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I suspect the Jedi are behind this.

He's right, you know. A "great designer" did a pretty crappy job of designing things, like, say the appendix.

Here's a list of things the "creator" supposedly designed.

http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm

There are some old school pagans still here (Ireland), but most are Wiccas.

The wiccas tend to be a bit nutty to begin with in all honesty.

http://www.freewebs.com/paganfederationireland/

Metaphor is not a synonym of lie.

Nonetheless, suffer is an odd word. Apart from the "be in pain" meaning it can also mean tolerate or permit[1] (as in ~ fools gladly), so it's not much of a stretch to "be on the receiving end of". I'm pretty sure I've seen it applied to inanimate objects that by definition can't feel pain.

[1] e.g. suffrage, permission to vote. Also, I don't think Jesus was suggesting that people should torment kids. http://www.freewebs.com/suffer-the-little-children/

E! was magnificent. It was speedy, it was beautiful - it's beauty has yet to be surpassed over a decade later - and made my RedHat system seem like it was from the far distant future. It was sensible, and it simply worked.

I never got it to work sensibly. And, yes, it looked like the distant future, but out of a cheesy eighties movie.

Like this: http://www.erat.org/files/bluesteel/screenshot.jpg

Perhaps what sank it was that it promoted ricer aesthetics.

Why is it a problem? I mean, I haven't find any single scenario in which forcing gender parity makes an enterprise more succesful, and I have several in which it makes the results worse. And you get even worse results overall if you force gender parity by means of punishing the other side that's not at fault and didn't do anything wrong. In fact, it's as bad as actively discriminating one gender out of the group (which is the reason I don't support any form of gender-based discrimination).

Maybe the problem is in your head: in the socialist utopia, the more mixed the society, the better, at least in your head that tells you that's how things "should be". However, it's trivial to prove empirically that this idea is false, that the suggested configuration is excessively restrictive, and that it does more harm than good. It would be better to stop worrying about it, moreso when the feminists actively defend sexism against men instead of equal rights. More info: Modern feminism: an evaluation

People say the same about Harry Potter and Twilight. Those people should be smacked in their mouths with a rolled-up newspaper.

You got modded troll, but you're right.

People don't feel this way about Twilight because of the quality writing.

"[BP is] a good buy but only if you don't feel bad investing in an evil industry whose 1 oil rig out of 10,000 has leaked thereby covering hundreds of innocent pelicans with oil! Hope you can sleep at night.

I'm not so sure?

Which company do you think will have the safest oil drilling practices and possibly a larger interest in alternative energies over the next 5 or 10 years?

first google link for budgies:
http://www.freewebs.com/budgierisa/appearance.htm

Other than maybe "it's already packaged".

Search Google for "Home Made CNC". People have been making these out of OSB & plywood for a while.

Here's a pretty nice one using an off the shelf router.

Hack a day has an article from 2008.

Another.

They do require some technical knowhow. But that's about it. I think the most basic use parallel ports for IO.

That Big Foot

I'm pretty sure that the sasquatch isn't a mangy anything.

You'd love this Calvin & Hobbes then ;^)

Game remakes by fans are fairly common, and few (that I know of) have recieved takedown notices.

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

http://www.tsl-game.com/ (This actually did recieve a takedown notice, two weeks before they were supposed to go live, but they worked things out with the copyright holders)

http://www.infamous-adventures.com/home/

http://www.freewebs.com/skimbleshanks/

These are just a few Sierra game remakes.

Grrr, missed a quotation mark in the anchor tag and the whole thing got dropped...

This is the Tyrian page: http://www.freewebs.com/worldtreegames/

You seem to have doubts. It's not really your fault I suppose. You've been badly mislead by questionable "science" paid for by oil companies. And you want to disbelieve. Admit it, you want to believe everything is hunky dory, that you won't have to change a thing. You are afraid of change, so afraid that you prefer to deny that there is a problem. You start reaching, saying that climate change is a bunch of hooey, a plot of liberal scientists, and you jump up and down pointing at the East Anglia idiots as evidence. Yes, those East Anglia people screwed up. You go on about them, but why aren't you screaming about the oil companies, particularly Exxon, and their lying? What is your problem? You don't actually believe an organization like Exxon, which so obviously puts what it perceives to be its own interests first?

