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I get chicks the old fashioned way...I play in a band and woo them with my funky guitar lines, long blonde hair....

I think we all know this tune. Sing along with me, everybody:

"Play that funky music.

White geek."*

Such as Message Notification for Trillian and nice blinky light plugin for music in winamp.

Like I'll believe it has a use other than those...pfft.

1. The organization in question, Barwatch, donated $5000 to the incredibly right-wing Liberal party (go figure) that currently runs the province. The same organization was behind a fight with the worker's compensation board of BC regarding the rights of workers not to have to work in a cloud of second-hand smoke. The Liberals changed the law to remove the WCB ventilation requirements.
2. The same liberals have passed (I think) some privacy legislation that allows disclosure of personal information collected by observation at a performance, sports meet, or a similar event that is open to the public (Think Tampa superbowl), and allows organisations not to tell individuals what information they have, "if the disclosure of the personal information would reveal confidential commercial information that if disclosed, could, in the opinion of a reasonable person, harm the competitive position of the organization". In other words, it's pretty wide open.
3. This isn't the first time Barwatch has cranked up surveillance of its patrons: This article mentions that video taping has been going on in Barwatch bars for three years before the article was written, in 1999. It also demonstrates that while these programs are justified by safety concerns, they are also used for marketing data.
4. These guys have some power: Apart from the smoking legislation, Barwatch also lobbied to implement bus service later, and allow bars open later. Recently, the BC Liberal party allowed bars to be open until 4 AM on Fridays, and Translink began offering night bus service to at least SFU.
5. On his geocities resume web site, Bradley Shende claims to be the Barwatch founder. According to his site, "Barwatch is an original concept. It's purpose was to establish communication between licensed establishments and the various branches of municipal law enforcement and regulation to create a forum of co-operation rather than adversity, and to set standards by which we would all operate our licensed premises. The organization has been a success over the years and is now branched out into the US and all over Canada." Apparently he is also "a quick study on systems and software". Nice win2k experience, Bradley.
6. Barwatch has changed their phone number, and no longer has a web presence (www.barwatch.org as posted on Shende's web site). I was unable to contact them before posting this. The often cited name of the chair and spokesman of Barwatch is Vance Campbell.

No, the other zelda games were on the CD-i. The first CD based system that had a bunch of "edutainment" crap and cost like your left arm (literally, you had to chop it off)

Linkage

you get the idea.

This is scarier.

IBM did the same thing with its old printer division. IBM spun off the division into a separate company, Lexmark.

In this age where many companies like Sun, Cisco, and Intel favor H-1B workers and deliberately create a work environment with brutal, cutthroat competition, it is nice to know that some companies like Motorola and IBM still try to cling to some shred of humanity that once characterized the finest American companies.

... from the desk of the reporter

Would anyone in the audience be willing to start a GNU version of a virtual machine monitor (VMM)? Writing a VMM only takes tens of thousands of lines of code as opposed to tens of millions of lines for an operating system. The project could be done within a year. Take a cue from the work done on Disco, the VMM developed at Stanford University.

Then, we in the open-source community could feedback to Intel what we want in terms of support for VMM. We could even get help from our uncle, IBM. IBM invented VMs and VMMs back in the 1960s. Unlike Sun Microsystems, IBM has been a strong supporter of the open-source movement and Linux and would surely be willing to help in building a GNU version of VMM.

This is a golden opportunity for the open-source community to impact the future direction of processor development. Is anyone up to the challenge? Would anyone like to accrue the same fame that Linus Torvalds has?

... from the desk of the reporter

It seems to be a typo, but why not try it out?

Here are a few mirror sites where freenet.jar content build can be found:

http://misty.d2dc.net:65535/pub/freenet
http://www.geocities.com/freenetfid/

Yet, there's no need to "provide them with money". The Taiwanese earn plenty of money in China. The Taiwanese have invested more than $100 billion into mainland China. 50% of Taiwanese businesses now have a branch in China.

Please read "Reality of Taiwan".

I think the reasons why the Game Boy was the most/only successful portable gaming system were:

1. Cheap. The color units were very expensive.
2. Fun games. Nintendo was ruling the homes with the NES and it only made sense to make GameBoy versions of the games. Third parties had a ton of success here too.
3. Battery life. 30 hours. The color units didn't last nearly as long and some required more than 4 AA batteries.

