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The funny thing is that the third link on the msn search for linux (the one that links to tech.msn.com) got yanked.

But from the Google cache remembers, and what does it say?

Red Hat remains a solid Linux contender, but Windows switchers or dual-booters should stick with SuSE for easier installation.

LoL!

indexhere...

y2k casemod here...

indexhere...

y2k casemod here...

The best way to incorporate this technology in a consumer-oriented music distribution would be to enclose it in a larger plastic enclosure with an interface to the player. Something like this [geocities.com], perhaps?

Archive.org cache and Google cache of the slashdotted geocities site. Most of the pics are absent, but oh well.

Backdoor to windows not due until Longhorn ? ?

still if you had a link it would be doubble plus good.

good thing im here to find this link

"Join this free, live audiocast during which Paul Hill of MIT and
David Bodnar of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be
interviewed about the state of their institution's planning and
deployment of Windows 2000. Richard Jones will be guest
co-hosting along with regular Technology Anchor, Howard Strauss

Thursday, November 30 at 4 pm Eastern Time

Sponsored by Microsoft..."

I knew it had to boil down to microsoft.

oh and another

"Our Sponsor for this Event
Microsoft is committed to helping colleges and universities build 21st Century Campuses in the Connected Learning Community by continuing to provide them with rich technology tools. Some Microsoft Web links of potential interest include:"

can you say vested interest?

still if you had a link it would be doubble plus good.

good thing im here to find this link

"Join this free, live audiocast during which Paul Hill of MIT and
David Bodnar of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be
interviewed about the state of their institution's planning and
deployment of Windows 2000. Richard Jones will be guest
co-hosting along with regular Technology Anchor, Howard Strauss

Thursday, November 30 at 4 pm Eastern Time

Sponsored by Microsoft..."

I knew it had to boil down to microsoft.

oh and another

"Our Sponsor for this Event
Microsoft is committed to helping colleges and universities build 21st Century Campuses in the Connected Learning Community by continuing to provide them with rich technology tools. Some Microsoft Web links of potential interest include:"

can you say vested interest?

The reason that they know it's Google is because of the user-agent string. What if they randomly visit sites using a different string? If the site doesn't know it's Google, it can't treat the engine specially. And according to Google's FAQ, that's grounds for de-indexing.

I happen to think there are some movies which can be enjoyed without knowing a single word of dialog.

And then there are movies where the dialog is so corny, dull, canned, annoying, or overwrought that they'd be much improved by the absence of dialog altogether. Honorable mention goes to this series, whose conclusion I hear is even worse.

This article appears to have been slashdotted, but here is the google cache.

You couldn't have looked that hard...this was the *first* link I found from Google.

Nah... Peep this, it's just not working ;)

This lady should have been more original... she copied her scam straight of the net: Results on google

Not really, they measurethe rate of acceleration of the chain.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=velocity+acceleratio n+jerk

"I leave you with one question: Suppose the US had not killed all those people. Suppose the US had never gotten involved anywhere. Can you confidently conclude that the gross level of violence and death in the world would be any less? "

um i would say by at least 6million people by the parent posters count. i think its actually alot more as he was just counting bombed regions not coups or installations of dictators (eg pinochet).
ill repost this list that i just happen to have on hand. warning some duplicates..

1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran -- Installs Shah as dictator
1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala -- 200,000 civilians killed in the process
1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.
1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia
1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile -- Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende Assassinated -- Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed -- 5,000 Chilieans murdered under his rule
1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador -- 70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed
1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets -- CIA gives them $3 billion
1981: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras" -- 30,000 Nicaraguans die
1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians
1983: White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis
1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington -- U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega -- 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S. (If you can't trust an "evil" murderous dictator, who can you trust?)
1991: U.S. enters Iraq -- Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait
1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan -- Factory turns out to be making aspirin
1990's: The U.N. (emphesis on The U.N.) estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid"
Sept. 11th, 2001: Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.

Really... can you tell me one single time when the US government actually helped another country more than it destroyed it? a very very very very good documentary about the us military interventions, as well as places like the school of the americas, can be found here. another very good documentary can be found here its called breakign the silence by Pilger.

as someone said (not sure who cant find an origin) violence begets violence. i think most americans will never get that.

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-- Voltaire

I won't link to (and destroy) a particular site, but just check this google search out. Also, of great importance was the discovery of 0...

Also, don't forget the great library of Alexandria, and also the Incas and Mayas.

