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Simpler: hollow-face & three dragons

Actually, inspired by how one preschool-theater costume (of a...cat; with proper ears) supposedly induced a panic attack in the kitten of my buddy, I essentially reworked the dragon once, to be more "danger! Possible unknown big cat!"-like. Yup, panic attack also in my cat.

(quick google search for the above wiki page even revealed one with a cat design... I can't vouch for how convincing it is, though)

Arx Fatalis has recently been open sourced http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2011/01/arx-fatalis-open-sourced.html That does not change the code in its current state but future developments and fixes seem likely.

nuclear plant help people a lot to lower their expesen but with one hit damage will be terrible
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Any security scheme verifying a domain which is not part of the domain name system itself really doesn't make any sense, and is already flawed. Once the domain is verified, it itself can establish a connection based on key exchange and public key cryptography. Our domain system is really what needs an overhaul.

With Honeycomb, doesn't Google have a history of saying things will be released as open source, and then not releasing the source?

No.

From http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-think-im-having-gene-amdahl-moment.html:

Finally, we continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready. As I write this the Android team is still hard at work to bring all the new Honeycomb features to phones. As soon as this work is completed, we’ll publish the code. This temporary delay does not represent a change in strategy. We remain firmly committed to providing Android as an open source platform across many device types.

This is Athens

This is Sparta

Go to utube, look up "Xbox host boot", you shall see ppl sellin bots for you to DOS your online opponent, gain level in Halo for example, for $2 a bot.

Heck, I am a master admin in a peer-2-peer 3D game call Power Soccer [powerchallenge.com], and have cheaters who speed hack and hex edit our game etc. Guess what, I wrote a keylogger and send it to the dev team, every time when the game patches and installed, the thing will also install. Everytime we encounter a perpertual cheater will turn on the keylogger, colect all his infomation, and fight him back by loggin in to his facebook account and do shit. We release all real names of cheaters and hackers and we expose them, label them racist and myg0t etc.

Here is one of our victims haha:

http://learnaboutfabio.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]

Without the keylogger we would never know who this person is!

If you have questions or want my technology vist my website: http://dainsanefh.webs.com/ [webs.com] or email dainsanefh@gmail.com

PS: sory for my bad ingles. I am immigrant from argentina.

Good luck.

If you're worried that a proprietary framework might be compromised by the Government threatening/bribing Apple into implementing a back door ...

"We can make that FCC investigation into the back-dating of executive stock options go away, Mr Jobs. If you'll cooperate with the government ..."

... or you just want a solution that works better with Time Machine than FileVault does, here is a How-To on getting EncFS full-disk encrytion working on Mac OS X.

Nota bene: I have not tried this yet myself.

"This is not impossible, by the way, Sweden pays about 50% in GDP in taxes."

If Sweden were to become the 51st state, they would have the lowest standard of living than all other states. Even lower than the poverty-stricken Southern states that Northeaster liberals like to make fun of so much.

http://l34rn.blogspot.com/2007/10/faith-in-science.html

I kind of feel stabbed in the back with Android

Why?

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2010/02/they-took-our-codes.html

Hello? Did someone not realize that Google is basically all about stealing Linux and "forking" it? Do you think that google server that you're hitting is really running bleeding edge Linux 2.6.35RC62? No, they're probably running some 2 year old kernel with their own patches, because they want to insulate themselves from upstream idiocy. They're not going to give you those patches, and even if they did, they probably couldn't because of upstream churn.

When it comes to Android, Google has done what the license asks. Make all the modifications public. If you and your rag-tag bunch of kernel developers want _their_ HOT new shit, the suck it up and bring the code in. It looks like they've even produced patches and sent you reviews. Don't like what they got? well, they're already doing more than what's required, so stop complaining.

You see, they've got this product to ship. And they've also got this competitor called Apple. You may have heard of them. So, yea, they _could_ sit their rearchitecting their interfaces so that some kernel dev which they don't pay and don't give shit about can feel like he's important... and watch Apple eat their lunch.

Or they could say fuck you guys. We're the one that's actually building something here. We'll get around to it, maybe, after we win.

I'm more interested in a -1 rating. It sucks when my search results are filled with useless crap, copies of the same question without an answer, malware sites, etc. I'd love to rate those down.

