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Let google do the hard work... http://goo.gl/yqR3w not sure if this will work...

how about the discharge from Darling International Inc. http://goo.gl/bLQqs

You're in luck... Peter Jackson is pushing 48fps over 24 in the cinemas, stating enough digital projectors are capable. He's shooting the Hobbit at 48fps, and shooting it in 3D from the get-go. I'm more interested in the content of the movie, but I'm expecting it'll be one of the best, if not THE best, attempts at 3D so far (Jackson Explains "Hobbit" 48FPS Shooting).

He's trying to encourage future film productions to step up to 48, too.

No, he's referring to this.

They might get less vandalism if they limited data entry to Apps, not command line input.
Eg, most of our geo-data comes from apps. Its more trusted since its unpopular to spoof GPS in an app.

Jim Pruett, Director
WikiSPEEDia.org

App hooks to your cruise control.

http://goo.gl/4Uaoq Lets you use the webcam to control mouse & click... Goes to prove you don't really need $400 worth of hardware to detect motion and respond to it...

That was your first mistake

0) Your mistake is assuming/implying when I say "I don't think" it means I'm not thinking. Read the rest of my post including the second line, AND the rest of the thread I'm replying to for context. I was claiming that there's not going to be a big difference in MPG between slow and fast acceleration, despite common assumptions about "jack-rabbit" starts.

1) I said modern, so the transmission slippage loss is about 5% not 10%. And nowadays there's these new fangled things you may not have heard of, called lock-up clutches: http://www.autoshop101.com/forms/AT02.pdf

to prevent this, and to reduce fuel consumption, the lockâ'up clutch mechanically connects the impeller and the turbine when the vehicle speed is about 37 mph

Below that speed you get the "slippage" loss whether you're accelerating slow or fast. If it's 4% (slow) vs 5% (fast) it's not going to make a big difference to your MPG, which was my point (hard acceleration vs slow).

2) For modern engines whether you accelerate fast or slow doesn't make a big difference to the efficiency of the engine, unless you're red-lining them. In fact the maximum engine efficiency for many cars is not between 1000-2000rpm, but higher - even 4000+rpm for some cars (Ford Focus). The OP's car is a turbocharged GTI, I won't be surprised if it's more efficient at higher RPMs. For such cars if you accelerate very slowly, you'd be operating the engine at the lower efficiency band for a longer time, so it's not going to be so much more efficient than accelerating hard even if accelerating hard means staying in 2nd gear for longer. Hence it's not going to make a big difference to your MPG, which was my point.

3) About 30 years ago[1] apparently BMW did some research where they found that brisk acceleration was more efficient than slow acceleration. Some hypermilers claim this still applies.

[1] http://goo.gl/7kwJd

No, these are actually imaginary Canadian dollars, which are worth much, much less than real American dollars.

As of this writing, an American dollar will purchase 1.02 Canadian dollars. I admit that I was surprised. I stopped following it for a while, but I had thought the Canadian was worth more. What did Canada do to screw up their economy?

You have it backwards: the CAD per USD ratio hasn't gone much above 1.07 CAD per USD in the last 10 years, and used to swim in 0.75 territory for the longest time. Hence the well-known phenomenon of books and magazines with two list prices, a US price plus a Canadian price that's a good nudge higher. That suddenly became obsolete when the CAD achieved rough parity around 2007 or so, in part because of the USD inflating a bit faster than the CAD.

This may be what RIM needs to get people to adopt the Playbook and for developers to code for the Playbook.

Before Christmas, my little (and might I say addicting) BOGGGLE app "Word ZigZag" ( http://goo.gl/5ga0j ) was only downloaded a few times a day on Blackberry Playbook's App World Store. But on and after Christmas, my app was downloaded about 3-4X as much.

Perhaps a lot more people have the Blackberry Playbook because of the previous $200 Playbook "fire sales". And perhaps people will continue to buy them at the new $300 price.

I know as a developer, I'm starting to look at developing for RIM's App World as much as I would for iTunes. http://goo.gl/5ga0j

This may be what RIM needs to get people to adopt the Playbook and for developers to code for the Playbook.

