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He was a twitter Top Tweet, and a top-10 story on Google news. Still is, at the moment. Surprising, since they list only 44 news sources. This is a story with a narrow journalistic focus that is getting an enormous amount of internet action. Evidence that the web at large is still disproportionately geeky.

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The reason Google chrome can update as a user is simple; it installs itself, All 200+MB of Chrome I might add, in your user profile.

If youre doing an enterprise install, you are using the Chrome MSI, which installs to programfiles. The reason it updates automatically is it installs a Google Updater service which is set to start with administrator privileges. Somehow it does it in a way that does not trigger the GPO to redeploy the older version of Chrome (possibly because Chrome keeps older versions laying around after an update?)

Prior to the MSI (which came out early this year) you could use the GooglePack installer to do a machine install, though it was more of a PITA to install.

In case you were not aware, Google also has Chrome GPO templates for managing it. It is significantly better than the situation with Firefox, actually.

Maybe because all seems at this point to be based on one Google+ post and slashdot is a bit wary of such announcements, with the Stephen King trolls and all...

And I'm going to ask you to re-read the lesson on accessibility. There's a reason why monospaced fonts are used only for code. To be blunt, whenever I see a slashdot posting in courier (or whatever), I have a strong desire to simply skip it. While we're at it... how many people do you think are going to copy paste that link into a browser. You're aware that you can enter nicely formatted HTML into your posts, like this, right? If you're going to ask Google to learn its lesson from this posting, might we ask the same of you?

PS, I hope you take this post with appropriate humor. It's intended to point out how it's pretty easy to pick up on someone else's failings while missing your own, not to slam obvious pedantic issues with your post. ;-)

iGoogle is already a Google service.... http://www.google.com/ig

U.S. Intelligence has hired social scientists to mine the vast resources of the Internet

Just a point, stop calling them "social scientists", they are not scientists, and it degrades the value of hard science of myself and others here that went to university for.

I understand your complaint and believe it has merit. However, it seems that a "social scientist" is merely someone educated in Social Science, which, by my (or your) definition is not a "hard science." Referring to them as "social scientists" rather than "scientists" seems to be the distinguishing factor. A definition from the Web:

. someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships
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Once, I asked my uncle whether his post-graduate/doctoral degrees meant that he is a "chemical physicist" or a "physical chemist"; he responded, "It depends on who you ask!"

I was left with the impression that someone who is more chemistry-inclined would probably use the latter and a physics-oriented person would use the former, regardless of my uncle's personal preference. Of course, both chemistry and physics qualify as "true sciences," whereas "Social Science" is more often lumped in with Humanities and Arts.

Amazon can use a platform-based service because Amazon sells things for money. Allowing programs to find out about things Amazon has for sale is profitable, t Amazon's marketing info gets redistributed. Amazon's "cloud" is a pay service, and making pay services available makes money. So Amazon's platform is a win for Amazon.

Google, on the other hand, is entirely ad-based. (Yes, they get about 3%-7% of their revenue from actual products they sell. So what?) So they don't want their data repurposed, especially if repurposing deletes the ads.

Facebook is quite platform-oriented internally, with internal services making heavy use of interprocess communication. But little of that is exposed to the outside world. What is exposed is heavily restricted. Facebook games have to accept payment only in Facebook's private money, with a 30% take.

Google used to be more platform oriented. There was a Google SOAP search interface and a Google Web Search API. Both have been discontinued. They didn't push ads.

Google's priority is to return search results in under 100ms. That requires tight integration. It's all about cache management, not platform APIs. Some data has to be pushed to clients, rather than pulled through APIs, or performance will suffer badly.

Given Google's business model, they don't seem to be doing their infrastructure wrong.

Amazon can use a platform-based service because Amazon sells things for money. Allowing programs to find out about things Amazon has for sale is profitable, t Amazon's marketing info gets redistributed. Amazon's "cloud" is a pay service, and making pay services available makes money. So Amazon's platform is a win for Amazon.

