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I am fighting with our government to allow H1B visas cap to be raised. I was in at the White House talking to the chief of staff to get the H1B visa cap raised. We already half way through the fiscal year, capped out on the number of really bright Israelis and Indians.

Oh, yes, McNealy and the rest of the computer industry execs did succeed in corrupting Congress with hundreds of millions of political contributions, but they also succeeded in destroying the computer industry and betraying their own stockholders.

What we have now is a jobs program called "Java" for hoards of "programmers" who are a consequence of the political movements in India to dismantle the caste system via their equivalent of affirmative action. After all, you can't give a significant fraction of 1 billion people academic degrees in computer science without giving them "jobs" matching their "skills". So we get lots and lots of Java oozing from organizational structures that do increasingly look like something out of the middle east -- be it a Bazaar or a religious cult.

I'm just wondering whether Sun's executives will be assassinated by international terrorists or by their own stockholders?

Damn, I have to cut and paste just to use the link. Grumble grumble grumble grumble....

http://www.e-fense.com.nyud.net:8090/helix/

oops, I forgot to make it into a link...

http://www.e-fense.com.nyud.net:8090/helix/

Here is photo of Jeri in homage to first love processor of many of the middle aged /.ers.
Many more of Jeri at amiga.org site.

Here is photo of Jeri in homage to first love processor of many of the middle aged /.ers.
Many more of Jeri at amiga.org site.

Use it like this: like this

More about Coral: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/.

http://www.livingroom.org.au.nyud.net:8090/photolo g/news/lg_plans_for_6_or_7_megapixel_camera_phone. php

Quick! A preventative coral link found here.

Site's very slooooow.

Try the Coral link here

Erase Fitt's law from your mind. To the degree that it matters, it will be obvious to you anyway. And in subtle cases, it's a treacherous guide.

He deals with this objection in the FAQs:

Many people took my Fitt's law comments to mean that all controls should be put against the edge of the screen. This wasn't what I said or meant. I merely pointed out that larger controls are easier to click on, and that controls against the edge of the screen are effectively much larger. Controls which belong near the edge of the screen (window decorations, scrollbars and menus) are therefore much better put at the edge of the screen.

What you should focus on is making your UIs intuitive, unobtrusive, internally consistent, unsurprising, and pleasant to look at.

These are good things but his article was aimed at something more fundamental: usability. He writes, "These five points represent a small but important part of UI design. They are not in any way commandments or miracle cures for UI problems. Following their principles in designing an interface should, in my opinion, greatly improve the usability of an application."

In fact, a UI can be unobtrusive, internally consistent, unsurprising and pleasant to look at but still not be especially usable. To some extent, his article was written to deal with that problem.

Where did that space come from?

Here's the corrected version:

http://blog.durdle.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/Go auldTest.jpg

Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the article.

Yes, it's hosted on my 256k upstream ADSL line, which is why I said "Use the Coral cache" in all the story postings!

Slashdot would also choose the day when I switch to my back up server (K6-2 233), in order to fix my main server, to post this on the front page. I was wondering why it was making that funny noise when I loaded the Slashdot front page...

Please use the Coral Cache!

Who says the turbine has to be powered by fossil fuel? It could be a hydro turbine with penstock attached to your dick. Or perhaps methane powered with a hose stuffed in your ass. Vegans are known for producing copious quantities of methane.

.Other methane sources include your composting latrine, port to cows stomach, and even composting of dead cats

.

Ga Tech /.ed? seemedawfully slow. So, here's the big JPEG cached.

tdh42134.jpg

BTW, Here's a working mirror.

http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html

Coral Cacheification.

http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html

I threw up a quick mirror here: http://braincylinder.net.nyud.net:8090/stupidco/ao l_throne_intro.html

This should work for the text at least...

http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html

I'm still compiling!!

Here's a coralized link to the screenshots, too:

This looks like an interesting hybrid of Coral and BitTorrent. Coral is nice in that you don't need to install any client-side software to take advantage of it. This one it appears you do need to install a client-side proxy, which is a little scary.

This system seems to utilize a client that takes on roles of both the BitTorrent tracker and the Coral caching nodes. I wonder how the client caches cooordinate? Any centralized server involved here?

Another firewall-busting HTTP serving system is YouServ (coral link), though geared more at sharing personal content instead of content requiring "super distribution".

Sigh. /.'d.
http://www.gallery02.hit.bg.nyud.net:8090/cheesebu rgers.jpg

That damn thumbnail *is* too small sometimes.

Coral Cached link..

Not sure if its been posted yet but i didnt find it..Coral got most of it, only a couple images missing.

Hurry and see! might be swithcing to cache the suspended link any time! :D

Coral'ed at http://www.benheck.com.nyud.net:8090/Games/PS2p%20 1.htm.

http://www.militaryphotos.net.nyud.net:8090/forums /viewtopic.php?t=30510

Coral Cache works just fine.

The design of the car was not quite what I expected to see after i read that:

"It accelerates faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo, and will cruise for 200 miles on a one hour charge" =)

Slashdotted? Here is the mirrordot link, here is the coral cache link, and in case all else fails, here is the google cache.
A slashdotting is no excuse to not RTFA, anymore ;-)

Printer-friendly (1-page) and coralized link.

Good thing to mention: they addressed their inline images relatively so they get fetched through the cache.