Before Christmas, my little (and might I say addicting) BOGGGLE app "Word ZigZag" ( http://goo.gl/5ga0j ) was only downloaded a few times a day on Blackberry Playbook's App World Store. But on and after Christmas, my app was downloaded about 3-4X as much.

Perhaps a lot more people have the Blackberry Playbook because of the previous $200 Playbook "fire sales". And perhaps people will continue to buy them at the new $300 price.

I know as a developer, I'm starting to look at developing for RIM's App World as much as I would for iTunes. http://goo.gl/5ga0j

This may be what RIM needs to get people to adopt the Playbook and for developers to code for the Playbook.

Before Christmas, my little (and might I say addicting) BOGGGLE app "Word ZigZag" ( http://goo.gl/5ga0j ) was only downloaded a few times a day on Blackberry Playbook's App World Store. But on and after Christmas, my app was downloaded about 3-4X as much.

Perhaps a lot more people have the Blackberry Playbook because of the $200 Playbook "fire sales". And perhaps people will continue to buy them at the new $300 price.

I know as a developer, I'm starting to look at developing for RIM's App World as much as I would for iTunes. http://goo.gl/5ga0j

This may be what RIM needs to get people to adopt the Playbook and for developers to code for the Playbook.

Before Christmas, my little (and might I say addicting) BOGGGLE app "Word ZigZag" ( http://goo.gl/5ga0j ) was only downloaded a few times a day on Blackberry Playbook's App World Store. But on and after Christmas, my app was downloaded about 3-4X as much.

Perhaps a lot more people have the Blackberry Playbook because of the $200 Playbook "fire sales". And perhaps people will continue to buy them at the new $300 price.

I know as a developer, I'm starting to look at developing for RIM's App World as much as I would for iTunes. http://goo.gl/5ga0j

This will give the Google Car a run for its money. Let me explain. The one thing all auto-tinkers (like me) want is an electric-steering wheel. Eg, some way to attach an algorithm to steering. This is a great advance in this area. All other controls are nearly electric (fly by wire), braking, gas, key. Plus Fords idea to use a camera is beautifully cheap and a departure from all the laser-solutions (LIDAR Google Car, Laser Lexus version, etc).

I actually build things in this arena. Here is one that attaches your cruise control to a speed limit database.

Speederaser after market cruiseControl enhancer

Jim Pruett, Director
WikiSPEEDia.org
A TN CHarity

if I could I'd mod the parent up.
I was hoping someone would link that. Here's another shocking analysis: http://goo.gl/VKx8m

So if I understand this correctly, this is not a true popular selection. This is an internet poll, where the slots on the ballot are predetermined, and regardless of who "teh intarnetz" choose, the Candidate Certification Committee makes the actual choice ... all three of who are present members of the Council on Foreign Relations, two of which are recent executives of the RAND corporation, one former director of both CIA and FBI.

I know it sounds tin-foil hatty, but ahh ... damn ... this kinda tastes a little funny.
like the intelligence community executing a very long con, perhaps.

I wish all app stores allowed developers to create "try before buy" apps where users can try a limited version of the app and choose to upgrade to full version w/o having to download the "pro" version. I think the windows phone marketplace allows for those kinds of apps. I created an addicting boggle app called "word zigzag": ( http://goo.gl/HwHh8 ) On the android marketplace, the free version canabalizes the sales of the paid version. If there was a "try before buy" feature built into the app marketplaces, then I think I would get more sales of my paid version.

http://goo.gl/TJacj Here is where many things begins. What about a self-driving red nosed reindeer?

Nothing may be "legitimate" about it (whatever that means), but it is still host to infinite delights in the same manner online trolling is said to be.

Before the release of the Kindle Fire, my boggle app "Word ZigZag" (http://goo.gl/OFT0o) had been up on Amazon's appstore and sold hardly anything. But as soon as the Amazon Kindle Fire was released, I sold a whole bunch.

So I agree that app developers are probably now considering the Amazon Appstore.

You've been to too many Apple stores. The premium which you pay for Apple products is not invested in R&D but parked on its bank account.

