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Actually, it does not. If you're referring to Compact Nav (which was a hidden option in the first place), that experiment's been abandoned.

The CompactNav experiment has ended so we are closing off these bugs and will soon remove the feature from Chromium. Unfortunately we were not convinced enough by the current approach to warrant spending more time on bug fixes/polish and graduating it to a full time feature.

hell even http://video.google.com/ with safesearch turned off nets thousands of full length titles free when you go to left and sort by length.

and of course with http://motherless.com/ No site can compete with motherless, it is the reigning king of all smut for now, every topic imaginable from full length amateurs, webcam rips from stickam teens, to as crazy and wild as you can imagine, even some you would think would be illegal, but motherless has been around a few years now.

places like http://motherless.com/ - http://wide6.com/ - http://newsfilter.org/ - http://www.tubegalore.com/ and http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off sorted by length

anyone that pays for pr0n is a idiot :P

plus video.google.com beats all competition in 1 aspect. http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off has EVERY Traci Lords video which you won't find on normal sites

So I think Google and Motherless wins hands down.

hehe

hell even http://video.google.com/ with safesearch turned off nets thousands of full length titles free when you go to left and sort by length.

and of course with http://motherless.com/ No site can compete with motherless, it is the reigning king of all smut for now, every topic imaginable from full length amateurs, webcam rips from stickam teens, to as crazy and wild as you can imagine, even some you would think would be illegal, but motherless has been around a few years now.

places like http://motherless.com/ - http://wide6.com/ - http://newsfilter.org/ - http://www.tubegalore.com/ and http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off sorted by length

anyone that pays for pr0n is a idiot :P

plus video.google.com beats all competition in 1 aspect. http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off has EVERY Traci Lords video which you won't find on normal sites

So I think Google and Motherless wins hands down.

hehe

hell even http://video.google.com/ with safesearch turned off nets thousands of full length titles free when you go to left and sort by length.

and of course with http://motherless.com/ No site can compete with motherless, it is the reigning king of all smut for now, every topic imaginable from full length amateurs, webcam rips from stickam teens, to as crazy and wild as you can imagine, even some you would think would be illegal, but motherless has been around a few years now.

places like http://motherless.com/ - http://wide6.com/ - http://newsfilter.org/ - http://www.tubegalore.com/ and http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off sorted by length

anyone that pays for pr0n is a idiot :P

plus video.google.com beats all competition in 1 aspect. http://video.google.com/ with safesearch off has EVERY Traci Lords video which you won't find on normal sites

So I think Google and Motherless wins hands down.

hehe

Most of you are too young to remember, but once upon a time there were no pseudonyms on the Internet. All schools, companies, and organizations on the Internet voluntarily adhered to a policy where each user's online identity was easily linked to their real world identity. It was staunchly enforced by admins who believed the net would fall apart into a morass of misbehavior if people were allowed to post anonymously.

There were a few people running their own servers who bucked the trend, but it wasn't until AOL joined USENET that pseudonyms became a fact of life. AOL allowed each account to have up to 5 usernames, to facilitate families sharing a single AOL account. Obviously these extra usernames were quickly taken up by people wishing to post things anonymously online, which was good for free speech. But not surprisingly, spam was invented shortly thereafter.

So it's actually anonymity which is the "recent artifact". All that's happening now is that the pendulum is starting to swing the other way as netizens struggle to figure out the best balance between real names and pseudonyms.

"OSS/DIY medical gear!"
Measurement is already here.
Link #1 - http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/
Link #2 - http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=homemade+ekg
Of course, control is another issue, but there's still some things you can do with little more than a soldering iron:
Link #3 - http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-A-TENS-Machine-to-Remove-Pain/

So why do so many people seem to fall for such tricks anyway?

I would recommend reading this research paper to get a better idea on how users think.

There actually are relatively few closed pieces necessary to make something like Nexus S go. For the most part they're firmware, not actual "drivers", though the opengl libraries fall into a middle ground -- the SGX kernel driver is GPLv2, the userspace opengl libraries are closed. We've been working with vendors to make the closed pieces available under a license that allows them to be included in builds and distributed non-commercially (commercial distributors tend to be OEMs which have direct relationships and licenses with these vendors already):
http://code.google.com/android/nexus/drivers.html

I'd use the term "proprietary components" rather than "drivers" (the above URL is unfortunately named), personally, since at least for lead devices that Google works on, all the kernel drivers are GPLv2 and readily available:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/android-3.0
(kernel/common is code common to all variants, SoC-specific work is under kernel/omap, kernel/msm, etc)

Chromium is no more crippled than any other open project in the Debian repository. It's also by-far the most used browser codebase in third-party projects. You can't read this page and then state factually that there are actual significant differences: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome.

