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Also see the discussion at http://bit.ly/dtsT44 which touches on Diaspora ($100k+) and Humble Indie Bundle ($1m+) as examples of the future business model for the exchange of intellectual work and the money of the multitudes who want it produced.

A penguiphile.

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First, there was a plan: how to bring together the two different development groups at work? My boss said there was a sort of tension he thought could be eased by some social interaction. Not easy. Both the different development groups despised one another, each thinking its "art" was more important and eloquent than the others'.

First there was the XML group. They worked on our website, documentation and formatting, and simple configuration apps and some front-ends to Java stuff. They also did our web sites. They used CSS, HTML, XSL, JavaScript, and a bit of Java. They typically dressed casually, drank coffee and tea, and liked to work straight from the spec: no "Learn XSL in 30 Days" books were to be found in their cubicle farm.

Then we had the Linux developers. They worked "special hours," coming in at one and staying late, supposedly, until seven or eight at night. They enjoyed Bawls and had a penchant for ThinkGeek t-shirts and cracking jokes about Win32 API calls and the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. They all had beards or mullets or long, unwashed hair. Some had penguin or C code tattoos. Their cubicle farm was known for the bleating laughter that exploded when one of them found a silly bug on someone else's code, and for the rotten, fetid stench that could only be compared to three-day-old shit reeking from inside a rotting corpse's abdominal cavity.

So, in order to get the guys to get to know each other, my boss had asked me to organize a during-hours, alcohol-friendly party. My ideas ranged from a keg or two to live entertainment, AKA strippers. But as to what to get them to actually talk to each other in a human manner I had no clue. So I let it go til the last minute and decided to let my inherent creativity mull it over in the back of my head.

When the day of the party had arrived, the catering company brought in a few trays of lunch meat, chicken, pizza, and side dishes, I had picked up the four kegs from the local brewery, and the big-screen TV and DVD were set up ready to blast the Matrix into the eyes and ears of my co-workers. The eagerness in the the air was encouraging and I thought that loosening up and smiles going on even now were a good sign. I even saw some of the guys who'd known each other previously begin to bunch up, bringing along the co-workers they knew from everyday work.

The first thing everyone did was hit the food line, loading up their plates and grabbing a cup for beer to wash it down with. A few approached me and thanked me for the food; it seems appeasing the belly really did tame the beast. After a few minutes of silence and eating and a few second and third courses, they guys were ready to sit down and be entertained. After asking if anyone needed anything else before the movie started, the lights went out and the Matrix began playing. I heard a few enthusiastic comments and jokes being told.

About half-way through the movie I noticed a lot of the Linux guys getting up and presumably going to the restroom. No suprise, as the second keg was history by now and the third was probably half-way gone. I also noticed some of the guys bumping into things and stumbling. Alcohol's the social lubricant, eh? Well, not long after, my bladder beckoned and I answered. As I made my way to the restroom, I had a self-satisfied smile on my face: my little plan was working, my boss would be happy, and it might even a Christmas bonus or a promotion (even if in title only).

Well, as soon as I pushed the restroom door open, I knew something was wrong. The smell of vomit was pretty strong and I hoped that it'd only been the work of one guy. But the smell was so pungent! After standing at the urinal, waiting for the golden flow to commence, I stood in silence. It was then that I heard grunting. Listening intently for a few seconds, I hoped whoever was upchucking their beer and munchies wasn't leaving a huge mess for the cleanup crew. After pissing and still hearing the noise, I approached the stal

I’m a consultant working with Palo Alto Networks; they have an excellent whitepaper on the subject of blocking social networking apps that you may have to worry about, “To Block or Not. Is that the question?” here: http://bit.ly/d2NZRp. It has lots of insightful and useful information about identifying and controlling Enterprise 2.0 apps (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.) Let me know what you think! kelly@briefworld.com

Chris Klingmeyer tears down 4G iPhone

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In its last several releases, everyone's favorite Open Source browser has become an unstable mess of add-ons, plugins, and other hacks that chew up memory like a fat kid with a chocolate-dipped corn dog. In fact, just last week, SecurityFocus released news of a devastating exploit in Firefox 3.5.5 that they blame squarely on its unstable architecture.

From its infancy Firefox has been the product of collaborative effort, unifying code from hackers worldwide. But thanks to the Hayes Law, we see that there is a "sweet spot" to such a development style, and that Firefox has long since left it behind. In the chart below, we can see that the number of Firefox developers has increased exponentially since 2002, and that number will more than double in 2010.

