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leasing equipment is expensive and ends up costing more. sometimes companies don't have a choice though.

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i tried this new extension by going to http://www.popuptest.com/goodpopups.html and noticed that although it is very good at blocking unwanted popups, it doesn't work so well with popups that i would like to click. (by clicking on them) it still didn't work when i clicked on 'show this popup' on the firefox status bar..

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i tried to do this some time ago and i didn't work for me. i get popups sometimes from going to drudgereport.com.

downloading this new extension seems to work much better though, very nice.

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I submitted this news last night, I wonder why it was not posted. Before you mod me down or reply with flames.. I must tell you that I have read the FAQ and find no reason why that story should have been rejected and this one accepted... read http://animeshpathak.blogspot.com/2005/04/on-googl e-maps-slashdot-and-yours.html for my complaints on this issue. I wonder why, I wonder why, .. I wonder why I wonder [with apologies to Richard Feynman]

Ancient civilizations have boasted technological advancements way ahead of current times. Sciptures talk of vayuyan (airplane) and brahmastra (universal weapon, akin to nuclear weapon). Maybe we had all this and the knowledge was wiped due to something similar to an electromagnetic wave wiping out the patent office ...

Hmmm I should stop drinking KoolAid!

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Ancient civilizations have boasted technological advancements way ahead of current times. Sciptures talk of vayuyan (airplane) and brahmastra (universal weapon, akin to nuclear weapon). Maybe we had all this and the knowledge was wiped due to something similar to an electromagnetic wave wiping out the patent office ...

Hmmm I should stop drinking KoolAid!

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Open Java

Oy. Can anyone else get this to work or is it a hoax??

But for blogging in videos to become a reality, you need great bandwidth for your internet connection - which is a pipe dream for majority of the netizens at the moment. In my country, internet connection that is sold with the name broadband is just 128 KPBs. So you can imagine .....

But it is a good move by google in the right direction.

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Well, like teething, it'll stop sooner or later.

I was Feeling-Google-Lucky with "toothing" (thanks FireFox!) and this Toothing Blog was last updated on April 28 2004.

And finding partners for sex using bluetooth mobile is as productive as asking a/s/l on IRC channels, or Mrs Gump's box of chocolate.

Seriously, no matter how horny you are, you wouldn't simply jump on bed with anybody, would you?

Oops, clickable link here: Jython webapp tutorial

For a lot of people the default stack for python IS J2EE.
Where i work we regularly run jython code under weblogic and ocassionally tomcat.
Have a look at this excellent tutorial to see what i mean:
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/JythonWebAppTutori al.html

manisha patel

Here is the text of linked article:

AgileTV presents Promptu voice controlled television

AgileTV is aiming to change the way people watch TV, with a voice controlled television remote control.

The Promptu remote is designed to replace a conventional remote control and includes a "Talk" button and a built-in microphone, together with an infra-red receiver used in conjunction with an existing cable box.

The remote control translates spoken commands into speech features that are sent the receiver and then to a small runtime application in the set-top box. The actual voice recognition is performed at the cable head-end on commodity PC based Linux systems. This can be tuned to regional accents and can include a large vocabulary database. The response is returned in around a second, and an on screen prompt indicates when the command has been understood.

The remote control can be told to change channel by name or number, or show programme selections by up to 75 pre-defined categories. This perhaps demonstrates the problem of genre classification for television programmes and displays a certain North American bias. So there are currently categories for Cheerleading and Rodeo, but only one for Performing Arts, which might indicate something about the intended market.

It comes with a handy reference card that helpfully explains "You can also find an actor in an Adult program by saying 'Find Adult Actor' and the actor's name".

Voice control always seems to be a feature of visions of the future. While not dismissing its potential application for ensuring accessibility, the Promptu approach still requires a remote control and the user needs to hold down the Talk button when giving commands. However, the real advantage is that it may eliminate the requirement for keyboard entry when searching for titles, or adult actors.

Promptu is currently on trial by Comcast and Time Warner in the Philadelphia region. Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts has been quoted as calling it "one of my favourite new pieces of technology".

www.promptu.com

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Too bad it looks like my Mac circa 1999. http://oncee.blogspot.com/

At musicthing. Godfried is more than a little odd.

At musicthing. Godfried is more than a little odd.

A pretty good post over at Peak Oil Optimist makes the obvious point about this nonsense: if it were really an economically feasible alternative source of energy, it wouldn't require subsidies. Saying that it beats other biomass crops in terms of energy input to output ratio isn't saying much-- ethanol production, for example, is typically a net energy loser (but it exists due to heavy subsidies). Maybe we need to stop spending so much money on farm subsidies, and focus on more realistic avenues for alternative energy?

A pretty good post over at Peak Oil Optimist makes the obvious point about this nonsense: if it were really an economically feasible alternative source of energy, it wouldn't require subsidies. Saying that it beats other biomass crops in terms of energy input to output ratio isn't saying much-- ethanol production, for example, is typically a net energy loser (but it exists due to heavy subsidies). Maybe we need to stop spending so much money on farm subsidies, and focus on more realistic avenues for alternative energy?

