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Personally I think 2006-2008 version had the best overall usability. That's also the last version that was compatible with pretty much any web browser.

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Personally I think 2006-2008 version had the best overall usability. That's also the last version that was compatible with pretty much any web browser.

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Personally I think 2006-2008 version had the best overall usability. That's also the last version that was compatible with pretty much any web browser.

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2006-2008: Main page and story

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Personally I think 2006-2008 version had the best overall usability. That's also the last version that was compatible with pretty much any web browser.

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1998-2006: Main page and story

2006-2008: Main page and story

2008-2010: Main page and story

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Personally I think 2006-2008 version had the best overall usability. That's also the last version that was compatible with pretty much any web browser.

Really? I don't know, it looks pretty dated to me.

Ok, I remember reading the Apple benchmarks myself (in utter disbelief - even for Apple it seemed too much), and this article you linked to does not agree with my memory. So let's go directly to the source. Read that benchmark paper yourself on archive.org : http://web.archive.org/web/20030727103031/http://veritest.com/clients/reports/apple/apple_performance.pdf

I gave it a quick look to refresh my memory and here are some highlights:

- They DISABLE hyper-threading on the SPEC rate test, which is the multi-processor test. Then, they ENABLE hyper-threading on the SPEC base, which is the single-processor test!!! They defend this by saying something like "hyper-threading is slower some times". Well, they sure know that, since they only enable it when it will slow down the Pentium! I would have given them the benefit of doubt if they had disabled (or enabled) it for both tests, but selectively enabling/disabling it means you know what you are doing.

- They use -O3 -fast -ffast when compiling for Apple, which uses fast math non-IEEE optimizations. Of course they had the Intel CPU run accurate/IEEE spec code - there is no equivalent -ffast-math used.

- They go on making some other "crazy" optimizations on the G5 like "modify CPU registers to enable memory Read By-pass", or installing a special malloc library that optimizes for speed by sacrificing memory just for the single-threaded benchmark. This is not how you benchmark for comparison purposes, especially if your optimizations for the competing platform are "turning off update" and "turning off hard drive sleep" (they obviously put that stuff just to pretend they "optimized" there as well).

And I am sure there are other things as well, this was from a quick read. And of course let's not mention that they compare the G5 with an Intel P4 CPU, when, at the time, AMD's Athlons/Opterons (64bit versions were just out as well) were destroying Intel (in performance, not sales - but that is another story).

In general, that paper is so ridiculous that I can't believe Apple had kept promoting it after they had been outed. But then again, given Apple's target audience, the explanation is simple. What was even more ridiculous is that when Apple started selling the Intel-based Mac they had kept for a while the section of their website that showed how much faster the G5 Mac was compared to Intel and then on the Intel Mac pages they had comparisons which showed how the Intel Mac is faster than the G5 Mac. No shame!

"Anyway we can go back to 2001 or so with the design?"

Here you go. There's also 1998?

"Anyway we can go back to 2001 or so with the design?"

Here you go. There's also 1998?

http://web.archive.org/web/20010302015322/http://slashdot.org/

Your wife is extremely lucky, then. Do some research into the matter, you'll find that in the US, most patients with persistent/chronic pain are undermedicated; doctors are pushed to worry about addiction (prevalence ~3% of chronic-pain patients) rather than told how to identify pseudo-addiction. Here's a couple of relevant articles: here and here (with interesting facts.

I'm a "model patient" yet even with a spinal/brainstem birth defect identified as the cause of severe pain, my doctors just gave me 30 pills of the lowest-strength vicodin until I told my primary physician that the pain was making me suicidal. She said the government makes it a nightmare to give anything unless they have a desperate model patient, and (after many questions) put me on a narcotic patch that makes morphine look like candy.

Even then, despite having a sterling record (never abused meds, used illegal drugs, smoked, only drank enough *once* to get tipsy, or held hands outside a LTR) and surgical records dating back to 1 day old, every six months I'm required by the government to be given a full exam including urine/blood drug tests. I'm lucky, too -- I think it's fucked-up that I'm treated like a criminal for needing pain medication, but at least I can get it, which is more than I can say for the majority of other disabled people dealing with pain that I know...

