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The one game I can name in this genre that was any good was Michael Ninn's Latex: The Game.

It was interesting... sort of a dumbed-down (but not completely trivial) combination of Myst, Pink Floyd's The Wall, and a porn flick (it included FMV clips from the porn movie, Michael Ninn's Latex).

What was cool about it was that it immersed you in a surreal world, inside the mind of a lunatic. There was an otherworldly quality to it that by far exceeded what one would expect from a game based on a porn flick.

I count it as the only truly sexy (and not braindead) "adult" game.

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EarthLink's Toolbar contains a module called ScamBlocker, which uses heuristic rules AND a white list AND a server-based black list to help you identify and avoid phisher sites. It's free, and it works even if you hide the toolbar in your browser.

http://www.earthlink.net/software/free/toolbar/

maybe they suffer from
aluminum poisoning .

They're reasonably powerful systems with very low power consumption: the entire system (minus display) usually stays under 20W. Even the Pentium-M consumes much more on the desktop (granted, they're also much faster). The most comparable competition in terms of power consumption are Via Mini-ITX systems, which tend to be much slower.

Just get rid of that pesky optical drive.

Apple is pleased to announce an new, special limited edition of the Mac mini! The Mac mini Semtex.

Apple takes no responsibility for user safety when travelling through Israelli check points.

"In a nutshell, it's a chain-driven set of pulleys that resemble a pair of cones that move together and apart to give you a near infinite number of ratio combinations."

WRONG!

The Prius does not have a "chain-driven set of pulleys". In fact, it doesn't even have a true CVT.

The Prius uses a planetary gear system (similar to a differential) called the "power split device" which divides torque between MG1, MG2, and the gasoline engine.

It provides most of the benefits of a CVT system, but "shifting" is done by transferring power between the two motors electronically.

More info:

http://home.earthlink.net/~graham1/MyToyotaPrius/U nderstanding/PowerSplitDevice.htm

Most Honda hybrids offer CVT as an option (with manual 5-speed being the alternative). In Honda cars, the manual actually gets better MPG than the CVT. Too bad Toyota doesn't offer a manual for the Prius.

Does no one here rememeber MSAV?

It shipped with MS-DOS 6.2 and 6.22. I remember it looked a lot like an early BSOD as it scanned for viruses I might have recieved while downloaded a registered copy of Scorched Earth from a BBS.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rlively/MANUALS/COMMAND S/M/MSAV.HTM

D is the answer. It's meant to take the good ideas from C++, Java, and C# and make a modernized C-type language which is suitable for systems programming and (relatively) easy to implement.

There's a a GCC frontend) in the works as well. In general, it seems like once this language gets a bit more mindshare it will really take off.

(D is currently #1 on the Great Computer Language Shootout- and while it does help a little that it's the only one with all the tests implemented, its ranking is due to very impressive performance.)

As I understand it this is not true. In gasoline engines they run the engine rich at high throttle which lowers efficiency. From http://home.earthlink.net/~graham1/MyToyotaPrius/U nderstanding/InternalCombustion.htm Conventional engines are biased towards a rich mixture when power demand is high. This makes sure every scrap of air drawn into the engine is used up to get the maximum possible torque. The unburned fuel can be oxidized, up to a point, by the catalytic converter, but its energy is wasted resulting in lower efficiency.

Typical inept Slashdot editing: the data is *encoded* (as the original AvWeb article states), not encrypted. Sure, JPI is an evil company with a history of slimey dealings as shown here http://home.earthlink.net/~timrv6a/jpi.html but lets be accurate about what they've done. If JPI (or someone else) was to provide info on the format of the encoded data there would be no news story.

In the interest of stimulating more informed discussion, the results of the Anti-Phishing Working Group survey can be found here.

Al Gore gets award for lifetime contributions to the Internet.

No, he didn't claim to invent it. Technically, he claimed that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet".

A number of "quality" capacitor manufacturers have been having problems recently. There wasn't much Apple could do about it.

References:
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Feb/bch20030 207018535.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/index27.htm

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb0 3/ncap.html

www.skywebexpress.com/

SkyWeb Express is very user friendly. Just swipe a prepaid card through a stanchion in front of an empty waiting vehicle, punch in the destination number, take a seat in the vehicle and our computer control system will sweep you non-stop to your destination.

