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I have seen the presentation of the team (in Czech).
Looked pretty professional and trustworthy source, but of course I have probably an already lowered IQ so I cannot be a judge of it.

https://web.natur.cuni.cz/fleg...

AMD-K6 3D (90 bogoids)
  <=
Intel Core i7-4771 @ 3.50GHz (9940 bogoids) * 1%
  <=
Via C3 Ezra (100 bogoids)
  <=
Intel Pentium III Mobile 750MHz (103 bogoids)
  <=
AMD Athlon 64 2000+ (116 bogoids)
  <=
Intel Pentium 4 1300MHz (119 bogoids)

Wow, a couple of clown chips, and a searing indictment of Passmark, all rolled up together.

You can really see how Passmark should have been properly named Parkay Malarkey Spinmark.

Parkay Pentium 4, you are so busted.

[*] Cooking instructions: apply Parkay to soggy white bread, wait five minutes, LET THERE BE TOAST.

Source.

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In the least surprise ever, turns out pajamas man-child develops tight-loop benchmark suites for the trade press. Normally. Except for this one time.

—

Setting: One unusual sunny morning.

Right at the crack of too-damn-early, there's a loud, surprising knock on the door. Curious, he shambles in sloppy slippers to the front door, where he's greeted by a slight man in a slick seersucker suit, who warmly extends a cold hand, and exclaims "my good man, you are just who we need".

"And who are you, again," asks pajamas man-child, with maximal crack of too-damn-early rhetorical sarcasm.

"I'm from Butler, Shine & White, department of Natural Born Unusual Suspects."

He lavishes upon his smooth introductory move a practiced pump on each of 'Butler', 'Shine', and 'White', Vaseline vise-grip apexing right on the 'na' in 'natural', relaxing on 'orn', then releasing precisely on second 'su'.

"Me?" pyjamas man-child replies meekly, meaty ham agog and drifting.

"True to form, true to form. Ewww, what's that sooty smell?"

"Shit, you caught me mid-spread. Must have left a large, hot lump."

"Well that's just the thing we'll be speaking about."

"What is?"

"Here's the thing. Here's the thing. We have it on good local authority that you're the king of shinola soliloquy."

"Local authority? Man, I'm so going to sue that pesky early-bird arborist."

"Don't be hasty. Let me tell you what we have in mind."

Pajamas man-child scratches behind his hairy pinna for a moment. "Sure, okay, fire away. Do tell me about this soliloquy shinola business."

"No, no, no! You've got that bass ackwards. Trust me, we've got all the soliloquy shinola money can buy. What we don't have ... yet ... is the natural born shinola soliloquy."

"Uh, if I catch your drift ... what I mean is ... uh ... you know ... the spread ... it answers back."

"For sure, we'll dub that in. Now how about let's discuss terms."

"Really?"

"In all high-margin, commodity seriousness."

"Okay then, come on in. Want some toast?"

"Uh, thanks but no thanks. Just in case, I brought us some fresh croissants." BS&W holds up large brown bag with hand-lettered accent marks on every vowel.

"Looks like you brought the entire continental buffet."

"Truth is, I'm here to see you spread."

"That's going to take a lot of spread."

"We'll use the big tub."

"Uh ... you just said 'tub' right? Not, uh, 'tooh' as in 'toothbr—'."

"—aw shucks, just between us, what's the big difference?"

"Uh, tubes come with a screw top ... or so I've heard."

"Yes, we did consider novel packaging, but it just doesn't say 'butter'."

Funny...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Communist Control Act (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. 841-844) is a piece of United States federal legislation, signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower on 24 August 1954, which outlaws the Communist Party of the United States and criminalizes membership in, or support for the Party or "Communist-action" organizations and defines evidence to be considered by a jury in determining participation in the activities, planning, actions, objectives, or purposes of such organizations.

You might also be amused/informed/scared shitless by this:
https://trello.com/c/arrNVNIt/...

Oh, an amusing note on the Wikipedia page:

The overwhelming support provided by the liberals has attracted much attention from historians such as Mary McAuliffe (The Journal of American History).

This is worth reading:
https://law.resource.org/pub/u...

It's important to note, and this is from Wikipedia, that this is also true:

Despite that, no administration has tried to enforce it.

Further reading and research can be done here:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/gran... (Loading poorly.)
http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~cal... (Loads of good information.)

In other words, you're actually wrong. Now, the odds of it being prosecuted are nil and the US Communist Party exists to this day. But, it is very, very much a FEDERAL CRIME to be a Communist or a member of the Communist Party in the United States. The Nazi party is fair game, however. You can be a Nazi, if you want, but being a communist is right out.

