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Not entirely well said:

Chinese Communism is a kind of socialism, that has some extremes of capitalism along with some extremes of capitalism.

should say

Chinese Communism is a kind of socialism, that has some extremes of capitalism along with some extremes of socialism.

But close enough I suppose.

BTW, while Paul is right to hate the current corporatist system, he's wrong where he says about the current system that Michael Moore hates "It has nothing to do with capitalism." It has everything to do with capitalism, as I said. It's capitalism gone too far: without regulation to protect the people from it (and it from itself).

Ron Paul is the most reliable voter (Appendix One, pg. 37) against any regulation that puts Greenhouse pollution costs on the real books, so economics can govern it properly. Paul is also a theocrat. He's a corporate anarchist: a "libertarian" who believes the government has jurisdiction only over the army and the police - and the police don't have jurisdiction over corporations (only the market has power there). Ron Paul is nuts. But even crazy people can tell that corporatism is killing us.

Sounds like the Maidenhead grid system used in ham radio. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System and here for an example: http://qth.map.googlepages.com/

You can get to a pretty small area with about 8 characters, less than 1km^2.

-molo

This is my personal favorite.

This is even better. and you can program your own scripts http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie

You're quoting GISS data??

The same people who did this?? http://globalwarmingquestions.googlepages.com/giss

Now you can say that that was just a simple error. But what an error it was! And it worked extraordinarily in their favor.

Many other areas of science falsifying data at this level would be ridiculed mercilessly. But when climate scientists make "errors" that heavily bias things in their favors its waved off and we just move along with the next dire announcement of the next set of data.

The political agenda of so many in the AGW debate is so powerful that, yes, I really do believe them capable of lying to support their positions.....

Yeah!

There are quite a few Gen IV reactors.

My favorite is the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor
http://www.energyfromthorium.com/

Or for 10000 ft level overview
http://rethinkingnuclearpower.googlepages.com/aimhigh

1/2000th the amount of waste. Small footprint, AIR cooled, cheap fuel, thorium is a prevalent as lead. etc

Based on the Thorium fuel cycle so it pretty much sidesteps the whole proliferation issue.
(it can produce U233 which has been used to make a bomb but it can be spiked with U232)

Look At My Hearse (A GOMH Tribute)

http://lookatmyhearse.googlepages.com/index.html

Look At My Hearse (A GOMH Tribute)

http://lookatmyhearse.googlepages.com/index.html

Look At My Hearse (A GOMH Tribute)

http://lookatmyhearse.googlepages.com/index.html

Look At My Hearse (A GOMH Tribute)

http://lookatmyhearse.googlepages.com/index.html

Look At My Hearse. (A GOMH Tribute)

http://lookatmyhearse.googlepages.com/index.html

Microsoft have derived a stack of publicity from the Sensecam and lifeblogging - it's made them look like a terrific company. I think this PR needs some counter-balance: Microsoft made Lyndsey Williams, the inventor of the Sensecam, redundant. Possibly not the best way to reward someone who was responsible for millions of dollars of positive PR; you don't get rid of the people who are doing brilliant work if you plan on delivering brilliant products in the future. But this has probably been a good thing for the rest of us; Ms Williams is prolific in bringing new devices to prototype and beyond. Her site shows her recent work, including the Sensebulb - a device for non-intrusive monitoring of elderly people who live alone. It can detect unusual situations and alert friends and relatives. This would have saved the lives of two people I knew. She has a stack of other interesting projects on the go too. Her site is well worth reading.

Disclosure: I know Ms Williams and take the opportunity to promote her work whenever I can. I'm not paid for this: I'm not in PR.

Hi Bozovision, Many thanks! You are correct into your comments, a bit more on my blog about Sensecam's true history which is not what Microsoft want people to see
  http://tinyurl.com/yjpz2hm
Microsoft have erased me completely from history.

Lyndsay Williams Cambridge

Microsoft have derived a stack of publicity from the Sensecam and lifeblogging - it's made them look like a terrific company. I think this PR needs some counter-balance: Microsoft made Lyndsey Williams, the inventor of the Sensecam, redundant. Possibly not the best way to reward someone who was responsible for millions of dollars of positive PR; you don't get rid of the people who are doing brilliant work if you plan on delivering brilliant products in the future. But this has probably been a good thing for the rest of us; Ms Williams is prolific in bringing new devices to prototype and beyond. Her site shows her recent work, including the Sensebulb - a device for non-intrusive monitoring of elderly people who live alone. It can detect unusual situations and alert friends and relatives. This would have saved the lives of two people I knew. She has a stack of other interesting projects on the go too. Her site is well worth reading.

