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http://members.aol.com/gmayhak/tcl/ e-charge.htm.

I use one with my Palm V. When I need a charge on the road, I just hook up a 9V battery overnight, and I'm fresh to go in the AM. I'm sure you'll see one of these made for the Sony PDA.

Gotta wonder...

• Warner Brothers is a subsidiary of Time Warner, right?
• Didn't AOL buy Time Warner sometime this past year or so?
• Does AOL run a search-engine?
• does it link to illegal DeCSS content? (Yup. 94 items in the list, less than 3 hops from source-code. See http://search.aol.com/dirsearch.adp ?query=DeCSS)?

So... AOL's illegal? Am I missing anything here?

I'm waiting for the MPAA to sue the parent corporation of one of their member companies any day now... All it would take would be one comment/complaint to hotline@mpaa.org

Now if only there was a link from mpaa.org to Warner Brothers, and so on up the ladder, they'd be illegal themselves...

Hawking and Berkenstein came up with this concept in the 70s. Since Hawking radiation implies that black holes have a temperature it follows that they have an entropy as well, and the relationship is S=A/4h, where A is the surface area in appropriate units.

This theory has recently been proved using string theory. Since entropy has its basis in the number of available quantum states of a system, Strominger and Vafa showed this relationship to be true by counting the degeneracy of configurations for strings and D-branes corresponding to black holes in string theory. This is a real result for string theory, since up till then the theory only had a semiclassical derivation.

For more information, see here for more information on the superstring proof or here for the semiclassical derivation.

You asked for it, you got it.
More Schoolhouse Rock then you can shake a verb at.

Schoolhouse Rock - everything about Schoolhouse Rock, including the lyrics, sound files, history, events, products, and more.
Schoolhouse Rock [Yak.net] - Lyrics
Schoolhouse Rock - More Lyrics.
Unofficial SHR - Even more Lyrics and links.
SHR Sound clips - Plays SHR sound clips using a Java applet.
And if all that isn't quite enought for you.. here is a page for info on Schoolhouse Rock Live.

It's one of my favorite fairy tales - try this site for a good look.

... is here. I kid you not.

The odd little one's name was Keeyop (not sure of spelling). Don't know who did the voices, though.

You perhaps could find some info at http://members.aol.com/gtchaman/Page1.ht ml... a website for "Gatchaman", the anime forerunner of Battle...

Some of my earlier discussion on Battle is here...

Ah, but Robotech only remeinded me of what I used to get up early to watch during 2nd grade:

2) Star Blazers. I can still sortof remember the song "We're off to outer space... to save the human race... (something about radioactivity from Gamelan starships) ... if we don't, in just one year, mother earth will disappear."

Starblazers had the ultimate hack... Some people complain about people trying to shove new computers into old cases (you know, G3 in a Mac Classic, PC in an old NeXT cube). In Starblazers, they put a starship in an old Japanese seacruiser. Go figure.

3) After school, I watched "Battle of the Planets" (originally Gatchaman). There was a knock-off called G-Force on the Cartoon Network a couple of years ago. I couldn't tell if it was stupid because it was different, or if it was stupid because I was much older. :(

I remember thinking that Thundercats was sortof cool, and Voltron (though extremely predictable with them always drawing the sword at the end... but was that worse than the wave motion gun or main cannon of the SDF-1 or going to the fiery phoenix on Battle of the Planets? Discuss). But the above 3 would be my picks.

Now I understand where your confusion lies.. take a long hard look at who owns Nullsoft. AOL is responisble for their subsidiaries just like any other company. If New York decided to invade Canada, do you think Canada would blame just the people who live in New York? Or do you think they would blame the USA? :)

MP3Board is currently getting sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement by distributing MP3s. MP3Board has turned around and sued AOL because their subsidiary, Nullsoft created Gnutella. MP3Board wants AOL to share some of the liability for music piracy if MP3Board is found guilty. MP3Board's reasoning is that piracy wouldn't be happening as much if AOL's subsidiary hadn't created Gnutella.