And your point about Android is somewhat defeated since the only two Google-sponsored phones in existence are unlockable. I mean, shit, the Nexus S recently had a promotion where it was free with contract.

For Chrome users, see KB SSL Enforcer.

https://encrypted.google.com/ works if you use the url directly.

Over time those websites will have to stop doing those things or they will lose visitors.

Like google, you mean? Their https://www.google.com/ is a redirect to a site with less functionality than http://www.google.com/
I bet they are bleeding visitors right and left over that one...

Over time those websites will have to stop doing those things or they will lose visitors.

Like google, you mean? Their https://www.google.com/ is a redirect to a site with less functionality than http://www.google.com/
I bet they are bleeding visitors right and left over that one...

Or, if you're a browser that doesn't support it, just set your default search engine to https://encrypted.google.com/#q= followed by the query string.

Now if only I could vote with my dollars and switch to a different ISP that hasn't done this (Charter is my other option and they "claim" to have stopped).

Why not simply plug in a different DNS instead of using their crappy one?
Google 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
OpenDNS 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
Verizon 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, 4.2.2.6 (since these are all same subnet, don't use for both primary and secondary)

You can use Google Namebench to compare DNS speeds.

Okay, I read through the information as went so far as to set up my laptop to use the Google public server. What's the catch? I read their write-ups about security, but frankly, I'm not a network guy and had eyes glazing fast.

If the end result is that by using 8.8.8.8 I am blocking the ability for an ISP to spoof or redirect my searches, then mission accomplished, but TANSTAAFL! What does Google get from providing this service? Better ads dollars?

These questions are answered in the FAQ. I linked them above in your quote.

Unless they are outright lying, this is one of those projects they do "For the Good of the Community"

Now, since DNS is a cleartext protocol, there's no technical reason why your ISP cannot interfere with this if they wish to. This said, doing so is more involved than simply tinkering with their own DNS servers, and this gets into a grey area legally.

Before, they were simply altering the behavior of their DNS systems, which you requested the use of (by using them). If they were to alter your requests to, say, 8.8.8.8, then they would be deliberately violating their common-carrier status and exposing themselves to all kinds of lawyer-bait.

Okay, I read through the information as went so far as to set up my laptop to use the Google public server. What's the catch? I read their write-ups about security, but frankly, I'm not a network guy and had eyes glazing fast.

If the end result is that by using 8.8.8.8 I am blocking the ability for an ISP to spoof or redirect my searches, then mission accomplished, but TANSTAAFL! What does Google get from providing this service? Better ads dollars?

These questions are answered in the FAQ. I linked them above in your quote.

Unless they are outright lying, this is one of those projects they do "For the Good of the Community"

Now, since DNS is a cleartext protocol, there's no technical reason why your ISP cannot interfere with this if they wish to. This said, doing so is more involved than simply tinkering with their own DNS servers, and this gets into a grey area legally.

Before, they were simply altering the behavior of their DNS systems, which you requested the use of (by using them). If they were to alter your requests to, say, 8.8.8.8, then they would be deliberately violating their common-carrier status and exposing themselves to all kinds of lawyer-bait.

For users of Chrome, you can change your default Google search to use HTTPS by following the instructions here

This is available should you wish to stop even that behavior.

How convenient !

Again, I think you don't recall Bastiat as well as you think you do...

A the end of my blathering there are two quotes from The Law. Bastiat addresses philanthropy specifically in the second quote, and indirectly in the first. In the first example here he talks about how just because we feel that government isn't the answer, doesn't mean that philanthropy shouldn't exist, just that these institutions should not be controlled by the government. And you must readily admit that private aid organizations are a lot more focused on where there money is being spent because they had to earn it, meaning they didn't take it at the point of a gun. Aid organization are held to a very high standard, and are regularly audited and required to show how many cents on the dollar go to actual aid (vs. administrative overhead).

