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The ROAD website has been there for ages. Certainly it was there in February last year - it's archived in the Wayback Machine from then. The screen images look like mockups to me and I doubt they have any real working hardware.

Which is a shame, because it looks like a great device in some ways & I'd rather like one.

The ROAD website has been there for ages. Certainly it was there in February last year - it's archived in the Wayback Machine from then. The screen images look like mockups to me and I doubt they have any real working hardware.

Which is a shame, because it looks like a great device in some ways & I'd rather like one.

Debian/Ubuntu makes it easy, I can play more formats than windows can before klites codec pack will even finish downloading on windows. I don't know why you are mounting a network share and allowing any media player write support.

(ubuntu users prefix all commands withy sudo, debian users, you should be root)
1. gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  add deb "http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free" to the very end
2. add "universe multiverse" to the end of the first two deb lines (usually deb http://us.ubuntu.archive.org/ ... )
3. save and close gedit
4. apt-get update
5. apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-multiverse gxine libxine-extracodecs w32codecs totem-xine libdvdcss2 wavepack gxine-plugin vlc
6. Totem and rythmbox can now play almost anything, you also have a vlc option if you want it.

compare that to windows
1. Get on google
2. Search for K-lite codec pack (if you're like me and know what you're looking for)
3. Find a safe site to download it from
4. download it (it was 17 megs last I checked)
5. install it...
6. hope you can (or have a friend who can) sort out the directshow codec hell you now have
7. install quicktime, realplayer (or their alternatives) and vlc
8. Sort out default media player hell
9. now you can play almost anything...

In conclusion, Linux is a little easier (in my opinion), and you need to stop trolling.

It's a cool phone if it existed, which is what I thought in March of 2005, but the phone never appeared, so still hearing about it today makes me warry.
Check out the way back machine for february 2005 vs today's page
You'll notice subtle changes, but for something that was announced at least 18 months ago and that still doesn't exist, my patience has eroded somewhat.

The problem is that evolutionists try to explain the origin and operation of extremely complex living systems apart from the activity of thought arising in a mind.

Most people will readily credit one or more programmers as the originators of these binary patterns.

Hey, I did a bit of research on Line 6. According to Wikipedia, the iPod debuted on October 23, 2001 (or at least was unveiled).

Thanks to the internet archive, there is evidence of Line 6 having fully developed pods for sale during 2000 and 1999.

I mentioned this in the summary because I used to play bass pretty regularly and I recall around 2002 when all of the sudden these devices were the de facto standard for high quality multi-effects. Everyone came into the store I worked at asking for "pods." I recall when iPod came out that I was figuring there might be fall out but it never came. They're both associated with playing music but with completely different markets. I only wonder what logic Apple is using to sue these companies using the term Pods.

Afterall, there's a company called Pods that owns www.pods.com that rents pods for people to move their stuff in and that was established in 1998. I'm sure they've trademarked 'pod.' It's so funny how Apple is sending to cease and desist letters to companies when they should send themselves one. What a crazy double standard.

Hey, I did a bit of research on Line 6. According to Wikipedia, the iPod debuted on October 23, 2001 (or at least was unveiled).

Thanks to the internet archive, there is evidence of Line 6 having fully developed pods for sale during 2000 and 1999.

I mentioned this in the summary because I used to play bass pretty regularly and I recall around 2002 when all of the sudden these devices were the de facto standard for high quality multi-effects. Everyone came into the store I worked at asking for "pods." I recall when iPod came out that I was figuring there might be fall out but it never came. They're both associated with playing music but with completely different markets. I only wonder what logic Apple is using to sue these companies using the term Pods.

Afterall, there's a company called Pods that owns www.pods.com that rents pods for people to move their stuff in and that was established in 1998. I'm sure they've trademarked 'pod.' It's so funny how Apple is sending to cease and desist letters to companies when they should send themselves one. What a crazy double standard.

I remember that site. It was called adcritic.com. I was also annoyed when it shut down. The message here seems to indicate that they just ran out of money for bandwidth and weren't killed by the powers that be (not that this was necessarily implied). It's too bad the Wayback Machine doesn't save the videos too.

LK

I once sent $3 to suck.com.

