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Judging by some of the comments here, I'd say some /.ers still can't read...ROTFL

But on a somewhat serious note, have you looked at:

http://free-reading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

I'd be more concerned about having a 6 year old who 'can't read' yet, (if in fact that is just your perception, based on god knows what).

Spend some time learning about the complexities of reading, etc. (And as a lucky multilingual person, trust me, it is complex.)

http://languageknowledge.googlepages.com/

I hope they all get deleted and wiped from the disks. Most of the spam that makes it into my inbox is some a link to:
http://somerandomstupidsite.googlepages.com/

Maybe now there will be an actual authentication system and I sure hope they charge for it like most hosts to eliminate their spam issue.

And yes, every time I see a http://somerandomstupidsite.googlepages.com/ link I report it to Google and within 24 hours that account has been deactivated.

I hope they all get deleted and wiped from the disks. Most of the spam that makes it into my inbox is some a link to:
http://somerandomstupidsite.googlepages.com/

Maybe now there will be an actual authentication system and I sure hope they charge for it like most hosts to eliminate their spam issue.

And yes, every time I see a http://somerandomstupidsite.googlepages.com/ link I report it to Google and within 24 hours that account has been deactivated.

He does have a web page: http://kris.woodbeck.googlepages.com/

I've been considering a vacation to PR for a few years, and seeing this thing is on my list of awesome things to try to see. Guess I should hurry ;)

I was actually there in early 2006, and I have to say it was really well worth it. It's hard to put into words how HUGE it is. The attached Museum is also quite nice- it even includes a small sliver of the moon, which was a bonus for me.

unless there is some other technology that comes along and blows this telescope out of the water, it really is in our best interests to keep it running.

Since version 7 or 8, I've had most of those functions available in a toolbar button. There's loads of pages of buttons you can just drag-and-drop. The one I use most often is a checkbox for javascript.

My urlfilter.ini is pretty complete, I can't remember the last ad I saw.
http://ronanian.googlepages.com/urlfilter.ini

here's the link (and some discussion, mostly by me) for the streaming bit-perfect opensource (!) drivers for win-xp. I use that for my htpc and it passes dolby digital (ac3), 44.1, 48k - just not 96k, that's all.

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=468288

the driver, itself:

http://cmediadrivers.googlepages.com/home

and as noted, linux/bsd already have all they need in the public kernel! this is only to de-brain-damage xp and restore bit-perfect playback.

Document IEEE 1541-2002 states, basically, that there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte (kB), and 1024 bytes in a kibibyte (KiB). IEEE considers it a full-use standard.

I find that if one doesn't know the context, the difference can be most frustrating. Here is a quick lookup reference I put up.

Some stuff here ( http://wiseman1024.googlepages.com/ , page outdated too) and I have two applications in test stage (not going to release them until they're stable enough).

But whether I've created software or not is not important, what I'm saying is that I won't care for the recommendations of a foundation of nobodies', just like you shouldn't care for the recommendations of the Wiseman1024 Foundation on agriculture if I don't even have a farm. You can personally recommend something to a friend, but it's pointless to start a foundation and pretend to be a respectable source of software recommendations if you don't even write software.

Actually, it's just three guys:
http://opendocumentfoundation.us/we.htm
Not much of a foundation.

The *real* ODF group is:
http://www.odfalliance.org/memberlist.php

I think that the only honest thing the "The OpenDocument Foundation" can do is rename
itself "The Compound Documents Format Foundation", since to do otherwise would be as
deceitful as Microsoft choosing to name OOXML "Office Open XML". But honestly, I doubt
they will. Their comparison chart between CDF and ODF betrays a few lies:
            http://opendocument.foundation.googlepages.com/GOSCON_Chart.pdf
In particular:
* CDF is not OOXML compatible, nor has any implementation shown this to be possible. ODF at least has a not-100% compatible conversion.
* ODF has a lot more big vendor support than CDF
* Neither are universal formats, but ODF is supported by more vendors and software projects at the moment.

