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While I agree with your first statement (a good OS course involves assignments that extend and/or reimplement the core features), you really should do your research before passing judgement...

I was about to agree with your second statement, but I decided to look for proof... and it turns out it's nothing of the sort.

http://tinyurl.com/krt29g

Flea of Pain, 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

According to this, Mt. Wilson is safe.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117631292961056724014.0004720e21d9cded17ce4&ll=34.341168,-118.164825&spn=0.566957,0.823975&t=p&z=10&source=embed or http://tinyurl.com/mcqovo.

I live about 10 crow-flight miles away, but drove through La Canada today. Smoke all over the mountains, gray sky, ash on the cars.

check the drawing board in http://tinyurl.com/l7zxl8
fill in obscured equation 50*1.5^6 ~ 570x
and you get correct 11x GPU performance boost

The Idea was to save some bandwidth

I thought it was to make URLs easier to read or pass around. Didn't tinyurl exist before twitter?

Which would you rather give someone over the telephone:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Pier+5,+San+Francisco,+California+94111&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.527387,65.830078&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=FcvBQAIdZmG0-A&split=0&ll=37.800239,-122.396085&spn=0.007918,0.016072&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A

OR:

http://tinyurl.com/mf5htb

If you'd prefer not to use html in your email, the tinyurl link makes your email a lot cleaner too.

you know that link tag could have a description in html?

really long description with seo keywords

sidenote: I use tinyurl as to send link over SMS and to make something easy to remember http://tinyurl.com/higwaytraffic

Can you tell me what is easier to put in an sms or say over the phone
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Rotselaarsebaan&daddr=Dutselstraat+to:Leempoelstraat+to:Streekweg+to:Alsbergweg+to:Heuvelstraat+to:Hoensberg+to:50.993122,4.942818+to:Testeltsesteenweg+to:Vennestraat+to:Madestraat+to:Moorsemsestraat+to:Tremelosesteenweg+to:Beemdenstraat+to:Steenweg+op+Gelrode+to:Aarschotsesteenweg%2FN19&hl=en&geocode=FV4eCQMdaG5IAA%3BFX4PCQMd-jhJAA%3BFeDwCAMdrIdJAA%3BFT4nCQMdWxVKAA%3BFY4aCQMdRKNKAA%3BFTZKCQMd8GRLAA%3BFSCyCQMdR1dLAA%3B%3BFS5CCgMdKsxKAA%3BFaNKCgMdoktKAA%3BFc5-CgMduJlJAA%3BFTonCgMd_ppIAA%3BFTYXCgMdUOlIAA%3BFRTgCQMdSydJAA%3BFeynCQMd5DdIAA%3BFWTbCAMdGPBHAA&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=7&sz=13&via=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14&sll=50.974751,4.880333&sspn=0.083985,0.253029&ie=UTF8&ll=50.954318,4.837761&spn=0.168044,0.506058&z=12
or http://tinyurl.com/5oknap

Let's $16.67 mil/yr in TV revenue. How much does that buy you? (source: http://tinyurl.com/pms9b4). -Tennessee spends $3.3 mil ... on football assistant coaches. -Central Florida (C-USA) spends $35.5 mil for ALL athletic programs -Florida (SEC) $98 million total/year all sports -Louisiana-Monroe .... $ 7 mil (all sports) (beating Alabama ... priceless) I can't tell you what Vanderbilt spends because Vanderbilt is a private school and has no "Athletic Department." But, as an NCAA-defined booster of the 'Dores I can tell you we need the 16.6 mil, a good contract negotiated at the start of the economic downturn. And until they pry it from my cold dead hands: http://tinyurl.com/kq3ygy

Let's $16.67 mil/yr in TV revenue. How much does that buy you? (source: http://tinyurl.com/pms9b4). -Tennessee spends $3.3 mil ... on football assistant coaches. -Central Florida (C-USA) spends $35.5 mil for ALL athletic programs -Florida (SEC) $98 million total/year all sports -Louisiana-Monroe .... $ 7 mil (all sports) (beating Alabama ... priceless) I can't tell you what Vanderbilt spends because Vanderbilt is a private school and has no "Athletic Department." But, as an NCAA-defined booster of the 'Dores I can tell you we need the 16.6 mil, a good contract negotiated at the start of the economic downturn. And until they pry it from my cold dead hands: http://tinyurl.com/kq3ygy

