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A helpful Google lands a couple dandy images for the uninformed (like myself).

On the other hand, I remember reading somewhere that monotheistic religion was impossible before the invention of Aramaic and Hebrew because earlier languages couldn't express the necessary abstractions.

On the other hand, I remember reading somewhere that monotheistic religion was impossible before the invention of Aramaic and Hebrew because earlier languages couldn't express the necessary abstractions.

Autistic people seem to have a very poorly developed understanding of language, and consequently a distinctly different pattern of thought.

That is a post hoc ergo propter hoc ("after this therefore because of this") fallacy. Language problems is just one of the many symptoms of autism which lead us to believe that they have a distinctly different pattern of thought. We can only speculate that some subset of those symptoms are closer to the problem on a cognitive level. For example, Simon Baron-Cohen would probably argue that autistic people have no theory of other minds, therefore don't have the same understanding of the purpose of language as other users, and therefore use language poorly from the perspective of those other users.

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HOLY SHIT. Here's the Operation Northwoods Google Results. This is fucking scary. A couple months after Kennedy refused to take part in the Military's plan to force a neverending "war on terrorism", he was dead. Then the guy who killed him was dead the minute he yelled "I'm a patsy!". Then Northwoods went dark and nobody knows what happened until now. I FUCKING KNEW that 70 red-blooded Americans on a plane wouldn't just give in to a couple scrawny muslims with X-Acto knives. Always knew it smelled fishy.

Thanks for the link man.

Holy fuck.

Slashdot had a discussion about Programming Gone Wrong in the past.

It mentioned, among others, the Ariane 5 Failure, the infamous Therac-25 accidents, loss of Mars Orbiter, Hi-tech toilet swallowing woman, AT&T Switch failure, a bunch of things literally crashing, etc. And here is yet another article on miserable Patriot failure.

For professional assessment of risks, there is a Usenet group for RISKS Digest (Google groups) that describes all kinds of situations where technology has gone wrong.

Cannabis is not dope, less harmfull than alcohol

THC might not be as harmful, but smoking pot also makes you inhale fun things like tar, and other poisons.

Though some recent studies have linked pot with long term memory loss and other fun things.

According to Google's Zeitgeist", Windows XP represesnts 45% of the market out there (well, of their customers/users). Windows 2000 represents 18%, and although it will run in 64MB, I don't view anything less than 128MB realistic. Therefore, I would guess that the majority of people are already using machines with 128MB or more.

Some very nice recipies there, and a number of versions of some of the more popular ones.

The archive at http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/recipes/ has about 700 recipes others may have more.
Each recipe has a rating for difficulty, time and precision needed.

Actually this is right.
Try this for chicken, or this for beef, and so on.

Actually this is right.
Try this for chicken, or this for beef, and so on.

logically, this would suggest SPI. afterwards, i suspect they will rewrite the vrms package...
/shudder
/shudder again
ifn i'm right you can cough up kudos, but AFTER you make your donation.

I just hope you're not looking for a post on nanae by Jamie or another kook.

Surely this is a classic example of the Manager pattern.

I dunno, I've seen groups where there are 5 managers and one peon. Managers seem to accumulate.

Looks like some people out there need to review what design patterns are.

from first result:

Patterns and Pattern Languages are ways to describe best practices, good designs, and capture experience in a way that it is possible for others to reuse this experience. The Hillside Group takes pleasure in sponsoring many different PLoP conferences that are provided for the betterment of the pattern community.

This satellite is barely past middle age. A quick google search finds that AO-7 is the oldest working satellite and it will turn 30 this year. Mark your calendars boys and girls. November 15 is the day when the _real_ excitement starts. I'm starting an iCal shared calendar right now so I don't forget it!

and greedy corporations can't control the roads (pay me for a license, pay me a monthly access fee, pay me again for joining the flow of traffic just now, now pay me some more at a rate of n-per-mile... plus tax and environmental fees).

Uhh... I beg to differ.

Even our government (Provincial government of Ontario, Canada) can't seem to be able to control the skyrocketing rates the Highway 407 corporation has imposed. Unfortunately with few alternative ways to get around for those of us who live in the 905 within a reasonable timeframe, we are at their mercy. Whether or not we actually use the thing.

WTF is an HVAC???

On CNN?

In stories by the AP?

Business pages of the Sunday paper?

Answer? YES! :-)

Maybe you should take a little bit longer look

I do wonder how cooperative CIT was. After several hours of requests for the info (with a warrent) the FBI must have been riled to say "F-this-S, haul it away!". Think about how much extra work that must have been. There's more to this story, pity no news service has looked into it yet.

