client, with their ad banners. There are two AIM protocols, TOC (text-based, documented, limited functionality) and OSCAR (binary, undocumented, reverse-engineered). AOL says using TOC is fine, but you're not supposed to use OSCAR. TOC doesn't let you do things like change your password. Last I heard AOL was exploiting a buffer overflow in their own client to make it return a particular hashed value back to the server, and if the server didn't get the correct response it would kick you offline - so, it was impossible for 3rd-party apps to use OSCAR. Obviously Gaim uses OSCAR now, so they must have backed off.

Cryptography support.

Can't encrypt messages if you want to chat with anyone who doesn't use your software. AIM for Mac OS X encrypts log files. Not sure how you'd sign log files in a useful way, since I only ever want to copy & paste an excerpt, not the whole log - but copy & paste is enough to satisfy anyone I talk to that the conversation really took place.

Stability.

See above - one reason they crash so much is because they're always trying to stay one step ahead of AOL, which is always trying to get rid of them. And I was told once that the Gaim code is a tangled mess of spaghetti, but that was a long time ago.

It should be IM client, and nothing else. Do one thing, and do it well.

Some of the features they add are actually useful, but nobody knew just how useful they'd be until they were implemented. Personally a stock ticker is a retarded thing to put in an IM client, but things like webcam & voice chat support are cool ideas.

Portability.

I agree here - why is this so hard? If only Apple had released Cocoa (YellowBox) for win32 and *nix, and everybody started using that. Or if only Qt was free on win32. Or whatever.

Zero tolerance policy on SPAM.

It amazes me that AOL hasn't caught onto this, after so many years of abuse.

Support for modules.

Might be hard to develop generic module support if you have no idea what kinds of modules might be created. Which feature enhancements need what functionality? Some Apache modules make you patch the source to install them, because if it were strictly a module the functionality wouldn't be available.

Why are AOL/ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, etc so scared of competition?

Banner ads.

Even better yet, make it an official RFC.

Nobody took it seriously when they tried.

A real revenue model, not based on ads or spyware.

How many people will pay money for an IM client, when there are so many free ones available? How much would they be willing to pay? Are these two numbers multiplied together anywhere near the cost of operating the service, let alone developing it?

I've come to the conclusion that I must write this software myself. Nobody else is going to implement a portable, spyware and ad free IM client that doesn't constantly crash.

Please do! I'd like to see what you can come up with. Make sure you release a Mac OS X version - you did mention portability. :-)

I ran a quick Google on "speed limit death statistics"--yep, I can back that up. Nice summary from an activist in NM:

"Speed interacts with injury in several ways, affecting both the risk of crashing and the severity once you do crash. .... speed does not directly cause crashes, any more than drinking does. Higher speed makes staying in travelways and yielding to other road users more difficult."

Here, i copied this html for a friend a few days ago. Merlin @ opsec

no, cam0 just needs to put on his party dress. Do you want to know why people hack AOL? Simple. You can sell AOL instant messenger names on EBAY. Who wouldnt pay 30$ to have the name 'Chris' or 'Mark'? Another reason is spamming. You can get thousands of AOL accounts by sending in a simple form such as this. To replicate webmail.aol.com Fool me not. That little website will get you 1000+ screen names and passwords in under an hour if you send it to about 10 thousand people. Thats how dumb AOLers are. Need credit cards? You can trade them on irc for just about anything. Not only that you can wire the money through western union, paypal or ebays system. Full information credit cards are valueable, Any AOLer will fall for it. Get anything down from Social security #, maiden name, and the 3 digi number on the back and you can do whatever you want. And like he said in the article, its not like AOL prosecutes anybody. Most of us have been doing this since 91. Its nothing new.