Disclosure: I know Ms Williams and take the opportunity to promote her work whenever I can. I'm not paid for this: I'm not in PR.

I agree. I have a website: freejavalectures.googlepages.com that contains no ads of any kind and it has a google page rank of 5/10 worldwide. I have spent exactly $0 dollars on it. Then you go to most other tutorial-style sites and they are jammed with ads with a tiny bit in the center given over to dribs of content.

There are sixteen slots for characters.

The lifetime subscription was for pre-orders only, and ended around Sept. 1st.

The 8-yo could enjoy the game, yes, if they like MMOs.

About this big.

the fact that this "basic thing that everyone else takes for granted" doesn't work is is Adobe's fault, not the Linux community's fault.

I really wouldn't be so quick to say that. There are TONS of flaws in X11, and tons of projects underway to fix them. I link to Gallium3D because it's a big one and associated with more, not because it's the only one. Search phoronix for xorg as well, for instance, and start reading. X *is* ancient, after all. With work going on to fix basic things like that, saying it's "not our fault" that a major corporation hasn't managed to make their tried and tested tech work on your system is a bit arrogant.

I'm not familiar with the specifics, but the lag can be more than 17ms. I'm not too familiar with the source on consoles these days either, but I know 1080p is rare.. are they 60fps?

Now I do not doubt that some cheaper TVs or early HDTVs would have this problem, and would end up throwing out every second frame to do 30fps. I highly doubt any tv would display less than 30 though. If you read this link: http://hdtvlag.googlepages.com/ , those tests used s-video - there obviously has to be an additional delay as it takes the analog source from s-video and recreates the digital signal. Those tests did not use an HDMI which most hi-def users would actually use. He didn't characterize HDlag, he characterized the lag of upsampling from analog.

However if you have a good quality HDTV, and use the HDMI inputs so its digital source to digital output, any delay would be barely perceptible if at all.

I see no lattice.

Unless you refer to the lattice under the molecule. They don't float.

If this is an example of your writing, then I highly doubt that you actually have anything close to publication, or at least anything that anyone will pay to read. I have seen grade-school children with a better grasp of grammar and sentence structure. It's a very good thing that you seem to enjoy reading your own books, because I'm sure that you'll be the only one that does.

I think my favorite "sentence" is "Her refusal to return to the workforce following Andreinne's entrance into school at that obscenely expensive school on 18th street that would have been nicely tackled by Andrea's old salary--instead she was at home, finding herself, while Neil continuted finding his way through all the stresses of work, keeping that automatic deposit automatically depositing."

I do have to give you points for the quality Web 0.1 implementation though, good work on that. Perhaps you should go into web design instead of writing.

If the intention is not to put the student through a 'rite of passage'--meaning the agonies of being a C/C++ developer, then I would recommend Java. It's a real language that has a future and huge growth potential. Though I know that's a huge topic now, I have at least done my part by making available, for free, without any ads, ad links or any other such commercial nonsense.

It's just Two Semesters of College-Level Java for Free

I've seen a bird fly into a 3rd floor window at work (this building) in broad daylight. I don't know why it would try to fly into a nearly opaque window in the middle of a bright white building. We gave them a fair chance, I think the birds should at least meet us half way.

Sure the cost of the turbines are cheaper but the overall cost of wind power is more.
See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power
Or the recent article in slashdot about Austin's alternative energy's woes.

Nuclear power, especially in the form of the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), could potentially produce power for about $0.02 kWhr.
See http://rethinkingnuclearpower.googlepages.com/aimhigh

ORNL's LFTR documentation has been put on the web at: http://www.energyfromthorium.com/pdf

It worked fine for me in Opera 10. In fact, the page showed about six or seven different fonts in Opera 10, versus only about four in Firefox.