Compare this to the government's philanthropy. In my own life I know a person who owns several $4000 computers, multiple big screen TVs, has 3 kids, no job, and lives life 100% off the government tit. He pays no taxes. He pays no rent (the government pays that). He actually is paid money, by the government, simply because he has kids. So $0 in tax and they still give him money. This person is perfectly healthy and capable of working, but chooses not to. I went to high school with the guy and this was actually his plan way back then. Have more kids => get more money. And do you think the kids have a good quality of life with a dad like that? Do you think maybe if the government didn't encourage him to have children he wouldn't? I mean, they cost a lot more when you pay for them. IMHO an aid organization would never have given him a dime, they would see his devious nature (because, remember, they have to earn their money) and kick him to the curb, saving more money for people who are truly in need. And to show this problem is endemic and not just my own observation understand that almost half of all american's pay no federal income tax.

How much more money would philanthropic people have to give were the government to not take so much? How much wasted money goes to line the pockets of corrupt politicians (and friends) in the name of philanthropy? How many people could have been saved? If this is true then this is a really big deal.

Aid organizations are also more focused on a specific task. AIDS in Africa, give here, cancer research, give here. There's even organizations based on your religion or political ideology ensuring that your money would never go to support a cause that you find repugnant. I could continue and list all of the corruption and nepotism inherent in the socialist style of philanthropy, but I'm sure you're already familiar with them. The recourse for poorly spent funds within the government usually results in nothing, at best, a legislator might be sacked. On the other hand when a private aid organization is found to be spending poorly they simply cease to exist, the natural course of things.

In the socialist system, who gets to define who should and should not have money? What happens when the government cannot afford to give health care to everyone? Does it start rationing? Who do you give to first? Who do you take from? And when this transfer of wealth occurs, don't you think the people whom you've robbed to pay for another person will be pleased with the situation? More likely they will want to take over the controls of the government and bend them to their own will, and what vengeance they would seek if they seized power.

The chaos increases and questions only become more di

No, he is correct, it is open:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/browse_thread/thread/6a3b3a1c225a11f5/6410b44798c19d61?pli=1

try to stay up to date.

http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/6410b44798c19d61?pli=1 it has been partially released.

um, Elk Creek is south east of Lincoln. It's only 20 miles north of Kansas and about 30 east of Iowa http://maps.google.com/maps?q=elk+creek+nebraska&hl=en&ll=40.287907,-96.127625&spn=1.627857,2.307129&gl=us&z=9

Well to be fair there are environmental protesters who do get overly worked up about things. It is unlikely that there will be protesters in Nebraska simply because it isn't a high profile cause unlike the protests of the logging of the giant redwoods in California. There aren't protesters hanging out in front of the giant iron mines up in norther Minnesota, the pinkish/purpleish areas are the iron mines, some are still active some are not. Also like northern Minnesota, Nebraska is out of the way so no one will notice.

If only there were a way to search the world for information about such things...

http://www.google.com/search?q=home+power+monitor

or a way to buy them without leaving the phone booth...

http://www.google.com/search?q=home+power+monitor#q=home+power+monitor&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=shop&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a8a8adfcb0ffdd17&biw=1449&bih=830

If only there were a way to search the world for information about such things...

http://www.google.com/search?q=home+power+monitor

or a way to buy them without leaving the phone booth...

http://www.google.com/search?q=home+power+monitor#q=home+power+monitor&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=shop&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a8a8adfcb0ffdd17&biw=1449&bih=830

Microsoft iceberg aside, the Nokia leadership managed to keep Nokia as the largest cell phone manufacturer in the world.

Never mind that its market share is plummeting...

They're not looking so hot right now, but they still push more phones into the market than any other company.

Which doesn't matter a spit if they aren't profitable. You can generate tons of revenue giving away $2 for $1 but you'll be out of business faster than you can say Chapter 11. The reason to not immediately press the eject button as an investor in Nokia is that they have about $10 billion in cash.

I'm in the process of preparing three novels, and I took a rather different approach. I'm using AppleWorks as my editing tool (because that's what I started with). From there, I'm:

• exporting the results as HTML,
• running a nasty piece of Perl (is there any other kind?) to turn AppleWorks HTML into valid HTML,
• running another nasty piece of Perl to translate that HTML into DocBook plus a bunch of custom tags, and
• running dblatex with some rather large custom style files and custom xsl to translate that into suitable code for xelatex.

The advantage to this process is that I have valid XHTML on the way into the process, and with minimal effort, I could go from there to usable ePub content.