I would like a -1 as well. The number of +1 is not as meaningful as the ratio of negative/positive votes. They should have just reused the known thumbs used on youtube. For complains about useless crap there are other channels though:

For maleware and spam pages there is google's spam reporting page and if you're using chrome there is a plugin by google that adds a "report as spam" shortcut to any search result. As the plugin is trivial I am positive something similar exists for other brothers.

Also there is the feedback link on every search page and the option to hide domains that bug you most (see here).

Speaking of painkillers....

Przemek Klosowski talks about Linux, Open Source software and DCLUG

http://evolutionlist.blogspot.com/2009/02/macroevolution-examples-and-evidence.html

Macroevolution has been demonstrated. The main problems with some people accepting it is both the squishy definition of "species" and the fact that anything significant in the animal kingdom would occur over thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years.

To get something "quickly", scientists need to use species that have super short lifespans, such as fruit flies or bacteria. Even then it takes many decades and most of the "God did it" crowd want to see it by next Thursday at the latest.

That's why Sony created the Xperia Play - http://psp2roundup.blogspot.com/2011/04/xperia-play-adverts-they-keep-on-coming.html - does it all in one phone!

I googled 600 dollar toilet seat and found this

http://circleof13.blogspot.com/2007/10/file-under-underappreciated-venerable.html

Long story short, it wasn't a toilet seat, but was mislabeled on the DoD document as one, they only bought 20 and there was a ton of special manufacturing involved.

A senate staffer picked up on "600 dollars" and "toilet seat" and used that to hammer at the Reagan administration.

"A Pentagon spokesman, Glenn Flood stated, "The original price we were charged was $640, not just for a toilet seat, but for the large molded plastic assembly covering the entire seat, tank and full toilet assembly. The seat itself cost $9 and some cents. The supplier charged too much, and we had the amount corrected."'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_seat#U.S._Navy.27s_.22.24600_Toilet_Seat.22

... can be found here: http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/04/fermilab-cdf-new-force-press-conference.html

It would be a commendable thing to do. But wouldn't the Italians just use Bing or something else?

But wouldn't Bing just return the same result? :)

I, too, wonder why companies don't engage in this "take my ball and go home" behavior. It must be that they don't take it personally, and there is still money to be made.

pontificating about the evils of software patents. Then he turned around and sued his biggest competitor, Barnes and Noble for infringing his one-click patent. Because when push comes to shove, those who have the weapons will use them.

The proper reaction to Google's statement is a collective eye roll.

Bull.

I'm sorry, but you're so far off-base, there's no way to even evaluate your statement. Google has been entirely on the side of patent reform since they started. We might disagree on some points (among ourselves and with Google), but there's no arguing which side of this battle they've been on.

Instead, let's try a history lesson:

• 2009 - Google files an amicus brief with the Supreme Court along with others who "share a grave concern about the threat to innovation posed by the issuance of patents on abstract ideas."
• Also in 2009 - Google works to support the Patent Reform Act, saying "Once a driver of creativity, our patent system now poses a hurdle for innovation."
• 2007 - Google argues for damages apportionment, among other useful reforms.
• Google is also a member of the Coalition for Patent Fairness, an industry lobby that attempts to push forward an agenda of patent abuse reform.
• Google also releases their specifications with patent licensing that explicitly allows open source implementation

Once again, Slashdot take careful aim at the supporters of our favorite causes... go us :-/

pontificating about the evils of software patents. Then he turned around and sued his biggest competitor, Barnes and Noble for infringing his one-click patent. Because when push comes to shove, those who have the weapons will use them.

The proper reaction to Google's statement is a collective eye roll.

Bull.

I'm sorry, but you're so far off-base, there's no way to even evaluate your statement. Google has been entirely on the side of patent reform since they started. We might disagree on some points (among ourselves and with Google), but there's no arguing which side of this battle they've been on.

Instead, let's try a history lesson:

• 2009 - Google files an amicus brief with the Supreme Court along with others who "share a grave concern about the threat to innovation posed by the issuance of patents on abstract ideas."
• Also in 2009 - Google works to support the Patent Reform Act, saying "Once a driver of creativity, our patent system now poses a hurdle for innovation."
• 2007 - Google argues for damages apportionment, among other useful reforms.
• Google is also a member of the Coalition for Patent Fairness, an industry lobby that attempts to push forward an agenda of patent abuse reform.
• Google also releases their specifications with patent licensing that explicitly allows open source implementation

Once again, Slashdot take careful aim at the supporters of our favorite causes... go us :-/

I would agree with this. Everything should have a CLI interface so that you can automate tasks. But having written the Command Line command to setup this process before by hand and with a GUI... I wish I could export the CLI from the GUI even for repetitive tasks:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ooCU0_gc-LQ/RsImsnv1ZzI/AAAAAAAAACk/-XeUsdemoCU/s1600-h/024-Turning-on-Skylight.jpg

And that for example is the summarized "Dashboard" of options.

