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I had 1+ GB of email in my gmail account, and this is how I moved it to another server using IMAP: 1. Go through all your emails and delete all unwanted emails. Don't forget to 'empty' (delete permanently) your Junk and Thrash folder. 2. If you haven't, enable IMAP for your Gmail account. [ https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018 ] 3. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird. [ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ ] 4. In Thunderbird, set up a new email account and configure it to your Gmail. 5. Thunderbird will now slowly download all your emails from Gmail. 6. Once all the emails are downloaded, create another email account in Thunderbird and configure it with the settings of the new email service that you want to use. 7. From the 'Gmail' account in Thunderbird, select the Gmail emails and drag and drop it to the 'New Email' email account (created in step 6). 8. Thunderbird will transfer the mail to the new email server. (Note: for step 7, it is advisable to NOT select all the email and transfer at one go. Best that you sort it by size, and transfer the bigger emails first. Delete transfered emails from Gmail and continue until there is no more email left. You may also recreate all the folders / labels of gmail in the new email account to - as IMAP folders - and drag and drop it directly to those folders.) I've been de-addicted from Google for more than a year and never been better. ;)

The original g-mail view can still be seen if you use this address when you access:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=d

It's called "basic HTML".

Here's the Sex Pistols!

https://www.google.com/search?q=Never+Mind+the+Bollocks%2C+Here's+the+Sex+Pistols+torrent

The correction model designations were: Apple ][, Apple ][+, or //e. There was never a ][e as far as I know.

Alkabeth was Ultima 0. Written in Applesoft Basic and slow but it worked and launched the Ultima series each one refining the previous game. i.e. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.emulators.apple2/2NHj_6azS_g/FQsC_q-JHAEJ

Okay, so here we have a group of self-interested parties who suggest banding together so that they can

a) Determine by themselves whether someone is acting illegally, and

b) Take action against them by withholding services

c) Without judicial oversight, and with no discussion of due process whatsoever, including: warnings, appeal, or handling mistakes.

So we now have the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act which allows companies to make virtually anything a federal offense just by putting it in their TOS, they can pick and choose who they do business with at their whim, and are themselves historically immune from prosecution.

Of course, they will only use their power for good.

I think we need to enforce a "customer bill of rights" which states that a company cannot just cut off customers at will. It should be enforced by the government as a condition for being granted a business license. If a service is available and the customer can pay, then the company has an obligation to make the transaction. (Glossing over some details for brevity)

Are you against such a regulation? Under what circumstances can a company refuse to serve a customer? Race? Gender? Marital status? Sexual orientation? Ethnicity? What is the difference between any of these and arbitrary black-listing?

Is this supposed to be analogous to the difference between nominative typing and duck typing?

Concepts are duck typing, where you get to specify the definition of a duck in detail, and the compiler checks it early.

I'm still not understanding what sort of predicate cannot be expressed as implementing a particular method.

So, one example void operator++() on an iterator can be satisfied depending on whether or not it conforms to an interface.

Requiring that Iterator::operator*() returns type T would require the interface being parameterised.

Requiring that Iterator::operator*() is convertible to type const T& is beyond the capabilities of interfaces.

Other examples are that one can (at least in the current implementation) switch on and off methods of a template class depending on properties of the class. For example you might provide operator== for std::vector, if and only if operator==(T, T) is convertible to bool.

A good read about concepts-lite (only part of the overall idea of concepts)

https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/group/concepts/attach/df9a57cb574ae9f9/concepts-lite.pdf?part=4&authuser=0

A type that supports a "dereference" method that returns an object whose type implements the appropriate "numeric" concept/interface would satisfy this predicate.

It is not obvious to me that interfaces are as general.

For example take the example of a determinant function. If the the matrix argument must be over a field type, so clearly determinant must return a Field.

With the Java style of interfaces this would return an object for which would look something like:

Field.add(Field);

which encapsulates some of the ideas behind a field.

At this point, however the type of field has been lost, and you could at compile time attempt to add any Field to any Field, even though adding GF(2) to complex is not possible.

I don't think you said what you thought you said. You thought you said "kids cannot make mistakes and learn from them without being taunted for life with the stupid mistake", what you really said was "kids make hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature make mistakes and learn from them without being taunted fr life with the stupid mistake."

Sorry to say this, anthony, but you should sue your grade school for malpractice. They really REALLY did a shitty job on you.

that [sic] all the kids didnt [sic] have pocket sized HD video cameras when I was in school - the shit that went on would have been embarrassing for anyone reliving it later...but now, kids cant [sic] make mistakes and learn from them without being taunted fr [sic] life with the stupid mistake...