But it's time to be honest: either Firefox, as a modern web browser, will have killer performance on 64-bit, multicore Intel chips or it's not worth downloading and installing. And since, as we have seen in the recent past, that Firefox is actually getting slower with each release, Firefox is certainly a waste of time for anyone who takes their web browsing seriously.

The Hayes Law states that, given a specific type of software project, there is a certain complexity associated with it, and with that complexity an optimal number of developers. It's actually a little more complicated than that, taking into account development model, coding platform, programming language, and code repository platform, but in the end it's easy to plug in the numbers and see where a project's headed.

Against the Hayes Law, Firefox appears to have jumped the shark sometime after the Firefox 2.0 in 2006. The next major release, Firefox 3.0 in 2008, introduced many issues users today complain about: bloat, sloth, instability, and insatiable hunger for memory. Firefox user complaints increased in tandem, all syncing up with the jump in developers. Ergo Firefox's problem: too many cocks in the kitchen.

To further underline this growing problem, Firefox completely falls down in Acid3: Firefox 3.5 scores 93/100, and Firefox 3.6 scores only 87/100. Needless to say, Firefox 4.0 mockups score 0/100. Sadly, this is a continuation of a trend: Firefox took the longest of all browsers to beat Acid2. And don't even think about Acid4. Firefox is collapsing under its own weight.

The core of this problem looms: the number of developers, as seen in the chart above, will only continue to skyrocket for Firefox 3.6 and beyond. By the time Firefox 4.0 is released, sometime in December 2010, the number of developers will be nearly 4,000, almost a full magnitude greater than the optimal 445 or so in 2006. Clearly, Firefox is about to capsize.

So what is to be done? Users can petition the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation to rethink their development model, focus on optimization instead of new features, and perhaps backpedaling on some of the less sensible projects like Mozilla Mobile and the non-standard XUL interface. Concerned individuals should log into Mozill

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The Mozilla development team released Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, on 21 January 2010 after some anticipation; Firefox 3.5 was a step forward in features but two steps backward in performance. As a minor update, Namoroka was a chance to optimize the last release.

So, now that it's out, did it alleviate some of these problems? Well, let's find out by looking at what 3.6 offers over 3.5.

First and most visible is support for skins, called personas. Firefox developers have been tinkering with the XUL format and they cite its power. They also claim that it has been under-utilized, so personas were a "natural addition."

TraceMonkey received a performance boost, caching more bytecode in RAM using the new "Stored History Integration Table" system which dynamically stores each JavaScript routine as an object in memory in order to more quickly access it during execution.

Firefox's plugin system also received an overhaul, and now lets the user know when a plugin is incompatible. Mozilla also included support for full-screen Theora and WOFF, the Web Open Font File format, as well as additional but otherwise unspecified performance and security enhancements.

Overall, it's a nice list of bullet points for the bump from 3.5 to Nakamora, but the fact that performance wasn't a priority already points away from optimization and to new features. And the features are actually not new at all, but fixes for issues that should have been taken care of during the initial design stages or other numerous upgrades.

For instance, Firefox has been skinnable for years using XUL, and personas are just a hack to this system that allows the user to use bitmapped images as toolbar backgrounds. You are not mistaken if you just had a flashback to Internet Explorer 3.

These personas also slow the browser down, negating any advantage from the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. One writer on the web even suggests that the TraceMonkey enhancements were done in anticipation of new-feature bloat. Talk about the tail wagging the fox!

Plugin incompatibility usually occurs when a plugin was written for an older version of the plugin system, which demands a question about the wisdom of upgrading the plugin system for Nakamoru the first place. But that's just how Firefox developers roll.

Now, if you're running an incompatible plugin, Firefox alerts you at startup and launches the plugin manager, a JavaScript-based app that contacts Firefox's plugin server and swaps all kinds of metadata in a frantic attempt to update your third party add-ons.

Several of the changes are plainly just developmental masturbation. For example, Theora is the least-used web video codec, with the penetration that the newer QuickTime X has. And WOFF is an open standard that Mozilla wants to support for political reasons that isn't actually in use anywhere.

So what exactly are Mozilla development managers doing?