If you wanted to use a command line to run that you would be reading the manual on how to format your CLI string for months and probably still have bugs.

Take just the image filtering in that image... I can't name off the top of my head all of the options, but I'll know the one I want when I see it.

CLIs are great for really simple quick commands. They're a total disaster when they're more than few characters.

e.g. render sampling_min 0 sampling max 2 -filtering catmull_rom -blur 0.3 -ringing 0.33 -default_lighting true -shadows true -GI true -render_cache true -render_cache_min_sampling '-3' -render_cache_max_sampling '-2' -Generator_exclude ("obj1","obj2","obj3") output "\\file_directory\folder nobody can remember\renders\r01\v03\File_r01_v03_%04d.exr" and on and on and on....

Use Dolphin or KWord: massive toolbars and small content area.

Good news:
Dolphin in the upcoming version will change that: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9ujy04d0LMc/TY-FyUfXOuI/AAAAAAAAAeA/e6QxAfTjTXM/s1600/dolphin-default-4-6.png

KWord is dead, btw. Its maintainer supposedly was a dickhead so the KOffice crew left him altogether and created Calligra Suite with a new word processor forked from KWord. It'll take a while for the first Calligra release but some GUI aspects may change especially considering that the Calligra crew is also targeting mobile devices with small screens (something the old KWord maintainer fiercely fought against because he wanted to "concentrate on desktops with big screens").

In particular see Aaron Seigo's rant on how GNOME ignored "status notifiers", a cross desktop specification submitted to Freedesktop.org and with an existing implementation by Canonical.

And don't forget informative overview of this drama by Jeff: http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/03/12/relationship-between-canonical-gnome/

You can install Gnome & KDE apps side-by-side and they just work.

This is not the case, you probably missed the slashdot story on the drama between GNOME and Canonical. In particular see Aaron Seigo's rant on how GNOME ignored "status notifiers", a cross desktop specification submitted to Freedesktop.org and with an existing implementation by Canonical.

Considering Apple initially licensed CoverFlow from a "small guy" (and presumably paid them well for it), you could spin this as good news for the small guy. Just sayin'

Doesn't Project Looking Glass use a lot of similar techniques? This in particular looks pretty much just like Cover Flow to me. Here's someone else who seems to think the same.

Let's first take a look at the higher-res main camera. At his WWDC keynote, Jobs said that getting great looking images wasn't just about upping the camera's megapixels, but had more to do with grabbing more photons. Increase the photon count, let more light in, and your images will look better, the thought goes. So Apple's using a newer backside-illuminated sensor that's more sensitive to light in addition to upping those megapixels -- and we must say, pictures on the iPhone 4 look stunning. Our shots looked good right out of the gate, with few problems when it came to focusing or low light. With the flash on, we managed decent if somewhat blown out results (fairly common with smaller LED flashes) though impressively, the iPhone 4 was usually able to take completely useable and even handsome photos in fairly low light without the flash. It seems like that photon situation is definitely in play, because even shots taken in fairly dark lighting came out looking good. Autofocus worked well in most situations, and we were actually able to get some impressive looking macro shots (see the flowers and Penny below). In general, we'd have no trouble using the iPhone 4's camera as a stand-in for a dedicated camera.

Engadget Review

I genuinely prefer using my iPhone to my "prosumer level" Sony digital camera from a few years ago, they both shoot at 5MP, which "isnt great" by todays standards, however, the resolution is more than enough for little old me :-)

It's always with me, its very, very thin, beautiful, and takes lovely photos, wait, I said GORGEOUS photos ;-)

Could it do with Optical Zoom? Sure, and my Sony has "Night Vision" mode via IR photography. Big whoop, I'd rather use my iPhone than carry a seperate camera with me, even if the other camera was as slim...and if it could also upload images over 3G or wifi, directly onto Facebook, Flickr, videos to YouTube, have GPS...