The screen was tiny, the sound was bad, and the spinach green graphics left lots to be desired.

Compare Tecmo Bowl on GameBoy to Joe Montana on Game Gear. You'd think the GameBoy would never have seen the light of day.

The Game Gear was $179.99 when it first came out and the Game Boy was around $99.99 I think...

The Taiwanese have actively stolen American military technology and given it to Beijing.

I agree that the article's idea of technical numbers is laughable.

Here are some application benchmarks that include the dual G5. For a lengthy discussion of each, head over to Ars Technica's battlefront forum... I believe each has its own thread.

Photoshop
Lightwave
After Effects
Cinebench

As you can see, the G5 is certainly competitive with the fastest x86 offerings.... better at some things, worse at others. I personally find this pretty amazing for such a new chip; I think the situation will only improve as developers further optimize for the G5. The promise of 3Ghz systems within a year (recently reiterated once again by Steve Jobs, who is usually very secretive about future products) is exciting as well.

I think the situation will be the same for the Opteron, which unfortunately just doesn't seem to be in enough hands to be tested thoroughly yet. I expect it to make a big splash, but to take some time to fully realize its potential as well.

I agree that the article's idea of technical numbers is laughable.

Here are some application benchmarks that include the dual G5. For a lengthy discussion of each, head over to Ars Technica's battlefront forum... I believe each has its own thread.

Photoshop
Lightwave
After Effects
Cinebench

As you can see, the G5 is certainly competitive with the fastest x86 offerings.... better at some things, worse at others. I personally find this pretty amazing for such a new chip; I think the situation will only improve as developers further optimize for the G5. The promise of 3Ghz systems within a year (recently reiterated once again by Steve Jobs, who is usually very secretive about future products) is exciting as well.

I think the situation will be the same for the Opteron, which unfortunately just doesn't seem to be in enough hands to be tested thoroughly yet. I expect it to make a big splash, but to take some time to fully realize its potential as well.

I agree that the article's idea of technical numbers is laughable.

Here are some application benchmarks that include the dual G5. For a lengthy discussion of each, head over to Ars Technica's battlefront forum... I believe each has its own thread.

Photoshop
Lightwave
After Effects
Cinebench

As you can see, the G5 is certainly competitive with the fastest x86 offerings.... better at some things, worse at others. I personally find this pretty amazing for such a new chip; I think the situation will only improve as developers further optimize for the G5. The promise of 3Ghz systems within a year (recently reiterated once again by Steve Jobs, who is usually very secretive about future products) is exciting as well.

I think the situation will be the same for the Opteron, which unfortunately just doesn't seem to be in enough hands to be tested thoroughly yet. I expect it to make a big splash, but to take some time to fully realize its potential as well.

It's clear from two weeks of testing that Apple's new Power Mac G5 dual 2-GHz machine is the fastest thing the company has ever produced.

The new G5 from Apple is more than merely "fast". It is a workstation in its own right. In "Byte of the Apple", "Businessweek" notes that the new Macintoshes are, in fact, UNIX workstations. The notebooks based on G5s are, in fact, portable UNIX workstations.

Steve Jobs, if he had any sense, would be marketing these machines as workstations instead of mere personal computers. With 64-bit processors, these machines are fully capable of handling engineering workloads like Verilog, HSPICE, fluid-dynamics simulation, etc.

Right now, a tidal wave of Linux-on-x86 machines is drowning Sun Microsystems in the workstation market. It sure would be nice to see a G5 take some market share bled from Sun Microsystems. In fact, it would be ideal to see a Linux-driven G5 take market share.

... from the desk of the reporter

What [pen] do [sic] the geeks of Slashdot use for writing?

Pens, like toothpaste and batteries, are a commodity. Most pens are identical in function, quality, and price.

So, which pen do we buy? In general, when we purchase a commodity, we should base our decision almost solely on ethical issues. What ethical issue? The issue is the country where the pen is manufactured. When we buy products made in a particular country, we indirectly lend our support to its value system. In particular, we should avoid products that are "Made in China" (which includes "Made in Taiwan" and "Made in Hong Kong"). You can find many reasons for avoiding products "Made in China" by visiting Amnesty International and Tibet Online".

