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Maybe someone has, you could always Google it.

Wow! Look who the first result is for!?!? Mark Cuban's teams website! Shame Shame!!
http://tinyurl.com/yefvopu

You don't need a search engine. You need a nameserver.

I wonder if they will give themselves $1 million to take their own team off Google.

Wow! Look who the first result is for!?!? Mark Cuban's teams website! Shame Shame!!

http://tinyurl.com/yefvopu

Maybe it's not a bad idea after all, if he can get every website off google except his own, then then no matter what you search for, Google will only return the Mavs website as a result!!

/me SLAPS Mark Cuban with a giant trout!

You read my mind. Even if this "301Works.org" succeeds, they could go bankrupt as well, and then you still have the same problem.

Furthermore, what does it matter if http://tinyurl.com/e10zz stops working ten years from now? Nobody cares. Odds are good the link wouldn't work even if the TinyURL was preserved, due to the natural tendency of websites to rearrance their directories. (Note: Remove the last z if you want to see naked women.)

against circumcision this is it.

Let's see it perform with something like this: http://tinyurl.com/ycm5uy5 It's a YouTube 3D refinery flythrough - architectural stuff is tame, compared to this. This is not as finely-detailed as the interior of a microprocessor but the actual thing processes much more than electrons and has to accommodate humans walking throughout and managing it. It looks complicated to the uninitiated, but it's not really. Nifty, eh? Complex enough?

Phroggy (44`), When migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 you will not have an "in place upgrade" option. You will however have the option to select "custom" install when prompted. The Windows 7 install process will then copy all of your data in "My Documents" over to a Windows.old folder within Windows 7 itself. All applications and documents stored in other locations will have to be reinstalled / transferred manually. For more information on the Windows 7 Upgrade, please go here: http://bit.ly/3DvynK For additional assistance with the migration of Windows XP to Windows 7, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/mhbep4 When migrating from Windows Vista to Windows 7 you will have the option to select "custom" or "upgrade" install when prompted. By selecting the "upgrade" option, your documents and applications will follow and carry over through the install process. If you select, "custom" however you will be able to perform a clean install and all applications / documents will have to be reinstalled / transferred manually. Jessica Microsoft Windows Client Team

Dude, my friend just bought that new 8 Megapixel phone. The quality of the video recorder is amazing. Hey. Quickly check this site out, lol, its amazing Record the 5 note symphony of Intel and upload it on their site http://tinyurl.com/yhqvxzn

Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/yabw37k

I mangled the first link.. http://tinyurl.com/ybepcqr/

> Don't know how to use google?

Don't know how to properly insult people for not knowing how to use google?

http://tinyurl.com/d5x3uy

-Steve

A couple of weeks ago we saw that Kelloggs was going to laser etch corn flakes http://preview.tinyurl.com/yl56ddd ... how did we ever live without this?

Ahh, someone that has no clue about the physical properties of the metals about which they speak!

This a red herring from hell. I was not comparing copper vs steel.I was comparing the implementation of the Mechanical throttle vs Electronic Throttle Control. Here I looked it up for you http://tinyurl.com/yf5cb44 . If I was arguing about the safety of ABS vs non-ABS, your reply would be comparing the different types of brake fluid I could use,totally off point.

Also for junior dragsters I wouldn't be surprised if it was illegal to use ETC, think about it . The driver would have not need any skill in throttle control. You could write a program to execute the acceleration perfectly every time.

On side note I majored in math,cs and minored in physics along with being physics TA, so I do know a little about physical properties, but I wasn't comparing the physical properties.

There are many unseen safety features , just look at this. http://tinyurl.com/yf5cb44

Not everyone gets a proper install disc/key combo though.

Remember that recent thing where if you bought Vista-installed systems you qualified for that free Win7 upgrade? Well guess what? Quite a few people were given Win7 -upgrade- discs and keys, not Retail or OEM install discs and keys.

My wife and my brother did this, and my wife got a Win7 upgrade disc for her Dell laptop and my brother got an upgrade disc for his HP laptop.

Have fun wiping and installing from that without having first to reinstall Vista.

Okay. Install, don't enter product key during install. After install insert product key and activate as usual. This site has a few other suggestions

http://tinyurl.com/yhyvy2f

You can also backup your registration token for the machine and then if you do a clean install on the same machine, restore the token.