Personally, I think that the reasons for "The OpenDocument Foundation" changing it's
support from ODF to CDF is self-interest. When ODF was first introduced, there was
money to be made for a small company to write MS Office/Corel Office/Mac Office plugins
and other conversion services. But then Sun and others started offering free converters
and conversion services. There's just too much competition too quickly

CDF, OTOH is not as well supported universally, so there's a lot more room for
a small company. And if the CDF growth rate is slow, the "The OpenDocument Foundation"
has the chance to become *the CDF conversion experts* and make a lot of money.
Also, since CDF (if you believe their claims) is more web oriented, it would be good
for transactional converters of many types that need to be used for each message.
With ODF, you convert your document once and don't have to worry about going back
(by purpose....ODF is best for documents that have to be read, as is 100 years
from now). The difference in profit between one-time business and licensed per
transaction business could huge, even if CDF has a smaller market.

Drinking will be permitted as long as you wear a bib... http://woodlandca.googlepages.com/slashdotlimoservice

Use GOTsent to remux 720p x264 .mkv tv-episodes to PS3 compatible .mp4 - no reencoding of video
Use Red Kawa PS3 Video 9 to remux anything that's not exactly 1280*720 - no reencoding of video

Use TVersity UPnP server to stream and reencode anything that's not h264 (i.e xvid) to a PS3 compatible mpeg2-stream

My PS3 is fast on it's way to being able to replace my Xbox+XBMC combos.

Nice Try. I do update my slides frequently. Rewrite them from scratch? Not too frequently. As for your comment about using Adobe Acrobat--that shows me you didn't look at them. Many of the lectures contain animation that can only be done in Powerpoint. That's not possible in Acrobat, smartass. That ability to dynamically see code execute, see what variables are holding, etc. is one of the most popular aspects of those lectures. The http://freejavalectures.googlepages.com/ has a google page rank of 5/10. That means it's very popular. Have you given anything back to the community, sir?

Are we so sure this is true? http://diggdl.googlepages.com/demonoid

Something came through the IRC Channel. This was posted on Digg so I can't vouch that it is 100%

Link to Source: http://diggdl.googlepages.com/demonoid

  http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shut-down-by-cria-070925/ we DO NOT know what actually happened. the CRIA is just a SPECULATION. the site is TEMPORAROLY OFFLINE

  Yes the tracker is down, they are going through heavy maintenance, please wait patiently for it to come back up.

  Jumba; that torrent freak article is completely false
  there is NO evidence

  and NO word from site staff, and i'm in contact with the TF dude right now

  we're still waiting for the name of a CRIA rep for confirmation.

Check the ad appearing next to this article: http://samwyse.googlepages.com/slashdot-autodesk.jpg

There are ads on Slashdot?

Check the ad appearing next to this article: http://samwyse.googlepages.com/slashdot-autodesk.jpg

all i know is that spore is ganna rock!

http://robbie785.googlepages.com/spore

GlovePIE lets you remap WiiMote controls to standard inputs. That worked great, the bigger issue for me was the bluetooth driver. I had to revert to the Microsoft one to make it work, the Dell-approved driver from Broadcom wasn't working for me.

Spread the truth!

http://listverse.com/religion/10-religious-scriptures-explained/

Mirrors:
http://frater.googlepages.com/CompleteOTLevels.txt
http://listverse.com/CompleteOTLevels.txt

Spread the truth!

http://listverse.com/religion/10-religious-scriptures-explained/

Mirrors:
http://frater.googlepages.com/CompleteOTLevels.txt
http://listverse.com/CompleteOTLevels.txt

I know that you're joking, but the sad thing is that it's no joke. Windows 95 would hang after 49.7 days of continuous operation. What really gets me is that the bug was discovered 4 years after the OS was released. (Note the date on the KB article.) Apparently no one, including Microsoft, thought an uptime of less than two months was abnormal.

More analysis is here. BTW, Microsoft says your computer may hang. I suspect rather that it will hang.

take a look at http://showmypc.googlepages.com/ it is an old mirror it also references sourceforge

take a look at http://showmypc.googlepages.com/ it is an old mirror it has the same thing you mention

Well, I have an entire website that is devoted to answering this question: Free Java Lectures is about that. Specifically, I have a lecture called "Web App Best Practices."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivars_Peterson>Ivars Peterson is a mathematics writer who writes entertaining books that explain concepts clearly.

His homepage is here and an archive of his "Math Trek" articles can be found here.

If there really is a wi-fi-touch-screen-OSX based iPod coming out that may or may not be based on the iPhone, they better make sure there is no mic. This could make a fantastic Skype handset. And damage the iPhone business model. Not that unlocking hasn't done that already though...

