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What the hell is salt going to do with that?

Dude, he meant to take a story with a grain of salt, despite Reuters being a very reputable source of news.

I cant find the screen shots at the moment

Well, still no screen shot, but a bunch of more readable information. One things especially to note is CGDisplayUsesOpenGLAcceleration.

"Songs are sold through albums, which average $15 for maybe 13 tunes [...] Artists get - from a generous publisher - three cents on the dollar. That's 45 cents an album sold. [...] By eliminating the middle-man - the record industry - artists can charge, say, 5 cents per song and STILL come out ahead of what they'd have gotten through selling CDs" (E2) (Trying to find the link on google says even lower numbers...)

As far as Sun's quoting the price of support on their webpage you guys need to pull your heads out of your asses and wash the shit from your eyes and ears. Sun quotes standard warranty support, which is basically next business day parts exchange in the standard price that they advertise. Now, go to Dell's website and price out a server, Dell's advertising quotes their three year gold support option, with 7x24 service as the default option in the list price. Since this is a server, which means that it's probably going to be high availability, I want to see what those support costs are up front. Dell is a lot more honest about this than Sun is.

And Sun having a contract that provides Windows support, big fucking deal. Hell, if you paid Microsoft enough money they'd support Linux and FreeBSD and send you a tech with Tux tattooed on one ass-cheek and the FreeBSD daemon on the other. Years ago when I was dealing with HP they offered to "support" the DEC and Sun systems that my company had, we declined and stayed with our DEC and Sun contracts, which were cheaper. Sun's support for other platforms might cost like Hell, and it might not be any good, but they will sell it to you if you're dumb enough to buy it. Sun will "support" anything they can, and in doing so they will charge you an arm and a leg for the contract. This is because Sun would like to make a lot of money on high-margin consulting services and support like IBM does. Getting your Windows or Linux support from Sun is like having a Corvette worked on at a VW dealership, it's possible (if you spend enough money) but it's not necessarily smart.

Why is anyone going to purchase a Sun Opteron to run Windows or Linux on anyways? It's not the performance. It's not the price. It's not the quality of the systems (I've disassembled a bunch of lower-end Suns and quite frankly I've seen better built systems from beigebox clonehouses) and it's not because of any brilliant engineering on Sun's part (Sun reserves their good engineering for their larger systems, which is why they pretty much own the market for NetBackup media servers and NetBackup master servers). When it comes right down to it the only reason is "because you can", which plays well on /. where the readers like to install Linux on dead badgers, but not in the real world.

Like a proper little Darwin

Like a proper little Darwin

Your grammar makes the baby Jesus cry...

+1

In speed chess, each player has five minutes on the clock for their whole game. It's not exactly the five seconds per move you suggest - you get your opening out as quickly as possible to conserve time for the endgame - but it's pretty close. If you've memorised a huge litany of openings and you're good at seeing the board rather than the pieces, it's a lot of fun (especially when time starts running out).

Playing speed chess is a good way to test your knowledge, find out what your peers are up to, and maybe meet some interesting people or think some interesting thoughts along the way. Ultimately, though, it's not as fulfilling as getting completely lost in a full-length game that you actually care about.

A programming competition is a good way to test your knowledge, find out what your peers are up to, and maybe meet some interesting people or think some interesting thoughts along the way. Ultimately, though, it's not as fulfilling as getting completely lost in a full-length project that you actually care about.

They've got a whole Wolverine... :->

America where you can sue for getting burned from coffee, because it was too HOT

Not this again...

The coffee was an average on 45 degrees hotter than anywhere else. It was so hot it caused 3rd degree burns. McDonalds had been repeatedly warned about the dangers of their coffee and had done nothing about it.

I hope I always live in a country where I have some recourse against a drive for profits causing blatant disregard for my safety.

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I think the best thing we could do is come up with a set of new, gender-neutral-only pronouns

Everything2.com, a user-created encyclopedia/blog which was started by some people associated with Slashdot, seems to have standardized on the Spivak pronouns (e2 article | wikipedia article).

But does the player have the right to play as a character of either sex?

Could you help me out here, and explain how, exactly, one would go about writing an unbiased test? Could you show me one? Or at least one biased in the other direction?

Or are you saying that women have special, "spiritually nutritive" "ways of knowing"? I hope not, because that'd be really, really reductive, and at least as sexist as claiming that women are inherently and immutably less intelligent than men.

And it's not nearly as useful as saying, "hmm, I wonder why our women aren't doing as well---perhaps there's something we can fix about this." IQ tests were originally intended to diagnose children who needed extra help, not to pigeonhole the disadvantaged (as has been done in the past), and certainly not to feed them the soft bigotry of low expectations, as you seem to be doing. Will you next claim that women just aren't good at physics, because physics was invented by dead white guys, and Principia Mathematica is just a rape manual? You're almost there, you know.

And out of curiosity, why do Asians do marginally better than whites? Are the folks at Stanford-Binet, Inc. (or whatever) secretly slightly Asian?

--grendel drago

That was classic viewing -- so classic a song includes a mention of it.

Yes - by not installing that POS in the first place.

