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Brandenburger Tor
Siegessäule
My Haus!

This data is quite old, there are a few things that do not appear on this map that have been standing for more than one year.

still, great fun though!

Brandenburger Tor
Siegessäule
My Haus!

This data is quite old, there are a few things that do not appear on this map that have been standing for more than one year.

still, great fun though!

Brandenburger Tor
Siegessäule
My Haus!

This data is quite old, there are a few things that do not appear on this map that have been standing for more than one year.

still, great fun though!

You can tell the picture of NYC was taken this millenium

I was not surprised at all to find the rooftops of the White House and nearby buildings masked.

It looks like there's a big ink stain somewhere in the Sahara.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=52.205358,0.11654 7&spn=0.007735,0.009313&t=k&hl=en

Hmm. Maybe not so much.

For most of Sydney's suburbs, though, they've got amazing resolution. I mean, if you want to see Gladesville Shopping Centre in awesome detail - no problem!

I presume more inner-Sydney detail's coming soon. There's plenty of detail on our huge stupid Parliament House already.

Hmm. Maybe not so much.

For most of Sydney's suburbs, though, they've got amazing resolution. I mean, if you want to see Gladesville Shopping Centre in awesome detail - no problem!

I presume more inner-Sydney detail's coming soon. There's plenty of detail on our huge stupid Parliament House already.

Hmm. Maybe not so much.

For most of Sydney's suburbs, though, they've got amazing resolution. I mean, if you want to see Gladesville Shopping Centre in awesome detail - no problem!

I presume more inner-Sydney detail's coming soon. There's plenty of detail on our huge stupid Parliament House already.

looks like a solar reflection (unlike the White House's roof). Seems that the 55, faubourg Saint Honoré is not whitened out, why should the Conciergerie be ?

Don't forget the university who cracked the SHA0 algorithm ;)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=38.889295,-77.008 506&spn=0.008626,0.010664&t=k&hl=en As far as I know, the whitehouse is over to the left a bit past congress.. So what's in the low res area?

world trace center construction zone,
new york city, new york, usa.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=new+york+city&ll=4 0.711577,-74.014227&spn=0.005053,0.007832&t=k&hl=e n

Tried looking around Iraq for WMD's; this is what Google tells me:

We could not understand the location "weapons of mass destruction" near Iraq

funny because it understands Cocksuckers near NYC just fine... but I understand because "Canada" puts you in England (Hampshire).

Oops. Here's the link.

Of course, that is only on a British monopoly board.
American boards, Australian boards, Star Wars boards, Star Trek boards, Simpsons boards and others have totally different stuff :)

There are actually multiple designs of British board, also. For instance, you can get a Coventry edition. I assume the same is true for other cities, probably throughout the world.

Nope, never happens

This company in Israel were taken to task for abusing the GPL - they used the GNU tool chain which they modified to produce a compiler/linker for their STBs: JFGI.

Take for example hostingprod.com, which is Yahoo's most bulletproof and spam-friendly hosting outfit. Check out that spam! When this person (who seems to have his own fan club, heck I expect there are some kooks amongst them too) stops bleating and moves his hosting to a less spam-friendly hosting outfit then perhaps that will be a small victory. But the bottom line is that if you host your site with bottom-feeding scummy spammers then you can expect some blowback.

But it gets worse. He clearly has zero idea about the SBL and this concept of "power corrupting them" sounds like the petulant complaining of a teenager. The SBL makes a positive contribution to the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of internet users. That's far more use than the pathetic drivel you see on Paul Graham's site.

As I recall the hypothesis was along the lines of being that a society based on the US constitution would provide for greater personal success, liberty and equality than one not so based. In that context 'success' of the experiment would be proving the hypothesis whilst 'failure' would be disproving the hypothesis.

I Googled and came up with some interesting results.

Stephen

Honestly, how that guy gets away with selling property on the moon is beyond me. Still, a fool and his money are easily parted.

And that's old news, look at the post date: Monday, February 28 2005 @ 10:27 AM EST.

Old, fake news too, from the same Dana as has done various Visual Hacks on assorted Macintoshes.