The browser was designed as a Page Rendering/Document Veiwing Engine

Uh...what? Have you actually seen WorldWideWeb? The only reason why virtually all later browsers were viewers-only was because the new guys found it "too difficult" to support the advanced features.

This has been a well known problem for at least a couple of decades. Google had their famous cache that was famous for saving peoples hides or embarrassing peoples mistakes. The people that run the Wayback machine have been fighting this problem for many, many years.

Their is a natural resistance to being able to preserve content as it was at the time. People, companies and governments like to make revisionist history and forget that certain things ever happened or change them after the fact. Specialized companies help with reputation management in ensuring that such things disappear for good.

It's a problem from tech support documentation that disappears to finding old employers that have changed their name and moved location. The only way to resolve the issue is to be able to preserve the content as it was for posterity. Always assume your links will vanish and turn your need pages into archive files. If you really want to do something about it donate to the Internet Archive.

There is nothing coincidental about it.

I have this on my Mac:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070602172914/http://www.dream-recorder.com/

That was from 2007. There were newer versions:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080704183437/http://www.dream-recorder.com/

Never tested it seriously. And I remember reading about an iOS-App in the last year or so ...

I have this on my Mac:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070602172914/http://www.dream-recorder.com/

That was from 2007. There were newer versions:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080704183437/http://www.dream-recorder.com/

Never tested it seriously. And I remember reading about an iOS-App in the last year or so ...

Traditional disks are STILL about 10x the capacity and 1/10th the price-per-capacity of SSDs, as they have been since they arrived.

We don't have 10 years of history of SSDs, but we do have of flash which are obviously closely related. 10 years back:
Slashdot comment system for Drupal

Flash at around 128MB @$50.

And HDD at around 160GB @150.

Today it's flash around 128 @$55.

And HDD at 3TB @$150.

1024x increase in flash for the same price point. 18.75 increase in HDD capacity for the same price point.

I decided to see the halfway point, in 2008:

Flash at 16GB @ $55

HDD at 1TB @ $140

8x growth from flash, paltry 3x from HDD in 5 years.

Both seem to be slowing but Flash seems like it going to be stronger and the winner eventually.

Traditional disks are STILL about 10x the capacity and 1/10th the price-per-capacity of SSDs, as they have been since they arrived.

We don't have 10 years of history of SSDs, but we do have of flash which are obviously closely related. 10 years back:
Slashdot comment system for Drupal

Flash at around 128MB @$50.

And HDD at around 160GB @150.

Today it's flash around 128 @$55.

And HDD at 3TB @$150.

1024x increase in flash for the same price point. 18.75 increase in HDD capacity for the same price point.

I decided to see the halfway point, in 2008:

Flash at 16GB @ $55

HDD at 1TB @ $140

8x growth from flash, paltry 3x from HDD in 5 years.

Both seem to be slowing but Flash seems like it going to be stronger and the winner eventually.

Traditional disks are STILL about 10x the capacity and 1/10th the price-per-capacity of SSDs, as they have been since they arrived.

We don't have 10 years of history of SSDs, but we do have of flash which are obviously closely related. 10 years back:
Slashdot comment system for Drupal

Flash at around 128MB @$50.

And HDD at around 160GB @150.

Today it's flash around 128 @$55.

And HDD at 3TB @$150.

1024x increase in flash for the same price point. 18.75 increase in HDD capacity for the same price point.

I decided to see the halfway point, in 2008:

Flash at 16GB @ $55

HDD at 1TB @ $140

8x growth from flash, paltry 3x from HDD in 5 years.

Both seem to be slowing but Flash seems like it going to be stronger and the winner eventually.

Traditional disks are STILL about 10x the capacity and 1/10th the price-per-capacity of SSDs, as they have been since they arrived.

We don't have 10 years of history of SSDs, but we do have of flash which are obviously closely related. 10 years back:
Slashdot comment system for Drupal

Flash at around 128MB @$50.

And HDD at around 160GB @150.

Today it's flash around 128 @$55.

And HDD at 3TB @$150.

1024x increase in flash for the same price point. 18.75 increase in HDD capacity for the same price point.

