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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

I so was saddened by them closing down. Now where will I get "The Bread of Frankenstein"?

Yes, I was also very sad that they closed. If you are a fan of strong writing, check out Neverwinter Nights 2, some of the people at Troika started working at Obsidian I believe. It was a very buggy game, but now with 6 major patches out it is starting to be stable and polished enough to be truly enjoyable. There are some really good mods in the works too, these people are making a trilogy of adventures in the Planescape universe for instance, this guy is making another intriguing game that was once known as Baldur's Gate 3 (though it was made with the same engine and the same universe it has nothing to do with the Child of Bhaal storyline, the BG3 name was for marketing. Still sounds like a great game). There is also an expansion in the works.

And of course Bioshock sounds awesome.

VLD is highly underrated. It's so easy to use, some of my students were using it without help in a first semester programming class. http://dmoulding.googlepages.com/vld

http://www.911myths.com/
http://www.debunking911.com/
http://www.jnani.org/mrking/writings/911/king911.h tm
http://911debunker.livejournal.com/
http://www.no911conspiracy.com/mythsvsfacts.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/militar y_law/1227842.html?page=1
http://www.public-action.com/911/jmcm/sciam/
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/home

Stuff your paranoid delusions.

http://www.911myths.com/
http://www.debunking911.com/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/12 27842.html?page=1&c=y
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/home

"Besides, its not hard to write cross-platform C++ code."

There are many little differences between Microsoft's STL and everyone else's. These make porting C++ programs difficult. When you do it you will find lots of little bugs appearing in your code later on that are hard to prepare for. C++ is (in)famous for not being portable.

For one quick example of this:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa985896( VS.80).aspx

Quoting Steve Yegge:

"C++ is much less adaptable than C. It's large, nonstandard, ungainly, and nonportable, and it has horrible linking problems, regrettable name-mangling, a template system that's too complex for what you can do with it, and so on, and on."

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/scheming-is-bel ieving

Perhaps you should see the Prime Number Shitting Bear.

Originally at http://www.primenumbershittingbear.com/ but that's long dead, so I dug it out of the Wayback Machine and put it up at http://rpresser.googlepages.com/primenumbershittin gbear.html . Enjoy.

oops, try taking the trailing / off the end of the url. sorry

http://davidlita.googlepages.com/copyrights

When a law is unjust, people not only have a right to defy it, but a duty. Copyrights are unjust. They attack our culture, require the destruction of our privacy to be enforced, attack the free flow of information on the internet, and cause fragmentation to societies knowledge base of literature. The cost and effort to secure and enforce them is growing exponentially as society enters the information age.

The reason why anti-copyright behavior works so well in the free market is simply because copyrights are anti freedom and anti free market. http://davidlita.googlepages.com/copyrights/

Rationalizations? WTF! How about Copyrights are not "rights", theft and stealing is not copying, copyrights are monopolies and not "protection", and intellectual property is not "property". Hell, piracy isn't even piracy.

Water on mars

I believe adding another 10 MB to their 10 MB max attachement size would make a lot of users happy.

However this would make a lot more users unhappy. 10MB is already ridiculous for attachments... sending over 100k is just bad netiquette. Mail servers (and often clients) don't handle large content well, and that's not their purpose. It's even worse than sending HTML messages. Increasing this would just encourage the idiots.

Besides, what's the point? If you want to share photos, Google provides Picasa and Picasa Web. Video; YouTube and Google Video (do you really need links?). There's even Google Pages, letting you upload 100MB of random stuff.

It does, e.g. see:

http://brian.geary.smith.googlepages.com/review.ht ml

(see the battery life section)

Daniel Eran was busted spamming digg and consquently banned.

Not only is that site biased, but it attempts to push its bias onto other sites. I think it's a real pity that Slashdot accepts submissions from there.

http://www.reliefweb.int/ See Professional Resources > Jobs

But you might want to read this page first:

http://ngosecurity.googlepages.com/

i think you can .. not using (only) the bundled libraries, but since it's very easy to write "native" javascript libraries.. there are a couple of additional libraries which allow you to .. like http://gwt.components.googlepages.com/canvas - or see http://roberthanson.blogspot.com/2006/06/coding-sv g-with-gwt.html for using SVG

and personally .. i think GWT is great.. you have the advantages of java (simplicity, statically typed language) with compatibility with all javascript-ready browsers (ie. >99% of all browsers) without the overhead of any JVM (on the client side) ... and .. it is very very simple to extend.. and very clean even when you need to write native javascript once in a while.. because you would simply hide it behind some java method call ..

