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Nevermind what it will do if you want to have a family life. Done that once, now I'm a freelance contractor and working on my own business ventures. If you go into the games industry looking to get rich as a programmer, you are insane. This is an industry where the peasants (programmers, engineers) REVOLTED. I can't think of another example.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ea+lawsuit&btn G=Google+Search&meta=

Think about that.

If you're doing it for the love of the art, do it for a hobby. Otherwise, I admire your guts.

Free advice for those of you with mad opengl skills and a mathematics background - double score if you have a mathematics or engineering degree.

- Go read a book on "Data Visualization"
- Go read a book on "Geographic Information Systems"
- Go read a book on "Signal Processing" (FFT, etc)
- Brush up on data structures relevant to the above.

Fire some resumes around to oil companies, insurance firms, financial trading companies, mining companies, etc etc loaded up with buzzwords. Make your programming skills secondary to the buzzwords.

Profit. My $0.02. I paid for my univesity degree writing 3D GIS systems software in OpenGL - had I have tried to do so writing games, I would probably be living on the street.

Basically, any place that is serviced by Shaw or Rogers will have Broadband service through cable.

If you check the CIA Factbook on Canada, it is larger than the US and has telecommunications infrastructure which provides excellent service through modern technology.

Basically, any place that is serviced by Shaw or Rogers will have Broadband service through cable.

If you check the CIA Factbook on Canada, it is larger than the US and has telecommunications infrastructure which provides excellent service through modern technology.

Basically, any place that is serviced by Shaw or Rogers will have Broadband service through cable.

If you check the CIA Factbook on Canada, it is larger than the US and has telecommunications infrastructure which provides excellent service through modern technology.

They've had their time encouraging mass deforestation, supressing viable options and making money hand over fist while giving authors a pittance. Let them rot along with the RIAA/MPAA.

I'm going to try to convince a buddy to go up to Kokanee glacier tomorow, and see if we can't get some turns in. I don't really think it'll be any good, we've had some sun recently, but you know what I'm taking about :-) Have a great season!

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"This is not correct. The crime rate in the U.S. has been declining since 1993:"
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So what? You seem to forget what happened after Katrina and Rodney King trial. Your massaging of the data also neglects to mention by what standard your judging and why crime is decreasing. Pay close attention what countries resemble your murder rate, rapes, drug use and assults. Nothing remotely like a fully developed first world nation. (per capita)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_mur_cap (
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_rap
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_dru_off
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_ass_cap

Not that you not trying to arrest people. For a "free" nation you seem to have BY FAR the highest incarceration rate in the world despite all the high crime stats.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_pri_per_ca p&int=50

For the real badasses there is always enlightened execution to "fix" the problem. (Right up the their with China, The Republic of Congo and Iran.)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_exe

"That's an interesting theory, but not proven by sources. A typical Chinese citizen lives just under 71 years, but a typical US citizen lives just under 78 years."

Hmmmm... I did read this somewhere however the balance of sources makes me think I have been misinformed on China's status.

HOWEVER----- it really doesn't dismiss the general point I was making as you seem to rank 48th in the world right below Puerto Rico (this despite massive technological leaps in the 20th century and supposedly the best medicine money can buy)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_lif_exp_at _bir_tot_pop&int=50

Furthermore the point also made on the comment on the possibility of decreasing lifespans in the short term. This is only a theory but pay close attention to which "journal" this was published in.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/352/11/1 138

Of course there are plenty of things nice about America. Unfortunately your adversion to violence, greed and pollution are not among them.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_exp_dol_fi g&int=-1

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/env_co2_emi&in t=50

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_eco_aid_do n_cap

Cold war is over. No reason to not join the human race now-- that is unless you have something else in mind? Let's see what the extreme right wing in the US has to say on this?

http://groups.google.ca/group/humanities.philosoph y.objectivism?lnk=sg&hl=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism_in_th e_United_States
http://www.weeklystandard.com/

So in the end the world is protecting it's interests. Maybe they'll stockpile a new collection WMDs as large as your own eventually. Congrats on the new philsophy that everybody take whatever you can get and don't give

A simple google news search for X05 reveals it has started

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=ca&q=x05&btnG =Search+News

Or maybe this was supposed to be funny?

Today I assumed most POS terminals run linux. I think this was first done ALMOST a decade ago

I presumed they ran QNX, or some other extremely lightweight, secure, embedded operating system. Terminals are generally single-application environments, and it could just as effectively be running "on" DOS. Windows sounds like brutal overkill, as does Linux (obviously both can be scaled down to a more minimal environment, but that's a backwards approach. Something like QNX is built to be scaled up from close to nothing). Alternately they could be running thin-clients booting from the BIOS, with no "OS" except for a simple thin-client shell.