If a private company with an opaque development model like Apple can apply the breaks and optimize an entire operating system, à la Leopard to Snow Leopard, why can't a public, transparent development team be bothered to do the same for something much less complex like a web

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I am often away from my computer for weeks at a time, digging at archaeology sites, before I return to clean, sort, and catalog my finds. And every time I launch my browser of choice, I have to sit through yet another Firefox update.

Sometime's it's a major update, like Firefox 3.6 for instance, but more often than nottoo oftenit's some stupid little tertiary update that requires Firefox to download, quit, root around on the hard drive, and restart with a whole damn brand-new binary. Why?!

Just once I'd like to sit down, boot up, and get to work instead of wading through this slow, irritating process that the Mozilla developers subject me to.

I've become envious of my friends who run Safari, Apple's home-grown browser, which is updated less frequently. If they want more frequent updates, they download and install WebKit, but can otherwise continue on day after day without interruption in Safari.

I like this model, as it lets busy people like me get more work done, so I am thinking of purchasing a Mac. Really, anything to get me away from the time-wasting wreck of a browser that Firefox has become is a good idea.

The Firefox model crashes and burns its users. Literally, too, when you think about all of its other addling bugs and design flaws that crash the browser and burn countless CPU cycles.

So until I can see the web in a whole new way with Safari on a new Mac, it'll be another day, another Firefox update.

Thanks a lot for nothing, Mozilla.

At 60 Ghz, weather will affect it - a lot. 60Ghz is quite impractical and I don't see any reason to be pushing for this. I doubt that it will reliably go through any wall. You might as well go with the new wireless 'light' technology where you have to have Live-of-Sight. e.g. http://bit.ly/6XKJLc

Turn on IP6, people. Duh.

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For those of us without CS degrees AV Flaw Grave, Analyists Say.

There are plenty of people who espouse the view that patent protection is simply a tool for big business to flex its muscle and block access to innovation by small players and competitors. However, the underlying rationale of patent protection is to force an invention onto the public record. Sure, the patent owner gets a monopoly but it is limited for a specific period of time (very limited if you compare it to the monopoly a copyright owner gets) and after that it is free for all to use – down to the very last detail. In fact, you can’t get a patent unless you put in the detail. So the patent databases in reality form the largest standardised library in the worldpublicly accessible (no paywall / subscription fees) and reliable (at least in relation to granted or issued patents). Why should the open source community consider patenting? Getting a patent for an invention blocks another party from getting a patent for the same invention. So, if a group of open source collaborators can secure a patent, it can choose to grant a royalty-free licence to the open source community to use it (just as open source software is licensed). This secures the invention for public use immediately. In other words, it blocks the ability for another party to patent that invention and prevents that other party from exploiting it for commercial gain. Check mate. Secondly, it secures the open source community the right to continue using the patented invention subject to the terms of the patent licence. A term of the licence may be that any modifications, enhancements or improvements are owned by the (open source) patent owner, thereby retaining all enhancements for public use. Thirdly, open source patented innovations reside on patent databases and thus form part of the same public record, which makes the public record more comprehensive and useful to the community at large. For more see http://bit.ly/dwJqE3 & http://1p.com.au/

Nuke the Whales!
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How many of us have SINCERELY used "MS bing" for searching purposes? Not me.

Other tan forced usage through some silly toolbar/MS program, I would even say it's virtually unknown in Spain (for example)...

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Not to speak about storing 50 megapixels onto a memory card. Take 20 shots and you've got a full GB of pics (rough numbers imagining JPG storage... Imagine RAW!!)
And then comes processing/JPG Conversion speed (a powerful processor might be needed)... And data transfer speed (Sensor -> memory card)...

One of the most awful things I'm coming up in the latest times of processing big files is precisely that: BIG files... I don't care storage is cheap (hard disks and so), It's just a cosmic PITA having to go up an down everywhere with TONS of MB for just 20-30 photographs... Or launching image editing progams to load 50 Mpixels onto memory...

Let's stick with BRUTALLY NICE optics, limiting resolution to 3-5 megapixels for the general audience. Or even for semi-pro audience. I wouldn't mind at all. (But I don't have the power to make camera companies do what I'd like to)

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...probably some people "deserve" the trouble they attract when using computers. Using an easy login/password combination is something it's not my problem. Maybe illiterate people have this problem, but then "what did they expect" of computers and internet usage? They pretend it to be like turning on a bulb. It works, it doesn't work. I would sincerely propose something like "computer usage credentials certificate". Someone is ALWAYS pretending "using computers is something anyone can do" (ha!)

