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people have been doing real time data mining in VRML since the vrml2.0 plugins came out back in 97

Teach me to use Google as a spell check! (3 million hits seemed good enough for /. checking. :)

I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix. This is a program for hackers by a hacker. I've enjouyed doing it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for their own needs. It is still small enough to understand, use and modify, and I'm looking forward to any comments you might have.

>And storming a ship is worse than pouring tonnes of lead/mercury crap and deadly stuff down rivers and the air?

That type of fallacy has been used to justify many long, bloody, and, in hindsight, absolutely wrongheaded actions.

Modern history examples: By Canadians putting Japanese in concentration camps, Americans supporting the vietnam war, and the Taliban blowing up the twin towers, amongst many others others.

Presently debateable issues such as the present US war against Iraq will likely turn out to be, in, say, 20 years hindsight, extremely foolish too.

Eco-terrorists should take a page from Ghandi's book.

>Id like to see your wife get pregnant living next to a coal power plant or pulp factory with relaxed polution laws.

I'd like to see you lose your job because greenpeace has deemed it bad for the environment while you're trying to feed and clothe that kid. Works both ways, huh?

Anyways, I'd like, just for once, for an Eco-Terrorist to think with their mind, rather than their heart. You'd be surprised how much farther you can get when people don't hate your guts. Odd how the Greenpeace webpages are cleansed of incidents like that. I wonder how many times the locals have shown their displeasure with Greenpeace, and Greenpeace, a supposedly trustworthy organization, has just covered them up?

Plenty.

BTW: Watch the last episode of season 1, Penn and Teller's Bullshit! You might learn something about these nuts. Like the fact they, overall, want to ban water. Yup, most greenies are too dumb to know about DHMO (I believe that most Grade 8 classes beat 'em). Don't believe me?

I'm sure you can find a copy somewhere to verify it. Ask your library.

Amazingly, they have decided to adopt a new policy which could delay their next stable release to late 2005. You heard it here first!

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Zinc in the amounts being discussed here likely isn't unhealthy unless inhaled (then it becomes like that other famous mineral fibre). Besides, zinc may be anti-bacterial or anti-fungal:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=zinc+antibacterial&i e=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

Use the cached Google version while the site is being /.ed.

And how in the world does the name eVic imply 20GB of storage? Is it something in another language (like vic means 20), or was the poster meaning that the eVic was supposed to compete with the iPod based on similarities in the way they are capitalized and the lengths of the name?

Once again google, if not memory, to the rescue: http://www.google.ca/search?q=vic20

People, people, people! Turbochargers are ALWAYS spinning, and ALWAYS moving air. Period! Its a closed system, and the only way around it is via the wastegate which is shut until you reach maximum boost.

Of course, at low rpms the effect isn't very noticible because you'll still be generating an intake vacuum - only it'll be slightly less than a naturally aspirated car. Now it depends on the turbo and what its compressor map looks like, but even a little gas (like when cruising) will spin the turbo fast enough to significantly cut down on intake vacuum. Get on the gas a little though, and you should see the vacuum decrease to the point of equilibrium, where the turbocharger is compressing air approximately as fast as the engine could suck it in by itself. Up to and including that point, its relatively easy for a turbo to move air because theres very little resistance. Above and beyond that though, you start generating positive pressure (boost), which is where the real work begins, drivers start having fun, and the fuel economy goes to shit. But nomatter what the engine is doing, the turbocharger is always doing its job, or at least trying to. Even at very low engine RPMs, your turbo can still be spinning at 10,000+ rpm, which is gonna move a little air no matter how you slice it.


So yes, parent is right. Turbocharged cars are always turbocharged. Its a common mistake to assume that your turbo isn't doing any work until it starts to generate positive pressure (boost).

Now get out there and enjoy the power-snails people! :D

What does DVD mean?
The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc.

You don't have to know the equivalent, just what type of unit it is. In this case you want distance per volume, and "10 miles per gallon in km per liter" works fine.

Once you have it in consistant, logical metric units, you can easily convert it to any other appropriate unit.

For example the more common miles per gallon in liter per 10 km which Google can also handle.

You don't have to know the equivalent, just what type of unit it is. In this case you want distance per volume, and "10 miles per gallon in km per liter" works fine.

Once you have it in consistant, logical metric units, you can easily convert it to any other appropriate unit.

For example the more common miles per gallon in liter per 10 km which Google can also handle.

Normally I don't reply to trolls. But in this case I will make an exception. :P

GameCube has a pretty powerful GPU, and it CAN do hardware effects. Rebel Strike uses it to great advantage, and does a lot of stuff on hardware. The CPU is used for one HELL of a lot of AI, physics, and all that sort of jazz.
I wasn't aware that i had said, or even implied, that it isnt.

I don't know why you would think that all the things Xbox does in hardware would have to be done on software on the GCN.

I don't. I'm simply saying that in Rebel Strike, the resources that could be allocated to effects are instead allocated to raw polycounts. Your post seemed to imply that on top of the polys, the GC could easily add all the effects, and that the Xbox just couldnt cut it with halo 2's polycounts, ignoring all of the effects.

