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Uh, no , no he didnt.

http://www.presidentelect.org/e1992.html

Sounds like they got eyes bigger then their belly.


Somebody tell 'em it's not made of cheese.
http://http//www.wfp.org/appeals/flashappeals/2003 /schoolfeeding/19c.html/

Normally when I see US sattelite photos with labels and little arrows to things you can't really make out I get this terrible sinking feeling that I am being mislead. I'm just suprised this one doesnt come with little labels saying "iraqi scud launcher", "scud launcher tracks" and so forth.

Maybe I watched Capricorn One too many times but I'm inclined to wonder if this image is of mars or just of the nevada desert or some such :-)

This is the exact dpreview link where you can start learning about photography and know the terms in simple english http://http//www.dpreview.com/learn/?/glossary/ Additionally http://www.shortcourses.com/ is also a very good resource where i learned the techniques

http://http//www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/txt/ptb0504. html/ The US imports ~20% from persian gulf nations.

at eprovisia.coredump.cx.

This site is a joke, and no more represents an actual business than that other famous site with a .cx domain.

...and the other half are claiming that we're being hypocritical.

Actually, there is always humor in a (hated) champion outfoxed with his own techniques, but that's beside the point.

Patents have been used by the software industry to muscle out competition or to try and inflate profits by hobbling competition. The only way things are going to change is if the "big boys" are slapped hard by the rules they've created. Though the chance is slim, industry-led changes to laws (patent and DMCA-style) may open the door to real investigation into the impact of these laws. I'm not saying it's going to happen, I'm saying that the only way it will happen is if the first move is made by those with money & power.

Oh, and if you haven't sent a five-spot to Congressman Rick Boucher http://http//www.house.gov/boucher/welcome.htm/, you might want to consider it. He's one of the few outspoken opponents of the DMCA (and PATRIOT, too, for you libertarians) and is doing something about it. HOWEVER, he's being challenged by a Republican carpetbagger with lots of GOP cash backing this fall.

Read what they are saying:

The Service-Oriented Model

Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me.

Well, my nephew got killed and wrote in his letters that this war was started by a morally bankrupt government that lied to its own people to further the tunnel vision that a small elite had been putting forth all the way back to 1996.

Keywords for you here: The Project for the New American Century.

If you want to hear the real signed letters and stories of the families and soldiers who are in Iraq right now, go here:

http://http//www.mfso.org/

It's easy. Back in 1980 you'd get a little for a lot, now you get a lot for the same amount. Imagine the system you could put together today for $8500. Prices haven't come down but what you are getting for your money has gone way, way, up. Therefore, computers are cheaper than they were.

Book of Vile Darkness
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx200 21206ex
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/200301 17a
http://http//www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=product s/dndacc/881610000

Yes.

http://http//www.crackbaby.com/article.php?sid=100 93

Not tried it myself yet, but it replaces all calls to IE with calls to the browser of your choice.

you're right: born from a star

It's a bloody rock, is what that is.

If you want to call that an asteroid, then this is also an asteroid? This was a meteor that passed right through Earth's atmosphere in 1976, with a perehelion of 58,000 metres.

Although, I think the point here is that this is the closest observed astronomically. It's like seeing the meteor before it hits the atmosphere, I guess. Anyway, the astronomers are all in a tizzy over it, so that must be a good thing.

I think you're confusing two things here...

OLEDs are a replacement for, say, LCD, CRT, Plasma and LED displays.

HDR, on the other hand, is not a replacement for any of those - it is a concept (that of a very high range, with implied (though not specified) fidelity equal to or greater than currently used) that can be used -with- all of the above.

If you can get a CRT to display at stupendously bright levels, it could qualify for a HDR display - assuming it would still keep the same or better fidelity than a 'regular' CRT next to it in the same black-to-white range.

The actual technology used by this HDR display is that of two LCDs.. One for regular display, and another low-resolution one backlit by bright white LEDs.
And OLEDs could be a replacement for that setup, yes - but not for the concept of HDR itself ;)

For more on HDR :
http://www.debevec.org/
http://http://www.trinisica.com/sub_learn_typediss ue.asp?lv=3&mode=1&issue=002

And HDR and fidelity :
http://www.pointzero.nl/sf/reffect_scale/ ( see the chart in section 2 )
http://p067.ezboard.com/fhdrshopfrm1.showMessage?t opicID=232.topic ( beware of pop-up )

Doesn't suck a bag of cocks by default, ban can be extended to...

