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...and still no Seinfeld.

Avoiding vendor lock-in? I guess as long as nobody uses any Firefox specific hacks, then yeah. But what's the harm in vendor lock-in when it's free, I guess.

For now, we'll have to make do with a related article.

Good luck with the transition.

"the language evolution"

Also known as feature creep. Also known as, "if it can do this, why can't it do that?"

This guy says there are some interesting benchmarks. That alone could jusify some companies to pick up the tab for you.

Good as this is, what I'm really waiting for is a way to tap into the language center.

Seems like yet another self help topic to me.

Here's a Bittorrent: http://blat.info/torrent/

I'd like to see a large scale Death Star II.

Anyway, I'm glad people still use the traditional Lego components for stuff like this. Don't get me wrong, Mindstorms is a great thing, and I'm glad Lego isn't totally giving up on it. But there's something about the more traditional Lego pieces.

Why is it that Apple Computer is doomed to repeat the same actions that gets them in trouble time and time again. Sure, they can just settle out of court, but it's a drain on their corporate value.

Uh, yeah, what a pain. While you're playing around with your hobby, I'll be enjoying today's barrage of re-runs, semi-commercial free. Just buy the damn thing.

Don't forget to pay your (tea bag, yadda, yadda) SCO license when you help them out of bankruptcy. 260,000 what, by the way? More info.

As an example as just one of the concepts presented, we can look at the idea of 'sensefilters.' Perception is no longer what organic senses directly tell the mind. The signals received by the body or remote bodies are processed to be acceptable to the person's particular preferences. If a person doesn't like to see advertising, their mind eliminates the advertising from their vision and fills in the scene with what would be there if the advertisement wasn't there. Consciously, the person isn't aware of this, only that they have requested not to see advertisements. Sensefiltering can be used to remove (or add) objects, people, and even ideas from an individual's perception. The plot devices are interesting stuff that Mr. Wright explores in just enough detail to keep you wanting more throughout the trilogy (see other review).

Including sample Itanium programs that work with HP-UX assemblers and GNU and Intel assemblers for Linux, this text describes the Itanium architecture and explores its instruction set through assembly language programming.

Somehow, they expect us to believe this stuff. Believe me, there's no way I'll take this lying down.

These are exotic materials, no doubt. more info

It's amazing how much work goes into the device drivers for human input devices. They have to be responsive, accurate, and supported. If only the same kind of devotion went into every facet of computing.

No matter how many versions they come out with between Windows, there's always new additions that make this server OS something you have to go out and get.

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People really should fight back. There are many ways to avoid being caught with your pants down. For instance, using the standard encryption provided by many of the utilities in Windows, the average person can engage in secure file trading without having to worry about a third party finding out.

That's assuming the third party isn't the FBI or something like that.

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There's an article here that mentions the unabridged version. It's a must for serious CCNA folk.

Then again, why are they reading Slashdot?

It's interesting how different cultures attack the problem. Here's my favorite approach: Feng Shui

They've started a Ogg religion!.

I think Mr. Kelley has done a masterful job describing modern day industrial design in terms and examples we can all relate to. He makes it clear why innovation in our high tech world is as much art as science. And why his company delivers 'marketable products' for their clients and not 'products looking for a market'. I think there are lessons here for a wide spectrum of engineers, marketeers, and anybody responsible for a (successful!) product or service coming to market. The book is interesting and fun to read.

Sounds like a very good reason for me to remain cell-phone-free.

This too.

This is correct.

They should read up on hack proofing their networks, in that case.

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Need-to-know information on a fast-emerging technology from one of the top voices in networking--that's what this detailed guide for network engineers and developers gives you. With "Hotspot Networks", you can position yourself to promote, design, configure, implement, or develop service applications in a hot new market. With in-depth advice, Dan Minoli helps you ... (More info).

Thing is, you can't do better than a PC for creating a video. Nothing is better. It's cheap, relyable, and you can buy hardware without having to break the bank.

My friend has a mac, and all he can do is record his shows with his video camera, store them in the mac over firewire (of all things), edit, choose music from iTunes, add text captions and credits, export it back to the camera or as a QuackTime file. He's done his entire video library like this. Imagine being limited like that. I feel so sorry for him.

On a PC, you have the entire industry at your disposal. You're a lot more productive.

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Maybe we should start training ourselves in case medical help is too far away or otherwise unavailable. You never know...

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so who cares? Getting genetic material across barriers and into an organism is still a challenge. Just because you can buy tools cheap and there are lots more out of work biologists than IT *professionals* . . . . so now we know that it was just some bentonite that is used to disperse an agent. Hell, you use it to waterproof your basement. That isn't something that you couldn't have gotten twenty years ago.

THERE ARE NONE!!only antibiotics,prevention,proper response and knowledge. each agent has its own section,some history on it,the signs and symptoms of exposure,the effects (long and short term).the antibiotics and dosages for differnt kinds of people(adults,kids,etc.).

Slow news day again.

Not so bad, I've seen worse.

I'm currently reading this book, and so far I'm not that impressed. You may as well read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. It has just as much insight, with all of the whit. He was a nut. I hope I can be 1/4th the nut he was.

I don't know what to think about this. But there are apparently a lot of "authorities" who say this.

If it's a hoax, they've pulled the wool pretty well. Not only the population, but every medical journal too.

I don't think that was covered in the "33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes
to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A." title.

I wonder if they can take the really big waves. I can't imagine that a jet on the back would make it any safer. But them, where's the fun in a safe sport, I guess.

I'm still waiting for my flying car.

Seems like a bad rap for the university with the longest photo history. I guess the times are changing.

Here's some more info about SIP.

It's the deepest detection by interferometer. It's just a spot, though. Hubble's Deep Field images are more fun to look at. And with multiple passes, it's even pretty. These three have a lot to say about this subject.

What ever happened to NetBSD by Wasabi?

FreeBSD rocks. Now, if we could do something about all the trolls.

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Sounds an aweful lot like emulation to me. I mean, otherwise, ther's an aweful lot of opcode being releated over and over (hence the macros), that the result might be many many times bigger than the original.

More Bad Research

Reminds me of Sector 7G.

I think this is an advanced topic on BeOS. Be as obnoxious as possible.

The matrix would suffer from low power and the human's would start to see glitches.

There is no work week, Neo. Maybe you just need some Ultraprevention.

No way, man. Full-Spectrum Lighting is totally bunk!

I've been waiting with baited breath to see what kind of imaging they can come up with using these methods. It's just like the invention of the radio telescope, but only more so.

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If you think about it, though, the technology used to create that image would have been black magic in the olden days.