I am not saying that the Xbox can't run Rebel Strike, I am saying that it would push the hardware just as much as it does on GameCube.

I seriously doubt that. While it would push the hardware, it would not push it as much as a gamecube (imo, the gamecube actually as a pretty easy time with it, though, i don't see it 'pushing' the gamecube at all. Facts are facts, and the Xbox *does* have more power than the Gamecube, ask any professional/dev/journalist. Hell, go look at Splinter Cell for all three platforms -- while not much, the gamecube version WAS toned down a bit, because the gamecube DID have a slightly harder time with it.

Unified memory also means unified bandwidth. Something that I know developers would appreciate more of on the Xbox.

In this case, the advantages strongly outweigh the disadvantages. I've seen many quots from Xbox devs citing the unified memory as one of its strongest advantages. (sorry, i googled them but can't find them atm... i'll try and find them)

Nintendo is second place worldwide. This is a fact.
Got the figures, a link? Yes, the GC has better sales in Asia, South America, and parts of Europe, but the Xbox dominates it in NA, and most of the rest of Europe. The NPD figures i've seen in the past 7-8 months are always strongly in conflict -- Gamecube had a huge burst of sales when they had their ingenius 'price drop' (quadrupled sales!) and the Xbox had its recently, when it dropped to 149$US and the Halo bundle came out. -- the Xbox now outsells the PS2 in the US, even.


And I don't see PS2 lacking much western support.


Check again. Practically the only Western games coming to the PS2 outside of SCEA's own games, are all multiplatform. Go ahead, i'll wait.

I'm not trying to be a fanboy, I'm looking at facts here. And the facts are:
- Xbox is more powerful than the Gamecube. period.
- Unified memory is actually considered a huge advantage by most developers.
- Xbox has much more western support, and therefore can garner much more western sales, than the PS2 and Gamecube, which still both rely mostly on Japanese games and franchises.

I'm not fighting against you, Ninja, I'm on your side. I just hate it when people twist facts. Go read the Tauniverse Console forum, and you'll see that I'm very often quite pro-Gamecube.

Google calculator is great. The only thing I've requested they add... is the ability to enter queries such as this:

10 miles per gallon in metric

Face it, most people don't know what the heck the metric or imperial equivalent is of any given measure.

Hmmm.... come to think of it, this might be a great Firefox extension.... let people select a measure, right-click/convert to metric. Look up a reference table of units, and send the query to Google which you open in another tab. OK, I'll add that to my todo list for sometime in the next few months, unless someone here does it first! :)

That's not that ridiculous.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=diesel+genset+30-MW

Well, I don't know your situation exactly, but I googled it a couple different ways and found quite a few links. Hopefully one of them can help you.

Needless to say, I've also seen you asking around on some forums which showed up in the search, so I know you're serious enough to have already tried all this. Hopefully there are some new pages that you haven't found yet. A couple of those links claim to have answers, but of course, YMMV.

Since I didn't help you much (probably at all), I'll just take a Lite Beer and an old uneaten crust somebody threw back in the pizza box.

Sorry I couldn't help more, but with Linux, I've found anything is possible if you dig long enough. Hopefully I've uncovered some new dirt for you. Good luck!

Well, I don't know your situation exactly, but I googled it a couple different ways and found quite a few links. Hopefully one of them can help you.

Needless to say, I've also seen you asking around on some forums which showed up in the search, so I know you're serious enough to have already tried all this. Hopefully there are some new pages that you haven't found yet. A couple of those links claim to have answers, but of course, YMMV.

Since I didn't help you much (probably at all), I'll just take a Lite Beer and an old uneaten crust somebody threw back in the pizza box.

Sorry I couldn't help more, but with Linux, I've found anything is possible if you dig long enough. Hopefully I've uncovered some new dirt for you. Good luck!

Lots of infrastructure, but removing infrastructure is valid military strategy. Besides, it was shown both in the blitzes against Britan, and the firebombing of Dresden that, curiously enough, that sort of terror attack on civilian populaces simply doesn't really work.

You think that idea is bad? Read up on terminator seeds. The possibilities are terrifying. The funny part is, so many people are up in arms about terminator seeds, that Monsanto doesn't get on the first page of Google.

here's a google cache of one other site. Sorry it's all arabic. It's not very extreme, but they got some extrem views that makes me wonder.

Man, I'm just glad Linus B. Torvalds stopped spamming all those newsgroups! ;^) (Not that I wasn't interested at the time.)

Man, I'm just glad Linus B. Torvalds stopped spamming all those newsgroups! ;^) (Not that I wasn't interested at the time.)

The US is probably the worst trade partner in the world to deal with.

Another observation, of the hosts I've spotted that were bounced by the SBL, I've rarely been able to scan them for open proxies. No ports open, nothing. Could be the firewall, or, is it possible that the viren only accept connections from a specific range of address space?

>For it be there nickname, other people have to use it not just you.