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mp3board hopes to spread some of the blame and defer some of the costs of the case to others.

Basically, they (mp3board) let users perform gnutella searches. The catch here is that gnutella was created by AOL. mp3board is basically trying to shift blame to AOL ("Yeah, we use gnutella, but THEY made it!").

According to C|Net this won't work. In a copyright case, defendants are picked by those who originated the case, in this case the RIAA. mp3board can't just say "why aren't you suing them (AOL)?!" b/c they (RIAA) get to decide who they sue.

If you ask me, it's a shrewd move. It will force the discussion of file sharing technologies and hopefully show that the RIAA won't go after it's members (Time Warner) only those it deems as evil (mp3board).

What's really sad for geeks is that 16-bit, 44.1 or 48kHz sound (CDs and DAT) aren't a patch on the quality of a good gramophone record, let alone a 15ips analogue mastertape. Though i accept that convenience is occasionally a little more important than quality.
- Derwen

This article claims $6.3 billion dollars of revenue for the video game industry in 1998. That include software and hardware. In 1997, the movie industry had total box office revenue of $6.2 billion according to this web page. I don't think that includes popcorn and soda. It definitely doesn't include video rentals and sales. The numbers show that even if the gaming industry isn't as large as the movie industry, it definitely deserves more respect from the press, as the original poster pointed out.

I see it as a Double Edged Sword.
AOL, with 20+ million subscribers, does hold alot of weight within the industry.
If this weight can be used to get Hardware and Software Companies to provide more Drivers or Compatible Programs for an OS like Linux. I say more power to them. I've signed more "Linux Driver Petitions" than I care to count. It's a shame that we don't have some of the great programs Windows does(ie: Macromedia Products). That's why part of me doesn't mind AOL porting to Linux so much.
On the other hand, I have the part of me that wants to keep this OS of ours out of the mainstream as much as possible. To keep it the leet O/S it is, before we loose anymore of it to Big Greedy Corporations.

A few months ago, Maximum Linux magazine had an issue mostly about browsers. It included a CD with every browser you could imagine from Netscape Communicator to Microsoft Internet Explorer (which they claimed would run if you could get WINE to run it). As I recall, the CD also included (probably an earlier version) of the AIM Beta for Linux. I don't think I installed it, but I'm almost sure it was there! I think this has been around a while, but AOL didn't publicize it until now.

http://toc.oscar.aol.com

I move between computers/OSs often and just use the java client. Never had a problem with it. Its ad-free, remembers buddy lists, and it works behind my work's firewall too.

Is it me, or do these screenshots look very much like GAIM? Take, for example, this picture. Why does it look so similar to, say, this? I find it a bit surprising that GAIM and this Linux AIM Beta client look so much alike; either GAIM did an exceptionally good job of duplicating the (unreleased) Linux AIM client or AOL just grabbed GAIM and branded it. In addition, has AOL really gotten up to the 1.1.14 stable release of this thing, or is it just GAIM 0.9.14?

Did I miss the link on AOL's page to the Linux AIM Client's source, considering GAIM is under the GPL?

The idea that this new tech could be used to "sniff out" traces of bomb-making chemicals at airports is inherently bogus, because all your terrorist would have to do is distribute traces of explosives around the public (i.e. pre-"sniffer") areas of the airport; a few hundred pissed-off false positive-tested commuters later, the system gets shut down.

And finally, for anyone that had their hopes up like me, it seems the friendly people at ColorMax were lying about what their glasses could do (iirc, they basically claimed to have a [very expensive] cure for colorblindness)

The Gameboy Color demoscene is made possible by these and they've been at it for quite a while. For some interesting info about it, have a look here. For programming info (hey now that I'm posting links anyway =)), the C-based GBDK can be found here, along with info on how to code for the GB in Asm.

Please read this FAQ:

Mikes Space Settlement FAQ

Here is an excerpt:

How is space settlement different from any of the other space colonization proposals?