Next up, using your phone as a calender, as a clock, and as a navigation unit :-)

I would also say the 30 FPS 720 HD video off my iPhone makes for GREAT movies too, although there is off course the "wobbly sensor" action common to such video cameras.

Heres a compressed video, YouTube does take a lot of the quality out, still looks great.

http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/2011/03/chicken-friend-salad-video.html

Best wishes :-)

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

While this may be true in the poorest countries, it's not true in Sweden, Canada or the United States. The folks who are paying RapidShare, Pirate Bay or the USENET losers seem to be able to afford $20+ a month. They could spend that at legit stores like Amazon or iTunes, but they choose not to. But what can you expect from a tenured professor in a profession that's spawning such wonderful scamblogs like http://firsttiertoilet.blogspot.com/.

>> Google keeps all of it's software entirely secret

Of course. All 442 articles listed on this blog are nothing but utter bullshit - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/

Now if you are done with your ignorant google-whining, can you please fuck off?

Apple isn't a software company. It's a hardware company.

If you look at the breakdown here, you'll see that a paltry 12% of Apple's revenue come from non-hardware sources (iTunes and software sales). The reason Apple makes compelling software is because it's one of the best ways to make the hardware desireable. If OS X and iOS weren't as enjoyable to use as they are, they wouldn't have nearly as many adopters and promoters. And since the only way (for most people) to get OS X and iOS is to buy a Mac/iDevice, well...

Really, Apple doesn't have a secret weapon. Unless you consider the entire corporation to be the weapon in and of itself. Industry-leading design + solid product + good marketing + seamless vertical integration + large base of users who happily talk about it (such as my 80 year old grandfather) = success. There's no "secret," which is what a lot of people don't get.

There are some things to like about Google's statement, but let's be realistic: this isn't a clear statement against all software patents including their own PageRank and Google Doodle patents. They complain about "low-quality software patents". That's absolutely not the same as being against all software patents. It means that they just believe many of those patents aren't good enough. However, the answer that politicians give then is to provide more funding to the patent offices of the world, not to abolish software patents.

I've done a lot of work on patent policy (with my NoSoftwarePatents campaign in 2004/05 and otherwise) and I know that the difference between saying "some [or even 'many'] software patents are bad" and saying that "all software patents must be abolished" is like a difference between night and day. Actually, lobbying entities working for Microsoft also call for more patent quality all the time. That's definitely not a sufficient statement to be interpreted as a call for the abolition of all software patents no matter how "good" they may be relative to other software patents.

It's like saying "we are against unjust wars" as opposed to saying "we should never go to war."

I also analyzed Google's amicus curiae brief in the Bilski case and found that it advocated higher patent quality and raised issues but didn't go far enough to really demand the abolition of software patents.

You have no respect for history.. Humans did roam the earth before 1980..

They drove it.

You have no respect for history.. Humans did roam the earth before 1980..

Well... okay, maybe you can convince me humans roamed the earth before 1980. But not much before. We all know time started on midnight (GMT), January 1, 1970, and anybody who claims they were born before then are filthy liars.

You have no respect for history.. Humans did roam the earth before 1980..

The complexity of the rules makes it sound like a telco billing system more than anything else - all about rating and charging lots and lots of events in close to real-time based on a hugely complicated rate-card. You'd be amazed how many software companies are sustained by this issue. It's expensive.

http://yorkshire-ranter.blogspot.com/2011/04/scaling-and-scoping-nyt-paywall.html

"There's been lots of discussion here over the Fukushima incident. It's been dominated by the "pro-nuke" side, if you can call it that, but that's not surprising considering Slashdot's demographics."

Yeah, I've noticed that too. My advice for them is to get used to saying "would you like fries with that?" This is already bad news for anyone trying to make a living in any way related to nuclear power, we wont know how bad for months to come, but no matter how you slice it it's not good.

To those who would claim "yeah but next time it'll be different" I would say, correct, next time I'm not going to try and kick the football. http://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/09/charlie-brown-and-lucy-and-football.html

To be honest, the Catholic Church has been hemorrhaging members in the US for a long time

Thanks for contributing to the mass hypocrisy and gross misrepresentation of facts that seems to plague this discussion. I don't mean to have facts get in the way of your diatribe, but in reality the percentage of Catholics in the US has remained steady over the past 38 years (at about 25%). Since the population of the US continues to grow, this means (follow me here) that the number of Catholics in the US continues to grow as well. I'd hardly call that "hemorrhaging." For an example of "hemorrhaging," check out the Protestant numbers.

