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Re:Tailgaters
Okay, so I exaggerated a bit, I counted 10 lanes. Here's the satellite image.
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It's out there: You can walk on solar shingles
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Re:How long has the XBOX 360 been out?
It's not just him http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ps3+controller+loses+connection&meta= seriously, stop blaming Microsoft when the crowded 2.4Ghz spectrum is an issue with MANY devices. Hell, even my Logitech wireless controllers for Xbox and PS2 use that frequency. The 360 is a great gaming console because it has great games. It is selling well and if this was such a huge issue I think there would have been a lot more noise about it like there is about the RROD.
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Re:How long has the XBOX 360 been out?
Troll? http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ps3+controller+loses+connection&meta= Have a gander.
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found itFrom 'Government Computer News':
Now, with prospects for developments such as the Pentagon assigning IP addresses to individual bullets to keep track of its inventories, IPv4 address shortage workarounds that have succeeded so far increasingly will create problems, according to McManus and Tseronis.
I found a relevant article in the second result with this search (dropping 'fired' which probably isn't helpful and narrows the search too much and using 'track' instead of 'tracking' which allows for more variations in wording). BTW, while tracking inventory electronically is probably a good thing, I can't for the life of me understand why IP addresses would be used instead of DOD inventory numbers.
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Re:Malware and ex-emailer
I concur with what you are saying but what about the malicious propaganda side of things http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=linux+botnet&spell=1 It seems to me that there is also lots of miss information out there, mostly in the form of blogs from so-called security experts, trying desperately to defame open source software!
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AKA "Big Champagne" for TV
The MAAFIA has been using the services of "Big Champagne" to do the same.
Nothing new
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=p2p+ratings+%22Big+champagne%22&btnG=Search&meta= -
It's not as terrifying as it sounds
Personally, I have to agree with the forced reopening of the reactor. It sounds terrifying, and it's a disgrace that we're in this situation, but the risk is very minimal. The story has been playing in the media here in Canada for a few days now.
This is not a large-scale power generating reactor. It's a relatively small "research" reactor and it is more or less middle of nowhere.
From what I recall from the news stories, the current hold up is the backup power to the second pump is offline. The backup power to the first pump is online, and only one pump needs to be operating at any one time. The truly disgraceful thing is that the plant has been improperly operating without any proper backup power lines for months and months. The current unexpectedly long shut-down occurred because the improper backup systems were discovered by the regulators during a shorter planned down time.
On the flip side, critical medical scans are being canceled by the thousands across North and South America. You can't point at any specific case, but given the large number of procedures being delayed, I'd bet that someone out there is going to die on a daily basis because a scan is postponed. -
Re:Bill could still be introduced tomorrow
I don't know about you, but I like short URLs (not that any pages except top-level ones have short URLs, as evidenced by those links). I also don't like how that page needs the "www" (as you can see, the same being true for Elections Canada). Then again, few people actually go to pages through the URL; they just go to Google, and as you can see, it doesn't take much work to find it (you don't even need "of Canada").
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I might be missing something....
... But I simply don't see parents confronting Jobs they way that Ballmer was confronted at Gartner recently. Plus Pretty much every review on Leopard that I've read seems to be positive (more or less). I also did a quick Google Search using the terms "Leopard Problems" and came up with this list where most of these have solutions (unlike some of Vista's issues).
I say the article is FUD. Maybe John Hodgman paid him? -
Re:Pricing is the big hurdle
And what happens when the Kindle fails and Amazon stops selling the books? Or they release a new format and stop supporting the old one? Or any other of umpteen donzen scenarios whereby you can no longer access these "backups" Amazon so thoughtfully decides to hold for you on their own servers?
Don't think it can happen? It already has. http://www.google.ca/search?q=mlb+drm -
Re:Why get so fancy?
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Re:Why get so fancy?
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Re:Wouldn't it be ironic
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Re:what a nonsense
except that wwii partisans didn't go suicide and didn't kill their own civilians.
Er, no. In Okinawa, the japanese imperial army *DID* kill japanese civilians and forced many to commit suicide.
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Re:In Soviet Russia
Russia is just copying, yea they be biting the U.S.