This is a terrible irony. His death is most untimely indeed. Here is a high-level description of Nash's work on PDEs by C. Villani.

I personally have extreme admiration for Nash’s work on partial differential equations. He wrote just one paper on the subject, in 1958 (Continuity of solutions of parabolic and elliptic equations), but this one of the most astonishing works in the history of partial differential equations. His proof has been often described as complicated, but I find it extremely attractive, and I also like a lot the way the paper is written: with a lot of explanations about his intuition and the way he arrived at the result. The genesis of the paper is fascinating, as discussed in Nasar’s book. By the way, one of the ingredients in the proof is Boltzmann’s entropy functional.

Here is another description from the Abel Prize page.

The paper is here.

If the sun was different, but it had an atmosphere like our planet, the situation on the ground would apparently look remarkably like home. At least once you factor in the white point adaptation in our visual system. The first paper on that page is sort of tongue-in-cheek, but presumably fairly accurate prediction of what being on an earth-like exoplanet under a different sun would look like at ground level:

http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/project...

Not sure where you got this idea, it is certainly necessary that P != NP for almost all of cryptography. If P = NP, then there are no problems in NP which are easy to come up with but hard to solve. Cryptography relies crucially on this asymmetry, it should be easy for a legitimate user but hard for someone without the key.

Sure there are classes harder than NP, but it is necessary that our problems be in NP because otherwise it would be intractable for legitimate users. Take public key cryptography for example. The problem it is based on needs to be in NP because, given a ciphertext encrypted with one half of the key, you need to be able to efficiently verify (decrypt) it with the other half. If your encryption was in NEXP, but not in NP, it would take exponential time to decrypt even for users with the key. This is just one example, but I promise you that all our useful problems need to be in NP.

If our problems need to be in NP, then they also must not be in P. If P = NP, then it takes as long to verify a problem as it does to actually solve it. It would be just as fast to break an encryption as it is to decrypt with the key. A good explanation is in Impagliazzo's worlds. Interestingly, it necessary but not actually sufficient for P != NP. For instance, hard problems could exist but not trapdoor functions, which would make public key encryption impossible.

Americans have university degrees. Unfortunately, they demand a competitive salary (since getting a degree in US is expensive).

I'm just wondering...wouldn't it be more cost-efficient for you guys to go study to Europe? For example, the CS programme at Charles University in Prague seems to ask for 6000 Euros per year for foreign students. That's for the *English* lectures, if you bother to learn Czech before coming here, it's actually free of charge, even for international students. (I guess someone felt quite intensely that the money invested in students is worth making foreigners spend the effort to connect to our humble homeland.)

In modern classification, there is no Protist kingdom. Protists are polyphyletic, which means they have representatives in many different groups (or Kingdoms, if you want), and each group is linked by a common ancestor. Though they are still working out the actual branches of the Eukarya tree (a lot of the early branching is difficult to resolve because of so much genome re-arranging and duplications, insertions, and deletions), one fairly recent paper suggests at least 6 "Kingdoms": Opisthokonta (which includes fungi, animalia, and some of what were previously thought of as protists), Amoebazoa (amoebas, slime moulds, etc), Archaeplastida (plantae, red algae, and green algae), Chromalveolata, Rhizaria, Excavata, and some groups that aren't clearly in those groups. This paper by Roger and Simpson from 2004 has a good summary:

Simpson, A.G.B. & Roger, A.J., 2004. The real "oekingdoms" of eukaryotes. Current biology, 14(17), p.693-696. Available at: http://kfrserver.natur.cuni.cz/studium/prednasky/bunka/2005/simpson_eukevol.pdf. (PDF link)

I'm sure there has been more work since then, but that paper is accessible to non-experts and a good overall read (though I recommend having wikipedia open to see what organisms they are talking about when they list names).

Modern classification is a bit of a mess, because Nature doesn't fit into the neat hierarchical classification system that we grew up with. A good example of this is the idea of the Animal, Fungi, and Plant kingdoms of old. If Animals and Fungi deserve their own kingdoms, then at the same hierarchical level, each plant "phylum" should actually be a kingdom. Or something along those lines. But anyway more modern classification uses monophyletic groups (groups in which all members have a common ancestor; e.g. Eukarya is monophyletic because all eukaryotes share a common ancestor, but Protista is polyphyletic because there are protists which have a more recent common ancestor with animals than they do with other protists).