In return, they sent a suck.com sticker, a suck.com membership card, a suck.com beermat, and a suck.com-branded Gold Circle Coin condom. Details here.

In contrast, nobody that actually made the list ever sent me squat.

• Fedex.com FedEx had the first major web site that did something - you could track packages and get an immediate response.
• Viaweb.com The first web site that supported page creation via the web. The first general-purpose shopping cart. Eventually became Yahoo Store. Implemented in LISP.

• Fedex.com FedEx had the first major web site that did something - you could track packages and get an immediate response.
• Viaweb.com The first web site that supported page creation via the web. The first general-purpose shopping cart. Eventually became Yahoo Store. Implemented in LISP.

I built the same circuit with a parallel port interface to the raw (non-XORed) output, and it cost even less. However with that design, you need to do the XORing or hashing in software. We ended up writing a daemon that would feed the Linux kernel's entropy pool whenever it was low.

http://web.archive.org/web/20021121031201/http://w illware.net/hw-rng.html (see "Nifty Postscript")

> Where's the timeline for Slashdot appearanced?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.slashdot.o rg

They even gave the following notice at the beginning of each file:
(due to slashdot's stupid "lameness filter", I had to remove several "pound signs" and "hypens")

--
PLEASE NOTE
This OLGA file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation
of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or
research. Remember to view this file in Courier, or some other monospaced
font. See http://www.olga.net/faq/ for more information.
--

You can see for yourself using the wayback machine at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050401045224/http://w ww.olga.net/

When they're done with Olga.net, they can get a jump on all those people who hum the songs from memory!

I've noticed that the artists get unfairly represented when crazy, loud people sing along to the Dixie Chicks on their way back from work. We must put a stop to memory, it is a tool of terrorists against the Artists.

On the other hand, any evil people who wish to attack Freedom- can find Olga.net on the WayBack Machine (circa 13AUG02) - http://web.archive.org/web/20020802061040/www.olga .net/

Here's one, for example. Can't just go to the root page via archive.org and start clicking links, though, as the links to the artists and tabs aren't modified, even though the tabs are in the archive. And if it hasn't happened already, I'm sure these small text files will be compressed into an archive and posted regularly to Usenet.

I don't have a television. Who's Steven Colbert?

So, people are still watching corporate-sponsored television news shows? Really? You're ok with getting your news from corporate sponsors? Do you Bahh like a sheep when they say something that spikes your pulse?

Check out the BBC Series "Century of the Self"

Part II
Part III
Part IV (The one about most recent uses of propaganda)

I don't have a television. Who's Steven Colbert?

So, people are still watching corporate-sponsored television news shows? Really? You're ok with getting your news from corporate sponsors? Do you Bahh like a sheep when they say something that spikes your pulse?

Check out the BBC Series "Century of the Self"

Part II
Part III
Part IV (The one about most recent uses of propaganda)

I don't have a television. Who's Steven Colbert?

So, people are still watching corporate-sponsored television news shows? Really? You're ok with getting your news from corporate sponsors? Do you Bahh like a sheep when they say something that spikes your pulse?

Check out the BBC Series "Century of the Self"

Part II
Part III
Part IV (The one about most recent uses of propaganda)

I don't have a television. Who's Steven Colbert?

So, people are still watching corporate-sponsored television news shows? Really? You're ok with getting your news from corporate sponsors? Do you Bahh like a sheep when they say something that spikes your pulse?

Check out the BBC Series "Century of the Self"

Part II
Part III
Part IV (The one about most recent uses of propaganda)

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! And just to back you up everyone should go watch The History of Marijuana narrated by Woody Harrelson.

...And if anyone is interested Reefer Madness is available for download at http://www.archive.org/details/reefer_madness1938/

Python reached critical mass, SmallTalk did not. A language is not everything, there is also the tools, libraries, community etc. Python is not best at any one of those. But it is good in every one of those.

Let's take an example:
I don't like C++ as a language. But I much rather develop a Win32 database front-end in C++ Builder rather than Python. Why? Because this specific tool was perfected for that specific task with a proper IDE and a great framework. Likewise, there are tasks for which Python is the best from *my* toolbox.

