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Here you go sir. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23637168@N05/sets/72157603887577097/

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I found this from the flickr group - http://flickr.com/photos/34923023@N00/
http://www.autodemontageverwijst.nl/ - original
http://www.sinotrad.com/ - copied - chunks of identical markup - same div class id names including misspellings.

I forgot how some geeks get bent out of shape about the use of the word, "stealing" vs. "copying", so when I said "stealing" I meant "copying".

I don't feel like debating with you or the rest of the internet on this matter any further. If you want to feel like you've won some argument on the internet feel free. I'd rather spend my time on more productive pursuits like catching up on sleep or learning to be a better programmer.

Is it bad? Yes.

Is it worse than the Smoke from a huge fire? No. The smoke in the air does make for pretty sunsets.

Is it better than the pollution from natural gas/propane/fuel oil?

Yes, smog is bad for people with athsma, and can irritate the respiratory system. Small fires are usually better than big huge ones, and are more manageable.

Using the wood to make paper or something is probably better from an air-pollution prospective, sure. Taking trees out of forests to get back to a "natural" density of trees is good for the forests. Firewood is just one way to use that wood, and yes does create some pollution in the air. But, it is a very renewable, carbon-recycling source of heat.

Is it bad? Yes.

Is it worse than the Smoke from a huge fire? No. The smoke in the air does make for pretty sunsets.

Is it better than the pollution from natural gas/propane/fuel oil?

Yes, smog is bad for people with athsma, and can irritate the respiratory system. Small fires are usually better than big huge ones, and are more manageable.

Using the wood to make paper or something is probably better from an air-pollution prospective, sure. Taking trees out of forests to get back to a "natural" density of trees is good for the forests. Firewood is just one way to use that wood, and yes does create some pollution in the air. But, it is a very renewable, carbon-recycling source of heat.

Sure there are good things, bad things and the ugly about the OLPC XO but I don't know a single effort that has brought more competition and choices to the market than this project. The intention is a good one, and it has decent hardware/software and OS for kids. I on the other hand would pull my hair out just waiting for the system to boot. It seems to take forever.

Here is the XO next to a Dell D620 for comparison sake. I took this at LinuxWorld 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/

At the Nintendo World Store in NYC, they have a Game Boy on display which was allegedly the victim of a bomb blast in the first Iraq War. It is turned on, and plays a Tetris video. (Maybe just what Tetris plays when you don't start a game.) There is one line of the display which is out, but it looks and works fine (the display looks fine, anyway!). Someone has a picture of it on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhoran/45213997/in/set-988263/

Fragile is one thing the iPhone is not. In fact, it survived falling from a moving car at freeway speeds only to be run over by a semi. Other than a lot of cosmetic damage, it still works in every way.

What were you planning on doing with an iPhone?

And as for bulk, well unless you take your cell phones the way Zoolander does, the iPhone does pretty well in that regard too. From what I can tell, the only smart phone that is thinner is the Moto Q, and that is only *0.1 mm* thinner.

But you must be right that the only reason people buy an iPhone is to show it off to other people. Thanks for pointing out our vanity.

http://static.flickr.com/111/313315426_3b89208612.jpg

These weigh several tons, and with the added weight of their anchor chain,
not much can stand up to them.

After all they are meant to hold a multi-thousand ton ship still at sea
under light gale conditions.

Ex-MislTech

Remember, AFP (Agence France-Presse) is the news agency that brought us the Yahoo-Katrina-Finding-Looting-Racism firestorm.

• Yahoo! servers use Free BSD
• Flickr servers use Linux/Apache
• del.icio.us servers use Free BSD

Is this kind of merger a good argument for releasing server side software under the GNU Affero GPL ? If these services were using software licensed under something like the GNU Affero GPL, then a company like Microsoft wouldn't be able to go near them.

I know the argument against this form of license is that large players like IBM, Sun and Google would not want to use them, so the projects would find it difficult to get sponsorship. But both Flickr and del.icio.us started as small start-up teams with a cool idea, and became valuable because of the user base they attracted. When they started out they weren't looking to be bought out by a large company, they just wanted to try out their idea and share it with their friends.

If the next cool idea is started by a team who used tools licensed under the GNU Affero GPL, what happens when it gets discovered and attracts a huge user base ? It would be interesting to see which of the big players would be prepared to become involved. A potentially disruptive technology.