Most thinking regarding human expansion into space has focused on the settling of the surfaces of other planets, sometimes after modifying their environments to make them more Earth-like (called terraforming). The space settlement concept maintains that planets are not the most ideal location for human colonies beyond the Earth.

Who developed the space settlement concept?

Principally, Gerard K. O'Neill (1927-1992), who was a physicist with Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to popularizing space development, O'Neill was well known as a researcher in high-energy physics, and as the inventor of the colliding-beam storage ring, an innovation now standard on most particle accelerators.

What are the origins of the space settlement concept?

In 1969, O'Neill was teaching a physics course at Princeton. America was engaged in the Apollo effort, so O'Neill was working space travel into many of the physics problems assigned.

He was concerned about the persistent talk among academics regarding overpopulation and "limits to growth". He was also dismayed by many young people's resigned acceptance of two concepts he personally found repugnant. One was future totalitarian control over the use of resources, the other was that a decline in the standard of living was inevitable. One day he asked his students the following question: Is the surface of the Earth really the best place for an expanding, technological civilization? After some calculation, the answer seemed to be "no".

Maybe it's better they don't release it on TV; then it doesn't get hacked. Nadesico and Eva certianly wouldn't survive the process. Anime's much more widespread than four years ago. Hopefully the process will continue and some cable network will see the light. More preferably, hopefully some cool developer or cofounder will put those options to good use and start an all-anime cable channel, altering only to add 3 (not 4) commercials per episode.

I know someone took great time and care drawing the new anime topic icon; but, uhm, am I the only one that finds it unrepresentatively un-kawaii? There are so many cute or cool characters out there; Ruri, Mill-chan, Ed, Miyu, Van, Lain, etc. So they probably can't be used, but fan art sites, like fredart.com have artists who would love to have their fine work represented every four days or so on the cover of /., and the results would definitely be visually pleasaing (which is kinda the point, ne?).

Maybe it's better they don't release it on TV; then it doesn't get hacked. Nadesico and Eva certianly wouldn't survive the process. Anime's much more widespread than four years ago. Hopefully the process will continue and some cable network will see the light. More preferably, hopefully some cool developer or cofounder will put those options to good use and start an all-anime cable channel, altering only to add 3 (not 4) commercials per episode.

I know someone took great time and care drawing the new anime topic icon; but, uhm, am I the only one that finds it unrepresentatively un-kawaii? There are so many cute or cool characters out there; Ruri, Mill-chan, Ed, Miyu, Van, Lain, etc. So they probably can't be used, but fan art sites, like fredart.com have artists who would love to have their fine work represented every four days or so on the cover of /., and the results would definitely be visually pleasaing (which is kinda the point, ne?).

Check out this link Napster Ordered by Judge to Stop Duplicating Copyrighted Music from aol.com.

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According to ICQ's homepage they currently have over 72 million users. Last month C| Net claimed thatt AIM has 91 million users which may have changed since ICQ had 62 million at the time. All AOL has to do is make ICQ and AIM interoperate and any move by the remaining companies whose combined userbase dwarfs AIM's or ICQ's will be a waste of time.

Frankly I don't understand why people still hassle AOL, didn't they submit their Open IM Architecture Design to the IETF?

Click Here. There is also some good information on when the other missions will take place, and what the other modules are going to be named.

These are live (bootleg concert) recordings, which Metallica gives permission to share, while scour's results include tracks off the albums. When people link to web sites where illegal mp3s are available for download, it only gets them noticed that much quicker by the authorities & taken down.

Originally, Gnutella *WAS* GPL. But, the authors (who worked for Nullsoft, which is owned by AOL,) were told (by AOL) to stop it. Since I'm guessing their contracts (as most programmers contracts do nowawadays) said that their employer (AOL) owns their code, they were forced to comply.

But, someone leaked the code to someone OUTSIDE AOL, and it's slowly being maintained. If you check their homepage, you will see that they plan on re-releasing the code, fully under the GPL, when they hit version 1.0. So, Even the "official" Gnutella isn't "official", since the only "official" source was closed by their "official" employer...