Real came default with Windows when I had it. I agree that it's loathsome. Equally loathsome are people who insist in releasing video that only Real Player can play. Same reason I hiss at the use of .pdf and .ps files for releasing documentation.

Under IE: Tools -> Internet Options -> Delete Cookies.

I would love to see the output from Linux's "locate anyuser" run on your drive! On my Windows box, cookies lived in about half a dozen different directories, *sigh* I wish I'd kept a list of which ones...anyway, running "Disk Cleanup" and other such tools hardly touched the tip of the iceberg, it took stuff like Norton tools and Lavasoft to really get the muck pried out of the gutters. Maybe some of that's changed...

Why on *EARTH* would you want to do that? It's essential if you want to do any serious multitasking. It's so critical that I have to have it twice as large as it would normally be.

Well, let's just say Linux has *other* ways to handle desktop multi-tasking. Like multiple virtual desktops, accessible by Alt-[F1-F8]! And simply right-clicking on the desktop to get a "start" menu and tasklist, in window managers like Fluxbox and Window Maker, and hide buttons on the panel for desktops like KDE and Gnome...and about a zillion other toys. I got so sick of the endless minimize/maximize chase during my Windows days, that in Linux I'll open my 100th virtual desktop before I'll minimize a single window, no matter how trivial it is. Programs stay *open* until I'm *done* with them...*pant!*-*pant!*-*seethe!*

Anyway, you can hide the taskbar completely with CTRL-ESC ALT-MINUS-C (same sequence with ALT-PLUS-C brings it back, IIRC). Or else the Windows key by itself toggles the start menu. By the way, there's a slew of Windows-key functions: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=490939 .

Some or none or all of these may work with version Foo, upgrade Bar. And of course, we all learned this within ten days of installing windows, from typing "man winkey" at our DOS prompt, right?

next...

True, the video game rights to NFL, NCAA, and AFL teams, stadiums, and players have been gobbled up by Electronic Arse, but that's not all the football there is. What about the CFL? And if you'll allow me to think outside the box, are FIFA and MLS under exclusive contracts? What about folk football, which could be partly standardized?

If you're interested in some more people measurements, check these two pages:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=104918 1

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=101766 7

I prefer the ones regarding space travel.

If you're interested in some more people measurements, check these two pages:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=104918 1

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=101766 7

I prefer the ones regarding space travel.

At this point in the play Jack Cade and his followers are proposing to replace the rule of law with the rule of personal whim, a dictatorship.

If you're going to quote it, get the whole idea behind the quote.

I wonder would this ever be as disastrous as Ice-nine in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s novel Cat's Cradle? http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=572596

It means Wikipedia is turning into Everything2

Creationism and its relative Intelligent Design are not valid scientific theories. They are not predictive in any meaningful sense, nor are they falsifiable. This doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong or useless in a broader sense, simply that they are not science and, thus, have no place in a class on science.

What gets taught in classes on a particular subject (at least at the high school level) should be determined by what is the consensus view among experts in that particular field. Evolutionary theories are the accepted consensus among the scientific community, meaning this is what should be taught in science class. Thus, even if creationism and ID were valid scientific theories, they still would have no place in a K-12 science course, any more than the theories of those who object to special relativity or the heliocentric model of the solar system. The curriculum of science class should not be determined by popular oppinion among the uninformed. If we did things that way, we'd probably be teaching children that summer happens because that's when the Earth is closest to the Sun, since in surveys I've seen this is a more popular explanation than the correct one.

Creationism and ID might have a proper place in school, however. If the school offers a course on philosophy or on comparative religion, then these would be perfectly suitable topics for discussion. Ironically, they might be used in a discussion of the scientific method as instructive examples of ideas that are invalid as scientific theories, but that would obviously be a foolish example to use, because it's too politically charged.

The strict limit to a single sentence is part of the challenge. There are variants with a word limit too. Personally I think just limiting yourself to two words is fun. "Captain, we've—!"

Yeah, but John Edward apparently is fake

With a wink to the original poster, I've found this...

I wouldn't know...I always just give her the pearl necklaces she loves so much.

You're too late, everything is registered ;-)

I didn't have time to give the article a full read, but this guy was way, way ahead of his time

He wasn't the only one. What about Paul Otlet? He also contributed to hypertext.

Personally, I thought it was great... am I the only one?

I liked it, especially the animation, which was top-notch for its day.

However, watching it today, I have to agree with all the other adults who've seen it recently--it was an abominable story, full of plot holes and mindless detractions. See my full review of it for a deeper dissection.

Did you read the facts from the case? Does that really seem reasonable, to get 3rd degree burns over 6% of your body? Having to get surgery? Coffee can't be reasonably consumed at that temperature and poses a signficant danger. The company already knew this and kept it at that temperature anyway because they throught it would maintain its taste longer (i.e. to make more money). That's not reasonable or responsible.

If look at the facts you will see that this was a completely unreasonable temperature at which to serve coffee, at least in a styrofoam cup through a car window. The reason being that at that temperature it causes a signficant danger, not of a little painful burn but of full thickness, third degree burns.