Buy a Mac or Build Your Own Mac?

Shame its not OS X !

We can but dream... PC Mac Whatever....

First of all, excellent question.

Second: ignore the ass above who said dump Java. Modern hotspots have made Java as fast or faster than C/C++. The guy is not up to date.

Third: Since this is a web app, are you using an HttpSession/sendRedirect or just a page-to-page RequestDispatcher/forward? As much as its a pain in the ass--use the RequestDispatcher.

Fourth: see what your queries are really doing by looking at the explain plan.

Five: add indexes wherever practical.

Six: Use AJAX wherever you can. The response time for an AJAX function is amazing and it is really not that hard to do Basic AJAX.

Seven: Use JProbe to see where your application is spending its time. You should be bound by the database. Anything else is not appropriate.

Eight: Based on your findings using JProbe, make code changes to, perhaps, put a frequently-used object from the database into a class variable (static).

These are several ideas that you could try. The main thing that experience teaches is this: DON'T optimize and change your code UNTIL you have PROOF of where the slow parts are.

The success of computers in chess really brings up two questions in my mind. The first is: what does this say about chess? The second is: what does it say about computers?

A good way to think about the first question is to think about an even simpler case - such as SuDoKu. Like chess, SuDoKu is a persuit of many people who consider it pleasurable mental challenge - and some puzzles are of a sufficiently difficult level to thwart all but expert solvers. Yet, solving the most difficult SuDoKu puzzle is an instantaneous task for a brute-force computer solver.

Does that mean that SuDoKu is not worth playing, given that it can be trivially solved by machine? I think that makes about as much sense as saying that running is no longer a meaningful sport since nearly any motor vehicle can go several times faster than the world's fastest runner.

The point I am trying to come to is that SuDoKu isn't rendered meaningless by machine, but it's apparently silly to have SuDoKu competitions between humans and machines - just like it would be silly to put my Corolla as a contender in an olympic speed race. Although it would win...

(by the way, when I was learning MATLAB, I wrote a SuDoKu solver in it that was more intelligent than simple backtracking. That stuff is here)

The reason I am talking about SuDoKu is that the above argument is clearly true for it - the same argument is less apparent for chess. After all, that's why there are these Man Vs. Machine matches, and they're not always a complete slaughter one way or the other.

I would argue that chess is only different from SuDoKu in degree of complexity. The fact is, 10 years ago happened to be the time where the state of the art hardware and AI were about as good at solving chess as the best humans. I am sure solving SuDoKu on the earliest and most primitive computers would have been a challage, just like 'solving' chess was 10 years ago - but that difficulty is, again, only a matter of degree. It doesn't change the fact that the subject IS solvable and clearly sufficiently solvable by computer. I am sure that a Deep Blue-type project benefiting from the last 10 years' progress in hardware and AI would leave any human player in the dust, and easily.

But all that means is that man-machine chess competitions are meaningless, not that chess itself is somehow pointless. The search space is finite so ultimately a faster and more powerful computer will make up for its lack of the grandmasters' genius. Which doesn't diminish that genius.

So that's what computer chess means for the game of chess in my view. Not that much.

That brings me to the second question - what does computer success at chess say about computers? In my view, again, not much. Computers, as we all know, are stupid. They can do easy logic and math really quickly, however. If you think about it, the Deep Blue project was all about programming the sum of human chess insight into the machine. From the openings database, to the position evaluation function - Deep Blue didn't learn to play chess from scratch. It was gifted with the best distillation of centuries of chess knowledge. All it did was crunch the numbers faster in that framework. So if you think about it - Deep Blue was doing what all the computers are doing - crunching boring numbers once humans did all the creative stuff.