He made great airplanes, no doubt about that. Innovative, outside the box, advanced the field, nobody can dispute that and I admire his contributions to aviation. But at the same time Rutan is a rabid anthropogenic global warming denialist and for that my respect for him is reset to zero. http://dlcinci.blogspot.com/2009/10/burt-rutan-is-full-of-hot-air.html

There have been a lot of technology advancements that dramatically increase the amount of light each photosite can collect. The biggest is BSI (back side illuminated) sensors which can double the amount of light that gets captured per photosite. We are also moving to high-dynamic range, high-speed, and pixel-binning CMOS technology that can combine signal data from multiple photosites into one.

http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2011/02/sony-announces-12mp-155um-pixel-bsi.html

In general you will get better quality from a larger sensor, all things being equal, but technology has moved considerably forward. 1~2 micron photosites (that are common in cellphones) can easily handle 8MPs. But don't expect it to take the same quality as a dSLR (or even the larger sensored point and shoots).

Personally I preferred it when they discovered the Higg's Bozo

"I have been breeding [thorium] at home using lots of old smoke detectors with a view toward generating my own [electricity] and getting off the grid. The only thing stopping me is a reliable neutron beam. Given that all the equipment I'm using is re-purposed kitchen equipment, concerns about safety mean I'm [hesitant] to build a uranium reactor to supply neutrons to the thorium one. So I'm putting the question out there: do any Slashdotters know of a [safe] way to make a powerful neutron beam out of things I might find around the house?"

You don't need a uranium reactor to generate neutrons (although if you use the thorium from some lantern mantles, you could probably create one). You also don't need to be messing about with nasty americium to breed plutonium as a neutron source.

Just build a Farnsworth Fusor like that guy on Slashdot did last week. There's your neutron source. Should be pretty safe, compared to the alternatives.

It would be helpful to include images and diagrams of your own personal neutron beam [beer].

Right, that doesn't solve the problem of your neutron beam beer.

Put a bottle of Pu240 Weapons Grade Ale in front of your Something in there'll get activated for just long enough to technically call it neutron beam beer.

At 8% ABV and 100 IBUs, it's a hop bomb that'll getcha bombed even without neutron activation!

Start here. Read it and look around. read some more, start to finish.

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/05/red-white-and-gray-part-two_30.html

Barbara Bush is the illegitimate daughter Aleister Crowley.

He drew a "Grey", before they were documented phenomena.

...There's a lot of red tape (permitting, bidding, etc) that has to be cut before they can even start construction which could easily take until 2012. ...

First of all to become one of the Google's Think Big With a Gig communities, most if not all of the red tape issues needed to be already taken care just to be considered for selection. Definitely a commitment by those lucky enough to be selected to move forward.

LMAO I would love to hear any politician tell their citizen's that the reason they did not succeed in becoming one of the first 5 Google's Think Big With a Gig Community was because the telco or cable company paid me to sabotage the process.

Are your community's politicians bought and paid for by your local telco-cable-cellular oligopoly? How would you know?

Think about that real hard because if your community can not get Fiber To The Home (FTTH). Perhaps your politicians are corrupt and not putting you, your family, your friends, your neighbors FIRST as they should.

If the local incumbent provider can lobby your politicians and prevent your family from getting FTTH, than so can other mega-corporations.

Given the Citizens United vs FEC decision you will never be allowed to hear the truth, only the negative campaign ads against any honest citizen politician! You should solve that in the next election for the sake of your family, friends and neighbors.

EPB in Chattanooga finished their FTTH, Fiber To The Home, build-out years ahead of schedule. The first build-out took a total of only 3 years...so getting another community done in two years with Google's backing is most definitely possible. Even easier when you consider the preparation a community has to go through just to be considered for the Fiber. In Chattanooga, with a minimal influx of additional cash (a $112M federal grant) they were able to finish ahead of schedule. Chattanooga now serves 20,000 residential customers and 2,500 business customers.

I think everyone reading this would agree that Google can pump way more than $112M, $300M or even $600M into any FTTH community it decides too. So what's your point!

