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I always thought he was missing too, but on closer inspection he's down in bottom left.

Here is a picture, from this site

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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/humperdinck/634/ Anarchy.htm

Posted anonymously for my protection.

In a semi-related topic, I heard that Bush has said that he doesn't consider atheists as citizens and yet he has been elected, two times!

Wrong Bush; that was George Herbert Walker Bush, Dubya's daddy.

I don't remember them being that expensive, but this corroberates (*sp) your story, sorry. Article

It's not really that difficult. Althought the mechanisms used by David Hahn are probably closed off, the information is still out there. He almost succeeded in building a bomb using nothing more than Smoke Detectors and a few other sources.

Read this and this

Just think, Odorama that you could (if you dared) EAT!

Toy Story, IIRC, was 10^16 flops.

Crandall claims that A Bug's Life was about ten times that.

You can get one now if you're Ed Gein

Nova -A Specifications.

he Nova was to be our Manned Mars exploration lifting body. It would be powerful enough to lift the "landing party" and ALL of their supporting equipment, out of the Terrestrial gravity well. One must remember that at this point in time, rockets were blowing up with apalling frequency on or near the launch site, so designing these spacecraft took an incredible leap of faith. In most cases, these designs are based on then-existing technologies, such as the F-1 liquid-fueled rocket engine, or the J-2 second stage liquid fueled rocket engine. Some avant guarde technology was envisioned, though - note solid-rocket boosters on some of the larger NASA design variants of the Nova.

Also notable is the presence of several nuclear powered rockets. Nuclear power for rocket design was abandoned because it was felt that technology would not support the development of such a craft until certain base technologies became viable. The primary technology necessary was related to the development of a safe containment capability that would house the nuclear reactor and requisite material, and keep it safe from ANY damage imaginable - and some of the unimaginable ! Such technology is still beyond our capabilities.

Note the Aerospike design at the very bottom image - Martin Marietta Advanced Designs - anotated R10R-2, with 424 K thrust. The aerospike is a timeless design that gets dusted off and retried every time the technologies are deemed to have advanced sufficiently far enough. Does it look familiar ? Like the inlet to a high-speed jet engine (ala SR-71) ? The aerospike had its contibutions to both technologies !

Nova - Project Overview

And although it's easier to find documentation for RTF than for Word native, the latter does exists. You just have to have the right developer's license to see it. I don't know whether products like OpenOffice, AbiWord, and WordPerfect, use that documentation, or whether they just reverse-engineer the files. But however they go about it, they don't do any worse a job reading Word native format than reading RTF.

So, yeah, characterizing RTF as "7-bit native" is a slight oversimplification. But not one that really matters to anybody trying to find a neutral format.

Boy are you late to the game. Bill Gates was the pioneer in the fight against piracy.

Forget about magnetic media...punched paper tape was the scourge of the software industry. You didn't even need a computer to copy it--just a pin and a lot of patience...har har! Bills' been on our A$$es about piracy for nearly 30 years now...talk about an innovative pioneer!

Not sure if there is much money for the "new Commodore" in the SCO-like IP enforcement business though--and aside from the C64-in-a-joystick the rest of the product line as proposed doesn't seem to really fit with Commodore's heritage. Maybe if they went back to its roots and sold nifty calculators (give TI a run for its money) or office equipment (they made good typewriters and filing cabinets I tell ya). Or maybe if they made a PC geared toward high-end multimedia use in honour of the Amiga (oops...forgot...Amiga is a totally different company again).

Ahh for the simplicity of TopView, and the API that never worked exactly right...

nslookup cameronprojects.com Non-Authoritative answer: Name: circle3.fortunecity.com Well, it looks like the great director knows a reliable hosting company when he sees one! I wonder what other major artists of our time use their Award-winning services. I've used Fortunecity.com hosting for over a year now on my own blog, as well as for the technology review magazine that I publish. Their service has been nothing short of amazing! I am very satisfied with how fortunecity.com allows you to scale easily from small personal accounts, up to high-load enterprise hosting, all at an unreasonably low price. By all means, try them out for your own websites.

if you use windows, try DJ.
It's the best java decompiler I have found.

You're thinking of the butterfly effect. Basically, weather systems are hard to predict over a long time because small mistakes/misinformation in assumptions add up to large differences over time.

More importantly though, weather predictions fail because they are not closed systems. To be accurate over time, they would have to take into account all weather everywhere since it all bounces off itself. A simulated battle, on the otherhand, would be orders of magnitude easier to predict. Sure, if you're initial data is wrong the results will be wrong (e.g. you underestimate the range of weapon X, or its ability to go through armor Y), but there wouldn't necessarily be outside effects you aren't accounting for.