Google, on the other hand, is entirely ad-based. (Yes, they get about 3%-7% of their revenue from actual products they sell. So what?) So they don't want their data repurposed, especially if repurposing deletes the ads.

Facebook is quite platform-oriented internally, with internal services making heavy use of interprocess communication. But little of that is exposed to the outside world. What is exposed is heavily restricted. Facebook games have to accept payment only in Facebook's private money, with a 30% take.

Google used to be more platform oriented. There was a Google SOAP search interface and a Google Web Search API. Both have been discontinued. They didn't push ads.

Google's priority is to return search results in under 100ms. That requires tight integration. It's all about cache management, not platform APIs. Some data has to be pushed to clients, rather than pulled through APIs, or performance will suffer badly.

Given Google's business model, they don't seem to be doing their infrastructure wrong.

All of which is irrelevant, because this patent claims something different from the original Xerox patent. The difference lies in the first claim of each patent. In the Xerox "unistroke" patent, the symbols are defined as being one continuous movement, detected by a mechanism that's specifically looking for a particular set of motions, which correspond only to textual elements. In the later PalmSource patent, the symbols are complex arrangements of possibly-multiple strokes which, once the drawing is complete, are compared to a table of symbols and used to initiate actions.

In true Slashdot form, it's time for an analogy. The Xerox patent is like looking at a novelty clock face: Even if the numbers are distorted, you know exactly what they say because you know what to expect in each number's place. The PalmSource patent is like reading a prescription from a stereotypical doctor: It's a complex set of symbols, but all you need to recognize is what you have to do with it.

I'll say it again: The patent appears to cover later implementations of Graffiti.

Google Goggles lets you take a picture and upload it somewhere i believe. Could be (probably am) wrong. http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text

As for the torture, do you have any evidence to substantiate that claim? I did a quick search and I couldn't find any torture articles that weren't for Apple products being stress tested by people.

Try missing iphone foxconn, which turns up a Forbes article about a Foxconn worker accused of stealing an iPhone prototype who was "illegally detained and physically abused by a security manager surnamed Yuan".

If the Blackberry is "working better" than the iPhone right now, then what the hell does the iPhone do? Go in and close your email accounts and then burst into flames?

You have an iPhone confused with a MacBook

"I don't know" == "Doesn't exist". Beautiful logic.

First, Opera's still popular in exUSSR countries, though Chrome takes over now.

Second, surely, no one wants those gestures. Because it's so much faster to move your mouse accross the desktop to back button than just swiping to the left, for example.

Why so biased? Did Opera devs bite you?

There are stretches of road out there where you think "If I have car trouble here, I'll die before another car comes along." Only a slight exaggeration heh heh heh.

I take it you have never driven US 83 through the sand hills of Nebraska.

Three weeks ago, and there was too much traffic. It was much better once I got to US 18 and then 44. Driving through stretches of Montana and Wyoming as the GP is talking about especially at night is much "lonelier". I ran out of gas out there one night and as I was coasting down hill without power and lights I ran over the remains of a deer and punctured a tire on it's antlers. It was a very long walk into town for gas, and the rest of the trip the car smelt like burning deer.

Back on topic, I loved both my RX7s, but the 600cc sport bike was so much more fun.

There are stretches of road out there where you think "If I have car trouble here, I'll die before another car comes along." Only a slight exaggeration heh heh heh.

I take it you have never driven US 83 through the sand hills of Nebraska.

FlashBlock (for Firefox and Chrome) is a pretty good alternative. it doesn't block xss or clickjacking, but it does prevent malicious plugin exploits while leaving most of the rest of the web fully functional.

This is the same NSS that's funded by Microsoft. Also the same company that once tried to publish a study where they compared a development version of IE against a version of Chrome that was twice outdated.

http://www.google.com/search?q=nss+microsoft

Hard to trust a company with that kind of history....

No, they use SLM.

