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20. Presidents who are related to other presidents. [genealogy]

Presidents known to be related to other presidents (updated for 2001) [BPL 7]:

George W. Bush - 16 at least
Franklin Roosevelt - 16 other presidents
William Howard Taft -14
Calvin Coolidge -14
Gerald Ford -14
Millard Fillmore -11
Richard Nixon -10
Grover Cleveland -9
Herbert Hoover -9
Benjamin Harrison -8
John Quincy Adams -7
Rutherford Hayes -7
Ulysses Grant -6
Franklin Pierce -5
James Garfield -5
Warren Harding -5
John Adams -4
William Henry Harrison -4
Theodore Roosevelt -4
Jimmy Carter -4
George Washington -3
James Madison -2
Martin Van Buren -2
John Tyler -2
Zachary Taylor -2
Abraham Lincoln -2

The close relatives were:

John Adams, father of John Quincy Adams
George Bush, father of George W. Bush
William Henry Harrison, grandfather of Benjamin Harrison
James Madison, second cousin to Zachary Taylor
Theodore Roosevelt 5th cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The fact is that people in power tend to be related to other people in power, regardless of the era. Congressional genealogies are doubtless even more fun...

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I had a bit of free time in Sep. 2000, so I spent an entire day tweaking the following dumb animation of a spaceship flying around. Invader, try 5. I had hardly any POVRay skill, the animation was created without any modeling tools at all, and the stupid thing took all day to render on the 400MHz K6-2 I had at the time. And the source file got deleted in an unrelated accident later on. If I didn't have a Real Job, I'd probably spend a lot of time working on POVRay junk. As it is, I just look at the real artists in the POVRay Hall of Fame and think, "Wow. Nifty!"

A game called Age of Empires 2 offended the Saudi Arabian authorities because it showed victorious Muslim armies turning churches into mosques. The game was withdrawn from sale in the kingdom

I've been to some mosques that were converted from churches after wars. I even have pictures. This happened. I could understand how some Christians could get a little miffed. Could someone explain how it is offensive to Muslims?

Also, the geography "mistakes" in the article appear to be more policitical in nature than some developer not knowing where the Pacific Ocean is. Would I expect some developer in China to know about the controverial border between Michigan and Ohio that led to the Toldeo (Ohio) War?

Hmmm. Just how much of the US population is in prison, again?

And how many European countries have a sub-population with a mean IQ of 85?

As you can see from this graph, TSCP has even more branches and they're harder to predict, so it's a good test of a processor's BPU and ability to recover from mispredicted branches. TSCP also has relatively high ILP, so it tests the processor's instruction scheduler. It clearly fits in L1 cache, so it doesn't test a computer's L2 cache or main memory performance. Basically, TSCP measures a processor core's worst case integer performance. It may be a good predictor for compilers, other AI programs, and other branch intensive code.

I wonder if the "relatively high ILP" balances out the branching. Ah well... it seems even with synthetic benchmarks, things are rarely as simple as they might first appear.

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My dog is in my cubicle with me today.

Unfortunately, it comes with a cost: She has to watch "Animal Planet," as output by one of the digital set top boxes we are testing, and has been trained to whine whenever she sees macroblocking or other artifacts.

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The picture tells a thousand words

My laptop hack site Thats for the Dell C series systems mainly because I've not been hanging out in the dell forums as much lately. If you google for 400sc there is a forum that comes up at the top that has pics of the 400sc that shows its the same as the dimension.

True the dual processor precisions are using their own motherboard design but i suspect it is the same as a dual processor poweredge. And yes they qualify them. But in 99% of the cases if you can just drop the quadro in your 400sc everything will be fine.

I think his wife's notification to the Lexus Owner's Club may have been more prophetic than pathetic.

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Ok, let's try this again with spaces this time...

I looked through a bunch of the pictures with a hex editor, and looked at a bunch of the random messages on the pages. It also seems some of the pictures have multiple "corrupted" versions of them, with different messages in them. Here's a (long) list of the messages I made while looking through the page. Ones with quotes around them are from pictures, the stuff after them is near where I found them with the hex editor. I don't know if I got them all or not, though. Ok, slashdot seems to have issues with not wanting this to look right, complaining I have too few characters per line, etc, so check out my list here: jprice991.home.comcast.net/aaa.htm

wow, impressive amount of quotes :-) I do hope you didn't copy them by hand.
I copy/pasted from my master's thesis, some parts were originally copied by hand, yes. A collection of Poincaré texts (in French) are here.