Almost anonymous is interesting.
Have you seen footage of how a police state reacts to a lot of people in a park ect if they are doing something other than walking to work with their heads down?
An unmarked van or car picks up a spike in BT v 3.0
Too many people in one place just standing around?
The area will be surrounded and random people asked for ID, protest permits, bag searches.
Your in a park, children are around, you have a camera phone you might be a danger to others ..
"Can we see your media files?"
Then random snatches into buses and vans down side streets.
You drop your cellphone, is it found? Do they have your International Mobile Equipment Identity number and call record?
If you keep your phone on you, you where linking with bad people, if you drop your phone, your a terrorist.
When the van pulls up and your at booking, they will offer to look after your mobile too, real nice like.
http://tinyurl.com/y9lh6wq [nydailynews.com] "NYPD tracking cell phone owners, but foes aren't sure practice is legal"
The best place to fight new this global DRM is in the courts before its passed in your country.
Expose any politician who supports it.
Go to their mall walks, town halls, sporting/community photo ops and be visual and vocal about their support for new search and seizure powers.
Have a few cams filming you, the supporters will get physical.
Then upload to yourtube a few 100 times.

What we are trying to do is diplomacy, trying to change the instructions of the cancer cells, reminding the cell, "Hey, you're a human cell. You shouldn't be behaving this way."

I found it a rather profound show and watched the DVD several times in a row. Note that the 2005 BBC version (on YouTube) is quite inferior to the 2006 WGBH/Nova one I managed to find on de.sevenload.com. Here are the 6 parts, TinyURL'd: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

What we are trying to do is diplomacy, trying to change the instructions of the cancer cells, reminding the cell, "Hey, you're a human cell. You shouldn't be behaving this way."

I found it a rather profound show and watched the DVD several times in a row. Note that the 2005 BBC version (on YouTube) is quite inferior to the 2006 WGBH/Nova one I managed to find on de.sevenload.com. Here are the 6 parts, TinyURL'd: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

What we are trying to do is diplomacy, trying to change the instructions of the cancer cells, reminding the cell, "Hey, you're a human cell. You shouldn't be behaving this way."

I found it a rather profound show and watched the DVD several times in a row. Note that the 2005 BBC version (on YouTube) is quite inferior to the 2006 WGBH/Nova one I managed to find on de.sevenload.com. Here are the 6 parts, TinyURL'd: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

What we are trying to do is diplomacy, trying to change the instructions of the cancer cells, reminding the cell, "Hey, you're a human cell. You shouldn't be behaving this way."

I found it a rather profound show and watched the DVD several times in a row. Note that the 2005 BBC version (on YouTube) is quite inferior to the 2006 WGBH/Nova one I managed to find on de.sevenload.com. Here are the 6 parts, TinyURL'd: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

What we are trying to do is diplomacy, trying to change the instructions of the cancer cells, reminding the cell, "Hey, you're a human cell. You shouldn't be behaving this way."

I found it a rather profound show and watched the DVD several times in a row. Note that the 2005 BBC version (on YouTube) is quite inferior to the 2006 WGBH/Nova one I managed to find on de.sevenload.com. Here are the 6 parts, TinyURL'd: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

What we are trying to do is diplomacy, trying to change the instructions of the cancer cells, reminding the cell, "Hey, you're a human cell. You shouldn't be behaving this way."

I found it a rather profound show and watched the DVD several times in a row. Note that the 2005 BBC version (on YouTube) is quite inferior to the 2006 WGBH/Nova one I managed to find on de.sevenload.com. Here are the 6 parts, TinyURL'd: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

The key here is that flying isn't a basic human right

I'd say that the burdon is on you to prove that it isn't. Since the right to travel IS a human right, how can you justify abridging that right if you choose to do anything but walk.

Let's say I wanted to travel from my current location in DC, to Sacramento. Are you suggesting that if I want to travel there without having my rights infringed, my only option is walking?

http://tinyurl.com/yzz46xl (Tiny URL of Google maps showing the walking path from DC to Sacramento)

Two Thousand Seven Hundred Miles.
If you walk for 16 hours and sleep for 8, it looks like you can make it there and back in 98 days.

Not to mention that it likely goes along a path where I'll be exposed to oncomming traffic, and I'm certain that some sections don't have sidewalks.

So my only option to not have my rights infringed is to give up 1/4th of a year and put my life in jeopardy just to travel to one US city?

Sorry, but it is infringing upon our Rights.