So let me bet this straight: Scientists have been proven to fake data in order to forward their career, and you try to blame Exxon? Really? Look, I'm not saying that "climate change is a bunch of hooey", of course the climate is changing. The climate has always changed and IT ALWAYS WILL. That's not what I"m saying at all. What I am saying is that so many people have such little understanding. They use the past decade's data to try to point to a trend when trends are actually HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS years long. These are the same people who are trying to pass laws to take away my rights. What I am saying is that we are not sure what the climate will do in 50 years, much less 500,000 years. Besides, a caveman eating mastodon in a cave 100,000 years ago didn't give a rats ass if the fire he was using to cook with were going to cause my life to be .00000001 degrees warmer. He was worried about eating. Right now, I'm worried about defending my liberties and keeping a roof over my little girl's head. I don't give a rats ass as to what the temperature will be for her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids! And I'm certainly not going to give up on my rights based on conclusions that I find dubious at best. (Government pays for a study. Study says that government needs more power... hmmm. and you're really OK with that?)

And what have you to say about the change in CO2 levels? Currently 380 ppm, and climbing, versus 280 ppm for millions of years. Steady for millions of years, then a climb starting around 1750, the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. We are putting CO2 into the air faster than the world can take it out. Yes, we are the reason that is happening. And yes, such a change in the atmosphere does have effects. You don't need to believe a bunch of scientists to be able to see this could be big trouble.

Really? Because THIS site shows that the number has been increasing for the past 25,000 years or so, not just since 1750. It also shows a clear pattern of CO2 levels rising and falling in roughly 100,000 year cycles.

Don't you think that it's a bit conceited to look at a something that has happened at least five times in the past and suddenly deciding that THIS time, it's because of something you did?

And yeah, I know the site actually echoes your point, but I don't think you, nor the site's author gets it. Seriously, if it rains every 10th day, and has for hundreds of years, if you do a dance on the 9th day one day, does that mean that your dance caused it to rain? Probably not.

And finally, the earth's CO2 levels have been MUCH higher than they are today. For that matter, earth's early atmosphere had no free oxygen in it. It took billions of years to get O2 into our atmosphere. And you're really going to say that the earth has never had more CO2 in the atmosphere? You sure about that?

Religion can actually be found in quite a few video games today, including ones that have sold very very well and are popular.

How about Legend of Zelda?

Ocarina of Time has a lot of influence from asian religions and philosophies. Not to mention that the Fire Temple with Volvagia has a few Islamic influences and references. Enough in fact to infuriate their community and demand for the game to be recalled.

http://www.freewebs.com/hyrulianreligion/shields.htm

I think that Lenovo is using an argument similar to what Apple uses to prevent Mac clones. Apple requires acceptance of a software EULA when you "install the software or set up the product". Apple sued clone-maker Psystar, who are now bankrupt. We discussed Open Tech's approach last year, but their Web site is now vacant. Maybe they moved it here, but this site does not have anything to say about OS X. So, it is not entirely clear to me that Lenovo can't win this argument -- Apple has been very successful with it -- even given that "...MS insists on having a separate EULA between it and you, [and] its product can't be considered an intrinsic part of Lenovo".

You left out the absolute best one.

This isn't bad either.

As in http://www.freewebs.com/gnomemansland/gnometerroristcells.htm? I'd watch your step, terr'ist.

Rotsky!

This would be the best use of the wii controller ever: http://www.freewebs.com/wiiwantcricket/

Ok here we go, first wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(computer_game)
Then for source http://rogue.rogueforge.net/
and for windows (or dos) users, the original pc port http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/176
and lastest development as at 2008 http://www.freewebs.com/drussell/ClassicRogue.htm

I've been playing this game for nearly 20 years since my cousin introduced me to it on an old 286, scary thing is it still runs fine today under windows xp. Long live x86 I guess. And I still haven't beaten it...

That's weird, it's definitely in Vista.

As for dragging taskbar buttons around, have you tried Taskbar Shuffle: http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm ? It might work better, although I admit I haven't tried it myself in Windows 7.

