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I believe this Wikipedia article covers that final statistic...

Or there's this explanation to cover the period up until then.

GrpA

Or, you know, install uTorrent...

http://www.dyndns.org/ and http://http//httpd.apache.org/. Well, it works for me.

I am sorry no matter howmany safe guards you put up. A kid will find a way to see such material.

You Under 18
You are 18 and over

A kid say 13-17 who wants to see such material will go yea I am over 18, and click the link. The more difficult you get won't stop any kid who wants to get in. For the most part if a kid wants to see internet porn they can no matter what blocks you put in.

Win2k could handle multiple processors(as could Windows NT 4.0).

Win2k Professional was limited to two processors, while Win2k Dataserver had a limit of 32 processors(more than Linux did at the time IIRC).

There was also a 64bit version available. HP was the only company (Itanium anyone??) I knew that sold the 64bit version ( http://http//news.cnet.com/2100-1001-243038.html/ CNET article from July 2000 announcing the release of Win 2k 64 to developers).

In Australian Universities (at least the one I work for anyway), students retain all IP rights to any research they conduct. As staff though, we get no rights for anything we come up with. Well, it used to be that way until one professor who developed a new way to treat liver cancer challenged the University he worked for. The judege ruled in his favour stating that there is no contractual 'duty to invent'. Here's the story if anyone is interested...

http://http//www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=404351&sectioncode=26

Whilst this is technically correct it also misleading; yes it is true that in Australia students own the IP to anything they produce whilst doing a research degree, however, if you read the fine print on the application/enrolment form you will find that there is a clause which gives those rights back to the institution, you must sign this section to recieve any tuition fee scholarship (in Australia most graduate research students have their tuition paid by the Government but the assignment of these funds is handled by the universities' administrative unit) thus in actuality unless you are the handfull of students who are willing to stump up the $20K or so per annum yourself (or more likely your employer) then the university has defacto ownership of your IP.

http://http//www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=404351&sectioncode=26

I think you were given a very badly infected "zombie" machines IP by your IP provider overnight.

If you give your IP to sites like http://http//www.completewhois.com or http://www.senderbase.org/ they may give very good clue since zombies mostly end up on such lists. Of course if you aren't victim of some sort of monopoly, it is best to find a better managed ISP with zero tolerance to both spammers and zombies on their subnet. Not every IP address/block is equal on web since the early dial up times. At one time, while I was using cable ISP, I had 5 kb/sec virus/worm traffic hitting me while I am using OS X. It really bugged me a lot and eventually sites like slashdot really went paranoid about my IP and I was disallowed from posting once.

Ya, be careful what bus you get on..http://http//www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/06/16/death-on-wheels/

Based on the record, it's pretty clear that Obama and the Democrats are bigger supporters of government funding of scientific research than are the Republicans, who believe in leaving it to the "market". That market-oriented view, of course, has a negative impact on such things as funding the development of drugs for rare diseases where it would be impossible for a private company to make a profit on their investment in the needed R&D and clinical trials.

Personally, I think that we should also reverse the policy that now forces top foreign science and engineering students who come to the US for their Ph.D. and M.D. studies to return to their home countries. Making that change is at odds with the Republican platform stance of tightening the borders.

Without wanting to seem elitist about all of this, McCain and Palin probably aren't smarter than 5th graders when it comes to science. McCain graduated 894th out of 899 in his class at the Naval Academy and Palin's undergraduate degree in journalism was earned at 5 different universities.

While I commend Vint Cerf for his public endorsement of Obama (and strongly share his preference), the US is faced with a slew of critical geopolitical and economic issues. Whoever wins, scientific research isn't likely to be a top priority in the new Administration. All we can do is hope that it has strong supporters in the White House.

Most important rule of thumb of multi-threaded programming is to avoid it if possible. Maybe hardware (multi-core) will change that, maybe you feel the scheduler can't do its job as well as you can and maybe you feel it's more intuitive. But, often is the case, that you're just adding more complexity to your code resulting in more difficult bugs and harder maintenance for others. Keep it simple.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. Especially in Java client side rich GUI apps, background threads are one of the most useful components to ensure a responsive interface when dealing with asynchronous requests. They really only need two and a half pieces to implement them easily and efficiently. The first component is the request itself, either a subclass of java.lang.Runnable or javax.swing.SwingWorker. The second is a callback handler. The half piece is the shared data structure, and it's only a half piece because you'll want to use the synchronized collections wrapper to get a (you guessed it) synchronized collection.