Of corse [sic] binge drinking and other crazy stuff that hapens at partys is wrong - hense [sic] the term mistake...Mistakes should be learning experiences, not stains that follow you around for life...

How can kids be kids with cameras everywhere?

Facebook isnt [sic] guilty here, just like guns don't kill people, its [sic] the kids that posted that shit that are to blame here...

*shakes head at the terrible education system in the US and feels sad for the poor fools who never read books*

Look those words up in a dictionary, and NOT in the "urban dictionary" where you got "hense" from. The urban dictionary was written by aliterates* like you. Even sadder that you got modded to a +5, there are too damned many people at slashdot who are barely literate these days. The errors in your post alone deserve an "overrated".

*look it up, it isn't a misspelling

wow that is a favorable billing structure for google computer! however the issue Im trying to raise is int he aup https://developers.google.com/cloud/terms/aup in which a number of things like running website mirrors, providing viruses, etc are violate the rules and may be met with automatic shutdown of one or more instances or possible accoutn suspension. While Google compute may view a ddos emanating from a student's use of a vm more favorably then amazon etc it still is question the op needs to factor into their considerations of hosted vm solutions. Once it's planed for (expect the best, plan for the worst!) and discussed during the planning and purchasing phase then I would say the provider is a keeper :>

This is a very good suggestion! However as soemone who has looked into this technology, there are a few pitfalls to be aware of.

The tos can be easily violated closing down the whole school or installation or incurring extra bandwidth costs if someone breaches the cloud providers tos by loading viruses, opening a file drop or distribution drop site, proxy, game server or such. You can also risk these events if you plan to demonstrate programming methods that could have a bug that suddenly consumes excess bandwidth or someone interacts, by accident with the vm host causing a crash.

Since you are dealing with kids who test boundaries as a group --someone is bound to do something far more clever then you plan for. Get your plan ready to respond to such events before they occur if you go the cloud route make certain that one bad apple cant incur extra costs or cause a site wide outage. So talk to the cloud provider and find out how and when your site can incur extra costs or violate the tos due to student behavior.

Have the project administrator set firewall rules to only allow incoming SSH from the public Internet, and a then allow network communications between the VMs in the project.

Don't worry about consuming "extra" bandwidth between VMs. Google's internal network can handle anything the students throw at it. Ingress and egress network traffic within the same zone is free. See GCE pricing.

Also, don't worry about the VM hosts going down due to anything that happens in the guest. If a high school kid somehow figures out a way to bring one down, we'd like to talk to him about a possible career in virtualization and security. And we've been known to pay out rewards for that sort of thing.

This is a very good suggestion! However as soemone who has looked into this technology, there are a few pitfalls to be aware of.

The tos can be easily violated closing down the whole school or installation or incurring extra bandwidth costs if someone breaches the cloud providers tos by loading viruses, opening a file drop or distribution drop site, proxy, game server or such. You can also risk these events if you plan to demonstrate programming methods that could have a bug that suddenly consumes excess bandwidth or someone interacts, by accident with the vm host causing a crash.

Since you are dealing with kids who test boundaries as a group --someone is bound to do something far more clever then you plan for. Get your plan ready to respond to such events before they occur if you go the cloud route make certain that one bad apple cant incur extra costs or cause a site wide outage. So talk to the cloud provider and find out how and when your site can incur extra costs or violate the tos due to student behavior.

Have the project administrator set firewall rules to only allow incoming SSH from the public Internet, and a then allow network communications between the VMs in the project.

Don't worry about consuming "extra" bandwidth between VMs. Google's internal network can handle anything the students throw at it. Ingress and egress network traffic within the same zone is free. See GCE pricing.

Also, don't worry about the VM hosts going down due to anything that happens in the guest. If a high school kid somehow figures out a way to bring one down, we'd like to talk to him about a possible career in virtualization and security. And we've been known to pay out rewards for that sort of thing.

Russian for sarcasm is sarcasm, but with heavy Russian accent.

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There are a lot of good answers here to your direct question, but I'd like to step back and look into solutions that are recently available for the more general problem you are facing.

I have to wonder what it's costing the school district to acquire and maintain the hardware to run your classes. On top of that, you're having to worry about the overhead of securing/patching and maintaining backups.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google on Compute Engine.)

