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You have to make it easy for someone to email you or you won't receive your gmail invite:

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I am outraged! Your World with Neil Cavuto is my child's favorite show!

Unfortunately, Fox News isn't a broadcaster, they're cable/satellite only, and therefore their content is only regulated by market forces.

Also, clickable link, dammit.

LOL, now the only thing you need is to say your name is Ranzi! :-)

A more pertinant link.

Is Titan the Death Star?

Impact crater my ass. Interesting about the white methane cloud. Could that be the famed "exhaust port" that was the demise of the Death Star in the first place?

Macs are very expensive.

If you're going to bitch about the high cost of Macs, why would you link to a petition about the high cost of the .Mac Online Service?

Its a good thing that the American resistance was successful! Someone had to fix this shit. Paris not so long ago

But really- all kidding aside: nations change, goverments change, people change, etc. I have no doubt that Jefferson or Madison would crap their pants if they were around today to see the U.S. government. So while it is important to remember history, what we did for the French, what they did for us, yada yada yada, I think it is more important to make decisions based on the current positions of a given country or her government. The French are valid in hating us because of the way we are today, and we are valid in hating them because of the way they are.

I've been using Nokia 6600 with Salling Clicker for a while now and it works great.

It can control just about every program and SC ships with ready scripts for the most used, like iTunes, Keynote and Powerpoint.

It may not be a UNIVERSAL remote, but for those of us with Apple computers and bluetooth phones, Salling Clicker lets us use our phones as a display and a remote. Works great!

For "innocent bystanders", read "human shields". Terrorists position themselves among children in order to (i) discourage return fire, because unlike the terrorists, the Israelis don't actually target non-combatants, and (ii) misrepresent any return fire as being against "innocent bystanders".

For all practical purposes, they already do.

Video showing a great quote from Bush:
"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the eleventh"

now you know.

And Fox News could use the technology to automatically blur out nipples! While still showing explicit penetration shots/

I wonder how they're going to repair this one? (Shipped with UPS, nota bene)

Here's the associated Slashdot story.

And here's a picture. Actually, several. Down Under I prefer Australia Post for parcels, though not for receipted delivery of letters due to the complete incompetence of the local office that handles anything that isn't a parcel.

I'm in the exact same boat. I use a laptop. I am on Telus' network during mornings and evenings, and during those times, access to port 25 is limited to one maching: smtp.telus.net. I *pay* for .Mac email (and webdav, and homepage) service, and they are denying me access to that service.

As soon as I leave home, and arrive at work, I connect my laptop to the local network there and, because they are not on Telus' network, I can no longer access smtp.telus.net. As a result, I have to edit my email application's SMTP settings twice a day simply to send email. This is NOT a solution. They provide no way to access smtp.telus.net from outside their network, even via authenticated connections. It's ridiculous.

I've contacted the other big ISP around here (though in the interests of being balanced, I'll leave it to you to do your own research) and they don't have this limitation. I'll be switching away from telus as soon as I get connected with my new ISP. I would suggest that other Telus customers complain (I did, and they sent me three essentially form mail responses amounting to "too bad") and hope they come up with a workable solution. If not, do what I'm doing and deny them your money.

Their customer service has been rated among the worst in BC, and my experiences confirm this. What a pain.

And this is why I use linux.

And this is why I just read the newspaper.

And this is why I just sit in my room all day.

And this is why I'm back here at the computer reading Slashdot.

How about Mountains Of Madness? Cthulhu awaits!

See?

Yes, but it's exactly what the RIAA had in mind, so couldn't the Attourney [sic] General charge the RIAA with the intentional corruption of youth?

Hey, it's not like they distributed those albums of William Shatner singing "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", or Leonard Nimoy signing about that hobbit "Bilbo Baggins" (link is the video).

Now those are Weapons of Mass (Aesthetic) Destruction.

I must mention the always useful Clock Chipping page, with info on overclocking just about any archaic mac that can be. IIs, Quadras, PCI Powermacs, Performas, iMacs, G3s and G4s.

Why settle for 25MHz when you can blaze along at 33MHz?

Starship Exeter is not as bad as Hidden Frontier.

Starship Exeter: Done old-school style, and the actors are not that horrible to watch. I even feel nostolgic just watching it, pining for the good old days.

Hidden Frontier: Done with schnazzy new graphics, but the actors want to make you scream. I mean, apparently, Star Fleet's Weight-Loss Program just isn't as effective in TNG time or something. This show proves that very large people who can barely fit into obviously home-tailored uniforms still hs the ability to make me nauseous.

I'll have to check out the new episodes I haven't yet seen on Starship Exeter (last I checked before today they just had the first one completed and the next was still months away from production).

And for this new one, well, sheessh, it's just something else to kill yet more time with this evening. ;^)

Hasn't Kirk been done to death?
This: Startship Exeter is a much better project IMO. New characters. Different ship. Same era as TOS.

