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No, the test loads a page every three seconds, so at any given time on the graph, all browsers have opened the same number of pages. Safari crashes before completing the test. It's a test of memory use, not speed.

According to pavlov: We purposefully put in a 3 second delay for all the pages so that would all take about the same amount of time in all browsers (as my post was about memory usage, not page load times (also, several browsers don't render all the pages correctly)) and didn't want to confuse anyone.

The Mona Lisa is lit up with LED's Buckingham Palace is converting over to all LED lighting http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastboltnut/1466712839/. Many cities around the world are converting to LED lighting. It is really quite spectacular transformation of lighting in the world.

I expect to see 90 percent of lighting changed over to LED lighting by 2015...

Easy solution:

"I really like everything except steak and stout."

Honestly

As the Endeavor approached the space station this week, crew members on board the station snapped this shot.

Hey, Europe! Just woke up? Not doing anything today? Check out what those Brits in London did on February 10th. Place your bets on whether you can top that.

Shouting out to NYC, where the Scilons sent out "volunteer" "ministers" to "body route" some "fresh meat" as the Twin Towers still smoldered? Canuckistans in the depths of frozen Ottawa and Toronto? Chicago? Tampa? How about those citizens of Occupied Clearwater who still remember when their city was still known as a tourist destination and not as a strategic base for the Scilon Empire?

YOU. You out there, reading this in Phoenix? Vegas? San Francisco? Portland? Vancouver? You think you can beat the turnout from those East Coasters?

As Operation Party Hard works its way around the planet, you know what to do.

CAPTCHA: PERSIST

Hey, Europe! Just woke up? Not doing anything today? Check out what those Brits in London did on February 10th. Place your bets on whether you can top that.

Shouting out to NYC, where the Scilons sent out "volunteer" "ministers" to "body route" some "fresh meat" as the Twin Towers still smoldered? Canuckistans in the depths of frozen Ottawa and Toronto? Chicago? Tampa? How about those citizens of Occupied Clearwater who still remember when their city was still known as a tourist destination and not as a strategic base for the Scilon Empire?

YOU. You out there, reading this in Phoenix? Vegas? San Francisco? Portland? Vancouver? You think you can beat the turnout from those East Coasters?

As Operation Party Hard works its way around the planet, you know what to do.

CAPTCHA: PERSIST

Replying to myself to add some more information about the Tmote Sky and similar wireless sensor nodes:

The main problem with these sensor nodes right now is mainly that they are just way too expensive for what they are, at $140 each. Since any application of them is in large numbers to get around the 10-meter radio range, it gets very expensive quickly to do anything really useful with them. That is $140 for a device that doesn't have a screen, case, keyboard or external antenna.

The goal is to get the cost under $1 per unit, which would allow them to be used in larger numbers. Right now people are developing OSs and software for them with the idea that they will become much cheaper in the future.

(Detailed picture with annotations on the components here

A wireless sensor node like the Tmote Sky(pdf) is a very tiny embedded computer that runs on 2 AA batteries, and is usually the size of the back of the 2 AA battery holder. They have a radio on it, but the radio isn't compatible with 802.11b instead compatible with 802.15.4, and is limited to about 256kbps. The Tmote Sky has a 8MHz 8-bit processor (the Atmega 128), 10KiB of ram, 1024KiB of flash, with a few A-D inputs and some digital outputs. It isn't exactly very fast, nor does it have a bunch of ram.

It is designed for a distributed sensor platform, and not doing a lot of computation.

A picture of one is here, connected to a 14-foot USB cable.

You are just misinformed. USA foreign aid as a percentage of the GDI is the lowest of just about any developed country:

http://markc1.typepad.com/relentlesslyoptimistic/images/foreign_aid_chart1.GIF

Most of that aid goes to (semi)developed countries like Colombia, Israel and Egypt for political reasons, or to Iraq and Afganistan (which we fucked up in the first place), instead of to the poorest countries in the world:

http://static.flickr.com/51/189662626_257b15004f_o.jpg

... is here.

All photos CC-licensed (By-SA) so have fun!

I was in a hurry getting out the door and wrote that without logging in. People do hack guitars. The Flying V is mine.

At CES they had an EeePC next to a Dell 1330 and so I snapped a few photos.

http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2180093376/

Keyboard felt OK - something that I could get use to, but I'm waiting for the 9" screen to be released.