Try this.

Of course, news.google.ca is your friend.

Also, check out some of his other art. "A rotating, pulsating, elevating, sound and movement activated, life-size neon brain." Now that's just strange.

>Appletalk ships in every Linux distro.
Yup. And so does XT HDD support. You point, if you have one?

>You're a fucking idiot.
Ad hominem attacks are something I've come to expect from Apple Zealots.

>Gigabit ethernet does speed up TCPIP connections on your LAN.
No shit. And a 747 would get me to work faster. Does that make it useful to me, or the vast majority of users? HELL NO.

>Apple users are apparently better informed about technology than you.
And they apparently have more attitude problems to boot.

>SCSI is still shipped in high volume today.
High volume being 1/10th of a percent of all drives sold?

>As is postscript.
1/100th of a percent of all printers shipped, if you're LUCKY. And I mean LUCKY.

>For every one of those stupid things I can name ten or a hundred failed attempts by microsoft or intel to introduce standards.
Good. Show me 150 failures by each. Have fun.

>EG: by your argument the X86 market is a failure because microbus was not successfu.
Of course, unlike older Macs, there were many choices for buses back then, ISA being on every PC sold, apart from a select few. Can you show me that it was the case, for older Macs, that NuBus was just a sideshow, that the real action was something more popular with the computer industry? I so highly doubt it.

>Never mine that NuBus was a standard bus used by many besides apple (like SCSI), while the "IDE" and "ISA" busses-- which are really the same signalling thing-- are non-standards, and default standards.
Yes, and, like a lot of unpopular standards that were used by the underdog, it died. It died really well.

>RISC processing
Bzzt! HP, 1986, *WAY* before Apple even thought about that.

>The GUI
Debateable, but legend puts it this way, despite Xerox PARC.

>The freakin; CD-ROM! You have apple to thank for that.
How the fuck is that possible when the CD-ROM was invented in 1983? You're claiming things for Apple that happened prior to the Mac being released? Are you nuts?

>USB
I think we've beat that one to death, TWO AND A HALF FUCKING YEARS Intel beat Apple to the punch on that one. Fuck, can you read what I wrote? Are you that stupid?

>FireWire
You mean IEEE-1394, right? Apple wanted to keep the iron fist on firewire, make sure it was dead out of the gate. That's why nobody wanted it. Nobody knew that the hell it was: i.Link? S400? IEEE-1394? All because Apple is a greedy bastard company. They got what they deserved here.

>Flat Panel Displays
What the FUCK are you smoking man? LCDs were invented WAAAAAY before Apple existed. Heck, I had a digital watch before the Mac existed. You can't claim shit that's older than the whole company. Get real.

>Tower cases!
Whaaaaat the hell are you talking about? You have NEVER been to a computer junk sale, have you?

>the 3.5 inch floppy drive
Yawn... same as before. Claiming shit that happened before the Mac was invented.

>The Laser Printer
Again... And there's a tasty tidbit that I must remember the next time someone claims the GUI was first sold in the Mac:

1981 May Xerox unveils the Star 8010, at the National Computer Conference. Many features that were developed on the Alto are incorported. It includes a bitmapped screen, WYSIWYG word processor, mouse, laser printer, Smalltalk language, Ethernet, and software for combining text and graphics in the same document. At a starting price of US$16-17,000, the computer is not a commercial success. During its lifetime, 100,000 units are produced.

>The

Uh, Whatever buddy.

The "French Military Victories" +I'm feeling lucky does too work.

Check it out for yourself: Here

Pity you can't fact check before looking like a complete idiot.(but that's slashdot eh?)

Hello. I just wanted to inform the netland that a direct nerve to transistor
interface is finally operational. The invention was privately announced 1
month ago, but is now out in the public. It is possible now to grow a nerve
over a silicon substrate in a way that the nerve has a capacitive connection
to a FE-Transistor built into the substrate. The signal to noise is good
enough to resolve the bandwith of a usual neuron. For more information, watch
out for an article of the university of Heidelberg in an upcoming issue of
'Nature'.
Welcome to Cyberspace.

Henrik Klagges
Scanning tunnel microscopy group at LMU Munich

I was extremely impressed at the time, but I never did see anything more about it. Ah, the days of being young and believing everything you read on alt.cypherpunk...

• stringtomatch "this is some text" skipto("(") $ pre_paren ( funcof(pre_paren)$parenmatch = replacement(parenpatch) )

skipto is a builtin, but funcof and replacement would have to be user-defined (and they can be defined on the fly).