It operates on demand whenever you need it. Empty vehicles wait for you - not the other way around.

The ride is private. You don't share your trip with strangers, just with your family or friends.

The computer control system chooses the fastest way to your destination. You don't stop at any other stations as you travel across the guideway network. Stations are on sidings, so you just bypass ones along the way.

Not least, all of this can be done in a way that is extremely cost effective.

Whether as a short-distance circulator, an area-wide feeder to light rail or buses, or as a complete city-wide system, see what SkyWeb Express can do for you.

Welcome to the 21st century with our simple yet innovative system.

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

This "new" approach of achieving fusion using strong electric fields is of much greater significance than just academic interest in fusion research. It may well lead directly to EM-pulse-based clean-fusion bombs that don't need a fallout-producing plutonium atomic-bomb trigger. There are a LOT of ways to produce REALLY strong electromagnetic fields for a fraction of a second and let's face it, many of these can be done in your basement. So...are homemade nukes closer as a result of this discovery?

Don't cry, just wait for the ding dong tax.

All you sheep with your customer loyalty cards just wait. The databases are all being linked. You eat too much junk food you get taxed at a higher rate.

Then the national or world sales tax on goods. Everything will be tagged with rfids. If the item was not purchased legit you will be guilty of holding "illegal" goods.

Learn to love the control grid. The new freedom initiative, patriot 1,2,3 cameras everywhere.

Checkpoints and mall security like the airports.

abiotic oil peak oil is a lie peak oil psyop
http://www.gasresources.net/DisposalBioClaims.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

I've never had any problems transferring from Word to OpenOffice... and this is what I transferred and then used OpenOffice to make some fancy little borders at the top and bottom and convert to PDF: FinalReport.pdf Anyway... I find this a useful way to convert any format to any other format without any complications. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V enjoy. Even files from Orcad can use this method to convert to OpenOffice. Thats right! A freaking Cad program!

users as innovators -- isn't this what
inspired stallman to invent open source?
he wanted to tweak a laser printer.

j

LOL!! For the nitpickers among us, I shoulda said "the ability to function without something *abnormal* to the organism".

As to the perils of dihydrogen monoxide addiction... http://home.earthlink.net/~thesandpit/misc/water.h tm

252 pixel grey scale Abe: http://home.earthlink.net/~wlhunt/History/History. html

Actually, violet wands would be a bit closer.

http://home.earthlink.net/~violetwanda/wands.html [Eclectic Electric]

who's going to do better - a kid using a calculator
to give him the answer, or the kid doing sums with
a pencil and paper? the point being, you don't need
a computer to invent a computer. the more you do things
manually, the more you are forced to develop your thinking.
once you've learned it the hard way, then the benefits
of automation become all the more apparent than the
person that has never had to do the work under the hood.
the same thing applies to programming - someone
who knows how to compile their own kernal
will have better insight into knowing things
are behaving the way they are.

there are many skills in the world,
one of them is computer fluency,
and because of the saturation in our environment
of them, you can almost pick them up along the way
for many things without ever having to explicitly
take a 'computer' course in school, just like you
can become taxi driver without ever having to
become a mechinic.

you want to live in the world before modelling it.
before i see formal database entries for different kinds
of fish and plants, i would think its better to experience
these things first hand (if possible - are there frogs
and milkweeds out in the creek beside the school -
why should i use a CD-ROM about them first? --first
i see the frogs, then i become curious, and i may even later
do a web search about these things to find out their history
and what other people have said. but simulation
never replaces first-hand real-world experience.
it amazes me last time i went to the museum
that they had an actual dinosaur skeleton RIGHT THERE --
first hand data from which everything is derived. and there
was nobody actually LOOKING at it - they were all too busy
watching a screen with a computer model of the artifact
in question --i.e. information ABOUT the artifact,
instead of studiously contemplating the actual thing itself.
this seems very typical of learning these days.

kids should run around, climb trees and play in the mud.
its all very good for them. then later on when they're
tired in the evening, settle donw and play a videogame,
and when they're curious enough, then maybe they'll
decide to go further, and try and learn how to programme
one themselves. but running and playing is more
important for kids then pointing and clicking.
they're already going to have loads of computers
in their life, but they're never going to have
time to play and run and climb trees again
like they do when they're young - let them. :D

the secret to staying young
in to never stop climbing trees.

regards,
j.

