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I don't know... Google seems to be very, very close already :)

The questions to stump IBM here (beyond the "A Computer Company who supplied calculating equipment to Nazi Germany" A: Who are IBM) are those in which the language is against them.

Looking up from ANSWER keywords and then having a choice of "Who is" or "What is" to put in front of the key word isn't that hard. (This is Google's take on the Nazi/Computing challege).

This is a clear brute force rather than AI challenge as you are looking at filtering potentials based on the ANSWER to a question in which the answer is normally a specific noun or short phrase, remembering to put "Who is" or "What is".

What would make it harder would be the use of descriptions that are made famous by a third party (e.g. Marcus Brigstock v David Blane and the term "Git Wizard") which would require actual inference on the data sets to determine against whom it is applied.

This isn't AI, its keyword matching back to a noun and Google already does a decent job of that.

Nice marketing though

The questions to stump IBM here (beyond the "A Computer Company who supplied calculating equipment to Nazi Germany" A: Who are IBM) are those in which the language is against them.

Looking up from ANSWER keywords and then having a choice of "Who is" or "What is" to put in front of the key word isn't that hard. (This is Google's take on the Nazi/Computing challege).

This is a clear brute force rather than AI challenge as you are looking at filtering potentials based on the ANSWER to a question in which the answer is normally a specific noun or short phrase, remembering to put "Who is" or "What is".

What would make it harder would be the use of descriptions that are made famous by a third party (e.g. Marcus Brigstock v David Blane and the term "Git Wizard") which would require actual inference on the data sets to determine against whom it is applied.

This isn't AI, its keyword matching back to a noun and Google already does a decent job of that.

Nice marketing though

When you want to push a package update out to all boxes, copy it from the public repository to the local one.

Assuming of course all boxes have the same version of the OS, the same packages installed, etc.

I suggest tentakel, and that OP could have found it in 2 minutes with Google. I did.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=multiple+linux+remote+administration The first hit mentions it.

Windows is not able to natively see/read/access ext2 and ext3 partitions.

It's a partition - Windows can see/read/access any partition. It's the filesystem it has no native support for.

What are you blabbering on about?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUK294&=&q=macbook+pro&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D

All Macbooks Pros are around 1100-1600 pounds. That's POUNDS, not dollars. Mine was 1300 a couple of years back.

Second, http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/04/21/apple_underclocking_macbook_pro_graphics_cards.html

If you're going to call someone stupid, try doing a little research first, or you'll end up looking like an imbecile. Like just now.

Living in Norwich, I found it extremely amusing that the only Doughnut shop listed from the above search on googlemaps,is in, wait for it,Wymondham!

For those not in the know, the Norfolk Constabulary HQ is in, yep, you guessed it - Wymondham!!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=DoughnutORdonutshopinNorwich

http://www.norfolk.police.uk/article.cfm?artID=6439&catID=729&bctrail=0

Except its not a doughnut shop, if you clicked on the link mentioned in the balloon on the google map for Dave Doughnut you will see Dave Doughnut does not sell doughnuts, he's actually a children's entertainer.

Living in Norwich, I found it extremely amusing that the only Doughnut shop listed from the above search on googlemaps,is in, wait for it,Wymondham! For those not in the know, the Norfolk Constabulary HQ is in, yep, you guessed it - Wymondham!! http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=DoughnutORdonutshopinNorwich http://www.norfolk.police.uk/article.cfm?artID=6439&catID=729&bctrail=0

Donut shops are pretty much worldwide.

I think you've never left the USA...

Try searching "Doughnut OR donut shop in Norwich" (Norwich being the only city in Norfolk).

Right now there are over 22,000 search results, the highest I've seen it was 300,000+ search results, meaning overall YouTube appear to have silenced over well over 1/3 million videos (and probably then removed most of them).

YouTube recently changed the messages users received to "This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled." This link currently shows 757 000 hits.

Earlier this year when YouTube started silencing user posted videos in response to WB, someone posted this link which did a search for silenced YouTube videos.

Right now there are over 22,000 search results, the highest I've seen it was 300,000+ search results, meaning overall YouTube appear to have silenced over well over 1/3 million videos (and probably then removed most of them).

Who cares about the Marines ? What about the victims story? I would suggest this film http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8905191678365185391&ei=smDbSZryC4vAwgPm4tz3BA&q=Fallujah%2C+The+Hidden+Massacre&hl=en

'See "Stirling" in action'

I can't cause I don't have Silverlight installed and am using Chrome, so I most probably don't need it ..

Google News currently links to 43 related stories.

Here's the WSJ's take.

The UK. I went to university in London, but it would have been similar in any other city here.