If I were starting from scratch on a new document, I would be writing XHTML with some custom CSS as my source format. That would give me full semantic markup capabilities (which would give me slightly more flexibility than I have now, but not enough to convince me to ditch the convenience of editing in a WYSIWYG editor for this project). Then, I would tweak my XHTML to DocBook translation tools to handle that. So for ePub, it would just require containerizing the source material, and for nice PDF output, it would just require using the translator bits I already have.

Of course, none of this is a general solution. Novels and theses are rather different in the way you write them, and the former was made a lot more difficult by LaTeX being designed so heavily for typesetting things like the latter. There are also a lot of flaws in LaTeX stemming out of the core design that make for less than ideal typesetting.

For example, as far as I can tell, there is no good way to indicate that a section break (three stars, for example) cannot be the first thing on a page, and that at least two lines of the content above it must be pulled down with it. The closest you can do is to make it part of an unbreakable container with the previous whole paragraph, but that doesn't really do what you want most of the time.

Similarly, it does not support proper widow control. LaTeX supports widow line control—that is, saying that you cannot have fewer than the last n lines of a paragraph on a page/column by themselves. What it lacks is widow paragraph control—that is, treating a single-paragraph line as though it were the last line of the previous paragraph for widow calculation purposes. The result is poor typography if a page break happens to fall near the end of a chapter. You can fix this by hand-tweaking the TeX markup to force a page break earlier, but I assert that good page layout software should produce good layout by default without hackery.

And LaTeX does not handle UTF-8 very well at all. In my XHTML to DocBook translator, I've had to hack in extra markup (\hspace{0.001pt}) after em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens to force TeX to allow the line to wrap. Without that hack, I get serious overfull hbox problems.

I could probably go on for hours about all the problems I've encountered, but it suffices to say that I'm not impressed by TeX, and at several points, I was tempted to build my own PDF generator using WebKit and CSS styles, but I didn't want to spend the time. (Yet, in hindsight, it would have been faster than trying to force TeX to behave.) That said, if you started with something like the hyphenator project, someone could probably replace most of TeX with a few hundred lines of JavaScript, and that would almost inarguably produce better typesetting with a lot more flexibility (particularly given that pretty much every programmer already understands JavaScript and the DOM).

Oh, and a few years ago, most of the world listened to the ultracapitalists and removed lots of regulation from the financial industries.

What regulations were removed? There were no loosening of regulations. If there was show me the citation. There isn't a more regulated system than the ones in place for financial institutions. The reason for the collapse, if you care to go back and find out, is largely due to people defaulting on home loans to GSA's (government entities) that the government forced down private banks throats. Because they were GSAs they were not subject to the regulation of the FTC, but to congress, under the stewardship of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. They first encouraged giving loans to minorities who otherwise would have been turned down (due to poor credit rating) and discouraged any sort of audit of Fannie or Freddie who eventually admitted to "cooking the books". But don't take my word for it, do a little reading.. Increasing regulation in an already over-regulated industry to combat government agencies that were not even subject to the regulation in the first place is just wrong. The reason this is 'so secret' is that the main stream media is overwhelmingly liberal and the idea that the GSAs can fuck something so bad doesn't fit their ideology so they report on it as sparingly as possible.

Oh, and a few years ago, most of the world listened to the ultracapitalists and removed lots of regulation from the financial industries.

What regulations were removed? There were no loosening of regulations. If there was show me the citation. There isn't a more regulated system than the ones in place for financial institutions. The reason for the collapse, if you care to go back and find out, is largely due to people defaulting on home loans to GSA's (government entities) that the government forced down private banks throats. Because they were GSAs they were not subject to the regulation of the FTC, but to congress, under the stewardship of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. They first encouraged giving loans to minorities who otherwise would have been turned down (due to poor credit rating) and discouraged any sort of audit of Fannie or Freddie who eventually admitted to "cooking the books". But don't take my word for it, do a little reading.. Increasing regulation in an already over-regulated industry to combat government agencies that were not even subject to the regulation in the first place is just wrong. The reason this is 'so secret' is that the main stream media is overwhelmingly liberal and the idea that the GSAs can fuck something so bad doesn't fit their ideology so they report on it as sparingly as possible.

I didn't know Siemens S7 was running under ancient operating systems. :-)

I don't know about S7, never having used it. But you might be surprised about what sort of real-time control systems still run on operating systems like DOS, using the operating system solely as a vehicle for occasional access to storage, because DOS lets the program take over so much of the computer's execution. Google embedded dos and be surprised.