Don't be a pussy. Sure we can shoot down drones, but the best solution is to fight in the courts. Send a couple bucks to the Tea Party. They will fight, not hide in the routers.

Here is my best Tea Party story. In Oakland TN where I live the police wanted a raise. The Tea Party tooks turns speaking and said, "the Tea Party can not allow a tax increase". The measure was defeated. They got no raise. (I think they wanted 4% but got 0.5%). The town councils want a reason to curb spending. You must help them. They have to pork everything up or they won't get reelected. Help them!

Text safer while you speed, yea I said it...

You are correct. This is the single best thing you can give any man or head of household, a job. It all trickles down from there. I recently had a 2 year unemployment, then an old friend gave me a job. I will never forget him.

I run a charity. Soon we will use donations to hire drivers. Simple honorable work.

Stop stupid speeding tickets.

Speed-limit aware brain gift.

'just means they will put a compass in the next one. Let see them thwart a compass!

Turn your car into a drone.

Hi Slashdot! I updated my Blogger/G+ profile to link back to my Slashdot ID, so you can see this is actually me.

I'm a little disappointed that the submitter linked the Gizmag article instead of the original blog post -- I think a lot of Slashdotters would have found that more interesting, for some of the technical details. Although, even that post is pretty light on details. I'm working on writing a more in-depth description of how I manage the machines. In short: Hooray for PXE boot, iSCSI, and LVM snapshots.

You'd also be interested to know that I ran several successful LAN parties with all the gaming machines running Ubuntu Linux and WINE. I'd estimate 70% of games worked well (although often not perfect) with this configuration. Sadly, I have recently given in and installed Windows, though the server machine obviously still runs Linux.

Here are some pictures of the server room, which Slashdot inexplicably won't let me link as HTML: http://goo.gl/BgFpT

Here is the back-story behind how I ended up with this house.

As I said, I'll be writing some more blog posts soon with full gory technical details. I'll try submitting them as a new story when they're ready, but you can also subscribe to the blog or follow me on G+ if you're interested.

Not if they have this.... (shamless plug)

Speederaser

Frank Lloyd Wright exploited this phenomenon in his architecture. If you're familiar with his "compression and release", you're probably also familiar with how dumbstruck a person can get walking into one of his buildings. http://goo.gl/H6ygK

Although not on the 10cent list, I like the boggle app called "Word ZigZag". Check it out. It's REALLY addicting! http://goo.gl/VLc1N

Anti-Pakistan is a cheap tool/trick used by Forward caste to promote/protect their hegemony over BC/SC/ST/Minority communities in India.

http://goo.gl/u0QNW

836 million Indians are living on 20 rupees/day ($0.38).
They'll NOT vote as per conscience.

http://goo.gl/nYP9z http://goo.gl/lZhul http://goo.gl/SNHh2 Search Amazon or Google for "DVD JukeBox" or "DVD Autoloader" just watch out for Duplicator systems. Most, hint all, aren't library style systems. Most are expensive. Have fun!

http://goo.gl/nYP9z http://goo.gl/lZhul http://goo.gl/SNHh2 Search Amazon or Google for "DVD JukeBox" or "DVD Autoloader" just watch out for Duplicator systems. Most, hint all, aren't library style systems. Most are expensive. Have fun!

http://goo.gl/nYP9z http://goo.gl/lZhul http://goo.gl/SNHh2 Search Amazon or Google for "DVD JukeBox" or "DVD Autoloader" just watch out for Duplicator systems. Most, hint all, aren't library style systems. Most are expensive. Have fun!

There should be a website called "usagovernmentXML.gov"
That's what we want and no more.

Although that isn't alot of money, its still shows the arrogance of the government, never asking the community what they need, just plowing ahead because no one tells their budget office NO.

Here's my favorite example. In Oakland TN, the cops asked for 3%raise. A Tea Party rep stood up and said, "The citizens cannot afford any more taxes!". They voted it down, why? Because the TeaParty gave the city council solid backing to say NO.

App hooks to your Cruise Control

    1982 GMC RTS-04.

    I picked it for a few reasons. The biggest was the additional interior space. The cabin is larger than the MCI's. It doesn't have subfloor storage, as built at the factory, but it does have dead space in each section that measures about 5'x8'x2'. It just needs a floor and supports fabricated, and exterior doors built.