Novell already had a groupware, collaboration, and messaging application, before they bought SuSE: Groupwise (http://http//www.novell.com/products/groupwise/). Maybe they just concluded they don't need to compete with themselves.

I've been working on a similar idea for news, and as far as I can tell fair use completely applies to this specific idea of yours - education and the arts, unbiased, not for profit.

There are already some sites out there doing something similar like the Media Awareness Project [mapinc.org] which collects and archives research on drug policy. From what I can tell, they only get sued when they get too big, present content with a bias, or try to profit.

I find it hard to believe my little project is the only one out there. We're working on web/p2p jointly, but there are bound to be others, and they'll all probably be open source. So once one good once comes out, we'll see lots of applications of this within research and academic communities.

``Using a broadcast radio station as the hold music on a phone system actually requires a copyright license from the station from which the artists/publishers should be seeking their payment.``

I don't know where you got this information, but it's completely inaccurate. In the USA, if you play music in your public space, be it a dentist office, mall, etc, you have to pay BMI and ASCAP, the US equivalents of SOCAN. This has been the case for many decades.

Perhaps your thinking of the subscription commercial music services like DMX or Muzak who provide music and bundle the licensing fees to the retailers- but radio stations are not licensed to resell music for playback in stores or on hold!

(The RIAA has nothing to do with this. BMI and ASCAP represent the performance copyright, where the RIAA represents the sound recording copyright.)

Sorry to sound so crass but /. has a terrible way of amplifying misinformation, and it has to be nipped in the bud.

Much more to the point, if you'd read the latest weekly newsletter, you'd have seen that 2004.2 was due on July 26th. Look for the small heading labeled "Releng".

About layout scaling: The reason your pages do not scale with font size is probably that you are still thinking in the "old" table way of layout and giving things pixel sizes. Using ems, instead of pixels, as this article from A List Apart (a great website for web designers, and probably the best place to learn how to properly put new standards, like XHTML and CSS, into place without sacrificing flexibility) explains, has a benefit:

...you can use ems to define the dimensions of your entire layout, which will then scale in proportion to the text.

This makes it much easier to lay out pages. Take a look at my blog, where I use this technique.

Oh yeah, when you say "So much for accessibility!", you are slightly missing the point. The point of accessibility is that your content be accessible (not necessarily pretty) without problems. Tables used for layout, for example, present a problem, because screen readers do not know whether to ignore them and just follow the page in order or whether to treat them as an actual listing of information and denote the rows and columns. Look at my blog, change the font. Nothing breaks.

About overlapping text: Have you seen this or many of the other articles explaining how to use margins and floats to keep stuff from running over it. And the way to tell the browser not to run over stuff is this: if you have a sidebar, say "float: left;" (or right) in the CSS style for it. Then it will stay on the left, and the other stuff after it will wrap around it.

If you want to see an example of a page where a sidebar (on the right in this case) floats without covering up the content, visit my blog. If you email me I will give you a copy of the template, which is beautiful--it is absolutely, completely separate content and formatting.

About "will this revision be more precise about display?": No. XHTML does not specify how text is displayed. HTML is the Hyper-Text Markup Language--it is used for 'marking up' (not 'laying out' or 'beautifying') 'hyper-text' (not graphics). The point of HTML, from which it strayed and, with XHTML, is returning to, is to show the structure of text. The <p></p> tag only means "the text inside this element is a paragraph". It does not mean "the text inside this element should be displayed as a wrapped, block-level element with a margin above and below." It simply suggests to the user agent or renderer that the enclosed text should be considered, semantically, a paragraph.

Don't worry--with time, the "ripping apart" of pages into content and formatting becomes natural. The best way, in my opinion, and the one that produces the results most true to the separation of content and formatting, albeit being a bit of a challenge, is to do this: write your entire page using only XHTML--no CSS. What you will end up with is a 1990's-esque HTML page with no formatting. Create all your pages, using common classes of divs and spans everywhere. Then, create a CSS stylesheet that converts this purely semantic set of pages into a beautiful layout. The best tools for this are Firefox (although you should test in IE if you care about idiots) with the EditCSS sidebar. With these, you can load your bare-bones page and edit a stylesheet in real time, watching how styles affect the page. If you are uploading to a remote server as you develop (rather than running Apache somewhere on your LAN) it is much faster to just edit a stylesheet with this.