You can also find some reasons at CNN. According to "Kill and cull: China rejects doctor's testimony", the Chinese forcibly remove the organs and skin from non-consenting prisoners on death row. Sometimes, Chinese "doctors" remove all the skin while the prisoner is awake and conscious. The bulk of the customers who receive these organs come from Taiwan.

... from the desk of the reporter

What [pen] do [sic] the geeks of Slashdot use for writing?

Pens, like toothpaste and batteries, are a commodity. Most pens are identical in function, quality, and price.

So, which pen do we buy? In general, when we purchase a commodity, we should base our decision almost solely on ethical issues. What ethical issue? The issue is the country where the pen is manufactured. When we buy products made in a particular country, we indirectly lend our support to its value system. In particular, we should avoid products that are "Made in China" (which includes "Made in Taiwan" and "Made in Hong Kong"). You can find many reasons for avoiding products "Made in China" by visiting Amnesty International and Tibet Online".

You can also find some reasons at CNN. According to "Kill and cull: China rejects doctor's testimony", the Chinese forcibly remove the organs and skin from non-consenting prisoners on death row. Sometimes, Chinese "doctors" remove all the skin while the prisoner is awake and conscious. The bulk of the customers who receive these organs come from Taiwan.

... from the desk of the reporter

This place claims to be The World's Largest Pen Store.

Or you can always try good old fashioned Quill Pens.

In response, SCO's director of public relations, Blake Stowell, told vnunet.com: "Making minor amendments to its XFS file system doesn't cure the breach. SGI must do more as outlined [in the August letter] to cure all of their breaches."

In addition to outlasting the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, the trial of SCO vs. Linux Allies will be far more complicated and cost millions of dollars in expert witnesses.

In the trial of O. J. Simpson, the issue was simple. Did Simpson have a motive to kill his wife and did he kill his wife?

In the SCO trial, we are dealing with subtle technical issues and shades of gray. How does one define "minor amendment"? Certainly, no one on the jury will have a clue. The only exposure that an average American has to an operating system (OS) is the color pictures representing icons in Windows. She has no knowledge of kernel-level code.

What will happen is that SCO, IBM, and (apparently now) SGI will subpoena expert witnesses to support or refute the claim that something is a "minor amendment" to the kernel code, but the jury will be dazed as it tries to figure out who is telling the truth on something that the juror has no knowledge. The professors at Carnegie-Mellon University will earn a small bundle of money in serving as expert witnesses in the geek equivalent of the "trial of the century". The court itself will need to hire computer-science professors to explain the intricate details of how an OS works.

Above all, you will see bearded and balding 50-year-old programmers waxing nostalgic about the parts of UNIX that they coded.

... from the desk of the reporter

Only on slashdot will an link to an old article slashdot a geocities site from the old article's comments.
Then again, looking at the date of the article (October 3, 2003), the site is probably down for the month from its inital slashdotting.

Only on slashdot will an link to an old article slashdot a geocities site from the old article's comments.
Then again, looking at the date of the article (October 3, 2003), the site is probably down for the month from its inital slashdotting.

Based on the natural history or spread of HIV in Africa, Weinstein and Alibek proposed that declining immunological responses to smallpox -- due to the elimination of the disease and the discontinuation of immunizations -- may have been associated with the emergence of HIV.

This observation bears an uncanny resemblance to the observation that eliminating various childhood diseases causes a person to later become susceptible to other illnesses. Please visit the web site, "MEDIA REPORTS ASK THE QUESTION: IS THE CURE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE? ". In "Plagued by Cures", "The Economist" observes that the incidence of asthma rose sharply after the elimination of measles, for example.

I would wager good money that Dr. Raymond Weinstein has stumbled onto the cure for AIDS. Please read "Smallpox Vaccine Could Prevent AIDS". All previous attempts tried to attack HIV directly but failed because the virus (1) mutates too rapidly for vaccinations to succeed or (2) cleverly hides in remote cells that anti-viral drugs cannot reach. On the other hand, this proposal by Weinstein to use smallpox vaccination to close the door (i. e. the CCR5 receptor) to HIV infection instead of killing the virus directly just might stop HIV infection.