And, as was argued when it first happened... Since AOL owns the original code, they can change the (distrubution) license at will. Even on GPL-ed software. If I write a piece of software, and release it under the GPL, then for you to use it, you must agree to my chosen license. If, at a later date, I decide to charge for it, and change the license to a more restrictive one (such as Microsoft's,) I am fully within my rights to do so. And, if you were using my software, I can revoke your license, because I'm the copyright holder. Even if you made (and released under the GPL) modifications, since your original license was revoked, all your derivatives are illegal now. It's a REALLY slippery slope, which is why the FSF recommends that if you release under the GPL, you should also sign over your rights (copyrights, that is) to the FSF. Then, no one can force you to change your license, only the FSF could change the license. But, (again due to legal intricacies) if your software is really owned by your employer (like the original Gnutella) then THEY legally own the copyright, so you never had legal authority to choose the license, or sign your rights to the FSF... Ah, what a tangled web we weave...

The main reason I think RMS doesn't go after Gnutella is because he knows that they WANTED to GPL it (the authors even thought they did) but couldn't. Legally, AOL could stop the whole "official" Gnutella project anytime they choose to by sicking their lawyers on the current maintainers. But, since the important part of Gnutella is the protocol, it's too late to stop it. With the already-released (under the GPL) clones, there is nothing AOL (or anyone else) can do about it..

Reference URLs:

• The current Gnutella home page. These guys are not affiliated with Nullsoft or AOL in any way. They just acquired the source code, and are updating it.
• Nullsoft, Inc. The home of the original authors of Gnutella. There is no Gnutella info here.
• America Online. The beast.

Then, in a while someone will come by and take away my domain name because they own a glass company, and feel I might be misdirecting their customers. Sun will sue for the rights to Slashdot.org, because their trademark (We put the dot in .com) uses the word 'dot' and so does Slashdot's web address. But no... evils like that would and could never happen. I am being too far fetched. Remember, the first things lawyers look for is a presidence. When a judge grants the Olympic organizers the rights to take away these domains, someone will come along in a year and demand other domains be given to them, and their lawyers will point out this case.

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So, you may notice people who have been around for a while, or simply used older typewriters when they started out, will write like this...

-pf

Why the hell would Disney want Apple?

<RANT>Why the hell would Disney want the Anaheim Angels or the Anaheim Mighty Ducks? It's not just that the Angels, with all their talent, miss the playoffs year after year. IMHO a company like Disney has no business whatever owning a baseball, hockey, or any other sports team. I can see them owning ABC as a guaranteed market for its content. But ESPN is a considerable stretch. And baseball and hockey teams, for cryin' out loud? It's not like they're Ted Turner and they need them to fill air time on ABC.

So Disney taking over Apple makes as much sense as a number of other acquisitions they've spent money on in the last several years while Disneyland falls apart, which is to say none at all. </RANT>

Actually, though, the main reason I don't believe this merger rumor is that I can't see Michael Eisner giving up control of Disney under any circumstances that don't involve carting him out of his office feet first.
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Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!

• G -- 00
• A -- 01
• T -- 10
• C -- 11

This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

disks, tape, cds... they all have a relatively short lifespan. picture storing data in mice, just feed them and keep them warm. ev en if th e parents die the children will have the artificial chromosomes... (that is unless they recombine, in which case all of your documents or whatever are worthless....)

disks, tape, cds... they all have a relatively short lifespan. picture storing data in mice, just feed them and keep them warm. ev en if th e parents die the children will have the artificial chromosomes... (that is unless they recombine, in which case all of your documents or whatever are worthless....)

It's not like splicing is anything new - hell we've been making corn that poisons butterflys for a while now - it's not new. Why is this news? What is the nature of the chromosome, is that what makes it so special? What does it do? Anything?

