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The CSS history hack has been known since (at least) August 2006: http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-youve-been.html

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but I knew about Gnu.

This is an awful article. Sadly it takes away from what could be a pretty useful competitor to MS Access. http://realjavasoa.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tables-vs-oracle-duh.html

Looking over the actual Google blog announcement, this looks more like a case of the F article getting it all wrong. The "dimensionality" stuff is clearly not intended to be the innovation or selling point of Google's service; much less a differentiator relative to database vendors, who've had OLAP for ages.

The real selling points seem to be an easy UI, a lot of predefined public data sets available to combine and correlate with your own data, and the collaboration features.

I agree that it sucks that this verdict is likely to destroy her financially, but remember that the whole point of laws and lawsuits is to serve as a deterrent.

Not if you're familiar with the legislative history of statutory damages under the Copyright Act, which made it clear that it was primarily for the purpose of providing "compensation" to the aggrieved copyright holder where "damages" and/or "profits" were difficult or impossible to prove. You might want to bone up. A good article is this recent working paper by Pamela Samuelson and Tara Wheatland.

Leonid Brezhnev with lipstick.

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Maybe you weren't aware, but Johnny Lee has been working on Natal.

So that's where it is, chief.

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Or maybe Polywell Fusion

I am a costumer of FsckVPS (sister company of Vaserv) and I am one of the unlucky guys who has 100% data loss on his VPS. Unlucky, because not every FsckVPS (and Vaserve) server and VPS have data loss. And unlucky, or idiot, because I have an outdated backup only on my local hard disk.My fresh backup was stored on the server. But, if I would not be so idiot and I would have a fresh backup on my local hard disk or on a remote backup server, what could I do now? Nothing, because all destroyed servers are still offline, offline 3 days after the hacker attack. Vaserv's costumers typically are not large enterprises, but micro companies, small teams, one man projects without sufficient financial and human resources. Just that is why they choose Vaserv's cheap VPS solutions, or at least I choosed FsckVPS for that reason. And just because of small budget I don't able to maintain other VPS as a backup server, and just because of small budget I maintain unmanaged server. I usually work alone on my projects, sometimes I get some help from other people, but usually don't. So I am the businessman, the marketing guru, the SEO expert, the copywriter, the designer, the webmaster and the system admin in one body. I have not enough time, energy to execute everything perfectly, so I haven't got a fresh backup to my local hard disk before this hacker attack happened. I suck this now. I wanted to tell this story from my own perspective, because more people ask here and on other forums, who are such stupid guys, who have not got a fresh backup to their own hard drive? I am! Sorry if my english is not perfect, but I am from Hungary. P.S. Since my vps and websites are still offline I started a blog about this hacker story http://laja404.blogspot.com/

AT&T doesn't provide anywhere near the same humor value that Verizon does.

Your post is a bit funny considering that Microsoft has actually contracted Johnny Lee to work on Natal.

Check it out: http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/

I've played around with ZFS on the Mac a little bit. I've also played with ZFS at work (Sun UltraSPARC platforms) where we went from true believers to backing away rapidly (let's just say that there are certain Oracle workload profiles for which ZFS causes some massive performance hits especially when the disks are close to full).

I'm guessing that ZFS failed to meet at least one of (what I imagine are) Apple's criteria:
1. has to be simple to use
2. has to be rock solid

There's a good chance it failed at both. I'm not saying that ZFS is crap. Personally I think its a brilliant design, however it needs a bit more sunlight before its ready for the Steve.

Sigh.

Well, yeah, but how would you be able to get kids or spouses to wear old people shoes?

I actually had a startup doing direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing for a mutation that gave resistance/immunity to HIV. For many reasons, we aren't around anymore, but the reasons included regulatory changes, a rapidly changing market, and ethics. I now feel it's morally wrong to offer these tests to consumers who have no idea how to interpret them and what they mean; at least genetic counseling should be offered with the test. Someone should not make life altering decisions without the consultation of someone trained in the area. For example, suppose someone gets a BRCA 1/2 test, which tests for predisposition to breast cancer. Suppose 60% of those with the BRCA mutation get breast cancer (don't quote me on that figure, but it's in that range). Many women may then decide to get a mastectomy, however, the actual likelihood is much lower than 60% (see Bayes Theorem). Without consultation, they may make a terrible choice, and unfortunately many doctors are not trained in genetics yet. I've since become involved with a doctor in the Connecticut/New York area who has started a practice centered on genetics. I'm now convinced that this is the only way to go, and that direct to consumer tests are simply a passing phase. 23andme and Navigenics even say that their tests are not medically useful. I have a blog devoted to this topic if anyone is interested: http://www.thinkgene.com/ and the doctor at that practice also has a blog: http://thegenesherpa.blogspot.com/ In fact, if anyone wants a free genetic test that's better than the one offered by 23andme and Navigenics, and you happen to be in the New Jersey area, Coriell is giving them away (http://www.thinkgene.com/i-spit-at-coriell), and this is where the future of genetics is going.

Printing them would be stupid and create MORE work for the teachers.