Just my two cents. (Actually more like a

This is a "time value of money" (TVM) calculation.

Example - how much would I have to pay you right now to get you to pay me $1 every day for the next year? In total, you would be paying me $365 - but spread out over a year. So to make up for the benefit of being able to spread it out over so long a period, I would expect to pay you something less than $365, right?

Now think about it in terms of the MMORGP. How much would I have to pay you to get you to pay me $50 right now and $15 a month for a year? How about for two years? Ten Years?

Now think about calculating it for a perpetuity (something that goes on forever). As the number of years increase, the increase in the amount I would have to pay you decreases to almost nothing. You can see how this looks on a chart, similar to an exponent chart approaching but never reaching a line. More info on TVM here.

Spam is a global problem and the ITU is one of the few (arguably the only) international organisations with the ability to bring the various players together and focus their attention on the issues. The meetings webpage is here and, if you have the time/desire, you can listen to the meeting online.

I don't think anyone saw it, and it's offtopic as all get out, but it bugs me. I need to hear from other users:

http://http//www.ebay.com

That's a typo I made earlier today. It's not a trick link. View the source if you want. It redirects to microsoft. Seems incredibly slimy and underhanded too. Just curious if anyone else was aware of this. It's not IE specific. It happened to me in Firebird on a Mac.

Just something I found earlier today that just happens to follow this theme:

http://http//www.ebay.com

In firefox, that takes me to http://www.microsoft.com

WTF? This was just a typo as I got in a hurry trying to visit Ebay.

You wrote Book Collector? It's a pretty cool app.

Here's a Screenshot of Mac-On-Linux which allows users of PPC enabled Linux Distros Yellow Dog Linux to run Mac OS on their computers. This ss shows a PPC Linux user with Mac OS open and Virtual PC running on it, and DOS running on Windows. Just add a few emus and you're all set.

New double decker busses have been ordered for use in Las Vegas. Double Decker busses provide more seats (than the articulated busses) and take up less road space.

Strangely they are importing them from the UK rather than getting US versions.

South Nevada Public Transport

I'm not sure if it's still possible, but the year after I graduated from high school, I started lecturing (an A+ course) at a computer school (about a week after getting my A+). I basically haven't stopped working since then, and even completed a college degree part-time (started three years after I left high school).

You say you're interested in Cisco products, an excellent thing to do while you're still on the hunt for a job would be to get a couple of Cisco certs. I did a couple while I was working, although not the "top" Cisco certification, the CCIE... but if you are interested in Cisco products or networking in general, Cisco certs could be very valuable to you.

I'm not sure how much the market has changed since the late 90s, but it might still be worth it trying to find per-hour work as an instructor in a cert that you have completed...

Still, the parent poster's advice is excellent and makes a lot of sense. There are several routes, but the most important thing is just to rack up as much valuable experience and qualifications as you can.

The only restrictive part of the GPL is that GPLd works can only be used as parts of a GPL project. Proprietary projects cannot contain GPL works unless the proprietary project uses the GPL.

What's so bad about that? Do you really want some proprietary company stealing your open code, compiling it, and then suing you for breaking numerous laws when you decompile it to prove that they stole it?

GNU GPL

If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

Quit whining about the GPL.

LTFEL -- that's Learn the Fscking English Language

Here's a link to help you out

Incase you don't click the link:

[Copperud:] (3) No such condition is expressed or implied. The right to keep and bear arms is not said by the amendment to depend on the existence of a militia. No condition is stated or implied as to the relation of the right to keep and bear arms and to the necessity of a well-regulated militia as requisite to the security of a free state. The right to keep and bear arms is deemed unconditional by the entire sentence.

[Copperud:] To the best of my knowledge, there has been no change in the meaning of words or in usage that would affect the meaning of the amendment. If it were written today, it might be put: "Since a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged."

Copperud:] The words "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state," contrary to the interpretation cited in your letter of July 26, 1991, constitute a present participle, rather than a clause. It is used as an adjective, modifying "militia," which is followed by the main clause of the sentence (subject "the right," verb "shall"). The right to keep and bear arms is asserted as essential for maintaining a militia.