For those that haven't seen it yet and fail to believe the possibility of worse acting, watch Starship Exeter. I kid you not, it's frightening and full of that classic star trek alien/android 'i don't get that joke' humour that makes you sooo angry.

Yeah, but I hear they are planning to hire George W early next year as CFO.

Well, IMHO, most cards with the Orinoco or Prism 2 chipsets work well. I'm quite satisfied with my Microsoft MN-520 card (the horror! :-).

They're selling for cheaper than that driver, too. Heh.

BTW: If you remove the rectangular black sticker on top of the black plastic (it doesn't look like a sticker, so you might have to hunt for it) you may be surprised that it will reveal a jack for an antenna.

Invest in a PDA or phone that has built in bluetooth and use Clicker. From personal experience, it is the best. I have the Sony Ericsson Z600. Not only can I control keynote or powerpoint via the phone, but the notes portion of each slide shows up in the display of the phone. An added bonus is the ability to sync the phone and my powerbook. Clicker does have many other features, though. I have yet to use the proximity controls, but the first time that an incoming call on my cell phone muted iTunes and brought up the caller id information I just about... well.. erhem... I'll leave this clean....

Sample Pics 1 - may appear dark on non-Macs with bad graphics cards

Sample Pics 2 - may appear dark on non-Macs with bad graphics cards

Sample Pics 1 - may appear dark on non-Macs with bad graphics cards

Sample Pics 2 - may appear dark on non-Macs with bad graphics cards

Disclaimer: I've never tried this software as I don't have a mac.

What, you bought that shiny G4 and don't have $ left over for a BT phone/pda? Cry elsewhere you insensitive clod :-)

I was forgetting this is more on topic than it seems - Seagate has announced a 5GB CF microdrive supposedly available for under $150 in Q3 of this year (http://www.steves-digicams.com/microdrive.html). In other words if you can wait, don't buy expensive Hitachi CF drives (which they hope you will do now that the Muvo option is gone) - cheaper alternatives are on the way.

This sig shameslessly plugs my work with tandem recumbent tricycles and the severely disabled

Then, read James Lowen's _Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Texbook Got Wrong_ to see how your mind has unknowingly been filled with nationalist and consumer crap (despite your technical proclivities). Also check out Howard Zinn. Learn to live simply and frugally so you have more options:

If you have started doing all that, by now you are primed to begin to question what education really means.

And further, to even question why people need to work and what it should mean to do useful things.

You'll have time to read great minds like Bertrand Russel and Freeman Dyson.

Then you can accept you are still stuck in a stupid system.

But you'll be positioned to make the best of it and yet still see how the world can be a made better place to for the bulk of humanity and other creatures.

Always remember in your darker hours to at least ask yourself the question, "Can life be made worth living?" And in your brighter hours, remember to ask yourself if you are playing a finite (to win) game or an infinite (to play) game?

And, finally, for continual inspiration, read _Voyage From Yesteryear_ by James P. Hogan.

Now go out and take some educated risks to try to make life worth living -- despite your future happiness possibilities already almost being ruined by being convinced you that you are "bright" just because you know some technical things (same thing almost happened to me).

The Missing Sync is the app that lets any PocketPC or non-Apple supported phone or PDA work with iSync. (Address Book, Bookmarks, iCals)

Salling Clicker is the one for using any bluetooth phone as an Applescriptable remote.

I've had a concept like this on my personal site for months. studio saynuk

Working link.

Well, I asked the guy if he could spare a screenshot of Slashdot Effect. Unfortunately, the shot was from Thursday and the story was on Wednesday, so the shot doesn't show the Slashdot Effect in its full glory. Nonetheless, I've posted it on my .mac site.

I see no /. buses, but there's hella people milling around. 46,000 according to the Mayor of VisitorVille (really his title!).

actually... their were also the mac apple II cards you could use to run old appleII apps from and connect a 5.25" floppy to which came about a while beforehand...

Perhaps you are talking about Salling Cliker?

Yep, people have been controlling iTunes(along with every other app) with their bluetooth phones/PDAs. It's one of the "Big" applications for bluetooth.

http://homepage.mac.com/bbuchs/PhotoAlbum2.html

Jeebus. Either I got ahold of some mystery installer, or my system is different than everyone else. I actually *do* have better things to do with my time, people.

Screenshots: http://homepage.mac.com/bbuchs/PhotoAlbum2.html

• Camino .8 only reached beta status on May 17, 2004.
• Camino's release numbering is independent. Camino 0.8 doesn't correspond to Firefox 0.8
• They made a fork of the Mozilla 1.7 final code only on April 19, 2004