Here is a screenshot I took comparing how it looked in Opera 10 versus FF 3.5:

Screenshot

I don't get it. Both the summary and the line at the top of the page say that the page is optimized for Firefox 3.5, so why the hell does Opera show *more* fonts? Is it failing somehow in FF or is Opera somehow going above and beyond what the page designer intended? :)

A draft of the actual article is at:

I'm not sure if they can really make any claims about how humans learn language though. Aside from how unnatural the stimulus materials are (each syllable of the two-syllable words was producedy by a different talker), their conclusions are that... kids pay attention to the order of when they hear things? We already knew that and more from e.g. Saffran et al. (1996). I'd like to see them do some variation of that artificial language study with their monkeys and see if the monkeys will do two levels of distributional analysis (word segmentation and morpheme segmentation)

That has been done: Cotton-top tamarins (Hauser et al., 2001) and rats (Toro & Trobalón, 2005) can do the Saffran-type statistical computations. However, in contrast to what Saffran et al. claim, this type of computations cannot be used at all for learning words from fluent speech; if you give learners just the Saffran-type statistical cues, you can play 6 words in a loop for 600 times, and people don't remember any words at all (Endress & Mehler, 2009). Apparently, the Saffran-kind of statistics lead to a very different kind of memory encoding than what is used for encoding actual words, and is actually also a different mechanism from the one the tamarins used in our experiment.

It was not clear from the article (I found a draft here), but all the test items were novel. The experiment consisted of a familiarization phase that had "shoy" as either only a suffix or only a prefix, and then a test phase where "shoy" was heard as a suffix on some items and a prefix on other items. In the draft, they say that the stems used in the familiarization phase were different from the stems used in the test phase, so they were not just hearing the same componenents in different orders. So, while you're right that this is habituation, it's habituation at a higher level of abstraction than whether they'd heard that particular bitstream before.

It would have been nice if that had been included in the examiner article, heh

A draft of the actual article is at:

http://adendress.googlepages.com/endress-affixation.pdf

The experiment did not proceed as you indicated (I'm not criticizing you, I had to go to find the draft to determine this). The monkeys were presented with a "familiarization" stage that consisted of ~30 minutes of "words" where "shoy" was either always a prefix or always a suffix (depending on condition) to one set A of stem syllables, then were presented with a "test" stage where they heard "shoy" sometimes as a prefix and sometimes as a suffix on a different set B of stem syllables. They found that monkeys who had heard "shoy" as a prefix in the familiarization stage looked at the speaker longer after hearing test items that had "shoy" as a suffix (as compared to test items that had "shoy" as a prefix), and that those who had heard "shoy" as a suffix in familiarization looked at the speaker longer after hearing test items with "shoy" as a prefix.

They do seem to have shown that the monkeys can do some sort of abstraction when performing this "shoy-first or shoy-last" sequence analysis. None of the test items ever appeared in the familiarization stage (since the stem syllables of familiarization were different from those of test), so they aren't simply indicating whether they've heard that particular sound file or not. It's also interesting that they could do this in the face of (some) talker variation (due to sex and other factors), as more than one talker was used to produce stimulus materials.

I'm not sure if they can really make any claims about how humans learn language though. Aside from how unnatural the stimulus materials are (each syllable of the two-syllable words was producedy by a different talker), their conclusions are that... kids pay attention to the order of when they hear things? We already knew that and more from e.g. Saffran et al. (1996). I'd like to see them do some variation of that artificial language study with their monkeys and see if the monkeys will do two levels of distributional analysis (word segmentation and morpheme segmentation)

And yes, I Am A Linguist.

http://dpanic.googlepages.com/spam.pdf

...The fact remains that the author of the "quashed" report has never published a single paper relating to climatology and climate science, and has only worked as an economist for his entire career.

http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/CarlinWhy.pdf

"Why a Different Approach Is Required if Global Climate Change Is to Be Controlled Efficiently or Even at All" WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. Vol. 32:685, 2008

This Article finds that the emissions reduction approach would be
ineffective at solving the dangerous climate change effects of global warm-
ing because it would be technically risky, inflexible, extremely expensive,
and politically unrealistic, and would probably delay more effective and
vastly less expensive measures using solar radiation management. This
suggests the awful possibility that very large amounts of money may be
spent in a fruitless attempt to reduce GHG emissions at the same time
that all the possible adverse economic consequences of climate change
are realized.

A dozen more examples of his articles relating to climate are here:
http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/

It's another debate as to whether or not his published papers are heretical to whomever asserts authority over the climate science canon.

...The fact remains that the author of the "quashed" report has never published a single paper relating to climatology and climate science, and has only worked as an economist for his entire career.

http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/CarlinWhy.pdf

"Why a Different Approach Is Required if Global Climate Change Is to Be Controlled Efficiently or Even at All" WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. Vol. 32:685, 2008

This Article finds that the emissions reduction approach would be
ineffective at solving the dangerous climate change effects of global warm-
ing because it would be technically risky, inflexible, extremely expensive,
and politically unrealistic, and would probably delay more effective and
vastly less expensive measures using solar radiation management. This
suggests the awful possibility that very large amounts of money may be
spent in a fruitless attempt to reduce GHG emissions at the same time
that all the possible adverse economic consequences of climate change
are realized.