More important will be the prices. Check out prices for Synchronous FTTH with EPB of Chattanooga:

$57.99: 30Mbps; Internet 30 (30Mb/30Mb or 30 Mb Downstream / 30 Mb Upstream)
$69.99: 50Mbps; Internet 50 (50Mb/50Mb)
$139.99: 100Mbps; Internet 100 (100Mb/100Mb)
$349.99; 1000Mbps; Internet 1,000 (1000Mb/1000Mb or 1Gb/1Gb)

And here are prices per cbemerine comment in The Real Reason to Cut the Cable? :

Until Google announces there five FTTH communities, there are the 16 plus communities in Utah via Utopia ($49 - $79) where the resident owns the Fiber (UOF) and can select from one of many providers. Other than that you can get 10Mb/10Mb in Wilson N.C. from Greenlight for $34.95 per month; 10Mb/10Mb in Lafayette, LA from LUS for $28.95 per month; 30Mb/30Mb in Chattanooga, TN from EPB for $57.99.

While I might wait through the end of this year to figure out where Google is going to go, there is no reason to wait until 2012, 2015 or 2020 and beyond. All of us can move today, this this map shows

...There's a lot of red tape (permitting, bidding, etc) that has to be cut before they can even start construction which could easily take until 2012. ...

First of all to become one of the Google's Think Big With a Gig communities, most if not all of the red tape issues needed to be already taken care just to be considered for selection. Definitely a commitment by those lucky enough to be selected to move forward.

LMAO I would love to hear any politician tell their citizen's that the reason they did not succeed in becoming one of the first 5 Google's Think Big With a Gig Community was because the telco or cable company paid me to sabotage the process.

Are your community's politicians bought and paid for by your local telco-cable-cellular oligopoly? How would you know?

Think about that real hard because if your community can not get Fiber To The Home (FTTH). Perhaps your politicians are corrupt and not putting you, your family, your friends, your neighbors FIRST as they should.

If the local incumbent provider can lobby your politicians and prevent your family from getting FTTH, than so can other mega-corporations.

Given the Citizens United vs FEC decision you will never be allowed to hear the truth, only the negative campaign ads against any honest citizen politician! You should solve that in the next election for the sake of your family, friends and neighbors.

EPB in Chattanooga finished their FTTH, Fiber To The Home, build-out years ahead of schedule. The first build-out took a total of only 3 years...so getting another community done in two years with Google's backing is most definitely possible. Even easier when you consider the preparation a community has to go through just to be considered for the Fiber. In Chattanooga, with a minimal influx of additional cash (a $112M federal grant) they were able to finish ahead of schedule. Chattanooga now serves 20,000 residential customers and 2,500 business customers.

I think everyone reading this would agree that Google can pump way more than $112M, $300M or even $600M into any FTTH community it decides too. So what's your point!

More important will be the prices. Check out prices for Synchronous FTTH with EPB of Chattanooga:

$57.99: 30Mbps; Internet 30 (30Mb/30Mb or 30 Mb Downstream / 30 Mb Upstream)
$69.99: 50Mbps; Internet 50 (50Mb/50Mb)
$139.99: 100Mbps; Internet 100 (100Mb/100Mb)
$349.99; 1000Mbps; Internet 1,000 (1000Mb/1000Mb or 1Gb/1Gb)

And here are prices per cbemerine comment in The Real Reason to Cut the Cable? :

Until Google announces there five FTTH communities, there are the 16 plus communities in Utah via Utopia ($49 - $79) where the resident owns the Fiber (UOF) and can select from one of many providers. Other than that you can get 10Mb/10Mb in Wilson N.C. from Greenlight for $34.95 per month; 10Mb/10Mb in Lafayette, LA from LUS for $28.95 per month; 30Mb/30Mb in Chattanooga, TN from EPB for $57.99.

While I might wait through the end of this year to figure out where Google is going to go, there is no reason to wait until 2012, 2015 or 2020 and beyond. All of us can move today, this this map shows

Everybody thinks continuums and scales are better, that's an intuitive inclination toward a range of choices, but the reality was revealed through YouTube: most people either rated things 5/5 or 1/5. That's why they replaced the scale with up/down.

Clickstream data. The page it was coming from was irrelevant.

I don't understand what that means, I understand this though: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html

Haven't they heard about the BANANA APOCALYPSE!