Ignoring for the time being that 'best known for' does not imply 'creator of' ... your argument is not entirely correct either. It actually shows that more than one person contributed to the theories, which should come as no surprise.
Right, a lot of people contributed to both relativity theories. The first to write down the "Lorentz transformations" was Woldemar Voigt in 1987. In his article "Über das Doppler'sche Princip" (Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Goettingen 41), he not only gave the Lorentztransformations but also stated the absolute speed of light and applied the principle of invariance of electromagnetic laws under those transformations. It was also Voigt who in 1899 introduced the tensor as we know it (the word "tensor" was used before by Hamilton in the sense of "modulus", Levi-Civita also already worked on tensor calculus since about 1887). FitzGerald and Larmor also discovered the Lorentz Transormations - Lorentz suggested to call them "relativistic transformations" because he recognised the priority by Voigt (who was a personal friend of Lorentz) and FitzGerald. The Minkowski space of 1907, was anticipated by Roberto Marcolongo in "Sugli integrali delle equazione dell'elettro dinamica" (1906). Mathematicians working on the general theory were -among others- H.Bateman, Mie and Grosman.

For GR, you would be really hard pressed to prove that Einstein blatantly copied Hilbert's equations. Assuming, for a bit of reductio ad absurdum, that he did - publishing them without much understanding (Einstein's mathematical ability was quite below Hilbert's and the GR equations are not exactly something you just come up with) is not really believable. Moreso since Hilbert never claimed paternity for them (from your very Nobel link). It looks more likely that they exchanged notes in a late stage, which doesn't sound all that incredible in scientific research. Hilbert wasn't the only mathematician who corresponded with Einstein either, so what does this prove?
I do not know if Einstein acted in good or bad faith - I am prepared to accept that "they exchanged notes in a late stage", which is suggested by Einstein's letter to Hilbert in which Einstein writes he got to the same results as Hilbert. But on the other hand: only a week or so before that, Einstein still presented wrong formulas. Hilbert, in a footnote in his article "Die Grundlagen der Physik", writes about Einstein's theory not being invariant. Somebody who is definitely convinced that Einstein was a plagiarist and is quite polemical about this, is Christopher Jon Bjerknes.

As to the point about Poincaré, far from me to deny his contribution to the mathematical foundation of the special relativity - it would be utterly silly. However, a geometrical theory does not a physical theory make, although it can be a large part of it. Also, your choice of quotes might not be the most eloquent, as they mostly extend work previously started by Lorentz (it's rather funny, the first 2 quotes are rather a philosoplical critique that, by 1902, was already rather clear, while the 1905 one is based on a paper of Lorentz's from 1904, presenting the said transformations). Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong (as it's late and I can't seem to find online links quickly enough), but by Lorentz's own admission, the mathematical part was a rather ad hoc explanation, without much physical backing in terms of 'why' at the time.
Yes, this is the standard story, but I disagree. Lorentz had just postulated the existence of electrons (to explain the Zeeman effect) and was aware of the existence of sub-atomi

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Doom 3 fast approaches, and the newest edition of PC Gamer has the "world exclusive" review. How did it score? It scored a 94%. Check out its highs, lows and bottom line:

Highs: Extraordinary graphics and sound; incredible tension, atmosphere, and mayhem.

Lows: Some stabs at humor fall a bit flat.

Bottom Line: Just as we'd hoped, it's a non-stop ride of tension, carnage and terror. A new classic.

Here's the cover.

Check out this HardForum Thread for more information.

UPDATE: Here's some more info I've found over at NVNews:The game will apparantly have a DVD version. There are multiple covers for the PC Gamer mag and the game boxes are different than the pre-order boxes.

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Here's some more info on the review:

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Some interesting software

If you have a cable box with a firewire port (most HD cable boxes have them, and if yours does not then you can get one from the cable company as there is a law saying that it must be available to you - at least that's what I have been told and the cable company agreed)... Anyway, it works pretty well.. Have fun.

If you have a modern digital cable box with Firewire outputs, just download iRecord and connect your Mac to the box with a quality firewire cable. iRecord is developing quickly into a good PCPVR solution for digital cable boxes.

The interesting thing is that you can record anything the box is showing over the firewire output, including video on demand, HDTV, Music Choice, and digital-tier cable channels.

You can then take the captured MPEG2 transport stream and convert it to a standard MPEG file by using VLC's advanced output options in the file open dialog.

Now if someone can figure out how to send the MPEG transport stream back to the digital cable box for playback...

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Yeah yeah graphics, search, safari... Can we PLEASE Finally fix the HUGE bug where you can't print from Adobe (or any other app that uses PICT rather than PDF) to Linux CUPS queues? Its been in the dev tree since before the last relase...