Sorry but the Muppets haven't got anything to compare with This!

Sounds a lot like the old days in mining towns, where the mine owned the houses that the workers lived in, owned the store where the workers bought their goods, and of course paid them just enough to cover the price they charged for shelter and food, even taking it off their paychecks directly or issuing the pay in their own currency rather than US currency.

If you've heard the song "Sixteen Tons", you've heard the expression "I owe my soul to the company store". This is a description of conditions in those kinds of mining towns.

To put the comparison in European units, that's 1220 soccer pitches or 890 hectares.

Correction. It was George H. W. Bush(aka Senior) who said this. It was in 1987, while he was vice-president.

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"IBM met with a cool reception when they approached DRI for a CP/M license. Dorothy McEwen and DRI's attorney refused to sign the IBM non-disclosure agreement (Gary did not attend the meeting-it's been said that he was out flying his airplane), refused to make any modifications to CP/M-86 and insisted on a higher royalty than what IBM proposed. Bill Gates, who had been negotiating a BASIC license with IBM, seized the opportunity and offered to provide a DOS/BASIC package to IBM on favorable terms. Gates licensed SCP-DOS (for $50,000) and hired Tim Paterson to modify it to run on the IBM-PC. Microsoft submitted a copy to IBM for testing, who found over 300 bugs. IBM cleaned up many of the bugs, made a number of improvements and wrote the user manual." Gary Kildall

Just an obligatory mention of the Free / Open Source alternative: CrossCrypt, and the graphical version, CrossCryptGUI. Actually, I don't think I could've picked a worse time to mention them. The CrossCrypt site is down, and for some reason, the CrossCryptGUI site now displays a black background (so you can't see the text).

Nevertheless, I've used CrossCryptGUI 0.75 for some months now with a 20GB encrypted volume, and haven't had a problem (though backups are essential in case of corruption). As far as I'm aware, it's the only PGPdisk-like program on the Windows platform that is Free / Open Source and in active development.

Actually, on doing a search it appears another program called TrueCrypt, which I'd tested before CrossCrypt, has been resurrected. It had a more polished interface and documentation, and support for USB flash drives, but development was halted after Securstar (the makers of DriveCrypt) made legal threats.

Google found this page for me.

It would be weird, they didn't copy it so much as buy it.

Not on the show but you can see some of the chick that plays Chiana HERE

Obligatory Simpson's.

One of the middleware products CA has in its catalogue is "Intelligent Warehouse". IW was originally created by HP for internal use, then it was marketed by Platinum which was acquired by CA. CA supported IW (version 3.4.5) until May 2003, but some companies are still using it despite not having support. It is an excellent product, so I would like to ask Mr. Greenblatt to consider open sourcing this program too.

The American Psychiatric Association invents diagnoses to perpetuate an industry geared to helping people with these newly discovered and (conveniently) medicinally treatable "diseases." They invent problems. This is discussed in depth in Making Us Crazy By Herb Kutchins, but alternate forms of therapy have been discussed for decades (see Jean Piaget, for example). Undeniably, some severe conditions like Schizophrenia are treatable within the Psychiatric paradigm. Most more pedestrain difficulties--bipolar, depression, ADHD, homosexuality (oh wait, the DSM finally stopped classifying that as mental illness in the 3rd edition!) are best treated with cognitive behavioral therapy. Change the behavior and you change the brain chemistry. Psychotropics are terribly harmful and do nothing to address the underlying behavior that's causing the difficulties.

It's not inflamatory or wild speculation to say that if this discovery with monkeys makes its way to a human treatment, that it will thrust upon every bored 10 year old who's lacking challenge.

This message has been brought to you by a person who was diagnosed with ADHD at 15, took ritalin in high school at 16, and who finally, through behavioral changes in his 20s, was retested at 27 and can no longer be diagnosed with ADHD.

Comics Reality Checks II: The Bouncing Boy Test

Good Work, but how did you manage to capture this electrical crook when no one else could?

Because of my Bouncing Power.

...Did he say Pokemon Institute? http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/mordor/559/pokemo n.html

"Philip! I've got good news and bad news!"
"Give it to me straight Terrence."
"The good news is.. you have a clean bill of health."
"Oh what a relief!"
"The bad news is.. you have cancer!"

(wav)

Not right - none of these bootlegs sold in hundred-thousands, whereas British Winter Tour (recorded 1974-11-19) did - mostly because it was mistaken for new Pink Floyd's official album by many.

The story of British Winter Tour bootleg is described in printed books on Pink Floyd; on the net, this history at least mentions it. So +5 moderated grandparent's theory (that bootlegs help popularity of official releases) relies on wrong information.