Have you evaluated whether an IaaS service like Google Compute Engine would be more convenient and cost-effective? Security, backups, and persistent storage are all taken care of for you. Google's base VMs are 13.2 cents per hour. For a class of 30, that's about $4 per class session. There are about 180 days in a school year, so that's $720 per class for the entire year. If you have 4 classes a day, that's about $3,000 for the entire year, assuming your VMs are all running the entire time every class session. In practice, if I were teaching the class, I'd lecture for 3 days a week and have VM time 2 days a week, with the option of the students being able to access their VMs outside of class from home, so the actual cost will probably be lower.

As far as hardware is concerned, Chromebooks are $250 each. I bet you're spending significantly more than that per machine in your labs. You can use the terminal tab in ChromeOS to SSH into the VM instances.

Have you considered an IaaS provider? If not, I'm curious to hear how the current offerings out there in the market fall short of the solution you're looking into now.

Codswallop. Chrome supports Greasemonkey scripts natively, and you'll find a vast selection of browser behavior-altering extensions here:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
http://www.chromeextensions.org/

Basically anything I used to do with Firefox, I do today with Chrome -- and more. And for an added bonus, it doesn't collapse to its knees if I go without a reboot or closing my browser for a few days, let alone having a few dozen windows and tabs open.

the Amish, etc. are not broken)

OMG WTF?!!! Amish not broken?!!
Next you'll try to tell us that there wasn't a global cetacean conspiracy to rape Carl Sagan.

the Amish, etc. are not broken)

OMG WTF?!!! Amish not broken?!!
Next you'll try to tell us that there wasn't a global cetacean conspiracy to rape Carl Sagan.

While it might seem odd that one can't use their phone to hold a press conference from the top of the world, Nepal is the country which sets the rules.

Don't like the rules, don't go to the country.

It's like in Singapore where if you spit on the sidewalk, you will most likely get a ticket. You can't complain that you do it in your country so why can't you do it there.

Their country, their rules.

Which "they" does "their" refer to? I ask not due to it being vague but more to the point: why shouldn't people question everything? Why are Nepal's rules more sacred than Iraq's or any other country that's questioned and imposed on? For that matter, why are my laws not sacred and theirs are (the US is questioned quite often). I'm sure you question/complain about certain laws or regulations imposed on you, wherever you may be located, and are not happy or do not understand the nonsensical nature of some of them.

Saying "don't question their decision because you don't live there" or "avoid going there" is nothing more than a cop-out to the underlying point: what was the intent of the law on book and is it being abused?

I personally did 10 seconds of searching and found that a 3D mapping crew accompanied him. Might this, perhaps, be the reason they have their panties in a knot?

3D Reality Maps accompanied Daniel Hughes live on his way to the summit of Mount Everest. Daily Daniel Hughes sends its GPS coordinates, which are then shown on the 3D map.

...

The app "Mount Everest 3D" 3D Reality Maps offers the world's highest-resolution 3D map of the highest mountain of the earth for smartphones and tablets. The maps based on satellite images of the unique WordView2 satellite of DigitalGlobe are so detailed that the mountain is absolutely realistic.

...

Everest 3D is a collaboration of 3D Reality Maps , the Center for Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the American satellite operator DigitalGlobe . On the initiative of high-resolution 3D Reality Maps WorldView-2 satellite images were first recorded in stereo mode over the Everest region and used for a 3D visualization of the highest mountain on earth.

The basis for the three-dimensional visualization of the earth's surface taken from space exploration and mapping of the planet Mars have been developed for 3D. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has a special camera (HRSC) developed for the Mars exploration that takes stereo images of the Martian surface, to enable the accurate height models can be calculated.

On Robotics and Mechatronics Center RMC DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen / Berlin a new technique for 3D processing of stereo images was developed (the Semi Global Matching SGM). It can now be applied to very high-resolution aerial and satellite images. As an industrial partner DLR 3D Reality Maps GmbH was instrumental in the development of this technology to market.

Launched in October 2009 and operated by DigitalGlobe satellite WorldView-2 is currently the highest-resolution commercial satellite system. It takes from a height of 770 km images black and white images at a resolution of 0.46 m and color images with a resolution of 1.8 m. The stabilized and highly accurately navigated satellite can be operated in a special mode that allows three or four images of the same object on the receiving surface. This was realized for the first time here on the example of Mount Everest. Based on these images, an extremely detailed terrain model was computed at the DLR Center for Robotics and Mechatronics, which was used by 3D Reality Maps for 3D visualization.

3D Reality Maps has developed on the basis of a graphics engine of the Steinbeis Research Center, a special software that a

It is diflicult to formulate the native idea expressed in this word ... Wakonda that is the permeating life of visible nature -- an invisible life and power that reaches everywhere and everything and can be appealed to by man to send him help.