I think that was the about the time when they switched to using asmtp. I remember getting a mail from them regarding that.

Maybe this might help.

You could double the voltage [] without being less safe

Double the voltage? Naaah, ya pussy. I say crank it up to 500KV.

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you said "what we need is more competition". How do you think this is going to happen?

Here's the problem: our country's broadband infrastructure is owned and operated by a couple of corporations who own all the pipes to people's homes. I don't have a problem with corporations building out infrastructure and seeking to make a very lucrative buck off of it. This is what they do. This is free enterprise. Free enterprise is a good thing. Making money is a good thing. However, and understandably enough, local governments just handed them out permits to dig in our streets to lay their pipes without any attempt to negotiate a future "pipe-sharing" plan with supporting infrastructure for competing businesses to offer content/services/data over those pipes, after they'd recouped their costs and made profits to the tune of $X amount, or after Y years of sole operation and ownership. At the time, we didn't really think in terms of data. Fair enough.

We are at a turning point in history, where we now have the ability to change this.

Contrary to what the incumbents would have us believe, municipality-driven broadband infrastructure would, in my opinion, become the ultimate enabler of free enterprise from the private sector in data, media, and communication SERVICES.

Municipality-driven WiFi is just ONE step in an overall encouraging direction.

Municipality-built broadband infrastructures, beyond providing the ability for said municipality to provide very basic connectivity for free or cheap to its constituents, also provides an opportunity to welcome the private sector to compete on an equal footing. The infrastructure must simply be allowed to evolve to allow for mostly automated ways to "share the pipe".

A WiFi system can be easily extended to enable such sharing. So could a fiber-optic network.

Consider today's "sharing" alternatives in the DSL field: it's bleak. My only real DSL alternative is my local Telco, Verizon. Thankfully, I'm able to get service from EarthLink at about the same price point as Verizon, and instead of getting mere connectivity with the insanely useless MSN premium package, i get stuff i actually find useful, such as Mac OS X Address Book synching with my earthlink online address book, which is tied into the challenge-response-based spam filtering. But here's the problem though, while EarthLink is competing on services, it can't compete with Verizon on speed, because they're only able to resell Verizon's DSL connectivity to me, and from what i've heard, we ain't looking at a big margin here.

I want hundreds of EarthLink's competing on both speed and services.

In the case of Muni WiFi, I could for example get free basic connectivity throttled at lower speeds from the City, with no-other services, and justify spending money with fine services such as knowspam.net to protect myself from spam, flickr.com for photo sharing, TypePad for blogging, Rojo.com for news reading, Prodigem.com for Torrents creating/seeding, .Mac for reliable WEBDAV hosting, some packaged-deal from EarthLink, and/or hundreds of cheap services which may be useful TO ME. There's a lot of innovation on the Internet, many of those innovators are struggling to find sustainable revenue models.

Such a broadband scene will also open the doors to triple-play packages: data, media, communications over a single pipe. Many competitors, the best few ones would win, the customer wins.

Right now, in my area, Verizon and Adelphia are the big winners. I, as a consumer, am not. As far as i'm concerned, these fsckers have no business offering internet services, what the fuck do they know abo

I believe EarthLink limits your Internet dial-up connection for 24 hours straight and automatically disconnects you. Then, you will have to dial-up back to get on.

I'm sorry that your country is unable to build nuclear power plants, as they are very expensive. However, you have some of your facts wrong.

The US doesn't want Iran to have nuclear materials because they might build bombs with the material.

The main reason nuclear power plants have not been built is because of mass hysteria from the accident at the poorly designed Three Mile Island plant. PBS did a wonderful one-hour special on this accident. You can see info at their website. Also, the accident at the poorly operated Chernobyl plant didn't help things. Nuclear power plants take much care to operate correctly, but are much more enviromentally friendly than coal, oil, and gas.

