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My grandfather-in-law's slide rule is considerably older and still multiplies. My Magnavox tube radio and my Dad's Kodak Medalist camera using 620 film (which is 120 film on a fatter spool) are probably about the same. Assuming I don't have it, a museum astrolabe is far older yet functional, as is my answer to today's poll (the screw).

I've got a Heathkit H19 dumb terminal on my desk that's hooked up to my MacMini via serial-to-USB converter.

I don't do a lot of "work" with it but I wrote a Ruby script for it to talk to iTunes via AppleScript and grab the album art then pass that through ImageMagick to bump the contrast then convert it to ASCII text using jp2a.

You can see some pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewish/tags/h19/
Or checkout the Ruby script: http://github.com/drewish/textFlow/tree/master

I still have working, fully loaded SS-50 bus machines from about 1982 with all kinds of cool cards in them like speech synthesizers, A/D and D/A, graphics cards, memory, etc. I wrote a lot of 6800 and 6809 assembly code back then... in 1994, I wrote a complete 6809 system emulation, including the OS from the time (6809 Flex) and emulation of an arcade graphics subsystem I designed so I'd always have a working "machine" to fool with my old code. Virtual disk drives, ports, timers, etc. Still runs great; I run it under XP, which runs under Parallels, which runs under OSX. :o)

I also have a SOROC terminal and a paper tape reader, and a mint tiny BASIC on paper tape (for the 8080.) The first machine I had that I didn't actually build out of TTL was based on a National Semiconductor ISP-8000-8A SC/MP I got in 1976. I published an article about using the SC/MP as a Baudot printer driver with the SWTPC 6800 in the November 1977 issue of Kilobaud. My first published work, in fact.

The first machine I ever owned I built out of TTL in... I think 1970... as there wasn't any other option at the time. A couple of 74181 ALUs in the middle, all manner of other stuff in there, register memory files.... Man, that was a wild nest of wires and sockets. The power supply was a nightmare. But I learned a lot doing it. You can't (or maybe you can) imagine how enthused I was when the 8080 and 6800 hit the market, and the downright euphoria I felt when the 6809 came out.

I still think that the 6809 was one of the best designed MPUs ever from a programming standpoint. I can still write 6800 and 6809 opcodes straight to paper. Even fairly complex things like the 6809's LEA instructions. And calculate its 2's complement branch offsets more or less instantly. Now there's a chunk of neurons I'll never get back....

I did some work for Centuri (an arcade game machine manufacturer) where I built them boards that would plug in where the 6502 was in their then-current hardware, and put a 6809 there instead. Just a few gates and some socket hardware, and goodbye 6502! Lord, I despised the 6502. What a bass-ackwards... nevermind. Then I wrote them a few graphics demos that left a few executives spitting coffee. Nothing like a hardware multiply (and the ability to do easy division by multiplying via a table of reciprocals) to step up from an MPU where the main claim to fame is bloody 8-bit role-reversed index registers...

Oldest working non computer hardware I own is a console AM radio from the 1930s. It's even still mostly original... it'd almost certainly work better if I went in there and replaced a lot of components with their modern equivalents, but it's more interesting as is, and in fact it still works quite well. Doesn't complete with my current radio gear, but then again, the currents stuff doesn't have the charm of a polished wood cabinet, either.

Darwin, I'm oooold. :o)

This is not "funny". We actually do this during a client event and this was the quickest and most reliable way to ID guests for later use.

We cannot use digital, or even digital with printers because 300 guests are waiting in line, and we need to ID each guest immediately one after another. Polaroid has its use.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bronney/3292541935/in/set-72157603564601858/

There's no need for instant film anymore.

Only if you see it from a pure technical standpoint. Photography also is art though, and instant films are the medium some people prefer due to the involved process and style of results. Take a look at sites like POLANOIR, Polanoid, or the various groups on Flickr (my polaroid set).

Actually Bell Telephone popularized the term "ubiquitous" in a series of nationwide print advertisements in the mid-1960's.

It is swimable though and it's not an unimpressive sight, but I hope the waters of the Key are less violent than that of Wellington, New Zealand.

If the malware is installed at the point of manufacture, it can easily be tailored for whatever device it's installed on. It's trivial to write malware for Linux when it can be installed to run as root at boot time! Even I can do that, and I'm a Windows programmer. :-)

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Sorry, here's the correct link.
(Rutgers_Cool was missing the 'l')

Here is an example of a typical countryside UK footpath. I would defy one to navigate it on a tricycle: http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/footpathexample.html

or this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapmakermike/1029015477/

They're both footpaths, it's not allowed to cycle on them. You can cycle on bridleways or cycleways, the ones I've tried in London & Surrey are accessible enough with a bicycle, but can be difficult with a tricycle (sometimes there are narrow gates, or posts to stop people getting e.g. a motorbike across).