A dozen more examples of his articles relating to climate are here:
http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/

It's another debate as to whether or not his published papers are heretical to whomever asserts authority over the climate science canon.

Or working for the EPA for 38 years?

Those 38 years in EPA was on a senior economist position. Not everyone there is a scientist, you know - you also have administrators, clerks, and guys who mop the floors...

Just out of curiosity, what makes you doubt that? The person in question has worked at the EPA for 38 years according to TFA.

From the guy's home page:

"Senior Economist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 1971 to present"

So he didn't really study climate at EPA for those 38 years.

There are two standard academic journals where the specialized stuff in Environmental Economics is published: Land Economics and The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Carlin has published only a single article in Land Econ and none in JEEM during his entire career dating back to the mid-1960s. Furthermore, he only began publishing on the economics of global warming in 2007. Finally, anyone who is first rate coming out of a Ph.D. Econ program in MIT gets a Prof job at Berkeley, Harvard, Chicago, etc. The second raters get placements at Nebraska, Auburn, Oregon State, etc. It is only the dregs that end up as civil servants in places like the EPA. I would almost completely dismiss him except that I did notice that he had co-authored a couple of papers 15 years ago with Kip Viscusi who is certainly not a lightwieght in the field of risk assessment but who has also happily accepted money from Exxon for studying the economics of punitive damages resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill case.

Bottom line: Carlin is a 60 year-old fart who has done no significant research in his entire career and has a political viewpoint that is coloring what little work he has done.

There were several links in TFS, including one to his home page. In forming an assessment of him, skimming it is more helpful than TFA proper, I should think.

Let's see, he says he was with the agency since... 1971?
While it's quite possible we've hired a few wingnuts in either run of Bush years, I can say with confidence that he was not among them.

Not a climate scientist? Well, no; he lists his position as "Senior Economist". Given that climate control measures, like most stuff the EPA touches, are economic as well as environmental issues, they probably have a bunch of economists.

Looking at this guy's website the first thing that seems not quite kosher is that he works for RAND corporation

I think this explains all, it seems very natural that the same "think-tank" that once proposed that a nuclear war can have a winner will also state so categorically that global warming is harmless.

That's the same organization that gets so much funding from the oil industry they opened a branch in the Persian gulf.

This man has been working for the EPA since 1971. Hell, he helped BUILD the place.

So what if he's "just an economist"? According to my degree, I'm "just a fish farmer", yet I'm working for a company and doing stuff that keeps the telcom grid alive. Nine years of military communications experience will do that for you. Makes me wonder what 38 years of experience working for climate scientists would do for an economist?

It's not exactly like he's going to just pull this stuff out of his backside after 38 years of service. Nobody that manages to survive THAT long, through seven presidents-five or whom were hostile to the EPA-is going to just buck the trend without a pretty darn good reason.

I'd say it's worth paying attention to the man. Even if he's on the verge of retirement, 38 years of experience is nothing to sneeze at.

• The original source linked PDF turned HTML by Google Scholar (actually does a fine job!)
• A Mathematician's Lament
• A Mathematician's Lament
• A Mathematician's Lament
• A Mathematician's Lament
• A Mathematician's Lament

From what I can tell, they all look to be the same length and size and hopefully are not older revisions of this paper.

This is seriously misguided and a poor use of resources.

Read Points To Consider.

http://davidgisselquist.googlepages.com/pointstoconsider

Particularly chapter 7:

http://davidgisselquist.googlepages.com/chapter7

This is seriously misguided and a poor use of resources.

Read Points To Consider.

http://davidgisselquist.googlepages.com/pointstoconsider

Particularly chapter 7:

http://davidgisselquist.googlepages.com/chapter7

There was a sequel too, but it wasn't as good.

I had a friend who bought that game. I tried it too, and also didn't like it as much.

Overall your list is good, and I played almost all of those on my C64 as well. No C64 list is complete without Project Firestart though. I still haul out the C128 every now and then to play that one!