An alternate universe? Why, which one are you from?

according to this page... The development was delayed several times, however, and the Windows 1.0 hit the store shelves in November 1985. The selection of applications was sparse, however, and Windows sales were modest.

Windows from the mid-80's

You must be from an alternate universe.

That, sir, is why you are an AC.
linky linky

...Oh! So CDs are what I was shooting at!

Yup! As someone else rightly pointed out DOS gained Unix bits in version 2 (which is the first version I was familiar with myself). Gary Kildall based CPM on DEC OS / History of DOS. That's the good thing about Slashdot is you can be completely wrong about something and there is usually someone else around with more knowledge than yourself in that area who can set the record straight. Sorry for any confusion caused due to my lack of knowledge on the history of CP/M!

"The postal service is liable for the conduct of its employees."

SPIELBERG, Austria -- Michael Schumacher won the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday when Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello let him pass just before the checkered flag.
Barrichello, who had led from the start, received orders from his team to let Schumacher win.
"It was probably the wrong decision to do it this way, I am not very happy," said Schumacher, who is trying to win a record-tying fifth Formula One title.

CNN.com - Ferrari and drivers fined $1m - June 26, 2002

A terrifying picture. Fire begining to engulf Jos Verstappen's Benetton at the German GP 1994

F1 Teams Driven for:
Jordan (1991)
Benetton (1992-1995)
Ferrari (1996-)

The FIA's investigators, in trying to find the cause of the Hockenheim pit, fire discovered a safety filter missing from Benetton's FIA approved refuelling system.

Michael Schumacher & Jacques Villeneuve, Jerez 1997

Schumacher needed to beat Jacques Villeneuve in the race to clam his third drivers title. After the second set of pit stops Villeneuve had closed in on Schumacher. Coming into Curva Dry Sac Villeneuve dart up the inside of Schumacher under braking. The German turn in on Villeneuve in a deliberate attempt to take the Canadian out.

Schumacher's instinctive reaction when someone is about to pass him, is to squeeze that person's car against the edge of the track.

You question this statement? It is in fact a direct quote from his team when he tried to explain himself after driving into Jacques Villeneueve back in 1997, in an unsporting attempt to win the world championship.

I'm not sharing a music file... I'm sharing a commercial !

Okay, Googled it, can't find the law, but I did find several interesting sites with commercials !

Anyone know the relevant laws ??? (Yeah, IANAFL).

don't forget about smyge (please searchj for smyge), the test vessel from the late 80's

I don't see what all the fuss is about. Mine burns just fine.

Broadcast rights have been reserved by the record companies since when they well, just made records (of the round black variety).

That said, historically the record companies have as often been complicit in illicit broadcasting as they have been desparate to shut it down; in the UK for instance to get around the quota system for live vs. recorded music, pop records were beamed over from Luxembourg and even 'pirate ships' in the North Sea . More recently, much "urban" music owes its intital sucess to underground radio stations like the now-legal Kiss 100.

Oh, you can get anything you want at Apple's Restaraunt
You can get anything you want at Apple's Restaraunt
Just log right in, it's just to the left
Just a half a inch from the RDF
You can get anything you want at Apple's Restaraunt

Korgo and Vor-em

This is some weird combination of revisionist history (the ancient Greeks knew about irrational numbers) and just plain making shit up (irrational means it can't be expressed as a ratio of integers). See Mathworld's definition of irrational number for one more credible, and more researched, version.

Imaginary numbers under a variety of names were discussed at least as early the 16th and 17th centuries and credible sources claim references back to the ancient Egyptians; this reference also says the term "imaginary" was in common use at the time of Descartes (though makes no reference in the online material as to who coined the term). Many less credible online sources place the name as coming from Descartes and claim it to be dergatory, but many of those sites appear to be copying from some common source of unknown origin. So, the guess that imaginary was derogatory may be correct.

I suppose one of four (calling the fact of the name and date of discovery each as guesses at the truth)possibly correct speculations isn't bad for just spewing stuff that sounds credible

Bah. Timber Wolf Prime all the way. Though I have to say that new-fangled prime thing wasn't that bad.

Or perhaps this

Paceing is one of my favorite things to do and I have actually arranged my apartment so that I can walk from room to room in a psuedo infinity sign so I do not have to stop and turn.

3. Stop drinking all alchohol, if you need your blood thinned for your heart take ginkgo or aspirin. Alchohol impairs judgment including what you eat. I figured when I was drinking at bars every night I would consume about 1000 calories in drinks and 2000 calories in food.

Try tea, I like water as much as the next guy but the whole ritual and varities to tea will keep you interested.

Try Detox to get you started but do NOT overdo detox or you can damage your kidneys. Follow instructions by someone who has done it before and check up to see reviews before you start any program.