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Her own personal blog with design choices reminiscent of the 90s: http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/ Google Docs, now with CADIE: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/cadie.html

My favorite problem with mysql. Awesome.

Literary Agent Janet Reid has a rather scathing rebuttal to Chu's article which Reid (who has actually read the settlement, something Chu did not do) feels is spectacularly uninformed and incorrect. I tend to agree with Reid. (FYI, I am an author whose in copyright books were scanned by Google. I am a member of the class.)

If anything, google and percona's patches for innodb demonstrate that the community is not dependent upon innobase/oracle to continue developing innodb. There is also the pbxt storage engine which seems to be farther along than falcon.

I'm already sick of innodb and myisam issues also falcon and maria are in alpha/pre alpha stages
maybe it's easier to write an new engine for an stable db like firebird/postgresql
I will post my progress on this page
http://mapopa.blogspot.com/search?q=mysql

ahh by the way firebird engine is stable for more that 20 years (triggers/transactions are normal things from that time)

http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=history&id=beginning

Who said anything about months? The OP meant 6 YEARS.

Do you work at Verizon by any chance?

Interestingly enough, there is good reason to blame American labor unions for not moving the bulk of their efforts to China, India, etc.

Strictly speaking, from lower dimensionality of space-time at shorter scale doesn't follow, space-time has a fractal nature at all. The same observation can be made at water surface, where for shorter wavelengths we can observe a distortion of waves due the Brownian motion of water molecules. As the result, even at water surface very tiny 2D surface waves spreads like longitudinal 1D waves and nothing very strange is about it. It's not evidence for fractal or multiple Universe, just for the fact, space-time is composed of particle environment. In this way, such observation is rather evidence of particle Aether model, then the fractal nature of it and every notion of fractals is irrelevant here. BTW every decreasing of dimensionality is manifestation of ISL violation for light and gravity and Lorentz symmetry violation as well (therefore the violation of string theory, which is based on special relativity and it assumes the existence of additional dimensions instead of reduction of their number), etc... http://aetherwavetheory.blogspot.com/2006/07/aether-wave-theory-introduction.html

Parent is not flamebait as the Huffington Post actively works to censor comments it doesn't like and then outright bans the user.

So yes, the Huffington Post does appear to be be a shill site and this attempt at investigative journalism should not be taken seriously.

It's amazing at what google is doing now days. I guess I'm really inspired by Google because I am a software engineer that finds how they go about their business very unique. I wrote an article on my blog about why you should use Google. The blog is focused on helping people who are new to computers/internet and want to learn to use them more efficiently. Check out the article about why you should use google at http://onlineinnovation.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-you-should-use-google.html If you have any suggestions for topics to write about, let me know!!! I'm doing this because I feel that this information would have been VERY useful to me when I first started using computers/internet.

for Windows server admins who aren't experienced Python users, I put together this quick overview of steps to use scs on a Windows network. http://bobsfieldnotes.blogspot.com/

Yep - more child sex hysteria. Those poor kids - our legal system makes me sick. I can't imagine how many people in my generation would be behind bars now for the harmless things we did as adolescents were it not for the absence of this insanity back then.

Depending on where it fails (if it fails in a the same spot) you can relatively easily work around it and not throw out the remaining good portion of the stick. I wrote a howto..

http://gquigs.blogspot.com/2009/01/bad-memory-howto.html

I've been running on Option 3 for quite some time now. No, it's not as good as ECC, but it doesn't cost you anything.

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/03/just-to-clarify.html

While I think your idea of bringing back plus packs is a GREAT idea, as it would cut the bloat without having 400 fricking versions of the OS, there is another idea from that time I believe they desperately need to bring back as well: The WinNT/Win9x divide. Remember how if you remember how if you wanted a HOME OS you could actually BUY a home OS, and if you just wanted to get your work done there was an actual business OS? Now they put out the same bloated as hell, multimedia choked, bling bling to the top, I want to be OSX so damned bad it hurts OS and just cripple a few features for the home market.

That is NOT a business OS. A Windows business OS is a fugly, plain, low resource using, backwards compatible OS with minimum bells and wells and good GPO management. That is why to this day I still say Win2K Pro was the best business OS MSFT has ever made, and frankly everything since then has been downhill. There wasn't any added themes support or multimedia bling bling junk in the Win2K of goodness. Nope, just fugly Grey solid as a rock business goodness. Of course that is why you have tons of sites that show you how to turn Win2K8 server into a workstation. It is because ever since Vista all the business user(one of the most lucrative and largest markets MSFT has) has gotten from MSFT is the finger. It is also why infoworld is declaring Win7 is going to be yet another dud to the enterprise and SMB markets.