One reason why Scheme and Lisp did not become popular is their lack of human friendly syntax. Regardless of how you *feel* about it, emperically we know that people do not like to read straight parse trees. While coding in parse trees make certain things possible, people are not looking for those features. I would like to see macros in Python at some point, but that is not on the top of the wish list.

See this link for more differences between Scheme and Python
http://web.archive.org/web/20040629200740/http://s unsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/languages/pub/doc/python VSscheme.html

If you want to browse the protoweb, go to archive.org and check pages from 1996. I remember doing my first web pages in 94 and winning the "Magellan 3 stars" award! How weird that sounds now!

The answer is "NO" but its a matter of taking away the need to spy.

The NSA has been included on the list of things that failed pre 9/11.
their computer failed for three days.... all of their computer and for teh same three day.
But they should have known that when you wrongly manipulate world economy, bad things will follow,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stock market.html

its a force of nature that man is unavoidably subjected to:

We have the resources, knowledge and manpower to eliminate the need to spy
http://web.archive.org/web/20021108011109/http://w ww.worldgame.org/wwwproject/

The question is: why is it not happening?

with over 6 billion people on this planet, you can be sure the human force causing such a waste is only a fraction of the total count, who typically just wants to live their short life and raise a family, perhaps see some of the wonders of the world and of mans creations first hand.

Amazing how it all comes down to the use of abstractions (the non-real) to communiocate ideas, beliefs, etc. And even more amazing how most people are so easily blinded by those who are very good at communiocating bad.

Maybe the world just has to come to the conclusion that it is far more expensive to do the wrong things than it is to do the right things. That doing the wrong things is simply no longer affordable, before it will change.

Give me a nice list of all the legitimate (read: legal) uses for LimeWire, and I'll believe you.

All? You want ALL the legit reasons for using Limewire?

Do you have any idea how many bands out there WANT their stuff shared? I'll give you a hint: it's damned near every single one with a non-major label CD. And there are ten times as many of those as there are RIAA bands.

The labels don't want to stop your sharing "Staynd". You can sample a better MP3 of it off the radio, if you actually wanted to hear that whiney minor key shit.

No, they want to kill P2P so my friends, who are competetitors to the majors' bands, can't get THEIR music out!

Here, Have some free MP3s (scroll to the bottom for 4 CDs worth). Or if you prefer lossless, here are some more friends in a different band.

Two are by no means "all" but it should give you a start.

Hosting those multimegabyte files is expensive. P2P is free. Every unsigned band is a legitimate reason for Limewire.

When Apple disabled the functionality to "download from iPod" (iTunes 4.7) the actual file system became a part of the DRM scheme, and thus protected by the DMCA.

iPod Download was a third-party plugin; Apple never supported copying music from an iPod. (For expedience, I will refer to files intended to be played on the iPod as 'music' and files intended to be stored and retrieved as 'data'.) The status of the filesystem layout under the DMCA, whatever it may be, has been the same since day one--and to my knowledge, Apple has never contended that a hidden folder is DMCAworthy.

When a third party (Real Networks) allowed users to transfer files to their iPods, Apple sued under DMCA, claiming that any use of 3rd party software (including windows explorer, mind you!) was a violation of the DMCA.

The article you linked is consistent with my memory of events and not your explanation. Apple specifically objected to Real's reverse-engineering; they served up some legal FUD but no lawsuit.

And there's a whole bunch of "terms and agreements" you agree to when you purchase an iPod and install iTunes for the first time.

Purchasing an iPod, no. Installing iTunes (every time, not just the first) requires accepting a licensing agreement which does not even purport to govern the use of an iPod. Even if it did, one could still decline the agreement and use other software.

The legal notice included in both the iPod manual (at least the last one I had, which I admit is a few versions back. I stopped using iPods the first time my battery died and they told me it'd cost $160 to replace it) and in the iTunes install expressly forbid the use of non-Apple-approved software to interface with the iPod.

Not the original or Photo manuals. Normally I take people at their word, but at best you've garbled every other claim, so I can't reasonably assume this is any closer to the truth. I will assume the battery replacement price is a typo, since it was originally $106 including shipping.

While this isn't legally binding, it does allow them to sue. And sue they do.

Then cite you could.

Is THAT the company you're backing?