• 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
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

• 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
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

http://ba01162.googlepages.com/RoughlyDraftedBUSTE D.html

Hey, so this thing in my arm is hideous, and only now you tell me?
Too late :)

True enough Office could interoperate with almost any format - the question is whether it is worth the time and money to develop the software to do so... and probably from the MS standpoint, probably not, as they get more money from people being forced to use documents in their format (and thus with their program). Microsoft plays the format wars because they know that no matter what format you have, you still need the program to use it.

Well, even if ODF was vastly superior to OOXML, if the tool you have to create documents is vastly inferior, there is no question as to what tool to use - and the format will follow the tool, not the other way around.

I'm using this mod for keeping the ctrl key shortcuts where they are in qwerty. There is no mod for alt key combos as far as I know. :(

In Windows, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to switch back and forth between layouts. I've got my computer to default to qwerty, switch to Dvorak on shift-alt-3, switch back to qwerty on shift-alt-2. I use Dvorak for prose, email, and chatting, and I use qwerty for everything else, i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash. That way I don't have to remap keys.

It helps to maintain both layouts if you do switch to Dvorak because being a retarded monkey is embarrassing at a job interview. It's really not that hard to switch hit if you practice a little.

Overall, Dvorak has been a fun little brain teaser for me and sure feels nice, but I probably should've spent that time learning piano.

Don't waste your money on analog sound - just buy a cheap C-Media card, a proper receiver/amplifier, install this driver http://cmediadrivers.googlepages.com/ and you'll get better quality than any analog sound card could possibly provide

NO! Do not tarry into the forbidden desert of Console! All ways look alike, and you will die without dialog!

Seriously there's several RPGs on the PC worth looking forward to, several of which should come out within the next year (clipped from one of my earlier posts):

The Black Hound - Originally was in production at Black Isle as Baldur's Gate 3 (though it has nothing to do with BG1 or BG2) but was canned when it was nearly complete. Josh Sawyer, the original game's Lead Designer who's now working at Obsidian, is recreating the game as a mod for NWN2.

The Planescape Trilogy - Three large campaigns for NWN2 in the Planescape setting that look promising, despite the obvious titles (from the Divine Comedy, CLEVER!). The first part, Purgatorio, is almost done.

Dragon Age - Bioware's mystary PC RPG based on original IP is, well, a mystery. All previous work has been scrapped, a couple of times, and the project started anew, but some hints by Dave Gaider lend some hope to this maybe possibly turning out decent. Unlike Mass Effect.

The Broken Hourglass - An infinity engine RPG by the best infinity engine modders out there. Whether that means that they will be making a great RPG with the engine remains to be seen. Based on original, non-DnD setting and rules.

Age of Decadence - An "isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire." Currently under development by an asshole. He's also a purist, though, so it may turn out respectably, if it ever turns out.

The Alien RPG - I know virtually nothing about other than Obsidian is making it and they say it's an RPG. Probably won't be out until 2008. Or later.

And of course...

Fallout 3 - Bethesda has it. They say it won't be "Oblivion with guns", but they lie frequently. I still have a sliver of hope, though. We'll see if it's still there when they release some concrete info/screenshots.

Lastly, The Witcher looks interesting as well. A lot of actual "Role Playing" for an Action RPG, which can only help.

....and in a series of articles at roughlydrafted.com.

Roughly drafted? Sorry. They have no credibility after being busted spamming digg

One conclusion both sources make is that Greenpeace applies different criteria to different companies and seems to be targeting Apple due to the company's visibility.

Errrr, I didn't read that conclusion in the Business week article. Can you please explain how Greenpeace is applying different criteria to different companies?

Sorry, I reply again because I want to be heard. Of course a flying powerstation with generators on board and a power cable running down at 10 km length is impossible. Way too heavy but there is no reason why the enegry can not be transferred mechanically via the very tether that holds the power station in place.

I have made a little diagram and description here: http://vandinther.googlepages.com/home

What do you think, can it be done?

Birth control well said. We first need to shoot every economist who still says that no growth is bad and then every idiot who calls me a Luddite. Reducing the population of worlds worst pest will do wonders to our world problems. (No I won't leave first but I do only have one child.)

Secondly taking energy out of the antmosphere is a great thing. The global warming (I there is such a thing because New Zealand has been cooling 0.9 degrees centigrade over the last decade)puts energy into the atmosphere and windmills take it out again. Hey it's energy recycling!

