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and unfortunatly, complaints and suggestions have fallen on deaf ears....

Why encourage them?

Funny that you should mention Scientology and the Gambino family in the same post.

Asia Carrera has to be one of the most intriguing women of the adult movie industry. A member of the high-IQ organization MENSA, Asia ranks with the most intelligent and accomplished ladies to have ever appeared in X-rated films.

But over the past few years we've seen a growing number of university teams approaching cheap personal prototyping from different angles. Each quietly adding to the pool of ideas from which the next efforts will draw.

Wired Magazine, in November 2004 covered Neil Gershenfeld's work at MIT. Slashdot discussion here

Gershenfeld's can produce solid objects like eyeglass frames, action figures and electronic devices like radios and computers.

Another approach to rapid prototyping and manufacturing uses inkjet technology. Inkjet Printers spitting out polymer instead of ink, manufacturing solar cells, batteries, complete working gadgets, human tissue and computer circuitry. (Disclosure: The above link is one of my BlogSpot articles on the acceleration).

Researchers Hod Lipson and Jordan B. Pollack at Brandeis University have coupled inkjet technology and software to autonomously design and fabricate robots without human intervention.
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The software simulates a variety of rudimentary virtual robots. In an accelerated Darwinian contest of survival over hundreds of generations, the most successful robotic designs are then physically prototyped. Robots autonomously designing, testing and manufacturing robots.

We're very close.

Ted

The linked article refers to the actual useage we draw from a network as an example of it's value. But clearly there is far more value to be tapped. Look at Neural Nets. With only a few nodes, they can actually learn.

Consider the untapped power of the connected masses. The potential computational power of all connected home desktops in North America is far greater than the most powerful supercomputer. Even Google, which has an estimated computational capacity surpassing the most powerful supercomputer and approaching that of the human brain.

Estimates are that
the Human brain computes somewhere between 100 TERAflops and 1000 Teraflops,
and Google performs somwhere between 100 and 300 teraflops.

When you switch mail clients (you allways do in a few years)

...currently hits on the European Council at number 3. This is as a result of the (elected) Council's antidemocratic campaign to force Bill Gates' software patent agenda on the European Union, in direct contravention of the wishes of the the (elected) European Parliament.

There's a reason this won't happen. Whenever Google comes out with something new, they put it on the front page. For example google.ca has a link to their new custom Google News. I wouldn't have noticed this if it wasn't one of the very few things on the page. Google's simple front page is the reason why people notice when something new happens. And then, above the search bar, they have that magical "more>>" so you'll always be able to see the rest of their services. Of course, you can bookmark services you like (like I do with Google Local.

Also, they use cross promotions that work subtly together. I got gmail, and then from gmail, there was "new features" link (in red so you can't miss it). Oh by the way, while I'm on this subject, Microsoft, you could learn a little from that. Instead of cluttering my inbox with an email every time you don't do anything new, you can put up a little link at the top like Google does. Back to the point. One new feature was that you could now send pictures from Picasa right to Gmail. I never used Picasa before, but decided to download it to check it out. My family has a digital camera that makes high-quality pics, and we always wanted a quick way to lower the quality of the pics before emailing them. Picasa lets us do both of those things in one easy step. In this way, Google's products spread and grow onto me like a virus. I'd probably never care about Picasa if it was just in some plain list of Google services.

I've been called on my cellphone by scammers that my callerID identified as 1-305-675-6263.

Those scumbags aren't above using wardialers.

...when they can't even visit Google and click on any of the first few results, which immediately explain what LDAP is.

They should look look here

2) Peace in the Mideast can be achieved with zinc supplements.

I read this usenet post every now and then when I'm trying to fix something, and it makes me want to cry every time I do.

Canada is not a British colony. It was one and uses British common-law as its base. I am not a lawyer and I can't say which year Canada ceased to be a colony 1982, 1931, 1867, 1848-1849. I would assume a combinaton of the middle two. Anyow, you pick. Each of those years marked some sort of devolution of power to Canada to manage its own affairs. Nevertheless common-law is just that, common. Canadian courts do rely on foreign precedents and so do US courts. Use a search engine and enter the search criteria of: use of foreign precedents.