Why netbooks at all? Kids can sue there computers at home to create reports and look up data and email them to their teachers. If the children don't have net access at home, then they can use the schools library, or their local library computers.

The potential to completely change the educational landscape for the better is huge.
There are schools whose don't ahve a text book per child, and have texts books over 10 years old. A proper implementations of an online resource could mean all kids have up to date and accurate information at all times.

It also ends a single state dictating what goes into a text book, remove the stranglehold the text book industry has on this nations schools, and makes the teachers job easier.

http://harns.blogspot.com/2008/07/so-obvious-and-yet-so-not-done.html

And it can be bigger then this:

http://harns.blogspot.com/2008/07/so-obvious-and-yet-so-not-done.html

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The Pentagon will pick up the slack. They're almost finished with Phase One of Skynet. It's going to be... wonderful.

More news.
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First, some blogs simply exist as part of spam and SEO objects. Furthermore, there are many specialized blogs out there that only update rarely because their specialties only require infrequent updates or have to do with topics that have bursts of news and then very little. (See for example http://presidentialdebateblog.blogspot.com/ (disclaimer: one of the people who runs that is my twin).

In any event, humans go through many different things on a temporary basis. Would one have made a big deal in 1938 or so when there would have been more cars disposed of than currently functioning as evidence that cars are going out of style? This really doesn't tell us anything useful by itself.

I reran the various benchmarks (Sunspider, Dromaeo, V8, Peacekeeper) using the currently available "stable" releases of Chrome and Safari. Results here.

To preempt those of you reacting with shock and anger at the American judicial system, let me assure you this motion has nothing to do with the American judicial system; the RIAA's motion has the chance of a snowball in Hell of being granted, as there is simply no legal basis for preventing a person from making valid legal objections in Trial #2, just because the lawyer she had in Trial #1 didn't make similar objections.

Today the judge denied the motion.

...Might ask themselves whether the annual $650 billion military budget (fully half of the world's total military expenditure) might be better spent on things other than raining death on other countries.

You know, like schools, hospitals, roads, fire stations, police, ... and oh yeah, the manned space programme.

...Might ask themselves whether the annual $650 billion military budget (fully half of the world's total military expenditure) might be better spent on things other than raining death on other countries.

You know, like schools, hospitals, roads, fire stations, police, ... and oh yeah, the manned space programme.

Futuremark's "Peacekeeper" benchmark does indeed show Safari 4.0 out front, narrowly edging Chrome. My own tests from January, i.e. prior to the most recent Chrome release, showed Chrome and Webkit in a dead heat on SunSpider and Chrome way out in front on Mozilla's "Dromaeo" suite.

If I get time I'll run the tests again on the same machine, using the "official" Safari 4.0 build (i.e. not a Webkit nightly) vs. the currently released version of Chrome.

I tried using Goggles to prevent me from sending embarrassing E-mails when I'm drunk. The problem is that when I'm inebriated, I'm actually better at math...

There are lots of opinions as to whether Bing is number two or was number two or whatever. But regardless of its current rank, it is and will continue to be a major player and those who employ paid search as a strategy need to consider it. See here for more: New thoughts on Bing, Yahoo, and Google

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entertainment industry has been. There is a better way to handle this.

Exactly, some problems are inherently serial. These programs would run slower if you made them run in parallel.

If they are inherently sequential, then obviously they cannot be made to run in parallel. The truth is that the vast majority of computing applications, both existing and future, are inherently parallel. As soon as some maverick startup (forget the big players like Intel, Microsoft, or AMD because they are too married to the old ways) figures out the solution to the parallel programming crisis (see link below), get ready for a flood of super complex parallel applications to hit the market, especially in the AI, gaming and simulation fields. Cars will drive themselves and robots will maintain your home, that kind of stuff. The possibilities are mind boggling.

Now the reason that the old timers cannot solve the problem is that they are all addicted to the Turing Machine model of computing and last century's multithreaded approach to concurrency. The Turing Machine model is evidently no help in solving the crisis and threads are inherently non-deterministic. There is an urgent need to move away from antiquated and flawed paradigms that do not contribute to the solution. Indeed, they got us into this mess to begin with.

How to Solve the Parallel Programming Crisis

Why indeed, except that some of us do:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pirates-buy-more-music (linked form the original version on Ben Goldacre's blog)

I actually feel guilty for buying physical product, though, when most of the cost won't even go to the artist, and all it will do is sit on a shelf. (Here's an ancient blog post of mine about this.) I'd rather make a direct donation to the artist, but many artist sites still don't have provision for this.

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If the computer is the generic machine: the Internet is the generic means of digital retail and distribution. But does anyone really want to prevent peer to peer file sharing?

http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/2008/10/comic-489-look-harder.html

Really?

Well, maybe by the financial yardstick, but on the karmic yardstick you are light years ahead.
I guess it all boils down to what is important to a person that determines which yardstick they use to measure worth/achievement in their lives, and what they want to accomplish.

It's all a matter of perspective, expectations, and goals.
I admire your balance between reality/practicality, and your ideals....Hat's Off to ya!

BTW, I do have a question for you.

From your website, linked in the summary:

"Legally, it is hornbook law that the Fourth Amendment, and thus the exclusionary rule, does not apply in civil cases."