I decided to see the halfway point, in 2008:

Flash at 16GB @ $55

HDD at 1TB @ $140

8x growth from flash, paltry 3x from HDD in 5 years.

Both seem to be slowing but Flash seems like it going to be stronger and the winner eventually.

That is exactly what Open Library does:
http://blog.archive.org/2010/06/29/small-moves-open-library-integrates-digital-lending/
WSJ article: http://archive.is/1qgty

Whether this type of fair use would stand up in court remains to be seen.

MLK's legacy has largely been decimated by those who claim to support him the most.

One of his most famous sayings was that he had a dream that his four children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

People like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who are now seen as civil rights leaders, basically threw that out completely.and shit on it at almost every turn. Groups like the NAACP are pushing for criminal prosecution of, for example, the rodeo clown who made fun of Obama, even though people in much bigger areas of the limelight have done much worse things to make fun of other presidents.

Jackson and Sharpton are a mixed bag, like many public figures. Some of the causes that they pick up are more noble than others. I agree that hate speech ought to be protected where it doesn't directly incite violence. The NAACP is wrong to try and criminalize mockery of the president; that's one of the things that separates the United States from countries like Russia, where mockery of the leader is verboten.

George Zimmerman would never have seen prosecution if he was black or Trayvon was white; guilty or not the evidence just wasn't there which is why they originally chose not to prosecute, and only did so after pressure from racial groups, which goes to show that in America, now the only requirement for prosecution is that public opinion be against you regardless of whether or not you can be proven guilty.

I don't think you can say this. There have been numerous other Americans tried when they murdered another person and claimed self-defense. Trying Zimmerman was not a race thing. Not trying Zimmerman was what many of us felt was a race thing. Maybe there was enough evidence to convict and maybe the prosecution did a poor job; maybe there wasn't enough evidence and the verdict was correct. However, Zimmerman was charged, as he should have been in a case where there was some doubt as to how valid his self-defense claim was.

And how are programs like affirmative action following in that spirit? They tell you that, for example, if you have slanted eyes then you immediately deserve lower preference than anybody, but if you have black skin then you automatically get to be first in line.

What a joke the civil rights movement has become.

How does affirmative action make the civil rights movement a joke? It was one of the movement's crowning achievements. You do realize that affirmative action was instituted to counteract widespread institutional discrimination against African-Americans, Native-Americans, Hispanics, women, and so on, right? Are you claiming that institutional discrimination no longer exists, and that the need for affirmative action is no longer there? I totally disagree, and I think information such as this supports me.

There will come a day when AA is hurting more than it is helping. I don't believe we have reached that day, yet.

As Quoted from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2010/sep10/09-09statement.aspx: (Archive mirror)

Microsoft Business Division Transition
Sept. 09, 2010
E-mail to Microsoft full-time employees from Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.

Sept. 9, 2010

I am writing to let you know that Stephen Elop has been offered and has accepted the job as CEO of Nokia and will be leaving Microsoft, effective immediately. Stephen leaves in place a strong business and technical leadership team, including Chris Capossela, Kurt DelBene, Amy Hood and Kirill Tatarinov, all of whom will report to me for the interim.

The MBD business continues to grow and thrive, with 15 percent growth in the last quarter. It has been good to see the great response to Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, the growth of our Dynamics business and the way we have been successful in extending all our MBD products and services to the cloud. I appreciate the way that Stephen has been a good steward of the brand and business in his time here, and look forward to continuing to work with him in his new role at Nokia.

Please join me in wishing Stephen well.

Steve

They're going to be re-selling used Apple stuff...Jobs would have hated that.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals.

And before you start to pretend they just started this: http://web.archive.org/web/20080831140401/http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals

Iraq: A defining moment for weapons of mass destruction

How many times people will buy remakes of The empire strikes back?

And, btw, is good to have backup of what newspapers said before media control, like when was disclosed that U.S. backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime.