Since the government in the U.S. does not control or own any industry, it follows that all innovations for any industry come from private industry. I was being kind when I gave the government %1, but I would say the burden of proof is on you to prove the 1%, the 99% is self evident. The DOE does not make anything the EPA does not make anything. If you still need a citation, I'll need to know how you want me to quantify it. I assure you, no matter how you count it, innovation belongs to private industry.

Are you suggesting that the government has a "magic" power plant does not pollute that private industry is incapable of using? Strawman.

No, this is not a straw man, this is in fact the core of the argument. I need to know why you think the government can do "it" better than private individuals. What does government posses that private individuals do not?

Rhetorical question, based on complete ignorance of the reason behind government.

I have read more volumes about government than I even care to list here. From Plato to Hobbes to Locke and just about everything in between. Literally dozens of books including ones that I disagree with like Bossuet, Blanc and Marx. That you declare my ignorance on the subject based on that statement speaks volumes about you.

in the world is also the world's worst polluter Citation needed that that is China. The strictest socialist government Citation needed that that is China (on multiple levels).

I guess you've never been to China.

China is the world's worst polluter nation with the highest overall annual emission of greenhouse gases (6,018 million tonne).

And it really does suck: Environment in the People's Republic of China. Did you know, that in China, they use what's called night soil? That is, they use human fecal material to feed their crops. Now, I'm not sure how you quantify "strict'. So here's a try Highest number of people annually executed, massive Religious intolerance the adoption of the Communist form of socialism, the strictest form of socialism, dictating the eradication of all other political thought. I can go on if you require more citations. Ever hear of Tibet?

while most free market companies promote their 'green initiatives' without force from the government. Citation needed.

Here's about 25.7 million You can go though them. But I'm telling you now, it would be more difficult to find a company that doesn't have some sort of "green initiative"

Because they think it will help promote their public image which will result in more profit. Citation needed.

All of the results from the link above were about companies trying to promote their public image through green initiatives. And they do speak for themselves.

The solution to s

Software set to track 'net neutrality'

Name a single example where private individuals failed to step up to the plate and deal with a real problem?

Today, if I change doctors, and I have numerous times, they request information from my last doctor, this system, that has been around for as long as doctors have been around, has yet to fail me. As far as allergies are concerned, people with unusual or extreme allergies carry around a medical bracelet or necklace that describes the allergies. Furthermore, if you cannot be identified because you are without ID and unconscious, the bracelet would be far more valuable than a unfetchable medical record.

The Electronic health record has been around for a long time, with numerous private sponsors and a half dozen viable standards for use. And now the government wants to "revolutionize medicine" by giving us "electronic health records" as if the private industry hasn't been doing this for decades. Oh and by the way, we're paying for the government to invent "electronic health records" as if it didn't exist. Do you really think that govenrment buricrats are going to contrubute to this system? I think they will decimate it as they do with everything else they touch.

But if you still think the "government way" is better, check out the number of private companies offering:

• 1) standardized medical record exchange between different vendors.
• 2) portable medical record devices.
• 2) electronic medical record keeping systems.

Now, compare this to the number of government's anywhere offering any of this. Draw your own conclusions.

Name a single example where private individuals failed to step up to the plate and deal with a real problem?

Today, if I change doctors, and I have numerous times, they request information from my last doctor, this system, that has been around for as long as doctors have been around, has yet to fail me. As far as allergies are concerned, people with unusual or extreme allergies carry around a medical bracelet or necklace that describes the allergies. Furthermore, if you cannot be identified because you are without ID and unconscious, the bracelet would be far more valuable than a unfetchable medical record.

The Electronic health record has been around for a long time, with numerous private sponsors and a half dozen viable standards for use. And now the government wants to "revolutionize medicine" by giving us "electronic health records" as if the private industry hasn't been doing this for decades. Oh and by the way, we're paying for the government to invent "electronic health records" as if it didn't exist. Do you really think that govenrment buricrats are going to contrubute to this system? I think they will decimate it as they do with everything else they touch.

But if you still think the "government way" is better, check out the number of private companies offering:

• 1) standardized medical record exchange between different vendors.
• 2) portable medical record devices.
• 2) electronic medical record keeping systems.

Now, compare this to the number of government's anywhere offering any of this. Draw your own conclusions.