Your knowledge is at least 11 years out of date. I used to work at Microsoft (left several years ago). We switched from slm to Source Depot (Perforce fork) in about 2000. In addition, Google tells me that many teams are using VSTF (not SourceSafe 2010, which doesn't exist). It's not clear whether any of them are using the revision control part of TFS (hence replacing sd) but I imagine at least some of them are doing so, given that TFS has existed at least 6 years.

How much does it cost to import ten plus years of VSS data? If it could be done, I'd definitely be interested in switching to something better supported (read: FOSS)...

There are a number of free options you can try, which again you can find via Google, for example: http://www.google.com/search?q=migrating+from+sourcesafe+to+subversion. Indeed, this was one of the first questions on Stack Overflow: What's the best way to migrate from VSS to Subversion? Of course, you can also choose to make your SourceSafe instance read-only and simply check in a new copy into svn and start from there.

Who cares? I'm guessing you don't have much experience of server clusters but generally, long before you get to the kind of scale we are talking about here, you start treating servers in the same way you might treat HDDs in a RAID array. When one fails, other servers in the cluster pick up the slack until you can either repair the broken unit or you simply remote install the appropriate image onto a standby server and bring that up until an engineer physically goes to site. Handling of the data is somewhat critical though; should a server die you ideally need to be able to resume what it was working on seemlessly and without causing any data corruption; think transaction based DB queries and timeout/retry.

If you have enough spare servers and you can easily get by with engineers only needing to go on site once a month or so, assuming you get your MTBF calculations right that is. There's a good white paper by Google on how 200,000 hr MTBF hard drive failure rates equate to drive failures every few hours when you have a few 100k HDs.

Making a single bar of soap, using lye from the best hardwood, requires 17 pounds of wood. A decent woodlot should yield 2500 lb / acre per year (1 cord). A typical backyard would be less, maybe 1000 lb / acre / year. So a quarter acre backyard could make you approx. 15 bars of soap per year.

This just in, all our competition sucks, news at 11.

On the other hand, what surprised me was the download links for Chrome, and Firefox on the browser comparison page.

The only thing that would have surprised me more would have been links to the Chrome and Firefox security features.

As did you, what major browsers?

Look here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)#Market_adoption

You calling opera a major browser and piggy backing off (#37683562) in regards to servers?

IE, Firefox, nor Chrome don't support it as stated above, a 10 second google search would yield something like...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0539619c98f85cbb&hl=en

It's always worked like... browser implements new feature, web devs and admins follow, if you ask me to to turn on features on a server that aren't in use by anybody... I'd make sure you didn't have a job in my department the next day.

Do not track is a shining example of this concept, shame the implementation is half assed, but it does require web admins to do a little more than change some server settings to implement.

TLS 1.2 would experience the same implementation for a while, so a hard cut over would be nice, but who cares about security when there's money at stake by turning of tls 1.0 and losing revenue from customers who can't hit your site.

It's A LOT more complicated to implement shit in the real world than in your university dmzed lab.

... would love to code using Python syntax but have the code run as fast as C/C++. Best of both worlds.

I'd like to point you to the PyPy project, which experiments with, among other things, JIT for Python.

The PyPy project aims at producing a flexible and fast Python implementation. The guiding idea is to translate a Python-level description of the Python language itself to lower level languages. Rumors have it that the secret goal is being faster-than-C which is nonsense, isn't it?

(You should also read their architecture page - their goals are truly impressive. Which is why I'm such a huge fan of the project)

You also have the project Shed Skin.

Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs.

So yes, there are people out there putting "tons of effort" into just that: Making python faster :)

The #1 problem with the rotary was meeting emissions requirements followed by seals wearing out. Mazda was the only one doing R&D on them through out and the only one in a position to produce them without massive investment in R&D to get them market ready. Mazda managed to solve the problems with the engine. Unfortunately the RX line has always been a misfit in their product lineup. Though certainly more affordable they had a hard time finding a significant customer base not unlike the GT-R, Viper, Corvette, etc.. They're more of a mascot, a source of pride than anything. The cars themselves were excellent and the RX-8 was certainly hard to match in handling even against far more expensive competitors.