Also note please, that the right is asserted as "the right of the people to bear arms". Had the founding fathers (all very bright men, who chose the wording of the constitution very deleiberately) have wanted the right to be restricted to the millitia, then the right would have been declared as "the right of the millitia to bear arms"

Surely someone else remembers the time when software which included an editor often came with the option to use "Wordstar keys" -- a lot of Borland stuff, for instance?

My personal favourite was WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, but I wouldn't use it now -- it's nvi for me.

Deep Impact was also marketed far less than Armageddon was. And as for your one person subjective opinion that Deep Impact was an "OK movie, but lacked some parts", tens of thousands of people actually thought it was better than Armageddon.

If the Xbox 2 is a better product, coming out early will be just fine. MS can take a profit hit on the Xbox 2 or market the pants off of Sony if they really wanted to win this one.

This actually is called an internet keyword....very annoying if you use a hosts file, or similar for hosts in your network (devel goes to an RFC on encrypted communications). Any browser that supports internet keywords will take you to microsoft.com for the host http

Because we want to poke the PocketPC fans a bit more and have them use things like Linux Handhelds, OpenZaurus (and their successor OpenEmbedded instead of that freakin OS with mostly costly apps that few people use. Basically, that's what drove me away from Palm....

Now having DotGNU ported to OpenZaurus/OpenEmbedded would be very purty and with OpenEmbedded, it might even work with Linuxed iPaqs one day.

Samba is included, as is the new CIFs driver which replaces smbfs. What isn't included is the NTFS read-only driver module, which you can download as a binary RPM from linux-ntfs. As for the other stuff, I like to use the fedora.us + livna.org* repositories. There is also freshrpms, ATrpms, Dag Wieers, and Planet CCRMA. There are others, and be warned that Dag Wieers and Axel Thim (atrpms) are in a pissing match over Dag obsoleting at least one of Axel's packages for naming it "wrong". (look at the April acrhives of the freshrpms mailing list with some fresh popcorn).

* - The livna.org front page still says they are down and lists the mirror. The rpm.livna.org repo is actually back up, they just never bothered to update the main page to say so.

Ahhhhhhh, i get it.....youre talking about scientology! All hail Xenu the intergalactic soul collector - just see Operation Clambake

I wonder how long it will take the scientology monkeys to order slashdot to delete this post.

I hope you are right about the Iraqi mind-set. I just don't see much evidence for it. The Iraqi blogs that I can read are in English and the authors fairly westernized. Of course the handful blogs are not representative but it is reasonable to assume that they are more US friendly then your average Iraqi. That is why it doesn't bode well that you've lost them. . Riverbend ] for instance wrote in the past of her fear of a civil war. That was one of her rationales for keeping US troops in her country. The photos changed all this. In her last entry she wrote:

I sometimes get emails asking me to propose solutions or make suggestions. Fine. Today's lesson: don't rape, don't torture, don't kill and get out while you can- while it still looks like you have a choice... Chaos? Civil war? Bloodshed? We'll take our chances- just take your Puppets, your tanks, your smart weapons, your dumb politicians, your lies, your empty promises, your rapists, your sadistic torturers and go.

I also hope that you are right that only some few bad apples conducted torture. But that does not seem to be what Iraqis believe. Unfortunately the USA didn't have much credibility in Arab eyes to begin with - now they are of course inclined to believe the worst. It doesn't help that there are some really worrisome reports that these kind of maltreatments might be indeed much more systemic. From Seymor Hersh's article who originaly broke this news:

In his report, Taguba strongly suggested that there was a link between the interrogation process in Afghanistan and the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

Given the devastating public relation record (remember 57% of all Iraqis already wanted the US to leave immediately before the Fallujah battles and the torture scandal) the Washington Post reports that senior officer of the US military seem to share my opinion that there is nothing left to gain for your country in this war.

At this point I think fairness demands that Bush is reelected. No other president deserves to have to cope with such an ugly legacy that won't bring any good.

That is all well and good, but often I think to myself:

this is my second and last Athlon*.

*until they sort out the heat issues.

If I run it, set at 1.66/1.7 in the bios it always overheats, reaching a temperature above 80 degreesC.

I haven't overclocked it, and its running on a ASUS A7V266-E, cooled with a Coolermaster HHC-001

.. and yes; the cabinet is open ATM.

Any suggestions as to fixing my problem? I'm tired of it running warm and the noise of all my fans.