The submission is pretty ridiculous - running a terminal at a grocery store has absolutely nothing to do with enterprise scale outs, any more than OS/2 running ATMs preceded its dominance of the industry.

BTW: Paramount just backed Blu-Ray.

Google is your friend for these kinds of things

http://www.google.ca/search?num=100&hl=en&q=enclos ures&btnG=Search&meta=/ make you own yeah.

Their marketing guy may claim their stuff is enterprise level and all, but Google ranks openssh.com higher than ssh.com! http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ssh&btnG=Googl e+Search&meta=

So there!

The only major news outlet sympathetic to the current administration is Fox News. I don't know where you got that information, but CNN, ABC, and CBS news programs are all biased towards liberals.

Do you know how to diversify a portfolio to meet acceptable risk according to an efficient frontier formula?

I do now. :)

A search for Web Browser" brings Mozilla at #1

I think people would be more familiar with the "web browser" term than the less accurate "internet browser" term.

Really, you know, if all you have to offer is bleats of simply "that's not true" in the face of overwhelming and easily retrieved evidence, perhaps it would be best all round if you stopped the fuck being so stupid, read a little, opened your eyes and actually took notice of what's going on in the world. It won't make any difference to the rest of us, but you really owe it to yourself to take your head out of your arse.

You're welcome

In soviet russia, google searches YOU
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=anakin357&btnG =Google+Search&meta=

Very well... Here's one

google is your friend

I'm sorry, but this sounds hilarious (I'm sorry I missed the streets paved with corpses of the dead) and absolutely appropriate. I mean, explorers returning from a remote, mysterious, newly-discovered jungle outpost bring back a highly-contagious disease that decimates the young and weak and severely weakens the strong? Entire books and movies have been written with less to work with!

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=russia+ship+la ser+canadian+helicopter&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

[Windows]
If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the Sony BMG audio player on the CD to automatically start. If the player software does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer. Locate and select the drive letter for your CD drive. On the disc you will find either a file named LaunchCD.exe or Autorun.exe. Double-click this file to manually start the player.

TIP: If your CD does not contain either the LaunchCD.exe or
                Autorun.exe files, it may not be compatible with this iPod
                solution. Please reply to this letter for more information.

Once the Sony BMG player application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu.

Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.

Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher (or another fully compatible player that can playback secure WMA files, such as MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp). You can then burn the songs to a standard Audio CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you will need to upgrade to, or already have, Windows Media Player 9 or 10.

Once the standard Audio CD has been created, place this copied CD back into your computer and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would any normal audio CD.

Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above:

      http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html

Thank you for the opportunity to be of assistance.

The Sony BMG Online Support Team
CCKM

Holy shit-- Google has maps of every BUILDING! The outline of every building in the area is visible.

That's detail!

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=tokyo&ll=35.501679,13 9.705893&spn=0.005974,0.009652&hl=en

A little unrelated, but any one else notice there is now a basic road map for Japan? Don't remember seeing this on slashdot (seeing how slashdot posts everything google related)...

It's not really a 'saying' if you are the only one who uses it...

am I?

What the heck with not allowing normal HTML A-tag here???
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Anyway, Google agrees with you! ;-)
http://www.google.ca/search?num=20&hs=wF4&hl=en&cl ient=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial& q=360+feet+*160+feet+%2F+(60+micrometers+*+250+mic rometers)&btnG=Search

I'm not even sure that IIIR has the trademark. If you look HERE it seems that a company from Florida called Cencourse filed for the trademark the day that Google broke the news about its new GMail service. Google is actually 4th in line for the GMail name. Everyone who filed applications did so within 4 days of Google launching the news. Google waited a week or so.

Since when does exposing someone's identity ever protect phone number owner from telemarketer anyway? This is just like the 'unsubscribe' features in mailbox, ie. total BS. Even without VOIP or globalization, a spammer can just fake its own caller ID[1], effectively avoiding legal consequences for calling numbers in do-not-call list. The do-not-call list is just a telemarketer's tactic to distract consumer groups! To truly be effective, a government should only use DO-CALL-LIST that only lists numbers for which the owners want to be contacted by telemarketers, and only the ones permitted by the owner of the phone line can call to.

[1] http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=caller+id+spoo fing&btnG=Google+Search&meta= [google.ca]

How can exposing someone's identity possibly lead to more protections from telemarketer? This is just like the 'unsubscribe' features in mailbox, ie. total BS. Even without VOIP, spammer can just fake its own caller ID[1], effectively avoiding legal consequences for calling numbers in do-not-call list. The do-not-call list is just a telemarketer's tactic to distract consumer groups! To truly be effective, a government should only use a DO-CALL-LIST that only lists numbers for which the owners want to be contacted by telemarketers, and only the ones permitted by the owner of the phone line can call to.