The challenge and key thing for a band, _assuming_ they make good music people are going to like, is gettting heard enough, getting enough exposure.

Why do musicians traditionally get pennies on the dollar for CD sales? Its for the priviledge of being promoted, of being marketed, of getting enough exposure that a lot of people have heard and appreciate the music --- and want to buy it.

It is ludicrous for a band to expect people to want to pony up music to hear them (unless they are putting on an event, like a concert, or club act --- where people are there for more reason than just liking your music) unless they have gotten their music exposure.

Getting exposure is REALLY HARD.

And, in the old system, only several music acts at a time can be promoted to this degree, meaning you, unless you are the next Beatles, Police, Madonna, Britany, or U2, are not goi g to get a shot.

The Internet gives you that shot -- not so much to offer music to sell (that part is easy) but to get people to LISTEN to your music, to check it out.

Think of the Internet as the new radio. Getting on the radio is hard; getting people to listen to your MP3 on the Internet is not easy, but you don't have to bribe someone, or sign away 95% of your income for the next 5 years.

My well thought out recommendation: Polish and record your best 3-10 songs in MP3 format (which everyone can listen to). THEN put all your crap (photos, video clips, band interviews, lyrics, band site URL, etc. etc.) in ID3 tags within the MP3.

This allows you to send all your marketing material along with every download. If the people downloading your songs llike them enough, you've given them the hooks to get really into you.

If they don't like your songs that much then... either keep working harder at it, or go back to your day job.

The only way to make a living off your music is to have people really like it and demand it.

good luck

PS we talk about these subjects and post link to bands MP3s on the Songzilla Blog. We welcome all bands who want to post links to their MP3s there.

...It wasn't as horrible as many are making it seem.

Sorry, but I consider a bill passed by three senators not only unconstitutional, but horrible.

Who knew this really existed! Video linked here

The timestamp on the original article reads "Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 02, @10:17AM"

April fools day was yesterday, but I've already had my rant about Google's late April Fools joke, so I'll let it pass.

You really ought to read David Brin's thoughts on Crichton's lecture. Or, if one novelist berating another isn't good enough for you, go read up on what Jared Diamond has to say about him.

Personally, I don't have a whole lot of respect for Crichton's "science", and would give more credibility to anything I read in SciAm than anything he ever said.

noah

OK, is this "zombie pope funny"?

http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/

would be nice if the storage space would double with every google birthday

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Okay, We Give Up

There's no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. We resisted their advice and pretended not to be stung by the accusations that the magazine should be renamed Unscientific American, or Scientific Unamerican, or even Unscientific Unamerican. But spring is in the air, and all of nature is turning over a new leaf, so there's no better time to say: you were right, and we were wrong.

In retrospect, this magazine's coverage of socalled evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it.

Where were the answering articles presenting the powerful case for scientific creationism? Why were we so unwilling to suggest that dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago or that a cataclysmic flood carved the Grand Canyon? Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles. As editors, we had no business being persuaded by mountains of evidence.

Moreover, we shamefully mistreated the Intelligent Design (ID) theorists by lumping them in with creationists. Creationists believe that God designed all life, and that's a somewhat religious idea. But ID theorists think that at unspecified times some unnamed superpowerful entity designed life, or maybe just some species, or maybe just some of the stuff in cells. That's what makes ID a superior scientific theory: it doesn't get bogged down in details.

Good journalism values balance above all else. We owe it to our readers to present everybody's ideas equally and not to ignore or discredit theories simply because they lack scientifically credible arguments or facts. Nor should we succumb to the easy mistake of thinking that scientists understand their fields better than, say, U.S. senators or best-selling novelists do. Indeed, if politicians or special-interest groups say things that seem untrue or misleading, our duty as journalists is to quote them without comment or contradiction. To do otherwise would be elitist and therefore wrong. In that spirit, we will end the practice of expressing our own views in this space: an editorial page is no place for opinions.

Get ready for a new Scientific American. No more discussions of how science should inform policy. If the government commits blindly to building an anti-ICBM defense system that can't work as promised, that will waste tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars and imperil national security, you won't hear about it from us. If studies suggest that the administration's antipollution measures would actually increase the dangerous particulates that people breathe during the next two decades, that's not our concern. No more discussions of how policies affect science eitherâ"so what if the budget for the National Science Foundation is slashed? This magazine will be dedicated purely to science, fair and balanced science, and not just the science that scientists say is science. And it will start on April Fools' Day.

(courtesy of Mr Bob Hates You.)

The complete article is here
http://mrbobhatesyou.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_mrbob hatesyou_archive.html%23111147519912475081

And its very funny

I found this during my daily crawl ... and it sounds like the Revolution pretty much is the controller...

http://cathodetan.blogspot.com/2005/04/nintendo-ga meboy-revolution.html

Novell believes that long-term, they must have a credible Linux desktop to create a full Linux ecosystem that they can sell- they realize that if they sell 'only' servers, they are hosed. That already happened once with Netware. So that's why they had to make some sort of desktop buy.