I'm challenging you to support your claims. If you see that as "backing" anyone, that's your problem.

Someone warn the Ice Warriors, giant nostalgia robots, Selenites, fey yet lovable ant things, bungling green men with swimming caps, Servants of the Dark Lord Xenu, and all the rest that we'll be coming by for dinner.

More Diebold Voting Machine Fun
YMMV

http://www.votergate.tv/

http://www.equalccw.com/dieboldtestnotes.html

http://www.equalccw.com/dieboldtestnotes.html#gems installs

http://midnightspaghetti.com/newsDiebold.php

http://www.archive.org/details/TheCageBushKerry

hylas

"Remember, remember the fifth of November..."

Guy, is that you? {GRIN}

Check out the entry for the fifth of November at this link:

http://www.archive.org/download/Tings__Anuddah_Bah amian_Novel_raw_and_unedited/tings_raw.txt

all the best,

drew
(da idea man)

Reminds me of a tv show called the "Computer Chronicles" with Stewart Cheifet. Don't take my word for it, see for yourself at the Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/OS2Warp

The voice dictation is at the end. Of course, this was an add in product. Later in 1996, with OS/2 Warp version 4, it was already included. Too bad IBM doesn't sell OS/2, you'll have to buy eComstation from Serenity Systems instead.

Not http://www.archive.org/details/OnGuard1956 S.A.G.E.?

So? I could quite happily surf the web in 1996 with 40 megs of RAM and a 100 MHz pentium. And believe it or not, the web hasn't changed too much since then.

So? I could quite happily surf the web in 1996 with 40 megs of RAM and a 100 MHz pentium. And believe it or not, the web hasn't changed too much since then.

So? I could quite happily surf the web in 1996 with 40 megs of RAM and a 100 MHz pentium. And believe it or not, the web hasn't changed too much since then.

So? I could quite happily surf the web in 1996 with 40 megs of RAM and a 100 MHz pentium. And believe it or not, the web hasn't changed too much since then.

I read a paper entitled Assassination Politics and it seem interesting. Was that you ment by "voting" with your dollars? :)

Also see wikipedia's entry on Assassination market.

Here are the steps, in order:

(1) Shampoo hair (I use Finesse, sometimes Pantene) and make sure it lathers up good before rinsing.

(2) Rinse shampoo out of hair.

(3) Condition hair (use conditioner that's the same brand as the shampoo) and make sure you apply the conditioner at the ends first so they get the most amount of conditioner because with long hair, usually the ends are the most neglected.

(4) Wait 3 minutes. I usually brush my teeth during this period. :)

(5) Completely rinse out all conditioner

(6) When you get out of the shower, towel-dry your hair as much as possible

(7) The next step is optional, but I sometime put a hair straightener in because my hair is naturally wavy. I use Get It Straight (Sebastian). Just a small amount that you apply to your waviest sections (I usually apply it near the ends).

(8) These last three steps are the most important ones in the whole routine and are what make all the difference: Blow-dry your hair until it's completely dry. Don't half-dry your hair, you gotta go all the way. I always flip my hair over in front of my face and look at the floor while using a brush and hair dryer to slowly dry all my hair. Brushing downward while drying will help straighten your hair and completely drying it will make sure it doesn't kink up or curl up.

(9) When you're done drying, put your hair back in a ponytail holder for at least 5 minutes. This allows all the hot air trapped in your hair to get out so your hair isn't too puffy.

(10) After 5 minutes or more you will still have a bunch of frizzy hair strands sticking up thanks to the magnetic field that was emanating from the hair dryer. At this final step, I take my hair out of the ponytail holder, apply one drop of Laminates Drops (Sebastian) to one palm, rub the Laminates in a circular motion between my hands so they are both covered in it, then start applying it to the back of my head with both hands first because a lot of it will come off at first application and you don't want a bunch on the top of your head because it will look wet or greasy. Rub it into your ends, then finally get back to the top of your head and rub it in and make sure you get the frizzy strands so they will lie down. Keep rubbing it into your hair until your hands have no
more Laminates on them. Wash your hands, brush your hair and you're done!