I am optimistic.

... from the desk of the reporter

But still neither are quite as cool as this Trebuchet from the which launched a piano and a cow.

But still neither are quite as cool as this Trebuchet from the which launched a piano and a cow.

Sun's mistakes are well documented, but the biggest one is believing that what made them successful in the past would make them successful in the future."

If that is the biggest mistake, then the second biggest mistake is the processor-design team. According to "Sun's processor plans slip a notch", the schedule of the UltraSPARC processors has slipped again. The processor-design team has 2 characteristics: chronically behind schedule and chronically behind the performance curve. Right now, the UltraSPARC III is being crushed, performance-wise, by the Power4+ and the SPARC64-V, according to SPEC".

Yet, McNealy stubbornly clings to the UltraSPARC III. If he knew how to run Sun, he would immediately scrap the UltraSPARC III and successors and tell his server team to use the SPARC64-V. He could come out with an E15K that just barely competes against the p690 in about 2 months. The SPARC64-V is instruction-set compatiable with the UltraSPARC III and vastly outperforms it, and modifying the E15K and other Sun servers to use the SPARC64-V is a simple matter.

Time is extremely critical. Sun itself claims that it will lose about 10 cents per share for the first quarter. 10 cents per share means a loss of about $300 million. Extrapolating to the full fiscal year means a loss of about $1.2 billion. In order to compensate for that loss, Sun will need to fire about 6000 employees.

The only conceivable reason that McNealy refuses to abandon the UltraSPARC III is that he fervently supports a workforce weighted in favor of H-1B workers. Sun has many H-1B employees, and they built the UltraSPARC III. By contrast, Fujitsu uses native workers (i.e. Japanese citizens), and they built the SPARC64-V. (IBM also prefers American citizens or permanent residents, and they built the Power4).

McNealy better put aside his ego and go with the SPARC64-V. It is the fastest, safest route to boosting Sun's fortunes. In the future, he should consider giving preference to American workers, not H-1B workers. There is no evidence to suggest that H-1B workers are better than American ones; indeed, H-1B workers might actually be destroying Sun as evidenced by the horribly designed UltraSPARC III.

Most importantly, the SPARC64-V will buy time for McNealy. Maybe 1 year or 2 years of breathing room. Then, he can make the hard decision of spinning off the processor-development group and transforming Sun into a niche player that focuses on two areas: software applications and highend-servers that use Fujitsu processors (or, gasp, IBM processors) designed by native talent. Other possibilities have been thoughtfully outlined by Merrill Lynch, the premier American investment company.

... from the desk of the reporter

here ytou go Woah. Your guest.

The NLP required for this is far off, but it sure will be cool when we get there.

This degree of natural language processing (NLP) is far beyond the current state of the art. Google, with its miniscule research budget, is not likely to invent the technology any time soon even though Google appears to favor H-1B workers over American workers.

Here is where Microsoft steps into the picture. Microsoft is currently building a R & D laborary that is the equal of the former Bell Laboratories before the breakup of Ma Bell. Like the old Ma Bell, Microsoft is a monopoly and earns monopoly profits that it invests into research. Microsoft is investing $6.8 billion into research and is hiring an additional 5000 researchers. Microsoft is conducting the kind of long-term R & D that once characterized Thomas J. Watson Laboratory at IBM and will surely snare a Nobel Prize or two.

Right now, American Ph.D. graduates who want to work on long-term research in industry choose Microsoft as their #1 pick for employer.

Microsoft will create the NLP search engine of the future and will bury Google.

... from the desk of the reporter

But, because this was a "new application" (or whatever they call this crap), it would have been patentable.

From this page:

George B. Selden, a shrewd patent attorney from Rochester, N.Y., filed a patent for a "road engine" in 1879. Under the liberal patent laws of the time, he was allowed to back date his patent to 1877 and to amend and expand it frequently. When it was finally issued in 1895 it covered a front-drive, three-cylinder carriage with a transverse engine. Although he had never built a car, Selden used his patents to extract royalties from early American manufacturers on every auto they built.