Many universities in the UK are in the middle of towns or cities, especially older ones (the University of Cambridge is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year). Here's the one I went to. Theft of student property generally wasn't a problem within university buildings, but it could be a problem elsewhere. It would be fine to leave a laptop unattended on the 4th floor of the library, but a bit risky to leave it unattended somewhere where a lot of people pass through, e.g. a cafe.

Lots of students would leave the university to eat and socialise at lunchtime, and after lectures finished for the day.

Student residences were always locked. Even so, we were shown CCTV of thieves following students through outside doors. There was very little theft though, since people would lock their rooms when they left them. All the electronics lying around makes student residences attractive for thieves.

I'm not sure about engineering students not going to the pub... my university was only science, engineering and medicine students and the pubs (and student union bars) were usually busy, although probably not as busy as they would be at a university with arts students.
I went to nightclubs after class a few times. (A couple of times I went to class after the nightclub. I should probably have studied English.)
Most students in the pub (and especially nightclubs) were probably under 21, that could go some way to explaining the difference with the USA (unless you have exceptions to the 21 rule for drinking at university?).

''It is a century or two old ?'' -- what does that matter, it depicts a child under the age of 16 at the time?

google to the rescue

Maybe not every day, but 3851 in the past month.

I suggest you read Paul Virilio. He has some rather interesting ideas regarding speed and its effect on society. He's particularly interested in the way speed limits or determines our perception of phenomena. He believes that societies have essentially viewed development in terms of ever increasing acceleration of both communication and transportation; progress is defined according the the acceleration brought about by some technological change. However, in the current age, we're reaching some sort of critical mass where an increase in speed is no longer possible, mainly because speed has a limit, brought about by the discover of the speed of light. (I would suggest that's really what "The Age of Speed" means.)

There's a lot more to add to really explain what he's talking about. For example, he also has another term, called "speed space", which is not just the usual space of three dimensions, but one which is defined by all relative movements, and the acceleration and deceleration of those movements. I'm just beginning to grasp his ideas myself, so I can't give an accurate analysis. I'm currently reading this, which is probably a good place to begin.

Since you mention Wall Street, have a look at what he had to say about the current economic crisis.

The first tyme I booted up a PC with XP it froze while booting, And it was installed on a brand new PC.

A single failed boot up is not really enough to determine if it's unstable. I will say that on 10.0, I had system crashes at random intervals, across a few systems - I could never figure out what caused that, but it went away in 10.2.
These are consistent issues I recall finding in 10.0 across different hardware:

Finder kept crashing on me while doing basic file operations (FTFF!).
Finger kept reporting files on SMB shares were 1MB in size.
Finder locks folders on SMB shares and does not release the locks when closed.
Webdav couldn't even use digest on OS X, worked fine in XP.
A few times after system crashes, the system wouldn't boot because system files had some how got corrupted.
iDisk would get hopeless stuck on mounting.

Fermilab stitched up CERN good and proper. Remember children, never outsource your customer satisfaction.

How convenient is that. You give your main competitor dodgy magnets, shutting them down for months, then you proceed to make all the important discoveries.

Why, oh why, didn't the CERN people make their own magnets?

1. Click this link: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ie8
2. On the second search result, read the first line of the description.
3. ...
4. (Don't) profit!

The concept of Limbo has been abolished by the Vatican for a couple of years now.

Getting back to the example of the octopus, we have no way of knowing whether the earlier version of octopus could change color at will, spurt ink, or figure out how to get food out of a bottle with a cork in the top.

Ink sacs have been known to fossilize for a long time. This one was a commercial sale ; a whole batch reported from Charmouth ...

But yeah - there's a lot to an organism that doesn't fossilise. I'm just watching the BBC wildlife unit's film of orcas playing rugby with a seal. Incredible behaviour, negligible fossilisation potential.

Oh, I didn't know that : "But the ink of modern squids paralyzes the organs of smell."You learn something every day. Well, I do. Every day that I'm not actually dead.

No not really. It simply means that the octopus has not been "challenged" by its ocean environment or catastrophe, and therefore not forced into extinction or modification.

Considering the behavioural complexity and intelligence shown by modern octopii, wouldn't it be more likely that the challenges that octopii have been faced with in the last 95 million years have been ones that were most quickly and efficiently circumvented by behavioural changes. Behaviour doesn't fossilise terribly well. Hmmm, I wonder if there's any ichnotaxa assigned to octopus feeding traces. Google hints that there are : http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ichnotaxa+octopus&btnG=Search&meta= ... and - what a surprise - Darwin appears in the references. Along with, for example, "Bromley, R. G. 1993. Predation habits of octopus past and present and a new ichnospecies, Oichnus ovalis. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 40: 167-173."
Well, if the Library stocks Bull.Geol.Soc.Denmark, I'll maybe have a look at that.