The last constrution of a nuclear power plant in the US was completed in 1996. See US Dept. of Energy

Wind, waves, and solar are very expensive. Solar and wind power is more than $80/MWh compared with the average coal cost of $16/MWh (in US); this is not a good deal. A quick search on google for wind and solar costs will show you. Here is an example.

I know because of experience in the energy business that nuclear power is usually cheaper than power generated from other fuels, but this article has some good facts about that.

Yes, the USSR has many nuclear reactors (probably poorly maintained), but even without the USSR, there would be plenty more nuclear power plants in Europe than in the US. See this Dept. of Energy article.

You're not serious that you don't "GET IT" are you? The evidence is overwhelming. And those who trot out some trumped up fiction that refutes the majority are mostly politcally motivated, or funded by oil companies. There is really buig bucks at stake to these people, at least for them. But if the planet compromises it's long term future, what have we done? Look at this month's "Discover" magazine; or any simple searching dregs up tons.: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2001/04/13/MN211246.DTL http://home.earthlink.net/~cevent/11-10-04_solid_e vidence_gw.html http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters/teaching/climatec hange/globemail4.11.97.html http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/02/19/en vironment.report/ http://www.ehleringer.net/Biology_5460/Projects/cl imatedata/globalwarming3.pdf http://www.climatesolutions.org/pubs/pdfs/gwih.pdf http://www.climateark.org/articles/2001/2nd/statto ce.htm http://www.mmmfiles.com/archive/gw2001.htm http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/3970 _ConferenceBoard.pdf http://www.colorado.edu/pwr/occasions/salliebaliun as.htm http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-1/p13.html

By the way, you know how the neoconservatives always claim that they never went to college because it's "just liberal brainwashing"? To me, that just screams "Sour grapes".

Do you mean neo-conservatives like Bill Kristol (Harvard), Alan Keyes (Harvard, University of Chicago), Leon Kass (University of Chicago) or Allan Bloom (University of Chicago)? If anything, neo-conservatives are hyper-educated.

Neo-conservatives may be reprehensible, but uneducated they aren't. Most of them were students or professors at some of the most prestigeous universities in America. You ought to read some history of Straussianism and the neo-conservative movement.

Perhaps you're thinking of the Religious Right?

In related news, simultaneously Earthlink (in an anti-spam coalition with Microsoft) also announced filing numerous lawsuits to hopefully litigate some major spam operations into oblivion.
Winning these cases (and most importantly, many more) against the spammers would be much easier, of course, if the U.S. finally adopted an opt-in requirement as well, stating that there is no way you CAN SPAM, like in the EU where under a new agreement on anti-spam enforcement, one single complaint will now even suffice to send the authorities round to eradicate any remaining spammers' hideouts in 13 Member States at once.

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Iraq buried fighter jets. How hard would it be to bury a bomb? Or destroy labs? etc It's obvious to me that Saddam was willing to destroy his equipment rather than let it be found. It's lucky we've found things like jets that are fairly easy to track by satellite and determine last known locations, but its quite another thing to track a vehicle that may or may not be carrying a WMD, and then determine where that weapon went. I would venture that there is equipment buried in the sands that will NEVER be found.

You're looking for LarsWM.

It happens, a lot

While the theatrical release may be filmed at a wider aspect ratio, there is often indeed more area at the top and bottom that can be unmasked for the conversion to more square ratios.

The viewfinder would likely be masked to the final aspect ratio too, but I'm no filmmaker.

Didn't someone name a new species of beetle after DNA a year or so ago?

Googling turned up:
Erechthias beeblebroxi Robinson & Nelson, 1993 (tineid) with a false head; after Zaphod Beeblebrox, two-headed character from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

From Here

Microsoft Word 1.0 was on a Mac,
because Windows didn't exist then yet.

regards,
j

It is now my desktop of choice. Previously my choice was windows:(. I fell in love with Gnome because of Ubuntu(or was it the other way around). It reminded me of a Mac how smooth everything worked and fit together. But it didn't feel as restrictive as I find Macs. I like to play with linux so I knew a bit about what was going on. I also feel I should add that I could do more with Ubuntu than all the distro's I have tried in the last 5 years put together. seriously. Linux has come a long way since RedHat 5. (my first distro-didnt last long)

Ubuntu made me look past all the configuration files and .rc files and all I saw were applications that could help make me more productive. Also did you know Ubunto's install has no network services installed by default? Thats the way it should be.