The site's somewhat dead at the moment, but it's a great read when it's up and running - so long as one's tongue is kept firmly in cheek... ;-)

(Off-topic: there's a spider currently walking across my iBook's screen. It started near the bottom and now it's sat at the top, just under the 'Window' menu. Oooer!)

Thats somewhat unfair. The Hegelian model adopted by Marx is quite clear, before you become a socialist state you must first be a mature capitalist state. Its yet to be tried therefore. Both Mao and Trotsky amongst others were well aware of this (thats what the five year plans were about, hothousing development up to where they should have been before hand). However you wanted to know who was conforming to the spirit of Marxism, well, the USA is doing excellently. Would you disagree? Everything he said about the nature of capital itself appears to be true and increasingly wealth is at some pace becoming increasingly unequal in its distribution within society (in 1997, the top 1% held 84% of all wealth in the USA and 47% of total income; note from this the distinctive charater of capital...what do you imagine the numbers are today and what will they be ten years from now?).

Also, who said anything about government? Why throw off the shackles of the capitalist class only to give away your labour to an unaccountable government? I think you are confusing communism with Leninism. Most libertarians are basically communists who don't understand what the word means as far as I can tell.

It must be said I don't blame people who make that mistake. I did a quick google search and here are some contradictory highlights:

In its ideal form, social classes cease to exist, there is no coercive governmental structures, and everyone lives in abundance without supervision from a ruling class. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels popularized this theory in their 1848 Communist Manifesto.

yet...

A system of government in which a single, totalitarian, party holds power. It is characterized by state control of the economy, and restriction on personal freedoms. It was first proposed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto.

but then again...

An economic system in which the people control the means of production (capital and land) directly, without intervention of a government or state.

Have a look yourself here.

All I'll add by way of commentary that its pretty clear when you visit the various sites whose actually cracked the cover on Das Capital and who is channeling Joe McCarthy. Universities tend to get it correct. Worryingly the middle entry came from an American grade school's webpage.

I'm by no means a communist or a socialist myself but I do think people should investigate their terms of reference before talking about these topics. It appears in the US that people have been left deliberately clueless.

Manip is a known Microsoft fanboy. Check out his posting history at blogs.msdn.com: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=manip+site%3Ablog s.msdn.com.

Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.

# a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "they set the measure for all subsequent work"
# criterion: the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community"
# conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width"; "standard sizes"; "the standard fixtures"; "standard brands"; "standard operating procedure"
# a board measure = 1980 board feet
# the value behind the money in a monetary system
# established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"

More to the point, go double-check for patents: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=microsoft+patent+ XML

Hand in your geek badge. If you don't get references to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce or Bad Wolf you shouldn't be playing on Slashdot.

What is it? I've heard of Chucky Egg, but not Chuck E Cheese.

It's called "Mahna Mahna", or "Manamana" or some variation, depending on who you're talking to, and featured on an episode of the Muppet Show.

It featured a strange muppet (aren't they all?) singing the main part, with two odd pink cow type things singing the other part in the background.

It was very funny to watch, which helped its popularity I think. Google reveals many references to it, of course.

Tell that to google:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=star+wars+s ith+filetype%3Atorrent

In order that google should comply with the DMCA, the offending party has to contact them and tell them the specific search terms that lead to the results.

Those results are then removed, the DMCA notice is intact and may lead to the details of the complaint.

(This may include listing the blocked or infringing sites)

btw, an example of googles DMCA practices can be found by searching for "kazaa lite"

yeah totally US centric

yeah totally US centric

Yup. For UK readers like me, the best bet looks to be an MSI PC54G2 card. Now if only I could sell this SMC piece of crap for anywhere near the price I bought it for... :)

You might also find this entry useful for future reference.

www.google.co.uk/ig breaks when you try and sign in ...

odd, complains about cookies. :S

If you go to http://www.google.co.uk/ig/customize then try to set and save your settings, you'll find that it's pretty broken...

It seems to send the page into a loop...in IE you will just receive continuous warnings that you are being redirected to an nonsecure page.

It's broken under Firefox too. It loops until Firefox reports that redirection limit has been exceeded.

Phillip.

