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I've still got his voice on my answering machine! It'll be great to see him back on TV.

The other speaker at the event was Dr. Jill Tarter, Director of Research at SETI. Jodie Foster's Character in the movie, Contact, was based on Dr. Tarter. She was also a great speaker and cool to work with.

I think that if anything, this would boost sales of Apple's .Mac Service which includes a copy Virex.

Agreed. If he made a sleek, sexy headpiece where the iPod shuffle was mounted to a small headset, I'd be in love. (I mean, if I liked it, and owned an iPod shuffle, I guess I'd be in love, to the extent that a man can love a machine that does not know the difference between Circle Jerks and Backstreet Boys.)

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I'm curious about this question:
Am I the only person who always strips wires with my teeth?

No, Mr. Younkin, I can assure you that you are not.

On a side note, your answering machine was full, so we could not leave a reminder. Your next dental checkup is Wednesday at 10:30 A.M.

Add No shot of ever getting laid to the list

Sorry about that formatting error, I don't know where that space came from.
http://homepage.mac.com/puder/.Movies/Batman_Net.m ov
It adds the space to this post as well, but this time I remembered to use the URL tag, so you can use the link.

So what can we infer from you being 5 degrees of separation away from Taco in the Kevin Bacon game?

If you want great gas mileage, diesels are unbeaten. Driving normally, [British motoring journalist] Jeremy Clarkson got 75mpg out of a Volkswagen Lupo diesel.

Diesel has a significantly higher energy density than petrol. So it's a mistake to compare the "mileage" in "miles per gallon" between petrol-hybrid and diesel. They're different fuels. You might as well compare vodka to rocket fuel.

The Lupo is also a tiny compact. Hybrids like the Prius are decent sized family cars. Once again, you can't compare "miles per gallon" when the physical mass is completely different.

Yet despite the Prius being larger, heavier, and using a less dense fuel, it still gets 50mpg for normal driving and the record is 85mpg. That beats the Lupo's once-off record of 75mpg.

And you say diesel is unbeaten? I think you're wrong.

It is not quite like that either. The rumour sites are not sued initially, they are subpeonaed in a lawsuit against John Doe who have leaked info to the rumour sites. Apple don't care that much about rumour sites, when they stick to rumours. when they publish trade secrets that are a violation of an NDA, things change. Have a look at the court documents here.

As for the free speech issue, it doesn't come into play in this case since there has been committed a crime against the uniform trade secrets act.

But can't journalists protect their sources even if a crime has been committed, to reveal the greater truth? Why, yes. Yes they can. But as the judge has ruled (And he is smart. He doesn't even bother with the "are bloggers journalists" issue), when the news have no actual news value to the public the journalistic shield doesn't apply. And as he said, not everything the public is interrested in is of public interest. Furthermore, ThinkSecret has made a trade with the leaker, thereby violating the UTSA.

This is a bad, bad, bad case for the EFF to get involved in. Even though I don't like Microsoft, I would have the exact same opinion if they were in Apples spot. If ThinkSecret wins, NDAs are worthless, trust and honor are out the window for an employer and new draconian security measures have to be set in place. After all, you can just dump the NDA and leak everything to a journalist and it's OK, right?

Remember, this isn't about a toxic spill, insider trading, employee abuse. Apple has done nothing (at least in this case, there are probably valid EFF cases against Apple) that should be revealed under journalist shield acts.

Now, I work as a journalist myself and I would never, ever, publishe these news in my paper. Why? because in my opinion: they have no news value, they could do damage to the company without doing any greater good, they were illegally obtained and there will be hell to pay. However, if the news was that and this is jut an example) Jobs routinely beats his employees to make them work faster, THAT would be news worth breaking NDAs and risking it for.

Well, there is a fan here. And it runs very quiet. So, almost fanless.

I don't see the grammar foul here. If I had ten cents in my pocket, could I be "almost penniless"? If I spent too much time on slashdot analyzing grammar and my wife started packing her bags, could I be "almost spouseless"?