> I yanked my kid out of daycare on the spot when I walked in and found a room full of goddamn year old toddlers watching Spongebob with commercials.

Yikes. Spongebob is decent, but the cereal and dolls onslaught is unbearable.

> And I've inherited the family gene that makes me think tantrums are funny (as a child that drove me absolutely insane; the madder I got, the more hilarious my parents found it) so I don't cave to that sort of kid pressure.

Haha awesome, Humor and Distraction are definitely the weapons I pick up before Punishment. Another poster commented about getting irate over the grocery store tantrum, and that's just so far offbase. Your kid is running the show at that point, and like your kid, you are making emotional (bad) decisions.

> That's the whole point of the wall-to-wall candy at every checkout line, the cartoon characters on every cereal box, the random kid crap on little face-out hangers that adorns rows full of otherwise kid-unfriendly merchandise.

I dunno, even without the kid traps, the supermarket is still super-sensory-overload. There's just so much shiny stuff there:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unaesthetic/22725413/sizes/l/

I ended up going to the supermarket with my kid about two hours after I posted this, and then the auto parts store. I think she was about equally excited by both places. No tantrums though!

Like the Mickey Mouse Act, this bill has the informal title of "Tim Couch's 14 Year Old Daughter Just Clicked on a Goatse Link Bill."

It is already invented and being used by Nokia. They have geolocation/spec based catalogues in "Download!" Application coming in Symbian handsets. Handango and couple of others visible from my handset but as I said, it is based on location.

Ignore the horrible theme , it can be seen at http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2213057745_e094dd290f.jpg?v=0

Apple is allergic to such things. I also know developers who will (of course) apply for iTunes store since if you are a commercial, professional developer you can't suggest your consumers to "hack" their things.

Thing is, Apple is ignoring tough lessons which were learned by Nokia and other PDA makers with millions of dollars in cost. Asking $100 for freeware app signing, not allowing competition, forcing users to "hack" their devices...

Look at the pretty lights!

...such as this

It's not "media coverage or no." Without media coverage, a candidate cannot win because without it, the majority of America will not know you exist.

A prime example of what I'm talking about from August 2007:

Fox news reporting on the Iowa Ames Straw Poll. TV broadcast top, actual results below.

Notice who was not included even though he received many more votes than two of the other media darlings combined. The networks have all done stuff like that since day one. And yet people love to cite how poorly he did in those polls. I'm still waiting for someone to explain how anyone without media coverage is supposed to poll well, let alone if they don't include your name to begin with. Again, see the timeline for more examples.

In reality though, it really has little to do with Ron Paul and everything to do with the media picking and choosing the candidates for you. It won't be any different in 2012 only because Americans won't be any more outraged at the media than they are today.

Whip out your concordance. The Hebrew word for "day" used in Genesis isn't meant to be metaphorical; it's a literal, 24-hour period of time.

If you assume that everything in the Bible is no deeper than a convoluted historical document, you're missing a lot.

When will /. grok the fact that is well know in parser/grammar circles, that Ruby is a language with a problem so big it can only be considered fundamentally Borked. Slashdot used to be a place where most people where on the ball and a crude attempt like this to gain traction by leeching the good standing off K&R would have been spotted and binned.

This Ruby Grammar tree shows part of the problem, that god like Primary token in the middle. Ruby requires an arbitrary look-ahead parser, an LL(k) parser which are notoriously problematic. LL(k) parsers are inefficient, difficult to implement and result in ambiguous semantics. The result is that the Ruby grammar requires the token analyser and parser to be tightly coupled, a code smell in most programs. Token lexical analysis is dependent on syntactic context and syntactic context is dependent on semantic information from dynamicaly typed local variables. This is lethal for parsers.

It is not possible to separate the lexical grammar from the language grammar, nor is it possible to properly describe the language grammar in a rigorous way. What defines a good language is that its semantics are well defined and consistent without reference to an underlying mechanisms, The fact that Ruby needs a LL(k) makes the semantics ambiguity, the parser implementation must make arbitratory assumptions about the semantics.

The Ruby syntax cannot be defined with by rigorous context-free grammar, it is ambiguous. This is lethal in Parsers, because two different parser implementations can attach different semantics to the same source code. YES, that's right a Ruby program can run differently on two platforms, even if they have correctly implemented parsers.