    It's about 3' shorter vertically than the MCI's, which will help get down most streets without hitting tree limbs. Pretty much, if a school bus or UPS/FedEx truck can drive the road, so can I.

    I also wanted a vehicle with a strong diesel motor. These come with a few options. Mine has a DD 6v92TA (552ci, turbocharged and supercharged), with an Allison 3 speed automatic transmission. Most of the city buses come with gearing that doesn't allow for a top sped over 60mph. It cost a few bucks, but I had it regeared for highway use.

    Last time I moved it, I was driving down the interstate perfectly happily, with my car in tow on a flat trailer. (I had a trailer hitch welded on). I was perfectly happy cruising at 75mph in the right lane. Well, until one car decided the speed limit must be 45, and stayed parked in the right lane doing that. When I had a safe chance to pass, I did. The overall vehicle length was 65' because of the trailer, so I had to be very careful changing lanes. I passed 85mph when passing, and I could still accelerate. I only wanted to get around him, and back to my cruising at the speedlimit. Even with the car in tow, it felt like driving an average full size passenger van. Acceleration, braking, and handling were all there. Actually, I've driven full size vans that didn't handle as well. :)

    Knowing I *can* do over 85 is nice. I don't really *want* to go fast in it though. It's pretty much an aerodynamic brick. Slightly sexier curves, but that doesn't help much.

    At the moment, I have about $4,500 invested total. I bought it on eBay for cheap, did some mechanical things, and a bit of interior work. I have to finish the interior, and infrastructure work (power, water, sewer, LP). Some lifestyle things have changed, so I have to redraw the floorplan before continuing. I no longer have the wife, two kids, and two dogs. Now, I have a girlfriend, no kids, 4 cats, and the possibility of a half dozen or so friends wanting to go on weekend trips. :)

This graph is probably more useful for the average investor.

http://goo.gl/UA2qc

Over the past five years MS have outperformed the NASDAQ and the S&P500 by 20%

The more racially diverse a society is, the lower the levels of TRUST.
A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life.
http://goo.gl/YWJv2

OK, so I'm on Ubuntu for media player/lounge computer, and family has standardised on Android phones, BUT, I work from home, and I work on a PC. Sometimes I also use an old XP instance in a VM on my Ubuntu box. 1. I need to remote in to a server, and the Ubuntu citrix solutions are not acceptable (poor dual screen support for a start) 2. I do serious document processin using CMS systems. Windows required again - Open Office? lol. 3. For work I need to use Microsoft Exchange, and Outlook to book resources/meetings. I sync, but really, I need to use native Outlook to just get shit done. 4. Dragon Naturally speaking saves my wrists from a helluva lot of punishment. Nothing remotely as functional for speech-to-text in the FOSS world. 5. My bank's website still doesn't really work right with anything other than Internet Explorer (and not IE9 either) 6. For work I need to use Skype as my VOIP client. Skype on Ubuntu is OK, but features like group video and "share my screen" don't work. 7. Support calls to your ISP for things that are their problem (like "you need to check the copper wire down my street, seriously") go faster if you start by logging in with Win7/IE8, rather than Kubuntu and some homebrew Firefox fork. You could sum it all up in 2 words. "Network Effect" - http://goo.gl/jQPtc

"The scientific consensus is that if current rates of species extinction continue the fraction of species lost will be comparable to that of the five major extenction events in Earth's geological past" ~1996
http://goo.gl/z3IKs
Please correct me if if the thinking has changed.

3) In the USA I am not aware of ANY websites that are blocked by a court or government order. Even the RIAA and MPAA have not been able to accomplish that one. I'm sorry that the UK and other European governments have decided to implement thought police, but as an American there's not really anything I can do about it.

Sorry I had to be the one to ruin that rose-colored worldview of yours, but we (the USA) don't even screw around with the blocking part; we seize the domain and pretend the site never existed. It's kind of a big deal.

But why?

http://goo.gl/fPIf3

I wish the "components" were made available.