However, reading the article Google aren't really talking about this kind of path anyway.

Those are really not going to fit round a good number of medieval city UK footpaths, in the same way Hummers really aren't going to fit round medieval city streets...

they are too high, too wide, and too long for quite a few places I know of. Try getting around some of central London, here's the passageway next to the Lamb and Flag for an example. Here's a typical footpath from my home town, lots of hills in some places...

I work in a new town, and the really nice cycle lanes have bollards and offset fences where they intersect the roads, no way would that beast traverse them.

Nice idea, but a bit big. And in towns where the coppers are not so friendly, you will be nicked so quickly for riding it on a footpath. No bikes on footpaths here. They are for people, err, on foot.

Here is an example of a typical countryside UK footpath. I would defy one to navigate it on a tricycle: http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/footpathexample.html

or this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapmakermike/1029015477/

Funcom should be ashamed! http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/3545512919_9560089dba_b.jpg

I disagree that this is entirely a bad idea. I use extensions to effectively get my browing to the same and beyond this level.

When I middle click something it opens in a new tab as a sub-tab of the place where I clicked it. It ends up working out as a tree of tabs. This way I have several main sites I read and they each have their own tree of sub-sites as I click them.

I find it very handy to keep me organized while browsing and researching along multiple parallel threads etc.

I'll take some quick screens:

Here it is with all tab trees expanded. It does not look like this when browsing as I have it set to automatically collapse other trees when I switch between them. Keeps it very clean.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2209/3543433234_377d389908_b.jpg

Here it is as it is when I'm browsing.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3542625081_ebc5b9c9ab_b.jpg

I disagree that this is entirely a bad idea. I use extensions to effectively get my browing to the same and beyond this level.

When I middle click something it opens in a new tab as a sub-tab of the place where I clicked it. It ends up working out as a tree of tabs. This way I have several main sites I read and they each have their own tree of sub-sites as I click them.

I find it very handy to keep me organized while browsing and researching along multiple parallel threads etc.

I'll take some quick screens:

Here it is with all tab trees expanded. It does not look like this when browsing as I have it set to automatically collapse other trees when I switch between them. Keeps it very clean.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2209/3543433234_377d389908_b.jpg

Here it is as it is when I'm browsing.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3542625081_ebc5b9c9ab_b.jpg

Elsa Pataky, best multiple surgery ever.Check this and this

From what I can see, it's just a sunset detector. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3171129414/ scores 50.5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3285583334/ scores 50. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3399530552/ scores 19.1.

From what I can see, it's just a sunset detector. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3171129414/ scores 50.5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3285583334/ scores 50. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3399530552/ scores 19.1.

From what I can see, it's just a sunset detector. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3171129414/ scores 50.5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3285583334/ scores 50. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snorfalorpagus/3399530552/ scores 19.1.

I think you'd be amazed as to how many people simply use the simplest distribution channel possible. A Swedish author (Unni Drougge) recently tried releasing an audio book for free on The Pirate Bay. With PayPal-account information included.

I think you know where I'm going with this.

Her own information release on it:
http://newsmill.se/artikel/2009/04/22/drougge-darfor-lagger-jag-ut-min-ljudbok-pa-pirate-bay

Her own Twitter comment about the result:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3653/3476793043_21a0a5d667.jpg

Translation of the tweet:

"Who said file sharers are thieves? Money keeps flowing in, without me having charged for it even!"

I said it was about getting anti-evolution viewpoints brought into science class. Which is not the same thing as removing evolution, but I'm sure they'd do that as well if they could.

It's just stupid that you'd attack a straw man while accusing me of the same.