Here are a few ideas...
http://www.shelfordfeast.co.uk/guineapig.html
http://www.marxmail.org/archives/december98/guinea_pig.htm
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/od/cuisine/a/cuy.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookingdiva/62203219/
http://www.exotickitchen.com/recipes/recipes5.htm
Just think of them as big squirrels without the fluffy tails ;-)

If anyone is curious, I took screenshots of a default XP Pro install vs. a customized (for my uses) XP install, both running in Parallels with the Parallels Tools installed.

Default XP Install - 22 processes, commit charge 105 MB
Custom XP Install - 17 processes, commit charge 52 MB

The difference is astronomical. It installs faster, boots faster, runs faster, and shuts down faster. Definitely worth the time, even just for one install.

If anyone is curious, I took screenshots of a default XP Pro install vs. a customized (for my uses) XP install, both running in Parallels with the Parallels Tools installed.

Default XP Install - 22 processes, commit charge 105 MB
Custom XP Install - 17 processes, commit charge 52 MB

The difference is astronomical. It installs faster, boots faster, runs faster, and shuts down faster. Definitely worth the time, even just for one install.

thepiratebay?

And as for this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/2180851706/in/set-72157603619920398/

Oh noes! You have 0 nerd points! God's PC isn't i686-compatible: such an ISA could only have been created by the devil.

God actually uses a PDP-11. He is the original greybeard programmer. At least they got His username right.

Well... I wouldn't call it lame bigotry. LOLart, maybe. That would make the "I can has cheezburger" art a meta-LOL. A LOL(LOLcat), if you will. Of course, it would have helped if they spelled cheezburger without an h.

--Rob

When I was studying in Paris, I liked to walk American friends past this painting:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/2184039108/in/set-72157603619920398/

Their reactions were priceless.

I've never worked anywhere where it *wasn't*. (I feel sorry for you, comrade.) Half the people here *have* breasts -- are we supposed to make a policy that forbids us from looking at ourselves? And have you learned nothing from art? These are not breasts.

In case you mean "images of breasts", then I'm kind of curious why you're upset about the half-naked women, but not the fully-naked man. Hello, sexism!

I've never worked anywhere where it *wasn't*. (I feel sorry for you, comrade.) Half the people here *have* breasts -- are we supposed to make a policy that forbids us from looking at ourselves? And have you learned nothing from art? These are not breasts.

In case you mean "images of breasts", then I'm kind of curious why you're upset about the half-naked women, but not the fully-naked man. Hello, sexism!

I've never worked anywhere where it *wasn't*. (I feel sorry for you, comrade.) Half the people here *have* breasts -- are we supposed to make a policy that forbids us from looking at ourselves? And have you learned nothing from art? These are not breasts.

In case you mean "images of breasts", then I'm kind of curious why you're upset about the half-naked women, but not the fully-naked man. Hello, sexism!

The one that was supposed to be "very clever" is just a painting with some windows on top of it. It looks like my browser thinks I need another plugin or something, but it doesn't tell me what this would be.

If this is supposed to be clever, I'm missing something, either personally or in my browser. Some of the other ones were pretty decent, I guess...

You missed this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/2163335738/in/set-72157603619920398/

=Smidge=

Ah, so by leaving it out you're declaring it important, but I guess I don't understand how that's a useful distinction. I guess that it might be worth saying that screen-readers shouldn't read out @src, because being read out this doesn't sound like fun: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1232/1084301624_0e59aaa2c7_o.jpg

Portal also reminds us of the day when there wasn't a computer-controlled character telling you exactly how to accomplish every objective. Sure, there were hints, but you had to figure out everything yourself, including the story. ("The cake is a lie!")

"Gordon, I bet that sparking wire is the problem." (From HL2:E1).

This comic might explain it better: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23108889@N06/2212589455/

If a 10 degree increase halves the life of the device, does decreasing the temperature by 10 degrees double it?
How about to -10 Celsius?
Thus, is my frozen computer going to last forever?

(I think that a 10 degree variation from the optimal internal temperature is what should be avoided, but I am not a hardware engineer)

The ability to hack the OLPC or Eee PC is pretty much the drive for us to buy one of these ultra portables. The price is right,the portability is definitely there, and both based on Linux. Here's a photo of how small the OLPC XO is next to a Dell D620

http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/

Well, even NASA has problems with missions around this planet, during manned missions that should be held to a much higher standard.