You quite often see this translated as "Great Spirit" or "Great Maker", and treated as if it was merely a quaint native term for the Judeo-Christian God.

Perhaps I should have been more clear. I cannot find any current material from PETA stating that PETA endorses the killing of pit bulls based on breed nor can I find evidence that PETA uses "breed-specific" euthanization policies in their own intake. Current material from PETA (such as this: http://www.peta2.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/PETAandPitbulls.pdf) appears to oppose mandatory euthanasia and the killing of pit bulls by shelters, and endorses mandatory spay-neuter to prevent it. If PETA does (or did at one time) endorse killing dogs based on breed, then that's another point on which I disagree with them. I support pit bull spay/neuter laws but not mandatory euthanasia. Pit bulls are not "fine." U.S. shelters kill upwards of 800,000 of them annually. With the advent of the pit bull "advocacy" movement, pit bull euthanasias have doubled and tripled even as overall euthanasias for every other breed have plummeted. Clearly, the dogs need additional legislative protection from dogfighters and backyard breeders. http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/anp/2011/11/19/editorial-the-shelter-killing-of-pit-bulls/ http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/anp/2012/10/19/editorial-pit-bulls-political-recklessness/ San Francisco's mandatory spay and neuter law for pit bulls works. The local SPCA opposed this law as a knee-jerk reaction simply because it was breed-specific. The law ended up cutting pit bull euthanasia by 33% after it was enacted. http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Pit-bull-factions-find-peace-in-S-F-neuter-law-3257850.php Pit bulls represent 5-7% of the canine population but account for two-thirds of all severe and fatal dog attacks in recent years, and half of all fatal attacks over the past 30 years. Let's take the first 5 months of 2013 as an example. Out of 14 fatal dog attacks, 13 were caused by pit bulls. Of at least 130 reported severe attacks that left the victim permanently disfigured or dismembered, at least 114 were caused by pit bulls. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxm2rT0Rp7ZrSk1LbXRxS3E3ZGs/edit?usp=drive_web&pli=1 These statistics do not include dog attacks involving guard dogs, junkyard dogs, or fighting dogs. That is NOT to say that all or even most pit bulls are dangerous -- quite the opposite -- but there is clearly a problem with pit bulls and severe dog attacks, almost certainly due to the leaking of genetic idiopathic aggression from fighting dog lines into the pet population.

Here.

Also, absence of anything on Greenpeace's pages should be outright disregarded beforehand as a proof of anything. We're talking about organisation which threw it's founding member down the memory hole: Patrick Moore of the original Don't Make A Wave Committee is missing now, though still listed as a crewmember of the ship. I vaguely remember he used to be completely vaporised from the pages but not sure and don't have time for Wayback Machine magic.

a quick google search did it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=EYAnJEMZGn8C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=photograph+new+york+times+magazine+black+middle+class+sued&source=bl&ots=XNi0u7VRJ1&sig=ODCfecF6uiGCBIH4fzZ97SgTbk0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jaikUaGPO5TH0gGY2YEw&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=photograph%20new%20york%20times%20magazine%20black%20middle%20class%20sued&f=false

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/17iht-lorca.html?pagewanted=all

Sounds like a Courage Wolf.

Cheers,
-l

When a private corporation gives in to all government demands, that's not a non-sequitor. At this point it's an accepted reality that the USG has positioned itself to access any private corporation's data on any private citizen without even applying for a warrant.

As internet accessible recording devices become more and more prevalent, there will be a literal panopticon of information available, and do you think government's won't attempt to exploit that?

Getting into the scale of things, right now I could conceivably still live without the internet at home, or know that if I turn my phone off and leave all GPS devices at home, I can take a walk without the government tracking me. As soon as there is a critical mass of Glass type devices out in public, there is practically no chance that I could walk to a location without the government being able to track me down.

Look at the Boston Marathon bombings. They weren't tracked by anything other than photos taken by the public and a handful of CCTV feeds. Imagine if one quarter of people in that crowd had a Glass type device on their face, and the government continued to have the right to access our devices without our permission. What do you think will happen?

Expecting the government to abuse their power is a rational position, especially involving a company that the government routinely forces information from.

https://local.google.com/maps?q=Roden+Crater&hl=en&ll=35.425884,-111.258831&spn=0.000811,0.001206&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.177128,79.013672&hq=Roden+Crater&t=h&z=20

Of course, that doesn't tell you all that much either.

You could probably view it by signing up as a day labourer and joining a work crew; other than that, it's unlikely you'll see it in your lifetime for any ticket value approaching reasonable.