Course, the American's have them out gendered, Women's Bridge Anyone?.
Of course we shouldn't let intellectuals have any power, that's just CRAZY! -
Re: 39.5 Inches = about 1 Meter
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=1+meter+in+inches&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
It's amazing how Americans don't want to use the "M" word -
Re:Arecibo photo
the closeup from Google Maps is kind of cool, too.
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Re:40 USD
http://www.google.ca/search?q=40+usd+in+cad
Google says 39.2559814 Canadian dollars -
What a whiner.MOST URL's are pretty short, and if they're not, then they're often mnemonic in some sense. And we can be faced with really long URLs. Example: let's say I'm emailing a friend in a conversation about a song by New Order called Confusion, and I want to email him the google URL, but I don't remember the title offhand, but I remember some of the lyrics.
So instead of emailing him this:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&r ls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=C1m&q=you+just+ can%27t+believe+me+when+I+show+you+what+you+cannot+see&b tnG=Search&meta=
I just dump it into tinyURL with this as the result:
Frankly, the tiny URL is fine. I'm not worried about the tiny URL going to a page that no longer exists - heck - the web is a very mercurial thing, and pages come and go at the drop of a hat.
I think TFA is henny penny garbage.
RS
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Re:Question for the masses...
90% of the time, the backlight has done... they are only Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lights. These can be replaced and your display will chug on again for another couple years usually. Another option would be to replace the backlight with LED's... in which case the display will (essentially) last for another generation.
For some more information, I suggest doing some searching on the internet.
WARNING: Replacing CCFL's can be very dangerous! The chemicals within the tube are poisonous if inhaled. -
Re:So that's what that was.
Man, when this makes it to Canada, I'll just have to try St-Louis-Du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec.
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Re:what's the big deal?
Can you post your carbon footprint in kilograms instead of that mysterious unit?
Tonne == metric ton. It is the only English meaning of the word. Check Google define: if you still find something mysterious about it. -
Re:I wont' be the first one to say it but..The problem is you tried to do it after the fact. The my.nintendo.com FAQ specifically says that games you purchase before associating your shop channel account with your my.nintendo.com account don't get registered.
If it wasn't in the manual, it was in the user agreement when you create the Wii shop channel account. They were very specific that that was the reason for associating it. Can you direct me to the page I can't find it. And no I registered before purchasing and my.Nintendo account displays all 3 of the games I purchased. No luck transferring to the new wii. I may have missed something but here are the details:
Monday:
Got wii,
set up wii,
put in wii sports played a bit.
Tuesday:
Resitered for my.nintendo,
linked to wii using shop channel settings, registered CC
bought $20 of VC points,
bought supermario world, ninja gaiden i, Bonks revenge.
Tried to swap wii sports with Re4, disc read error,
Tried to put in zelda, disk read error, kept swapping found it works less then half the time. Lots of odd clicking noises.
Backup games onto SD card called support.
support advised to send it for repair, wouldn't guarantee I wouldn't get refurbed wii's or parts. Also advised wii games non transferable.
Wednesday
went to EB to exchange, no wii's at any location
Left name/num and got in writing a statement they will honor an exchange when ever they get a wii in
thursday a week later
EB calsl has wii to exchange
Unassociated wii, Formatted memory
Exchanged wii
Went home with wii
set up wii
Associated wii with My.nintendo account
Registered CC
Attempted to copy VC channels/games. Won't allow files to be copied.
Wed a couple weeks later
Posted some annoyed diatribe against Nintendo and X-box live.
If I missed a step, or can salvage any of the games in anyway I'd be glad to do so but So far no luck. A lot of mis information exists on the net (some guy on some random forum claimed you can still play them off the card you just can't copy it. blatant lie). -
expand their mandate
The formation of this group is an excellent idea.
Once they start finding and pressuring individual ISPs found guilty of "non-neutral" behavior, it will create incentive for customers to leave that ISP and go to a competitor. Sometimes there won't be a competitor, such as in many rural areas.
The logical progression is to encourage consumers to form their own local groups and move to community-owned Internet access. This new NNSquad should expand their mandate to provide resources that help and encourage communities to achieve network independence. -
Re:I beg to differ.