no, cam0 just needs to put on his party dress. Do you want to know why people hack AOL? Simple. You can sell AOL instant messenger names on EBAY. Who wouldnt pay 30$ to have the name 'Chris' or 'Mark'? Another reason is spamming. You can get thousands of AOL accounts by sending in a simple form such as this. To replicate webmail.aol.com Fool me not. That little website will get you 1000+ screen names and passwords in under an hour if you send it to about 10 thousand people. Thats how dumb AOLers are. Need credit cards? You can trade them on irc for just about anything. Not only that you can wire the money through western union, paypal or ebays system. Full information credit cards are valueable, Any AOLer will fall for it. Get anything down from Social security #, maiden name, and the 3 digi number on the back and you can do whatever you want. And like he said in the article, its not like AOL prosecutes anybody. Most of us have been doing this since 91. Its nothing new.

no, cam0 just needs to put on his party dress. Do you want to know why people hack AOL? Simple. You can sell AOL instant messenger names on EBAY. Who wouldnt pay 30$ to have the name 'Chris' or 'Mark'? Another reason is spamming. You can get thousands of AOL accounts by sending in a simple form such as this. To replicate webmail.aol.com Fool me not. That little website will get you 1000+ screen names and passwords in under an hour if you send it to about 10 thousand people. Thats how dumb AOLers are. Need credit cards? You can trade them on irc for just about anything. Not only that you can wire the money through western union, paypal or ebays system. Full information credit cards are valueable, Any AOLer will fall for it. Get anything down from Social security #, maiden name, and the 3 digi number on the back and you can do whatever you want. And like he said in the article, its not like AOL prosecutes anybody. Most of us have been doing this since 91. Its nothing new.

you'd think "wouldn't the entire internet hate me if I...." and end up with something worse, if such a thing is possible

dear 12 year old self: just let it die

This use to be very popular with AOL.
It has almost stopped now, but could be becouse I don't even open email in the AOL client anymore.

(yeah, I use AOL, it was cheaper than the alternatives, and it is one of a very small number that actually other 24/7 access, and mean it)

Where did he say that? He actually said "Luck, circumstance, and opportunity play huge roles in where you are." Huge roles being the keywords. As someone else who replied to you said, how about being hit by a hijacked airplane while sitting in your office? Or being born as a woman or slave in Sudan? Keep working hard, maybe you won't get beaten as badly.

One thing to know ... there is NO consumer television available that can fully resolve the resolution of the 1080i signal. Plasma can't, CRT tubes can't, rear projection sets can't.

Sorry, gotta call bullshit on this one. Here's why:

• Take 1920x1080i @ 30hz
• Deinterlace it.
• Now you have 1920x540p @ 60hz

Now all that's needed (since 540p is a snap for any HD set now) is enough horizontal resolution to display 1920 horizontal pixels.

OK, here's where the importance of a widescreen set comes in.

My set (which is fairly low end) has 1200 horizontal TV lines of resolution.

In a 1:1 area, the height of the set, 1200 pixels can be resolved. Now, my set is 1.77:1 (16:9). So expanding that to the full width of the set, you get (1.77*1200) 2124 pixels.

So a widescreen 1080i capable set has more than enough resolution to display the full detail. Now with 4:3 in letterboxed mode, YMMV. You will most likely not get the full detail because the picture is forced into a desner area.

I've had the same problem, then one day at Office Depot/Max (doesn't really matter) I found the desk that was perfect for me. Remember the episode of The Jetsons where George is playing the drums at the concert? Since then I wanted a desk that surrounded me and I've come close to my greatest desk yet. I love desk usage area space, so I can use it as a work table and layout all of my documents and stuff I do, non-computer related. My desk comes with a shelving area on one side and some slots for CDs and stuff on one end and a small cabinet on the other end. I put my dual monitors in the middle of the U with my PC case to my left and other gizmos to my upper left corner next to a monitor. Now I have all the area to the right of me and to the left and rear left of me for work space. I use the area to the left and rear left for paper work area (mail, bills, documents, stuff that's important at the moment) and my right area, I try to keep clear at all times. I have an artist lamp on both either ends of my desk, which is great when I'm working my fixing or messing with my computer or working with some gizmos. I LOVE DESK SPACE! I also have my desk with the open U facing the wall, so the wall is behind me. Behind me I have a whiteboard and my speakers so I have complete surround sound. Also, I have privacy with the monitors and door in front of me. My bookcase is to the right of my desk and I set my TV to the front left of me. I like it.