Yahoo spent 1.1billion of 1.2billion in cash reserves to buy Tumblr. Where is this $200 million coming from?

Yahoo has about $3 billion in cash and equivalents as of their last quarterly statement. Additionally, purchases don't have to be made in cash on hand. The company could be bought using cash, stock, options or some combination of the above. Additionally the company could issue debt to raise the capital to fund the acquisition. Also they could partner with someone on the buyout.

For what it is worth, $300 million was last quarter's profit for Yahoo.

Also, 300million seems low considering Hulu actually has decent revenue compared to Yahoo's other acquisitions which have lower revenue and were purchased for far more.

Is it 1999 again? I thought the dotcom bubble burst. Here's why revenue doesn't matter. I can generate vast amounts of revenue selling $2 bills for $1. I'll have huge sales doing so. I'll also be bankrupt faster than you can say "Chapter Eleven". The only reason to use a revenue multiple for a buyout is because the company is not profitable and has limited prospects of becoming so.

The amount of revenue they generate is irrelevant unless it leads to profits. I've seen reports that Hulu has turned a profit though it is unclear how much or what the future prospects might be. Revenue without profits can only be a short term situation. Sometimes doing so makes sense for strategic reasons (see Amazon) but there MUST be a path to profitability. Either Hulu must be strategically vital or it must have future profit opportunities Yahoo is aware of and I am not.

Hopefully, Hulu will refuse to be bought by a company so irresponsible with its money, or for an amount less than half of its yearly revenue.

It's quite possible that a price of 0.5X revenue is a fair price. It might also be too high or too low. Typical multiples of revenue for buyouts are between 0.6X and 1.2X annual revenue for a profitable company. Varies by industry. Depending on Hulu's future prospects, a 0.5X revenue multiple might be a fantastic price for its shareholders. However that also likely means it is a questionable deal for Yahoo financially.

Even though yes, you are simply eating too much in the thermodynamic sense, it rapidly becomes a stigma where the patient is 'at fault', rather than the underlying medical condition. In this way, victimisation of obese patients is counter-productive.

Sure some people simply have no self-control - but is that because they are bad people, or because there is some factor at work that makes it hard for them? The blame game for obesity is a bit like accusing people with a birth mark of being in league with the devil and burning them - we should know better by now.

I'm very lucky that I stay relatively thin and somewhat athletic without significant excercise, despite eating whatever I want. But I can imagine how hard it would be to accept that I'd have to change my food- and exercise habits in order to lose weight, knowing that I basically have to keep doing it for life. I am not sure I would be able to do so myself, if the need should arise down the line. I did gain about 7 kgs over the past 6-7 years (I'm 37), so I might have to start considering it :)

However, your AC parent is correct, although he stated it in a somewhat aggressive manner. "A small percentage" of overweight people (I've read about 1% cited from an MD in a news article which I can't find at the moment) have some physiological condition which makes it impossible or extremely difficult to lose weight. Thus the cold, hard reality is that the vast majority simply eats too much and moves too little. To be flippant, "being too fond of cake" is usually not a medical condition. Of course there are also various mental "disorders" of different severities, often connected with the overweight itself, which can make it very hard to focus on a healthy lifestyle.

This still indicates that the vast majority of overweight people need to be aware of the fact that yes, they are responsible for their weight, and that they themselves are ultimately the only ones that can do something about it, even though it can be damned hard. There is no need to go it alone, there are a lot of programs one can join, I imagine that is also the case in the US, but you need to instigate the change *yourself*.

On a side note, there are some loud people who skew the public opinion against obese people. A notable example in Norway is Jørgen Foss, the spokesman for the Norwegian National Association of Overweight People, who is a complete clown. He might possibly be the worst spokesman for any organisation ever, as he keeps harping on about how he's completely innocent and unable to to anything about his weight, that some people prefer to be huge, and stuff like that. He dismisses lifestyle changes as a measure (claiming it's impossible), and frowns on programs which could actually help people (there's supposedly no reason for him to even try, as a program wouldn't help him anyway; he would just continue overeating). That doesn't exactly tend to instill any sympathy in me.

Another spokesperson for the same organisation famously complained that "Not even the chairs at McDonald's are big enough. Some of us have experienced that the chairs are stuck to us when we get up." This is not a satirical article, nor did the statement seem to be uttered in jest. In the QA session she very aggressively dismisses any suggestion that laying off the snacks and junk food (of which she consumes a substantial amount) is a viable course of action.

Shit like this seriously harms their cause, and is very much the wrong message to send to people in that situation IMO.