That is why I am making this prediction: Win7 is going to be another dud. MSFT has seemed to forgotten that folks want to use at home what they use at the office. That is why I have many customers that still insist on Win2K or WinXP, because that is what they use at work and that is what they want at home. The only good I foresee coming from Win7 is that they may finally fire that damned monkey Ballmer. He has had the company hopping from one boneheaded idea to another like they have ADHD, and his Apple and Google envy is frankly dragging the company down the toilet. If folks wanted an Apple they would BUY a bloody Apple! But of course I'm not the only one that thinks the best thing that can happen is Ballmer be given his walking papers. Bring back the plus packs and for the love of Deity bring back actual Business OSes. Because the shit they are shoveling now sure as hell don't cut it.

You can't count on bitmaps either, because of Gamma Correction and similar issues. That's why I always directly stimulate my user's optic nerves. But even that isn't perfect.

IANACS, but I read the reason that the destruction and (after the Montreal Protocol) current rebuilding of the ozone layer is so fast, is because not much of the CFC's were needed to alter it: radiation split a halogen atom off of them, forming free radicals, and these reacted with the O3 forming oxygen and the same free radical again, ready to do the same reaction again (linky).
The greenhouse effect of CO2, on the other hand, is related to how much CO2 there is in the atmosphere (I think the bulk of the effect is due to how CO2 strongly absorbs infrared light, as discovered in 1896. So, the effect of the CO2 is not as strong and you need more of it (which we do in fact).
However, what I think is not really taken into account much yet is possible positive and negative feedback effects that might become more noticeable at higher CO2 concentrations.
Freeman Dyson mentioned a negative feedback effect: that trees would be happy to absorb more CO2 (esp. his idea of genetically engineered CO2 eating trees). This might be a good mitigating idea, especially combined with "bio-charring" them to put a bit of the sequestered carbon in the ground, out of the biological cycle.
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What worries me more is *positive* feedback effects. When the arctic cap melts, the sea underneath is probably darker than the white ice we have currently, so the albedo of the planet might change a little bit and reflect less of the sunlight. When or maybe if the methane clathrates at some places of the seabottom burp up and the Siberian permafrost melts, large amounts of methane get in the atmosphere, and they'd either add to the greenhouse effect (stronger than an equivalent amount of CO2) or if there's enough methane maybe they'd even burn, warming the tundra up even more (and who knows how long it takes to put that out, if a large area is on fire fueled by deposits of long-frozen rotten stuff; e.g. coal mine fires can last long)
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You're obviously not familiar with annotations and dependency injection in Java.

Here's a better side by side comparison of Java and Python.

Here's a Python developers view of some new Java features

The URL of your page has nothing to do with the Google pagerank. See: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html

Do you realize how many frames I'll have to carve in stone for just one DVD, much less my whole collection? After that, there are thousands of pics!!!

Can you say: "Holy Bleeding Blisters, Batman!"

Time to move near a stone quarry. I guess...offsite backups go to the moon, Alice...to the moon!

By the way, a friend of mine actually recently wrote an interesting article about how engineers can do their own small scale manufacturing. Its in product design and development magazine, and the article can be found here.

Basically my quick version:

1) start a corporation
2) buy your own CnC/rapid prototyping tech or plan to outsource prototyping efforts
3) build prototype
4) use rapid prototyping techniques to refine product
4) outsource final product manufacturing
5) sell product online through various channels
6) profit!

Actually makes quite a bit of sense these days. I wrote a short article about the current trend toward decentralized manufacturing as well ...

Then you probably want to read: Patrick Logan on why SMT isn't "awesomez".

I prefer my RAM measured by the ton

AROS is an open source operating system largely source-compatible with AmigaOS 3.x APIs and runs on modern PCs. It's not "finished", and shares AmigaOS weaknesses as well as strengths, but is usable (helped by recompiles of a load of amiga stuff from the Aminet (still around!) I guess) :

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

Grab a liveCD from Icaros desktop and give it a go.

http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/

I wouldn't really want to use a system lacking full memory protection in the modern era (though some effort at retrofitting memory protection is underway IIRC), but it does work.

Now, if they could just add a feature that held any emails sent after 2am for 12 hours, aka the "sober up first" rule, thus preventing me from waking up after a bender thinking, "oh crap, did I really send that email confessing my true feelings to that girl I had a crush on in high school but hadn't talked to in 15 years?", life would be just great.

I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.