This cannot be fixed because this big problem with Ruby is the very thing that makes it attractive, the syntactic flexibility. That flexibility cannot be decoupled from semantic ambiguity, making it error prone to write and more importantly read.

Wirth said of good languages, a language is not so much characterized by what it allows to program, but more so by what it prevents from being expressed.
If you want a dynamic typed languages there are better choices with rigourous grammars.

I had known that Adrian Belew was doing some work with Trent, but I didn't realize this release was to include that music until just now (having listened to the download that I started this morning upon returning home...).

I've been geeking out on Adrian Belew lately, as I usually do when I get a chance to see him live. He's currently on tour with an amazing band and, if you can, you should (IMHO!) hurry to see them.

Here's some media from my time last week:

Pics from The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano and the Belly Up in Solana Beach.

Videos from the Belly Up (1) (2) (3) on YouTube.

A recording I made from the Belly Up on a digital voice recorder (via Mininova).

Listen, look, (hopefully) enjoy, then try and see them before the tour finishes. This Power Trio is amazing!

Here's some tour info as well.

I had known that Adrian Belew was doing some work with Trent, but I didn't realize this release was to include that music until just now (having listened to the download that I started this morning upon returning home...).

I've been geeking out on Adrian Belew lately, as I usually do when I get a chance to see him live. He's currently on tour with an amazing band and, if you can, you should (IMHO!) hurry to see them.

Here's some media from my time last week:

Pics from The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano and the Belly Up in Solana Beach.

Videos from the Belly Up (1) (2) (3) on YouTube.

A recording I made from the Belly Up on a digital voice recorder (via Mininova).

Listen, look, (hopefully) enjoy, then try and see them before the tour finishes. This Power Trio is amazing!

Here's some tour info as well.

Yes, a little offtopic but if you're going to talk
about politics and law, why not religion too, right?
The image is slick...

Battlestar Galactica Last Supper

• Sunset Sheep
• Even Sheep Like Sunsets
• Sheep at Sunset

I used Flickr's built-in search function rather than Google Images. To be fair, Flickr would be categorized as a "specialized database" and not a general search engine. Knowing what tools to use for your search be it the internet or your local library is just as important as knowing what to search for.

Just for completeness though I did manage to find a picture of a sheep facing left at sunset through Google Images. Interestingly enough it's stored in a specialized database.

BTW it took more time to type and format this post than the actual searches.

• Sunset Sheep
• Even Sheep Like Sunsets
• Sheep at Sunset

I used Flickr's built-in search function rather than Google Images. To be fair, Flickr would be categorized as a "specialized database" and not a general search engine. Knowing what tools to use for your search be it the internet or your local library is just as important as knowing what to search for.

Just for completeness though I did manage to find a picture of a sheep facing left at sunset through Google Images. Interestingly enough it's stored in a specialized database.

BTW it took more time to type and format this post than the actual searches.

• Sunset Sheep
• Even Sheep Like Sunsets
• Sheep at Sunset

I used Flickr's built-in search function rather than Google Images. To be fair, Flickr would be categorized as a "specialized database" and not a general search engine. Knowing what tools to use for your search be it the internet or your local library is just as important as knowing what to search for.

Just for completeness though I did manage to find a picture of a sheep facing left at sunset through Google Images. Interestingly enough it's stored in a specialized database.

BTW it took more time to type and format this post than the actual searches.

I track the reliability of my Internet access (15 second interval measurements). My cable company (Cablevision/Optonline) recently made some change, that took the good reliability (99.9) and made it much better (approaching 99.999). This is very obvious when the data is charted.

I wonder if they have been getting feedback that the reliability is not acceptable, especially for services like VoIP?

Round. 94 was the last "glass brick" front.

I got a 89 XJ6 w/ quad rounds, too. Driving an old (86) series III XJ6 the last two weeks. Except for the turning radius, it's a great car!

The XJ12 is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24222919@N02/2297816873/sizes/o/

Mr. Patrick Dempsey in action http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1278/540989432_efe4a79ee7.jpg

Maybe because that "quite a bit of support" has translated into zero electoral success? You can't blame the media for the voters rejecting Ron Paul in small elections (read: Iowa and New Hampshire) where he had the ability to campaign on an individual and town-hall level. I know it's popular in the Ron Paul camp to blame the media for all your woes but has it ever occurred to you that the voting public rejected his philosophy?