I'd be surprised if pilots are allowed to fly aircraft themselves in a decade from now. So avoiding a few lousy powerstations won't be a problem.

Icing? No problem. The cables are made of aluminium and as such not a great conductor. To keep the weight down these cables need to be thin hence they probably are going to be hot or at least warm anyway.

Weight? Yeah to total killer of this concept. There is no hope in hell they can build cables light enough to transfer energy to the ground while keeping the kite tethered. However, I can think of a variation of this idea. They could use the tether as a method to transmit rotational energy to the ground. A ground based pulley system and a 20 km long loop of fancy nanotube super light cable running as a chain between the airborne windmill and the ground. The generator remains firmly on the ground. This reduces the weight of the airborne system a lot while the power station can now stay aloft at very low wind speeds. Ow, bugger it. I made a picture. Here have a look,

http://vandinther.googlepages.com/home

I don't even think such a power station would need to be in the jetstream to function thanks to it's much lower weight. Of course if the cable breaks then you are uh... well actually no. The return cable can be just slightly longer. Breakage of the cable can be detected by a sudden reduction of tension on the drums and the return cable can immediately be locked in place while electronics adjust the rotors to reduce the tension to a minimum.

You mean you can get a GPS signal down there? Do you use this?

http://gpspray.googlepages.com/

Do you believe in some God theory? -- Vote: http://maxextreme.googlepages.com/yes.htm
or in some evolution theory? -- Vote: http://maxextreme.googlepages.com/no.htm

If you vote twice, it will count just one time. If you vote both, well, thanks for the visit :)

I will publish the results in about 12 hours.

Do you believe in some God theory? -- Vote: http://maxextreme.googlepages.com/yes.htm
or in some evolution theory? -- Vote: http://maxextreme.googlepages.com/no.htm

If you vote twice, it will count just one time. If you vote both, well, thanks for the visit :)

I will publish the results in about 12 hours.

He's not half as bad as the Apple whore behind Rougly Drafted.

The Usenet newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email (aka, NANAE) is wonderful for watching E360INSIGHT's Lindtard CEO try and support their suit against Spamhaus, as well as read Spamhaus' Steve Linford rationally explain themselves. Various posters to that newsgroup have outed E360 for spams they have received in the past and present.

Recently E360INSIGHT have filed a suit against those same people, likely for defamation (or libel, not sure). However it's worth noting that they feel they can use the law to suppress anyone who wishes to refer to them as spammers.

The old saying still rings true, that spam is continually being redefined by the spammers as "that which we do not do".

http://spamresource.googlepages.com/e360vFerguson. pdf

Or at least part of the point. Once I win, and I will one, they cannot sue anybody for calling them a spammer as they did to group of newsgroup posters.

• PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts (97 diggs)

• RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
• RDMBusted2
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

• PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts (97 diggs)

• RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
• RDMBusted2
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

Thank you!

Every Time some one makes me laugh out loud, I like to let them know. You just did it! I don't know if I am laughing cause your funny, or at the fact that I have had the same thought, except w/ a flamethrower built from a supersoaker like http://paulcarhuff.googlepages.com/whydoesthatsupe rsoakerhaveapilotlight%3F2 this guy did.

E-learning' is teaching and learning that are delivered, supported, and enhanced through the use of digital technologies and media. People often conufse with mere downloading of materials to e-learning. Moodle, Sakai are plaforms use to prepare and deliver these materials. But most of the MIT OCW material is mere 'downloadable' materials. It has it's own value, but it's not truly a e-learning. Please see some useful links given below.
http://sashikumar.n.googlepages.com/LearningManage mentSystems.ppt http://tel.cedt.iisc.ernet.in/moodle/mod/resource/ index.php?id=1

Your OS choice does not make you cool or special. You are no more artsy or enlightened than anyone else. In fact, you specifically are a pathetic and shallow creature, and these rants you keep shitting all over the place tend to give all Mac users a bad name more than anything else. Mac users are just as normal - or "dweebish" if you must - as anybody else.

So, please, shut the fuck up troll, at least until you are old enough to understand that being 21 and smoking pot with your friends at a poetry jam does not make you a cultural authority. The real world - the really, real world - happens to be business oriented and as sad as it may be, eventually you'll have to trade in your goth fishnet and Doc Martens and dress just like drab old mommy and daddy.

It happens to the best of us. It'll happen to you, too.

