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Ubuntu won't switch to KDE. The KDE variant of Ubuntu is called Kubuntu.
Maybe Canonical will switch the financial focus to Kubuntu in the future, but I doubt it. Kubuntu's reputation within the KDE community is just too bad. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/19616885@N00/sets/72157608562200171/ why.

Take a look at this chart. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/3039778526_e5637e8d97.jpg Can you see that to get in the zone you will have to have high skills and high challenge? I believe, that at least when writing boilerplate code, the distraction of your mind makes you go from "BORING" to "The zone". I have also found one other factor: Listening to new music, distracts more than music you have heard over and over again. Especially new lyrics will tie up your brain in a disruptive way. So, listen to familiar music, or to music without lyrics.

BTW, I've heard of some diehard Mircosofties getting windows tats. Wonder if Linux coders have a Tux tat. (yuck).

I have a co worker that got a fedora tattoo a little while back.to add to his Red Hat tattoo. A quick google search shows that some people get Tux tattoos.

Weird Al should definitely demand one as well.

That could maybe double the bandwidth available, no?

http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3597701/EFF+Charges+ATT+Assisted+NSA+in+Surveillance+Plan.htm

http://www.eff.org/nsa/faq

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdawg/93928749/

Ann Arbor's Hands-On Museum has at least two interesting computer displays:

1. Colorful visual effects via a computer projection system which the kids can control by moving in front of a video camera. You really have to see it. Found a photo at: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/57/175283594_e5a67d0221.jpg

2. Green screen chroma key area where kids can fly, swim, deliver the news, etc, while other kids act as TV news directors at a control panel

Ah, brings back memories:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3331/3504658289_fd30e3b5a0.jpg
   

I find the lack of rule 34 disturbing.

Anonymous Delivers!

If I do a GIS for "Laura Bush" on the very first page is a photoshopped picture of her naked.

My groin thanks you for the suggestion, mister!

Different results for different people? Here's the image NSFW

In my GIS results, it was bottom row, far left. It's still there too.

I've done this too. Quite agree it's fantastic fun; it was the only thing I had time for on a one-day stay on London. That evening I saw Blue Man Group in Drury Lane...unfortunately I don't think you have that option.

A few pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiel/sets/72157594201000407/

Yup, Bletchley park is quite good and geeky. Been there myself recently. Don't miss the guided tours - you'll end up spending the whole day there wandering around... Here are some pics of the trip

Second the Science Museum - at least for the http://www.flickr.com/photos/aigarius/288091449/

This meal includes eyeballs.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aree/3233025291/

One eye a year (sounds like a name for a james bond movie)

Like most people, I have a wireless phone that tells me the time, but I wear a blue-tooth so I don't HAVE to fish it out of my pocket to look at it when I need it.

Besides being convenient, a good watch is fun to wear and looks good. If watches are falling out of favor its because the average Walmart plastic watch is just junk. I love watches, but the choices today seem to be plastic crap, or $3000 mechanical marvels.

So I favor mechanical/electric geek watches. Mostly vintage Accutron watches, The ones that ran on a 360hz electric tuning fork. Also, the occasional digital from when digital meant expensive.

The TI digitals are retro antiques, and the Accutrons were the most accurate watches in the world pre quartz. More reliable than a high end mechanical chronograph. The first one, the Accutron 214. This movement had a history with the space program, and there were 214 based timing mechanisms in the Apollo capsule, and some early satellites.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3909134560_9fb9ea18e6_b.jpg

And the same type of "tuning fork" watch updated for 1973, still working perfectly,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3661/3608838339_bf1c040e17_b.jpg

Lastly, some vintage LEDs, which never seem to go 100% out of style.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3864049434_b03901cd02_b.jpg [flickr.com]

Like most people, I have a wireless phone that tells me the time, but I wear a blue-tooth so I don't HAVE to fish it out of my pocket to look at it when I need it.

Besides being convenient, a good watch is fun to wear and looks good. If watches are falling out of favor its because the average Walmart plastic watch is just junk. I love watches, but the choices today seem to be plastic crap, or $3000 mechanical marvels.

So I favor mechanical/electric geek watches. Mostly vintage Accutron watches, The ones that ran on a 360hz electric tuning fork. Also, the occasional digital from when digital meant expensive.