[ Asus probe sometimes points out that the +12V is about 13V - could that be causing the problem, and if so, any suggestions on what could be causing it? ]

In a classic case of big business making laws, the timber and cotton industries put hemp out of business through taxation and a public scare campaign which included Reefer Madness in 1937.

They don't care *now*. They certainly *will* care in a few years when their new computer won't talk to their portable or their new portable won't play the music files on their computer.

Note that they already do care of this in Japan, where the public expresses a real demand for more and more multimedia/computing features in high tech portable devices. All of this concentrating essentially on phones, simply because they are an essential (at least perceived so...) tool to communicate. I bet that we'll see hard drives or multi gigabyte flash memories in phones coming from Japan and nowhere else in a quite short span of time.

Japan is definitely a dream country for geeks.
There is real innovation there... not just marketing plots aimed at people prompt at paying too much for something they don't really need ;)

Ok the iPod competitor sucks, but come on, how much time do you spend using the interface of those devices ? 1% 1 per 1000 ? is it really worth paying so much when open source firmware exists with a much better GUI exist for those competitors (Archos notably with Rockbox)

If there are so few competitors matching Apple in western countries, I guess it's certainly because of the lack of exigence from consumers there. Japan consumers seem to reward innovation much more than we do and thus their high tech market is much less subject to marketing plots such as Apple's.

Have you also gotten an antrhrax vaccination? I'm certain you're _unsure_ that you'll be exposed to anthrax and it is _not good_ for you to be infected with it. I assume the computer you posted that insightful message with is made of 100% post-consumer recycled products and is powered by a clean renewable energy source. "Problems of potentially global magnitude?" Look up the definition of potentially in the dictionary. Every problem is of "potentially global magnitude"! How about if we focus our limited resources on problems that have been proven to be problems of global magnitude.

Have you also gotten an antrhrax vaccination? I'm certain you're _unsure_ that you'll be exposed to anthrax and it is _not good_ for you to be infected with it. I assume the computer you posted that insightful message with is made of 100% post-consumer recycled products and is powered by a clean renewable energy source. "Problems of potentially global magnitude?" Look up the definition of potentially in the dictionary. Every problem is of "potentially global magnitude"! How about if we focus our limited resources on problems that have been proven to be problems of global magnitude.

This paper explores the communications gap that exists between business clients and developers using Unified Modelling Language(UML) modelling tools to gather software requirements. A methodology for measuring how client expectations form after studying UML models is developed. The methodology provides a formalized measure to show that information loss occurs during the interpretation process. We find that users place a high emphasis on interaction process with software rather than functionality and overall design process traditionally emphasized by developers. This contrasts with developers who feel that UML is the ultimate communication tool to hand down requirements to clients . We conclude that more work is required in the area of client developer communications using UML tools, and that the UML as a communication tool is not as effective as portrayed by the software industry.

HTML Version : here Comments and feedback appreciated.

and put an R in the governors seat for the -> first time since the civil war -,

If memory serves, there was this governor by the name of Reagan. I seem to recall that he was a Republican. IHBT?

There is a way to get trailers online, plus they're direct downloads, not streamed.

GNU Arch can already do this.

I don't see how that can be. Was democracy even present at that time? My impression was that there was no such as democracy at that time.

Socrates lived during the collapse of Athenian democracy after the Peloponnesian War. His student and lover Alcibiades played a major role in that defeat, and another one of his students Critias lead the oligarchy that ruled Athens during the Spartan occupation. Plato actually lived to see the end of democracy.

Check out the Wikipedia Article on the subject.

Perhaps you should read some of these books as you clearly are gravely mistaken about what Plato wrote about.

You can resist and live life the way YOU want it to be.

That is the naivete of youth. You can never live life the way you want, that is my point. If your parents did not raise you to speak or learn to eat the proper foods, you would have died before you could formulate this thought. The State is merely an extension of your immediate family.

A human can NEVER live the way "he wants", his choices and paths are always predetermined by those who preceeded him.

Conformists copy the rest; but I don't!

You clearly copy the manner of speaking of others. Why don't you create your own language? You can speak that to yourself.

Your meaning in life seems to be outside your reach...

When you read Plato's Republic I will accept your criticisms, but you are at a stage in life where your understanding of the meaning of life is very limited. Why ignore the brilliant people who have come before you? You are truly ignorning thousands of years of wisdom. Use your youthful energy to read these books, and don't waste your time trying to reinvent the wheel. You aren't smart enough. I am not smart enough.