In any event, all federal laws pertaining to libel and this provincial law have been written or amended since 1982, so the issue of UK law applying to Canada is moot.

I am still shocked that an Ontario court would hear this case. If the Post had contracted banner ads to direct people with IPs known to be in Canada to their site and that article, then I could see how the plaintiff has could have standing in an Ontario court, but the action was performed in DC, for the DC/MA/North VA market, maybe the US market. I dunno, what are the US newspapers of record? Regardless, the libel occurred in the US. I agree with the mob; the case should be tried there.

Their hard drives aren't designed for booting OSes from. Too much seeking will fry them.

This sounds right for older iPods, but I'm not so sure this applies to the latest batch. There have been specs passed around via forum threads that claim that the Toshiba drive used in iPods has a 20,000 hour MTBF (mean time between failure) -- which is a far cry from the 300,000+ MTBF for desktop drives. However newer (Gen 4) iPods use the Toshiba MK4004GA, which has a 300,000 hour MTBF, just as good as a laptop drive.

As far as I know, you are correct about Gen 1 and Gen 2 iPods (I'm not sure about Gen 3).

I'm looking into a RAID setup myself for a video-on-demand system at home using MythTV. (I want to rip my DVDs of television shows to the hard drive so I can watch them without having to flip discs.)

Backups of that seem kind of funny - I have a DL DVD drive, but it's going to take almost as many discs as the original DVDs if I leave them in the MPEG format.

I just Checked it out and when I copy the link, it is simply to http://www.bobthebuilder.org/, not to some fancy redirection script.

I verified this on: http://www.google.com, http://www.google.ca, and, as you claim, on http://www.google.co.nz. This was verified using IE and Firefox.

So, either a) google has made a major change in their search resulting which is only visible to those in new zealand, or b) your information is incorrect.