The TI digitals are retro antiques, and the Accutrons were the most accurate watches in the world pre quartz. More reliable than a high end mechanical chronograph. The first one, the Accutron 214. This movement had a history with the space program, and there were 214 based timing mechanisms in the Apollo capsule, and some early satellites.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3909134560_9fb9ea18e6_b.jpg

And the same type of "tuning fork" watch updated for 1973, still working perfectly,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3661/3608838339_bf1c040e17_b.jpg

Lastly, some vintage LEDs, which never seem to go 100% out of style.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3864049434_b03901cd02_b.jpg [flickr.com]

Like most people, I have a wireless phone that tells me the time, but I wear a blue-tooth so I don't HAVE to fish it out of my pocket to look at it when I need it.

Besides being convenient, a good watch is fun to wear and looks good. If watches are falling out of favor its because the average Walmart plastic watch is just junk. I love watches, but the choices today seem to be plastic crap, or $3000 mechanical marvels.

So I favor mechanical/electric geek watches. Mostly vintage Accutron watches, The ones that ran on a 360hz electric tuning fork. Also, the occasional digital from when digital meant expensive.

The TI digitals are retro antiques, and the Accutrons were the most accurate watches in the world pre quartz. More reliable than a high end mechanical chronograph. The first one, the Accutron 214. This movement had a history with the space program, and there were 214 based timing mechanisms in the Apollo capsule, and some early satellites.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3909134560_9fb9ea18e6_b.jpg

And the same type of "tuning fork" watch updated for 1973, still working perfectly,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3661/3608838339_bf1c040e17_b.jpg

Lastly, some vintage LEDs, which never seem to go 100% out of style.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3864049434_b03901cd02_b.jpg [flickr.com]

I have an iPhone that tells me the time, but I wear a blue-tooth so I don't have to fish it out of my pocket and flash it around. Besides being convenient, a good watch is fun, if they are falling out of favor its because the average Walmart plastic watch is just junk. I love watches, but the choices today seem to be plastic crap, or $3000 mechanical marvels. So I favor mechanical geek watches. Mostly vintage Accutron watches, "The ones that ran on a 360hz electric tuning fork. Also, the occasional digital from when digital meant expensive. The TI digitals are retro antiques, anf the Accutrons were the most accurate watches in the world pre quartz. More reliable than a high end mechanical chronograph. The Accutron 214. This movement had a history with the space program, and there were 214 based timing mechanisms in the Apollo capsule, and some early satellites. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3909134560_9fb9ea18e6_b.jpg And the same type of "tuning fork" watch updated for 1973, still working perfectly, http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3661/3608838339_bf1c040e17_b.jpg Lastly, some vintage LEDs, which never seem to go 100% out of style. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3864049434_b03901cd02_b.jpg

I have an iPhone that tells me the time, but I wear a blue-tooth so I don't have to fish it out of my pocket and flash it around. Besides being convenient, a good watch is fun, if they are falling out of favor its because the average Walmart plastic watch is just junk. I love watches, but the choices today seem to be plastic crap, or $3000 mechanical marvels. So I favor mechanical geek watches. Mostly vintage Accutron watches, "The ones that ran on a 360hz electric tuning fork. Also, the occasional digital from when digital meant expensive. The TI digitals are retro antiques, anf the Accutrons were the most accurate watches in the world pre quartz. More reliable than a high end mechanical chronograph. The Accutron 214. This movement had a history with the space program, and there were 214 based timing mechanisms in the Apollo capsule, and some early satellites. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3909134560_9fb9ea18e6_b.jpg And the same type of "tuning fork" watch updated for 1973, still working perfectly, http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3661/3608838339_bf1c040e17_b.jpg Lastly, some vintage LEDs, which never seem to go 100% out of style. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3864049434_b03901cd02_b.jpg

I have an iPhone that tells me the time, but I wear a blue-tooth so I don't have to fish it out of my pocket and flash it around. Besides being convenient, a good watch is fun, if they are falling out of favor its because the average Walmart plastic watch is just junk. I love watches, but the choices today seem to be plastic crap, or $3000 mechanical marvels. So I favor mechanical geek watches. Mostly vintage Accutron watches, "The ones that ran on a 360hz electric tuning fork. Also, the occasional digital from when digital meant expensive. The TI digitals are retro antiques, anf the Accutrons were the most accurate watches in the world pre quartz. More reliable than a high end mechanical chronograph. The Accutron 214. This movement had a history with the space program, and there were 214 based timing mechanisms in the Apollo capsule, and some early satellites. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3909134560_9fb9ea18e6_b.jpg And the same type of "tuning fork" watch updated for 1973, still working perfectly, http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3661/3608838339_bf1c040e17_b.jpg Lastly, some vintage LEDs, which never seem to go 100% out of style. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3864049434_b03901cd02_b.jpg