Who the frick do I have to talk to at Slashdot to get them to stop accepting stories that don't use a cache for my web site? My bandwidth is limited at the moment:
http://pw1.netcom.com.nyud.net:8090/~sirbruce/Subs criptions.html

Bruce

Yo. Link with this instead.

[CORAL-LINK]/serpents-wall/

Perfect time for CORAL

Shame that can't be done automatically for all postings...

Now watch - someone else will probably have posted this link at the same time...

Coral Link

Linky

Seems to be doing fine, but just in case...
Coral Link

if this is like Dos is Dead, which is what they were advertising when windown 95 came out, then i guess passwords are not going anywhere for a while.

what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway??

1785: Couloumb publishes his investigations of electric charge.

1820: Oersted demonstrates relationship between electricity and magnetism.

1831: Gauss and Weber discover Kirchhoff's Laws.

As for practical electronics, tubes made things like FM radio possible. Transistors just enabled the miniaturization of such devices. This is evident when you look at terms that describe transistors; they are the same as those used to describe tubes. i.e. transconductance, triode region, etc.

But yes, "modern" is rather ambiguous. You can't build a 1 GHz processor out of vacuum tubes. The definition will change with the times.

what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway??

1785: Couloumb publishes his investigations of electric charge.

1820: Oersted demonstrates relationship between electricity and magnetism.

1831: Gauss and Weber discover Kirchhoff's Laws.

As for practical electronics, tubes made things like FM radio possible. Transistors just enabled the miniaturization of such devices. This is evident when you look at terms that describe transistors; they are the same as those used to describe tubes. i.e. transconductance, triode region, etc.

But yes, "modern" is rather ambiguous. You can't build a 1 GHz processor out of vacuum tubes. The definition will change with the times.

what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway??

1785: Couloumb publishes his investigations of electric charge.

1820: Oersted demonstrates relationship between electricity and magnetism.

1831: Gauss and Weber discover Kirchhoff's Laws.

As for practical electronics, tubes made things like FM radio possible. Transistors just enabled the miniaturization of such devices. This is evident when you look at terms that describe transistors; they are the same as those used to describe tubes. i.e. transconductance, triode region, etc.

But yes, "modern" is rather ambiguous. You can't build a 1 GHz processor out of vacuum tubes. The definition will change with the times.

what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway??

1785: Couloumb publishes his investigations of electric charge.

1820: Oersted demonstrates relationship between electricity and magnetism.

1831: Gauss and Weber discover Kirchhoff's Laws.

As for practical electronics, tubes made things like FM radio possible. Transistors just enabled the miniaturization of such devices. This is evident when you look at terms that describe transistors; they are the same as those used to describe tubes. i.e. transconductance, triode region, etc.

But yes, "modern" is rather ambiguous. You can't build a 1 GHz processor out of vacuum tubes. The definition will change with the times.

what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway??

1785: Couloumb publishes his investigations of electric charge.

1820: Oersted demonstrates relationship between electricity and magnetism.

1831: Gauss and Weber discover Kirchhoff's Laws.

As for practical electronics, tubes made things like FM radio possible. Transistors just enabled the miniaturization of such devices. This is evident when you look at terms that describe transistors; they are the same as those used to describe tubes. i.e. transconductance, triode region, etc.

But yes, "modern" is rather ambiguous. You can't build a 1 GHz processor out of vacuum tubes. The definition will change with the times.

try this link
http://www.techworld.com.nyud.net:8090/security/fe atures/index.cfm?featureid=993

Coral Cache works!

This is nothing new and has already been done and implimented in the JetiAnts project .With a bit of tweaking this will offer a Jabber Messenger in the form of JETI a Java Jabber client and Ants P2P
a Java Ad hock network that offers encryption ,resume,and multisource downloads it also has a rudimentary webserver for viewing pages "annonymously" out of the box .Ants uses IRC for bootstraping .Why create a new client when it is already there .

Coral Cache Link

Eric they could always use Ants P2P to do this it offers point to point and end to end encryption,multisource ,resume and it uses IRC for bootstraping .There is also a JETI Jabber IM version of Ants that uses your Jabber buddylist for bootstraping .The only problem is that Ants and JETI are written in JAVA so will the noob even have Sun Java installed .

IBM Deathstar

is it just me, or is IBM living up to their old nickname of "evil empire" a little too much for comfort? I don't know about you, but personally this freaks me the heck out. - Seriously, look at one of the IBM logos here. Doesn't that remind you of this???

Yeah - AT&T may be a little closer, but as far as memory serves, they don't have the AT&T Imperial Walkers. Though, you could suggest that their storm troopers would be massive amounts of retarded lawyers who think they can do something when in reality it's more quantity than quality. "Think" all white uniforms in the forest moon of endor... sheer stupidity!

IBM Deathstar

is it just me, or is IBM living up to their old nickname of "evil empire" a little too much for comfort? I don't know about you, but personally this freaks me the heck out. - Seriously, look at one of the IBM logos here. Doesn't that remind you of this???

Yeah - AT&T may be a little closer, but as far as memory serves, they don't have the AT&T Imperial Walkers. Though, you could suggest that their storm troopers would be massive amounts of retarded lawyers who think they can do something when in reality it's more quantity than quality. "Think" all white uniforms in the forest moon of endor... sheer stupidity!

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu.nyud.net:8090/user/tshah /PauschAcademicsFieldGuideToEA.pdf

New and improved without karma whoring!

Almost...

http://bloodshed.net.nyud.net:8090/wired

http://www.hfml.sci.kun.nl.nyud.net:8090/levitatio n-movies.html