All I want to see is the steering.
If inventors had that steering-wheel, we could build all sorts of fun projects.

Jim Pruett, Director
WikiSPEEDia.org
Open Speed Limit Database

Ck out Speederaser app+HW for the hacker in you.

Pretty sure motorcycles don't work unless at least 1 wheel (often the front wheel) is off the ground.

Hmmmm...

I want to say that:

1. Apple could not steal the idea of Prada and make their iPhone with full blown iOS and tools and manufacture it and present just per few weeks (Prada was first pictures found December , 2006 and iPhone was introduced January 9, 2007). Besides, Prada was introduced a two weeks after the first iPhone.

2. You know nothing about Prada. Because it was zero similar to the iPhone other, than just capacitive screen like we had in Palms for years, keypad for making calls, that was already designed on OpenMoko project that was not yet even "hardwared" and sort of desktop, that would you find on some Japanese "keitais".

3. The whole mobile World was literally laughing at Jobs's iPhone by saying "No buttons = shit". But later copied Apple just one-to-one.

4. The whole mobile World was literally laughing at Job's iPad by saying "iPod Touch XXXL". But later copied Apple just one-to-one.

Samsung is the most "creative": they not just put the iPhone device on a paper and outline it with a pencil, ripping off look, feel, design, colors, buttons position, they also stealing Apple icons directly: http://goo.gl/EF456 Others not just have no brains make actually working software, they even does not have brains to find a better name other than simply mirroring it: http://goo.gl/MXi9x

P.S. Just for a record, to stop various idiot fugtards call me as "an Apple fanboy", I am an Android user and developing for it a lot.

I want to say that:

1. Apple could not steal the idea of Prada and make their iPhone with full blown iOS and tools and manufacture it and present just per few weeks (Prada was first pictures found December , 2006 and iPhone was introduced January 9, 2007). Besides, Prada was introduced a two weeks after the first iPhone.

2. You know nothing about Prada. Because it was zero similar to the iPhone other, than just capacitive screen like we had in Palms for years, keypad for making calls, that was already designed on OpenMoko project that was not yet even "hardwared" and sort of desktop, that would you find on some Japanese "keitais".

3. The whole mobile World was literally laughing at Jobs's iPhone by saying "No buttons = shit". But later copied Apple just one-to-one.

4. The whole mobile World was literally laughing at Job's iPad by saying "iPod Touch XXXL". But later copied Apple just one-to-one.

Samsung is the most "creative": they not just put the iPhone device on a paper and outline it with a pencil, ripping off look, feel, design, colors, buttons position, they also stealing Apple icons directly: http://goo.gl/EF456 Others not just have no brains make actually working software, they even does not have brains to find a better name other than simply mirroring it: http://goo.gl/MXi9x

P.S. Just for a record, to stop various idiot fugtards call me as "an Apple fanboy", I am an Android user and developing for it a lot.

We used that approach for PBL some years ago. It is wasteful to having to rewrite parsers and lexers for languages to build IDEs, and other tooling.

For example, code indentation can be done by walking the AST (you need to be careful to preserve hidden tokens, such as comments).

You can also allow code completion by changing the compiler to accept a "COMPLETION" token in some places in the grammar. Then, from the editor, when someone presses "Ctrl+SPACE" (or whatever) you mark the location in the lexer and send the code to the compiler. When you build the ast, you insert a completion node in the AST, and you have now contextual information about what can go in there and produce a list of potential things that can go in there.

Also, syntax highlighting can use the lexer for basic coloring and some type information to then add more information (such as what are field, or functions, etc.)

What's new is exposing these phases in a standardized manner in the language. That's a bold move, since backward compatibility will be tricky to maintain. Maybe they're thinking in finally stabilizing C#.

According to some studies, wars and social unrest are more common in cooler climates.

Actually it makes sense, after all warmth is beneficial for plant growth.

Long time ago, I built a CD with 1.7 billion digits of pi. I recreated the bittorrent and here it is:

http://goo.gl/wRWaJ

Share with your friends!

Stericson (the guy who makes busybox, metamorph and such for android) has an app to do this. You need root of course, but here's a link to the app on the market: http://goo.gl/orhTq

You can't talk about the information created by a game at all in a money-making context without making yourself legally liable to the league.