Name a single example where private individuals failed to step up to the plate and deal with a real problem?

Today, if I change doctors, and I have numerous times, they request information from my last doctor, this system, that has been around for as long as doctors have been around, has yet to fail me. As far as allergies are concerned, people with unusual or extreme allergies carry around a medical bracelet or necklace that describes the allergies. Furthermore, if you cannot be identified because you are without ID and unconscious, the bracelet would be far more valuable than a unfetchable medical record.

The Electronic health record has been around for a long time, with numerous private sponsors and a half dozen viable standards for use. And now the government wants to "revolutionize medicine" by giving us "electronic health records" as if the private industry hasn't been doing this for decades. Oh and by the way, we're paying for the government to invent "electronic health records" as if it didn't exist. Do you really think that govenrment buricrats are going to contrubute to this system? I think they will decimate it as they do with everything else they touch.

But if you still think the "government way" is better, check out the number of private companies offering:

• 1) standardized medical record exchange between different vendors.
• 2) portable medical record devices.
• 2) electronic medical record keeping systems.

Now, compare this to the number of government's anywhere offering any of this. Draw your own conclusions.

And yet......

Then use the search exactly as is operator "+". Searching for "+gogle" (without the quotes) will actually search for gogle without autocorrecting to google.

I agree that Javascript is a horrible language.

Pragmatically, however, it is becoming ridiculously powerful because of all the optimization work, especially by the Google Chrome team. A couple of years back I saw http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/ and realized that JS, for all its faults, was going to be a big part of the future.

There'll always be a place for centralized data crunching. But JS allows you to scale outwards in a platform independent way, and do vastly more computing than any server farm could. I'm currently involved in a bunch of experimental projects in JS that go far beyond just UI.

I'm just hoping that someone designs a better language that can be layered on JS and eventually supplant it...

    You didn't look over their whole site.

    Their target demographic is businesses, not residential users. But, what business wants to rely on using a cell phone for managing the enterprise? If it's so important that you need it at your fingertips 24/7, you'll have an operations department watching for pesky things like the power going out.

    And the next bit.. If you go to buy something. You can buy T-shirts, tote bags, and exactly ONE piece of equipment. It's their developer board. You can't even buy the outlet strips that they show on the rest of the site.

    But you *CAN* Buy their music or have their band come out to perform for you (for a fee, of course).

    These guys must have some nice offices, right? There's a whole manufacturing and distributation pipeline that they'd require.

Palo Alto. That's no industrial office.

Bejing, China? Nope not that one, that looks like a residential area.

Tokyo, Japan
This isn't residential, but it looks more like a business area, not a manufacturing area. I could be mistaken. If anything, I'd bet there's a mail drop in one of the surrounding buildings. Since I don't read or speak a word of Japanese, I can't guess on which building in the area is the correct one.

I did find some press releases from 2009, where they had a picture of a guy in Japan, and all kinds of talk about saving billions of dollars.

    I do wonder, now that they're trying hard to market themselves, how is AT&T (now owner of Cingular) going to feel about their logo being stolen. I can't imagine AT&T let the trademark lapse. They have entire departments dedicated to keeping their patents, copyrights, and trademarks up to date, *AND* suing the pants off of anyone trying to play with their toys.

    So we're left with a company, with no real product other than their band and self-published CD, with offices in 3 countries, a bunch of forward looking statements, and not much else.

    I think you were pretty close, except they don't even have the outlet strips to sell.

    You didn't look over their whole site.

    Their target demographic is businesses, not residential users. But, what business wants to rely on using a cell phone for managing the enterprise? If it's so important that you need it at your fingertips 24/7, you'll have an operations department watching for pesky things like the power going out.

    And the next bit.. If you go to buy something. You can buy T-shirts, tote bags, and exactly ONE piece of equipment. It's their developer board. You can't even buy the outlet strips that they show on the rest of the site.

    But you *CAN* Buy their music or have their band come out to perform for you (for a fee, of course).

    These guys must have some nice offices, right? There's a whole manufacturing and distributation pipeline that they'd require.

Palo Alto. That's no industrial office.

Bejing, China? Nope not that one, that looks like a residential area.

Tokyo, Japan
This isn't residential, but it looks more like a business area, not a manufacturing area. I could be mistaken. If anything, I'd bet there's a mail drop in one of the surrounding buildings. Since I don't read or speak a word of Japanese, I can't guess on which building in the area is the correct one.