Throughout the trial and in various submissions to the Court, Defendants vigorously argue that the reading of the statement is not 'teaching' ID but instead is merely 'making students aware of it.' In fact, one consistency among the Dover School Board members' testimony, which was marked by selective memories and outright lies under oath, as will be discussed in more detail below, is that they did not think they needed to be knowledgeable about ID because it was not being taught to the students. We disagree. (footnote 7 on page 46)

ID's backers have sought to avoid the scientific scrutiny which we have now determined that it cannot withstand by advocating that the controversy, but not ID itself, should be taught in science class. This tactic is at best disingenuous, and at worst a canard. The goal of the IDM is not to encourage critical thought, but to foment a revolution which would supplant evolutionary theory with ID. (page 89)

The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy. It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy. With that said, we do not question that many of the leading advocates of ID have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their scholarly endeavors. Nor do we controvert that ID should continue to be studied, debated, and discussed. As stated, our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District

I'd invite everyone that hasn't done so and cares about such things to read through the entire thing. At the very least, the cross-examinations are eye-opening. This is black and white and it really is no secret what these people are about. But if you need it spelled out for you: indoctrinating children .

I can understand why you are confused. The term Intelligent Design was chosen *because* of its ambiguity. The original name, Creationism, did a better job of declaring intent. Calling it ID (and there is plenty of hard evidence that it was a considered, wholesale, PR-style name change) lets you pick up the support of people who (a) believe in a creator and (b) are confused about what ID is all about.

"My opponents" do not need to have their words twisted in order to be debased. They do it to themselves when they put *fucking saddles* on *fucking dinosaurs.*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/3513998015/

I know I'm posting this kind of late, but there it is.

Have you seen his flickr portrait:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/3507675011/

No wonder the ATM guys were a bit wary...

Citation please.

Detroit, this was where we used to build cars

Cleveland, used to build parts for cars

Philadelphia, Kensington, this was where we used to build ships

Akron, tires

I could go through every blue state in the USA, and we'd find the same story of the three stupid mistakes made over and over and over again:

a) rampant corruption
b) anti-business climate
c) support for free trade

Pretty much, you make cities a terrible place to manufacture things and have industry, and then have a national set of laws that lets people go wherever they want, and what do they do? They leave.

Citation please.

Detroit, this was where we used to build cars

Cleveland, used to build parts for cars

Philadelphia, Kensington, this was where we used to build ships

Akron, tires

I could go through every blue state in the USA, and we'd find the same story of the three stupid mistakes made over and over and over again:

a) rampant corruption
b) anti-business climate
c) support for free trade

Pretty much, you make cities a terrible place to manufacture things and have industry, and then have a national set of laws that lets people go wherever they want, and what do they do? They leave.

Citation please.

Detroit, this was where we used to build cars

Cleveland, used to build parts for cars

Philadelphia, Kensington, this was where we used to build ships

Akron, tires

I could go through every blue state in the USA, and we'd find the same story of the three stupid mistakes made over and over and over again:

a) rampant corruption
b) anti-business climate
c) support for free trade

Pretty much, you make cities a terrible place to manufacture things and have industry, and then have a national set of laws that lets people go wherever they want, and what do they do? They leave.

Citation please.

Detroit, this was where we used to build cars

Cleveland, used to build parts for cars

Philadelphia, Kensington, this was where we used to build ships

Akron, tires

I could go through every blue state in the USA, and we'd find the same story of the three stupid mistakes made over and over and over again:

a) rampant corruption
b) anti-business climate
c) support for free trade

Pretty much, you make cities a terrible place to manufacture things and have industry, and then have a national set of laws that lets people go wherever they want, and what do they do? They leave.

According to their representation, the Pacific Ocean either is a no-fly zone, or the Earth is flat. I can't think of any other reason why American flights to Australia would fly above Africa.

This seems to have 2 very obvious problems...

first of all, this is what they are talking about harnessing with that wall. I hope those bacteria aren't afraid of heights.

Second, I am no environmentalist (proud to say), but seems to me that making such a large impact on the worlds climate (and the Sahara sandstorm is a force that has effects on the entire globe) is something that could have many unforseen effects.

I am no hippie but whenever it comes to a discussion about making a major "upgrade" to our environment I remain suspicious. Nature itself may not be wise.... but its balanced. We have a way of upsetting that balance in the interest of making things "better" for us.

Sometimes the risk and effort is worth it, but this doesn't seem like one of those cases in its current stage.

The most information I could find is here (the full-size images are pretty large) and here.

It's hard to pick through the information, but is this scientifically viable? Or is this the random musings of an architecture student focusing only on the architecture side, and ignoring the biology side?

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=lessig&l=cc&ss=0&ct=0&w=all

lol, I hope you realise it's a very poor point. There was no search giant at the time. All of these guys had just been in it for a few years, had little momentum, and so on. All that was needed back then to compete was a decent algorithm and a janitor closet full of hardware

That's exactly like saying "Ford automobiles blew up overnight with its model T, hence you can do it again and take over the automobile market using the same formula".