Are you kidding?

You can keep stating that all you want, but it doesn't make it any more true.

His philosophies were not heard and the only ones rejecting it were the main stream media outlets making the decision for you. The public was never given the opportunity to reject his philosophies. For that matter, the public was never given the opportunity to reject a handful of the other candidates philosophies either.

And do you really believe that the majority of voters travel to stump speeches to make up their minds about the candidate? This isn't the 1800s anymore - the vast majority form their opinion based on what they hear from TV, radio and print.

It's popular to blame the media because THEY are the entity that uses their power to shape public opinion. And they have, almost 100% of the time since day 1 of campaign coverage, excluded Ron Paul when listing/talking about the candidates. The have, since the beginning, called him and his supporters names and stated he has no chance.

Yet you think I'm unjustified in saying that these actions don't have any impact on popular opinion?

You are naive:

• In July 2007, George Stephanopoulos began the trend of telling Ron and his supporters that he had no chance This has been repeated almost every time Ron has received mention since.
• In July of 2007, the PEW Research Center published a report on "candidates heard about in the media" and Ron hadn't been mentioned enough in the media to even register outside the 4% Other cantegory. Journalism.org has done numerous studies since then showing Ron has recived 0% or <0.5% of media coverage.
• In August 2007, ABC manipulates preception of numbers of Ron Paul street supporters as compared to Romney suppoters outside the GOP debate (a debate which he was almost excluded from until public outcry)
• In August 2007, Ron received 9.1% of the vote in the Iowa Ames staw poll, yet FOX broadcast the results excluding Ron and listing candidates who scored LESS. Thankfully, the New York Times got it right ... at least on the internet, where you're at least likely to find SOME poisitive (albiet buried) positive coverage. Such as the "internet only" interviews with Ron that ABC published as opposed to on broadcast television alongside their other candidate interviews
• In December 2007, MSNBC regularly listed the candidates and excluded Ron Paul. This trend continues amongst all media outlets to this day.
• In January 2008, Ron was excluded from the FOX Forum before the New Hampshire primary because "there was not enough room at the table" despite the fact that Ron had garnered THREE TIMES as many votes as Guiliani in Iowa and later went on to score more than NINE TIMES the number of votes of Fred in New Hampshire -- both of which were invited.
• Before Super Tuesday, there was literally no coverage of Ron Paul and when he did win 2nd place in Montana it was largely ignored (just like his 2nd place wins in Nevada and Louisiana)
• On February 4th, papers around the country ran a

You need a laptop and the Nokia N95

Why
-Decent Carl-Zeis lens with 5Megapixel camera (sample pics at http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/) also video recording at 30fps at 640x480.

-Built in GPS with Nokia Maps, maps can be stored on device or updated where ever there is Internet, either over 3G or Wi-fi (you can also load TomTom onto this device)

-Built in email reader support. Microsoft Exchange via roadsync or inbuilt POP3 and IMAP client, can use wifi or cellular network.

-It also has a great SIP client on the phone itself that I use regularly, make really cheap calls where ever internet is available over (wifi or the cellular network)

-You can get a small bluetooth keyboard that connects to the N95 for writing emails as this device lacks a qwerty keyboard)

-Excellent media device, MP3 player and video player. Store mp3s on device or listen to internet radio and youtube over the internet again wifi or cellular.

-Good web browser, supports javascript (but no flash)

Personally, I don't even carry a laptop anymore.

BTW, all this comes at the cost of battery life. If I use all these features, I have to charge the phone daily. If I only use the phone and phone alone, then every 3-4 days. Further having said that, video, GPS and wifi suck the most juice off the battery, listening to mp3 doesn't impact the battery life much.

Based on your needs you may want a spare battery and a battery charger. also get a 4GB or larger micro SDHC card

Disclaimer: No I don't work for Nokia, Just a very happy N95 user.

Not necessary, but here's a slideshow from CES this year of photos that I took:
http://flickr.com/search/show/?q=maximus&w=91852742%40N00

This thing way too damn expensive. That's for sure.