Much worse.

http://tinyurl.com/yg7pqg9 That should get you reasonably close

We should also ask are the copyright laws legitimate? The original copyright laws originated in Britain in 1710 as an act “for the encouragement of learning” and “for the encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books”. It's right that they protect musicians too but when a music company can contrive for some teenage nit wit to be hyped in all the music media and then sell millions of copies of some ditty at a replication cost so close to nothing that it may as well be free can this be fair? Hasn't the music industry neglected it's initial reason for being and now become interested only in supporting itself and neglecting the msuci? Isn't it ripping everyone off? Let the audience decide http://tinyurl.com/yj7zbok

Link

Let Me Google That for you: Karmic Koala Mobile Broadband 5101

http://tinyurl.com/yl7klxz

Actually I meant the entire lamp stack and I had never heard of yum it's not documented very well and the application yum is not exactly named "install-missing-software" is it. I went with windows XP and the wampserver installation. Works like a charm it installs itself and was trouble free.

You obviously didn't try too hard.

I'm by no means a *nix guru... I spend most of my time working on Windows machines... And the first thing I do when I sit down at a new computer is look for the mouse.

But it only takes about 60 seconds with a web browser to give you a very complete, concise answer. Seriously. It is literally the first result that comes up in Google. Complete, step-by-step instructions. You don't even need to know what yum is.

So... does it have a proper SDK (well, ok, at least unlocked hardware that can be freely reflashed with guerrilla builds of Android), or maybe an API for UI customization (repurposing buttons, changing the way it works, etc)?

Up to now, there's one eBook market that should have publishers absolutely salivating: computer and technical books. It's the one niche where non-crippled eBooks really DO have a compelling value proposition. Think about it... what's the biggest single problem with most computer books? They're already a version behind 6 weeks before they even arrive at Amazon, let alone Borders or Barnes & Noble. Computer-related eBooks have the potential to change that, by letting you auto-update the books regularly to incorporate fixes and revisions long after the book first became available. Plus, they have the potential for instant gratification. I'd probably buy twice as many books if I could have them *right now*, *this instant*, instead of having to wait until at least tomorrow afternoon to get them from Amazon (I've pretty much given up entirely on Borders -- once the gold standard of local computer book availability -- and Barnes & Noble has maybe 3% of the books I actually want available for immediate purchase at a store within 50 miles of my house whenever I go searching).

What I *really* want is an ebook that starts with the button configuration of an Ectaco Jetbook ( http://tinyurl.com/ctaq3q ) that keeps the transflective LCD, but bumps the resolution up to 1280x960 or 1600x1200, has approximately the width and height of a Manning book, and adds a capacitive digitizer for finger-friendly Graffiti-like handwriting recognition. And of course, a published, programmer-friendly API that lets you more or less reinvent its user interface without having to actually reinvent Acrobat reader *itself*.

Why LCD instead of e-ink? Latency. Novels are usually read page by page, sequentially. Computer books are ready by jumping all over the place, and rapidly flipping through pages to find something nearby. Frankly, 500-800ms is just plain unacceptable in that context. It would drive me nuts. I want to hit the 'next page' or 'previous page' button, and have the page visible before I even finish releasing the button (using onboard ram to cache the entire active pdf file since flash is painfully slow). Hell, if it becomes affordable, give me a second display while you're at it, so I can either see adjacent pages, or have two books open at once side by side. Maybe make one display e-ink, and one LCD (with a UI that juggles them around, so the page of interest during active page-flipping always ends up on the LCD instead of e-ink).

Would I pay $40-50 for an ebook that costs the same in print form, that can only be read on a Kindle, and is basically a warmed-over scan of the print edition? Hell no. At best, current ebooks are basically a crutch to get me over today's crisis until the paper copy arrives tomorrow. Half the time, my workflow can be described as: 1) find book(s) at Amazon; 2) order before the FedEx deadline; 3) download it 20 minutes later from eMule, since I *really* need it *right now* (admittedly, skipping step #2 most of the time if it's already past the evening deadline for next-day delivery and too late to get the real book by tomorrow anyway. It's amazing how not being able to get it tomorrow under any circumstances has a way of diminishing the perceived urgency of buying it). Yeah, I DO get my money's worth from my Amazon Prime membership. The FedEx man personally knows my name ;-)

Would I do it for a book on something rapidly-changing, like Android programming, with constant revisions for at least 2 or 3 years as Android evolves from 1.5 to 1.6, 2.0, and beyond? Hell yeah. In fact, even limited to reading it on my PC, I paid the author of the Busy Coder Android books for a 12-month subscription that gives me permanent pdf copies of his Android books (3 so far), plus constant revisions. Google 'warescripti

cell phones fair game? Depends if your talking about the towers and tracking or just enjoying an iphone.
Thinks back to Adamo Bove and Costas Tsalikidis.
Adamo Bove was the head of security at Telecom Italia and exposed the CIA (Abu Omar rendition in Italy traced after the fact with mobiles), SISMI ( ~ the Italian CIA) and his own bosses. He was found under a freeway overpass.
Costas Tsalikidis was a 38-year-old software engineer for Vodaphone in Greece.
He uncovered a highly sophisticated bug embedded in the mobile network.
Spyware eavesdropped on the Greek prime Minister and other top officials’ cell phone calls; it even monitored the car phone of Greece’s secret service chief.
His mother found him hanging outside of his apartment bathroom.