When Henry Ford refused to pay royalties, a famous court suit followed. During the long trial, the owners of Selden's patent were finally forced to build a vehicle in 1904. Essential details in Selden's patents had been left deliberately vague, and the car built in 1904 had much benefit from then-current technology. Despite all these loopholes, the "1877" Selden barely ran. The patent was finally shot down in 1911.

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So patents and unscrupulous patent lawyers have been stifling innovation for more than a century.

Over the past four years, SGI has released over a million lines of code under an open source license. Throughout, we have carried out a rigorous internal process to ensure that all software contributed by SGI represents code we are legally entitled to release as open source.

Many Linux bigots have criticized the involvment of American companies in the development of Linux because, according to the bigots, the companies will end up in controlling the development of Linux. However, a benefit of involving American companies is that they ensure that any new Linux code will be free of copyright infringement. You can be sure that IBM, SGI, and a host of other American companies ensure that they employees (under threat of employment termination) will not submit code that represents theft of intellectual property.

The same cannot be said of lone programmers working on their own. There really is no way for Linus, all by himself, to verify that each submitted piece of Linux code neither violates copyrights nor represents theft of intellectual property. This issue is particularly worrisome in the case of lone programmers or commerical companies based in China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong). The Chinese regularly steal intellectual property or infringe copyrights: e. g. rate of software piracy in China is 90%.

The lawsuit by SCO against IBM certainly has some merit in the sense that Linux code likely contains some infringing code. Still, as the open letter by SGI implies, replacing the infringing code is a simple matter. We could easily get a Ph.D. student in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University to quickly re-write any disputed code in Linux. It really is that simple.

Furthermore, SCO itself distributed all the Linux code under the GNU Public License (GPL). If the GPL is enforceable, then SCO does not have a case. From both angles (enforceability of the GPL and the super ease of re-writing the disputed code),the case by SCO will not destroy Linux. Linux will still prosper and dominate the UNIX market, destroying Sun Microsystems. The only entity that might suffer is IBM; it might cough up a few million dollars in penalties and fire several employees who released the disputed code into Linux distribution.

... from the desk of the reporter

Over the past four years, SGI has released over a million lines of code under an open source license. Throughout, we have carried out a rigorous internal process to ensure that all software contributed by SGI represents code we are legally entitled to release as open source.

Many Linux bigots have criticized the involvment of American companies in the development of Linux because, according to the bigots, the companies will end up in controlling the development of Linux. However, a benefit of involving American companies is that they ensure that any new Linux code will be free of copyright infringement. You can be sure that IBM, SGI, and a host of other American companies ensure that they employees (under threat of employment termination) will not submit code that represents theft of intellectual property.

The same cannot be said of lone programmers working on their own. There really is no way for Linus, all by himself, to verify that each submitted piece of Linux code neither violates copyrights nor represents theft of intellectual property. This issue is particularly worrisome in the case of lone programmers or commerical companies based in China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong). The Chinese regularly steal intellectual property or infringe copyrights: e. g. rate of software piracy in China is 90%.

The lawsuit by SCO against IBM certainly has some merit in the sense that Linux code likely contains some infringing code. Still, as the open letter by SGI implies, replacing the infringing code is a simple matter. We could easily get a Ph.D. student in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University to quickly re-write any disputed code in Linux. It really is that simple.

Furthermore, SCO itself distributed all the Linux code under the GNU Public License (GPL). If the GPL is enforceable, then SCO does not have a case. From both angles (enforceability of the GPL and the super ease of re-writing the disputed code),the case by SCO will not destroy Linux. Linux will still prosper and dominate the UNIX market, destroying Sun Microsystems. The only entity that might suffer is IBM; it might cough up a few million dollars in penalties and fire several employees who released the disputed code into Linux distribution.

... from the desk of the reporter

Finally, a large government has adopted this kind of standard.

The Korean decision to move to open source was likely motivated by last week's surprise decision by NTT to migrate its server setup from Solaris to Linux and to aggressively develop Linux. NTT joined the Open Source Development Laboratory to improve Linux code, according to "NTT Mulls Joining Global Consortium For Linux Development".

