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Koolu = Android on the FreeRunner
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I haven't tried it yet, but to quote that blog,

we can call the android beta3 release not yet fully functional ready, but maybe the next release will contain a working messaging system. And from that moment, We could say the Android has the same working features as the other FreeRunner distributions.

Which would still not make it a usable phone, but there's hope.

4chan? Terrorists? Yeah, they terrorise people with pictures of cats with bad grammar skills. Sometimes they post foolish people's personal details. Clearly a threat to the free world as we know it.

For the thousandth time, this isn't about "terrorists". As you can clearly see quoted in TFS and elsewhere where there have been acts such as raiding protest group homes, disruption of peaceful protesting by force and the occasional arrests(check Google/youtube), fucking COINTELPRO, wiretapping/framing/blackmailing of political activist leaders all the way back to MLK Jr., and that's just a tiny fraction of what's been going on.
This is about suppressing dissident activity.

Get your heads out of your asses already with that terrorist propaganda bullshit.

Days ago I realized that the built-in apps couldn't rip a DVD. My solution: http://pcprob.blogspot.com/2009/04/rip-encrypted-dvds-under-linux-ubuntu.html is geared toward Ubuntu. After installing lsdvd and ddrescue (1 command) you can rip any DVD to an iso with just 2 commands. This solution rips to one file, preserves all audio tracks (no sync issues), preserves all subtitles, and it is lossless.

Having listened to it just now, it seems that the RIAA has the most persuasive argument. The RIAA's argument is based upon precedent, whilst the defendant's lawyer seems to make a plea based upon zeitgeist. The judge made a good point that while that seems like a good argument for changing the rule, it doesn't seem to hold much water with regards to the rule's current interpretation. All in all, it was a very educational experience. I haven't heard oral arguments like this and I actually enjoyed listening. I for one hope that the trial ends up being broadcasted, but based upon the arguments presented and the responses from the panel, I'm going to place my chips on the RIAA. Sorry.

Here's my prediction.

Easy, just create your own TV series using online tools. http://howardandleslie.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jx_xYkziE4 http://www.deadpaninc.com/ Fuck the MPAA

Where are the posts comparing Obama to Hitler?

Here you go:
http://fredshelm.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/barack-the-black-hitler/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080221165049AA62vw5
http://rebel-radius.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-vs-hitler-any-similarities.html

You can use Google to easily find more.

I hate replying to myself, but I couldn't give up a chance to show the change in inequality too.

Actually, by tourist I meant that I play games to experience the content, whether that is new environments or the story or cool toys or new gameplay.

As Penny Arcade's Gabe wrote, "I don't play games to beat them, I play games to see them."

More on this topic here: A New Taxonomy of Gamers

On his blog, entitled "Google Public Policy", Alexander Macgillivray weighed in as well (and since he's Associate General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property for Google this may have more weight than the CEO).

He makes a pretty common argument that Google News actually helps every news service as opposed to the AP's claims of hurting them (maybe even stealing from them).

And then he defaults to fair use:

In the U.S., the doctrine of fair use enshrined in the US Copyright Act allows us to show snippets and links. The fair use doctrine protects transformative uses of content, such as indexing to make it easier to find. Even though the Copyright Act does not grant a copyright owner a veto over such uses, it is our policy to allow any rightsholder, in this case newspaper or wire service, to remove their content from our index -- all they have to do is ask us or implement simple technical standards such as robots.txt or metatags.

And remember folks, he is a lawyer (although I am not).

"Google helps'.
Do me a favour.

In the U.S., the doctrine of fair use enshrined in the US Copyright Act allows us to show snippets and links. The fair use doctrine protects transformative uses of content, such as indexing to make it easier to find. Even though the Copyright Act does not grant a copyright owner a veto over such uses, it is our policy to allow any rightsholder, in this case newspaper or wire service, to remove their content from our index -- all they have to do is ask us or implement simple technical standards such as robots.txt or metatags.

And remember folks, he is a lawyer (although I am not).

Right, let's start with the perceived problem: Java's syntax. What's the problem with Java's syntax? have a look at Steve Yegge's "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns". While I can't wholeheartedly agree with many of the points, the gist of it is right on spot -- in Java there's a strong emphasis on nouns and very little is left for the verbs, but verbs are important for overall legibility. Having good (conceptual) support for verbs means that your Runnables and Callables are implied and the code becomes more fluent.