No matter how easily I explain these risks to my acquaintances, they don't really understand the BIG trouble behind it, and they don't change passwords. When they tell me something like "my hotmail has a virus, please help me". I just ignore them, and/or tell them not to enter onto those silly webpages mean't to steal your login password. It's some kind of natural selection. (And Mr. Russian is, "righteously", just rubbing his hands).
I'm starting to be fed of losing my time and my friends'. And the best part is they still are friends with me. (I wouldn't expect less)

Besides, even people like me (for example), who do use "safe" passwords, are in this kind of risk, (lousy webpage programming, plain http login/password negotiation, etc...) but then, having a periodical password change schedule is something NOT SO painful. Besides if your web browser is nice enough (Opera for example), can deal with your passwords wonderfully.
Only you have to keep ALL your passwods inside a encrypted .rar archive (to say something), IN CASE YOU DON'T REMEMBER THEM... Again "not a big pain" (at least for me).

Paranoia with passwords, is something one can learn by conditioning (much like Pavlov's dog), and then you don't realize you're doing these (not so) "boring" routine tasks (like updating your local passwords file, etc...) On the long run, it's really worth its effort.

Greetings

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Maybe it's the push Nintendo might need, to finally jump onto the "more powerful" handheld console market... The DS/DSi/DSLL are kind of "slow" and "old" in power terms... They only get "screen size" (not resolution) updates...

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The 16:9/16:10 trend, is the worst thing it could ever happen to programmers (or similar computer usage users).

The other day I went to my local computer shop and I asked for the biggest monitor with the biggest amount of vertical pixels (24").
At that time, I knew a 1920x1200 Samsung model T240-HD existed. All the time, they were showing me "1080" vertical resolution models. The third time I got that answer FROM A COMPUTER SHOP (not a mass consumer electronics dealer), I was forced to say, a bit outloud (on purpose), "1080 resolution is for 'poor' people!". Some of the other customers had to laugh, because they felt I was kind of right. At the end, I just went to another shop where I got the LAST monitor they had on the main shop window. I didn't mind. I'm now the happy user of a 16:10 monitor. Showing 1920x1200 pixels.

I wish something like "1920 x 1440" existed. That would be just wonderful...

On the other had, I have NO USE for the integrated TDT decoder. If I'm using my PC I can't see TV with it!!! Now I feel "computer usage and resolution" as a marginal feature of a typical TV set... gosh...

BTW: I was in Japan 5 months ago and the DPI I observed on the displays of the mobile phones sections, was JUST INCREDIBLE. When you compared these displays thoroughly against the plastic mock-ups counterparts (there are TONS of this stuff), boy, it was HARD to know which one was a sticker and which one was a real display... I WANT THIS resolution for my screen also! For all the screens that surround me!

And I also want antialias for my fonts, even having a high DPI number!! Once you combine both methods (japanese mobile phone screens showed antialias), you don't want anything else...

Greetings

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The 16:9/16:10 trend, is the worst thing it could ever happen to programmers (or similar computer usage users).

The other day I went to my local computer shop and I asked for the biggest monitor with the biggest amount of vertical pixels (24").
At that time, I knew a 1920x1200 Samsung model T240-HD existed. All the time, they were showing me "1080" vertical resolution models. The third time I got that answer FROM A COMPUTER SHOP (not a mass consumer electronics dealer), I was forced to say, a bit outloud (on purpose), "1080 resolution is for 'poor' people!". Some of the other customers had to laugh, because they felt I was kind of right. At the end, I just went to another shop where I got the LAST monitor they had on the main shop window. I didn't mind. I'm now the happy user of a 16:10 monitor. Showing 1920x1200 pixels.

I wish something like "1920 x 1440" existed. That would be just wonderful...

On the other had, I have NO USE for the integrated TDT decoder. If I'm using my PC I can't see TV with it!!! Now I feel "computer usage and resolution" as a marginal feature of a typical TV set... gosh...

BTW: I was in Japan 5 months ago and the DPI I observed on the displays of the mobile phones sections, was JUST INCREDIBLE. When you compared these displays thoroughly against the plastic mock-ups counterparts (there are TONS of this stuff), boy, it was HARD to know which one was a sticker and which one was a real display... I WANT THIS resolution for my screen also! For all the screens that surround me!