The mini has a single fan and it is very quiet. Happy now? :)

They can all, I think, be seen in this cluttered shot.

blakespot

They can all, I think, be seen in this cluttered shot.

blakespot

Stacie Rosenzweig's take on The Vast Dairy State Conspiracy

Journal-Sentinal

This guy, too.

I've written on these guys before, but let me do so again in a more straightforward manner:

Buy everything you see here. I assure that you will NOT be disappointed.

Days of Wonder is a great company who takes brilliant designs the world over and shares them with a geek-like audience. Me and my wife love Mystery of the Abbey. Think of it like a really interesting, deep version of Clue. No candlesticks, no ridiculous characters, and it actually has -strategy- incorporated, and everyone who has played it loves it immediately.

And no, I'm not even getting paid to say that (though of course, it would be nice).

You can also read some (tabletop) gaming blogs:

- BoardGamePlayer.com
- BoardGames-To-Go
- Chris Farrell's Gaming Blog
- Jeffro @ Mindsay

Lastly, I'd like to say that me and my wife's favorite non-boardgame is Bang!, an easy-to-learn great mechanic-filled game that anyone over the age of 7 will adore.

Oh, and of course, get all the recommendations you can handle over at the always fantastic BoardGameGeek.com.

Have fun!

Evan
CCGBlog.com - CCG Design, Theory, and Commentary

those photos look like they were taken by a retard. for christ's sake, most of them are out of focus and blurry and the ones that aren't, are just plain awful shots. although, i'd fuck this butter-hog.

Who is this?

Do you think she would enjoy a tremendously thick and long black cock in her mouth?

I think she would.

My second choice would be this hot vixen - instant hard-on.

Who is this?

Do you think she would enjoy a tremendously thick and long black cock in her mouth?

I think she would.

My second choice would be this hot vixen - instant hard-on.

I've written a utility that allows you to resize OS X windows from any corner (really, from any quadrant of the window). It also allows you to use the window's entire structure as a draggable region.It's all configurable and whatnot, and it's free (though still in beta).

It's called WindowDragon, and you can get it here: http://homepage.mac.com/tconkling/windowdragon

Unless pictures are rather literal, I often don't attach meaning to them instantaneously (or at all). Most icons are other platforms seem like hieroglyphics to me, and ultimately all look like the same indistinct blotches. The result are the time-wasting games of charades and icon-scraping.

There's a large chunk of the vocal PC userbase who use the thing as glorified nintendo- it's really (imo) the ONLY area where the PC has any kind of advantage over the Mac.

The Mac mini is just the right size to fit a GameCube on top of it. The only thing keeping Macs from having a lot of games running "on" it :) is that very few consumer 17" monitors can display both Mac mini's 768p DVI/VGA output and the GameCube's 480i S-video output (the component cable is nearly unavailable, and newer Cubes don't even have the jack for it).

This is the best reason to have an iPodPhoto:

http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/

you said "what we need is more competition". How do you think this is going to happen?

Here's the problem: our country's broadband infrastructure is owned and operated by a couple of corporations who own all the pipes to people's homes. I don't have a problem with corporations building out infrastructure and seeking to make a very lucrative buck off of it. This is what they do. This is free enterprise. Free enterprise is a good thing. Making money is a good thing. However, and understandably enough, local governments just handed them out permits to dig in our streets to lay their pipes without any attempt to negotiate a future "pipe-sharing" plan with supporting infrastructure for competing businesses to offer content/services/data over those pipes, after they'd recouped their costs and made profits to the tune of $X amount, or after Y years of sole operation and ownership. At the time, we didn't really think in terms of data. Fair enough.

We are at a turning point in history, where we now have the ability to change this.

Contrary to what the incumbents would have us believe, municipality-driven broadband infrastructure would, in my opinion, become the ultimate enabler of free enterprise from the private sector in data, media, and communication SERVICES.

Municipality-driven WiFi is just ONE step in an overall encouraging direction.

Municipality-built broadband infrastructures, beyond providing the ability for said municipality to provide very basic connectivity for free or cheap to its constituents, also provides an opportunity to welcome the private sector to compete on an equal footing. The infrastructure must simply be allowed to evolve to allow for mostly automated ways to "share the pipe".