Of course you bet several other companies were looking forward to the buyout, including google, ask and AOl. All of which would have seen major market share growth, not only from the initial rejection of M$ but also because that same team that managed to turn MSN into an unpopular money losing portal would do the same to Yahoo.

Sage also has an AJAX interface.

I've been making an effort to use Sage in place of Mathematica lately and so far I'm impressed. Although, right now I prefer using the CLI rather than the web interface.

I found them charming, literate, and witty, if a little on the quiet side. The four had a professional minder that accompanied them in their quest to save the world during the TE2007 party at Universal Studios Island of Adventure: their nicknames are "Red", "Green", "Yellow", and "Blue".

These little figures have been given away at the last few Tech Eds, and they have a place of honor in our kitchen next to my ultra-rare foam "Nine Guy." My wife gets a kick out of them, struggling and failing to understand how a smiling toy relates to an enterprise-ready relationalo database system. "It's complicated," I explain. :)

-KF

Many of us don't think the gee-whizz eye-candy coolness factor of watching someone bounce round the moon on TV is actually worth the enormous opportunity cost of what could have been done with that money if it wasn't wasted on manned missions. The Shuttle's landing tomorrow morning after a ten day mission that cost $1.3 billion. Consider that the incredibly successful Mars Exploration Rovers cost less than half that over the entire four years and counting mission, and have made fantastic breakthrough scientific discoveries as well as producing some amazing eye-candy.

(And incidentally those are all "amateur" images produced from the raw data stream, thanks to JPL/Cornell/Steve Squyres' wonderful policy to release it as it arrives.)

No, they have other things in mind, like their new line of Japanese food containers! Yes, it's true! SCO is now in the Bento business!

But then there is this issue where the entire setup of the shop is changed and people are coming in just to leech the wifi. While chains can handle that, the small guys are getting fucked.

If you want to skip the blog post, go straight to the Flickr pic here.

They might be tough, but I've always thought that IBM/Lenovo laptops are ugly. Putting aesthetics aside more ports for the same weight is great. Apple might be the innovator of the Air-type, but the Lenovo and others won't be the last we'll see. I actually think the Sony Sub-notebook is a better machine and buy.

My brother-in-law got a MBA for Valentines Day, so I've had some hands-on time w/it: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/

We should make a site that is exactly the same, but with all material free and under creative commons!! That would show them!

that poll was a bit difficult to find.
here is the current poll result on their site. How many have so far voted for unlimited sharing?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23781795@N03/2264769130/

I bet microsoft ends up owning your content on their website, just like http://www.flickr.com/.

Here:

http://flickr.com/photos/cantikfotos/sets/72157594230283909/
http://flickr.com/photos/cantikfotos/sets/72157594190669543/

Like they say, the future just ain't the same as it used to be.......

Here:

http://flickr.com/photos/cantikfotos/sets/72157594230283909/
http://flickr.com/photos/cantikfotos/sets/72157594190669543/

Like they say, the future just ain't the same as it used to be.......

Enlighten yourself. Pasta be unto you. Ramen.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23387891@N05/

I want to say that the DC protest (that I attended as a citizen on the street, uncounted) was probably one of the most "on-target" and organized as evidenced by videos so far uploaded, even if it was only a middling size (~150). Many passers-bye were engaged and genuinely interested, they ran out of fliers, Arnie Lerna speaking, ex-scientologists were speaking, pre-med students were speaking, not that there weren't any Anon-specific momemnts like Rick Rolling but it was more of a morale boost than a mixed message.

I think the one thing that needed to be improved was that clearly there is a division of opinion; that the organization is the problem, and that the tenets of the 'religion' are the problem. Some of us (myself included) think that both are problematic. The message was supposed to focus on the former (because that is the thing that is tangible and easier to change for the better), but many in attendance who made their own signs clearly believed also in the latter.
In any caseiIt is important for people to see that this actually matters and it is not something which is a funny folly of those zany actors in Hollywood; I am certain that this was achieved.

Some say that this was a mere practice run for the 15th of March. I hope that leadership organizing this later event, now with the experiences of one protest under their belts, can learn and improve and really have a clear agenda with an even bigger impact.

London Anonymous flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/anonymous/

And would like to point out that we were not protesting against the religion, we were protesting the Church.
Oh, and here are my pictures from Austin.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23636618@N05/sets/72157603884045128/

Photos from the London protests. A lot of people there.