Another interesting aspect is the NYPD and its love for the battery life of your phone.
http://tinyurl.com/y9lh6wq (nydailynews.com slashdot did not like the long url)
They will ask you to take out the battery, thus giving them a warrant free view of your International Mobile Equipment Identity number.
So yes cell phones are fair game :)

If you like the old games, maybe you still have them hanging around somewhere? I'm a big fan of dosbox: http://www.dosbox.com/ and other emulators that run great under linux. I've got a couple of wireless logitech game controllers for the ROM emulators. http://tinyurl.com/yz6tyop

The city of Malaga in Spain has experienced these as well:

http://tinyurl.com/yzmoqnu

As far as I can tell from here:

http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Blogs/view/5485/.html
http://tinyurl.com/yh3d59w

The "2009" figures are actually from Q1 2009, first published in May:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=985912

The original "article" doesn't seem to be the Reg one but a plug for Gartner's October conference:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139026/Android_to_grab_No._2_spot_by_2012_says_Gartner

Gartner's Mystic Megs haven't always been spot-on before. For example, in 2006:
http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_152911_11.html

they seemed to forget to mention the imminent drop of Motorola from number 2 in the list in 2006. They warned about Samsung, who improved their position.

My forecast? In 2012 one of the dominant smartphone OSes will be some Chinese thing that no-one reading this has heard of yet.

Car and Driver published a study in which they compared reading and writing text messages with drunk driving. They only tested reaction times, not vehicle control. But, in general, reading and writing texts led to worse reaction times than being intoxicated. Decent and short read.

http://tinyurl.com/candtextingwhiledriving

As another posted mentioned though, enforcement will be the real issue. Sounds like it will be more post crash cell phone log analysis to see if you were texting than anything they can pull you over for. Because unless you're doing it in a very obvious manner, there's no real way to tell you're doing it until you crash.

SScorpio, Microsoft does have an official Windows 7 Support Forum located here http://tinyurl.com/9fhdl5 . It is supported by product specialists as well as engineers and support teams. You may want to check the threads available there for additional assistance and feedback regarding ATI and Nvidia compatibility questions. Jessica MIcrosoft Windows Client Team

If I had signed up when I first started reading /., I would have been at ~450,000.

Unfortunately I just signed up recently, so I'm "officially" new here. Ain't that a bitch.

Here's the white paper.

Likely you also a liberal-- and don't support Israel either.

http://tinyurl.com/kob49j

Sad, that.

Slash butchered the ever-living fuck out of that link. Good job with the unicode support, niggers. What is this, 1975?

Here's correct link, hiding behind a tinyurl: http://preview.tinyurl.com/yhg3xb

Frankly, I'm ignoring the majority of comments on /. about this because, well, the few that I did see seem to be leaning towards the Apple is Overpriced/Evil/Worthless/NotAsGoodAsSomeOtherOS angle, which doesn't seem to be too helpful.

So, here's a real-world solution that's worked for me so far:

I started by subscribing to the Leopard Server Quick Tour podcast ( http://tinyurl.com/ccwqup ) -- It's only highlights and a bit of detail to get going, but worth watching.

Then I started collecting some of the OSX Server Admin manuals from Apple ( http://tinyurl.com/l336ux but there are others ). The most helpful so far have been Server_Administration_v10.5.pdf and Open_Directory_Admin_v10.5_3rd_Ed.pdf

I wasn't given a budget to go directly to a live Enterprise deployment and take advantage of Apple's fee-based solutions specialists. Instead, it's a learn as I go development first then staged deployment. So, I started with a refurbished Mac Mini ($450) and a 10-user license of OSX 10.5 Leopard Server found on Amazon for $250 -- the upgrade to unlimited users (which we'll need eventually) is only $250 more at the moment.

I'm currently getting my Macs working with the OSX Open Directory server then I'll get Open Directory to talk with Active Directory. Once that's sorted out, it's on to the Apple NetBoot for remote deployments of new machines and users.

Naturally, YMMV.