All that said however, Mazda is NOT quitting the rotary business. The RX-8 is being retired only to be replaced with the next generation, RX-7. pics

The term you are looking for is 'midden.' Do a search for octopus midden and you will see what he is referring to. I don't think it counts as art though, unless you think a pile of stuff is art....

Tell your friend about my website: :-)
    http://www.pdfernhout.net/

For a start though, a "basic income" would be a good idea.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee

But other ideas are here:
    http://knol.google.com/k/beyond-a-jobless-recovery
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vK-M_e0JoY

In brief, there have always been five interwoven economies, and the balance of them changes with technological changes and cultural changes:
* A subsistence economy ("There's some lovely berries over here.");
* A gift economy ("The meat from this deer I hunted is going to spoil; I'll share it with the tribe, and others will share their hunting results some other time as they have in the past.");
* A planned economy ("Let's put the longhouse here. I'll cut the trees, you level the ground, you over there will put up the walls, and you over there will cook us some food while we are busy with these other tasks.");
* An exchange economy ("You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. I'll trade you some of my extra berries for some of your extra deer meat.");
* A theft (or conquest) economy ("What's yours is mine because I'm stronger, cleverer, sneakier, or can afford better lawyers.").

Paid human labor has less and less value due to several causes including:
* robotics, AI, and other automation,
* better design,
* the accumulation of physical infrastructure,
* relatively cheaper energy (which can often substitute for human labor), and/or
* the emergence of voluntary social networks.

So, we can expect the balance between those five interwoven economies to change as our technology and society changes, perhaps with:
* A subsistence economy through 3D printing, gardening robots, local PV solar panels, and other local clean energy technologies (like cold fusion or something else);
* A gift economy through the internet, like sharing digital files to use with our 3D printers or gardening robots, or coordinating the movement of free goods like through Freecycle;
* A planned economy on a variety of scales, including through taxes, subsidies and regulation affecting market dynamics;
* An exchange economy marketplace softened by a basic income; and
* Minimizing the impulse to theft (or conquest) and related violence through the previous four changes.

The particular balance a society adopts is going to reflect the unique blend of history, culture, infrastructure, environment, relationships, mythologies, religions, and politics of that society.

I worked at Blockbuster and Subway for 6 months while looking for work. I did what I had to do.

And now Blockbuster is gone and Subway isn't hiring. There were just over 3 million open jobs in July, there are "officially" 13 million people unemployed. What do you think the other 10 million people "have to do"? Start their own company? With what money? And what chances? 80% of new companies fail in 5 years. What waits for them after they try and fail? More scorn? People unwilling to give them a second chance?

It's not society's job to guarantee anyone a particular outcome. It's society's job to provide the opportunity.

Numerically speaking, the opportunity simply doesn't exist. It's all well and good for sjames to argue over whether those 3 million jobs are just crumbs or not, but the simple fact of the matter is that for the foreseeable future, the economy will not be able to absorb the other ten million people.

I don't get your comment. Google+ has nothing to do with phones in particular.

To sign up for Google+, you need a Google account. To get a Google account you need to provide a phone number that they can send an activation code to, both for the initial sign-up and later sign-ins from different locations.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114129

This prevents me from having a Google account.

So this is a repost of a rant I had about Tesco last week, the comments on cam.misc are still going on. I am boycotting them for the foreseeable future. And yes I know paracetamol poising is a horrible way to kill yourself.

I wanted to buy some anti-histamines and some painkillers so I ended up buying three tins of chocolates 6 packs of anti-histamines and two packets of paracetamol and two packets of ibuprofen. I did try to buy some more but something happened....