Wellfrom the show Merlin (get season 2 episodes from a torrent site near you), I've yet to see the local drug store offering a potion for making trolls attractive. Or does beer count?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97117914@N00/440043690/

I guess the government did work on some kind of "gay bomb"... something to give enemy soldiers uncontrollable urges to have sex with each other, apparently with some feeling rather uncomfortable about it afterwards.

Something special for the dancers at the Microsoft store? It sure would have spiced up those launch parties.

Nokia N82. 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, which means it takes excellent pictures in low light conditions.In addition to that, autofocus, lightmeter, white balance, ISO settings..all can be customized. (Sadly, it's the first and last Nokia to feature a Xenon flash, even the upcoming uber-device N900 only has dual LED flash). It also has geotagging via GPS.
Here's an example photo, and a few more.

Nokia N82. 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, which means it takes excellent pictures in low light conditions.In addition to that, autofocus, lightmeter, white balance, ISO settings..all can be customized. (Sadly, it's the first and last Nokia to feature a Xenon flash, even the upcoming uber-device N900 only has dual LED flash). It also has geotagging via GPS.
Here's an example photo, and a few more.

Nokia N82. 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, which means it takes excellent pictures in low light conditions.In addition to that, autofocus, lightmeter, white balance, ISO settings..all can be customized. (Sadly, it's the first and last Nokia to feature a Xenon flash, even the upcoming uber-device N900 only has dual LED flash). It also has geotagging via GPS.
Here's an example photo, and a few more.

Nokia N82. 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, which means it takes excellent pictures in low light conditions.In addition to that, autofocus, lightmeter, white balance, ISO settings..all can be customized. (Sadly, it's the first and last Nokia to feature a Xenon flash, even the upcoming uber-device N900 only has dual LED flash). It also has geotagging via GPS.
Here's an example photo, and a few more.

Nokia N82. 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, which means it takes excellent pictures in low light conditions.In addition to that, autofocus, lightmeter, white balance, ISO settings..all can be customized. (Sadly, it's the first and last Nokia to feature a Xenon flash, even the upcoming uber-device N900 only has dual LED flash). It also has geotagging via GPS.
Here's an example photo, and a few more.

There are actually municipalities now that are considering banning smoking outdoors.

There's a ban in (part of?) Tokyo on smoking on the street. You can smoke inside, but outside smoking is limited -- partly because a lit cigarette is held at the level of a child's face.

Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Cardiovascular failure and cancer would beg to differ about the flu thing, which ranks a little above leprosy.
Infographic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4052849920/sizes/o/in/pool-16135094@N00/
Sure, maybe flu will get worse, but it's got a long, long, ways to go. Don't watch so much sensationalist network news.

You can find the reference to the employee handbook in the comments wrt his latest brain fart.

Also, the word "pussy" is not obscene (no, the poster didn't use the "c" word). The general consensus is that Kurt Greenbaum is a pussy for over-reacting.

There's a difference between vulgar and obscene. As an editor with "27 years of experience", Greenbaum should know this. Then again, what do you expect from someone who is "director of social media" and but doesn't know how to set up a simple filter in Wordpress.

He hoaxed everyone by claiming that the word wos obscene - it's not - and arm-waving about "it's from a school! OMG Children!!!"

And now the truth is out, the story is all over the place, and the net is striking back http://kurtgreenbaum.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgreenbaum/2852790661/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgreenbaum/4029911338/ - and of course the news media are also covering the story.

You can find the reference to the employee handbook in the comments wrt his latest brain fart.

Also, the word "pussy" is not obscene (no, the poster didn't use the "c" word). The general consensus is that Kurt Greenbaum is a pussy for over-reacting.

There's a difference between vulgar and obscene. As an editor with "27 years of experience", Greenbaum should know this. Then again, what do you expect from someone who is "director of social media" and but doesn't know how to set up a simple filter in Wordpress.

He hoaxed everyone by claiming that the word wos obscene - it's not - and arm-waving about "it's from a school! OMG Children!!!"

And now the truth is out, the story is all over the place, and the net is striking back http://kurtgreenbaum.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgreenbaum/2852790661/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgreenbaum/4029911338/ - and of course the news media are also covering the story.