"Good support for verbs" translates to computerese as "functional programming". Ruby and Groovy owe much of their power to features associated with functional programming, such as lambda expressions.

Enter Scala: Scala achieves a brevity of syntax you see in Groovy and Ruby without sacrificing the static type system (it uses type inference). Since Groovy and Ruby are dynamically typed, they are inherently slower than Scala. Scala's performance characteristics on the JVM are similar to those of Java itself.

Without starting a flame war, let's accept that some jobs are better fitted for statically typed languages (e.g. a rapidly evolving project that is prone to regressions). The nieche Scala fits into is actually a testament that developers want the power and benefits of Ruby's syntax, in situations where Ruby (and Groovy, Ioke, BeanShell, etc...) *will* *never* *ever* *be* *used* (e.g. when maintaining performance and type checking are absolute requirements). Scala does its best to do just that.

A JVM language occupying a similar nieche is Fan, with a growing community and tool support coming right up.

Oddly enough, JavaFX (the language) has a syntax that is somewhat similar to Scala, and also some of the language features lacking in Java.

btw: the Scala wiki hosts a piece of sample code by Warren Henning. Never mind the sample, the main comment reads: "THIS. IS. SCALAAAA!!!"

Google actually posts the whole AP article themselves because AP doesn't have a site to link to.

Because the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press don't have a consumer website where they publish their content, they have not been able to benefit from the traffic that Google News drives to other publishers. As a result, weâ(TM)re hosting it on Google News.

That article you referred to is a commonly used right wing bullshit article. I'll just respond with this link.

Beyond what is mentioned in the link I posted, I also want to say that I really find the 1936 vs 1943 laughable. Claiming that a right wing president could have gotten the 1933-1943 GDP growth in 1933-1936 just shows how insanely desperate the conservatives are. Well, atleast if you are going to lie, lie big.

You can keep telling yourself that, but its pretty obviously false.

[citation needed]

It's pretty obvious to me that neither of them is very addictive, and I have evidence--they're pretty much even (and significantly lower than alcohol, the usual drug on the "legal" end of the double standard argument), but they have different characteristics. Health problems are arguable, but the only ones I am aware of are the ones caused by smoking, which is not the only way to ingest marijuana.

Regardless, the double standard (assuming you are disagreeing with that as well as OP's sketchy facts) most definitely exists, and organizations such as LEAP show that it is not only marijuana users who see it.

Why don't you install the distro originally made for the AA1, Linpus linux? You can find good instructions on how to do this here.

I thought you guys all got laid off.

Don't worry, the newspapers aren't phased by this news - in fact, publishers are meeting in San Diego this week to ponder their fate and one of the items on their agenda is "How to recover some of the classified advertising business that has been usurped by Craig's List and others."

Good luck guys!

It is amazing, sometimes, how we can (collectively) forget information.

It's not just military stuff. It's any "institutional knowledge", including legislative. Want to know just why a particular nonsensical law got passed? Bet you can't find out: the legislators involved may well be gone, and even when they were around, they may have had reasons to lie about it.

Someone becomes an expert, then retires/gets fired/is hit by a truck, and 3 years later, something breaks. Suddenly, you have a system that nobody left knows the passwords to, and sometimes, one that nobody knows what does.

Data retention is optional in mainland Europe but mandatory in Britain. The UK Government are using the EU to implement the laws they want, and then blaming those laws on Brussels. Our taxes, hard at work - when we're not paying for their second homes, we're paying for surveillance and the PR that sells the need for it to the main stream media. And through all this, they still have the brass balls to tell us that talk of a police state is daft. Where does it end? All you US'ians who have complained about Obama or Bush - consider how much worse it would be if you lived over here.

Actually NVIDIA has stated before that they wish to improve their FreeBSD support and would like it to achieve a feature parallel with Linux, as seen here.

They even did an interview with bsdtalk to try and drum up some support but it has yet to really materialize, here.

You can see current progress at the FreeBSD wiki.

How do you know that's true if you're not reading the official North Kolea Blog?

Uh, don't you mean "Nolth Kolea Brog"?

How do you know that's true if you're not reading the official North Kolea Blog?

http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/

Obviously the AZ police didn't like what this guy was publishing. I figure the more exposure it gets, the better.

There is a lot to be said for the bazaar model of intellectual work. The open source model is certainly an early adopter but by no means does it have a lock on this approach.

There is a whole new crop of innovation management tools that use crowd-sourcing techniques as a better way to work.