Despite all the racist Korean hatred against the Japanese, the Koreans habitually emulate the Japanese. For example, all the Korean chaebols like Samsung are duplicates of the conglomerates that operated in pre-WWII Japan. Samsung emulates most of the technological trends of its Japanese competitors. Further, NTT commands wide respect in Korea itself, and its decision to support Linux certainly spurred the Koreans to follow suit.

The only losers in this whole affair are Microsoft and, of course, Sun Microsystems. As a company, Sun Microsystems may not survive past 2005, given that it is now expected to lose about $1 billion in FY2004. (reference: "Sun warns of hefty loss")

On a side note, the Koreans supporting Linux is good news for democracy in Korea. Korea has been a totalitarian dictatorship up until about 10 years ago; Korea still has the largest and best equipped military force in Asia. Since Linux is open-source, it would be impossible for the Korean government (or any other government, for that matter) to arbitrarily stick a piece of spy software into Linux to monitor its citizens.

Hopefully, the Koreans will abandon that conspiratory project with the Chinese to develop an independent operating system (OS) that is incompatible with Linux. (reference: "Asian trio to replace Windows") Such an OS would be a convenient place for the Chinese (including the Taiwanese and Hong Kongers) to stick a piece of spy software to monitor its citizens.

... from the desk of the reporter

How much do you rely on the Internet for information?

I rely almost exclusively on the Internet for information. In general, the Internet provides the same level and the same quality of information as regular physical media like newspapers. The difference is that the Internet is more easily accessed due to search-engines like AltaVista.

Before the Internet, when I discuss with my colleagues (at the American political institute with which I am affiliated) important issues, I often have a difficulty time in locating key references on which I based my analyses. Locating references took an enormous amount of time and entailed driving to the university library, looking up data in the microfiche, and finding the key news article.

After the Internet, I just need to go on-line and search for what I want. For example, using Internet references, I created the compelling web page about Taiwanwithin only about 3 days. I was able to quickly locate the news articles that I had previously read. No more driving to the library. Everything is on-line.

Of course, we still must be careful to discern rubbish information and valid information. There are many "National Enquirer" types of news sources of the web. We must be careful to stick to the best sources: "Washington Post", "The Economist", "Amnesty International", etc.

... from the desk of the reporter

How much do you rely on the Internet for information?

I rely almost exclusively on the Internet for information. In general, the Internet provides the same level and the same quality of information as regular physical media like newspapers. The difference is that the Internet is more easily accessed due to search-engines like AltaVista.

Before the Internet, when I discuss with my colleagues (at the American political institute with which I am affiliated) important issues, I often have a difficulty time in locating key references on which I based my analyses. Locating references took an enormous amount of time and entailed driving to the university library, looking up data in the microfiche, and finding the key news article.

After the Internet, I just need to go on-line and search for what I want. For example, using Internet references, I created the compelling web page about Taiwanwithin only about 3 days. I was able to quickly locate the news articles that I had previously read. No more driving to the library. Everything is on-line.

Of course, we still must be careful to discern rubbish information and valid information. There are many "National Enquirer" types of news sources of the web. We must be careful to stick to the best sources: "Washington Post", "The Economist", "Amnesty International", etc.

... from the desk of the reporter

1. Biological nervous systems are electrochemical in nature. This is why EEG scanners work; they are able to pick up on EM activity generated by the brain. This being the case, electromagnetic signals MUST be able to also cause an effect. --To be very blunt, speakers and microphones are interchangeable.

2. There are documented mechanisms through which low power, non-ionizing EM fields can affect the function of the nervous system.

3. Very small currents are all that are needed to causes these effects.

4. High frequency signals which are modulated to replicate lower frequencies, (As seen in Cell phone technology), are sufficient to cause effects.

5. The ocean of EM we live in DOES have an effect. Sleep, reproductive and various other biological cycles have been shown to be deeply affected, and often reliant upon ambient EM from the Earth and sky.

-FL

Not only that, but for those geeks that can put the laptop down for a second and look for a little loving, you get the added bonus of being in the STD capital of the country. Though they may have lost their status of thaving the higghest Syphilis incedence, they picked up the slack with gonorrhea... One in 100...not so good...

Targeted at the world wide traveller, it also looks like a good way to help prevent identity theft and getting nasty white powder in the mail."