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About the article, man that thing is a mess. Is it a translation problem, are the journalists who wrote it completely clueless, or are the researchers who discovered this organism extremely out of date with their classification? It reads more like a discovery from 1970 than 2012. :-/

The best linux game I know is overkill. Great! Loads of blood, weapons, bullets and brackets...
For best graphics experience, you'll definitely need a black backgrounded terminal.

As you were talking about downtime: make sure to start some bots with your overkill-server.

Btw: Does anyone know a public overkill server, which is still running? Those listed on the project home page all seem to be down :-(

Screenshot (only the eyes of the main character):

o o

[censored due to ./ stating "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."]

They live inside us, so can they influence our decision-making ?!#?

There seems to be at least one scientist that believes so. Dr. Jaroslav Flegr from Prague Charles University (founded in 1348 is one of the oldest universities in the world and nowadays is one of the most eminent educational and scientific establishments in the Czech Republic) published some mind-blowing discoveries.

Dr. Flegr's claim is a simple one. Microbes influence YOUR decision-making.

You will find the presentation here http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~flegr/toxo_slides/index.php

If you dare to reach slide 14 you will learn that:
"The infected women had higher affectothymia, which means, they were more warm-hearted, outgoing, easygoing. They had also higher superego strength, which means, they were more conscientious, persistent, moralistic, staid. Both men and women had higher guilt proneness."

Now, why this is not a mainstream science I do not know. But I will leave it for you to decide.

You can research that or you can go to flickr.com and type "Empire Builder" in the search box and see some really cool photos.

The choice is yours...
(or is it?)

I tell ya, I came across Nexuiz a few months back by browsing through the ol' Synaptic package manager. Gave it a shot, and I was pretty impressed. I like OpenArena as well, but it crashes X sometimes for me. however, it is still incredibly tough to beat the best game on the planet, with the best graphics and runs on any system. . 0verkill....

So, when's "Overkill: the Movie" is coming out? I really want to see that, Boll or not.

You might like mlocate:

mlocate is a new locate implementation. The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much.

No, you can easily use PowerTop to optimize your powerusage by disabling/poweringdown Wifi, ethernet, sound and applications. So you can get your computer down from 14 Watt to 7 Watt, of course it all depends on what you need. You will see that what draws the most power is usually software not the hardware, if you run less it will draw less. It's not a price everyone is ready to pay, on the size of your computer and on functionality.

On my 12" laptop there is a 3W difference between a fully lit screen to a turned off screen. Not alot... Read the tips and trick on lesserwatts or Pavels guide to better battery time to get real experiences e.g. IDE controllers..

~0.3 Watt according to the Thinkpad X60 battery optimization guide

A well managed flash drive may be able to shut off large chunks of it's self and only wake up the bits that actually need reading/writing. That would help quite a bit, I'm sure.

A very reasonable idea. A friend of mine who happens to be working on Linux power saving features once noticed that the disk controller of X60 in fact consumes even more then an idle disk - at least if I understand it correctly. As the flash does not need to spin up, if you can wake up the controller quickly enough and turn it off again, it might be reasonable even to turn the whole thing off for an extended period of time, including the controller, especially if you have enough RAM (i.e., more disk cache).

Palm must have done a bad job on their marketing if crap like this Kindle sells out. I wouldn't use the thing if they gave it for free.

On the up side, the TX has an excellent user community, and there has been a LOT of work put into fixing Palm's mistakes in hardware and software by TX users themselves. People have added a proper touch screen, internal microphone, internal vibrator (for alarms), IrDA extender and WiFi range extender, just to name a few things. There have also been a huge number of OS and support software patches written by end users, and the latest developer versions of TXLinux are actually at the usable stage.

Check here for some of the things people are doing with the TX. There. Now I've done some of the advertising Palm neglected to do. Too bad they still most likely won't do a new version of the TX -- nothing new on it in 2 years.

Never heard of a salt-water well? Here's one mentioned in Tibet: http://zt.tibet.cn/tibetzt-en/xzcwh/xzcwh_2_7.htm Also the word "sealt-wille" appears in Bosworth and Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/html/oe_bosworthtoller/b 0852.html Guess what "sealt-wille" means. They've been around a while.

Allow me to quantify that. The combined market share of IE, FireFox, Opera, Netscape and Mozilla is 94%. I'm willing to be most of the remaining 6% were also a browser that supports JS (Konqueror, Safari. Yes there are even text browsers that support it.) If you scroll further down, that have statistics showing 9/10 people browse with JS enabled.