May I humbly submit some of my own tools in this field as examples here? Take a look at this general purpose problem solving platform called Cogenuity? Cogenuity currently uses a challenge based approach with a heavy emphasis on social networking and collaboration.

Another tool that I wrote is Code Roller which is a collaborative software development project life cycle management solution. It combines software engineering deliverables, process and workflow with project management practices, social networking features, and a crowd-sourcing style recommendation engine.

Both of these tools are free as in beer.

Oh, by the way, the infoworld link from the original submission here is broken.

"It's only going to bite us once the police report what he may have been actually doing .. My guess is there's more than they reported or know"

"Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops .. Inept, Dishonest and Just Plain Wrong! Internal Corruption within the 4th Floor of the Phoenix Police Department, under Wanna-Be (Chief) Jack Harris"

The link at the top of Badphoenixcops points to a video of cops cutting the wires to video cameras before they help themselves to the owners goods and money

"once the cameras were not functioning, police proceeded to loot almost $10,000 in cash as well as several cartons of cigarettes .. The Daily News also reported that several other shop owners went through the same experience that year from the same group of cops, only to return from jail to find their store looted"

So can someone please explain why, for the first time in over a decade, Red Hat has gratuitously broken the RPM package file format?

http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2009/03/oh-my-goodness.html

The pressure difference theory accounts for only a fraction of the generated lift. The majority comes from the the reaction from deflecting the air downwards.

Laminar flow causes the air to stick to the top of the wing and is redirected slightly downwards, the underside pushes yet more air downwards in a more obvious way. The vertical component of this is what generates most of the lift.

Couple of quick links.

I was specifically talking about your claim that 1 Power6 core was only 43% faster than 1 T2 core

That wasn't my claim. I pulled that directly from the IBM blog.

IBM Power 570 4 cores, 2 chips 1,197.51 JOPS = 299.3775 JOPS/core

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 16 cores, 2 chips 3,331 JOPS = 208.1875 JOPS/core

(299.3775/208.1875) - 1 = 43.8%

The T5440 is also cheaper than an IBM p570.

What Pat Gelsinger recently said comparing the new Xeon 5500 processors with Sparc and Power cpus.

The 5500 was 1.7x the performance and 1/2 the cost.

Comparing to IBM power was "almost humorous" at 2.5x the performance at 1/10th the cost.

Here's some more information comparing the two running Siebel. The UltraSPARC T2 servers perform better and are much cheaper than IBM's

If only Sun's marketing was as good as IBM's to get you to believe that paying 10x the price for the same performance was a good deal, this thread wouldn't exist.

Our current supply of thorium could generate our current demand for A THOUSAND YEARS.

Probably more.

Read all about it

'Taking a stand' would be tarring and feathering their local district attorney equivalent and their MP's until their right to
shoot burglars dead is once again respected by English law.

They already can - just not in the form of a punishment execution

I didn't mean when /. is blocked, I meant when / is blocked.

you can download youtubes with the address bar and a little chunk of code easily enough.

Like this?

"Making available" isn't distribution. Check the NYCL threads, probable google "beckerman"+"making available"

I'll make it easier. Read Capitol v. Thomas, Atlantic v. Howell, Atlantic v. Brennan, and LondonSire v. Does.

"Making available" isn't distribution. Check the NYCL threads, probable google "beckerman"+"making available"

I'll make it easier. Read Capitol v. Thomas, Atlantic v. Howell, Atlantic v. Brennan, and LondonSire v. Does.

"Making available" isn't distribution. Check the NYCL threads, probable google "beckerman"+"making available"

I'll make it easier. Read Capitol v. Thomas, Atlantic v. Howell, Atlantic v. Brennan, and LondonSire v. Does.

"Making available" isn't distribution. Check the NYCL threads, probable google "beckerman"+"making available"

I'll make it easier. Read Capitol v. Thomas, Atlantic v. Howell, Atlantic v. Brennan, and LondonSire v. Does.

Frankly I'm getting a bit tired of all the links to things that cause autism/asperger etc. Every day its a new thing.

So far we have:
Weather
Premature Birth
Environment
PVC
MMR vaccine
Genes
Vinyl Flooring
Shampoo
(There are probably a lot more)

As a parent of a autistic boy, I'm frankly tired of these so called empirical 'studies' which quite frankly don't prove a thing. The only thing that has helped with my son is ABA. I wish the editors would stop putting each and every one of these on the front page.