Contrary to all rules of CUPS when Apple ported it to OSX they decided to add client side filters which means when you send a job to a shared queue hosted on a linux box, the local printbox hangs and the linux box either bounces the job or prints garbage.

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Stupid binary clock written for CF.net. It was rather fun / simple to program simple stuff for it, I think it would be significantly less fun if one had to program a real app for it. The source code has a bunch of code for checking the status of power, etc, so you might find it helpful if you are designing an app like that.

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That said, my palm m105 was a lot more stable than my current pocket pc, which is a toshiba.
Toshiba pocket pc support sucks ass by the way, AVOID BUYING TOSHIBA PDAS AT ALL COSTS!!

Stupid binary clock written for CF.net. It was rather fun / simple to program simple stuff for it, I think it would be significantly less fun if one had to program a real app for it. The source code has a bunch of code for checking the status of power, etc, so you might find it helpful if you are designing an app like that.

Install cabs

Source

That said, my palm m105 was a lot more stable than my current pocket pc, which is a toshiba.
Toshiba pocket pc support sucks ass by the way, AVOID BUYING TOSHIBA PDAS AT ALL COSTS!!

No, you are.

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This glitch is not enough to get me to use IE though....

Slashdot in FireFox

Slashdot in IE

This glitch is not enough to get me to use IE though....

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I have a Hauppauge BT878 card I had in my desktop (got it before PVR-250/PVR-350). I got a laptop and a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe, some people have bad experiences but I have had a pretty good time with it. I like the Pinnacle box because it records to MPEG-1 or 2 easily. Edit out commercials with Virtual Dub with MPEG-2 and you're all set to do what you need with it, encode to DivX, MPEG-x, whatever.

It just depends on what your needs are...

SpyWiper, for instance.

That's not evidence of Dubya's virtue, that's evidence of the virtue of the US system, which at least makes an attempt at guaranteeing free elections, and prohibits staying in for more than two terms. Saddam racked up the bodycount that he did because he's been in since 1978.

And the US system also ensures that the power is spread across a cabinet. So it's meaningless to compare a US President's criminal record with that of an Iraqi dictator, who has no "last-call" bell when 8 years are up. Rather, the comparison should be between the current cabinet and Saddam: Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Negroponte , etc.

"Last I checked there weren't any mass graves filled with turkish insurgents on GWB's resume."

If you're talking about the Kurds, I would give several people in the current White House full credit for their part in this. And full credit for helping Saddam brutally crush the Shia uprising too, ensuring that he stayed in power.
Saddam couldn't have done it on his own.

I know Lisp is not the ideal language - its ugly, illegible, and slower than compiled languages

The vast majority of Common Lisp implementations have either a native code or through-C compiler, and at least two (Corman Lisp and SBCL) of them only come with a native code compiler.

Objectively, CMUCL can produce flotaing point code at least 5% faster than GCC on a non-trivial (the "Coyote Gulch" ephemeris calculator) benchmark. Of course, bechmarks are objective and misleading, and your assertion was subjective and misleading, and there's plenty of testimony (from real users writing non-trivial applications, not just some random bums paid off by the Scheme Underground) that Lisp is faster than C++.

Scheme seems like it has lost the intelligent simplicity of Python in favour of clumsy "special character" based syntax,

while Common Lisp has many detractors that don't complain much of details. Is your complaint about Common Lisp based on all Lisp variants? Or is CL especially bad?

Of course, your own assertion that Lisp is ugly and slow is stated authoritatively, even while you admit that you've "not coded a line yet," certainly could give someone the wrong impression.

Did the government step in and force the show off the air? Not quite, the ABC network made the move. What that instance proves is that the public still has the right to voice their opinion too.

You see, the host made a comment about the 9/11 hijackers who were, in his words, "Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.". Further analysis on the issue showed that interest groups pressured the advertisers (Sears, FedEx) to stop supporting the show and the public stopped tuning in. The net is that ABC viewership went down and income dropped. ABC, following the market (as businesses tend to do in this country), reacted by cancelling the show at the end of the season.

This is hardly on the order of a senator calling for hearings, subpoenaing actors and Hollywood businesses, and putting them on public trials. Bill Maher didn't serve jail time, and in fact, has gone on to write a number of books. Ooh, chilling effect!

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XHTML is not hard. Just... different.

It took my a while to figure out the difference between HTML and XHTML. It was a struggle to remeber to add that closing slash in single tags. It was a bitch to mentally go from <b> to <span class="bold"> . Yet, I managed to pull it off.

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(ii) post, store, send, transmit, or disseminate any information or material which a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate, regardless of whether this material or its dissemination is unlawful;

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