I personally think JS as it stands today is dandy in terms of what be accomplished on the client side. There is a tendency to forget that most people still have a modem, and adding 70kb worth of libraries to every single page load is simply ridiculous (scriptaculous, I'm looking at you.) But some of the newer lightweight libraries are just amazing. Everything is moving in that direction; hell, even /. recently picked up some JS functionality, so you know it must be ubiquitous :)

A 264kb plugin would be a more appropriate name then. I wanted to suggest w3m, but even the tar.gz of w3m is almost 2 MB. lynx tar.gz is 3 mb and the win32 binaries of links are also exceeding 300 kb. Hardly feasible that any browser would be smaller I'd say.

Ross Anderson of the Computer Security Group at Cambridge University wrote a paper called the Eternity Service. It has had a few different attempts at implementation, as well as some reworks in terms of design. The primary difference is in the Eternity Service - you had no idea what data you had, nor did you have access to the keys. This new concept/design seems to provide more control/granualirity for the user. Given the new proposed encryption laws in the UK, I'm not sure this is a good idea.

The chances are rather small.

The goal of the terrorists is to spread fear in order to change your behavior and create social pressures with it. As far as it goes, they are succeeding quite well.

And I would also not discard US government goals to erode as much civil rights as possible under the cloak of anti-terrorism. Anti-terrorism and anti-Islamism seems to be the anti-communism of the 21st century.

I recently rediscovered an Adlai Stevenson speech at http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1950s/S tevenson_52.html. Ironically, it's hosted in a former communist country.

http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/

Actually, if "passed" means you get the same result for the test and for the reference page, links passed first. ;)

In their simplest form, the following are general licensing guidelines:

        * If your software is licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, then use our GPL licensed version.
        * If you distribute a proprietary application in any way, and you are not licensing and distributing your source code under GPL, you need to purchase a commercial license of MySQL
        * If you are unsure, we recommend that you buy our cost effective commercial licenses. That is the safest solution. Licensing questions can submitted online for our advice, and we encourage you to refer to the Free Software Foundation or a lawyer as appropriate.

3. Commercial use for everyone else

If your application is not licensed under GPL or compatible OSI license approved by MySQL AB and you intend to distribute MySQL software (be that internally or externally), you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL software in question.

More specifically:

a) If you include the MySQL server in your non Open Source application, you need a commercial licence for the MySQL server

b) If you include one of the MySQL drivers in your non Open Source application (so that your application can run with MySQL), you need a commercial licence for the driver(s) in question. The MySQL drivers currently include an ODBC driver, a JDBC driver and the C language library.

c) If you use MySQL Software within your organisation and you don't want to risk it falling under the GPL license, you are welcome to purchase a commercial license.

d) Many users opt for the commercial licence simply because under it MySQL AB takes responsibility for its products. Under the GPL licence, there are no warranties or representations from the developer (i.e. from MySQL AB).

As it turns out the Times reported on this matter some time ago (unfortunately they have taken down the article...however
it reported the work of Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University Prague...
From the report in the times:
[Infected] women ... appear to exhibit the "sex kitten" effect, becoming less trustworthy, more desirable, fun-loving and possibly more promiscuous. ... [They] spent more money on clothes and were consistently rated as more attractive. ... By contrast, the infected men appeared to suffer from the "alley cat" effect: becoming less well groomed undesirable loners who were more willing to fight. They were more likely to be suspicious and jealous. "They tended to dislike following rules," Flegr said.
Check this for more info.

Or for those hankering to be on the cutting edge of technology, Links.

Then I'm pretty safe with links on Mac? :)

http://kde.openoffice.org/
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/blog/

if you go to either of those two URLs above, you'll see that your assertion that GNOME is where is where "all the OpenOffice" integration work is being done is less than accurate.

Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web

Once again the *nix world has had this taken care of for years.

I posted about this an AC earlier today, but now that I'm back at home time to give some more info.

From the website:
"Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of
popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims
google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index,
slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen
lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in
unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.

Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on
with what it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms
is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are
good at. Combined with netscape-remote or incremental text browsers,
such as links (http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/), w3m
(http://www.w3m.org/), and screen(1) a Surfraw liberateur is capable
of navigating speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear
and wonder.

For example:

$ ask why is jeeves gay?
$ google -results=100 RMS, GNU, which is sinner, which is sin?
$ austlii -method=phrase dog like
$ rhyme -method=perfect Julian"

And obviously you can hack this to make it work with whatever website you could want to use. Much better than this YubNub stuff from my glance at it.

Good, let them fight. When all of their energy is exhausted, we will show them the true follow of their "browser war"!

click

Other open source browsers:

• Amaya - from W3
• Links - my current text browser of choice
• W3M - another text browser

This should help.