A WiFi system can be easily extended to enable such sharing. So could a fiber-optic network.

Consider today's "sharing" alternatives in the DSL field: it's bleak. My only real DSL alternative is my local Telco, Verizon. Thankfully, I'm able to get service from EarthLink at about the same price point as Verizon, and instead of getting mere connectivity with the insanely useless MSN premium package, i get stuff i actually find useful, such as Mac OS X Address Book synching with my earthlink online address book, which is tied into the challenge-response-based spam filtering. But here's the problem though, while EarthLink is competing on services, it can't compete with Verizon on speed, because they're only able to resell Verizon's DSL connectivity to me, and from what i've heard, we ain't looking at a big margin here.

I want hundreds of EarthLink's competing on both speed and services.

In the case of Muni WiFi, I could for example get free basic connectivity throttled at lower speeds from the City, with no-other services, and justify spending money with fine services such as knowspam.net to protect myself from spam, flickr.com for photo sharing, TypePad for blogging, Rojo.com for news reading, Prodigem.com for Torrents creating/seeding, .Mac for reliable WEBDAV hosting, some packaged-deal from EarthLink, and/or hundreds of cheap services which may be useful TO ME. There's a lot of innovation on the Internet, many of those innovators are struggling to find sustainable revenue models.

Such a broadband scene will also open the doors to triple-play packages: data, media, communications over a single pipe. Many competitors, the best few ones would win, the customer wins.

Right now, in my area, Verizon and Adelphia are the big winners. I, as a consumer, am not. As far as i'm concerned, these fsckers have no business offering internet services, what the fuck do they know abo

Here you go, I made this as an aid for my Model EU course. People should free to freely distribute and use it for noncommercial purposes, if they find it useful.

http://homepage.mac.com/fugu13/decision.pdf

Since stories on slashdot have mentioned a first reading, its going under either the Cooperative or Codecision procedure, almost certainly the Codecision procedure.

The chart was made for people with some knowledge, so I'll fill in some of the things that aren't explained.

The "College" I speak of is the College of Commissioners, the commissioners themselves (sort of like ministers or secretaries of state/education/whatnot).

Consultative and Expert committees are just two types of committees that review and formulate Commission proposals (among other things).

Cabinets are personal cabinets of the Commissioners.

Directorates General are like US Departments (State Department, Education Department), and are not exactly under the authority of the respective Commissioners, but do work with and make information available to them.

Which procedure is used depends on what kind of legislation it is, and is specified in the various EU treaties. Most stuff that goes through nowadays is under Codecision or Consultation, I believe, and Consultation is mostly used in areas where the Council must agree unanimously (note my diagram is a little vague at points as to how much of the Council must agree; this is because the answer is often "it depends").

QMV, or Qualified Majority Vote, is a weighted vote based on country population and such. It is structured such that no two large states can carry the vote, and that a coalition of the smaller states can block any vote.

Absolute majority means that a majority of the people in parliament must vote yes, not merely a majority of those attending.

Unanimity means unanimity, though abstentions are okay, IIRC (and in some cases may mean the country need not implement the policy in question, though I forget the exact application of that bit of arcanity).

While the Commission has the sole power to initiate legislation, the Council of Ministers, Parliament, or European Council may request a proposal on a subject be formulated.

Policy legislation, more general legislation, is what must be approved by the Council or the Council and the Parliament (depending on procedure). This means all the policy legislation gets read by representatives of all the people voting on it, for instance, because its short enough to do that.

Administrative legislation, that required to implement the policy legislation, is enacted by the Commission under the supervision (but not control, exactly) of the Council under a procedure commonly called "comitology" (or the Commission directs member states to implement the policy law, depending on the treaty area). This is not covered by my flow chart, and is even more complex. However, it does ensure a lot of thoughtful consideration of detail law, and makes detail law easier to adapt based on changing situations.