BTW have you read this? good stuff, ontopic I think-->> http://home.earthlink.net/~android606/commandline/ index.html

""Directional receiver" and not needing pointing are mutually exclusive by definition."

I don't think so...Imagine a fixed simple small whip antenna that would stick out the side of the craft. As the probe spins the signal strength varies regularly (synodically) by knowing your spin rate and the time you can determine where the signal is coming from (roughly) by looking at when the signal strength is highest.

Yagi antennas are different from phased arrays. When I said phased array I mean computer controlled phased array. These weren't really available until the '70's-'80's.

Well, yeah, I'm not in love with that per se, but it's worth pointing out that the RIAA required iTunes to use DRM, and that the iPod plays all sorts of non-encrypted files.

I think the more salient issue is that Apple is a bit further away ideologically from actually putting some shit in the BIOS that prevents you from booting another OS. Their asses were saved by BSD. Hell, forget Ideology: they're a hardware company. They don't give a rat's behind if you put linux on the box (I don't know why you would in the first place, since, in terms of applications and hardware support, OS X is a superset of Linux, but I think they get a kick out of people hacking their boxes), they've already made off with the money and don't need to rely on shitty software and compulsory upgrades for their cash.

Granted, their hardware platform is pretty much a controlled, closed deal. But I don't think that is nearly as evil as what's happening on the other side of the line.

The Bush administration's decision to ignore the Geneva Convention and assert the right to hold captives indefinitely under the legally ambiguous category "illegal combatant" has left it with a nasty dilemma. What do we do with these people?

One thing we don't do is build a network of secret, extraterritorial prisons where terrorism suspects that U.S. authorities don't want to free or bring before U.S. and foreign courts can be held for life. According to the Washington Post, this proposal is among those being considered ...

Indefinite, incommunicado incarceration without the right of trial is a horrible affront to American ideals. It certainly makes a mockery of what we purport to stand for in the eyes of the world. And as details about the treatment of Iraqi prisoners and the detainees at Guantanamo leak out, there have to be grave doubts that a system operated in secret would be humanely run. ... As for secret prisons where inmates are held for life without trial, the old Soviet Union bequeathed us a name for such a system -- gulags.

to my superficial observation, the nebulae look remarkably similair to giant CELLs.
has anyone ever tried comparing Nebulae to EMBRYO development?

embryonic cosmology -- just like you don't explain the movement
of a compass needle out of the surrounding totality,
can we find any connections between Nebulae
and the processes of embryology?

best regards,
j.

ah, go ahead, mod me down...
i know i'm wasting karma with such a ridiculous idea.
nobody wants to hear anything really new. :-P

For those interested here's the link. Not a bad read overall.

earthlink gives you a pure SIP address and handles gatewaying when needed. So you can send and receive calls to/from any other SIP user. or something :)

That picture lacks the true depth of the crater. Check out THIS PHOTO for a much more accurate detail

I installed it at work yesterday because I like Netcraft and I only use the Google toolbar on IE to block popups (although I use Firefox 99% of the time anyway). I noticed it didn't block popups from the sites I visit (ex: cnn.com), even though it has the option to "block unrequested popup windows" in Options. The anti-phishing is great, but it would be nice if the popup blocking worked for those who can't install XP SP2.

I could care less since I use Firefox. My parents could use it since they have XP SP2. I guess the people who have to decide between blocked popups and blocking phishing sites are those who run 2000 or Windows 9x, although I think Earthlink has a toolbar that will block both (not sure how well it works though). Again, no big deal, but I thought it was strange that they didn't include a working popup blocker. Seems like a automatic throw-in for all modern IE toolbars, though anyone still using IE is likely either required to (through shoddy programming or "advanced" IE-only features (what I call "screw you" features, since they're basically saying that to anyone who doesn't run windows, is disabled, or uses a text reader of some sort (braille, cell phone)) or is too novice to understand why IE == death.

Anything but IE in 2005! Viva la revolución!

she really is pretty cute... but look at all the stiff competition you'd find if you tried to pick her up at a hobby show: http://home.earthlink.net/~randy128/expo2002/pix5/ MVC-304S.JPG