Here's a link to Sebastian Hair Products: http://www.zhair.com/sebastian.html#anchor440690

Page Rank seems to work on the premise that the more a site is linked to, the more valuable it is.

Exactly! That's why Google became the number one search engine on the planet. In the early days of search engines (when sites like Altavista and HotBot were king) pages were ranked soley on their own content. The idea of analyzing the links between pages was absolutely revolutionary. Prior to that the best measure of a search engine was the number of pages it indexed - a number that was proudly displayed on the front page of most search engines of that time.

Lots of pages indexed meant lots of results. You often had to wade through up to 10 pages of results to find what you were looking for. Although all the results contained the correct keywords the actual content was often wildly irrelevant. Relevance was gauged by factors like the number of times a keyword appeared on the page, encouraging the creation of pages full of crap (such as tiny white text on white background repeating popular search phrases tens or hundreds of times).

Enter Google. The relevance of results increased dramatically. It became common to find what you were looking for on the first page of results. Hell, the results were so good they introduced the I'm Feeling Lucky button to take you immediately to the first result. That's why today most people don't search for information anymore, they google for it.

It's true that PageRank has it's own problems, and that content spamming has been largely replaced by link spamming. Still, things are much better these days than before Google came around.

Sure.

Kinda old though, but still.

Ooh. Black helicopters! Or maybe they requested their archives not be kept.

Since the www.2600.com site was down, I checked the Wayback Machine. Guess what, no archives for 2005 and 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/*sa_/http://www.2600.co m

From Baby it's cold outside

VO: In the 1970s, this film was made, that showed what happened in Nasser's main prison in the '50s and '60s. It was based on the testimony of survivors. Torturers who had been trained by the CIA unleashed an orgy of violence against Muslim Brotherhood members accused of plotting to overthrow Nasser. At one point, Qutb was covered with animal fat and locked in a cell with dogs trained to attack humans. Inside the cell, he had a heart attack.

General FOUAD ALLAM, Interrogator Interior Ministry 1958-87 (speaking in Arabic; subtitled): Sayyed Qutb thought of himself as a superior sort of person. He saw himself as an important Islamist thinker and a strong character. And so on and so on. But at the end of the day, when he was in the military prison he gave us the exact details about his secret group and the orders he had given. The most dangerous was the order to flood the whole of the Nile delta and drown this corrupt land of infidels.

VO: Qutb survived, but the torture had a powerful radicalizing effect on his ideas. Up to this point, he had believed that the Western secular ideas simply created the selfishness and the isolation he had seen in the United States. But the torture, he believed, showed that this culture also unleashed the most brutal and barbarous aspects of human beings. Qutb began to have an apocalyptic vision of a disease that was spreading from the West throughout the world. He called it jahilliyah--a state of barbarous ignorance. What made it so terrifying and insidious was that people didn't realize that they were infected. They believed that they were free, and that their politicians were taking them forward to a new world. But in fact, they were regressing to a barbarous age.

From 09 June 2003 What evidence of origin,ownership,copyright + GPL.

Have a look to this blog post dated 2005-08-08: it tells about ICFP, codex and Slashdot.
The WebArchive does have a recent archive of the site to check is this is was recently created.

This indicate there may be a relation with the Codex book reviewed last year on Slashdot by the post author himself. The alternate reality game is just starting...

The neo-conservatives need to project an formidable opponent, that's how they got and intend to keep control. It very plainly laid out in the first episode of The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear

You mean like they did on December 26, 1996? Yes, how unoriginal of them, trying to pull a fast one on us knowing full well that Google would do the same almost a half decade later.

The 1999 version of the Google logo was created using GIMP. You can even download the XFC file.

Normally I don't feed the trolls, but taken at face value your request is reasonable, so ..

http://www.petabox.org/ (note contributors list on left)

http://www.ciar.org/ttk/images/petabox/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/manifes ting

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/researc h

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/software/2 006-04-11/

My Resume

-- TTK

Normally I don't feed the trolls, but taken at face value your request is reasonable, so ..

http://www.petabox.org/ (note contributors list on left)

http://www.ciar.org/ttk/images/petabox/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/manifes ting

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/tools/researc h

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/

http://workstation20.archive.org/ttk/wp/software/2 006-04-11/

My Resume

-- TTK