In the 1930's : http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/3161945158_65f22d6e09.jpg

Leica made a rifle stock camera pre-war as well. It's truly a beauty, though incredibly hard to find these days.

There's also now an "Official White House Photostream" user on flickr, which has some excellent photos, with many interesting shots of life and work inside the whitehouse.

Many of the pictures are unexpectedly candid as well. The white house photographers (there are several, but most of the photos in the stream seem to be from Pete Souza) are apparently given a lot of freedom to lurk around waiting for a good opportunity!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse

There's also now an "Official White House Photostream" user on flickr, which has some excellent photos, with many interesting shots of life and work inside the whitehouse.

Many of the pictures are unexpectedly candid as well. The white house photographers (there are several, but most of the photos in the stream seem to be from Pete Souza) are apparently given a lot of freedom to lurk around waiting for a good opportunity!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse

The Whitehouse is also posting photos to Flickr. I like the candid/behind the scenes pics, but all these touchy feely messages could easily become spin tools.

I was obsessed with the NS Savannah recently because she is such a beautiful ship - I love ships and this cargo ship looks like a yacht. Whilst I am not a fan of the Nuclear Industry in it's current form her reactor appeared to be reasonably well constructed and whilst designed to cruise at 21 knots, she outperformed her design spec by steadily cruising at 24 knots - pretty fast for a cargo ship. Check page 16 of the MARAD documentation (warning - pdf).

There is significant historical information about her operation. Until 9/11 she was part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) but her reactor was permanently disabled due to concerns she could be used as quite a convenient weapon of terror. Sadly, her hybrid design condemned her to a short operational life (10 years) and she is now a ghost ship. There are plans to make her a museum ship whilst waiting for her decommissioned reactor to cool down for eventual disassembly, but no one seems interested in the project. Despite that the seafarers Union have been working to maintain the ship by improving her general appearance.

NS Savannah's crew dispute was because the executive officers traditionally got paid more than the engineering crew on board the ship, this dispute, high running costs, low oil costs all contributed to her eventual demise. An interest group (with mailing list) is looking for photos and artefacts whist she was in operation.

lots more photos, her community organisation, glory days, historical landmark program, service history and specifications, floorplan and schematics, current status, passenger lounge, reactor control room, dry docked , and finally a flickr photo stream and a rather excellent photo essay of the NS Savannah. A little bit of history for you to enjoy.

I was obsessed with the NS Savannah recently because she is such a beautiful ship - I love ships and this cargo ship looks like a yacht. Whilst I am not a fan of the Nuclear Industry in it's current form her reactor appeared to be reasonably well constructed and whilst designed to cruise at 21 knots, she outperformed her design spec by steadily cruising at 24 knots - pretty fast for a cargo ship. Check page 16 of the MARAD documentation (warning - pdf).

There is significant historical information about her operation. Until 9/11 she was part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) but her reactor was permanently disabled due to concerns she could be used as quite a convenient weapon of terror. Sadly, her hybrid design condemned her to a short operational life (10 years) and she is now a ghost ship. There are plans to make her a museum ship whilst waiting for her decommissioned reactor to cool down for eventual disassembly, but no one seems interested in the project. Despite that the seafarers Union have been working to maintain the ship by improving her general appearance.

NS Savannah's crew dispute was because the executive officers traditionally got paid more than the engineering crew on board the ship, this dispute, high running costs, low oil costs all contributed to her eventual demise. An interest group (with mailing list) is looking for photos and artefacts whist she was in operation.

lots more photos, her community organisation, glory days, historical landmark program, service history and specifications, floorplan and schematics, current status, passenger lounge, reactor control room, dry docked , and finally a flickr photo stream and a rather excellent photo essay of the NS Savannah. A little bit of history for you to enjoy.

I was obsessed with the NS Savannah recently because she is such a beautiful ship - I love ships and this cargo ship looks like a yacht. Whilst I am not a fan of the Nuclear Industry in it's current form her reactor appeared to be reasonably well constructed and whilst designed to cruise at 21 knots, she outperformed her design spec by steadily cruising at 24 knots - pretty fast for a cargo ship. Check page 16 of the MARAD documentation (warning - pdf).

There is significant historical information about her operation. Until 9/11 she was part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) but her reactor was permanently disabled due to concerns she could be used as quite a convenient weapon of terror. Sadly, her hybrid design condemned her to a short operational life (10 years) and she is now a ghost ship. There are plans to make her a museum ship whilst waiting for her decommissioned reactor to cool down for eventual disassembly, but no one seems interested in the project. Despite that the seafarers Union have been working to maintain the ship by improving her general appearance.