Initially, Camino (then Chimera) did release early and often and it garnered a loyal following who couldn't wait to get their hands on the next release. The problem stems from our own success. Camino 0.7 was so stable and polished that people came to treat it as they would a 1.0 product. Releasing another version of lesser quality would be seen as a black-eye to the project as a whole, that quality was slipping, and what once was a promising product was now beginning to collapse under its own weight.
Secondly, While "listen to your users" has a wonderful ring to it, Mozilla is a perfect example of what happens when you delegate UI to a self-selecting group of developers. Camino needs strong direction and someone in charge who has no qualms about saying "that sucks, fuck off". Bad ideas aren't suddenly good ideas just because they come from the open-source community. The project has succeeded because those of us in charge had a singular vision to keep it simple. Apple saw the benefit themselves and Safari shares the same belief.
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Right now it seems we're stuck in a catch-22: we can't gather developer interest without shipping a version and we can't ship a version without developer interest. We're triaging bugs because being able to point developers to a single list that we can drive to zarro boogs is, in my opinion, the best way to engage the development community, and what this project has been lacking since AOL began to fund its development. Now that AOL has fully withdrawn all support (even for Gecko itself), we need developers more than ever. I understand that the end-users on the various lists don't give a donkey about bug triage, they simply want new bits to play with. I just don't think we can get them bits without focused development.

Unlike iDVD, DSP will work with other DVD burners besides Apple-blessed SuperDrives.

On the contrary....iDVD has always supported other drives, including externals - the enabler at this site brings that to light:
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/personal_site/ mac_guide/pages/15-burn_idvd_other.html

another poster mentioned the Salling Clicker software, but it's cool enough to mention again.

I have this for my Palm Tungsten and Nokia 3650 phone, both bluetooth enabled. You can basically control most any application on your mac. ITunes is the most compelling example. Bring it up on your phone and it connects via Bluetooth to you Mac. From there you can start itunes, and navigate to the songs/playlists/browse-whatever (just like the iPod) and completely control iTunes. You can pause, fast forward, control the volume. The album art shows up for the currently playing song. It really is unbelievably cool. The only thing missing up to now was an actual use, for me at least. I can now control my stereo fully from my phone.

Oh, another cool thing: incoming calls cause it to pause. Same with DVDs.

Not bad for $20.

One of the things I got from Infinite in All Directions - it was a delight to me, and I've been quoting it ever since - is that you honor inventors as much as scientists.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Is it the scientists who are putting them down?

Yes. There is this snobbism among scientists, especially the academic types.

Are there other kinds?

There are scientists in industry who are a bit more broad minded. The academics look down on them, too.

Is that a weird British hangover?

It's even worse in Germany. Intellectual snobbery is a worldwide disease. It certainly was very bad in China and probably held back development there by 2,000 years.

How would you stop this intellectual snobbery?

I would abolish the PhD system. The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Are those getting PhDs rewarded in any other way than as an honor?

It's much more than an honor. It's a ticket to a job.

So is anybody buying this? Are PhDs being abolished or disregarded?

No. The stranglehold has gotten even tighter over the years. It's become essentially like the MD - with much less justification. It's simply a barrier you have to climb over before you can make a career, and it's being imposed on more and more jobs. At even the smallest liberal arts college, nowadays, they say with pride, All of our faculty have PhDs. Many of the best teachers are thrown out because they don't have a PhD. It's a paper qualification that poisons the whole field.

What you're saying reminds me of a situation a couple of years ago when my colleague at GBN, Peter Schwartz, and I tried to do a book called Biofutures. When we started to research the future of biotechnology, we found an interesting contrast with the computer world. You can't get computer people to shut up about the future. They go on and on about it. In biotech we couldn't find anybody who would talk about the future.

There are a couple of interesting components to this. First is the government regulation you speak of, which has good reason for being in place because of the life-critical issues, deep cultural issues, and so on. The result is, of course, that when any of the researchers start talking out of school, saying, Well, maybe we'll cure death, that's it - they don't get the money, because they're obviously irresponsible.

The second component of this idea brings me on to your point about PhDs. Because of the whole realm of government permissions and grants surrounding biotech, it's attracting more PhD types and fewer amateur types, whereas computer technology tremendously enables amateurs.

What also strikes me is that the culture we see here [at the PC Forum, the annual computer conference run by Dyson's daughter Esther] is far friendlier to women than the academic world I come from; it's largely because you don't have to have a PhD. You don't even have to have an MBA to run a company. Many of these women,

As I mentioned here, If you get Salling Clicker and a Bluetooth-enabled phone or Palm PDA, you're SET. Salling Clicker is a very very cool program that turns your phone or PDA into a very full-featured remote for your Mac. Then you'll have a "one handed" remote with an LCD display that you CAN put in your pocket. Check it out.

If you're so desperate for a shared VM, you could always use JShell, or any number of similar solutions people have implemented, mostly for the purpose of running Java daemons.

Actually I thought he was talking about something like this.

The thing which was added in 1.5 improves startup time, but each JVM you run still takes the same amount of space, unless they say otherwise on a different web page. JShell, on the other hand, solves the memory issue. (I wonder why this couldn't be worked into a core feature.)

You won't need to go back to your computer if you have a mobile phone that can run Bemused or Salling Clicker!

Try Salling Clicker if you have a Bluetooth phone. It acts as a remote for iTunes, including album cover display. You can also control other OS X apps with your phone, even your mouse.

Here are my steps. Hope they help!