Ok. Which item below is lesser or smaller than the risk of getting "nasty white powder in the mail":

a) A kernel hacker's desire for personal cleamliness
b) Microsoft's concern for your security
c) Natalie Portman's petrified grits
d) Having a piano drop on your head as you walk down the sidewalk
e) None

Answer: E.

This kind of FUD (essentially: prevent the risk of getting anthrax in the mail!) should be reserved for AV companies.

Please.

Maybe the service would be convenient. Maybe it would be uber geeky, but I submit that it reduces your risk of contracting anthrax through the mail from effectively zero to zero. Run a little risk-reward on that. I think that your money would be better spent on a tin foil hat (tm), as that would be a more effective way to reduce your risks from a variety of sources, such as mind control waves from outer space.

GF.

Yes, I know there are also articles claiming that sapiens and neandertalis didn't interbreed, people seem to need them every few years to reassure themselves that all of those hybrid skeletons are just phantasms. The last page above references several articles which address this very issue.

...this will help Microsoft's goal of cementing WinCE / .NET....

I'm not so sure the use of the word "cement" was entirely accidental. (Don't tell me I'm the only one who immediately thought of the Windows CeMeNT thing?)

Talkie Toaster

Would anybody like some toast?
Well then, would anybody like some toast?

You recall falsely. However, it's true that some Florida election commissioners are incompetent

(And for those who know, follow it just for the funny explanation at the bottom).

Obviously, people will be able to download pictures of Natalie (Hershlag) Portman's petrified grits much more quickly now.

Or Denise Richards' petrified grits.

Or Gwyneth Paltrow's petrified grits (the blinds don't match the carpet, btw).

Or Nicole Kidman's petrified grits.

Or Cameron Diaz' petrified grits.

Or Angelina Jolie's petrified grits. Or her other petrified grits. Still more grits.

Thank goodness that cable companies are helping out!

Obviously, people will be able to download pictures of Natalie (Hershlag) Portman's petrified grits much more quickly now.

Or Denise Richards' petrified grits.

Or Gwyneth Paltrow's petrified grits (the blinds don't match the carpet, btw).

Or Nicole Kidman's petrified grits.

Or Cameron Diaz' petrified grits.

Or Angelina Jolie's petrified grits. Or her other petrified grits. Still more grits.

Thank goodness that cable companies are helping out!

Obviously, people will be able to download pictures of Natalie (Hershlag) Portman's petrified grits much more quickly now.

Or Denise Richards' petrified grits.

Or Gwyneth Paltrow's petrified grits (the blinds don't match the carpet, btw).

Or Nicole Kidman's petrified grits.

Or Cameron Diaz' petrified grits.

Or Angelina Jolie's petrified grits. Or her other petrified grits. Still more grits.

Thank goodness that cable companies are helping out!

Obviously, people will be able to download pictures of Natalie (Hershlag) Portman's petrified grits much more quickly now.

Or Denise Richards' petrified grits.

Or Gwyneth Paltrow's petrified grits (the blinds don't match the carpet, btw).

Or Nicole Kidman's petrified grits.

Or Cameron Diaz' petrified grits.

Or Angelina Jolie's petrified grits. Or her other petrified grits. Still more grits.

Thank goodness that cable companies are helping out!

Obviously, people will be able to download pictures of Natalie (Hershlag) Portman's petrified grits much more quickly now.

Or Denise Richards' petrified grits.

Or Gwyneth Paltrow's petrified grits (the blinds don't match the carpet, btw).

Or Nicole Kidman's petrified grits.

Or Cameron Diaz' petrified grits.

Or Angelina Jolie's petrified grits. Or her other petrified grits. Still more grits.

Thank goodness that cable companies are helping out!

If you are running MacOS with BBEdit, you can use the BBTidy plugin to get HTML Tidy integration in BBEdit.

JP

Awesome web designer?
Sorry I looked at her portfolio and she is not awesome.

I almost wonder if she designed some of them as parodies of terrible web sites.

JMC is probably the greatest free mud client for win32 i've ever used. Its got everything a person could need. If you need it to run under *nix, it has no problems running under wine.

Here is an excellent source for macros and links for Tinyfugue users.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1579/tf.html