I missed that one... this is a very interesting idea, because not only would it slow you down if you are in some way (chemically, perhaps?) impaired, but it would also help if you are overly emotional, as doing math will activate other side of your brain, and you might be able to make a more rational decision or observation.

How about this instead?

I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.

Unfortunately, I have a Masters Degree in Drunken Calculus, so that feature won't help me :(

Now, if they could just add a feature that held any emails sent after 2am for 12 hours, aka the "sober up first" rule, thus preventing me from waking up after a bender thinking, "oh crap, did I really send that email confessing my true feelings to that girl I had a crush on in high school but hadn't talked to in 15 years?", life would be just great.

I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.

You mean Mail Goggles?

They've also had a Mail Goggles feature for a while. It makes you do some simple math problem to determine if you're sober enough to send the email. This might be useful for those who drunk mail now instead of drunk dial. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html

The Obama DOJ has now filed a similar brief in another RIAA case.

Well... yes, why not? Anyone can easily opt-out. I don't see why this wouldn't fall under the same "fair use" as Google cache or Internet Archive. First of all, this is news and links in summaries are the source of the news; citing the sources wouldn't be wrong, as long as you make it clear that it's a copy of the web page, for the sole purpose of citation. Mirrordot would actually protect other peoples' servers load and bandwidth costs.

Using YouTube as a nostalgia trip, I've seen many artist come back to 'life' from the combination of fan power and the Web. Careers have been revived, arenas filled, records sold - all money in the bank. But now its being taken away, those fairly narrow opportunities are reducing every day this runs on, all done by the people who are supposed to help artists generate money. Something is badly wrong http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2009/03/finally-affected-by-internet-politics.html "Anyone can find a fan page, maybe even the original artists and kick back in nostalgia mode, old albums can be purchased (money for the record companies - a good thing), even re-released (even better), a lot of acts are touring now, who without the net to spread the word would be sat on their arses."

i wonder why everybody is after youtube, china is after youtube again.. Damn. My poor Utube.. Plz stop harrassing Youtube. Regards, Sussane http://itshumour.blogspot.com/

Indeed, 3D on mobile devices is nothing new. E.g., a quick Google finds http://www.foshopro.com/download_Wolfenstein_3D_for_Windows_Mobile_PocketPC_Smartphone_cheap.html , http://symbianv3.com/wolfenstein-3d-for-your-mobile/ , http://dibosmobile.blogspot.com/2007/11/wolfenstein-3d-pocket-pc-game.html .

And what about Wolfenstein RPG? It's a new game rather than just a port, but it's still 3D, and runs on any bog standard Java phone (which means that the Iphone presumably isn't good enough to run it).

I would have been interested to hear some of these things, but unfortunately it seems that Iphonedot, er I mean, Slashdot only covers the Iphone. And I guess a story solely for the Iphone is inevitable, if even "Website now viewable on Iphone" is newsworthy (as was the story we got a few weeks ago). And so we'll have more people mistakenly believing that this is yet another "Apple first".

This by far the largest imbalance in the legal system. If a big company/corporation/MAFIAA starts a lawsuit against an individual, it can easily bankrupt an individual in a short time period while being a drop in the bucket to the company/corporation. The defendants in most of these cases loose considerably even if they have the lawsuit dropped somewhere in the process. They have almost no means to win, as the MAFIAA does everything it can to avoid paying out a cent while fleecing individuals.

You are exactly right. I discuss the economic imbalance problem, and the mischief it has caused, in detail, in the 'equal access to justice' issue of The Judges Journal, published by the American Bar Association, in my article, "Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless : Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations".

I don't know about changing tires on a moving car, but these guys changed the oil on a single-engine airplane in flight:
http://untoldvalor.blogspot.com/2008/07/plane-that-flew-for-62-days-and-t-bird.html
They couldn't have stayed airborne for almost 65 days with the original oil so they routed the oil lines through the cockpit.

I do a very similar thing.

My backup machine does nightly archives to tape, but it's also got an array of disks for nightly backups. If the backup server dies, those hard drives are instantly mountable on any of the machines by just plugging them in.

The details in the link above aren't right, especially the gordian bash-knot, since I've been moving to AMANDA, but the premise is the same. Nightly backups to multiple media, full weekly backups to long term storage media.

Linux seriously needs to find a workaround to its licensing squabbles and find a way to get a rock-solid ZFS in the kernel. Right now, ZFS on OpenSolaris is simply wonderful, and this is what I am deploying for file service at all my customer sites now. The scary thing about file system corruption is that it is often silent, and can go on for a long time, until your system crashes, and you find that all of your backups are also crap. I've replaced a couple of linux servers (and more than a couple of Windows servers) after filesystem and disk corruption compounded by naive RAID implementations (RAID[1-5] without end-to-end checksumming can make your data *less* safe), and my customers couldn't be happier. Having hourly snapshots and a fast in-kernel CIFS server fully integrated with ZFS ACLS (and with support for NTFS-style mixed case naming) is jut icing on the cake. Now if only I could have an Opensolaris desktop with all the nice linux userland apps available. Oh wait, I can!