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Pharmcos 2x - 3x as much on marketing as R&D
GP is wrong - most analyses show that pharmcos spend between two and three times as much on marketing as they do on R&D. The raw data for these studies is the pharmcos' SEC filings. There's plenty of analysis of this
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perhaps Molière did not anticipate Therac
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Here's the movie on YouTube
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Re:fail - "Google's hard"
Okay
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Re:fail - "Google's hard"
Okay. What's your point?
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Re:Dejavu
Yet, you pull one aside for questioning and all of a sudden it's the inquisition...
No, you pull one aside for questioning, and then send him to Syria for torture. Then it's an inquisition. -
Re:Apple is missing an opportunity
http://finance.google.ca/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL
Yup, these guys really don't know how to make money. You tell'em bro! -
Re:Why supercomputers?
Well the top500 list was around since 1993 listing supercomputers. So the best you can say is there's two definitions - the one everyone else in the industry (and every dictionary I can find) follows where supercomputer refers to a specific category of computers that are simply the most powerful during their time, and the one you're pushing for 1 TFlop but for which I have yet to find any objective support.
Google definition
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Don't forget the worlds biggest dildo!
Dildo, Newfoundland - its not "the size of a small town" - it IS a small town.
When it comes to funny names, it beats St. Louis du Ha!Ha!, Quebec (yes, the exclamation points are part of the name), Flin Flon, Manitoba, or Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
"Where you from?"
"Dildo."
"Who you calling a dildo, dickhead?" -
Don't forget the worlds biggest dildo!
Dildo, Newfoundland - its not "the size of a small town" - it IS a small town.
When it comes to funny names, it beats St. Louis du Ha!Ha!, Quebec (yes, the exclamation points are part of the name), Flin Flon, Manitoba, or Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
"Where you from?"
"Dildo."
"Who you calling a dildo, dickhead?" -
Don't forget the worlds biggest dildo!
Dildo, Newfoundland - its not "the size of a small town" - it IS a small town.
When it comes to funny names, it beats St. Louis du Ha!Ha!, Quebec (yes, the exclamation points are part of the name), Flin Flon, Manitoba, or Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
"Where you from?"
"Dildo."
"Who you calling a dildo, dickhead?" -
Don't forget the worlds biggest dildo!
Dildo, Newfoundland - its not "the size of a small town" - it IS a small town.
When it comes to funny names, it beats St. Louis du Ha!Ha!, Quebec (yes, the exclamation points are part of the name), Flin Flon, Manitoba, or Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
"Where you from?"
"Dildo."
"Who you calling a dildo, dickhead?" -
Re:Psychologyhttp://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&lr=&sa=G&oi=qs&q=natalie+hershlag+author:n-hershlag
Unfortunately, I'm a CS undergrad, so I'm not sure I'd be a good candidate for judging whether "good science" is getting accomplished here. Here's a cache link to the first paper for those of you without university-paid subscriptions to the journal, since the posted pdf is now 404'ing.
The title & the abstract lead me to think that it's not the pseudo-science kind of psychology getting practiced here.The ability to create and hold a mental schema of an object is one of the milestones in cognitive development. Developmental scientists have named the behavioral manifestation of this competence object permanence. Convergent evidence indicates that frontal lobe maturation plays a critical role in the display of object permanence, but methodological and ethical constrains have made it difficult to collect neurophysiological evidence from awake, behaving infants. Near-infrared spectroscopy provides a noninvasive assessment of changes in oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin and total hemoglobin concentration within a prescribed region. The evidence described in this report reveals that the emergence of object permanence is related to an increase in hemoglobin concentration in frontal cortex.
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Re:$45M dollars?
The dollar, after hitting a high of 92.8 cents US, closed Friday at 92.64 cents US, its highest closing level since 1977."
Umm, the Canadian dollar is now worth more than the American. $1.034 with a quick google search here. Guess monopoly money isn't so bad after all -
Re:History teaches once again...