The thing is, TTS which is great for visually impaired users has been around for decades, and all these fancy new systems are no better, in fact they're worse.
Listen to something like AT&T Natural Voices which is diphone based, and really no good for VI users as you can't use them at any great speed and understand them well.
Compare that with some hardware synth from the late 80's or 90's, or a software synth like eloquence and hopefully you'll see why the not-so-human-like voices are much better for the people who really need them.
Of course for automated phone systems and GPS navigation, the human-like voices are good, but you need a lot less information from them, try listening to a book, or the contents of your browser window. A lot of commercial screen readers come with Eloquence, and those that don't usually come with something similar, and for a good reason.
While I'm on this point, I wish that somebody would develop a good TTS engine open source, festival is good for what it is, but it's built like the AT&T or Cepstral voices rather then a purely synthetic synth. Ah well.

it's not necessary. I've already got a fix up.

hee hee hee

I don't see any way to contact you in your slashdot profile, but could you email me? I'd like to ask some questions about your Providence-Boston commute, as I might have to do a similar commute soon.
My email is on my web page at
http://ronanian.googlepages.com/
Or, if you want to figure it out without visiting my site and without me posting it here where it will attract lots of spam, take the bit to the left of ".googlepages.com" and prepend it to "gmail.com". Thanks.

:)

I managed to see this at Easter. It's huge. I've posted some photos at: http://grantpe.googlepages.com/cernpics [googlepages.com]. The last shows one of the rooms of computers they're using. The others are just views of the huge detector. It's in a man-made canvern 100 metres tall and 100 metres wide, all below ground! All just taken on the visitors tour.

...would shit PRIME NUMBERS!

Click on the link:

http://buildyourstuff.googlepages.com/LegoHex.JPG

It's everything I learned about videogames.

http://paulcarhuff.googlepages.com/videogames

you know that's my website,

No, wtf would I associate a slashdot user called DECS with R.D?

"Poster farmer"? What a stretch to pull that out your ass.

Whatever you say AlexW.

In all honesty, If I ever need them I'll take lessons in journalistic integrity from someone who isn't a hypocrite. (thanks for reminding me of that, by the way)

Your characterisation of anyone who disagrees with you and your methods as a 'fraud' or 'sellout', then the blatant travesty that is the above happening and you shouting "I don't write false information designed to convey something that isn't true" is just hilarious. As for the rest of your tirade, I find the fact that you accused me of only having namecalling to fall back on, then spending the rest of the post ranting at me for things I have neither said or done to be just plain ironic. "You can continue to publish RDM-hate pieces on Digg"... that's a classic. If I ever give a shit about Digg I'll be sure to email you. I don't share your irrational hatred of that site, but nor do I like it.

I'm not even going to bother with this any more, my laughter overfloweth.

mine is version independent.

...You are a complete fraud.

You're calling someone else a fraud? Interesting how you diss Digg, the site that banned you for trying to spam/game their system with fake accounts you used to submit and digg your RoughlyDrafted articles.

PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts
RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
RDMBusted2

...You are a complete fraud.

You're calling someone else a fraud? Interesting how you diss Digg, the site that banned you for trying to spam/game their system with fake accounts you used to submit and digg your RoughlyDrafted articles.

PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts
RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
RDMBusted2

Erg, roughly drafted - the site that got busted spamming digg.

Do we really need links from sites that need to spam digg for page impressions on the front page?

Jesus Christ, why are you still giving this shill a platform? I mean, I know flamewars create ad impressions, but come on. This isn't global warming or terrorism. This is people treating a corporation like a religion! You're better than this, slashdot!

He was caught gaming Digg, you know.

Wrong you are. SF expects you to upload your SSH key. Please refer to this link. The only way SF allow you to access their site as a developer is by setting your public key with SF and then trying to connect using PuTTY. Pain in the ass. I could never get a connection and when I asked for some support, they basically ignored my request. They have that right--granted--as I'm not paying for any services. But I also have the right to take my project elsewhere--as I chose.

I dunno about T-mobile specifically, but my Dad made this page with instructions that worked for me on Sprint.

In the meantime, you have the option of ridiculing him when he posts a comment on Slashdot that reads like a mini RoughlyDrafted article, like this one from two days ago: Oh Gizmodo

I'm assuming Daniel Eran only uses one Slashdot user account to pimp his site. In case you missed it, he tried to game Digg with multiple accounts and got caught/banned from Digg:

• PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts
  • "Photographic evidence of AlexaW and RoughlyDrafted gaming Digg just to get moron Daniel Eran's articles to the front page. (Where they promptly get buried for being inaccurate.) Several users who ONLY digg AlexaW's submissions, all of whom signed up in the last 3 weeks. Coincidence? Not a chance. This needs to be stopped immediately."
• RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
• RDMBusted2