Detective work not your strong point then?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rimmer+lister

Its also the anniversary of the summary execution of Jean-Charles De Menezes on a tube train.

execution of who?

Google isn't really your friend, it just pretends it is because you have lots of cool toys.

our English works of good repute being a wanting The facility with which English books are reprinted in America and the immense circulation which they attain in consequence of their cheapness greatly increases the responsibility which rests upon our authors as to the direction which they give whether for good or evil to the intelligent and inquiring minds of the youth of America minds ceaselessly occupied both in religion and politics in investigation and inquiry in overturning old systems before they have devised new ones The Englishwoman in America By Isabella Lucy Bird

pbhj

It's an expression, which occurs on over a million pages in Google. But you're right... I only used it because I've heard it so many times and I've never actually realised that it doesn't make sense :)

It also fails on This - seriously...

I have copy and paste on my iPhone and I can even run background applications when I want. Over a million people so far have jailbroken their iphone, there is nothing illegal or wrong about it either. It simply opens up the phone to the sort of apps that we all want but apple won't allow. http://www.google.co.uk/search?&channel=s&hl=en&q=why+you+should+jailbreak&btnG=Google+Search

In the patent application (dated 1998) they stated:
One problem existing in the art is that there are no systems and methods to bridge the gap between the programming paradigm used for object-oriented systems and the programming paradigm used for relational systems.

(from here on in you know there's going to be no prior art submitted that does exactly that, when in fact there was plenty.)

Liar liar pants on fire.

Second link on "gpl court germany". Harald Welte, of course, kicking D-Link's arse.

But just because everyone else if evil doen't give you an escuse to be, too. Waht did your mother say about all your friends jumping off a bridge?

Believe me, plenty of kids (and grown men) *are* that stupid and sheeplike.

So the general answer is no it will not be faster. This is because as a final step (the so called stage3) it compiles itself with itself. This assumes icc isn't malicious (yes I know - Trusting Trust and Countering Trusting Trust etc).

Uh oh, self-reference paradox alert!

Do not click here!

He used a Caesar cipher and bible quotations.

Funnily enough I come in the top five results if you just search Google UK for my first name.

My full name I come top.

I think I'm feeling pretty smug right about now!

I'm used to Ninja Lawyers, actually.

eBay provides links to stolen items. I guess they're accomplicies to burglary and robbery.

The big difference here is that the people at the pirate bay know this material is copyright where as Ebay will not know about every stolen item that appears on its site.

eBay provides links to stolen items. I guess they're accomplicies to burglary and robbery.

Why not? You dismiss this out-of-hand, but you don't explain the reason for dismissing it.

I was expressing my opinion, perhaps I should have qualified my statement with 'It seems to me' or 'I think'. I am not a scientist, but google can point you to the same idea being promoted by people who are. Me, I'm just drawing on my own personal experience which can be dismissed as anecdotal.

It must be Rain Man that's the problem.

Phew, I was beginning to think it was me.

1. Open FF. Click search bar.
2. Type "England Prime Minister" Press enter.
3. Click first link.
4. Look at "Residence" on right hand side.
5. Save yourself 29 keystrokes and a lot of ambiguity.
6. ...
7. You know what goes here.

I really enjoyed this book when I was at that stage... http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wUdtVHBr-OQC Really a book about operational research, but covers lots of maths in a really applied accessible way with examples from history (spread of cholera outbreaks, optimal fleet size to avoid submarines in WW2, enigma machine etc.) Lots of exercises, and each section is relatively self contained - so ideal for starting off the kind of short projects you are talking about. Highly recommended...

When I read it, I thought "Sounds a lot like CliffBot. (lots more)

• Creating and maintaining a monopoly based on merit: 100% legal.
• Fucking over your competitors by abusing your monopoly to lock them out of the market: not legal.

Clear enough?

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=viola&btnG=Search+Products

I doubt you can get this level of detail from a publically available satellite image (and there's two more zoom levels after what I linked to!)

Funny you should say this. I happened to hear the Professor on the radio this lunchtime & he mentioned a company in Durham called RFMD that will allegedly be producing these things on an industrial scale. Suffice to say that rfmd.co.uk is a domain holding page, but google turns up some interesting stuff...

> If the FSF continue to push that line then we start to move toward the territory of trying to copyright facts about interfaces which after the SCO fiasco most in the free software community might be wary of?

This can of worms has been opened many times before, long ago, and indeed has upset people in the community.

eg. from 1993:

On the basis of rms current comments I won't be putting anything more
under the GPL/LGPL, in fact I'm sufficiently annoyed that rms is
claiming interface copyrights that I'm tempted to allow anything but
GPL/LGPL code to be linked with my stuff.

Quoted from http://groups.google.co.uk/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/c77a27c6303b49a4?hl=en.

And, yes, I think you will find that that is _the_ Alan Cox.