[Plaintiffs' opposition to defendant's motion to suppress MediaSentry materials]

What is 'hornbook' law in this case, and how does this apply here?[I have never encountered this term before]
I will try wikipedia.org, and google.com, but I would appreciate your perspective within the boundaries of the 'possible'(legal/moral ethics, etc...).

Where does it say on the page that ARM is accepted (I've no doubt that it was submitted)? I don't see it on the tentative list of changes here, and it's not in top 3 in the poll.

Last thing I heard on the subject was Mark Reinhold's update on the status of Java 7 dating back to December last year - and it doesn't list ARM. But I must admit that it may well be outdated (since the project you've linked to came later), so what's the current definite status, and where to keep track of it?

Not choosing the ultra-cheap airline that's known for skipping maintainance every now and then, for example.

Most maintenance schedules for aircraft are set by the FAA, not at the airline's whim. The majority of aircraft crashes are due to environmental factors (such as turbulence or other bad weather), or pilot error.

Keep telling yourself that, just like the FAA does.

and good luck when you fly on a budget airline whose pilot and crew have slept the legal minimum number of hours for the last few days...

Obligatory Calvin and Hobbes.

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While China is economically prosperous

I wouldn't call it "economically properous". I would call it "in recovery".

Why is there always some hidden assumption that China must be economically prosperous? The downside of an economy of heavily dependent on exports is when the rest of the world's economy melts down, your buyers suddenly disappear.

It can.

"Their claim of "movie capable" battery life rather than a specific time period leads me to conclude that they watch shorter than average movies." You're mistaken.

The Sony demo, to me, doesn't look like much of an advancement ( over Wii, and even over Adobe Flash demos around the web ), whereas the Microsoft complete lack of controller seems a large step forwards. Even if it's only basic recognition of body movement the possibilities for it seem virtually endless, to me, the magic wand is just a point and a direction vector in 3d space.

I think people are saying that Sony's is more of a tech demo based on the amount of *gloss* applied to the presentation, MS's looks finished, Sony's looks in development. ( I think in reality it's probably the other way around, MS seem to still have latency problems. )

More infos :
This is a link to Johnny Chung Lee's ( the guy who did super interesting things with the Wiimote, they're worth checking out too ) blog discussing the technology, including why light conditions aren't important. He *raves* and he's personally made some of the most impressive spacial/visual/cheap technology I've ever seen. He seems to work for Microsoft now, normal rules apply...

http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/

The biggest difference to me is that if both products reach the consumer as advertised ( as if ) then the Sony product is more of the same, and will probably result in similar mini games to the Wii and the MS one is so far ahead of what I thought was possible in real time on consumer hardware ( I work in a similar-ish field ) that it's genuinely exciting.

Also, the mom in the MS video is hot. ( :

Nice red herring, but it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that teh whole uproar over Sotomayor was based on a single ruling out of all of her years in the federal judiciary. One ruling hardly justifies being called "pro-RIAA".

Not only that, but it wasn't even a case of the RIAA/MPAA suing an individual for file sharing. The defendants were a series of bars that were publicly showing pay-per-view boxing, and it was a pretty open-and-shut case of infringement for monetary gain. Moreover, she only awarded the plaintiff four times the damages they incurred (definitely a constitutional amount), far less than the 1,000x damages that the RIAA typically seeks. Basically, that article was pure Slashdot-tailored FUD, and it's a shame people bought into it.

Like those car Dealerships whom supported him somehow manage to stay open.

Nice conspiracy theory. Too bad the statistics don't support your claim. In short, there's a greater than 50% chance that any variances in what dealerships went under is explainable by pure chance alone.

This is a really interesting post, and some of it goes a little bit over my head. Like I've said, I'm a database programmer, not an AI programmer. I might experiment with things like neural networks and such in the future, but right now the AI is doing as well as I could possibly hope for. That was a big part of the point of my article: using the fancier techniques is not even always needed for something like an RTS game, because you can get surprisingly good results with comparably little code.

I'm sure I will experiment around with this more in the future, but I bet you somebody else builds on my approach and does something more impressive before I even can. Anyway, future articles in my aI series will go more in-depth and will also include relevant code snippets to help illustrate my points. Feel free to use and abuse them, and expand away.

The second article is now up, to appease those hungry for some source code and a bit more of an in-depth discussion on a couple of sub-topics: Designing Emergent AI, Part 2: Queries and Code.

I'm not going to release the game for free, given that if I'm to be able to continue to pursue game development it can't continue to be in my hobby time forever. For similar reasons, I'm not going to release the entire code as open source. However, I've already open-sourced a lot of smaller things from my code (force feedback code from my other game, fixed-int math from this game, etc). Also, I've now added a second part to the article which has some partial AI code from the game, and people are free to use the ideas there and build off of them as much as they want. I don't want people to make AI War clones, but rather to think about the ideas that I am presenting and implement them in their own way. The AI War code is not the only way to approach this general design philosophy, not by a long shot. Here's part 2 of the article, with the added code and such: Designing Emergent AI, Part 2: Queries and Code

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