Perl6 appears to have similar functionality, but (IMHO) I don't think it's going to be quite as nice as the SNOBOL syntax.

Unfortunately, I'm not good enough at compiler design to write my own spitbol interpreter, or I would.

The one problem with snobol is that it was created before the idea of structured programming came along, so it is goto-structured... (although somebody then came up with ratbol which was essentially a preprocessor to provide RATional structure to snoBOL)

Look at the density and then it makes more sense
goolge
(5e30 pounds) / (((((2 500 miles)^3) * 4) / 3) * pi) = 8.31343401 x 10^09 kg / m3
* (1000 kg/m^3 / g/cm^3) = 8.3134 x 10^12 g/cm^3
FYI, dimond has a density of 3.52g/cm^3 .... I don't think this is diamond anymore.

dont just bitch, actually try and learn something - its not hard.

Q: What is RETSYN?
A: RETSYN is a Warner-Lambert Company trademark for the active ingredient in CERTS, Cool Mint Drops, and CERTS Power Mints. RETSYN* consists of a combination of copper gluconate and hydrogenated cottonseed oil. It is RETSYN, in addition to the flavor, which is responsible for the efficacy of CERTS against breath odours. The hydrogenated vegetable oil and the copper gluconate absorb odors in the mouth.

My company has a lot of Dell D-series and X-series laptops. The power supply has a chip in it that the laptop checks when you plug it in.

If you try to use a clone power supply, the laptop will complain, and refuse to charge its batteries from the clone. It will still work from the AC though.

This would be bad enough, but the genuine Dell power supplies are extremely fragile. We've returned several dozen under warranty when the Dell laptop refuses to recognize the Dell power supply as genuine.

A quick search with google will describe the problem in greater detail.

I found the following little study here. Read on:

As part of my study of Operating Systems and embedded systems, one of
the things I've been looking at is compilers. I'm interested in
analyzing how different compilers optimize code for different
platforms. As part of this comparison, I was looking at the Intel
Compiler and how it optimizes code. The Intel Compilers have a free
evaluation download from here:
http://www.intel.com/products/software/inde x.htm?i id=Corporate+Header_prod_softwr&#compilers

One of the things that the version 8.0 of the Intel compiler included
was an "Intel-specific" flag. According to the documentation, binaries
compiled with this flag would only run on Intel processors and would
include Intel-specific optimizations to make them run faster. The
documentation was unfortunately lacking in explaining what these
optimizations were, so I decided to do some investigating.

First I wanted to pick a primarily CPU-bound test to run, so I chose
SPEC CPU2000. The test system was a P4 3.2G Extreme Edition with 1 gig
of ram running WIndows XP Pro. First I compiled and ran spec with the
"generic x86 flag" (-QxW), which compiles code to run on any x86
processor. After running the generic version, I recompiled and ran
spec with the "Intel-specific flag" (-QxN) to see what kind of
difference that would make. For most benchmarks, there was not very
much change, but for 181.mcf, there was a win of almost 22% !

Curious as to what sort of optimizations the compiler was doing to
allow the Intel-specific version to run 22% faster, I tried running
the same binary on my friend's computer. His computer, the second test
machine, was an AMD FX51, also with 1 gig of ram, running Windows XP
Pro. First I ran the "generic x86" binaries on the FX51, and then
tried to run the "Intel-only" binaries. The Intel-specific ones
printed out an error message saying that the processor was not
supported and exited. This wasn't very helpful, was it true that only
Intel processors could take advantage of this performance boost?

I started mucking around with a dissassembly of the Intel-specific
binary and found one particular call (proc_init_N) that appeared to be
performing this check. As far as I can tell, this call is supposed to
verify that the CPU supports SSE and SSE2 and it checks the CPUID to
ensure that its an Intel processor. I wrote a quick utility which I
call iccOut, to go through a binary that has been compiled with this
Intel-only flag and remove that check.

Once I ran the binary that was compiled with the Intel-specific flag
(-QxN) through iccOut, it was able to run on the FX51. Much to my
surprise, it ran fine and did not miscompare. On top of that, it got
the same 22% performance boost that I saw on the Pentium4 with an
actual Intel processor. This is very interesting to me, since it
appears that in fact no Intel-specific optimization has been done if
the AMD processor is also capable to taking advantage of these same
optimizations. If I'm missing something, I'd love for someone to point
it out for me. From the way it looks right now, it appears that Intel
is simply "cheating" to make their processors look better against
competitor's processors.