I'm in the uk and consequently Google auto redirects me to Google UK . Thats fine but when I go to customise my google page it gets stuck in an infinite loop of redirecting between Google and Google UK. However, if I go to google.com/ig I don't get redirect and I can customise my homepage :)

I'm in the uk and consequently Google auto redirects me to Google UK . Thats fine but when I go to customise my google page it gets stuck in an infinite loop of redirecting between Google and Google UK. However, if I go to google.com/ig I don't get redirect and I can customise my homepage :)

If you go to http://www.google.co.uk/ig/customize then try to set and save your settings, you'll find that it's pretty broken...

It seems to send the page into a loop...in IE you will just receive continuous warnings that you are being redirected to an nonsecure page.

-- Pete.

If the mini's all started to exhibit failures and poor workmanship than that would harm the crossover (new mac users) market more than anything the competition could hope for.

Strangely enough, that seems to be happening.

I've been drooling over screenshots/reviews of OS X for ages now (Unix? Nice interface?), and I was pretty much ready to shell out for a Mini as my first Mac until I saw that report -- and many others like them.

It's a shame, but I don't really want to shell out £350+ with the risk that I won't be able to use it with my monitor. I guess I'll just keep looking for a cheap, second-hand G4 PowerMac on eBay.

Or I might just completely flip my lid and buy a new Amiga. :)

Since when has Essex been in the US? Here is the guy doing the research and here is where he is located. Spot the blue stuff between the East coast of the US and Colchester? Not sure Google has mapped out Europe yet mind you ;-) O.

If you're going to misspell a word, don't make it the one you emphasize in ALL CAPS...

To quote the relevant bit:
Also, there's no point just throwing comic characters at me as if I'm saying all comics are better than film, because I'm not. I'm just saying I can blatantly see Lucas' influences and I prefered New Gods to Star Wars. (New Gods had Darkseid and the Source, Star Wars has Darth Vader and the Force. Orion is revealed to be Darkseid's son; Luke is Vader's son. New Gods had a spiritual leader/father figure to Orion called Highfather; Star Wars has spiritual leader/father figure to Luke called Obi Wan Kenobi. New Gods:1971. Star Wars: 1977. George Lucas was a comics fan. Say no more).

Sound convincing enough to me.

Cheers,
Ian

The nightly builds can be grabbed from ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Some variations on the svg tiger can be found through Google.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?client=firefox-a &rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=gay+christ mas+tree&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images/

This is very intersting, the google (no.1 search engine) cluster costsists of about 250,000 cheap (hardware) linux nodes while MSN messenger service handles 70 million concurrent sessions a day on just 25 server (probably expensive!) machines.

Obviously they are providing difference services however there is plenty of food for thought. It just goes to show that things are never as simple as just looking at surface issues.

By the time the kids that are learning MS Word in schools today are looking for jobs, Open Source adoption will have increased by leaps and bounds. Based on current trends, I offer the following extrapolations:

Windows XP's successor will so totally break compatibility with XP, NT, 2000, 9X, 3.1 and MS-DOS, that there will be no reason save the name to stay with Microsoft products. After all, you might just as well use OpenOffice.org as Word 2007, if Word 2007 can't open Word XP/2000/97 documents properly and costs you much more money to boot!

Meanwhile, there will be success stories from enterprises which successfully made the switch away from Microsoft {Ernie Ball won't be the last case of ditching MS to conform to code} as encouragement to try something different.

There will also be an ad-hoc network of independent small businesses whose core activity is helping other, larger businesses make the transition from Windows to Open Source.

It's already getting to the point where it will soon be economically viable for some third-world-based company to devote serious effort to writing Open Source drivers for graphics cards, for example.

See, for example, this media report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from Mar 24, 2003, or this one from Oct 10 2001, asking

What is wrong with the Boca Raton, Plantation, et. al. area of FL that it has such a high density of shameless and unrepentant spammers?

One of the reputed reasons spammers find it attractive, as mentioned in the article are the lenient bankruptcy laws which prevent the spammer's house from being reposessed.

See, for example, this media report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from Mar 24, 2003, or this one from Oct 10 2001, asking

What is wrong with the Boca Raton, Plantation, et. al. area of FL that it has such a high density of shameless and unrepentant spammers?

One of the reputed reasons spammers find it attractive, as mentioned in the article are the lenient bankruptcy laws which prevent the spammer's house from being reposessed.