Not to forget that huge quantities of corn (not the same thing as US corn, but what we would call wheat) were exported from Ireland from the estates of the English absentee landlords while the population starved. An extremist "laissez faire" freemarket ideology was used at the time to explain the situation (especially by the eminent philospher Burke) similar to the approach taken across several centuries of famines in India by the English Imperialists). These market experiments on millions of starving people were directly justified by Adam Smith's ravings in _The Wealth Of Nations_ "famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by improper means, to remedy the inconvenience of dearth". Lots of good stuff about this (from an ultra-left perspective) in Mike Davis' _Late Victorian Holocausts_
Anyway, it pisses me off to see statement's like Theo's. Your own lesson/analogy is much more exact and appropriate.
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Re:just one new feature
Check out Google's talk about their BigTable implementation. The way it is designed strongly implies that what you suggest is already being done.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7278544055668715642 -
So. . . Many. . . Pictures.The IMDB has a tidy little slide show of Hollywood's new It Boy.
I'm glad they didn't go for a look-a-like. There's a couple of shots which suggest this actor might have enough screen presence and charisma to pull off the arrogant super-leader several-times savior of the galaxy.
Good luck to you, Mr. Pine! Them's big shoes. --It's a case of creating a character who is, (on and off the screen) ultra arrogant, skilled enough to deserve acting that way, and charming enough not to piss everybody off while doing it. If you follow Shatner's lead, then you will also be a really kind, light-hearted and giving soul, but that usually comes with age. If you don't get blasted by photon disrupters first. Is this Pine kid also a Canadian like old Bill? I'm not sure it's possible to achieve all of those goals otherwise. We'll have to see. Like I said, good luck to you, man!
And I have gotta say, this is the first time in forever, (with the exception of the recent and sadly disappointing Superman film), that I've been excited about an upcoming movie. With a good writer and good direction, this could be a really awesome film.
When, oh, when will I accumulate enough jaded cynicism to not let my hopes get the better of me?
I am SUCH a sci-fi geek!
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Re:Assumptions
my boss has now declared that our fifteen-minute breaks are to be replaced by 15-centimeter breaks.
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Re:Read the article first, it is not the phrase...
I hope the mint goes after everyone listed on google for showing a picture of "their penny". http://images.google.ca/images?q=canadian%20penny&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
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Linus is right
Various ways to express our agreement with our Dear Leader
Linus is right
I am with Linus on this one
Linus is right, of course
Of course, Linus is right
Linus is right, everyone knows about it.
So in a sense Linus is right
there's a sense in which linus is right
And of course Linus is right.
Nonetheless Linus is right
That's nonsense, so Linus is right
First of all: Linus is right
Linus is right, even if he is obnoxious.
So I think that Linus is right
Truth be told, Linus is right
But you know what? linus is right:
Get more from here
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Linus+is+right%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta= [google.ca] -
Linus is right
Various ways to express our agreement with our Dear Leader
Linus is right
I am with Linus on this one
Linus is right, of course
Of course, Linus is right
Linus is right, everyone knows about it.
So in a sense Linus is right
there's a sense in which linus is right
And of course Linus is right.
Nonetheless Linus is right
That's nonsense, so Linus is right
First of all: Linus is right
Linus is right, even if he is obnoxious.
So I think that Linus is right
Truth be told, Linus is right
But you know what? linus is right:
Get more from here
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Linus+is+right%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta= -
Re:Google Maps et al affected?
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Re:Canada?
Google, to my knowledge, does not have any facilities in backwards socialist-collectivist Canada.
Yes, they do.
see:
http://www.google.ca/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=intl.html&jobslc=canada -
The Analyst: the first Nerds spreadsheet
There was a Spreadsheet made for the CIA by Xerox that would easily be the Nerds Nerd of spreadsheets as it enabled full access to the underlying programming language, Smalltalk.
Here are some links to the old version and newer developments.
http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/The+Analyst
http://www.mojowire.com/TravelsWithSmalltalk/DaveThomas-TravelsWithSmalltalk.htm
http://www.sunless-sea.net/wiki/SmallTalk
http://www.google.ca/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=%22the+analyst%22+xerox+smalltalk&btnG=Search&meta=
&h=400&w=272&sz=31&tbnid=j2UR3MXQGcNBqM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=84&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchris%2Bpine%26um%3D1&start=3&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=3){kind=link}