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Flickr has some diagrams of how AT&T is related to AT&T.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png

In my experience the bing results have been reasonably fair, but the bing suggested searches have been laughably skewed.

Just look at this example of searching for "linux": http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png

And yes, that is not a photochop, those were the real suggestions from bing. More recently they seem to have cleaned up their suggestions for Linux but who knows what other underhanded tactics they are using or what other search terms are "poisoned".

If the poster had stated banned facts about Tibet and China, like "prior to Chinese communist army's military invasion in 1950 and its continued brutally repressive and systematically genocidal policies, Tibet had always been distinctly different from its neighbouring states (like China) in culture, ethnicity, religion, language and its Sanskrit-influenced (like Hindi) script. Yet the Chinese communist (now fascist) dictatorship claims absolute colonial control and even sovereignty over their historical neighbour, with whom even the Imperial China had made an eternal peace treaty between equals", one could understand that a submissive economic vassal state of the increasingly powerful national-socialistic Chinese dictatorship would take action against such dangerous free speech.

However the poster in question only referred to the all-encompassing efforts of the Chinese dictorship to control their captive subjects' access to information outside the party machine's own pervasive propaganda efforts.

The fact that the Chinese, the already siniziced minorities and the occupied neighbouring peoples still struggling to retain some level of control of their own communities and lives are not given any opportunity to debate issues (like the facts above) even partially freely should certainly be part of the United Nations' "Internet Governance Forum". Instead they tear down participants' posters for simply referring to such controls (by the "People's Republic" of China)?

Oh yes, the image of the banned poster ...

To you and everyone else who cares enough to spew on and on about Tibet (as if such a mention should matter), but not enough to watch the tear-down video, read the poster for yourselves:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2537/4107431010_6b2a2a5858_o.jpg

There is NO mention of Tibet anywhere on that harmless poster, only a mention of the Great Firewall (a fitting note at a discussion of internet censorship and targeted accessibility deterrents).

public.resource.org has a GREAT comic about a similar issue. It is a lovingly-captioned discussion between two Lego men. My favorite passage:

• "Isn't it the duty of every citizen to know the law?"
• "It is also the duty of every citizen to give us $100!!"

public.resource.org is a project to make government information more available. They've been focusing for a while on these sorts of expensive, copyright-encumbered laws. The courts have struck down copyright interest in these laws before, but that doesn't stop the cartels and the states from trying to charge people.

All this talk of 3x3's and 4x4's is making me hungry!

I doubt it will be an issue for long

Given 10C540 is the final build that's not supposed to even boot on Atoms, due to CPU-related changes in the OS X boot code.

They also managed to break SleepEnable.kext so that non-Atom hackintosh users will probably get a kernel panic, until they do something about that.

But breaking a kernel extension is a lot less fishy than a CPU mysteriously being blocked in one build, unblocked in the next, then re-blocked in the final release..

We have not yet had to reply to any DMCA takedowns yet - all the content on the website must have a share-friendly license before content can be uploaded.

Say someone develops a video game in the vein of Quadra, Quadrapassel, or KBlocks. These games are free software, and they implement substantially the same rules as Tetris. The Tetris Company claims that other computer programs that implement the rules of Tetris infringe the copyright in Tetris, despite a U.S. Copyright Office publication to the contrary. If someone develops a Free video game with the same rules as Tetris and hosts a mirror of the game on LegalTorrents, how do you plan to handle a DMCA request from The Tetris Company?

I lost my parallel ports on my new board, a cousin of yours, but I don't use it for anything but printing at home.

For industrial control applications I used and sold quite a few of the Lava PCI parallel cards of the last ten years. You're right that many of the USB parallel interfaces are flaky at times. Its too bad nobody's made a nice solid one, perhaps for the IEEE1394 interface if USB doesn't have solid enough timings.

Slashvertisement much?

At least Digg makes it excessively obvious...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/4086238747_2685a73ac1_o.png

So there is an weird and funny effect here. Apparently a lot of the google suggestions are funny and it may be because when people search for something and something else comes up which is funny, they wanna go look at it. This way the funny result keeps climbing the rankings. At some point the result for what are these strawberries doing on my nipples was not the number 1 result, but it seems funny and so people end up clicking on it and this is how its become number 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/3558343796/ Case closed.