First off- yes, VMs do cause huge performance hit in real world applications. It's been proved again and again and again. You have one highly biased and long since disproven benchmark- http://www.freewebs.com/godaves/javabench_revisited/

Secondly- speed and memory efficiency is the most important issue on limited resource platforms. But ignoring that- the portability of Java is more smoke and mirrors than reality. "Write once, debug everywhere" is the reality. AS for programmer efficiency- using the language your team know best is what rules that. Maximizing programmer efficiency leads you to support the most languages possible. In which case the best thing to do is write a C API, which can be easily wrapped in java, perl, python, etc.

Third- yes and no. Sure, picking an O(n) algorithm when there's an O(1) is something no language will overcome. But language still makes double digit differences.

clearly you don't recall past successful genetic experiments as a result of such radioactive waste disposal!

Wait we don't trust our gov't but some of us are willing to trust "smart" machines. What if the smart machines decide it is smart to kill us...to save the rest of the planet?

We can program machines. Politicians tend to have a mind of their own and reject their "programming" (will of the electorate) shortly after entering office.

Programming machines can be as simple as:

KillAllHumans=0;

(I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.)

It is Myriad's Virtual Singer singing lead on my little ditty,

"Before They Kill"

(The guitar is real. Electric, but real.)

And Virtual Singer is the core of my Space Angel Choir,

Psychopompous and
Interior Dasein.

It is Myriad's Virtual Singer singing lead on my little ditty,

"Before They Kill"

(The guitar is real. Electric, but real.)

And Virtual Singer is the core of my Space Angel Choir,

Psychopompous and
Interior Dasein.

1. Reorganize the order of what windows I have open

You can do that using the taskbar shuffle freeware: http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm/

I trust the Chinese government as well as the US government to handle this. You just have to know how to handle them.

The Chinese you simply tell, that they have a second child that they conceived while listening to anti-communistic music, cross the street when the light is green, and read American news sites.

The US you tell, that they just "pirated" the latest hit album from Osama Bin Laden for their karaoke machine while wearing this shirt.

I'm joking. You could really tell both governments anything that includes "they could be bad". They will "find" something themselves as soon as they know you exist anyway.

i like wild raised deer. mmmmm *drools* i feed them my left overs and such. and then harvest later in the year. that counts as growing.

ooo yea you met vegies. peanuts are good, thats close right ? :-) p.s. how do you plan on stopping the zombies? i know collie flower is scary stuff but i don't think that will stop them. http://www.freewebs.com/njglazs/preparedness.jpg

Light sabers are boring...

I'd much rather have a variable sword from known space which consists of a ultra-thin wire in a stasis field:

http://www.freewebs.com/knownspace/uv.htm/#U

Or a flashlight laser, which can be an awesome flash light, or can be narrowed into a cutting beam:

http://www.freewebs.com/knownspace/f.htm/#F

Light sabers are boring...

I'd much rather have a variable sword from known space which consists of a ultra-thin wire in a stasis field:

http://www.freewebs.com/knownspace/uv.htm/#U

Or a flashlight laser, which can be an awesome flash light, or can be narrowed into a cutting beam:

http://www.freewebs.com/knownspace/f.htm/#F

That's not Obama at all !

He just wants to kill any God (or anything else) that's nice to people with the wrong skin color.

Obama's church believes that "AIDS was created by the US for black genocide".

Oh sorry I keep forgetting it's not racism when you're attacking the "right" skin color. Sorry I just seem to repeatedly get behind the times on what racism is allowed. Today's "positive" racism (excuse me discrimination) strikes me as equally hollow as hitler's "positive" discrimination (he actually used the same term you know), but I guess I better get with the program.

That's no pentagram, that's a Starfleet insignia.

I think I "will be making" the first Super Mario FPS.

http://www.freewebs.com/mariodoom/

Interesting -- thanks for the info on copyright law! The law on sound recordings really sounds like a horrible muddle.