Perhaps you'd prefer Scientific American: http://preview.tinyurl.com/lvnqa3

rj

You may find this link helpful

Snrk... http://preview.tinyurl.com/obgg5l

rj

The whole "critical bug" was only with a specific chipset, and specific chipset drivers from what I have read. Even then it wasn't sure-fire to happen. It is hardly a "showstopper" and is fixed with updated drivers. It is a bug, for sure. However it is hardly a critical bug with Windows 7. This can likely be fixed with a small patch to chkdsk, and issuing a driver update option (through Windows Update) once the new version has been certified. I fail to see what the big fuss was over. For those who haven't tried out Windows 7, you can still get the Release Candidate for free from Microsoft until August 20th: http://tinyurl.com/9agzvs . If you are anxious to get the final version of Windows 7 before the October 22nd release date, you can always sign up for MSDN or TechNet Plus (it was released to them yesterday, see here: http://tinyurl.com/mpgp4h ).

The whole "critical bug" was only with a specific chipset, and specific chipset drivers from what I have read. Even then it wasn't sure-fire to happen. It is hardly a "showstopper" and is fixed with updated drivers. It is a bug, for sure. However it is hardly a critical bug with Windows 7. This can likely be fixed with a small patch to chkdsk, and issuing a driver update option (through Windows Update) once the new version has been certified. I fail to see what the big fuss was over. For those who haven't tried out Windows 7, you can still get the Release Candidate for free from Microsoft until August 20th: http://tinyurl.com/9agzvs . If you are anxious to get the final version of Windows 7 before the October 22nd release date, you can always sign up for MSDN or TechNet Plus (it was released to them yesterday, see here: http://tinyurl.com/mpgp4h ).

Actually, FreeBSD DOES run on some microwaves. There is a list of compatible hardware.

It is the OS of choice for odd appliances.

What the hell is this? Twitter? some blag? Where on earth is the link to TFA?

http://tinyurl.com/lrctd7

Asian women also avoid key white women characteristics such as having a mid life crisis, divorce, and hobbies that donâ(TM)t involve taking care of the children or cooking for their husband. See for more info http://tinyurl.com/3r8x6o

Nice find..

http://preview.tinyurl.com/lb3fo3

I have had AT&T's free wifi for years, and haven't used it once: I rather work in a coffee shop than at McD. And I'd rather support a coffee shop or hotel that offers wifi to all of its customers, than one that participates in a subscription only net.

I also assume, that using your DSL provider's "free" WiFi will help to make open hotspots disappear and lead to an internet, where you can't log on without positive identification and account login.

Despite stupid scare tactics, there still is a a fair number of places, that see wifi sharing as a courtesy, and not as a threat to national security.

Just google for it.

Getty-Dubay is the way to go. I learned penmanship in the late seventies. I was taught the "ball and stick" method for print and a version of the Palmer method for cursive (lots of loops). Taking notes in college was a struggle. I wrote faster in cursive but with all the loops, it became illegible pretty fast. I got Getty and Dubay's book Write Now and that changed everything. They use the "Italic" method which goes back to Michelangelo and Davinci. It has a very classic look. Italic is much easier and more natural to use. I highly recommend it.

Well, you have a point, but it's not a new one. MS has always feared the GPL and they are merely doing what is in their best interest AKA licensing before they get sued. The folks who created the software could easily still sue for the time from when it was being used -> when it was licensed for damages.

Everyone has had to respect the GPL because it has already been held up in court as far back as germany in 2004 and redhat in 2006.

Well, you have a point, but it's not a new one. MS has always feared the GPL and they are merely doing what is in their best interest AKA licensing before they get sued. The folks who created the software could easily still sue for the time from when it was being used -> when it was licensed for damages.

Everyone has had to respect the GPL because it has already been held up in court as far back as germany in 2004 and redhat in 2006.

Reducing cable clutter Instructables.com All kinds of solutions to all kinds of cable clutter

simple phrase that incorporates why the GPLv3 is a big deal for MS to license under instead:

patent covenants.