Texas is wonderful in many ways but wondrous strange as well.

Traditional open source licenses like GPL create a hard-to-cross chasm between it and traditional economics; essentially you can trade code for code, but cannot trade code for anything else (with the traditional medium of that trade being $).

        Imagine if some highly successful OSS product "expanded" GPL to include a monetary contribution clause (i.e if you don't want copyleft then just pay X -- instead of contributing code the licensor has the option to contribute money). That money could trivially be used to hire programmers and therefore be converted back into code... or used to pay contributers.

        Of course this opens up a huge can of worms, like who gets paid how much (I think that it was very wise for OSS and GPL to steer clear of these issues during its incubation period). As many people have posted, a "trust network" can only be part of the equation... I think that a more quantitative algorithm could be created that captures contributions in code, docs, and community. But the big problem with any quantitative algorithm is that people could change their style to trick the algorithm into thinking they contributed more; for example, to fake out SLOC counts its pretty easy to deliberately write large amounts of code to do small jobs. Enter the trust network; perhaps it can be used to catch and regulate abusers.

        I've expanded on the idea in my blog here: http://effluviaofascatteredmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-gpl-open-company-concept.html. I think I've already exceeded what most slashdot readers really want to read :-).

Not true, the compression technology today can do just fine.

If you use H264, only 4 Mbit/s is needed for a 1280x720 @ 30 fps with less than 10 ms encoding-decoding latency, which is perfectly fine for normal games. VDSL uses telephone lines and can (theoretically) go up to 90Mbps (but only in Asia, sorry!)

A company already used streaming technology to let you play crisis on an eeepc w/ wifi.

Like the previous comments, the big problem is latency, even if you have 0 lag for processing, encoding, and decoding, you need to go through the internet, and that's laggy regardless of the application.

The only way this can work is if they have multiple server farms at close to the local loop (at the isp's). It'll cost a bit of money for the company, but I think the business plan is there (esp if they go for full cloud computing, instead of just a gaming platform)

I've actually pitched a similar idea to Google ~ a year ago. Check out my blog if you're interested.

This is a common sort of lawsuit, and is a textbook example of where the "A New Kind of Justice" legal system succeeds. NCS Pearson is (ultimately) threatening a lawsuit, knowing that:

    * The risk (cost) to NCS Pearson for making such a threat is low
    * The benefit to NCS Pearson of making the threat is low, but...
    * The risk to AntiPolygraph.org of ignoring the threat is high
    * The benefit to AntiPolygraph.org of ignoring the threat is low

In our current legal system, the risk (cost) of making most threats is low, and in some cases (not the one above) the benefit is high, so the system produces lots of lawsuits. ANKOJ evens the table: it introduces an element of risk to the plaintiff, and it requires the plaintiff to declare up front what sort of damages they believe they have suffered, so that the defendant can settle without a costly legal defense.

I can't believe this wasn't mentioned..

The most obvious change is the (temporary) change of logo to Tuz, the Tasmanian Devil.

Here's what the new linux logo looks like for this release.

It's as f**king awful as the penguin.

If they're gonna dick with the branding, they should move well away from this kiddy stuff.
There's a reason Distro's don't use it.

World class OS represented by a Toys'R'Us type mascot, it's an embarrassment. Saying you work on Linux shouldn't feel like saying you do occupational therapy with the learning disabled, or run a creche.

Not that I stand in admiration of that mutant window thing...

I can't believe this wasn't mentioned..

The most obvious change is the (temporary) change of logo to Tuz, the Tasmanian Devil.

Here's what the new linux logo looks like for this release.

My blog "Overthinking Man" http://overthinkingman.blogspot.com/ is a rebellious daily observation of my own defeat by living in the Age of Speed. A shameless self promotion- sorry.

The most bombastic speaker who appeals to the most retards wins.

I don't want to say anything about our current President, but...

You may be confusing Obama with Bush

Skip Cold Fusion for Cold Cave Diving. The topic may not be as hot, but it is as cool!

I disliked the conclusion so much that I had to reimagine it in a different context, with a different ending, in order to accept it.

http://manifestomultilinko.blogspot.com/2009/03/bsg-finale-answer-to-question-we-didnt.html

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