Frankly, I'm ignoring the majority of comments on /. about this because, well, the few that I did see seem to be leaning towards the Apple is Overpriced/Evil/Worthless/NotAsGoodAsSomeOtherOS angle, which doesn't seem to be too helpful.

So, here's a real-world solution that's worked for me so far:

I started by subscribing to the Leopard Server Quick Tour podcast ( http://tinyurl.com/ccwqup ) -- It's only highlights and a bit of detail to get going, but worth watching.

Then I started collecting some of the OSX Server Admin manuals from Apple ( http://tinyurl.com/l336ux but there are others ). The most helpful so far have been Server_Administration_v10.5.pdf and Open_Directory_Admin_v10.5_3rd_Ed.pdf

I wasn't given a budget to go directly to a live Enterprise deployment and take advantage of Apple's fee-based solutions specialists. Instead, it's a learn as I go development first then staged deployment. So, I started with a refurbished Mac Mini ($450) and a 10-user license of OSX 10.5 Leopard Server found on Amazon for $250 -- the upgrade to unlimited users (which we'll need eventually) is only $250 more at the moment.

I'm currently getting my Macs working with the OSX Open Directory server then I'll get Open Directory to talk with Active Directory. Once that's sorted out, it's on to the Apple NetBoot for remote deployments of new machines and users.

Naturally, YMMV.

http://tinyurl.com/nm6jx9

http://tinyurl.com/knkvop

The iPhone is not ahead of Opera. Net Applications is useless, so you shouldn't trust them. They even admitted to having completely bogus stats recently.

Anonymous Coward, Thank you for evaluating Windows 7 and it's great to hear that you are enjoying your experience so much! If you are planning on purchasing Windows 7 when it is released it may be helpful to know you don't have to wait until October to reserve your copy of Win 7! You can pre-order your copy of Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional today. For more information, see the Windows 7 Pre-Order offer page here: http://tinyurl.com/nldc8p Jessica Microsoft Windows Client Team

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http://tinyurl.com/haikuOSalphabittorrent

Let's do the math here.

Average incoming sunlight to a desert location in the southern U.S. is about 300 W/m^2 averaged over the day and year. Let's assume 25% conversion efficiency from sunlight to electricity (better than photovoltaics, but worse than fossil fuels). To produce 300 GW of electricity (about half of present US needs), we need about 4 billion square meters of mirror. (Laid out flat, it'd be an area 63 km on a side. It's a lot of land, but it's doable.)

Let's assume we're making these out of solid aluminum sheets -- if we're talking ordinary glass mirrors here, it's *glass* that's the limiting factor, not aluminum -- about 3 mm thick. That should be enough for a panel to maintain a rigid shape, with a little bit of crossbracing. Anyway, that comes to 12 million cubic meters of aluminum, or 32 million metric tons.

Global aluminum production in 2001 was 25 million metric tons, with another 10 million tons from recycling.

So as long as you build out your solar plants over the course of a decade or so, you'd be using "only" 10% or so of the world supply of aluminum. At current prices of $2000/tonne, it'll cost you $64 billion. If you assume aluminum prices will spike when you do this, maybe $100 billion.

It's not a cheap proposition, but we're talking about powering the whole US here. At $80/megawatt-hour wholesale prices, 300 GW of electricity is worth $210 billion/year.

The electricity produced has a wholesale value Solar panels will eventually need to be replaced, but that's easy: recycle and re-cast them on-site, using solar electric power.

In short, it's massive but totally doable.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

http://preview.tinyurl.com/oygcnb

http://seekingalpha.com/article/105000-wholesale-electricity-prices-fall-by-51-to-77

In other news, the Prime Minister also apologised for the burning of Joan of Arc and Bishops Ridley and Latimer.

"Apologising" for things other people did is a great way to look good without any risk of admitting your own faults and mistakes. Indeed, it can be a subtle way of rebuking those people for their shortcomings, with the implication that you yourself are free from them.

By apologising for the witch-hunt Turing was subjected to, Brown manages to give the impression that he is unprejudiced, not a bigot, modern, and humble enough to admit past mistakes. To quote the brilliantly-worded title of Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson's book, "Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)". http://tinyurl.com/mlmjt6

Why do I have the feeling that plenty of people in Brown's 21st century Britain are being persecuted - right now - for beliefs and characteristics that our leaders find just as frightening and alien as earlier British politicians found Turing's homosexuality (and intelligence)?

UDF[...]Windows is the problem.
That was the conclusion Richard Rasker came to.

And Google didn't show up any useful pages either
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070422083715451
Cached/highlighted version: http://tinyurl.com/WindozeSucksAtUDF

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