NBA tried to claim that in NBA v. STATS. At 1088, 1093, 1094 [come on Google, put in page and paragraph anchors!]:

NBA games do not constitute "original works of authorship" and thus do not fall within the subject matter of copyright protection ... I decline NBA's invitation to stretch the Copyright Act's grant of exclusivity to subject matters so far removed and qualitatively different from those at the core of its protection. ... Similarly, NBA has failed to show an infringement of its copyright in the broadcasts of NBA games. ... The mere fact that the information conveyed by defendants often is acquired by viewing the broadcasts of NBA games does not alter the fact that defendants have not copied the "`constituent elements of the [broadcasts of NBA games] that are original.'"

A state law claim of misappropriation was dismissed on appeal on the basis that federal copyright law preempts the state law. The 2nd Circuit's decision at 851 quotes Computer Associates v. Altai at 717 (this case is a good read for the Slashdot crowd: copyright, trade secret and software):

An action will not be saved from preemption by elements such as awareness or intent, which alter `the action's scope but not its nature'.... Following this `extra element' test, we have held that unfair competition and misappropriation claims grounded solely in the copying of a plaintiff's protected expression are preempted by section 301.

That said, the above case law may be merely academic if the sports leagues are just trying to run you out of business with legal fees and hassles.

You can't talk about the information created by a game at all in a money-making context without making yourself legally liable to the league.

NBA tried to claim that in NBA v. STATS. At 1088, 1093, 1094 [come on Google, put in page and paragraph anchors!]:

NBA games do not constitute "original works of authorship" and thus do not fall within the subject matter of copyright protection ... I decline NBA's invitation to stretch the Copyright Act's grant of exclusivity to subject matters so far removed and qualitatively different from those at the core of its protection. ... Similarly, NBA has failed to show an infringement of its copyright in the broadcasts of NBA games. ... The mere fact that the information conveyed by defendants often is acquired by viewing the broadcasts of NBA games does not alter the fact that defendants have not copied the "`constituent elements of the [broadcasts of NBA games] that are original.'"

A state law claim of misappropriation was dismissed on appeal on the basis that federal copyright law preempts the state law. The 2nd Circuit's decision at 851 quotes Computer Associates v. Altai at 717 (this case is a good read for the Slashdot crowd: copyright, trade secret and software):

An action will not be saved from preemption by elements such as awareness or intent, which alter `the action's scope but not its nature'.... Following this `extra element' test, we have held that unfair competition and misappropriation claims grounded solely in the copying of a plaintiff's protected expression are preempted by section 301.

That said, the above case law may be merely academic if the sports leagues are just trying to run you out of business with legal fees and hassles.

You can't talk about the information created by a game at all in a money-making context without making yourself legally liable to the league.

NBA tried to claim that in NBA v. STATS. At 1088, 1093, 1094 [come on Google, put in page and paragraph anchors!]:

NBA games do not constitute "original works of authorship" and thus do not fall within the subject matter of copyright protection ... I decline NBA's invitation to stretch the Copyright Act's grant of exclusivity to subject matters so far removed and qualitatively different from those at the core of its protection. ... Similarly, NBA has failed to show an infringement of its copyright in the broadcasts of NBA games. ... The mere fact that the information conveyed by defendants often is acquired by viewing the broadcasts of NBA games does not alter the fact that defendants have not copied the "`constituent elements of the [broadcasts of NBA games] that are original.'"

A state law claim of misappropriation was dismissed on appeal on the basis that federal copyright law preempts the state law. The 2nd Circuit's decision at 851 quotes Computer Associates v. Altai at 717 (this case is a good read for the Slashdot crowd: copyright, trade secret and software):

An action will not be saved from preemption by elements such as awareness or intent, which alter `the action's scope but not its nature'.... Following this `extra element' test, we have held that unfair competition and misappropriation claims grounded solely in the copying of a plaintiff's protected expression are preempted by section 301.

That said, the above case law may be merely academic if the sports leagues are just trying to run you out of business with legal fees and hassles.