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Not sure what google adverts the rest of you are seeing on this story but mine are hilarious. http://i.imgur.com/U6jCz.png This is why I don't turn it off (as well as supporting /. ad revenues).

Google Trends --> http://www.google.com/trends?q=openoffice%2C+libreoffice&date=ytd

Screen Cap: Openoffice vs Libreoffice --> http://i.imgur.com/7hY4G.png

I started playing with Blender a couple of weeks ago. Being a software developer, I actually wanted to spend some time improving my skills working with 3D graphics. But what fun is that without some cool models to play with?

I started by downloading Blender 2.4 but couldn't figure out where to start. I was about to give up but the shiny 2.5 beta was calling my name. I thought I'd give it a try.

I went from virtually no 3D design experience to creating my first model over the course of a couple of days of periodic tinkering. It is far from perfect and I have learned a lot more since I created it, but for my first try I am very proud of it and I think it speaks to the ease of the new interface for beginners.

I think this might be relevant.

And then, eventually we will need this

I think this might be relevant.

And then, eventually we will need this

It's a German news program: tagesschau.de
Screenshot.
They got an award for it too:

"The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) have used the occasion of Document Freedom Day 2011 to give an award to German broadcaster ARD's internet platform tagesschau.de for offering broadcast shows in the free Ogg Theora video format. According to the FSFE announcement, the technical manager and vice editorial director will be presented with cakes at separate events in Hamburg and Berlin."

http://i.imgur.com/W5T39.jpg

Windows 97 *was* a thing, just not an official release. Someone leaked an early Windows 98 beta well before it was even named and it included this mockup bootscreen.

So I simulated your hypothetical experiment. I was going to use a 16 toss sequence, but it was going to take MATLAB 22 hours, so I only had it look for a 8 toss sequence.

A coin is tossed 1 million times. Then we count the total number of times each possible 8-toss sequence occurs. Turns out that each pattern shows up about the correct number of times. No pattern even comes close to showing up 1.1x more than expected. Let alone, 100x.

See here: http://i.imgur.com/5F391.png

Pattern number is just dec2bin, i.e., #0 -> TTTTTTTT and #10 -> TTTTHTHT, etc.

why not buy the DVDs?

That's why.

One second, i'll check to see if cats and dogs are living together...

Oh shit.

Here's a handy chart to aid in identification.

Nah, backups blow.

This is bascially it. When Steve Jobs, said flummoxed, he really mean totally splatted.

Now Honeycomb's source is gone, people who bought earlier tablets will be stuck on Froyo and earlier, meaning that people will stick to writing apps for older versions, just like how Windows XP is still going strong.

I thought this is just right the site designer intended http://i.imgur.com/NfvOG.png (with noscript).

"For those of you who believe that there is, prove it - with yourself."

Done and done. From felon to research director and responsible for the food production capabilities of smaller countries.

Just because you do not have the motivation to do it, it does not mean that other people lack the drive.

Here's me hard at work in the UK research facility. We've got another in Australia and possibly one will be built here in California for my personal use.

"citation needed" ... I bet you feel a sense of gleeful smug condescension every time you use that one.

http://i.imgur.com/bEGYy.jpg

The company called "AT&T" is not, was not, and has only a tenuous relationship with the entity "Ma Bell," American Telephone a Telegraph. The company called AT&T is actually the old SBC, Southwestern Bell Communications, one of the RBOCs, that took over AT&Ts name and trademarks after buying the AT&T Corporation in 2005.

Yeah. tenuous relationship indeed. The old SBC was made up of several mergers from companies that split up from the old Ma Bell. The new AT&T is working it's way back up to becoming the old AT&T, and they're already reasonably close.

so, that's how he came to be..

http://i.imgur.com/3oboX.jpg

What numbers have you looked at?

This guys analysis suggests that you would have received the equivalent of at least 10 CT scans just by being at the front gate since the beginning of this incident:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/g6h3l/real_data_from_the_fukushima_daiichi_power_plant/

(Be sure to pick up the updated graph, the error is explained in a comment: http://i.imgur.com/kSXLy.png )

I don't have the knowledge to critique what he has done, but he is using the numbers published by the power company and it at least has the appearance of being reasonable.