(Not to mention problems with a mission that was just doing training on the ground)

But, the Mars Rovers, Apollo 11, and this mission are examples where NASA gets stuff very right.

(I hope I am not just putting gasoline and a lit fusee on the fire, like my dad is doing to that car there)

1. If it does, where are the screenshots to prove it? Your Mac has a built-in tool to take screenshots and I have told you how to do it. There are free sites like Photobucket or Flickr to host them for you.
2. You found fault with 3 items inside of Mac OS X. If you could actually prove two of them with screenshots, it would demonstrate that Mac OS X's interface is not perfect, which I never claimed that it was (and as far as I'm aware, neither has Apple). I will concede that you cannot do #2 with only one click (OMG, it takes two), but that does not translate as "Mac OS X's interface sucks". If three claimed flaws meant that an interface sucked, then there is no interface that doesn't suck. You aren't even using the interface "NOW", you're using the interface that has since been replaced by Leopard.
3. Again, where is the screenshot showing this window? See #1.

Me: I have demonstrated that you are wrong.
You: But I *say* it does this, therefore it does, because I can whine like an emo-kid on YouTube while shooting a badly angled video that is too unclear to show anything.

But I'm sure that the only way you can further your trolling argument is to duck the points I made, refuse to answer questions (bug reports, screenshots), and whine that it's all Apple's fault that you can't do [insert feature here].

People like me are found by trolls like you who post something that is absolutely false to my experience. I read the "boohoo, iPhoto won't show a picture in Finder" and immediately thought "but yes, it will." I then proceeded to prove you wrong, and you're still whining about it. Next time, hone your arguments to include some facts and screen captures which provide corroboration.

...and I wonder what a library will become in the future, anyway

I see two roles for libraries in the future:

1. There is a vast amount of content that needs to be digitized. And an even vaster amount of digital content that needs to be organized. Libraries are already working on this. I work at a university library, and this has been designated our top priority for some time. And the fact that the Library of Congress just put a bunch of photos on flickr to get help tagging and describing them should give you hope that many librarians are paying attention to recent developments.
   
2. Once you've got everything ever created instantly available on your Kindle, it would be good to have a nice place to read some of it, talk about it with your friends, etc. Libraries, especially university libraries, see that as a big part of their reason to exist, too.

So I guess I'm predicting that libraries of the future will be like H. G. Wells' Time Machine: a beautiful utopian book-enjoying experience, where some unsuspecting fool is occasionally dragged down to the grungy basement to help tend the servers.

-Esme

Better is the Flicker page linked from TFA. The Google cache has already been updated to the weasel version of the story.

On the other hand, the pope does look a bit like Emperor Palpatine, so I'm staying out of this one

some have said that hot summer days were helping with the overheating of the batteries and the explosions. But, if you notice, the last explosion happened in late December in Wisconsin. Not likely to have been a very "hot" day. It could still be a heat issue if there's internal overheating do to "other" internal computer equipment, power supplies, and other equipment inside those boxes.

Don't expect AT&T to tell anybody what's really going on. After the dozens of images and stories that went out after the first explosion, AT&T is on top of these blown-up systems like white on rice.

Another interesting detail is that the company hired to examine the systems after the first two explosions said that the batteries and safety equipment were sound. They also said that they were likely better than most other batteries on the market. If this is the case, AT&T is going to have to start putting very large warning stickers on these boxes as they keep exploding. Maybe something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pluckytree/2186452007/in/pool-stickfiguresinperil/

or a version of this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackloveinspace/494802125/in/pool-stickfiguresinperil/

LoB

some have said that hot summer days were helping with the overheating of the batteries and the explosions. But, if you notice, the last explosion happened in late December in Wisconsin. Not likely to have been a very "hot" day. It could still be a heat issue if there's internal overheating do to "other" internal computer equipment, power supplies, and other equipment inside those boxes.

Don't expect AT&T to tell anybody what's really going on. After the dozens of images and stories that went out after the first explosion, AT&T is on top of these blown-up systems like white on rice.

Another interesting detail is that the company hired to examine the systems after the first two explosions said that the batteries and safety equipment were sound. They also said that they were likely better than most other batteries on the market. If this is the case, AT&T is going to have to start putting very large warning stickers on these boxes as they keep exploding. Maybe something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pluckytree/2186452007/in/pool-stickfiguresinperil/

or a version of this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackloveinspace/494802125/in/pool-stickfiguresinperil/

LoB

The Germans are at it again! Trying to take over the world! Or, I guess, my iPhone.