I remember the title, but I don't think I've ever played that one. I just looked it up on wikipedia, and learned that there has been a remake of the game made and is supposedly available at retroremakes.com, but it's probably not the same as the wikipedia article mentions the remake is 3d. While searching for it on the remakes site, I found this remake which looks interesting:

http://slashx.googlepages.com/adventure2600reboot

After looking more closely at the wikipedia article, the game was released in 1989, which is probably why I don't remember it as well. The only games that I bought after 1987 were the sequels to the Bards Tale, and Legacy of the Ancients. Otherwise, I just borrowed games from friends.

Your sig reminds me of an old lawn mower game, I think it was Hover Bovver. I used to like that game. :)

http://sentry23.googlepages.com/

Only for windows, but it converts to mp4 files which will play on the 360. There are probably easier ways to do it with transcoding, but this one actually keeps the video stream intact bit-for-bit. You just need to make sure .mp4 files are registered with media sharing in windows.

Also if you have a newish ATI or nVidia GPU, it can probably do the decoding if you use mpc-hc or the standalone codecs from it.

Excluding games, all uses can be replaced by web-standards (even videos, in next-generation browsers).

A lot of casual games can be rewritten in Javascript.
Take a look at one of the best:
http://worldofsolitaire.com/
You can also find an emulator written in Javascript:
http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html

I have given away content for years. I have a website that gives away years of writing for free: Nebraska Writer. However, when you self publish--which is what giving away content is--you are on your own, re-inventing the wheel. Now, having working at B&N corporate in Manhattan, I have seen the great engines that publishers and booksellers have to market and sell books. If you want to do all that yourself--and have miserable results--be my guest. Cory Doctorow got his chance because he is the son of the famous novelist E.L. Doctorow. ("Ragtime"). So, his example is not relevant. Your average unknown has one chance to make it--sell a book to a major publishing company. If you want to try to go it alone, you may but it's not going to be fun. Speaking as someone who worked 6 years on a thriller novel and who now has an agent and will see publication, I'm happy that I did not end up in a self-publishing backwater. Food for thought.

I like DOSbox because it lets me play Shadow of Yserbius on ImagiNation Revival. A first-person perspective (but still-frame) multiplayer RPG world originally offered by Sierra On-Line and called The Sierra Network and later ImagiNation Network. A group has gotten a server running that simulates the old dial-up systems, but over TCP/IP, enabling many players at once.

For me, Shadow of Yserbius was the first MMORPG I played, and still may favorite. It is a fairly short game, and cheating is trivial to do (your character data is stored on your local machine), but if you play it fairly it is quite enjoyable and challenging.

...you mean to tell me that fragmentation *reduces* the performance of storage???

Fragmentation on hard disks reduces performance because of the time it takes to physically move the disk heads around. There are no physical heads to be moved around in SSDs, therefore it's perfectly reasonable to assume that that mechanism of performance hit will not occur on SSDs, and therefore it's not an issue. I did a small test years ago on the effects of flash memory fragmentation in a PDA, and I, and most people I discussed the matter with seemed to be quite surprised with the results at the time. I never got a good technical explanation of why the performance hit was so large. Doubt that's the same mechanism at work as with modern SSDs, but sort of relevant anyway.

About your free page...

http://networkzombie.googlepages.com/page2

Seems you had an image removed.

That is curious. I pay for hosting and I couldn't be happier. Why free? If you die, do you want your site to be available for years after? Is $100 a year too much for 100 GB of storage and 100 GB of file transfers per month and unlimited domain names? I have a free page http://networkzombie.googlepages.com/ but it doesn't let me do whatever I want, and storage is 100 MB, so I don't (or can't) do anything serious with it. I think the limitations of free sites, like ads and bandwidth restrictions, make them overrated. What do you do with your free site?

I get most of my reading material from Freenet (0.5 of course) I guess I'm safe.

I highly recommend the 'The Second Renaissance' freesite - it'll take ya _months_ to get through that thing, and it's almost as good as dropping acid :)

If you don't wanna go through the trouble of getting Freenet, it's also here:
http://urza9814.googlepages.com/2ndRenaissanceText-Part1
http://urza9814.googlepages.com/2ndRenaissanceText-Part2

I get most of my reading material from Freenet (0.5 of course) I guess I'm safe.

I highly recommend the 'The Second Renaissance' freesite - it'll take ya _months_ to get through that thing, and it's almost as good as dropping acid :)

If you don't wanna go through the trouble of getting Freenet, it's also here:
http://urza9814.googlepages.com/2ndRenaissanceText-Part1
http://urza9814.googlepages.com/2ndRenaissanceText-Part2

Lemonrip

A Perl script that handles most aspects of transcoding...