A lot of that exposure is from the various steam ventings and fires and has been mostly local to the plant, so the only real concern is if things do not continue to move towards stability.

http://i.imgur.com/mZYW5.jpg from http://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho

Thank you, Photoshop! http://i.imgur.com/5BH5T.jpg (The image above from Seumas multiplied by 75)

http://i.imgur.com/JjuFs.png

This is where old Ma Bell ended up.

Colbert is going to have to update his take on AT&T

Hmm, the reason it looks relatively dull is because it was taken in early to mid-March, when the Sun would be only around 35 degrees in altitude (at noon). The same shot in mid-summer (when the sun reaches the high 50s in altitude over Ireland) would look much more vivid.

I've not been to Ireland, but here's a picture taken at 13:08 on 24th February in London (29* solar noon altitude, here). The colours are reasonably accurate (I think that's taken with the camera's default setting). When you get a bright, clear day here it's surprising how vivid everything looks.

a girl who hangs out on 4chan and watches anime is not capable of seducing anybody.

Really? Meet Allison Harvard

Granted, she's better known as creepy-chan (and she's a wee bit less seductive in that persona, but that doesn't negate the other image. It just makes the morning after a lot scarier.

....the photos have been republished in several places, which the Piggipedia author, @3arabawy, has seen fit to broadcast on his Twitter feed. The URLs for these are as follows:

http://anonymiss.imgur.com/
http://ge.tt/4LaxiU0
http://cryptome.org/info/eg-ss/eg-ss-01.htm

The dude behind this is one of the main voiced of the Egyptian revolution. History will not look kindly upon Flickr for their cowardice here.

http://i.imgur.com/uZbK6.jpg I'm sort of worried about the sensibilities of Americans. [The image is collection of Pearl Harbor references collected from Facebook for people worried about the link]

Jesus man you fucked yourself there. I suppose in the long run you could have called it anti-swordfish, and then soaked up all the kudos for making something that would thwart the potential of a swordfish attack. Your power point slide show would start off:

WHEN SWORDFISH ATTACK

http://i.imgur.com/wQARO.jpg

ANTI-SWORDFISH!

Answering my own question ---- wow - it's awesome how the pattern of the Tsunami wave is almost exactly like the radiation patterns of an antenna shaped about the same shape as the fault:

http://i.imgur.com/Unyfz.jpg

Wow math is cool!

Unthinkable (with Samuel L Jackson and Carrie-Ann Moss).

The bomb guy disarms the bomb with a Mac running EXCEL, randomly pressing keys in different cells.

http://i.imgur.com/8SMhl.png

It appears that one way to improve your chance of survival in a tsunami is to not have a white car.
http://i.imgur.com/ddHiq.jpg

Nah, it's just that lighter cars float so you can see more of them. The dark ones sink.
Elementary psychics.

It appears that one way to improve your chance of survival in a tsunami is to not have a white car.
http://i.imgur.com/ddHiq.jpg

Mostly tsunami damage http://imgur.com/a/b29Uu

I've never been comfortable with the idea that paper can somehow beat rock: http://www.cslacker.com/images/funny/signs/billboards/paper_vs_rock/. Also, there are strategies for winning the game consistently: http://i.imgur.com/F2r3V.jpg.

And Apple's even got their coalition of the willing. Take BoingBoing for example. They massively reported about the iPad 2 update. There were a lot of comments questioning this coverage. They got all removed and BB even closed the comments after cleaning.

One of the articles:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/02/ipad-2-hands-on-demo-3.html

Screenshot of some deleted comments:
http://i.imgur.com/QI3ZN.png

Some articles later they criticized Slashdot for censorship.

What is wrong with these people?

Prolonged radiation exposure.

Reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this_mean_the_fbi_is_after_us/

Images of device:
http://imgur.com/OM6nE.jpg
http://imgur.com/sspLU.jpg
http://imgur.com/f4V2T.jpg
http://imgur.com/srhrK.jpg

Reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this_mean_the_fbi_is_after_us/

Images of device:
http://imgur.com/OM6nE.jpg
http://imgur.com/sspLU.jpg
http://imgur.com/f4V2T.jpg
http://imgur.com/srhrK.jpg

Reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this_mean_the_fbi_is_after_us/

Images of device:
http://imgur.com/OM6nE.jpg
http://imgur.com/sspLU.jpg
http://imgur.com/f4V2T.jpg
http://imgur.com/srhrK.jpg

Reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this_mean_the_fbi_is_after_us/

Images of device:
http://imgur.com/OM6nE.jpg
http://imgur.com/sspLU.jpg
http://imgur.com/f4V2T.jpg
http://imgur.com/srhrK.jpg

I think you mean this.
http://i.imgur.com/czMlc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/n3qzC.jpg

(Often seen with a quick photoshop that changes "blink" to "brink".)

I think you mean this.
http://i.imgur.com/czMlc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/n3qzC.jpg

(Often seen with a quick photoshop that changes "blink" to "brink".)

Ok, serious question here; has the intelligence level of Slashdot dropped sharply since last I came around? You're right though, the Boxee tagging system is completely foolproof.

I installed both XBMC and Boxee on the same exact HTPC. Boxee (as early as the Alpha version) worked within 1 minute after going to settings and pointing it at my data folder the software started scraping. As for your example, I had that happen to me once with a video. Not a big deal compared to the thousands of other videos Boxee properly identified. BTW your error in Boxee scrapping was not in the suggested format of title.year so perhaps that was the problem with the identification or it wasn't the latest Boxee release?

Could I have eventually figured out how to get XBMC to work? Sure. Are there still a few quirks with Boxee? Yes! But why would I want to spend time figuring out XBMC obscure organization and interface (IMHO) as opposed to watching videos? Perhaps you want to waste time on this sort of stuff or maybe out of the box XBMC just worked for you. For me I just want to watch a video on my HTPC and not futz with a computer.

Lastly, there is really no need to insult someone who doesn't agree with you. I am just giving you my experience using XBMC. If you work on XBMC perhaps you should listen to a users real world experience rather than play blame the user.

Ok, serious question here; has the intelligence level of Slashdot dropped sharply since last I came around?

You're right though, the Boxee tagging system is completely foolproof.

Not looked very hard, have you?

Point it out to me, please.

On the right

Paypal is overextending themselves here. Charities could give them one account that is usually empty, and move funds from it to another account so that even if Paypal could remove funds they wouldn't be able to do so. Therefore Paypal has no recourse here and this is further evidence that they are attempting to be corrupt. They have no right to stipulate how some company does business.

Further evidence of them being shady is that after I have spoken against them, one of their developers ceased his Slashdot relationship with me.

"This is no good. In my experience you do get the right amount of light output with LEDs, HOWEVER the light does not scatter, the LED replacements act like damn spotlights, and and the result is you burn essentially a bright hole in one spot of the floor, while the rest of the room remains dark."

Have a look inside my light partner's house.

Yes, they're dimmable. 7w in the ceiling, 5w on the wall.

Yes, they can be used in recessed air-restricted fixtures.

In fact, we've got recessed swivel flood fixtures to boot.

Anything you can think of that was bad with LED, has been pretty much eliminated.

Induction lighting is my next light to improve. I've already perfected LED grow lighting.

"This is no good. In my experience you do get the right amount of light output with LEDs, HOWEVER the light does not scatter, the LED replacements act like damn spotlights, and and the result is you burn essentially a bright hole in one spot of the floor, while the rest of the room remains dark."

Have a look inside my light partner's house.

Yes, they're dimmable. 7w in the ceiling, 5w on the wall.

Yes, they can be used in recessed air-restricted fixtures.

In fact, we've got recessed swivel flood fixtures to boot.

Anything you can think of that was bad with LED, has been pretty much eliminated.

Induction lighting is my next light to improve. I've already perfected LED grow lighting.

I dunno, who should I trust here? http://i.imgur.com/Pey3f.jpg