You know, as an open source developer, I think another reply is much more appropriate: "Show me the money". There is an idea that Open source developers are somehow under and obligation to give everyone what they want, for fun and for free. Or that the open source developer should fix all bugs their program has.

There is no such obligation.

People are free to download and use my open-source code. It's when they send me email asking for help or feature requests that I draw the line. Sure, I'll help people via private email and I'll implement features, but not without getting paid. Indeed, I've earned a little extra money this way.

Once I let go of the notion I somehow had to answer email privately and deal with people's feature requests free of charge, it's been a lot less stressful developing my software. I believe in open source software, but I don't believe this means I have an obligation to provide free support and to answer the people who want MySQL support or whatever feature doesn't scratch my itch.

- Sam

There's stuff that you want to pay attention to, and there stuff that you don't. Microsoft ads are one thing, but this, for example, points out a very specific, major, and long-standing problem. Which is still not fixed.

Parent's comment, while appearing funny, has more than a grain of truth.

I have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, and while it certainly comes with some challenges, I wouldn't change the fact that I have it. I wouldn't want to give up the quirks and abilities that have been a part of me my whole life. A quote seems appropriate here:

"Not everyone on the autism spectrum wants to be cured." -- Sigourney Weaver

(Note: I have nothing to do with the linked blog.)

Yep, you missed it.

For the first and only time, something that has "leaked" to the internet has been completely and utterly removed from it. You need to be quicker next time.

You're wrong.

Google has been doing this since a couple of weeks ago with their Gmail's Undo sent mail. When you Undo a sent mail, Google will stop the internet, grab your email from its recipient, then resumes the internet!

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ Tell me he's not a critic, and a big one at that... theres a lot more people like that around than you realize..... Hell half the people designing code for Linux critic each others stuff as well.....

The article is quite right; there is too much groupthink and myopia. The Linux Hater's blog is a must-read as an antidote to all that, and he or she has some useful points to make. The articles on Linux Weekly News still have a Linux-centric viewpoint, naturally, but usually aren't afraid to point out shortcomings (especially when quoting the latest Linus flaming on the kernel list).

Let me attempt to summarize. A) PulseAudio needs to work with existing applications, so it implements an ALSA emulation layer, except, it's not complete. Only 70% of ALSA applications work. So it's like, totally ready. B) So, in the true open source fashion, you should port your app to be a native PulseAudio client. Except that you can't. There's this yet-another-audio-library called libsidney, but it's not ready yet. (Hmm, this sounds familiar...) C) Fedora led the way in incorporating PulseAudio before it was ready, breaking audio for thousands of users. Then because open source is about copying good ideas and bad ones, a ton of other distros adopted it as well. Amazing guys. In a way, you've spread bad code that breaks audio on thousands of computers faster than a virus could have. And it's immune to antivirus! D) so now that we're in this "mess" (as the lead developer of PulseAudio calls it*), LSB comes along and says "we're going to standardize how your write audio apps!" Oh, but wait, ALSA's now "old" (we hardly knew ye), and I can't directly program PulseAudio. Hmm... So the article's brilliant solution? Standardize on the PulseAudio-safe subset of ALSA. WHAT THE FUCK. I can just imagine the future alsa man page. A big listing of functions, with a nice little asterisk next to those functions that you shouldn't use unless you want your app to totally FAIL on a system which has been sodomized by Pulse Audio. I can just see the developers of commercial Linux sound apps (all three of them) jumping for joy. And thus unfolds another chapter in long history of failed sound systems on Linux. Can they make it much worse? I, for one, am excited to see how much worse they can make it until we all go back to listening to square waves on our PC speakers. * BTW, also notice that it's the PulseAudio guy calling Linux audio a mess. Did he forget that it was his project that took the existing mess, and unloaded a giant steaming turd on it? Congratufuckinglations. You've just made it worse. You're a truly a worthy OSS contributor.

He's pretty harsh, but he always has a point behind it.

Bottom line, get an unlocked develoopers handset unless you want the cell company and/or Google to tell you what you can and can't run on THEIR hardware.

Except last I heard the dev handset doesn't allow you to install any copy-protected apps.

http://erkdemon.blogspot.com/2009/03/hyperbolic-planar-tesselations-by-don.html

(it's the second image)

Four large faces, another four the next size down, twelve more the size below that, and so on.

Dung Flooring

Why would we fear you? You love pandas!

Her own personal blog with design choices reminiscent of the 90s: http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/

Have you heard of this little known website called myspace?

She seems to be more of an 'omg pandas' kind of girl anyway.