Realistically, Nat and Miguel buy them corporate desktop credibility that the SuSE guys don't have, particularly in the US- they present well (better than basically anyone, they are Names, they have a long track record of focusing on the desktop (whereas SuSE never seriously tried to sell on the desktop.) So, yes, there have been growing/integration pains, and yes, buying Trolltech could have solved the licensing problem and certainly would have integrated better, but in the end, it would have pitted Novell against Sun and Red Hat- not a particularly appealing position to be in.

[And the Mono argument, FWIW, is a pretty long-term one- if MS gets what they want, every programmer in the world will be learning C# in school within 4-5 years. Even discounting the language religious wars about productivity and such, that seems like a pretty good reason to have a C# compiler and runtime to me...]

GIMP is a beauty, and I've created more than a dozen graphics with it for my graphic blog; check them out at: http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/

I'm not a trained graphic artist, and I don't make a living in that field, but my experience with GIMP has been great, despite all the talks about its awkward UI.

But grandparent post said they can be found, and grandpa is right. I found Snowy Whistler, a spam site advertising whistler-portal.com. Some quick Google searching fails to produce that site in the results. Maybe they have more luck with Yahoo, MSN.

I feel comfortable that Google is on the job, and the six spam sites that GP lists either don't or soon won't produce results in Google searches

Succeed with AdSense

Well, that's not really spam, per se. Spam is much more insideous than that. This is some gnarly blog spam. Just one example, and not even the most nefarious I've seen.

Google doesn't like a lack of discretion at all... More specifically, I'm remembering that one idiot who started working at google and had nothing better to do than saying some annoying things in his blog...

Anyway, I liked to read his post :)

Here Blogger.com spammer: http://unearthohio.blogspot.com/

It just posts the first sentence of an article that has a keyword in it.

Blogger is full of this shit, too.

Just keep hitting "Next Blog" and you'll find a ton of blogs set up for advertising, just like those.

Blogger is full of this shit, too.

Just keep hitting "Next Blog" and you'll find a ton of blogs set up for advertising, just like those.

Blogger is full of this shit, too.

Just keep hitting "Next Blog" and you'll find a ton of blogs set up for advertising, just like those.

Blogger is full of this shit, too.

Just keep hitting "Next Blog" and you'll find a ton of blogs set up for advertising, just like those.

Blogger is full of this shit, too.

Just keep hitting "Next Blog" and you'll find a ton of blogs set up for advertising, just like those.

Blogger is full of this shit, too.

Just keep hitting "Next Blog" and you'll find a ton of blogs set up for advertising, just like those.

I thought I could resist, but since you went and mentioned it anyway... South Park had a great take on this whole stupid, sad, tragic thing, and timed it perfectly. It aired last night, though you can catch it again this Saturday, think. Among other revelations ( like putting a feeding tube *in* being going against god's will ), they explain that the PSP was made by god.

Then there's the Terri Schaivo blog, for which someone is certainly going to hell.

The saddest thing, to me, is that Mitch Hedberg's untimely death isn't likely to get much attention due to his timing here. Man, that sucks, he was one funny dude.

The owner of the domain fuc.kthe.us - reported here probably isn't going to like this...

One has to wonder what would have happened if the British had such draconian measures in place say around the 1770s.

Don't worry. We've finally learnt from the colonies and put the first draconian law in place a few weeks ago:

Control Orders: Just exactly what can they impose?

Just goes to show how much a HoosierBilly can accomplish by doing a quick search on Yahell for ["English to French" online translator] and then calling to your fingertips the amazing technological wonders called COPY and PASTE! Witness more of my smartasss/annoying banter at http://www.hoosierbilly.blogspot.com

Oops, I got the wrong URL in that link. This is what I meant.

If you miss Terri, you can still enjoy her blog.

Sorry, but my interpretation of a blog is a self-absorbed self-referential monologue about one or more subjects that's been transcribed and marked up with html. Sort of like public masturbation, but with css styling.

Your interpretation is inaccurate. Although there are many blogs that do contain nothing but trash, there are lots of others that cover news stories and provide perspectives otherwise unavailable through the mass media.

Blogs are a way for people to easily communicate their thoughts to a wide audience, nothing more, nothing less. Some of them are bad, some are good, but to write off all blogs just because you've never seen a good one is ignorant.

Sorry, but my interpretation of a blog is a self-absorbed self-referential monologue about one or more subjects that's been transcribed and marked up with html. Sort of like public masturbation, but with css styling.

Your interpretation is inaccurate. Although there are many blogs that do contain nothing but trash, there are lots of others that cover news stories and provide perspectives otherwise unavailable through the mass media.

Blogs are a way for people to easily communicate their thoughts to a wide audience, nothing more, nothing less. Some of them are bad, some are good, but to write off all blogs just because you've never seen a good one is ignorant.

Excellent point. They shouldn't be able to tax those who can't vote there. It makes no sense-doesn't this violate federal law?
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