Either way, Google is currently providing direct links to the site returned in the search results. So, I guess the point you were making is rather moot now. :-)

~~~Douglas

Yeah, I checked many cached pages and could not duplicate the results even on Google own pages. I think what happed was that they created a pages and then removed or updated the content and the title no longer reflects the contents that where cached originally.

Hm, not to respond to myself, but..

It seems i was wrong, a C# search does work. Looks like google hardcoded it to work for specificaly C#, as if you try K#, or im sure very many other variations, it doesn't work.

Non-Disclosure Agreement

And if they do get it done, make it in damn Celsius!

Uh, I don't think so. Wasn't Spam Arrest the one who spammed everyone who ever sent email to any of their subscribers - to advertise their anti-spam service? http://www.google.ca/search?q=spam+arrest+spammed+ customers Cheers, Sassan Sanei

It has no redeeming qualities ???

It has no redeeming qualities ???

It has no redeeming qualities ???

It has no redeeming qualities ???

It has no redeeming qualities ???

Well, you might not find that book in the library, but here's the electronic version. It has: a dash of victim info, which we can consider to be our list of potential targets; lists of known organisations which you can either use to select a place to join or a group to blame for your own activities; and a large number of terrorist actions and their efficacy over time, which may help you choose overly effective methods or plan new methods with some idea of their efficacy. By the way, I don't recommend printing it. You probably don't have enough paper.

Now, should we ban Google, pass laws saying that news can't be put online, make a list of words that we can't use in searches, or what? It's about time you realized that information for the inquiring mind is out there, and the idiots will either not read it or follow directions poorly. This has been the case since cavemen first had to say to their thicker contemporaries, "Don't use the club on your own head."

I'm aware of this.

I wonder, have you ever heard of laughter it is a typical response when someone tells a joke.

Since the "$" symbol at the beginning is used to reference money, a distance, or size measurement would not be relevant in this case since it said "$150MM" with a dollar sign ($) at the beginning.

Remember, "Smile and the world smiles with you. Fart and you stand alone."

Perhaps you'd benefit from a course in comedy appreciation.[/rant]

I first experienced it while taking a Cell Biology course taught by a professor who also did learning research. Me and a randomly chosen group of 3 or 4 other students were given a topic and a number of questions about it, and were required to meet once a week to divy up tasks, and report on what we had researched independantly on the topic.

Two times during the term, the group met with the Prof and were required to relay what we had gathered, and attempt to answer the questions given to us, after which there was an informal discussion with the prof about the topic. Our grades were based on the Prof's assessment of our work and a peer assessment by the other members of the group.

I learned a lot more about the topic than I would have if I had just taken a few weeks of lectures on it, and more importantly I still remember the items in that topic more than I do the other topics which were only covered by lecture. Probably the best benefit of this technique is that it is teaches/demands group organizational skills, something which the normal lecture format does not(and in fact inhibits), which is very important when you go into the workforce and need to effectively work with others to accomplish a problem on a regular basis, even if your job is relatively anti-social, like software development (which I do).

I couldn't find any references online so I asked.

Duh?

3 clicks away from a pic.

"Official definition of the meter"

But if you are in Germany and type in http://google.ca, low and behold, you get Google Canada, the Canadian Google site. Google.com, Google.se, Google.fr, Google.ch, Google.ru, Google.co.nz, Google.co.au, all appear to work from other countries, and I presume all of the 113 country local domains should also work. I have no idea if the search results vary, as that is a study for someone else to do.

But if you are in Germany and type in http://google.ca, low and behold, you get Google Canada, the Canadian Google site. Google.com, Google.se, Google.fr, Google.ch, Google.ru, Google.co.nz, Google.co.au, all appear to work from other countries, and I presume all of the 113 country local domains should also work. I have no idea if the search results vary, as that is a study for someone else to do.

What's a gaurentee ???

Perhaps it was a result of Google Hacking?
They may not want to be seen as the exploration tool of choice.

Moving to some remote location to work for one specific employer, with no other viable employment in the region, sounds like a crazy plan. Once you're there, have a family and some roots, Google has the capability of turning the screws until you bleed.

There will come a time, possibly in the not so distant future, when Google is Just Another Employee, and they're battling for survival amongst a wide range of contenders to the throne. Suddenly they're not giving out raises, or asking for salary concessions, and the game room and free gym membership are closed down...

Okay.

Somehow I don't feel enlightened.

link http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=author:cooke+sha- 1+2005&hl=en&lr=&selm=2IwkQ-2gU-1%40gated-at.bofh. it&rnum=1

Not to mention the un-intuitive user interface which encourages posting without quoting the parent.

Draw your own conclusions about this guy...

Is your name real or fake? Before anyone posts some proof I will remain skeptical. Google returns no hits with your name.

Or, in French, you'd tell them to Google ça .

Can't believe nobodys mentioned this yet...

What are these poor folks going to do?

Not a new sig idea...

Download these two programs, one C and the other C++, which supposedly do the same thing. Compare how long it takes to compile each one. Compare the sizes of the object files and executables.

Using GCC 3.2, the C++ code took about 10 times longer to compile than the C code, and section .text of the C++ object file was FIVE TIMES larger than section .text of the C object file.

And don't tell me memory is cheap, because CACHE memory is not cheap, and static RAM (used in some embedded systems) is not cheap, and $10 of extra memory per unit times 10,000,000 units shipped adds up to real money.

As with the United States' ill-fated experiment with "Prohibition" back in the 1930s or whenever it was...

Do you think you could have used the tools literally at your fingertips and at least tried to appear to be informed (the Wikipedia link was particularly useful)?

Mark these words it is only a matter of time before the RIAA and company unleash one legal sully too many and the citizenry responds with clandestine acts of violence and possibly even people and/or animals.

Please clarify for me what a "clandestine act of...animals" is. Is that stuffing a sheep in someone's car in the middle of the night, or just stuffing a sheep?

those screwy star-shaped ones that nobody has

What a torx? They aren't that hard to find. You can get a set for $5 at any hardware store.