• http://http//www.google.com/search?q=SwingWorker
• http://http//java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#synchronizedList(java.util.List)

Brushing up on those pieces will give you the background you need to not block the UI whenever something needs to happen. Threads aren't hard, they just take a little thought.

Most important rule of thumb of multi-threaded programming is to avoid it if possible. Maybe hardware (multi-core) will change that, maybe you feel the scheduler can't do its job as well as you can and maybe you feel it's more intuitive. But, often is the case, that you're just adding more complexity to your code resulting in more difficult bugs and harder maintenance for others. Keep it simple.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. Especially in Java client side rich GUI apps, background threads are one of the most useful components to ensure a responsive interface when dealing with asynchronous requests. They really only need two and a half pieces to implement them easily and efficiently. The first component is the request itself, either a subclass of java.lang.Runnable or javax.swing.SwingWorker. The second is a callback handler. The half piece is the shared data structure, and it's only a half piece because you'll want to use the synchronized collections wrapper to get a (you guessed it) synchronized collection.

• http://http//www.google.com/search?q=SwingWorker
• http://http//java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#synchronizedList(java.util.List)

Brushing up on those pieces will give you the background you need to not block the UI whenever something needs to happen. Threads aren't hard, they just take a little thought.

You mean, like Jonathan Coulton?

Who?

You mean, like Jonathan Coulton?

http://http//mutualfunds.about.com/cs/history/l/bl1929graph.htm/ may help you out some. I found plenty of historical charts. The market recovered well pretty much right before the war started to hit worldwide, and that was my main frame of reference. Yeah, it was bad, but there wasn't as big a middle class then, so there was a greater divide between haves and have-nots which was there before WWII and the industrialization it brought. Your grandfather was a practical millionaire at the time.

Keep in mind, also, that many of our grandparents were also poor and agricultural BEFORE the crash, and had a waste-little mentality even then. The Depression was bad, but just as the current economy is right now, it's not as bad as the media tries to make it out to be.

.. maybe you should keep things like that quiet.
I hope you're aware of what can happen if you mention that you're meeting a girlfriend - it basically disqualifies you from entry as it is considered being an attempt to acquire the right to stay.
Be very careful or this might happen to you:
http://tinyurl.com/us-entry [NYT]

Proof here and here.

(awesome game btw., highly recommended)

The only thing is I havnt seen anyone buiding super computers out of the 360s tri-cored PowerPC knock off chip; http://http//www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6440737610.html/SuperPS3 Seems like maybe there is plenty of power there?

I actually saw one for $35.00 the other day on pricewatch LOL;

http://http//www.pricewatch.com/dvd_cd_drives/blu-ray.htm/

On the other hand, MGS4 alone is a pretty compelling reason to buy a PS3 and its open source leaning philosophy is certainly something I find much more attractive then Microsofts archaic propriatary schemes.

Again, as the owner of two 360s, I dont understand why anyone would be buying one now (as it slowly slides into obscurity). Seems like the PS3 is the obvious choice for the next couple of years.

*puts tin-foil hat on*

Don't worry, they still have the secret military shuttle!

http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_space_shuttle/

http://truth.gooberbear.com/rss.xml
An ongoing series of arguments against Intelligent Design

http://http//feeds.feedburner.com/Http/ablankpapercom
A Blank Paper: A political blog written by a guy who believes (amongst other things) that political parties are the problem with the American political system.

http://http//www.system76.com/ there you go. They seem happy.

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

Woooosh, a Linac is a machine used to generate high energy X-rays, stick to the basement instead of reading around...

http://http//mekentosj.com/goodies/cubism/,

Look down the page a bit, there is a LINAC

One of my favorite stories about railroads is the first locomotive (http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson's_Rocket), which ended up killing a member of the British parliament on its maiden voyage, going a lean and mean 12 mph

The belief that God does not exist is just as unprovable as the belief that God does exist, so atheists "by definition" also believe in unprovable things.