This is not about caring about Syrian people, at least, not the big majority of them, just about the friendly ones that will be put in control. Remember how much US cared about iraquis? Seem that they wanted exclusivity on killing them for fun

Moral behavior? Nah, "science" is only a justification used to confirm what people already know to be "true". If the conclusion leads the wrong way, then there is automatically something wrong. The scientist is then attacked and discredited. Read The Return of the Ugly, Racist Pseudoscientist with a Small Penis to discover how one man got smacked in the face for saying, "Hmm...that's odd." The link goes to archive.org because naturally, the post was deleted due to the response - "SHUT UP!" And then of course the flaming about his small penis.

Dude, I've been here forever. I just haven't been on Slashdot in the last few years. But I was here over 13 years ago, and I even made my personal site copy Slashdot in an attempt to be cool. Who is the newbie now? ;) http://web.archive.org/web/20000229190828/http://www.mattkruse.com/

Here is the old page on the way back machine if you want to see it -- http://web.archive.org/web/20130806180833/http://www.internet.org/

LOL. Mention IQ and watch the same people squirm and insist that science is subjective and bias is everywhere. Case in point. It's just a priori science.

It's interesting to watch the timeline in Internet Archive. The website has hosted various content over years. The latest snapshots seem to show some kind of tongue-in-the-cheek website with pictures of scenery in Europe where "internet" is being carried by boats and cable cars (the cables are lubricated using pork fat).

Also just saw this:
http://ia801600.us.archive.org/7/items/gov.uscourts.gand.188990/gov.uscourts.gand.188990.61.16.pdf

The DHCP server definitely has the MAC addresses of every machine it hands IP addresses to. That is a technical requirement and cannot be avoided. The DHCP server typically sits on the ADSL/Cable modem (or is proxied there). If you insert your own router between the ADSL/Cable modem, you can either proxy the DHCP server (thus hiding the MAC addresses of your LAN-connected devices) or you can assign private IP addresses in your LAN. Your ISP still gets the MAC address of your own router.

Use http://web.archive.org/web/20130816143409/http://www.martinmanleylifeanddeath.com/why_not even before it was down there were some bad links when omitting the hostname.

Who remembers the classic How to Lie With Statistics?

Unsurprisingly, just as advances in computer technology have allowed us to make bigger, messier, errors faster than ever before, they are allowing us to exploit the fact that human statistical intuition is pretty much shit better than ever.

http://www.zeroshare.info/

http://web.archive.org/web/20130815235729/http://martinmanleylifeanddeath.com as well, which is guaranteed to reflect the original.

For whatever reason, the zeroshare.info/us_financial/ page is blank. So try this mirror instead for that:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130816143503/http://martinmanleylifeanddeath.com/us_financial

...who introduced intentional glitches in Windows when it detected you were running it on anything but genuine MS-DOS.

Not that I have a whole lot of sympathy for Google these days either...

I'm at work so I can't see the video yet, but it sounds like it bears a resemblance to Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares which posits the idea that a great deal of the western world, without any Big Bad to fight against, has increasingly overblown things like terrorists in order to facilitate the transition to a more repressive society, a process which merely accelerated after the attacks on the world trade centre. That is to say, it's not just America that's potentially in decline. Recommended viewing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

It's occasionally visible on YouTube but can be downloaded in its entirety from archive.org (uploaded by Curtis himself I believe). Sadly you can't buy it because the way Curtis makes his documentaries out of lots of scraps of archive footage basically makes licensing impossible.

http://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-Episode1BabyItsColdOutside

Those of you who find these interesting might also want to see his other works in the same vein, most notably:
The Trap centring on the modern idea (and subsequent manipulation) of the concept of freedom
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace basically about the 2008 financial meltdown but approached from the angle of people putting too much confidence in artificial models of organic systems.

Actually I think they are.

Read the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. This is what got the feds' attention on Swartz. Now what in there could possibly have anything to do with state security?

Why were the feds interested in someone because they said these things? I can only come up with three possibilities, and none of them are good:

1. They are policing IP issues
2. They are acting as rent-a-cops to protect the profits of certain corporations, on taxpayer money (this is subtly different than #1)
3. They simply see anyone not happy with the increasing secrecy and private ownership of the world as a potential security threat who should be crushed with the full weight of the legal system at the first opportunity, to cripple any of their future endeavors.