For instance, say there's a bit of policy law saying unemployement rates must be reduced by five percent in the next two years. If the Commission adopts administrative, detail law specifying one method of doing so, and that isn't working, they just adopt new administrative law specifying new methods. The overall policy remains the same, the details of accomplishing it change.

He does have a second head and it is clearly displayed in the trailer, albiet only in two instances and only for a split second each. I managed to grab a snapshot of the first time it is shown:

http://homepage.mac.com/kiddailey/images/zaphods_o ther_head.jpg

As you can see, the head is popping out from underneath his first one.

> > You want to be able to pause your mp3 player
> > to answer your phone without losing your place
>
> I would think this is a software issue. And unless
> the phone did this automatically for you, there's
> no chance in hell I'd buy it. There are enough
> issues with people being able to answer the phones
> they already have before the call goes to
> voicemail, there's no need to complicate it
> further.

You're the nicest LISP advocate I've met so far (though you did attempt to exploit my non-existent lack of self-esteem, which I forgive).

Thanks. Perhaps it's because I'm not a pure Lisp advocate. In the Lisp family of languages, I far prefer Scheme, which is different enough from Lisp that many pure Lisp advocates like to complain that "Scheme is not a Lisp". Re my question about why Lisp advocacy bugs you, I seriously wanted to know if somewhere underneath it all you didn't wonder what the fuss was about, whether there might be some basis for it (although I'm not defending assholism).

If it is so fundamentally different, then how did it help your programming in C?

There are some answers, admittedly anecdotal, about how these ideas can help your programming, in C in the mex.pdf paper that I linked to in my previous post. Some of it might not be entirely clear because it talks about exploiting things like continuations.

Here's how I would describe it: when you program in C and most ordinary languages, you're using a mental model that's driven by the design and limitations of real computers. Languages like Lisp, Scheme, and the functional languages like ML and Haskell use models that come from study of fundamental principles of programming and computing. These principles are much more general than any single programming language - a specific programming language like C is just a special case of these principles.

The academic languages are more closely modeled on these principles, so learning those languages tends to teach you at least some of the principles. It's really these principles that are the big deal - languages like Lisp/Scheme/ML/Haskell are just embodiments of them. Learning these principles allows you to understand C and other languages on a different level, and can lead you to think about problems in different ways, and to solutions that you might not have thought of otherwise. Once you've learned some of these general principles, it's easier to learn other languages. It's much easier to apply generalized knowledge to a specific case, than it is to generalize from a specific case (like C).

To take a concrete example, in C, functions normally return to their caller, because C only uses a single call stack per thread. However, there are times that it's useful for a function not to return to its caller, which is why setjmp & longjmp exist. But using setjmp and longjmp to do anything useful isn't the easiest thing in the world, because they're very low-level. By contrast, in some languages like Scheme and SML, there's a feature which allows you to manipulate the flow of control of a program more safely and easily, via the call/cc function. Here's a description and example of this in C terms. This is just a very specific implementation of the general concept of continuations, in C.

The linked example shows that if you know how, you can do this kind of thing in C. But most C programmers wouldn't necessarily think to solve a problem that way, because it's not an obvious solution in C. If you're familiar with these concepts from elsewhere, though, and you find somewhere where they could be useful in a C program, then it just becomes a question of how you can implement it in C. There's usually a way, and often it's well worth it. Again, that mex.pdf paper describes some examples.

Ideas from computer science and the academic languages have had a big impact on the mainstream languages: garbage collection, lexical closures, regular expressions, SQL, and many other things were developed in an academic context and eventually became mainstream. But the problem with this is that getting exposed to these features on a piecemeal basis doesn't give you the full picture of how they fit

Mod parent as Informative --- this is one of Firefox's best kept secrets. The optimized builds can yield a NOTICABLE performance difference in terms of startup page-loading times

For the mac users out there, links for mac-optimized firefox builds are below

G4 Optimized
G5 Optimized

I'm using the g4 build right now and it works like a charm! (Note that these are built from the nightlies, so you might get a 'bad' one. Backup your profile before installing it over an old firefox build)

Mod parent as Informative --- this is one of Firefox's best kept secrets. The optimized builds can yield a NOTICABLE performance difference in terms of startup page-loading times

For the mac users out there, links for mac-optimized firefox builds are below

G4 Optimized
G5 Optimized

I'm using the g4 build right now and it works like a charm! (Note that these are built from the nightlies, so you might get a 'bad' one. Backup your profile before installing it over an old firefox build)

Here ya go

I got to take part in some parabolic flights last year and have put up the photographs and some videos here.

