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I knew all my hours of watching weren't wasted.
Such deadpan humour doesn't go down well in America for some reason (as the other AC responder shows)

Theres a badly presented but excellent resource listing the scripts for most dwarf episodes here

Screw the holodeck. Give me Better than Life from Red Dwarf!

SiO2

this reminds me of the Zero X comics where spaceships use this technic ^_^ http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Upload 01/ZeroXPt1.htm

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1. Windows Network Neighborhood visibility and UNIX/Linux visibility in the same panel.

Check. It's called Samba.

2. Active Directory password management which includes single sign-on and password expiration policies.

Check. It's called Samba with Winbind. Though it could do with being better integrated with most distributions.

3. Interoperability with Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000.

http://www.novell.com/products/connector/

4. Font compatibility with Microsoft Office and Openoffice.org and/or StarOffice.

TrueType fonts work fine for me. Though again, a well-designed installation program would be nice.

5. Windows Terminal Server clients using RDP out of the box for home grown applications and special Windows applications.

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rdp.png

6. Ability to click on a file in a Windows or Samba share and initiate the associated application.

Have they used Konqueror lately?

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/useprog. png

7. Device management for hardware compatibility.

One already exists, it just doesn't (yet) integrate to the point whereby it can install drivers automatically.

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8. Compatible Windows Media player Codecs.

Which ones? Xine supports most:

http://xinehq.de/index.php/features

1. Windows Network Neighborhood visibility and UNIX/Linux visibility in the same panel.

Check. It's called Samba.

2. Active Directory password management which includes single sign-on and password expiration policies.

Check. It's called Samba with Winbind. Though it could do with being better integrated with most distributions.

3. Interoperability with Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000.

http://www.novell.com/products/connector/

4. Font compatibility with Microsoft Office and Openoffice.org and/or StarOffice.

TrueType fonts work fine for me. Though again, a well-designed installation program would be nice.

5. Windows Terminal Server clients using RDP out of the box for home grown applications and special Windows applications.

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rdp.png

6. Ability to click on a file in a Windows or Samba share and initiate the associated application.

Have they used Konqueror lately?

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/useprog. png

7. Device management for hardware compatibility.

One already exists, it just doesn't (yet) integrate to the point whereby it can install drivers automatically.

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/infocent er.png

8. Compatible Windows Media player Codecs.

Which ones? Xine supports most:

http://xinehq.de/index.php/features

1. Windows Network Neighborhood visibility and UNIX/Linux visibility in the same panel.

Check. It's called Samba.

2. Active Directory password management which includes single sign-on and password expiration policies.

Check. It's called Samba with Winbind. Though it could do with being better integrated with most distributions.

3. Interoperability with Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000.

http://www.novell.com/products/connector/

4. Font compatibility with Microsoft Office and Openoffice.org and/or StarOffice.

TrueType fonts work fine for me. Though again, a well-designed installation program would be nice.

5. Windows Terminal Server clients using RDP out of the box for home grown applications and special Windows applications.

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rdp.png

6. Ability to click on a file in a Windows or Samba share and initiate the associated application.

Have they used Konqueror lately?

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/useprog. png

7. Device management for hardware compatibility.

One already exists, it just doesn't (yet) integrate to the point whereby it can install drivers automatically.

http://www.whitepost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/infocent er.png

8. Compatible Windows Media player Codecs.

Which ones? Xine supports most:

http://xinehq.de/index.php/features

My commendations on creating havoc. This pathetic discussion forum will now have four more years to gripe!

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* ( Posted anonymously to avoid those pesky agents who are after my WMDs! Silly federal agents, WMDs are for Evil Overlords! Offers void where legal, further restrictions may apply. See henchmen for details. WMDs may not be shipped to Iraq at this time. By purchasing one of our fine products, you agree to give us control of the world should you ever actually take control of it. This agreement is terminated whenever you are. )

Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

--
But this is the best part, this is when they... START RAPPING! Bwahahaha. "It's The Ledged Of Zelda and it's really rad. Those creatures from Gondorf are pretty bad." That is just a snippet from the rhyming prodigy's in this commercial. I don't really know what Nintendo was thinking when they thought up the idea for portraying their customers as hopeless dorks, but this is by far my favorite Nintendo commercial.

No sarcasm intended, merely meant it as a compliment. Noticed that the upper directory had a lot of other cool math stuff, too.

(haven't gone through them - yet, merely noticed that there seemed to be a lot of good mathematical content).

You should probably read Primes is in P - good paper.

PS - There is no such thing as FBT, atleast AFAIK. Is that one of yours? Has it been published/peer reviewed?

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Proof, no proof, hole, no hole... it really doesn't matter.

This has now been proven.

http://www.bearnol.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Math/wanle ss2.html

I only seem to get this

Certainly looks like it.

See here.

I suppose, if you were cutting things close with a very heavy fixed weight for the aircraft itself, there could be a difference that matters.

Might be offtopic, but I remember hearing that before.

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I didn't notice any huge bugs with 10.0 Community, but I did have a hard time upgrading 10.0 Community to 10.0 Official once it was released. I did find these instructions with some googling. I agree with the parent too, wait for Official if you want a stable release.

LISTER: Yeah, the Skutters managed to smuggles something out of the medi-lab for us, y'know that stuff that helps impotent guys put the zest back in their love lives?

KRYTEN: 'Boing!', the virility enhancement drug!?

LISTER: That's the stuff, and we've Mickey Finn'd their drinks.

RIMMER: Within seconds, you're harder than a quadratic equation, and, it doesn't wear off for seven hours.

KRYTEN: For seven hours those guys are going to be like catapults!

Red Dwarf, Series 8, Episode 6

I thought I was being clever/helpful by writing a little script/addin to IE that allowed you to jump to the coral cache of that page.

Details are here: http://www.cbeach.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/coraladdin. htm

I then realized that if you could get to the page then you wouldn't need the script and if you couldn't get to the page then the script didn't work!

Dunno why I'm even posting this tbh...

Yeah, but it's not nearly as good as jozxyqk :o)

• How can this fellow's opinion turn on a dime like that? Is he really credible to a corporate audience? I don't think people are quite that stupid or so easily manipulated.

That was kind of an incomplete post. What I meant is that without slave labor or extremely cheap skilled labor (not that I'm advocating either of these), the sort of beautiful stonework we have to go touristy places to appreciate (but which used to exist in every city and on every church in the world) simply can't exist. But with good 3d printing, crafstmen can work digitally and design the sort of beautiful stonework we love to see everywhere.

Intelligent-Stupid
Lawful-Chaotic (alias Wacky-Sober)
Important-Unimportant (Leader-Follower)
Good-Evil (Constructive-Destructive)

Hackers/Mad Scientists are, of course, Intelligent-Chaotic-Unimportant-Evil, as we all know. :-)

RIMMER: So -- Holly managed to navigate her way through the five Black Holes?

HOLLY appears on KRYTEN's chest moniter.

HOLLY: As it transpired, there weren't any Black Holes.
RIMMER: But you saw them -- you saw them on the monitor.
HOLLY: They weren't Black Holes.
RIMMER: What were they?
HOLLY: Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes...
RIMMER: Oh, shut up.
LISTER: (Sighs.) Come on. Let's go.

Courtesy of Red Dwarf scripts

Well we've got Slay Radio streaming C64 re-mixes, and the High Voltage Sid Collection distributing SID format C64 music, so not much need for C64 iTunes.

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The first site talks about launching a nuclear powered factory to mars to produce methane-based rocket fuel.

Methane is a LOUSY rocket fuel.

Does it say it can't be used as a rocket fuel? No, it's not ideal, but it's much easier to produce on Mars, and it has been used as a rocket propellant before. Have you ever heard the saying, the best is the enemy of the good? Sometimes you can use a merely good enough solution rather than wait for a technically superior one. Or do you think we should wait to develop anti-gravity first?

Well no. The NTP engine was NOT developed to near-flight status. It was never physically constructed, let alone tested. The operation of this device violates most nuclear test ban treaties, and operating one withing the Van Allen belt would eventually contaminate the Earth's surface with nuclear material.

The only nuclear propulsion system which of necessity would contaminate its surroundings is Orion. But NTP (eg Nerva) uses a nuclear reactor to expel any propellant you like (best with hydrogen though). The propellant in the basic design does get somewhat contaminated, but this can be eliminated using modfied designs. (BTW, that "almost humerous" site you mention is NASA's. Of course, you're smarter than they are ...) And FYI they did build and fire test rigs on the ground which showed that engineering-wise the principle is sound, but did not get a chance to test it in space before the program was cancelled.

Even with this wonderous (but never actually built) form of propulsion, you merely cut down the amount of fuel. It still takes 6 months to get there because any faster or slower and you are increasing the distance to be traversed. Indeed the one study still has the same travel times I was talking about EVEN WITH THE NUCLEAR ENGINE.

Um, and so? Is there some law of physics which says a trip has to be made within a certain number of days? Why are you so hung up on the length of the trip? (Yes, I've read your original post about putting the astronauts to sleep and whatnot. I'm not sure why you think these issues are showstoppers when nobody in the field seems to.) And why do you think cutting down on the amount of fuel is a trivial concern? The more fuel you carry, the more fuel you have to carry to push THAT around. The point is to make the spacecraft smaller, lighter and CHEAPER. That's why we haven't gone to Mars, because every proposed mission from von Braun onwards has come with a $500 billion price tag attached to build some massive spacecraft, not because its "damn near impossible". Zubrin's plan can get it done much cheaper.

BTW, your "because any faster or slower and you are increasing the distance to be traversed" is silly. The standard 260 day travel time is the Hohmann minimum energy transfer orbit. If you burn more energy and go faster, you can indeed get there a lot quicker (you'll just have to burn even more to match orbits when you get there).

I don't get people like you. We can't do something right now, therefore it's impossible or not worth the attempt. With an ounce of imagination and historical awareness, you'd see how ridiculous this is.

There's only one Integrated Fusion Device I'm interested in, and this ain't it.

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This might be a helpful start. I wrote it a couple of years ago to help a number of teachers (ie. intelligent but not particularly IT literate people) grasp the basics.

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My favorite ED game is 22 years old already.

Today, if you want a freely available desktop-oriented Linux distribution, you have to hunt far and wide. If you looked a week ago, you would have Fedora Core 2, which suffers from this major bug, Mandrake 10 Community - which is a pain to update. Knoppix is good but it's not really meant for installation though it can be done. A quick look on SuSe's downloads page shows that they do offer it free (minus commercial components), but it's either in LiveCD format or has to be installed via FTP.

So, unfortunately today, we don't have the luxury we used to of being able to simply grab the 3 iso's for RedHat and installing them onto our system. Sure we could use Debian, or Gentoo, or even go out on a limb and try FreeBSD - but none of these are desktop-oriented, though you can achieve a nice desktop system if you work at it.

I think that's what he's talking about. :)

DARPA invented the Internet. History of the light buib can be found here Karl Benz of Germany invented the first motor car. Antonio Meucci invented the telephone.

There is a more interesting technique that works the road while the traffic moves on top - the technique is discussed here http://www.ecu.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/new/road.htm. I recall vaguely some group in the US also received funding to do a very similar project a few years ago.

And if somebody *ahem*Bush*ahem* drew a WMD, it'd still give him this

Sure. No problem.

(1) Take the engine out of the Jetta. You
probably want to remove the hood since the Deere
engine won't fit very well with the hood on.

(2) Put the deere engine into the engine compartment
of the Jetta. Points to observe here include (a)
make sure to align the PTO of the Deere with the
transmission connector. (b) If they don't match
as is likely, you can wedge a bolt or two into the
gap, so that they interlock. No hammer? I bet you
can find a rock. Just whack on it with a rock until
the bolt(s) are truly wedged. If the Deere PTO is
too big, rather than too small, rub it with a rock
until it is too small.

(3) Strap the engine firmly into place. Hook up
the fuel line and ignition electronics. Fuel line
is trivial, with some rubber tubing, but for
ignition electronics you have to match the wires.
I suggest just connecting all the red outputs to
the red input, black to black, etc. Or else read
a book. As for strapping, some old belts or a dog
chain you aren't using can do wonders.

(4) Be prepared for some mild vibration when you
start the engine. Some rubber to use for shims
can be helpful here. The upside is that if the
vibration is strong enough, even without a good
connection to the transmission, the Jetta is
light enough so that it will move around just due
to brownian motion.

(5) You're ready to do some travelin'!