The Internet Archive originally had all the issues except for February 1984, but some others have since been removed at the request of the content provider. Most if not all of the original Archive issues are available on a torrent created before they went missing. (No, it wasn't me.)

Unfortunately, at least some of the issues were scanned selectively, with some ads being left out, for example.

Another excellent "program listing" magazine from the old days : SoftSide.

271 issues of NatLamp are on archive.org as well.

You can download the old issues: https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aomni-magazine&sort=-publicdate&page=1

helpful hint : read the story submission.
Omni's now available on the internet archive


Does anyone remember what issue they had the psi-Q test, I'm thinking in the "anti-matter" section. I seem to remember some remote viewing spoof that had crazy interpretations for the "remote viewed" squiggles. Hey, I found it funny when I was 14...

I think the gender issue is really a non-issue. Good writers could make a plausible explanation (though some fans will still complain) and a compelling character.

Considering that both Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi played supporting characters on the show before taking The Doctor role, I'm sure we could find some past supporting female actors up to the task. My suggestions in order of preference:

1. Raquel Cassidy (Miranda Cleaves in "The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People")
2. Helen McCrory (Rosanna Calvierri in "Vampires of Venice")
3. Sophie Okonedo (Liz 10 in "The Beast Below")
4. Amara Karan (Rita in "The God Complex")

BTW, does anyone remember the campaign for a female Boba Fett? The site is gone, but here it is on the Wayback Machine.

Don't forget to download the US Army publication (available many places online, in various formats) :
"TM 31-210: Improvised Munitions Handbook".
I was issued this TM (Technical Manual) when I was in the US Army in 1977. Instant science geek Massive Woody! The actual printed manual even had many blank pages, with a note at the beginning of the book on how to construct an effective, simple balance scale, and the info that each page of the book weighed one gram!

After the intro of the 'MacGyver' TV series, it became 'the MacGyver Bible' by the troops.

I highly recommend the book for the potentially useful info, and the entertainment value.

DISCLAIMER:
Most of the recipes/procedures are dangerous and risky!
Keep in mind the context of this manual. Alarmingly, the context is for a would be terrorist, guerrilla fighter, insurgent, etc.....go figure...

https://archive.org/details/milmanual-tm-31-210-improvised-munitions-handbook

The memorandum at http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.txed.146063/gov.uscourts.txed.146063.23.0.pdf which was signed by the judge, says "Therefore, Bitcoin is a currency or form of money..." ...did we read the same article?

Congress clearly considers Snowden to be a whistleblower, or they wouldn't be voting on proposals to restrict the activity of the NSA http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/24/plan-to-defund-nsa-phone-collection-program-has-broad-support-sponsor-says/ Yet Obama continues to label Snowden's actions as espionage. He knows this bullshit, because apparently he's taken down from the internet his promise to protect whistleblowers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obama-whistleblower-website_n_3658815.html Good thing we have the Way Back Machine, then, isn't it? http://web.archive.org/web/20090227184741/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/

It's not an ad hominem attack against Mother Jones. There are some really scary extremists that have honored positions there.

Partisan blinders...such as never accepting science whenever it disagrees. It's a hard fact that when science reaches conclusions that disagree with left-wing politics, science loses. As soon as we can have a national conversation, loudly, in public about inconvenient scientific findings like these, we'll talk about the partisan blinders being off. Then we can talk about minor problems like the NRA in the same fashion.

I rather agree with Hayek's views on central planning. But central planning is not the only road to servitude and even the path of classical liberalism can lead to such an end, as Hilaire Belloc warns in The Servile State (it may be found here free, here in paper, and here for free on audio). I sometimes find it interesting, in spite of my libertarian leanings, to consider third ways, apart from the old collectivist/individualist dichotomy.

kind of like everyone puts Downey, Thousand Oaks, etc all as "Los Angeles." hey I remember Borland and when they bought out some other company the president or CEO said "our people were working 12 hour days, now they will work 16!" as if working very long hours was honorable thing to do.

Highway 17, I commuted it for only 3 month duration. I never was inducted into the Highway 17 Page of Shame (was before the internet), gone but archived on wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990127223641/http://www.got.net/~egallant/guilty.html