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one that will not be accepted by the public when they see how ugly the money is becoming.

I often wish we'd gone in the direction some of the Bahamanian currency did.

Oh well.

Well, I guess that explains why that's how they'll say damn in the future.

'A History of Light and Lighting' (4.5 Billion BC to 2005...) makes no mention of Mr. Holonyak...perhaps someone needs to build a fire under Mr. Williams.

it is point of historical fact that the spanish, in the philippines, south america, central america, etc., would expressly forbid the natives from learning spanish, so as to retain power in the hands of the spanish

it is one of the reasons the philippines is an english speaking country: spain was there for centuries, but forbid the filipinos from learning written spanish, so as to retain their grip on power. when the americans came, despite all of their other injustices, they had no problem with the filipinos writing english. and so english is one of the official languages of the philippines today, and spanish a forgotten exotic historical curiosity (although there are a lot of spanish loan words in visayan/ tagalog, and the great filipino writings of the 1800s was in spanish, such as jose rizal, but he was amongst the most learned of the learned illustrados... he was executed by the spanish, by the way, for being too uppity)

the philippines even had it's own alphabet (derived from southern indian brahmi scripts) when the spanish came. the spanish wiped it out. on purpose

of course none of this has to do with feudal europe though, but you get my point now: this system the spanish brought over to the places they colonized was not miraculously invented on a boat along the way. it was borrowed outright from feudal europe

furthermore, are you going in any way say that the renaissance, and therefore the death of feudalism, was not powered by the printing press?

perhaps you do have a point though that the division between the literate and illiterate was not purposeful, but simply organic in nature. but surely you don't discount the value of illiteracy in keeping a serf a serf

That is a good question. I hope they released the sourcecode somewhere. I don't have an Xbox, but I would like to have that program--I have had two strokes.

Maybe it works on Linux in general, and they wanted to make it more widespread? The glove appears to work on PCs to. No Mac drivers apparently, but according to this page, they eventually made linux ones.

Here are some interesting links for the glove: Linux patch to blacklist the P5 from HID (apparently it reports itself as HID device, but does not comply with standard.) Library to use the P5 in Linux geocities page with lots of links to P5 info Page with lots of technical details about the glove

One question I have: I tried Essential Reality's site, and there is another company listed there. Did they get bought out or go out of business? Is the glove still being made?

After looking at all this, I want one of these. This would be a kick-ass input device even for regular computing. You could probably use it as a mouse and keyboard (one handed--no pr0n jokes please ;-)...and more!

I think not.

If this was 1985, I'd recommend Garry Kitchen's Game Maker for the Commodore 64.

2004 - First contact. Angry Martiens destroy the Earth.(reason : Massive spying on alien's private life in summer 2003.)

There should be a degree sign after 3200.

Actually there should be a K behind the 3200 as measurements on the Kelvin scale is designated by K as opposed to a degree symbol. This is due to the fact that 3200K is referred to "3200 Kelvins" not "3200 degrees Kelvin". The following quote explains:

The scale of scientific choice is the Kelvin scale, introduced by the Scottish physicist William Thompson (Lord Kelvin, 1924-1907). Each degree on the scale is called a kelvin (K). (Just a note: Celsius and Fahrenheit scales always carry the word degree, but the kelvin scale does not. For example a temperature of 300K will be read "300 hundred kelvin", not "three hundred degrees kelvin".)

Ok I have to go wash my hands off with soap as I am now tainted. Damn you grammer nazi's, damn you all to hell! :-P

Merlin.
p.s. if the reader is interested in more info about lighting characteristics of lamps try here for a decent intro.

And it takes hours, if not days, for those bits to get flipped.

I recently got call forwarding on my phone at home through MTS. I called a number and after some voice prompts I had forwarding in about 30 seconds. No human intervention at the other end required

-- An Anglo-American that spent many, many years in the U.S. Army (with a large amount of time being shot at in Panama, Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia).