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He was referring to the design of the microphone used for the icon; this sort of thing

http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/intro.htm
https://www.msu.edu/~gobeski1/Missing.htm
http://www.paullee.com/drwho/missingwithouttrace.html

These are the accepted accounts - two junkings (one for fire safety reasons, one to make space) with absolutely nothing to do with contracts or magnetic tapes (beyond BBC central not having a copy) - along with a description of the transfer from video to film.

As far as I'm concerned, the current BBC description is a highly edited description of the events with NO mention of the telerecordings and the Wikipedia account seems to be pure mythology. I can find ZERO evidence for it. Almost everything definitive known about the early Doctor Whos was written in the Disused Yeti newsletters, with articles contributed by BBC staffers with inside knowledge, often due to being there at the time. This link gives you the archive for it:

http://archive.whoniversity.co.uk/dy/dy_main.htm

Absolutely no story whatsoever should be accepted on face-value if it contradicts an official or semi-official statement in the newsletters. They're the premiere source of authenticated information.

according to the ocean-explorer website, they found bottles of cognac, champagne - which aligns to the sinking of the Jönköping by U22 on 26 October 1916. The last known position was around 12 nautical miles SW of Raumo (Aland islands) which is a pinch point in the Baltic ocean between Finland and Sweden (an obvious place for a UBoat captain to wait)

googlemaps only goes about 1 to 2km off the coast in high definition from the Aland islands; and anyway, the sea is too reflective and too deep at 300m to see anything.

I, personally, wouldn't hire someone who couldn't string more than one cogent paragraph together (ie your first paragraph is good, but your second one falls apart at the 8th sentence). Nor would I hire someone who tells someone to go refute their own argument.

The IR spectrum of water: http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.chaplin/vibrat.html Note that water in the atmosphere exists at an equilibrium between gas and liquid. Note also the very broad peak of liquid water. Note even further that 3/4ths of the Earth's surface is covered with water.

Now note the spectrum of CO2: http://science.widener.edu/svb/ftir/ir_co2.html So tiny. So little absorption. So little concentration.

The point is that CO2 does not have a net effect on the heat retained by the atmosphere. It is mere noise compared to water, which, as noted before, fluctuates wildly, and in fact CAN be controlled with water traps which don't require trillions of dollars in global investment, and will in fact have an IMMEDIATE effect, rather than one that MIGHT be felt within five centuries IF we manage to survive the epic flooding of the world caused by CO2 forced global warming if it exists.

Stuff like this clouded my judgement Unless you count severe mode7 scaling and rotation abuse as 3d you're right.

so.. even though you could get it going on one screen, you'd rather try something it really wasn't designed for and use both for 3d?

As far as the DS is concerned, if you want it to be a polished game that uses the touch screen/mike etc anyway there would have to be serious platform specific additions. But the base features of what the engine was already doing should work well with a little effort.

Having an engine be easily portable does not entail supporting every single little thing weird ass hardware does, it's easily supporting enough to get the game/engine going, letting the porters put in the effort for the tiny platform specific details.

Example, do I expect a random pc game to support wiimote gestures? not really, it is beyond the scope of the original design and superfluous for what they intended.

If the engine was designed well it could run on the wii with graphical reduction, but supporting the platforms unique weird ass controller would have to be done by the porters, and that part would be platform specific.

Back to the psp vs ds thing, your app for PSP would have been made for single screen, analog joystick, by trying to do it with two screens, and a touch input, you are changing the engine requirements, changing engine requirements means rewriting parts of it... amazingly enough.

Yeah right....ok, how many new countries have we annexed in the past couple of decades...go ahead...I'm waiting.

How about bombed instead of annexed?

List of countries the USA has bombed since the end of World War II

• China 1945-46
• Korea 1950-53
• China 1950-53
• Guatemala 1954
• Indonesia 1958
• Cuba 1959-60
• Guatemala 1960
• Belgian Congo 1964
• Guatemala 1964
• Dominican Republic 1965-66
• Peru 1965
• Laos 1964-73
• Vietnam 1961-73
• Cambodia 1969-70
• Guatemala 1967-69
• Lebanon 1982-84
• Grenada 1983-84
• Libya 1986
• El Salvador 1981-92
• Nicaragua 1981-90
• Libya 1986
• Iran 1987-88
• Libya 1989
• Panama 1989-90
• Iraq 1991-2002
• Kuwait 1991
• Somalia 1992-94
• Croatia 1994 (of Serbs at Krajina)
• Bosnia 1995
• Iran 1998 (airliner)
• Sudan 1998
• Afghanistan 1998
• Yugoslavia 1999
• Afghanistan 2001-02

List taken from http://www.btinternet.com/~davidbeaumont/msf/listbombed.html

Forget the OCR, you need to just monitor the lowest ticks of the meter. Monitor when the dial makes a complete revolution and you can base all your calculations off of that. I believe this meter is different than yours but it may give you some ideas. http://www.btinternet.com/~jon00/electmon.shtml

"1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things." --Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

That's the best short description of relational modeling I've ever found, for somebody used to object-oriented modeling. Basically, it's a change of ontology: the OO modeler tends to think of the world as being made up of things, each of which has some repertoire of properties; the world is a big set of things, related by a few universal laws. The relational modeler, on the other hand, conceives of things as unanalyzable wholes, and everything interesting about things is how they are related to other things by facts, and how those facts are related to other facts by logic.

Here's a very condensed outline of the Tractatus ; the parts you want to see are primarily (1) and (2).

I have an old TI-99 4/A I can donate if you need it.

Why do guys like you want to kill off any new industry using fears of the unknown? This anti-capitalistic attitude is spreading like wildfire, and damaging the economy. Its getting so bad that people are trying to regulate entire industries out of existence. Did you know the entire Canadian export revenue from the time proven industry of chrysotile could disappear if threats like these are not shown up for the dangerous propaganda they are? Thought not.

A quite similar device was used in the 1930s-40s called the "Philips-Miller Film Recorder".
http://www.btinternet.com/~roger.beckwith/bh/tapes/pm.htm

It used a film like cinema film, but covered with opaque mecuric sulphide, and a cutting head to scrape away the coating. Apart from using a vertical cut with an oblique head, rather than a lateral one, the principle is the same.
Apparently it was actually pretty good quality!

Sorry about that, I misremembered and didn't check. The FAQ does mention eventually opening the source:

http://www.btinternet.com/~ndesprez/faq.htm

BT employs people with the coolest job title I've ever come across, Futurologist, so if anyone was going to do it, it would be them.

"Playing a virtual-world game takes some getting used to," Garriott told me. "You have to realize that the world is what you make of it. Unfortunately, that means most likely you're going to have a relatively mediocre life."

Can you link to this UO thing you mention?

I can -- now that I got the author's name correct. It was actually written by Elizabeth Kolbert and titled "Pimps and Dragons." No longer on the New Yorker's site, but found a copy here:

Pimps and Dragons

This article from Wired is also interesting:

The Unreal Estate Boom

As far as post-scarcity economies, isn't that Cory Doctorow's speciality? (Haven't read the novel in question -- nor remember it's name off-hand.) Another perspective, from the Sweepers Calendar:

As soon as the artificial problem of scarcity is finally eradicated, economics will immediately turn to the dangerous problem of superabundance. States will fall into turmoil as people riot for want of absolutely nothing. And the leisure class will be distinguished not by its conspicuous exhibition of affluence, but by a fashionable hint of the mildest deprivation.

Good points, VNC is possible on Palm however:
http://www.btinternet.com/~harakan/PalmVNC/

Like, I was over in England. You ever been to England, anyone, been to England? No one has handguns in England, not even the cops. True or false? True. Now-in England last year, they had fourteen deaths from handguns. FFFFFourteen. Now-the United States, and I think you know how we feel about handguns-woooo, I'm getting a warm tingly feeling just saying the fucking word, to be honest with you. I swear to you, I am hard. Twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. Now let's go through those numbers again, because they're a little baffling at first glance. England, where no one has guns, fffffffourteen deaths. United States, and I think you know how we feel about guns-woooo, I'm getting a stiffy-twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a Communist to make one. There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and not having a gun and not shooting someone. There have been studies made and there is no connection at all there. Yes. That's absolute proof. You know, fourteen deaths from handguns. Probably American tourists, too.
(Angry tourist voice) You call this a sandwich? BANG! BANG! You don't boil pizza! BANG! BANG!
(Scared English voice) That's the way we eat here, that's the way we eat here! BANG!
(Tourist voice) This food sucks! BANG!

A statistician can have his head in an oven and his feet in ice, and he will say that on the average he feels fine.

How many statisticians does it take to change a lightbulb? 1-3, alpha = .05

Did you hear about the statistician who was thrown in jail? He now has zero degrees of freedom.

In earlier times, they had no statistics, and so they had to fall back on lies.

Smoking is a leading cause of statistics.

Statistics are like a bikini - what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Statistics in the hands of an engineer are like a lamppost to a drunk--they're used more for support than illumination.

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All jokes borrowed from here.

They also deleted my post about my old employers, possibly after a bit of legal hassle- http://www.btinternet.com/~dr_paul_lee/zzq.shtml

If it was to include UK Companies, this lot would be top of the list! I've heard that the company has been taken to court on a few occasions for treating employees badly, and the company settled to prevent details of their working practises from emerging. Having worked for them, I see why they'd do this!

This was on b3ta.com recently. Personally, I doubt whether the old company I used to work for had much Christmas spirit. Read it and weep.

I was hassled in my old job, which just about cracked me up. When I put up an article on my website detailing how I was bullied, I was threatened with legal action, libel - you name it. It seems that the company involved, whom I regard as having an obsession with power and money, wanted to stifle any criticisms, even going so far as to have articles (yes, even on Slashdot) and newsgroup submissions deleted. And yet, they don't care about the harm done to me. http://www.btinternet.com/~dr_paul_lee/auto.shtml

Depends how separate separate is. I used to live in Milton Keynes (UK, half way between London & Brimingham) and it has the bike tracks as totally separate roads. Though you have to watch out for the horses...

The success of the Milton Keynes path network appears to be contraversial at best.

These people also had delusions of grandeur about developing a TV advert detection and identifying system.

Pass my CV on to them willl you? http://www.btinternet.com?~dr_paul_lee/cv.doc

Microsoft (and the vast majority of modern corporations) seems to be following Machiavelli's adage of "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed" where MS is in crush mode. IBM seems to be in well-treated mode ;)
There's nothing feel good about it - this is business and unless a government steps in and regulates the industry, well, it's all about the benjamins.

I recently lost my job, though not as mercilessly as the RadioShack method. Well, actually, I tell a lie: I was forced out my job - http://www.btinternet.com/~dr_paul_lee/autonomy.ht m

"Yo" doesn't mean "you", it's a call across a distance like "yoo-hoo" or "haloo". It's not polite usage, and in the context you probably have in mind it's actually very rude, and Blair was being a wimp by taking it so meekly. And the "u" in "colour" is an affectation without warrant. (Although I wouldn't go as far as this guy in spelling reform. The extreme reforms obscure meaning.) This is one case where the Americans have preserved the older usage.

It's the verbal equivalent of one of those pictures that represent two different things, depending on which part you are perceiving as figure and which part you are perceiving as ground. The most common and simple example is the picture that can either be a vase or two people seen in profile facing each other.

Most European cars nowadays run on "super" (95 octane roz) or even "super plus" (98 octane roz)

Not really. I have a car that should get 98oct, but the manual clearly states that I can safely use 95oct with a small performance hit (at 225HP, a small performace hit isn't going to be noticed much). The car manual also states that it can be used with 91oct, but only when nothing else is available. You should not do this for a prolonged time. I used to drive my car with 95oct for a full year, with no problems at all.

As for smaller non-turbo charged engines: most run fine on 91oct. I know this from the manuals of my moms car and my dads car. Both rated 95oct, but they should run fine on 91oct.

It's close to impossible to find 91oct gas where I live. I know one gas station that has it, and I've never seen anybody buy it....

Also, beware comparing octane ratings in the US with European octane rates. 87 oct MON is the equivalent of 95 oct RON (source) In conclusion: we have the same gas, but our ratings are different and our cars do run on lower-rate octane levels.

Finally, (at least) 50% of the cars sold in the Europe have diesel engines. In that case, octane doesn't matter at all. There is however a big difference between US and European diesel: US diesel is typcially high-sulfur and European diesel is typically low-sulfur (except for trucks, afaik, but I wouldn't bet on it)

Setup up amavisd here.- I open the quaranteen folder and I find that it catches most spam, the spam i do get, i report. Thus it is better to be deleted unseen by me than hit the folders i look after.

To answer the question: its good enough, but what spam i get means they sure wish they didnt they send it to me to start with.

Willian Chan of Slough England knows that lession, so please send him some spam.

Nestopia (as well as BSNES and ZSNES and, I believe, other emulators) use Blargg's NTSC filter to produce the TV-like output. Truly an amazing piece of work.

As far as accuracy goes, the C64 emulator Hoxs64 is pretty damn accurate, going so far as to emulate analog stuff in the disk drive. Wow.

I'm going to need a confirmation of the 2000 triangles figure

At least this PDF lists a limit of 6144 vertices per scene, and if you search on forum.gbadev.org it should turn up more.

The iBook G4 most definitely has a fan in it - consider yourself hopeless if you've never got it to switch on. It's LOUD. ;-)

I'm typing this with my spangly new MacBook Pro on my lap, so it's time for a mini-review!

Observations: the aluminium case means that if it's been in a cold van for a bit, it's COLD. Cold like ice!

It does get fairly warm in use, but is pretty quiet. Slightly louder than my iBook, but way quieter than an average machine. It makes a slight high-pitched hissing sound, which seems to cut out for a moment every so often. No idea what that is. It's not distracting, just ... there.

Keyboard needs some getting used to from my iBook- it's got loads of travel. It's more like a clacky desktop thing than a laptop one, so I'm busy typing this as loudly as I can. Tappety clack! (Where on Earth do the keys go when pressed? The machine's already ridiculously thin...)

No evidence that it's an Intel-based thing beyond the description in 'About This Mac'. No prehistoric BIOS startup screen, no 'Intel Inside' logos, nuffink. Instead, it just feels like an astoundingly speedy Mac. It's FAST. Applications often open before a single bounce of their icons. Rosetta seems completely transparent (and even while emulated, mission-critical applications seem faster than on my iBook) - most of the software I use is Universal already, and I've no idea which applications haven't been recompiled yet.

Screen is very bright, the sound is rather nice, the built-in camera seems pretty high quality (although I definitely need a hair-cut - it ain't flattering), and generally it's all rather special. Only complaints - the keyboard is a bit shiny silver, and the keyboard illumination keys get in the way of the default Expose shortcut keys. Needs a fiddle.

Oh, and there are no wireless networks for me to connect to here. LUDDITES!

Complaints? Not a lot. It gets fairly warm underneath while in use, and the battery life estimates are generally around 3.5 hours, which is still about 2.5 hours better than my iBooks duff battery. It's best not to fight the automatic screen and keyboard brightnesses - just go with the flow, and it's much less annoying.

Oh. I've got a complaint. I don't like the shade of green used on the LEDs. Too blue-ish!

More Alleged Humour

Those books are a little heavy to digest.

Some of that line can be found online in compressed/abridged form, if you don't feel up to reading the whole text.

http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/ind ex.htm

Here's a condensed version of Adam Smith's: An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations.
And it's still read in Economics 101 BTW.

>> Typical moronic open source cant. it is not my responsibility to propose something "perfect". (Thaat's a word I didnt use, as you well know.) But, since you asked, for starters Wikipedia might hire professional editors and professional factcheckers who get paid to review copy for accuracy and avoidance of libel and sslander prior to publication.

Quietism: The worthless attitude of 'let others do it'.

>> So what? If people want to believe their own lies, let them.

I choose to believe Wikipedia's lies and I'm disgruntled when you try to force your lies on me.

>> If you want to be entertained, watch TV or buy an iPod or a comic book. An encyclopedia is supposed to be accurate, not "interesting".

Actually I think learning is fun unlike being punished to learn everything by rote.
:p

Ive been using RSS-NEWS as my main newsfeed program for a very long time now. It has however always been quite bugged, and since last update was last january i think its time to move on and get a new one.

The only thing that kept me using RSS-News for so long is the EXELLENT layout. While these new readers keep insisting on the outlook-style with lotsa bloat toolbars and menues, RSS-News keep it very simple, feeds on the left, browser/viewing area on the right. Here is a Screenshot. Now here is my question, is there a better reader with the same layout as this? It doesnt matter if i have to tweak it a bit etc, but i just cant stand the outlook-style, and i want as much screen space for the actual news as possible...

Look here

As far as "theater" goes, it came into Middle English from Old French, and no, the spelling wasn't standardized at all, not then and not later at the point of divergence. At the time the American colonies were being settled, the i vs. j distinction wasn't not clear, and v/u/w was a matter of preference. (The Latin isn't relevant to this discussion, as it didn't end in either -re or -er in any declension I'm aware of.) The -re ending is phonetic in French, but not in either variety of English. But that's neither here nor there. I have no idea why you think we should hew to French spellings in this area alone, where most other French borrowings of that era have been more thoroughly Anglicized. (For example, "beef" from the Middle French "buef", modern French "boeuf", which is not pronounced "beef".)

If Pearl Harbor was originally Pearl Harbour it's because the British named it, they being the first Westerners to discover the place. Americans would naturally adopt the American spelling for it.

I'm not pompous, I'm pedantic. If I were pompous I'd use bigger words.

Yeah, i'm waiting for 2010 when a futurologist from BT predicted we would be receiving orgasms by email...

http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.pearson/web/future/ sex.htm

The link posted in that site won't display the problem -- visit the wiki to display the problem (https://register.btinternet.com/ is a current offender).

Monadology seems to be a protoscience towards the understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Today we call things Quantum back then it was essences. Notice how consciousness is described as an attribute of matter instead of an emergent artifact which in a real sense does not physically exist within our Universe, it only logically exists like calling a collection of cells a "glider" in Conways Game of Life.
My 2 cents anyway.

Here's the very Squashed version with the important text reproduced here:

All the plenum of the universe is entirely filled with tiny Monads, which cannot fail, have no constituent parts and have no windows through which anything could come in or go out. Every Monad is different and is continuously changing. All simple substances or Monads might be called Entelechies, for they have in them a certain perfection and a certain self-sufficiency. As they have some perception and desire, they may be called souls, but animal Souls are accompnied by memory. In dreamless sleep our soul is like a Monad. The knowledge of necessary and eternal truths distinguishes us from the animals and gives us Reason. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths. The final reason of things must be in a necessary substance, which we call God. God holds an infinity of ideas, and chooses the most perfect ones. Each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and, consequently, that it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe; though it represents more distinctly the body of which it is the entelechy. Each portion of matter is like a pond full of fishes, where each drop of its liquid parts is also another pond. Thus there is nothing fallow, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe. All the parts of every living body are full of other living beings, each with its dominant entelechy or soul. Thus there never is absolute birth nor complete death. Minds are images of the Deity, capable of knowing the system of the universe, each being like a small divinity in its own sphere. Whence the totality of all spirits must compose the City of God, where no good action would be unrewarded and no bad one unpunished. If we could understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds the desires of the wisest men.

I believe St. Augustine is credited with being the first self loathing, sex-is-dirty type christian.
Unfortunately, he set the tone for all those that followed.

we must flee!

GET /~lightning_uk/_version.txt HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Microsoft Internet Explorer
Host: www.btinternet.com
Cache-Control: no-cache

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:30:58 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.20 OpenSSL/0.9.7d mod_fastcgi/2.4.2
Last-Modified: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:05:12 GMT
ETag: "b4df0a-10-42939708"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 16
Content-Type: text/plain

3.5.4.0
3.5.4.2

Or for simplicity, check this URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~lightning_uk/_version.t xt