While neither a lover of Microsoft or Apple, calling Apple a monopoly is simply ludicrous. They hold about 3% of the global PC market (~7.7% in the US), 1% of the global cell phone market, and by some estimates about 23% of the Personal Digital Music Player market (Source: http://tinyurl.com/nm3m4n). Certainly not a monopoly in any of the markets. Microsoft on the other hand has ~90% global market share.

As far as why Apple is not abusing monopoly laws with their iTunes software as it relates to the iPod, for the same reason that Blackberry's and Palm's software does not abuse monopoly laws for connecting to their devices.

Its not just the readable surface that fails. I have had a commercially printed CD shatter in my drive due to plastic fatigue. Not very nice, very loud and took the drive with it! http://tinyurl.com/m6ecgj

Mirror #2 -

http://tinyurl.com/n6ytxu

14:3 International Journal of Law and Information Technology 257

BTW, Stallman (RMS pour les initiés) just had some interesting things to say about these and a DRM "Swindle":
http://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/Video-Stallman-ueber-DRM-Patente-und-C
(interview on video in English of course - free from a famous Spanish holiday resort, beats rainy Redmond/WA ;-))

Dogs can detect molecules on the order of a couple parts per million, far below our level of detection. They can also smell cancer, and can tell the difference between different kinds of internal cancer just by smelling the skin. They have also been shown to be able to predict seizures, and hypoglycemic attacks.

Since when is a couple of parts per million below our level of detection? Anyway, at the "concentrations" at which homeopaths consider potency to be greatest (in other words, the most dilute concentrations) it's not so much a matter of the solute existing at infinitesimal concentrations as much as there being not solute molecules left whatsoever.

Not even homeopaths dispute this. Instead of this they make some up bullshit, ad hoc stuff up about vibrations being left behind in the to form a memory of what used to be there.

And I really have no clue as to why you are bringing dogs into it. That's an altogether different discussion.

Just because we cannot detect low levels, doesn't mean they are not there nor have any effect.

That's pretty much an oxymoron since any effect constitutes something we can detect.

However you seem to be misunderstanding why there might not be something in there at all in some homeopathic preparations. It has nothing to do with whether we can detect it or not. It has to do with atomic theory, a concept which has been with us in its crudest forms for at least two millennia and which modern science has confirmed. You see, stuff is made up of discrete chunks. Let's say you've got a volume of water with 10000 arsenic cations (that's a kind of chunk). If you dilute it ten fold you will only have, on average, 1000 arsenic cations in that same volume of water. If you dilute it a million fold, you will have on average zero arsenic cations in that volume simply because there were a lot fewer than 1000000 arsenic cations to begin with.

How does this relate to homeopathic preparations? The most dilute homeopathic preparations out there (in other words, the ones which homeopaths consider the most potent --ever hear the joke about the patient who forgot to take his homeopathic medicine and died of an overdose?) are prepared at 200C (sometimes also written as 200 CK depending on which nutty dilution protocol is used: that of Hahneman or that of Korsakov). What this means is that the original substance is diluted one hundred fold and then the resulting solution is diluted one hundred fold again another 199 times. That means the dilution factor is 100^^200. This is a 1 with 400 zeroes after it. Not only is this number much greater than the number which is a homophone to the name of a popular search engine, it is also greater than the estimated number of atoms in the whole universe (which http://preview.tinyurl.com/nypp6pWikipedia estimates to be a lot fewer than a googol).

What this means is that if you put the same number of solute molecules as there exists atoms in the universe into a container and performed a 200C dilution you would end up with no solute molecules by the time that you were done with your serial dilutions.

So basically, paraphrasing you, to say that "just because a homeopathic preparation is diluted beyond Avogadro's limit doesn't mean that it does not have any effect" is like saying that "just because distilled water doesn't have any salt in it it doesn't mean that it is not going to taste salty". It's true that I could convince you that some http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OscillococcinumOscillococcinum will help you with your flu just as it is true that I may convince you that distilled water is, in fact, salty. However, this fact is not due to any inherent curative properties of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OscillococcinumOscillococcinum just as distilled water tasting salty,

WARNING! Your toddlers might violate a Patent! http://preview.tinyurl.com/22yk38

My parents have evidence of my prior art dating back to the mid 1980s on VHS-C. I'd show you but the cassette adapter is broken.