In the end, those cultures are lost, and maybe even their fruits are lost, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist. Who knows, maybe western civilisation as we know it is about to be extinguished in a hundred years to leave a world for eskimos to flourish in...

Google for images of "microsoft campus" returns 1040 results including buildings, maps, pictures, etc, so it's not like there's a "no pictures" policy.

? Or maybe they figured that it would stop there, and asking that the picture be taken down (you've got to admit its pretty innocuous) would have drawn attention to it. After all, if you want to hide something, the best way to do it is to leave it in plain view (rare stamp "hidden" in plain sight on ordinary mail).

Telling the guy that removing the picture is all that's needed would draw attention to the picture, unlike all the other pictures of people, places and things at Microsoft, many of which have been linked to from /.

Unfortunately, firing the guy did draw attention to the pictures, not so much for what was there, but "what's the big deal about them?". the original poster had it right when he/she asked "Where were those G5s going?!?"

Sounds like Microsoft was getting all the benefits of a full-time employee without having to worry about any of the associated costs.

Microsoft has been through the ringer already with respect to "permatemps" (permanent temporary employees). Do a quick Google search for more details.

Like everything related to Apple, we're going to attack you for telling us your experiences if they don't support our "Apple sales agenda". These crashes did happen, they were widely reported, and were the reason for Apple issuing a patch the very next day, but we don't want you to ruin the good work of selling Apples to the Linux geeks that we're doing here. We are trying to kill Free Software and the GPL by cutting off their developers and converting them to Mac OS X. Our idea is to get them to trade a little freedom for a little beauty, and it's working. So shut up. If you don't have anything nice to say about Apple, don't say anything at all or we will mod you down as a troll.

Except that you can actually find mp3s on Google, try searching for Weapons Of Mass Destruction and click on 'i feel lucky' and you get kicked here. See! No wmd!

Longhorn's are cows. Cows produce two things in copious quantities:

1) Gas, AKA cow farts.
2) Cow pies, AKA shit.

So, just what is Microsoft trying to tell us???

My God. Force me to click through a prompt or something, but don't just tease me with an attachment's presence and then say that I can do nothing with it.

See this post.

I find it interesting that the new C# language is really streamlining the implementation of common design patterns. Use of patterns like an Iterator, Facade, Observer, etc. is simplified through language constructs like collections, interfaces, events, and more. You'd do well to read up on a topic before resorting to criticism.

whooaaaahhh man whoaaa

Orwell's experiences in Spain would occupy him for the rest of his life and in the end lead to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Later Orwell said to his friend Arthur Koestler that history stopped in 1936. Koestler knew at once what Orwell meant, and agreed. In 1936, objective history disappeared. Orwell did not believe that history was 100 per cent objective, but there had always been events that you with reasonable certainty could assume had taken place. But in Spain he saw that newspaper articles had no relation to reality. History was written, not according to what had happened, but according to what should have happened in accordance with the various party lines. And when he returned to England, he saw English newspapers repeat the lies of the Spanish press. Especially the left-wing newspapers with their more subtle form of distortion had been the main cause why people did not know what it was all about, but the bourgeois press had not kept back, either.

In Spain he also saw a form of censorship that alarmed him. Instead of just censoring articles and leaving an empty space, something else was inserted so that it was impossible to see what had been censured and not.

- linko

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The DRM is Microsoft's WMA 9.0, but they claim you can burn to CD, transfer to "compatible" portable devices, and can have them on up to 3 different computers - all similar to iTunes.

Details are still sketchy on which tunes/bands they'll be offering, just which devices their app will consider "compatible", etc. but it will be interesting to see if/how successful this will be.

Try Sentimental shooting, if you can find it.

and it was rejected. BTW Go Taikonauts! has more information about the chinese space program it's a yahoo site and it's exceeded it's limit for the moment so maybe check out the google cache. Pretty interesting.

>here in Canada, where people apologize for everything, the telemarketers mumble an apology and dont call back. this kind of shows the fundamental differences between the two cultures.

Well, I'm living here in Canada. Had an ADAD phone me at work selling some cars (blatantly illegal activity there). Being not-an-asshole, rather than phone the police and have their line disco'ed, I called them back and let them know the law (it's in the phone book, too).

They said "Oh, well, our guy says that doesn't exist". Uhhuhh, yeah right. My phone book is pirated. That must be it. Well, anyways, they're not phoning me, probably because they know next time I'm calling the cops. But more apologetic? Please.