[1] http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=caller+id+spoo fing&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Someday they will measure in MPH

330 (feet per minute) = 3.75 mph

http://www.google.ca/search?q=330+ft+per+minute+%3 D+%3F+mph&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client =firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial

The Spitfire didn't go mach 1, in fact it's best speed was a bit over half that:
Spitfire 24 - Max Speed 450 mph
Mach 1 - 761 mph at Sea Level

Spitfire - http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/overview.htm
Mach 1 - http://www.google.ca/search?hs=6np&hl=en&client=fi refox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=speed +of+sound+in+miles+per+hour&btnG=Search&meta=

this goole search show that the page you posted is not linked to from anywhere within Apple's site. I do thank you for providing that link, and I will pass it on, however, the average user who goes to apple.com and clicks download will not find the standalone version. period.

Yeah, it's just that... well.. http://www.google.ca/search?q=motorola+e790

Look, I'm not going to go around and find this just because you don't believe me. That's your job. Google is your friend.

Look, I'm not going to go around and find this just because you don't believe me. That's your job. Google is your friend.

Look, I'm not going to go around and find this just because you don't believe me. That's your job. Google is your friend.

Don't forget that word documents are actually OLE containers, alowing embedding of an OLE object, much like a plugin in a web page. In fact it is that aspect that causes problems sometimes, when the plug-in software is not installed on the platform where it is being viewed.

For my 5c worth, MS Office is a good piece of software, but I just find it a little too expensive for using at home. If it was $200 CAN, or less, as opposed to $700 then I might actually consider paying for it.

I have used the MacOS X version of office, and except for the major issue of not supporting Cocoa data formats, in the copy-paste process, its a very useable piece of software. I just wish they would address the outstanding issues. See this thread for more infor on the copy-paste issue. NeoOffice on the Mac still feels like it could do with a fair bit of GUI refinement.

Everyone's favourite unit..
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=20+kilometers+ per+hour+in+furlongs+per+fortnight&meta=

20 kilometers per hour = 33 404.9153 furlongs per fortnight

I would put it to anyone to find more than 5 people in the entire world that *seriously* believe any of those theories, and not merely claim to as a response to somehow satirize or ridicule another person or group of people's sincere beliefs.

Don't be so hasty, you can make a very rational and scientific sounding case for "Intelligent Falling" such as Uncaused Force. It sounds every bit serious and believable as any Intelligent Design piece, and I'm sure you could find plenty of people in the US who, presented with the article, would more than happily sign on for Uncaused Force and the belief that gravity is a lie.

Equally you could look at something like Time Cube which looks like a load of crap, but then there are people like this guy who seriously believe it, and try to make arguments as to why -1 * -1 = 1 is stupid and evil.

Jedidiah.

You claim that ID can't be tested by repeatable experiments. Well that is true, but can evolution be tested by repeatable experiments? Maybe some of the smaller claims of evolution such as bacteria growing more resilient etc etc, but those claims can fit in with ID as well.

The real problem with ID is that the very method of argument it is founded on is rubbish. Given the approach taken by ID people you can show that pretty much any scientific theory is, in fact, wrong and clearly needs to be taught differently. Look here's an article that uses ID style methods to argue that, in fact, gravity is false and we should instead believe in an "Uncaused Force" acting upon objets in the universe. It's quite accurate in the science it quotes, properly references a number of peer reviewed papers and reads very similarly to material from the Discovery Institute. If you want to allow for ID then please read the article carefully because it is every bit as scientific and well referenced as any ID piece.

Jedidiah.

In some googling on this, I've become confused. "ultrahard fullerene" is C-60 buckyballs compressed at high temperature also. I see many different values quoted for UHF hardness and diamond. This Russian paper gives a value of 1 TPa in 1988!

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http://www.google.ca/search?q=mfg
http://www.google.ca/search?q=mfg'r
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http://www.google.ca/search?q=mfg
http://www.google.ca/search?q=mfg'r
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According to my UPS turning on the grid.org client consumes 32 watts of electricity.

Google calculator will tell you the rest
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=(%240.059666%2 FkWh)+*+24W+*+30+days&btnG=Search&meta=)http://www .google.ca/search?hl=en&q=(%240.059666%2FkWh)+*+24 W+*+30+days&btnG=Search&meta=

You know what, Desktop Search isn't the best desktop search tool, there are ones that are considerably better, heck ones that even work with multiple users. I'd say that Desktop Search is NOT better than the search engine

Google Earth isn't even THEIR PRODUCT, they bought it, that's not innovation therefor it can't drive their peak higher, that said what the heck is it even good for, I'd file it under GAME.