But surely that just opens the door to believing anything anyone suggests, without a scrap of evidence to back it up. See http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot Bertrand Russell's Teapot.

No DMR? Well that's a relief. It would be better if they kept out the DRM, though.

Sorry, man, I know it seems that way... but your statement is
simply http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
not http://http//www.ubuprojex.net/archives/bugs.html#vinyl
true http://http//slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=401196&cid=21849066 ...

Sorry, man, I know it seems that way... but your statement is
simply http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
not http://http//www.ubuprojex.net/archives/bugs.html#vinyl
true http://http//slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=401196&cid=21849066 ...

Sorry, man, I know it seems that way... but your statement is
simply http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
not http://http//www.ubuprojex.net/archives/bugs.html#vinyl
true http://http//slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=401196&cid=21849066 ...

No easy way for Linux? That's a strange thing to say given than (a) it's the default browser on most modern Linux distros and (b) there is an easy way to install anything to a large set of Linux desktops -- just script it. If you're using RHEL, there's an even easier way, just use the enterprise management tool. For Debian/Ubuntu, you should really have an internal package repository (and automatic updates turned on), so just add the FF package to that and mark it as required.

It seems like point (b) applies to Mac as well, and Apple probably has a remote installation management tool (I'm less familiar with that). For Windows, surely someone has bothered to build an MSI for FF.

You could use this phish script I wrote

Just a guess, but:

"Airline airplanes and other airplanes in the transport category must be capable of an upper load factor of 2.5 g" from http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_force#Examples_of_usage/

so under current FAR rules, a should be able to handle 9.8 (the speed of gravity) times 2.5 m/s squared which is about 24.5 m/s squared.

oh really? http://http//it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/1919256/

Saying all this you may want to contact the University of Texas, Austin Department of Chemical Engineering and tell them to modify its comments in its communication instruction http://http//www.engr.utexas.edu/che/techwriting/morehelp/grammar.cfm. Likewise the University of Iowas Creative Writing program would also disagree with you, but I don't have an elink to my hard copied notes. There's some more US educational institutions I can point you to, but I'm sure they're not as reliable as Wikipedia.

As for the toxicity of plutonium, reports are all over the map depending on whether they're talking about immediate chemical toxicity or long term cancer. The body tends to treat it like lead or other heavy metals, and concentrates it in the liver and bone where its radioactivity can slowly raise your risk for cancer. Noboby wants to inhale more than a microgram or so. As for the naturally ocurring U235 on earth, if it weren't safely buried in the ground, if it were a finely divided aerosol distributed by the wind, life on earth might well be very different.

In summary, radium and carbon14 are not retained by the body like heavy metals, and it's unfair to compare uranium in the ground with a potential cloud of plutonium dust in the air.

If it were shown that careful radiocarbon testing of an item of known age, uniformly contaminated by its surrounding environment, gave one age as a result of repeated testing or testing by several laboratories, then there would be no question regarding the concept of the technique. Let us remember that a jawbone, repeatedly tested, failed to give the same data again and again. What then of a blind test, conducted by several laboratories, of an artifact of known age? This is a crucial experiment!

In fact, the denouement came in 1989, with a blind test, conducted by the British Science and Engineering Research Council (BSERC), at 38 of the world's leading radiocarbon testing laboratories. According to Andy Coghlan, the council commissioned a blind trial that compared the accuracy with which 38 laboratories around the world dated artifacts of known age. An item of known age was divided into 38 parts. One part was sent to each testing laboratory for a full measurement of its age. After careful testing by the 38 laboratories, only seven produced results that the organizers of the trial considered to be satisfactory.(28) At the August, 1990, Symposium of the Canadian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, Gunnar Heinsohn read from a newspaper account of the BSERC meeting, at which this evidence was disclosed. None of the testing laboratories achieved a correct date, even with plus or minus tolerances, and many were off by thousands of years.

Another interesting part ...