If you really need a lightweight web browser for an older machine, I would recommend

Dillo - a nice lightweight browser, but no CSS or Javascript. Requiress GTK something.

Links 2 - Runs in X, frame buffer, SVGA. Some CSS and Javascript support.

Links

What use is linux for handhelds, considering there are currently no good open source mini browsers (eventually, there will be minimoz) or handwriting recognition programs.

No, it isn't. Links is better :P

Could be. In the war between the lynx browser and the some say superior links browser, lynx hasn't had a new release since Feb 4 2004, over a year now. Perhaps they've thrown in the towel.

But then, links hasn't released anything new since July 24 2004. Perhaps it's just not a very hot war.

Anyone have any news on the text browser war? It doesn't seem to be very well covered.

So are you talking about lynx or links ?

You misinterpreted the folder name meaning. The folder gets replaced together with its hidden contents whenever you remove it because without it, MSIE wouldn't be able to render pages properly, missing its underlying HTML rendering engine which is being placed there.

That's the old version. The new version is here:
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/l inks/

That idiot doesn't know that besides Lynx, there is also Links.

Parent is not offtopic !

lynx sucks, use links

Emulators, which provide conversion software that enables games to run on personal computers ("PC's") and other systems or platforms for which they were not originally designed[...]

You can find emulators for more than just games, many of them emulate old computers(such as basalisk, an emulator for older apple computers), or even just parts of hardware such as Daemon Tools (implements a virtual CD/DVD drive for win32 as well as some older copy protection such as SecuROM, etc. Something like mounting an iso under *nix, but a bit more advanced.)

You can also find programs that "Is Not an Emulator" that enable one to play games among other applications such as WINE and its derivatives like Cedega and Crossover Office.

You also find general purpose emulators that are mainly used for playing games, such as DOSBox. Another emulator that is often used for playing DOS games under WindowsNT-based systems is VDMSound (emulates the older ADLib(cap?) and SoundBlaster, MT32 Roland and like devices)

Sorry for not providing any links, but it's getting fairly late here and I have to be up in 5 hours...

I still have a major problem with firefox (that's otherwise excellent):
It's still not letting me use my $EDITOR to edit these goddamn textareas!!

Am I the only one who hates these clumsy textarea input widgets
we have to deal with every day? They're a pain for anything more than hacking up a couple lines of text.

The tab-key doesn't work, linewrap can't be turned off, copy/paste is "sometimes" flakey, the entered text cannot easily be saved elsewhere (without copy/paste), even basic formatting is hard (due to enforced linewrap and missing tab), spellchecking does not exist (maybe in opera?), focus can get screwed up and hitting enter might then submit whatever you scribbled up so far, etc. etc.

It's ok for slashdot but when you work alot with wikis (I do) you learn to love links which let's you use any editor for textareas. Unfornationally links is not good for everything so I find myself jumping back and forth...

I found a plugin for firefox (0.9 I think) awhile back that claimed it would allow to use a custom editor for textareas but, well, it didn't work.

Is this really too much asked (doesn't anyone else care about it?). I mean, having a little xterm with whatever editor embedded in the browser canvas would be the shit. But I'd already be happy if I could just launch it in an external window by clicking a button...

> You cant emulate the 'feel' of having the real thing in your hands.

More or less you can.

Three years ago or so, I built a device described in a joystick driver for linux that plugs into the parallel port, and on the other end of that cable is a box with 4 NES plugs, 2 SNES plugs, 4 9-pin DIN for sega (MS and G), and two connectors I dont recal the name of for the TG-16 pads.

They were aligned in the box in rows for players 1-4.
You plug one controller of any type in for each player, and load the driver (it autodetected which controller was there only on load at the time) and they show up as standard joysticks.

I know the drivers now support PSX, N64, and Dreamcast controllers as well.

I'm sure I also ran accrost a driver for windows to do the same (Never checked it out though)

For more info, see:
Linux joystick driver site
and
TV Game Joystick interfacing docs

Thus, IE 6 is not a "modern" browser.

In the same way The Strokes are not The Modern Lovers.

Certain versions of the successor (originally text-mode) links browser do display JPG and other image formats. Take a look at: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/l inks/features.html

Apparently the above text violates the lameness filter so I have to add some more variety here to allow my post through.

but links is still very alive!

Or do some things work in MSIE but not in other browsers? Or will some things work better if they're told that the visitor is MSIE, even if it's really links or w3m?

Any of this would slant the stats.