Even though yes, you are simply eating too much in the thermodynamic sense, it rapidly becomes a stigma where the patient is 'at fault', rather than the underlying medical condition. In this way, victimisation of obese patients is counter-productive.

Sure some people simply have no self-control - but is that because they are bad people, or because there is some factor at work that makes it hard for them? The blame game for obesity is a bit like accusing people with a birth mark of being in league with the devil and burning them - we should know better by now.

I'm very lucky that I stay relatively thin and somewhat athletic without significant excercise, despite eating whatever I want. But I can imagine how hard it would be to accept that I'd have to change my food- and exercise habits in order to lose weight, knowing that I basically have to keep doing it for life. I am not sure I would be able to do so myself, if the need should arise down the line. I did gain about 7 kgs over the past 6-7 years (I'm 37), so I might have to start considering it :)

However, your AC parent is correct, although he stated it in a somewhat aggressive manner. "A small percentage" of overweight people (I've read about 1% cited from an MD in a news article which I can't find at the moment) have some physiological condition which makes it impossible or extremely difficult to lose weight. Thus the cold, hard reality is that the vast majority simply eats too much and moves too little. To be flippant, "being too fond of cake" is usually not a medical condition. Of course there are also various mental "disorders" of different severities, often connected with the overweight itself, which can make it very hard to focus on a healthy lifestyle.

This still indicates that the vast majority of overweight people need to be aware of the fact that yes, they are responsible for their weight, and that they themselves are ultimately the only ones that can do something about it, even though it can be damned hard. There is no need to go it alone, there are a lot of programs one can join, I imagine that is also the case in the US, but you need to instigate the change *yourself*.

On a side note, there are some loud people who skew the public opinion against obese people. A notable example in Norway is Jørgen Foss, the spokesman for the Norwegian National Association of Overweight People, who is a complete clown. He might possibly be the worst spokesman for any organisation ever, as he keeps harping on about how he's completely innocent and unable to to anything about his weight, that some people prefer to be huge, and stuff like that. He dismisses lifestyle changes as a measure (claiming it's impossible), and frowns on programs which could actually help people (there's supposedly no reason for him to even try, as a program wouldn't help him anyway; he would just continue overeating). That doesn't exactly tend to instill any sympathy in me.

Another spokesperson for the same organisation famously complained that "Not even the chairs at McDonald's are big enough. Some of us have experienced that the chairs are stuck to us when we get up." This is not a satirical article, nor did the statement seem to be uttered in jest. In the QA session she very aggressively dismisses any suggestion that laying off the snacks and junk food (of which she consumes a substantial amount) is a viable course of action.

Shit like this seriously harms their cause, and is very much the wrong message to send to people in that situation IMO.

Please tell me what you would consider a scandal.

How about Operation Wide Receiver?

Apparently, you are the only one who spells it that way.

http://www.google.com/search?q=nukyueolus

Every car I've seen with a digital speedometer also has an analog one on the side that displays both MPH and KPH.

No car I've ever seen has had both a digital speedometer and an analog one. I'm going to want to see a picture of some of these incredibly idiotic dashboards that you've been seeing. (I've found one example of such using google image search...) And I've owned at least two of them, I drive one regularly, and I have the gauge cluster for another (not my pic but I have an S13 HUD dash I hope to use for a simulator in the future) sitting here, absolutely none of them are like that. Most of them don't even have a tachometer; most people who want a digital dash don't care how many Rs they're turning, they have an automatic anyway. Of course, the very top-end cars now have all-digital dashes, so that trend will probably finally change the way I thought it would in the 1980s, when manufacturers were experimenting with bar-graph tachometers and the like.

As an aside, what I would like is an analog speedometer with two needles, I supposed it could be emulated but there is no screen which can emulate the resolution of the physical world, period the end, so I prefer a real needle in my gauge. I would like one needle (in a darker color, naturally) to show the speed I'm trying to achieve with my foot, and the other needle to show my calculated speed.

In any case, I have never seen a car with two speedometers. They clearly exist but they are by far in the minority.

Every car I've seen with a digital speedometer also has an analog one on the side that displays both MPH and KPH.

No car I've ever seen has had both a digital speedometer and an analog one. I'm going to want to see a picture of some of these incredibly idiotic dashboards that you've been seeing. (I've found one example of such using google image search...) And I've owned at least two of them, I drive one regularly, and I have the gauge cluster for another (not my pic but I have an S13 HUD dash I hope to use for a simulator in the future) sitting here, absolutely none of them are like that. Most of them don't even have a tachometer; most people who want a digital dash don't care how many Rs they're turning, they have an automatic anyway. Of course, the very top-end cars now have all-digital dashes, so that trend will probably finally change the way I thought it would in the 1980s, when manufacturers were experimenting with bar-graph tachometers and the like.