Here's photos of the Optimus Maximus that I took at CES 2008 last week. OLED = sweet, but the value is no way near the $1500 price-tag.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2179127072/in/photostream/
(scroll through to the next photo on the right-hand side)

Smart Talent was demoing 256GB at the show last week, and I just didn't get a photo of the demo system running it. But in saying that it'll be mainstream in X months or whatever is just a gamble. If we have another earthquake in Taiwan or one in Korea, RAM prices are going through the roof as all the factories are in Taiwan, and Samsung owns the flash memory market right now.

Aside from that, here are 145 photos from CES of stuff that I thought was worth shooting with my camera at the show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/

Come-on - there's always crap and semi-crap at the show. There's vaporware by the load too. But most of the show was very cool, exciting, and stuff you can use today.

Here are 145 cool things I found at CES that I took a photo of. Great show - I hope I get to go again next year:

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

Patent links from one of the flickr links in TOA: 5841689 5718983 ...

If it's patented, it's real, right?

Here's a good list of people to start sending C&D's to. There's almost 150,000 images there, so that ought to keep you busy for a while.

http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/

Here are some photos of the OLPC next to a Dell D610 at LinuxWorld last year. Very small! http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/

Here are some photos of the Asus Eee PC next to a Dell XPS M1330 from CES last week: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2180093088/

Here are some photos of the OLPC next to a Dell D610 at LinuxWorld last year. Very small! http://www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/1101266148/

Here are some photos of the Asus Eee PC next to a Dell XPS M1330 from CES last week: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2180093088/

after mitch [1] held a lecture about "making cool things with microcontrollers" [2], he started a workshop, where you could build your own tv-b-gone.

well, on the other side of the street there was a Media Markt (big, sells tech stuff) and some people had real fun [3]. soon, people got banned from Media Markt [4]. when one person shut off an 80.000 plasma screen, the employees even called the police.

[1] http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=mitch+altman
[2] http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3953188/24c3-2214-en-make_cool_things_with_microcontrollers.mkv
[3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/kap4001/2147812954/
[4] http://flickr.com/photos/yarnivore/2167068196/

after mitch [1] held a lecture about "making cool things with microcontrollers" [2], he started a workshop, where you could build your own tv-b-gone.

well, on the other side of the street there was a Media Markt (big, sells tech stuff) and some people had real fun [3]. soon, people got banned from Media Markt [4]. when one person shut off an 80.000 plasma screen, the employees even called the police.

[1] http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=mitch+altman
[2] http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3953188/24c3-2214-en-make_cool_things_with_microcontrollers.mkv
[3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/kap4001/2147812954/
[4] http://flickr.com/photos/yarnivore/2167068196/

I took pics of a lot of cool stuff at CES here: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/ There are some pretty cool things there this year, but I think web-cam hand gesture recognition is overrated.

Speaking of "futury" and no tactile feedback: I can't believe no one posted a comment about the Fingerworks TouchStream keyboard, or the OLPC XO-1 keyboard. Fortunately, here they are, together at last.

> 1) You could already do the same -- I've never seen a polling place that prevents you from snapping a picture of your ballot with your cell phone.

So, I could have taken a picture like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/photonatic/2145033521/ to make you think I voted for Michael Bloomberg under the Independence Party? And I couldn't reset the levers after I took the picture?

> It just seems like a complaint blown way out of proportion, and insignificant in comparison to the problems that we've had in voting.

So, the phrase "Chicago-style vote-buying" is well-known for no particular reason?

best keyboard I've ever owned. Control instead of caps-lock? So much better than I ever expected.

Look at the blog, it seems to be the same photo:

http://www.sweetney.com/001944.html

Or go straight to the photo on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetney/2131448895/

Does TOSLINK optical audio not count as a DIY network? I didn't pay anyone to hook up my AV stuff.

Because my favorite cable is a TOS-LINK cable with a clear sheath, over the fiber optics.

(Yes, I am a nerd with a favorite kind of cable.)

Granted there it is a step up to go from a 6-foot cable to 100 feet, but it isn't that big of a deal. Bi-directional communication is another thing that would be needed to make a real network.

Amazon.com has a bunch of 100-foot fiber optic cables, so I don't think that fiber itself is the issue, getting the network cards cheap enough is more of an issue, I think.