And I also want antialias for my fonts, even having a high DPI number!! Once you combine both methods (japanese mobile phone screens showed antialias), you don't want anything else...

Greetings

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I think people should read this analysis of the academic paper mentioned in the post - http://bit.ly/dupMre

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html

And if that URL is too long, try: http://bit.ly/diVyDc

"The gun camera film was a video burned onto a compact disc which I received from my legal advisor"

My guess (with no corroborating evidence), is that it was a copy of this video on CD that wikileaks eventually got hold of, and was probably just an encrypted zip file or similar.

Also, if you check Wikileaks twitter feed, they asked for computer time to break the encryption, so it's unlikely they had the keys (or perhaps they did have them, but needed to cover a source).

"# Have encrypted videos of US bomb strikes on civilians http://bit.ly/wlafghan2 we need super computer time http://ljsf.org/ 12:10 PM Jan 8th via bit.ly "

Maxrate -

I have a Yaesu 857D, and wanted to get into digital modes, I found a great little Kantronics KPC3 at a ham swap for $90, I was home setting up my own radio based BBS and Mailbox within an hour, and able to start sending and receiving PSK31 same day - very cool stuff, and for a minimal investment for the TNC.

Shop your local ham swap, or check ebay - http://bit.ly/a6I15p


Rich

I am delighted to discover that the album this song is on is available on iTunes! If you're feeling nostalgic, or just wondering what the song above sounds like check it out! Warning: link launches iTunes

Micron and Intel previously announced 25nm flash. Toshiba is trailing badly. http://bit.ly/c6oOQW

Details http://bit.ly/cncAqx

Screw sunlight i want one of these: http://bit.ly/cncAqx

HowTo available here: http://bit.ly/cncAqx

Not sure how legal it is though.

There is no risk of overpopulation. As health care improves and the risk of dying at young age decreases, we - as a species - tend to reduce the number of kids we produce, especially if you add increased access to birth control to the mix. This process is happening right now all over the world, and we are already at two kids per woman (or below) in most rich countries. Meanwhile in the third world, people are getting healthier at a much more rapid pace than they are getting richer, meaning that the issue of overpopulation is likely to take care of itself long before the issue of world poverty does.

The logic is proven by statistics, as shown in this graph. Load the graph and press play, and notice how all countries in the world, including Sub-Saharan Africa, are experiencing reduced infant mortality and that, as infant mortality decreases, all around the world, birth rates follow. Conclusion: given enough time, population growth will stop being an issue, and this will happen not because more populous areas are more prone to disease, but because we are all getting healthier, and when we are healthy, we see no point in having more kids than two.

a) Yankelovich's quote about dropping support for Project Wonderland was on 1/31.
b) the wonderland project immediately became a community supported project called Open Wonderland
c) it's misleading for the author to talk about Project Wonderland like it's part of Solaris. it's a java project developing an extensible 3D virtual environment.
d) the comment from Peter Tribble was made 2/14, approx 2 weeks after Oracle's acquisition of Sun.
e) on 2/26 after the OpenSolaris annual meeting Tribble gives a number of quotes about Oracle commiting themselves to support the project
sad spreading of out of date misinformation

For more good ideas like this, watch this screencast from pragmatic TV.

http://bit.ly/Pk3z3

Jim Weirich expains how git (the version control tool) works from the ground up, and in doing so, builds a hypothetical system that sounds like what you are trying to do.

http://bit.ly/c8FfUK it's like 170 bucks about? Anything else like this that works on a strictly software basis for the video out from a desktop?

I understand why 3D television is the current fad. Since a decent number movies are now being made in 3D, there is some logic in a range of big-screen TVs for those into their audio-visual experiences. But, for the rest of us? Either you'll have recently upgraded to HDTV and one of the appropriate services (cable, Sky+HD, Freesat, whatever) and be wondering what the fuss was about, or you've up-upgraded one of those services, or your TV.
Similarly with gaming, good on Nintendo for trying something different (ignoring its previous attempt with Virtual Boy [a good title if ever there was one for one of those 3D porn movies]) but 3D in such a small space seems counter-intuitive and even if it works well, I worry about how still you'll have to sit to get the full effect for extended periods. I can see the warning on games for that system saying "take a break every 10 minutes, for at least 30 minutes" - kind of breaking the fun part.
So, give it a few years - when the content is properly there and its more than just crappy Doctor Who trailers that look rubbish in 2D (ie how 90% of the world saw it), and the prices have dropped from bloody stupid to ouch, but I'll do it! Full rant from yesterday; http://bit.ly/9BKiRG

I cannot call up the Gawker article unless I go through a proxy outside the US. I can get to gawker.com, but I cannot call up the article. http://bit.ly/cOqlAU

Looking at the source code, I don't even get an HTML header. It's completely blank. Zip. Nada. I can look at any other Gawker article except that one.