Exactly. You see, that's why we have these things called "search engines". You type things in and they magically return 168 other people that agree, including an entire popular online magazine! Isn't that amazing? Wow! I hope I helped educate you today. Now beat it.

If the internet has associated the ideas "miserable failure" and "bush" together, then I'm sorry, you are just going to have to live with this. Just because you can't see the connection, a connection so strong that it is the number one connection measured at this location currently, doesn't mean that it's not a valid one.

When I use a search engine, I am NOT looking for a webpage with the words that I enter in, ie example if I were to search for "miserable failure" I would not be looking for a webpage with "miserable failure", but rather the meaning behind those two words, and the best examples of webpages that describe miserable failures, the state of being a miserable failure, or something in relation to the state of being a miserable failure. The internet seems to agree that bush is an example of the above. If poeple wanted to look for the exact words they type into google, when they use google, google would not provide spelling suggestions when mis-spellings occur...this is yet another example at how the meaning is what is sought, not the words.

The 'webpage must contain text' / plaintext search idea just plain sucks. This is how search engines used to rank, wasn't it? And didn't google blow them all out of the water, so to speak? Because it worked better, and was less prone to abuse? And what really on the internet, would be a good idea of "miserable failure", other than bush? (feel free to link to it) There is doubless imprvement to be made on google...but it's pretty damn good as it is.

Only the prosecutor gets to ask questions? Yipes! That doesn't sound fair! I thought the USA was supposed to be a democratic Country? Seriously, why have them? How often do you have them? Are the jurors for Grand Juries drawn from the same pool as jurors for regular trials? Is the prosecutor on his own, or does a judge preside?

Only the prosecutor gets to ask questions? Yipes! That doesn't sound fair! I thought the USA was supposed to be a democratic Country? Seriously, why have them? How often do you have them? Are the jurors for Grand Juries drawn from the same pool as jurors for regular trials? Is the prosecutor on his own, or does a judge preside?

File this patent in the "Press shift key to bypass copy protection" bucket.

Make that HERE

It looks like an egg on wheels!

Phone rings:
It's Mindy, Mork want's his car back!

Ok, let's not be so lazy after all. It was April 1986. I was in SE England and I remember our Physics teacher taking us outside with Geiger counters within 24-48 hours of the accident registering radiation levels evalated above the normal/average background level. A quick search on Google indicates there are still farms in Scotland with restrictions 18 years later.

Accessibility refers to ensuring that Content is accessible, ie. ensuring that Content can be navigated and read by everyone, regardless of location, experience, or the type of computer technology used.

Accessibility refers to ensuring that Content is accessible, ie. ensuring that Content can be navigated and read by everyone, regardless of location, experience, or the type of computer technology used.

You have never, ever seen an 'objective' documentary that wasn't trying to inform you of some plight, or problem, or point of view. Ever.

What gives you the impression that he expects you to not independently verify his content?

Bush sticks to June 30 deadline for handover. The real reason they're sending these over is to reduce the number of bodybags coming home in an election year. A noble idea driven by the wrong reasons.

Actually I made several, but you ignored what I had to say...

Heard it, but it simply does not matter as far as valid argumentation goes.

The previous link should give you access to a number of pages that clealy refute that claim.

"Abusive Ad Homenim" is a sub-class of the Ad Homenim fallacy, and is not a derogatory comment.

You may of course use whatever fallacious arguments you like, but please do not become offended when called out for it.

Kind regards,

My point is that it is amazing how often seemingley rational people can be fooled by a convincing argument... Don't be suprised if the spammer pulls out a blocked website with a certain political viewpoint and claims that it is being blocked for reasons other than spamming, or that blocking mail is somehow equal to what is happening in China... Here's hoping that our guy has some debating skills.

[1] The two books I originally used were "The Design of the Unix Operating System" by Bach, and "OS Design and Implementation" by Tanenbaum. [...] The Bach book has a few nice algorithms in it, and I'd suggest reading them too: many of the actual ideas on how something could be implemented came from that.

Yes, and soccer has never caused violence in the recent past. Next time, try to find a rebuttal topic that's different from the other topics.

We're just about to start Round 81...

Or maybe it's just the pyroluria?

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They called it the Java Office
They ran into JVM limitations and scrapped it!

I'd have to disagree. From experience, I've noticed that my URL listing at the top of my comments (line immediately above this) allows people to search for my online resume. This URL above in Slashdot is the only place I've ever advertised my online resume.

See for yourself, do a search for "vancouver electrical engineer wireless hardware". The second item there will be me (as of today, anyways). Higher pagerank than the IEEE Communications Society in Vancouver, even.

Dave

I forgot the eactual statistic but isnt there a sizable percentage of the computers on the net still using 98.

Google Cache for chart comparing Excel, OpenOffice.org, and PlanMaker.

For those of us who have no idea who Morgan Webb is, click here. I don't even want to know what that fat naked guy with the teddy bear ( http://logic_net.tripod.com/bachelor.jpg ) is doing there though. I didn't link, becuase of some referal denying of some kind.