I did find some press releases from 2009, where they had a picture of a guy in Japan, and all kinds of talk about saving billions of dollars.

    I do wonder, now that they're trying hard to market themselves, how is AT&T (now owner of Cingular) going to feel about their logo being stolen. I can't imagine AT&T let the trademark lapse. They have entire departments dedicated to keeping their patents, copyrights, and trademarks up to date, *AND* suing the pants off of anyone trying to play with their toys.

    So we're left with a company, with no real product other than their band and self-published CD, with offices in 3 countries, a bunch of forward looking statements, and not much else.

    I think you were pretty close, except they don't even have the outlet strips to sell.

    You didn't look over their whole site.

    Their target demographic is businesses, not residential users. But, what business wants to rely on using a cell phone for managing the enterprise? If it's so important that you need it at your fingertips 24/7, you'll have an operations department watching for pesky things like the power going out.

    And the next bit.. If you go to buy something. You can buy T-shirts, tote bags, and exactly ONE piece of equipment. It's their developer board. You can't even buy the outlet strips that they show on the rest of the site.

    But you *CAN* Buy their music or have their band come out to perform for you (for a fee, of course).

    These guys must have some nice offices, right? There's a whole manufacturing and distributation pipeline that they'd require.

Palo Alto. That's no industrial office.

Bejing, China? Nope not that one, that looks like a residential area.

Tokyo, Japan
This isn't residential, but it looks more like a business area, not a manufacturing area. I could be mistaken. If anything, I'd bet there's a mail drop in one of the surrounding buildings. Since I don't read or speak a word of Japanese, I can't guess on which building in the area is the correct one.

I did find some press releases from 2009, where they had a picture of a guy in Japan, and all kinds of talk about saving billions of dollars.

    I do wonder, now that they're trying hard to market themselves, how is AT&T (now owner of Cingular) going to feel about their logo being stolen. I can't imagine AT&T let the trademark lapse. They have entire departments dedicated to keeping their patents, copyrights, and trademarks up to date, *AND* suing the pants off of anyone trying to play with their toys.

    So we're left with a company, with no real product other than their band and self-published CD, with offices in 3 countries, a bunch of forward looking statements, and not much else.

    I think you were pretty close, except they don't even have the outlet strips to sell.

Your mish is my mash... ( http://images.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=jewverine )

Hispanic can best be described as a linguo-cultural grouping; basically anyone who speaks Spanish or Portuguese and lives either in the Iberian Peninsula or in the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.

Unless you're Jewish. See, for example, the non-Hispanic US Supreme Court Just Cardozo. And this is how we know he's not Hispanic.

government cost overruns

This won't happen anymore (ideally). Pretty much the whole point is to eliminate (as much as possible) buffer overflows, invalid memory accesses, memory leaks, and other low-level bugs that easily pop up in C++ programs. .NET abstracts away dealing with low-level pointers, everything is "managed" by the framework so it is freed when no longer used (it is still possible to leak memory by keeping references to things you don't use anymore, but the framework can only do so much for you), and various attempts to attack your program with buffer overflows etc to run shellcode wouldn't work because your high-level program doesn't deal with pointers, and .NET internals will stop buffers from overflowing (etc). Oddly enough I have seen my own programs I build crash on launch after a while of not working on them, but a recompile always fixes it. Otherwise I have never seen a .NET program crash unless I did something dumb with unmanaged code.

You largely don't have to worry about that sort of low-level stuff and you can just go build your program (the exception being .Disposing some objects helps with garbage collection). Plus you have a ton of useful libraries already included. Want to pull a file from the web? No problem, create an object to represent your request, a callback to handle the response object, then send it out. Want to parse XML? One function call and you're left with a tree of XMLNode objects to walk. Maybe you can find amazing libraries for C++ but you're starting from scratch (well you had to at one point, at least) and have to check licenses on them all, etc. With .NET you start off with a good base of libraries you can use in your apps for free.

I also love the Window Designer tool in VS, though various Window toolkits for C++ offer similar things IIRC, I just like how I can pull together a skeleton class for my form and begin coding basic functionality immediately.

I track my home energy usage for free with Google's PowerMeter (SDG&E)

http://www.google.com/powermeter/site/recent

You can enable 'Multiple Sign-in' by going to http://www.google.com/accounts/

Here is a post by a Google VP about these issues. The Google-wide account ban was a myth.