• G2News: AMD Finds Glitch in 1GHz Athlons
• Windows 95 Troubleshooting and Resource Guide
• Australian PC World
• Tom Syroid's comments on this

Here's a map of Nunavut, Canada, with Devon Island highlighted, in case you're wondering where exactly it is.

Or even perhaps the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulatoor

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It's easy to do, although I could count the situations where I'd need it on one hand. The use of multiple columns for text is a holdover from print media, and is usually not necessary for purely electronic documents.

Ever hear of the TABLE tag? That's what most people use for multi-column text. Sure, it doesn't balance the text automatically across columns, but it works and it gives you better control over what goes where.

Also, for what it's worth, column settings are being built into the CSS spec. Of course, it will take awhile before all browsers support it.

-JD

AOL has submitted it's IMX draft to the IETF and it is available on the Internet at http://aim.aol.com/openim. Here's news of the story on C|Net.

As for the MSFT BIOS lock deal with Dell i'm not exactly sure how new this is. My IBM Aptiva i bought in April last year did not come with Windows 98 but instead with an IBM Recovery disk that would only install on my Aptiva 9which i found out much to my chagrin after assembling a new machine and being forced to buy a copy of Windows for it). I am surprised this practice is just getting mention now. It is VERY old news to me and I'm sure it is to other IBM Aptiva users.

There are many reasons why investigating server-server protocols rather than peer-peer protocols is a bad idea. Some of them are:

• Server-Server protocols push intelligence and state into the network, forcing us to rely on these 'conversion servers' very heavily. This is generally considered to be 'a bad thing'.
• Loss of consistent namespace. Messaging 'oim:icq:6028461' rather than 'sip:vektor@div8.net'.
• Increased difficulty in implementing end-to-end security and authentication, since we can't rely on the signalling to help, and we have to talk through a proxy at all times.

Note: this means that if you're not on AOL (or using an AOL client), your IM address will be someone@somewhere.xxx. To you, AOL users will be someone@aol.com, unless your IM server sends unknown users to AOL (and then you have the issue of collisions between local usernames and AOL names - but people/servers with small userbases probably wouldn't care much).

This solution appears to open (some) IM (not all features are supported via OpenIM in the draft, and there's no guarantee that AOL will support more advanced features in their OpenIM gateways). However, it also preserves AOL's lock on it's username-space and adds inconvenience for non-AOL-IM users, encouraging them to use AOL's client.

Still, it basically puts IM on the same footing and a similar architecture to email, which is a Good Thing.

Randell

p.s. Note: in a previous life, I was one of 4 or 5 people at a company called PlayNet that wrote what later became AOL, including the original IM design. (This was in '84/85.)

AOL has posted an Internet Draft on their proposed IM protocol. It is very similar in overall concept to the e-mail system - similarities such as introducing a new "IMX" record into DNS, the use of MIME as a message format, and providing each user with a unique myname@mydomain identifier, are some of the more obvious. It differs in a few ways - most notably, it is only a specification for server-to-server communication. Each server can, within the restrictions placed on it by its need to communicate with other servers, implement whatever server-to-client communication scheme it chooses. This means that protocols within individual IM services might be different - but nobody's getting locked out, since anyone with a domain can start their own IM service - just as anyone with a domain can send e-mail from that domain.

AOL has submitted it's IMX draft to the IETF and it is available on the Internet at http://aim.aol.com/openim.

Here is the page announcing the proposal, with links to the proposal itself (a formal Internet Draft and this diagram showing the client/server and server/server architecture.

Here is the page announcing the proposal, with links to the proposal itself (a formal Internet Draft and this diagram showing the client/server and server/server architecture.

Here is the page announcing the proposal, with links to the proposal itself (a formal Internet Draft and this diagram showing the client/server and server/server architecture.

Check out: http://aim.aol.com/openim/ to read the RFC AOL submitted to the IETF working group. The RFC link is on the bottom of the page. Also check in on the working group mailing list archive here and see other proposals that were submitted today, the deadline day for proposals that will be used to judge whether the wg wakes up from its current sleep mode.