I was using a self service register and they always annoy. So someone came over when I put the third pain killer though the till and theysaid I wasn’t allowed to buy more than two painkillers in a single transaction. So I completed that transaction and started another one for the next two packets. I completed that and had started another when I was told that I was not allowed to buy any more. I asked why and they said it was company policy.

Basically I ended up being surrounded by the manager for the checkouts, the deputy manger for the store and a security guard. And they wouldn’t let me leave the store with the medicines I had bought, they kept on saying it was against company policy. When the store manager turned up I started recording this on my ipod, I told them I was doing this and they told me to stop because of company policy I refused. I was really shaking and felt very intimidated and unwell I also left my card in the card reader I was so shaken. I have about 10 minutes of audio where they will not let me leave the store with the items I had purchased. I did ask them to ring the police when the said they really were not going to let me out of the shop with the medicines I had bought. Eventually the manager said it was the medicines act and I think he said 1998 but I can only find an 1968 medicines act which googling implies that it limits the drugs that shops which are not pharmacies
are allowed to sell. I did then give him the extra packets of paracetamol and ibuprofen but refused a refund as I just wanted to leave the shop. This has really shaken myself and my 10 year old son who was with me up.

Even if I wasn’t allowed to buy the medicines are they allowed to stop me from leaving the building ? I did pop into the police station later in the day to ask if they were allowed to detain me and they said it was a civil mater. I also asked the police if Tesco had rung them and they refused to answer.

If your vision is very poor...and you view both ports from a distance...I suppose they could both look like blurry black rectangles. That's about it. They aren't even close to the same size.

I took a photo for you: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116488482438030317181/posts/PntqnoWn6qV?hl=en I couldn't place the ruler exactly but both ports are just under 7/8ths of an inch by apprx. 1/16th high. They opening and placement is exactly the same size. You have to look closely on the SX-70 since the opening is surrounded by black plastic. The SX-70 was the iPod of its time. Steve Jobs was known to manage design details including over the transparency of the glass in the Apple store and the shade of yellow in the Google logo on the iPhone app. It's entirely plausible that he had input on the single port on this iconic device. That was my guess. If I was a betting man, I'd wager there is not another consumer electronic device between 1970 and 2003 with a port of these exact dimensions. Let alone a device of the prominence of the SX-70 or iPod. Why is it relevant? Because it shines a light on the Polaroid SX-70, which might deserve more recognition for its design achievements. Also, like the terrific 'Everything is a Remix' series, it's good for creative people and engineers to know that decisions are sometimes arrived at by looking at choices made by your predecessors. I figured the Slashdot audience might include people who build and design ports and connectors for a living. If that's not interesting to you, that's ok. I just wanted to give you a more detailed photo so you can draw your own conclusion based on the best information available. Cheers.

You think that's bad? Just go into your local Walmart with a pen and paper and start writing prices down and time how long it takes them to stick security on you. I have just discovered that Tesco has the same policy.

http://www.google.com/search?q=take+pictures+security+public , and it will get worse. :(

You go ahead and try taking down the government of the USA and see how you do, if you want to compare apples to apples.

If you take a look at Late December last year/early January of this year in egypt looked a lot like we do now actually, slightly different reasons of course but none the less.

While I think its unlikely our government will fuck up enough to end up like Egypt, it would be really easy to do right now if they keep acting like douche bags on television and radio making it clear they don't give a fuck.

Its one thing to know they don't give a fuck and want to screw us as hard as possible, we get pissed when they brag about it in our faces.

Now you're shifting the argument. First you confused Chrome with Chromium, not realizing that there was a difference. At least acknowledge that.

Second, they said Chrome would be open source. It was a huge part of their marketing. If you remember, Chrome was announced via a comic. It said right on page 2, "Finally, Google Chrome is a fully open source browser."

The distinctions between proprietary Chrome and open source Chromium didn't come until later.