People like to pretend that this is a case of someone ignoring the fact that coffee is hot, when in fact it's more akin to handing someone a plate of food and saying "careful, it's hot" when in fact you've just left it sitting in a 500 degree (F) oven for the last hour. The point is that the hypothetical person in question has been warned, but the danger is unusual, far in excess of what they should rationally expect, and shows blatent disregard for safety. That person would have every reason to get pissed when they're fingers get seared because they were expecting a normal, 130 degree plate. In the McDonald's case this was apparently because they felt that reasonable safety was less of a concern than maximizing how long they could let the coffee sit.

Actually, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit was not frivolous. It sounds like it on the surface, but if you read the details you'll see that McDonalds was doing something foolish and negligent, namely serving coffee that was far hotter than the coffee machine manufacturer suggested, far far too hot for human consumption, and would not just give you a little burn but cause 3rd degree burns requiring surgery to repair the damage. The fact that it sounded ridiculous was the result of a lazy media and McDonalds' gigantic PR machine.

Everyone is an omnivore

Maybe I'll walk away from the cave then and find something else to eat? I'm not sure what the point of there being "running water", wouldn't a fire be better - since raw bloody meat isn't the easiest / healtiest thing to eat?

As for fluffiness, you might want to use this as a punch-line in the future.

Invest in a cezve. Sip slowly.

No, the only difference is not one registry key. This is an old myth that only sloppy computer people propagate.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=887565 should explain it more clearly for you.

This was my understanding of the relationship, at least as of the beginning of this year. Things may have changed a bit since then. At least at the time, the bottom line was that Ubuntu was based off of a snapshot Debian unstable that was then bug fixed and a few packages were changed or tweaked. So it would be based off of Debian, but some of the packages were altered; thus, it wasn't necessarily fully Debian compatible.

Bin Laden's speech in October 2004 focused on fighting for "liberty" (hurriyyah) for the Muslim collective Muslim nation (Ummah)

Bin Laden doesn't care about if Europe has Islamic law or joins the caliphate or not, because Europe mostly isn't Muslim, so it's not a part of the Ummah. You pegged him incorrectly, he hasn't said to kill all the non-believers, that's why he brought up Sweden. He's ticked off that Bush is making him out to be some sort of freedom-hating nihilist, when he sees himself as a freedom fighter.

Agrippa.

She needs to be beaten with a clue by four

You're one of those hippies aint ya? When someone says "why do you use Linux when 95% of the world uses Windows?" you give an answer like " Microsoft is evil and I've never forgiven them!" Choose the best and most cost effective product. Don't judge the company that makes it. Otherwise you're just fucking up the system. Instead of the most superior products being on the shelves we'll have substandard products dominating the market share because the people who make them care about the environment or share some other wacky political ideal with the boycotting public.

SPam over Internet Telephony. It's the second to last entry on it over on Everything2.

How about 'Pi is exactly 3' it is the correct quoute
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If a robot falls over in a shopping mall and none of the old people can hear it, does it still make a sound?

• "This is a G chord."
  
• "Homo habilis was the first to use tools."
  
• "A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group for the good of the group -- that's teamwork."
  
• "We've always watched the stars. If you look at the sky, you can see the beginning of time."
  
• "Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom -- but sharing data is the first step toward community."
  
• "Poetry. There's not much glory in poetry. Only achievement."
  
• "One little thing can solve an incredibly complex problem."
  
• "Everything's about timing, Kid."
  
• "This is business -- faster, better, cheaper. Constant improvement."
  
• "So, you wanna fly, huh? Wind speed, thrust; it's physics."
  
• "Res publica non dominetur."
  
• "Plumbing -- it's all about the tools."
  
• "Speak your mind. Don't back down."
  

"Does he have a name?"
"His name is Linux."

The possessive form of a pronoun does not take an apostrophe at all but instead is an entirely separate word

• Me - My/Mine
• You - Your/Yours
• He - His
• She - Her/Hers
• It - Its
• We - Our/Ours
• They - Their/Theirs
• Who - Whose

Its, It's and Its': The possessive form of the word it is its, without an apostrophe anywhere, because it is a pronoun and follows the special rules for possessive pronouns. It's can only mean it is, or it has following the rules for contractions, and depending on context, and its' doesn't exist at all, since the plural of it is they.

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OK, the actual article is here. My own write-up on the game is here. The Zzap!64 review is here.

For those of you still not sure what this is, it's a game where you have a person in your computer, and you can feed him (they're all male for some reason), buy him books and records, ask him to play the piano, and scritch his hair. If you don't feed him, he'll go to bed, turn green, and die. It's a pretty original game, and you can get the C64 tape re-release second hand for around its original cost of £2.99 quite easily. It's reminiscent of tamagotchi and, I've been told, The Sims. It's quite good fun, anyway.

No, he means transubstantiation.

Hi
Good point but from the curent species that do have copper based, it might more likely be blue...
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=octopus
Thank you

See a more complete table here.

In short, Diesel has about twice as much energy density than Ethanol, with Gasoline coming close to Diesel.

Eventually we'll turn out a swath of military officers who are very good at running teams of droids. Then we'll need some droids. In the meantime, here's a story.

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