As an aside, what I would like is an analog speedometer with two needles, I supposed it could be emulated but there is no screen which can emulate the resolution of the physical world, period the end, so I prefer a real needle in my gauge. I would like one needle (in a darker color, naturally) to show the speed I'm trying to achieve with my foot, and the other needle to show my calculated speed.

In any case, I have never seen a car with two speedometers. They clearly exist but they are by far in the minority.

Every car I've seen with a digital speedometer also has an analog one on the side that displays both MPH and KPH.

No car I've ever seen has had both a digital speedometer and an analog one. I'm going to want to see a picture of some of these incredibly idiotic dashboards that you've been seeing. (I've found one example of such using google image search...) And I've owned at least two of them, I drive one regularly, and I have the gauge cluster for another (not my pic but I have an S13 HUD dash I hope to use for a simulator in the future) sitting here, absolutely none of them are like that. Most of them don't even have a tachometer; most people who want a digital dash don't care how many Rs they're turning, they have an automatic anyway. Of course, the very top-end cars now have all-digital dashes, so that trend will probably finally change the way I thought it would in the 1980s, when manufacturers were experimenting with bar-graph tachometers and the like.

As an aside, what I would like is an analog speedometer with two needles, I supposed it could be emulated but there is no screen which can emulate the resolution of the physical world, period the end, so I prefer a real needle in my gauge. I would like one needle (in a darker color, naturally) to show the speed I'm trying to achieve with my foot, and the other needle to show my calculated speed.

In any case, I have never seen a car with two speedometers. They clearly exist but they are by far in the minority.

Depends on the screen you have, I would guess. https://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+screen+wattage&aq=f&oq=laptop+screen+wattage If you look at the first link there, you'll see that the LCD screen takes up on the order of 5W of power at full brightness. The same paper says that the power usage roughly doubles when you start blasting the CPU. If you use your laptop like I do (I'm in an engineering program at college), that's some nice savings there if they can trim the CPU usage.

Yes screen technology is important.... Pixel Qi technology seems to be ignored and should not
Especially on laptops that mate well with a docking station for "work".
A big quality display at the office is a good thing. Especially on that has been rotated to be tall. The ability to have a very low power transmissive/ reflective display while mobile and a serious display at a desk at work is under served.

Docking station tech is lame at best. First the battery charging logic is flawed. The charger should disconnect from the battery once it is charged. It should test the battery once an hour thereafter and decide what to do. I cannot tell you how many batteries I have had die from long term over charging and lack of correct dynamics in use.
A docking station should have cooling designed to keep the battery as well as the CPU/logic cool. Most obstruct air flow and do neither well.

Looks like it's already tanking.

In a while it may be time to buy to catch a small rebound and short it again.

But more importantly, not all ants are cannibals. Cockroaches generally are.

Because of that, borax has different effects on non-cannibalistic ants than on cannibalistic ants or cockroaches.

See, borax does not kill ants or cockroaches instantly.
Instead, they munch on it happily and later their chitinous carapace starts to break apart because of the effect of boric acid on the chitin.
Then, when they die back in the nest, literally crushed by other roaches, their cannibalistic comrades eat them and the boric acid in the chitin starts its work on them.

BUT, while it takes a tad longer for cockroaches to die from cracks in their carapaces, so they die inside the nest and become food, ants will die much sooner and outside the nest, never becoming food.
AND they will still have whiff of both "Danger! Death!" pheromones AND borax on them when their comrades find them.

Your ants didn't evolve - you trained them to fear the smell of borax.
What you need to do is try using less borax.

Sorry, that link should be http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25563.

Mills likes people to do actual calorimetry: https://www.google.com/search?q=calorimetry+site%3Ablacklightpower.com

Eh, recently there are about as many slashdot articles about "gun" as there are about "GNU". Check it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=gun&as_qdr=m&as_sitesearch=slashdot.org
https://www.google.com/search?q=gnu&as_qdr=m&as_sitesearch=slashdot.org

Eh, recently there are about as many slashdot articles about "gun" as there are about "GNU". Check it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=gun&as_qdr=m&as_sitesearch=slashdot.org
https://www.google.com/search?q=gnu&as_qdr=m&as_sitesearch=slashdot.org

It appears that they are alive and well. Oddly enough...