Links:
Intel Compiler:http://www.intel.com/products/software/in dex.htm?iid=Corporate+Header_prod_softwr&#compiler s

Here is the text: /*
* iccOut 1.0
*
* This program enables programs compiled with the intel compiler
using the
* -xN flag to run on non-intel processors. This can sometimes result
in
* large performance increases, depending on the application. Note
that even
* though the check will be removed, the CPU runni

Aunt Bertha switches on her 2 GHz supercomputer, and hooks up to the Internet with a connection speed that would have rivaled an ISP in the early 1990's. She sees a pretty icon in her inbox, so she points and clicks, unleashing some spammer's latest mass-mailing creation. By the time Bertha goes and gets a triscut, she has already spammed a million Internet neighbours.

Anyone else see why the Internet is full of crap? And if you think it's as easy to control as "blocking port 25" ... ha ha. You wish! The worm only has to send mail via the ISP's outgoing mail server (remember... the one you reminded me "I should be using")

So no, controlling this spam/virus menace isn't quite that easy. Whatever method you use to legitimately send mail, the worms will follow that same method.

take a look at this

anyone want to buy a yacht?

the date on the fourm is Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:20 pm so um im guessing most of those are still valid.

Fuck You, Asshole.

The Concorde failed because of a combination of an insurmountable technical problem and a purely financial one. The unsolvable technical problem was the sonic boom, the explosivelike blast that followed like a shadow the Concorde's path overhead. This phenomenon occurred at the moment the plane pierced the sound barrier. It rattled windows and frightened birds, beasts and humans.

So serious were the repercussions that governments banned the Concorde from flight over their lands.

Eat that, cocksucking gay homo GNAA advocate.

BTW: Plz die of AIDS. -K tnx.

Here's what I could come up with...

The trap was mentioned in the Alienshop episode of the Outer Limits.

It would probably come down to the idea of the *reasonable man*. A judge would ask herself what would a reasonable man do. The concept of a reasonable man is ancient and goes at least as far back as Aristotle. A Google search on the subject touches on the usage in law and philosophy.

I and others disagree. Here's two:

Consider Paul Graham: Beating the Averages. Considering that he's the kind of guy that gets invited to MIT as a language wizard (along with Guy Steele, David Detlefs, Martin Rinard, Jonathan Rees, and David Moon), and considering that he has a net worth in the (hundreds of) millions, I'll go with his choice: abstraction rules.

Consider Erann Gat from JPL (the guys who get to send robots to Mars and build autonomously controlled space probes) disagrees and empirically proves it.

Diamond Walker emphatically endorses LISP - his story is very compelling.

The list goes on and on: Dan Friedman, Mitchell Wand, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Christian Quiennec ...

But, to paraphrase Graham, if you don't know these people I guess I don't have to worry about you.

Others have already noted that you are wrong, but for those who want to know, try searching for just litigious or bastards by itself :)

I think this was quite a successful googlebomb.

Others have already noted that you are wrong, but for those who want to know, try searching for just litigious or bastards by itself :)

I think this was quite a successful googlebomb.

I think you're vasty underestimating Google.

A quick visit to Google Services and Tools followed by Google Labs will show you that not only have they long ago "started something else", they've been innovating like crazy!

Google isn't going anywhere.

However, this case did help to solve something many a web developer has struggled with - how to have multiple versions of IE, not just installed, but running at the same time. See also this thread or just use google. Browser versions can be gotten at the archive on evolt.org.

That is not at all surprising, given their history. They have done PR for some of the most abject dictators in the world, worked for tobacco companies, etc...

They are professional liers, having helped spin Enron, Iraq, and many, many more.

The fact they helped defeat outsourcing while making extensive use of it themselves barely registers on the radar of hypocrisy.

That is not at all surprising, given their history. They have done PR for some of the most abject dictators in the world, worked for tobacco companies, etc...

They are professional liers, having helped spin Enron, Iraq, and many, many more.

The fact they helped defeat outsourcing while making extensive use of it themselves barely registers on the radar of hypocrisy.

Yep, it works: http://www.google.ca/search?q=litigious+bastards&b tnI=1.

It's misspelled. Searching for Daikatana might be more fruitful.

And hopefully it will be done justice by the original creator

He was even kind enough to ask for input from devoted fans.

Google cache of article

Metal Gear? Strap ourselves onto the rockets and let it's rail gun shoot us into space!!
The Snake Hole: a Metal Gear Solid encyclopedia + Mirror

Here's a possible picture of him from images.google.com
Carmine Caridi