Most hated person on the Internet
"most hated person" "computer industry" (far less results)

Most hated person on the Internet
"most hated person" "computer industry" (far less results)

If you misspell and search for candles motorcylcle, with an extra letter 'l', it returns 15 results. It also suggests "Did you mean: candles motorcycle" that returns no results.

Or, you could do it the easy way.

can't compare the two? here, let me compare hmm computer viruses created by exploiting hacker bastards affect computers at hospitals too! not just grandma's computer at home that is only used for email! There is your lives at risk! Only in this case it is potentially manslaughter if a death was just a 'screw up' from a hacker's actions ... or murder if the hacker knowingly attacks computers who's downtime effects patient care. - that could mean something as simple as having to do old style paperwork, taking up the time of too many workers who would otherwise be serving the sick people in the waiting room. For a hacker to use an exploit, make or spread a virus or any other such action by which he enters or damages someone elses computer ... knowing full well that critical computer systems like those at hospitals may be affected ... shows a 'lack of compassion for life'. And regardless you all know better! If it isn't yours you shouldn't be poking around in it and deserve any punishment given. I vote that such hackers be shown the same lack of compassion for life when they finally face a judge.

This man speaks the truth: "if I were on life-support, I'd rather have it run by a Gameboy than a Windows box"
-- Cliff Wells, 2002.03.13, in comp.lang.python (original UseNet article)

"Computer, Tea, Earl Grey, Hot."

Wake up already! THIS is why proper recycling of computer parts is desparately needed! There are areas of china polluted with toxic computer waste that make the sooty days of the industrial revolution look like a weenie roast! Thousands of lives are at risk, and severe environmental damage is happening while people get subsistance wages for breathing the fumes all day and dumping the remains in the rivers.

can someone please explain to me what boondoggle is?

It's like pork, only more so.

>What about games like aliens 3 which required a light gun?

What about them? :-)

Sure, we can start with a complaint by Linus about optimising for benchmarks Then we can move onto Linus' rant on how a feature SGI wanted breaks the beauty and design of Linux Followed by An appology from one of the devalopers for submitting the patch in question

Sure, we can start with a complaint by Linus about optimising for benchmarks Then we can move onto Linus' rant on how a feature SGI wanted breaks the beauty and design of Linux Followed by An appology from one of the devalopers for submitting the patch in question

Sure, we can start with a complaint by Linus about optimising for benchmarks Then we can move onto Linus' rant on how a feature SGI wanted breaks the beauty and design of Linux Followed by An appology from one of the devalopers for submitting the patch in question

560 square feet sounds way more impressive than a mere 52 square meters.

Well, sure. 62 square yards also sounds better than 52 square meters. However 52 square meters = 5,200 square decimeters! That beats your paltry 560 american feet any day!!

With thanks to the Google Calculator

Google has a few other links with more information. Posted anonymously as I don't need the karma.

another article.
Look up Christian Reconstructionism.

My trusty old HP 48S graphing calculator, that served me since engineering school, seems to be giving up the ghost.

WTF does "giving up the ghost" mean?

Reviews are here and here, e.g.

And here is a google search on here and the book.

according to this, the avg heigh of a human, in 1996, was 70.1 inches.

google tells me that 1 inches = 0.0254 meters.

population of new york city is 8,008,278 people (in 2000).

so we have 8,008,278 people * 70.1 inches * 0.0254 = 14,259,059.31012 metres ...

so, sadly, thats 14,259.059 km, which is a lot more than the wifi run.

cheers.

DAMMIT!

apparently pressing ctrl-enter submits ... same as how I submit tickets .. stupid habits die hard.

lets continue that.

Sears tower = 442m
so we have 248.8688 sears towers

Boxcar = 43 feet avg (source)
Avg freight train length=45 cars (some other site that won't load but is cached)
Avg lenght in feet = 1935 feet

google tells me theres 0.3048 metres in a foot so we have the avg freight train being 589.788m long.

That means we have 186.5077 freight trains (not counting engines) end to end


length of football field (cdn) = 100m
length of football field (us) = 109.1m (source

That leaves us with 1,100 cdn football fields, or 1008.2493 american fields.

a us dollar bill is 156mm long (source
so that gives us 705128.2051 dollar bills, end to end

asian elephants can grow to 340cm (3.4m) (source)
so thats 32352.9412 elephants

I think thats good enough for now. back to work.