The fact is that Google+'s traffic is up 5 fold. Basically that 60% drop is comparing the initial surge from when it was first made public to where it is now. Of course traffic is lower. That's like saying that TV viewership dropped off after the Super Bowl. You had a bunch of people that weren't able to access a service that are suddenly able to ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Eventually traffic settled down, but at a much higher value than before. That didn't mean that 60% left, it meant that G+ went through a period with abnormally high usage. The users are still there, they're just using it at different times instead of all at once. See https://plus.google.com/u/0/113117251731252114390/posts/AZh8wwb76vR

I just checked the chromium.org web site and it seems you can download all of the source code and build it yourself without adding in any proprietary bits.

"Chrome" is the official Google product and what you get when you download it from Google. It's a binary only release. "Chromium" is the open source version of Chrome without the proprietary bits.

Do you have a link which describes the proprietary bits?

Here's an official link from the early days, after people starting figuring out that Chrome was not fully open source:

http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html

"Chromium is the name we have given to the open source project and the browser source code that we released and maintain at www.chromium.org. One can compile this source code to get a fully working browser. Google takes this source code, and adds on the Google name and logo, an auto-updater system called GoogleUpdate, and RLZ (described later in this post), and calls this Google Chrome."

Here's a more up-to-date wiki. I don't know how accurate it is:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome

But I do know that Chrome contain's Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin at the minimum.

You can also read the EULA for Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html , which includes the following:

"9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing."

So any bits not open source are explicitly declared proprietary here.

I just checked the chromium.org web site and it seems you can download all of the source code and build it yourself without adding in any proprietary bits.

"Chrome" is the official Google product and what you get when you download it from Google. It's a binary only release. "Chromium" is the open source version of Chrome without the proprietary bits.

Do you have a link which describes the proprietary bits?

Here's an official link from the early days, after people starting figuring out that Chrome was not fully open source:

http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html

"Chromium is the name we have given to the open source project and the browser source code that we released and maintain at www.chromium.org. One can compile this source code to get a fully working browser. Google takes this source code, and adds on the Google name and logo, an auto-updater system called GoogleUpdate, and RLZ (described later in this post), and calls this Google Chrome."

Here's a more up-to-date wiki. I don't know how accurate it is:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome

But I do know that Chrome contain's Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin at the minimum.

You can also read the EULA for Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html , which includes the following:

"9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing."

So any bits not open source are explicitly declared proprietary here.

As others have commented, Facebook probably has less than 40% active users. But that's not what keeps me on G+.

I use it as a sort of augmented twitter, Following a bunch of science bloggers I find interesting (Shared Circle). It started out as a small list from Maggie Koerth-Baker, the science blogger at BoingBoing, and slowly accumulated more people through recommendations (network effect!).

Nowadays, Facebook is for the silly friends' stuff, but G+ is slowly turning into a major science news source populated by authors I respect.

As others have commented, Facebook probably has less than 40% active users. But that's not what keeps me on G+.

I use it as a sort of augmented twitter, Following a bunch of science bloggers I find interesting (Shared Circle). It started out as a small list from Maggie Koerth-Baker, the science blogger at BoingBoing, and slowly accumulated more people through recommendations (network effect!).

Nowadays, Facebook is for the silly friends' stuff, but G+ is slowly turning into a major science news source populated by authors I respect.

Instead, a lucky few work full-time and the rest are unemployed.

In case you weren't sure... Unemployment in the United States is at 9.1% or 13.967 million people as of August 2011. The "lucky few" you are referring to total 139.627 million people. (Source)

Facts speak louder.

Apple contracts to build a laptop in the far east for $100 using slave labor, and manipulated currencies

Then Apple Caymans, who owes no taxes of any kind, is a corp controlled by Apple USA. Apple Caymans then buys the laptop for $100 from the far east and sells it to Apple USA for $1000. The $900 profit is all profit, they pay no taxes on it.

Apple USA retails the laptop for $1100 for a $100 profit that they pay some US corporate income tax on.

So as you see, of the true $1000 profit on the laptop, they are only paying US taxes on $100 of it.