I replaced the pedal assembly on my BMX bike with
a pulse-jet in about 2 hours. linky linky.
But I want to try a DK8
when I can find a cigar box full of rusty bolts.
Anyhow, I'm sure you can do the Deere in half
that time, as long as no rock-rubbing is required.

Good luck!

I hearby coin a new phrase: Journalistic Darwinism

In any population of journalists (or any other content authors) there will be those who use more saleable words, and those who use less. Financial support will follow, and this will in turn influence output, due to research money, travel funding, food onna table, etc. Anyone with enough money will realize that this is a good way to influence reporting (note none of this requires authors deliberately changing their work, just selection from a large pool of different authors). Kind of like the way corporate funding influences science (for example some approaches provide more information about global warming than others - then the coal industry chooses who to fund based on their approach, and voila, an increased proportion of papers published saying there's no such thing, and the industry can say "look, evidence is increasing that coal is good for you" - all without requiring bias at the level of the actual researcher.)

Of course, it'll be entertaining watching various ideologies fight over words like Clinton and Bush and cigar and Weapons of Mass Destruction and for that matter Good and Evil.

Might get a religious war started on the internet, now that I think about it...

I thought I addressed that, but maybe I didn't. Here is more on that.

The Allied Military Currency notes used in Japan after WWII ranged from 10 sen (100 sen = 1 yen) up to 100 yen.

Now I'd like to see you pay for something with 10-sen notes; you'd need about a thousand of them to buy a soda. :)

I say different versions use different species of penguin. Check this out. Tons of species with rather business-friendly names. King, Emperor (doesn't the middle one make you think "Godfather"?), as well as penguins with that corpate-ish look, like the Rockhopper, Erect-crested, Snares, and Fiordland. My personal vote is for the Rockhopper, or perhaps a more true-to-form (fatter, taller, and smaller head) Emperor penguin.

Of course, there is also the Jackass penguin, but I'm not sure anybody will go for that.

I say different versions use different species of penguin. Check this out. Tons of species with rather business-friendly names. King, Emperor (doesn't the middle one make you think "Godfather"?), as well as penguins with that corpate-ish look, like the Rockhopper, Erect-crested, Snares, and Fiordland. My personal vote is for the Rockhopper, or perhaps a more true-to-form (fatter, taller, and smaller head) Emperor penguin.

Of course, there is also the Jackass penguin, but I'm not sure anybody will go for that.

I say different versions use different species of penguin. Check this out. Tons of species with rather business-friendly names. King, Emperor (doesn't the middle one make you think "Godfather"?), as well as penguins with that corpate-ish look, like the Rockhopper, Erect-crested, Snares, and Fiordland. My personal vote is for the Rockhopper, or perhaps a more true-to-form (fatter, taller, and smaller head) Emperor penguin.

Of course, there is also the Jackass penguin, but I'm not sure anybody will go for that.

Muffet was that weird dog from galactica if you wanted to know.

weapons of mass destruction
french military victories

Except that's not Google. It just so happens that the top Google hit for French Military Victories is a spoof of the Google interface.

Similarly, the Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction spoof page

Or badgers?

I really wish that one of these days, a reporter from a mainstream news outlet would actually do their own reporting on the topic of game ratings instead of deferring to some parental group that tries its best to distort the facts. If an unbiased observer took a serious look at the ESRB ratings, they would realize that the inaccuracy goes both ways.

The ratings aren't just applied loosely, which infers that certain game publishers might be getting favors from the ESRB or that the ESRB just has a vested interest in stamping an "M" on fewer games every year. The ratings are just applied inaccurately all across the board. This article mentions all of the cases where the ratings were applied too loosely, but what about where they're applied too harshly? Ico, for instance, is rated Teen. Anyone that has actually played the game knows that that's like stamping a PG-13 on The Lion King or The Never-Ending Story. It's ludicrous, but it's done because the ESRB only looks at selected scenes from the games that they rate, and someone in this case looked at the ONE moment where there is any blood or violence in the game and said, "Oh, no, this isn't for kids." And the same applies to Maximo. Maximo is also rated Teen, but the entire game is cartoonish. It's probably less violent than the Spider-Man cartoons from the '90s and it's certainly no darker than Count Duckula.

A lot of stuff falls through the cracks at the ESRB, but it's not just in favor of the game companies. The inaccuracy goes both ways.

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