Ok so what do we have that's spectacular, made by them, useful and recent, Gmail. But wait! That's not innovation either, heck I've been able to get to my IMAP mail for YEARS and do full text searches on it and even gasp STORE MORE THAN A GIG! Heck it even has a spiffy web interface, but who cares, I just keep a copy of my Thunderbird configuration on my web server and use Thunderbird wherever I go, however I will give FULL POINTS to Gmail because my mail setup is more complex and expensive, ie not free. Also it doesn't have clever targeted ads to remind me that I need to consume something.

Ok so we've got a search engine that's pretty good, oh but wait, have you checked out another one in the last six months? I imagine you have not. The competition is getting pretty darn good! Worse still the SEO companies are getting pretty good at tricking Google.

So has Google peaked? We won't know until they go bankrupt, which will eventually happen, or someone will buy them or the Internet will be phased out but corporations don't last forever, whatever the case may be the post mortem will be facinating. Until then, I'm happy to use their search engine every day and play with http://maps.google.ca/

But do I think their the be all to end all like the rest of the slashdot fanboys, no.

Do I think I could do better? Oh probably not but I do know some ways that Google could make it's services better.

Search Engine:
*Allow me to specify a set of web sites I NEVER want to results for.
*Allow me to specify that I never want to see another damn .doc or .pdf file again.
*Allow me to sort my results by AGE, how can you know how old it was, crawl the sites and when it changes the contents of more than x percent of the sentaces longer than x mark it changed.
*How about a ranking system? Give me the option to mod down a site and once a domain name gets enough people saying it's crap (*cough*about.com*cough*) drop it from the index

Gmail
*DON'T HIDE THE GOD DAMN DELETE FEATURE UNDER A MENU! I don't care if you want me to keep my shit around forever I don't want to keep some moronic E-Mail about kittens, but that doesn't mean my friend is spamming me!
*How about we have the notify app remember my password? That one would be super cause I already have to log onto my system and if little sally doesn't want her brother checking her email she can turn this off, or atleast give me the option to turn it on.

Talk
*Make it connect to the MSN server too like GAIM does, Ok so I can use GAIM to connect to Talk but still, I'm not a GAIM fan.

Earth
*How about a high speed grayscale only mode and integration with Talk so that I can put a pushpin into my map and send it to my friends?
*Why does maps.google.ca have roads for places that Earth doesn't?

Toolbar
*How about it could come with an integrated tool that stops other toolbars from being installed? That'd be fantastic then I could just put it on my family's computers and not worry about them installing more tool bars, or any software for that matter!
*Integrate a clock, people like clocks! Oh and make sure it stays up to date :P

Desktop Search
*Make it work on more than one user, this shouldn't even be that damn hard what's wrong with you people?

I've lost my rant will....

I'm going to go drink Tang now..

My job is not to educate you, and I have no desire to get into the typical legalistic debate that occurs whenever we're discussing "our" crimes (while "their" crimes are perfectly obvious, with no need for further debate). I'm sure you know how to use Google.

Know your roots indeed. Hmmm, I was born in Winnipeg, so my family's history must start there...

float InvSqrt (float x)
{
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1);
x = *(float*)&i;
x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
return x;
}

This paper says that it was first found in the Quake 3 source. I guess it's in the SDK somewhere?

I wanted to add, too, that this is an example of why companies don't release code. They view things like this as secrets to be kept. Kudos to Carmack for having the confidence.

And finally, the car... Sure, the basic design of a car hasn't changed a great deal, but we have fuel injectors now instead or carburretors, streamlined vehicles instead of boxes on wheels

Isn't it really the mayor's job, when you boil it down, to plot to get re-elected?

Perl is executable line noise, Python is executable pseudocode.

It's this sort of jingoism that makes me hate using Python. The language itself is adequate (albeit with some flaws) but every time I consider using it, I can't help but think that I'm in some way aligning myself with people who say stuff like this so I use some other language instead.

And their argument invariably boils down to one thing: Python uses less non-alphanumeric characters than Perl.

woot.

Could someone who isn't afraid of dollar signs perhaps chime in here with actual examples of how Python is better than Perl? Perhaps something having to do with the languages' semantics?

I'd post my own personal beefs with Python here but I've done that once already so I'll just post the link .

Personally, I think that Perl is a better language for programming in the large than Python.