Here's proof they intended a 2004 release. Well, maybe it's fake. I found it in 2002.

You mean, like this?

How about putting together a more modest sum, say, $100,000, and giving it to these guys, and then donating the rest to something like tsunami relief or something. Yeah, I love Trek, too. But (a) even if they make enough to fund another season, Berman and Braga still have the helm and (b) Paramount still gets the revenue, I'm sure, since they wouls still own the franchise.

• Python
• Perl
• Tcl
• JavaScript

You picked up on Dawkins and dropped everything else.

PS, since you disparage him so much, perhaps you'll prefer this link.

...to share Ann Coulter's views and stupidity with regard to Canada...

http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove/movies/anncoul terCBC.html

Also did a blue screen pic for the other one:
here

A little image I fixed up in photoshop :)
Here

For the even lazier, you can do it in 1/7th of the characters than the explanation.

Just use Slashdot's <URL:link> tag
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Cli cker/

Anyway, that does sound like a pretty nice setup, and the Bluetooth phone deal seems interesting. What's the range on a decent Bluetooth-enabled phone?

Oh, and those 15 extra characters? Here ya go. (though the "Here ya go." was another 11)

Salling Clicker

BTW, howdy from up north. Don't look south cause rain is heading your way.

Wired or wireless shouldn't make any difference, as you can use a wireless to ethernet bridge for any "wired" device. I had my house built within the past year, and made sure every room was wired. Here is what I used to get music to every room:
xbox media center Optical out, lots of other options.
Rio receiver running yarrs I have been using this for years, just a small device to play mp3's off of the network. You can hook speakers up to it directly or just use it as a component.
qcast lets you stream mp3's to your playstation 2. Not as useful or functional as the xbox media center.
netjuke this let's me stream music to any other computer in a nice and tidy web interface.

you can also go with a squeezebox but I have no experience with it. The rio is much less expensive.

I found this somewhere a while back somewhere and saved it to show in computer classes I teach.

http://homepage.mac.com/clong/PhotoAlbum/FileShari ng12.html

You may want to get a Kensington or MS mouse because their drivers allow you to speed up the mouse movement beyond the standard (very slow) maximum speed for an Apple mouse.

MOUSEZOOM does the same thing for any mouose/trackball type device.

Could this be a problem?

"Now, if you said you prefer virtual desktops, as is implemented in most Linux GUIs, then I would understand."

Desktop Manager Alt

Virtue Alt

Virtual Desktop Pro Alt

Virtual Desktop Alt (not the same product as above)

You Control: Desktops Alt

Virtual Screens Alt (not quite a VDM, but it works)

For some reason if you try and burn Ubuntu with Disk Utility it will crash. For those of you looking to try this out on ppc try using cdrecord.

cdrecord -v speed=24 dev=IODVDServices hoary-live-powerpc.iso

To get cdrecord try "port install cdrtools" or "fink install cdrecord". You can also try this binary if you do not have fink or darwin ports.

I suppose this is as good a place as any to show my Powerbook 3400, autographed by Douglas Adams 6 months before he died. Powerbook We miss him, but obviously, his work lives on.

Honest, I just don't see the connection between these hippos and aquatic mammals!

Thanks for checking for "The Lost 1984 Mac Video"

You can try a time sliced download here, and if this is overloaded (it probably is), there are mirrors at macnews.de, php-schmiede.de, ppcnux.de, ftp.ppcnux.de, MacTechNews.de and elbewerk.

And now that the US are with us, you guys could back us up with some mirrors. Thanks bunches to all the folks who are helping us out!