Frank C. Hibben also discussed the process of radiocarbon dating. After outlining several problems associated with using this method, he stated that "[e]ven with these drawbacks and pitfalls...archaeologists and laboratory technicians began to hammer out the exact history of the earliest Americans. The dates badly out of line were disregarded."(13) (Emphasis added.) With what were dates badly out of line? They were out of line with the accepted and established chronology of the history of the American continent. As Robert E. Lee informed us above, this is, apparently, quite common. Regarding this same point, Ron Willis stated that "[t]here are anomalous dates in the series [of dates] which do not fit. This is common in the C-14 process. LIKE ANY GOOD ARCHAEOLOGIST, I WILL IGNORE THE DATES THAT DO NOT FIT."(14) (Emphasis added.) Once again, we are informed that dates that do not fit the accepted chronology are ignored. We are told that finding anomalous radiocarbon dates is a common occurrence and that good archaeologists will ignore anomalous dating evidence.

Not everybody agrees that there is validity to these dates ...

"The radiocarbon method is still not capable of yielding accurate and reliable results," wrote R. E. Lee. "There are gross discrepancies, the chronology is uneven and relative, and the accepted dates are actually selected." - R. E. Lee, "Radiocarbon: Ages in Error," ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF CANADA, 19 (1981), p. 27

When the zombies come, you may as well throw all economic-breakdown emergency plans out the window. I mean honestly, are you going to call everyone on your fortune 500 phone-tree, or fetch the side-by-side and ammo-belt? "But, when do the ZOMBIES come?!" http://http//www.5h4d3.com/BC.html

The Tb Webmail extension is very limited, it only does Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos (Europe), MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero and AOL. FreePOPs does a lot more webmail providers, it works with any client (localhost proxy), and if your provider is so exotic that it isn't supported you can write a small extension in LUA.

My mother is a full time baby sitter. She has some kids (ages 7 - 10) who want to use the computer.

To make matters worse, she hates the "damn machines" and doesn't know anything about them.

In comes bsafeonline http://http//bsafehome.com/

This products locks down damn near everything. You can customize almost everything, and its a bitch to bypass. Time restrictions are firm, co-ordinated to the bsafeonline clock, so changing the local time on the machine doesn't do anything.

As a service, if disabled it will force a reboot.

My mom (meaning I set it up) has it set up to e-mail her (my dad) anytime a rule is triggered.

Its a good product and very effective.

You can build a database driven blog site in 15 minutes in rails.

http://http//www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts/

I guess you can say that you'll run into "problems" with rails if people don't know what they're doing. Thats the same for any projects in any language however.

Rails != PHP anyways, Ruby could be compared to PHP but Rails is an entire web platform (server and all!) similar to J2EE. So really your better to compare rails to J2EE or a PHP web platform like errrrrrr.... Joomla?

Even if it didn't happen, I'm sure it could happen. I mean, just look at this website. How can you deny those facts? http://http//www.realultimatepower.net/

Probably not but the link to the Guardian is wrong and you end up on http.com which is a dummy front site, using firefox 2 and linux, using open link in new window (or tab) because Firefox then completes http with .com for its target domain. The link to the Guardian in the article is http://http//politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffair s/story/0,,2160256,00.html

The Commercial license does not allow the incorporation of code developed with the Open Source Edition of Qt into a proprietary product.

Also, there's Brane Cosmology where essentially the universe was created when two Branes collided. You may not have an initial point or center but a vast area where the collision occurred. This area of impact could, potentially, be the entire universe.

Breaking news, jesus was satan.
Lucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, lucis, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star"http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright Morning Star. (Rev 22:16). Is he admitting it?
While divination and magic are a sin, Jesus performs "miracles" seemingly at will. Whats the difference between a Miracle and Magic?
Second Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me
Yet, most christian faiths worship Jesus before God. Jesus is the symbol of their faith, not the "True Creator" or "God." Wouldn't it just be a nice simple trick for the devil, whos primary role is to take souls away from God, to come to earth and trick millions of followers into following a false prophet.

I dunno, just an idea. Think for yourself.

Update or install Google Earth from http://http//earth.google.com/download-earth.html