It looks like the site is dead now. I'm getting a 508 error. Here is the google cache of his main page. Most likely he went over his webhost's quota due to the slashdot effect, or maybe his webhost already got a DMCA takedown notice, since most of the music on his page was actually still in copyright and still commercially available. As an experiment, I picked the following random sample of seven tunes from his page (scrolling down the list, and taking one line per screenful):

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND Muggsy Spanier COMMODORE 1504B 12in
A THOUSAND KISSES International Novelty Orch VICTOR 19351-A
AFTER YOUVE GONE Turk Murphys Jazz Band GOOD TIME JAZZ 39
ALL THE CATS JOIN IN Roy Eldridge DECCA 23532-A
AND HER TEARS FLOWED LIKE WINE Ella Fitzgerald DECCA 18633 A
ARTISTRY IN RYTHYM Stan Kenton CAPITOL 159
AWAY OUT ON THE MOUNTAIN Jimmie Rodgers VICTOR 21142-B

The Muggsy Spanier tune dates to the 50's, is still in copyright, and is available on a 2006 CD reissue. "A Thousand Kisses" was recorded around 1924, so it's probably still copyrighted, but it doesn't seem to be commercially available now. "After You've Gone" was recorded in 1947, it's still copyrighted, and it's still commercially available. "All the Cats Join In" was recorded in 1936, is still copyrighted, and is still commercially available. "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine," still in copyright, still available. "Artistry in Rhythm", ditto. "Away Out on the Mountain", ditto.

The claim in the slashdot summary that the music is out of print is wildly misleading, since 6 out of 7 songs from my sample are commercially available. The Wired article's statement that "The copyright situation surrounding some of these songs is as murky as their sound quality" is likewise pretty silly -- it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that recordings from the 1950's by famous jazz artists are still in copyright.

http://www.freewebs.com/blackgrail/White%20Knight%202.JPG

The only site I could find for Open Tech is here: http://www.freewebs.com/iopentech/. It seems pretty sketchy - a legitimate business hosting on FreeWebs? Also, the photos of the machines (XT) seem to be empty cases, with no drives or anything installed. It puts me off that I don't see any with the side panels off or anything which would reveal an actual computer inside. FWIW I tried their .tk domain (http://www.iopentech.tk/) and I got a 502 Proxy Error.

Put the f-ing Administration items in one area or at least a logical group of pages that can be easily found. And that includes things that usually have to be run (for no reason) from the command line like msconfig or regedit. Microsoft, I realize you're afraid about your great-aunt Carrie is going to screw something up, but face it, she's probably going to screw something up anyway unless her nephew knows how to lock everything down. And that's just it. In the business versions you could make it easy for the admin to lock users out of the bits they shouldn't be messing with. That does not mean you have to make it hard on the business and non-business administrators when it comes to going behind the scenes for a little tinkering.

And on that note: Why did you practically HIDE the recovery system in Vista? Those system recovery points have been one of the few things that have saved my ass. And I hate the Vista's version of Windows Explorer.

Also, Microsoft, it never ceases to amaze me about the number of helpful items you could add instead of all the stupid bling. Things like being able to move programs around on the taskbar. If I'm working on several things, I like to group items together, not just in the order than I opened them and not just all of the same type. I might want my website editor next to a browser with the page loaded. Fortunately I found Taskbar Shuffle and it works brilliantly.

No, in the real world, high level grad students doing research and study read Wikipedia for information, and notice that some of it's wrong. They then feel the urge to correct it in some cases, possibly after verification from their textbook. I've done this.

It's of course a biosphere, just like the economy and government. It naturally converges on an optimal condition, that being that it contains correct information. Britannica can't (it's micro-managed and thus sub-optimal), and scientific review articles are forcibly peer reviewed once (it's micro-managed and thus sub-optimal, but with a much better starting point). The interesting thing about the latter two is that over time they will "become" wrong, i.e. as new scientific discoveries disprove their content; the former, however, will stay "wrong" for a shorter time period.

None of these are perfect. Wikipedia is possibly better than Britannica, worse initially than a peer-reviewed scientific paper (though the data gets incorporated into Wikipedia quickly, with reference), and far better than the Google results many students use on their research assignments (hosted on free Web sites, etc)... though some of those aren't bad either, see http://www.freewebs.com/valvewizard/ (I've even seen Usenet discussions used in FORMAL compsci papers, usually quoting Gutmann).

No, this is a real squirrelfish.

Hence, X-Wing Alliance. Try this.

does it cost to get a girl with a suit like this: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/basementnightclub/Stormtrooper%20Bride.jpg

does it cost to get a girl with a suit like this: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/basementnightclub/Stormtrooper%20Bride.jpg
;)

I always thought the most powerful nerf gun in the world was the vintage nerf crossbow (properly tuned, of course). Example!

big brother = PWNED