https://www.google.com/search?q=xerox&num=100&newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&hs=VbM&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ei=XrOeUcarKIi29gSrloGgBQ&ved=0CA4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=767

Digital Equipment Corp had a fab and R&D facility not too far from where I live. (Side note: Anything under a few hours isn't too far away in Mainiac lingo.) Chances are that any networking equipment from DEC came from Augusta, Maine. Here's a newspaper article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19761210&id=UaYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6509,2109951

I never did a whole lot with them. I worked with some of the DEC Alpha systems, which were a 64 bit RISC ISA, I dimly recall them being quite sound and advanced for the day. The sad thing is I don't recall a damned thing specific about it... *sighs* I either burnt those braincells out or I've written new information over them. I should probably spend some time re-familiarizing myself with it just for old time's sake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha

I doubt that there are many in use today. A lady friend of mine was on the manufacturing line and I had a couple of friends in research. I'd be surprised if there were any of the systems still alive today but not too terribly surprised (if that makes sense) to find someone running one in their closet somewhere. Yeah, it would be surprising but not too surprising to find a small local bank or business that still has one churning out payroll or the likes.

Hmm... A quick Google (which is a verb I tells ya!) reveals this:

http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/cgi-bin/listpawfaqs.pl/148

There also appears to be an AlphaLinux so, wow... I guess there probably are a few boxes left that still have life in them. I recall Compaq had some cloned Alpha boxes as well. I seem to recall some of their tech making it into a desktop but I'm going to stop searching before I get locked into a maze that takes me a few hours to negotiate and I'll post this now before it becomes a novella.

Looks like Google agrees with you.

Fortunately you can find RJ-45 ports on many 16 bit ISA cards that will work in an 8-bit port(e.g. 3c509). With such a card, and mTCP, you can network any IBM PC back to the 5150.

There's something awesome about booting an XT class machine, logging in via FTP, uploading a game, and then just playing. No messing with floppy disk images, xmodem, or any such headaches.

Obvious, blatant slashvertisement intended to showcase some product noone's ever heard of,

Snapchat made quite a bit of news when Facebook tried to copy it with Poke. Google results.

SGI had something along these lines http://www.google.com/patents?vid=5732138 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand but links http://lavarand.sgi.com/ don't work too well now.

The problem with this is that Curiosity weighs 342kg but masses 900kg. Scarecrow weighs and masses 342kg. Whatever Curiosity weighs, it hitting a rock at 1m/s is still 900 newtons of force. Scarecrow hitting a rock at 1m/s is 342 newtons. The fact it drove 12km and has serviceable wheels does not make me feel better.

That distinction is really only revelant in the case of dynamic loading: hitting things at speed, rapid straightline accerelation, or quick turning. Whether Curiosity on Mars or Scarecrow on Earth, there really isn't any of that going on. For the most part, the only loading going on is the static loading due to gravity, which they have accounted for.

You talk about hitting a rock at 1 m/s, but Curiosity's top speed on hard, flat ground is 1.5 in/sec, or about 4 cm/sec (0.14 km/h). That's only 1/25th the speed you use in your bungled calculations; 1/625 as much kinetic energy. At that slow crawl of a speed, the difference in dynamic loading between Curiosity and Scarecrow is negligible. In any event, the rover is by an large prevented from hitting anything by the route planners here on Earth and its autonomous hazard avoidance algorithms.

In other words: I trust the engineers at JPL to understand these things and account for them better than a random user on /.

Why hovercraft never caught on:

Expectation: http://www.google.com/search?q=concept+hovercraft

Reality: http://images.google.com/search?q=hovercraft

Perform this search experiment with Hoverbike/Concept Hoverbike as your search term and the disparity is worse - the real world things, even the expensive ones always look like they've been made in some back yard.

Why hovercraft never caught on:

Expectation: http://www.google.com/search?q=concept+hovercraft

Reality: http://images.google.com/search?q=hovercraft

Perform this search experiment with Hoverbike/Concept Hoverbike as your search term and the disparity is worse - the real world things, even the expensive ones always look like they've been made in some back yard.

Unlike Cape Canaveral which launches into an equatorial orbit to the east, Vandenberg launches into polar orbits to the south, and tests to the Marshall Islands to the west. That means the vapor trail is in prime position to be backlit by sunlight in the upper atmosphere just after sunset, making for very dramatic sights and photos as you describe. If the timing is right, on a clear day it's visible from most of Southern California. A friend of mine has a spectacular photo he took of such a launch from Joshua Tree, which is about 250 miles away.

[citation needed]

Here ya go:
http://www.google.com