Yeah, I'm not sure why Ubiquiti chose to post so few screenshots of my entry (and they're really small). I posted a bunch (full-size) in my flickr photo stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18175109@N00/tags/pyci/ (they're all tagged with "pyci").

Being from Buffalo I was curious that I'd never heard of that - turns out it's actually in Syracuse, which is two cities east of Buffalo (Rochester in between) and about a two and a half hour drive :)

Here's some info,

And here's a photo.

Midvale School for the Gifted

None of the mentioned things affected my setup: Dell XPS with AMD64 and nVidia, but I had other various issues.

1. The wired card ceased to be "managed". The fix was easy, but the reason will remain a mystery.
2. "Popping" sounds could be heard. This is a very minor bug with a very easy fix.
3. Quake Live became a terrible dog for FPS, and the problem was traced to its interference with compiz. Since QL is still in beta, it is hard to say whose fault it is. The workaround (by me :) is OK.
4. Where is the Services wizard? It got nuked! To be sure, it's not a bug, but a serious usability issue. Users have to either grok System V scripts (so I am OK) or use Synaptic when they want to, say, disable/enable sshd.
5. The login screen is fugly and the wizard for it is gone. Or could as well be gone.

Altogether, this was a rather painless experience for me, but if you hate ironing out bugs, I would recommend waiting for a few weeks before upgrading from stable. On the other hand, if you are doing a new installation, 9.10 is probably a better choice, as it basically works.

P.S.: God, I hate it when I press a wrong button and Firefox navigates away, which causes me to loose my notes.Slashdot should open the input form on a separate page.

Magnesium's also easy to injection mold or die cast. There are some difficulties in safely melting magnesium (as this amazing picture showing a Volkswagen magnesium casting foundry burning in 2006 demonstrates) but it's far easier to do casting processes with magnesium, which melts at a very reasonable temperature, than it is with titanium, which destroys mold materials. Titanium also burns fiercely, and goes so far as to burn in a pure nitrogen environment, the only metal that will do so. Magnesium's also cheaper. However, it isn't anywhere nearly as tough. Titanium has yield strengths on the order of 40,000-140,000 pounds per square inch, while magnesium's more in the 20,000-50,000psi range. However, since magnesium's like 1/3 the density of titanium you can put a *lot* more magnesium into a structure for the same weight, and since stiffness rises as an exponential function of cross-section, you get hellaciously stiff, light structures that are reasonably tough.

far easier to get money for tech than books.

Bingo. Nicholas may have failed to achieve his original dream project, but instead of walking away he has sacrificed some dignity and cred with some true-believers in order to keep pushing to get world education the best deal he can.

The new hardware is silly, but it keeps the press on the topic of third world education. Otherwise third world education would return to being a bullet point in UN media kits, and essentially undiscussed in daily life. The hardware is media savvy -- it's photogenic headline-ready material. It means Nicholas still gets phone calls & meeting requests answered, instead of shufted to a minor secretary.

Oh, and don't hold your breath waiting for "the netbook craze to settle down into a form which the majority thinks is both very portable and easily accessible". It's not going to happen that way. Partly because the "majority" spans a large variety of hand sizes (ie, how many /million/ is the market of Asian women right now, and how much is it increasing every quarter?), but also because the tech is getting smaller and more powerful and cheaper annually. Cell phones have shown we're past the point where economies of scale mean one or two dominant form factors -- the world market will support several sizes of ground-up-designed personal computing hardware. It's not going to 'settle down' in the way like you and I have got used to in the last 30 years.

Personal interface is more likely to 'settle' into the same variety of sizes as we had with paper. Pocket notepads, steno-pads, moleskines, binders, legal pads, and easels. At least in the immediate future while interface remains hardware. Projected interfaces and voice-guesture-face recognition will supplant all that before we get too used to it.

Great picture of a 26lb Osborne with an iPhone. That's a /lot/ of change in only 25 years.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/somegeekintn/3252569621/sizes/l/

>>>you want to stifle information and entertainment across the nation just because you don't like it

Also it's ridiculous to act as if TV is at fault for lack-of-space for wireless internet. Since the TV band was shrunk from 81 channels to 49 channels*, it's only using 6*49== 1/4 gigahertz of bandwidth. That still leaves a hell of a lot of space (~500 gigahertz) for other things like cellphones and wireless internet.

Spectrum MAP: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fast-company/3683064554/sizes/o/

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* channels 1 and 34 are not used for television