Also, the Norwegian newspaper, www.skup.no is down hard. I tried via proxy, no joy. I checked out www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com and sure enough, it's dead.

Something wicked this way comes.

Funny thing, Oracle seems to see business cases where other people don't. They bought RDB, SleepyCat, InnoDB, all of them database products that have zero synergy with their existing database. All have flourished under Oracle; in the case of RDB (which was originally for the VAX, and still only runs on HP's DEC legacy platforms), Oracle's support is the only thing that has kept the product alive.

Whenever Oracle acquires another company, there's always somebody claiming that they bought it just to shut it down. (I kept hearing that about Sun, even the economics of such a move are absurd.) When it's a database application company, that's usually the consensus (as with PeopleSoft). And yet I can't recall the last time Oracle actually did that. Sure, they shut down useless blue-sky projects (and Sun has a lot of those) but the products that had any momentum at all tend to do quite well under Oracle.

This guy makes a business case for Oracle MySQL:

http://bit.ly/81x9t

Oddly enough, those are pretty much the worst people to talk to for this kind of information. They flat out lied to you; there is no way that they didn't know this. The only time when it makes sense to go to them is when you already know exactly what you want and at what kind of discount, and are willing to spend half an hour debating with them to actually get said discount.

Anway, here's one link: http://www.blau.de/tarife.html (translated: http://bit.ly/bFzVgN) Here's another: http://www.fonic.de/html/tarif_details.html (unfortunately none of them seem to have decent international web sites http://bit.ly/9Zg8mz)

You don't need a bank account for any of these (at least if you buy the starter set in a store), you can increase your credit by buying charge codes in stores or by wiring them money from wherever.

Oddly enough, those are pretty much the worst people to talk to for this kind of information. They flat out lied to you; there is no way that they didn't know this. The only time when it makes sense to go to them is when you already know exactly what you want and at what kind of discount, and are willing to spend half an hour debating with them to actually get said discount.

Anway, here's one link: http://www.blau.de/tarife.html (translated: http://bit.ly/bFzVgN) Here's another: http://www.fonic.de/html/tarif_details.html (unfortunately none of them seem to have decent international web sites http://bit.ly/9Zg8mz)

You don't need a bank account for any of these (at least if you buy the starter set in a store), you can increase your credit by buying charge codes in stores or by wiring them money from wherever.

Neither. The Higgs mechanism is not needed if gravity is correctly unified with the other 3 forces, as the t-shirt I am wearing now asserts. Full disclosure: of course I did all the math, you can check it yourself in this mathematica notebook.

Neither. The Higgs mechanism is not needed if gravity is correctly unified with the other 3 forces, as the t-shirt I am wearing now asserts. Full disclosure: of course I did all the math, you can check it yourself in this mathematica notebook.

I would assume that it being the CeBIT it is either a working prototype or a mock-up

Image of the open laptop: http://bit.ly/bjURNV

I'd be tempted by a SATA toaster http://bit.ly/bXDpcx, but worried about it being on disk frankly. What would be nice isis some one could produce an authoratative summary for everyone. Bit like lifehacker's hive.

Google cache version: http://bit.ly/ck4eUh

Holy crap! http://bit.ly/dkpAoI

The latest TED talk is oddly appropriate, though also off-topic. http://bit.ly/aIvkyO

Or this: http://bit.ly/info/dkpAoI

Wow. You're a troll and an idiot.

I use HostGator to host Headphone Reviews, which gets 1M+ hits a month, 300K+ of those require 2-3 MySQL hits to create the page. I host another dozen or so domains too, total monthly hits 2M+, for about $10. Uptime's great, performance is great, and the technical support is amazing - their tech support knows far far more than me, which is fairly impressive.

Or this: http://bit.ly/info/dkpAoI

That's nothing compared to the inconvenience of this. http://bit.ly/dkpAoI

I highly recommend the non-geeks go here http://bit.ly/dkpAoI although it is just as good for geeks too.