A quick google search confirmed that this story is essentially true, except for the impression you leave that Apple is still doing this and that it is legal for them to do so. Both impressions are incorrect.

It's called "transfer pricing" tax avoidance and it is decidedly illegal. The IRS prosecuted Apple for doing this and won. See:

http://books.google.com/books?id=-zW-eSe0kUYC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=Apple+computer+Caymans&source=bl&ots=Ax3-MRl8rD&sig=5ytxPcgT5lCjJ2cASJayoBiwG8w&hl=en&ei=MimTTuXNAoO2twfB1qSDDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Apple%20computer%20Caymans&f=false

Violence is not limited to physical acts. Here- educate yourself.

You can skip the off-topic and arrogant lecturing. I happen to have served in the IDF. My sister currently lives in the Negev, and she lets us know she's ok after each all-clear. I'm perfectly aware of the situation down there as well as its causes.

Location is here, in a former nickel-cobalt mine that operated from 1974 to 1992. It is one of several laterite-related nickel deposits in this area, which form by concentration of ultramafic (Fe-Mg-rich) rocks during chemical weathering in tropical conditions. Presumably they are considering reopening the mine mainly because of the scandium occurrence, or maybe they've found a better way to process the old tailings.

Check out Synergy, it allows you to share keyboard and mouse across multiple computers, but each needs it's own monitor. It also works across OS (linux, mac, windows). Another option, that sound more like what you want is italc. It lets you remote control other PC's from one master PC. I deployed it in a Fire Department training room and they love it.

What I have been 4 decades (working on service cutoff (no run if no NEED)).

Proof? Ok, & from as FAR BACK AS 1997, to present:

1997: http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml

2001: http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

PRESENT: http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

* "Read 'em, & weep", along with my other reply to you here (showing how your "expert", good as he is, is subject to correction, & yes, imperfection...)

The amazing part, is this though (from my perspective): IF you think you can even BEGIN to attempt to "downtalk me"? You had better show me you have done more in the art & science of computing than I have over time... & I truly do NOT think you can!

APK

P.S.=> Lastly/in closing-summation/bottom-line: You've got to remember 1 thing - Like all men, none of us is a "God" - we make mistakes, overlook things, & certainly do NOT "know it all" (& neither does your expert you cited, whom I have had run-ins with a couple times over the years, & with whom I have done work for the same companies with over time, as a peer AND THAT I HAVE CORRECTED and GOTTEN THE "BEST OF" IN DEBATE ON TECHNICAL ISSUES (specifically memmgt, because in the end? The ideas he espoused & that were put into VISTA HAD TO BE CHANGED (cache aggression/memuse for caching))...

... apk

They could have at least used their own damn implementation of the NX protocol and got work going around porting it to Windows and Mac. Maybe then NX would finally start to replace VNC and the FLOSS community would have a high quality remote desktop environment (and by high quality I mean HDX responsiveness). Or, god forbid, an HTML 5 client -like Ericom's AccessNow which is marketed for Chromebooks. You know, anything other than reinventing the damn wheel.

It still kills me that gmail doesn't have the way to say show me all email from user X in the order they where sent.

use the search with operators
from:sender
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190

thanks for the conceptualizations around large numbers.
for another example, one way to visualize 10^300 is that if you take a sphere the size of the universe (sphere of radius 14 billion light years) and then fill it with grains of sand, and then replace each of those grains of sand with an entire universe filled with grains of sand, and then replace each of those grains of sand with yet another universe of sand, you have about 10^300. by my estimate. this came up because i was pissed off at string theorists claiming that there are 10^500 different sets of laws of physics, which is just an absurd number to bring into a discussion about reality.

These monkeys need to learn to stop plagiarizing. We need to teach each and every one of them a lesson.
Who wants to join the million monkey spanking project?

It will be at least as important as this dumb ass project.

Well, here you go: the million monkey spanking project. Sign right up!