I compared the Google cache of the CompUSA store list with the current list of 103 stores and found 120 of the ones that appear to be closing in the near future. You can find the list here and if any of you send corrections or updates, I'll try to adjust the list in a timely fashion. :-)

Oh Jesus Christ, more RoughlyDrafted bullshit.
For those of you who don't already know, RoughlyDrafted is an Apple propaganda blog that abused digg by using multiple accounts to "digg" their own stories and "bury" any stories or comments expressing an opposing viewpoints. And now they're infiltrating Slashdot.

Well, now you know the truth. I am posting this as non-AC because I am willing to risk karma for this public service announcement to be heard.


By the way, if you ever wanted to know why FairPlay isn't interoperable, the short answer is because Apple makes more money that way.

Oh Jesus Christ, more RoughlyDrafted bullshit.
For those of you who don't already know, RoughlyDrafted is an Apple propaganda blog that abused digg by using multiple accounts to "digg" their own stories and "bury" any stories or comments expressing an opposing viewpoints. And now they're infiltrating Slashdot.

Well, now you know the truth. I am posting this as non-AC because I am willing to risk karma for this public service announcement to be heard.


By the way, if you ever wanted to know why FairPlay isn't interoperable, the short answer is because Apple makes more money that way.

http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/news.html
http://mark.dufour.googlepages.com/

are also among the many python->machine code projects.

You're leaving out a quite a few titles. There are some great mods in the works as well.

The Black Hound - Originally was in production at Black Isle as Baldur's Gate 3 (though it has nothing to do with BG1 or BG2) but was canned when it was nearly complete. Josh Sawyer, the original game's Lead Designer who's now working at Obsidian, is recreating the game as a mod for NWN2.

The Planescape Trilogy - Three large campaigns for NWN2 in the Planescape setting that look promising, despite the obvious titles (from the Divine Comedy, CLEVER!). The first part, Purgatorio, is almost done.

Dragon Age - Bioware's mystary PC RPG base on original IP is, well, a mystery. All previous work and screenshots have been scrapped and the project started anew, but some hints by Dave Gaider lend some hope to this possibly turning out decent. Unlike Mass Effect.

The Broken Hourglass - An infinity engine RPG by the best infinity engine modders out there. Whether that means that they will be making a great RPG with the engine remains to be seen. Based on original, non-DnD setting and rules.

Age of Decadence - An "isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire." Currently under development by an asshole. He's also a purist, though, so it may turn out respectably, if it ever turns out.

And of course...

Fallout 3 - Bethesda has it. They say it won't be "Oblivion with guns", but they lie frequently. I still have a sliver of hope, though. We'll see if it's still there when they release some concrete info/screenshots.

Lastly, The Witcher looks interesting as well. A lot of actual "Role Playing" for an Action RPG, which can only help.

no doubt, thats why Dell is marketing its harware for Vista as great for "booting the OS, w/o running apps or games" (link via this)

Since when did booting an OS become a "feature" of the OS?

• 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
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

• 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
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

I use the chat-cord http://www.chat-cord.com/ to hook up any cordless phone. It is much cheaper then paying for one that skype sells. I also found a really cool tool for receiving cellphone SMS text messages when trying to get those items that go quickly on craigslist http://admin.clbuddy.googlepages.com/home

//As a result, some governments asked for a converter that would move documents back and forth between these formats and for some reason they asked that MS not contribute or control the code, just fund it.//

1. They didn't ask for a converter, they asked for the ability to save OpenDocument (ODF) as the default file format. That is something that the CleverAge plugin specifically cannot do.

2. They said nothing whatsoever about Microsoft controlling it or funding it.

3. Due to its sever limitations, the CleverAge plugin is not the one you want anyway. Wait a little while for the daVinci plugin to become available, and get perfect compatibility with your old legacy format documents and perfect conformance to ODF, and also get the ability to have ODF as the default document format. If you get the daVinci plugin, it will also solve conversions between different versions of Office as a bonus feature.

http://www.fr0mat.org/

Get a preview demo here: http://opendocument.foundation.googlepages.com/hom e

Why is IBM even bothering to write their own JDKs? Don't they know that WebSphere and WSAD are dead? JBoss and Eclipse have murdered them in their sleep. Having had to deploy on WebSphere and develop on WSAD, I would say it was a mercy killing. I would be curious to see the sources to see how they did it. See the compromises. Java Lectures for Free - Free Java Lectures

Roughly Drafted? Weren't they the guys who put their shitty FUD fanboy articles up on digg and then frontpaged them by getting them and their friends to digg the stories with multiple accounts? Oh, yeah, same guys..