NS Savannah's crew dispute was because the executive officers traditionally got paid more than the engineering crew on board the ship, this dispute, high running costs, low oil costs all contributed to her eventual demise. An interest group (with mailing list) is looking for photos and artefacts whist she was in operation.

lots more photos, her community organisation, glory days, historical landmark program, service history and specifications, floorplan and schematics, current status, passenger lounge, reactor control room, dry docked , and finally a flickr photo stream and a rather excellent photo essay of the NS Savannah. A little bit of history for you to enjoy.

I was obsessed with the NS Savannah recently because she is such a beautiful ship - I love ships and this cargo ship looks like a yacht. Whilst I am not a fan of the Nuclear Industry in it's current form her reactor appeared to be reasonably well constructed and whilst designed to cruise at 21 knots, she outperformed her design spec by steadily cruising at 24 knots - pretty fast for a cargo ship. Check page 16 of the MARAD documentation (warning - pdf).

There is significant historical information about her operation. Until 9/11 she was part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) but her reactor was permanently disabled due to concerns she could be used as quite a convenient weapon of terror. Sadly, her hybrid design condemned her to a short operational life (10 years) and she is now a ghost ship. There are plans to make her a museum ship whilst waiting for her decommissioned reactor to cool down for eventual disassembly, but no one seems interested in the project. Despite that the seafarers Union have been working to maintain the ship by improving her general appearance.

NS Savannah's crew dispute was because the executive officers traditionally got paid more than the engineering crew on board the ship, this dispute, high running costs, low oil costs all contributed to her eventual demise. An interest group (with mailing list) is looking for photos and artefacts whist she was in operation.

lots more photos, her community organisation, glory days, historical landmark program, service history and specifications, floorplan and schematics, current status, passenger lounge, reactor control room, dry docked , and finally a flickr photo stream and a rather excellent photo essay of the NS Savannah. A little bit of history for you to enjoy.

Don't know, but it looks quite nice:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/minneosta/

That's not nearly as funny as these:

http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/10/kissing_pig.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/510322764_a1aebca876_o.jpg

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o262/the_wynster/PoohsThoughtsonSwineFlu.jpg

http://www.phun.org/newspics/funny_friday/3585.jpg

Click to the "original size" setting. It's almost never a good idea to calculate an MTF from anything but a test pattern, but I'd be really surprised if that image even had 2 MP worth of data in it. A few things look pretty good because the image has been sharpened within an inch of its life, but detail, like the trees, is just a mess.

Take a look on Flickr at some shots taken with a good camera and lens. There are some people who will even post full resolution pictures. Here is an image I resampled down to 5 MP then did a 100% crop of (so it's comparable to your image at full resolution).

Cell phone cameras are handy, but there's no way you're going to get 5 MP out of one. Your image would be much better if the camera maker had elected to use a sensor that matched the capabilities of the lens (say 1 MP). In that case there wouldn't be as much problem with noise, pictures would take up much less space, and no one ever displays cell phone pics at more than that resolution anyway.

Something cool will be born out of this "sea of information"...

Well, I live in Bolivia and I can say that the salt flats are beautiful, but Evo Morales sucks, he is destroying this country, he have dedicated himself to destroy our region, destroyed the economy and made terrible mistakes whit several foreign governments, including the United States. Recently the government has killed supposed terrorist of Hungary nationality. There are proves that this supposed terrorist were tourist on our country and some of them where working here in IT jobs. Can u imagine a geek doing terrorist activities?
I support the idea of extracting this minerals and increasing the quality of life of the citizens of this forgotten land. It will generate a lot of jobs, that we are lacking right now, there are more benefits that drawbacks.

here are some pictures of the uyuni flats
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=salar+de+uyuni

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cawpin/3479673055/in/set-72157603862822613/

Judge for yourself if that 5MP is lens blur of not. It seems to me that I am getting a full 5MP image. Zoom in as much as you want

Jesus sure did.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24992147@N03/2644171457/

It's not that Google has a few more of those CPUs running now, but when Google went public I'm quite sure it was less.

Yeah, I'd say that's less than 10,000 CPUs.

That said, the later you try to crash the party, the more mature competition you are facing, and the bigger/better the launch has to be. Google didn't have Google to contend with.

Will it fail? Probably. But the stakes are enormous, so you can't blame a rich smart guy for trying.