That's because Microsoft has been directly "leaking" 7 to the p2p sites this time around.

I put that in quotes because it should be obvious by now that the leaked builds of 7 have the blessings of Redmond. Remember, they will give it away to keep you from even considering alternatives.

"And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." William Gates III ca. 1998. http://tinyurl.com/nbo55t

--
BMO

The difference is that while it is unclear what method Google use, Navizon clearly states they will PAY users who have GPS installed in their phones, to roam around and collect Cell ID, APs, etc. and submit it to them. At the SAME time you get maps to see where you are, Buddies to see where your friends are, etc.

So in this instance, Navizon is paying for the crowd to submit the latest/updated data all the time. So if I drive around an area, and an AP that was there yesterday is no there anymore, you won't get the same error as Google where you suddenly appear to have gone to a different city/state/whatever, as I just personally updated the AP landscape.

Great stuff, and to get paid as well... I guess it is cheaper for Navizon to pay users a $10 or $20 dollars for a few hours of "driving" rather than run their own vans around trying to update APs all over the world, and this way the database is likely to stay very, very fresh!

And with a tinyurl.com transformation, it "sufficiently large" << large.

For one thing, the TinyURL transformation is not onto; there exist valid strings that have no TinyURL representation. For another, TinyURL transformations can be eaten by a grue. From TinyURL's terms:

Using it for spamming or illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the TinyURL being disabled

This means TinyURL redirects are not a function only of the URL but of the URL and time. For example, a takedown notice from a copyright owner might cause the value of TinyURL(url, now) to be undefined for values of now greater than the date when TinyURL received the notice.

"Services include visual design, user interface design, information architecture, design engineering, project management, interactive data visualization and Web application-level functionality."

"At some point, the reporting requirements and frequency of updates for the site might be changed or expanded and would therefore require further design and integration, the notice states." (money pit - government customers are infamous for changing or adding on new requirements and projects are never delivered)

"The site must also:

        * Evaluate data quality to optimize large, highly complex, rapidly changing datasets.
        * Automatically replicate data.
        * Standardize, normalize and cleanse data.
        * Respond quickly to requests for data.
        * Link to high-value business processes, such as fraud detection."

(source: http://www.washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2009/06/15/Recovery.gov-board-seeks-vendor.aspx/)

I feel $18 million is deservedly bad press at this time, and I'm certain there's a lot of waste and padding, but this is not, as some posters here seem to think, just a web application like a shopping cart.

More here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/nl2hld

Not exactly the most reliable statistics. How can a browser have a higher market share than another browser with 3x as many users? Yeah, Net Applications reported that.

No, the fact is, I haven't heard a scientific THEORY about CO2, at all.
I've seen hypotheses, sure. A properly formulated and tested theory as to the mechanics? Nope.

You haven't looked hard enough

Laboratory test confirms it, the function of Greenhouses confirms it, and a large scale "test" is currently being conducted on a global scale, that is also confirming it.

In addition...

If your user-land level stuff is breaking under a 64-bit kernel, "You're Doing It Wrong"

The only thing that I'm aware of is funky pointer-math voodoo, which you should NOT be even considering touching unless you are deep down in the hardware.

So, point your fingers firmly at the commercial software vendors for this problem.

I know that the internet is incredibly difficult to use, but there is this incredibly complex and secret thing called a "search engine" the most popular one is called "google" and it can give you what you are looking for.

It is insanely difficult to use, I gathered several PHd's together and they found what you are looking for. It cost me millions but I love to help the helpless...

http://tinyurl.com/n8499y -- here is what you need. No need to thank me, it's my secret super power.

Now I'm off to help a Nebraska woman not insert her curling iron into an orifice.

I've read the actual patent your link refers to http://tinyurl.com/5ns2 and .Net is just the example used in the patent. This patent would cover anything that did something similar to .Net. Like most patents, it has a long list of claims. For example:

"31. A method, comprising: calling one or more first functions to facilitate browser/server communication; calling one or more second functions to facilitate construction of client applications; calling one or more third functions to facilitate connectivity to data sources and XML functionality; and calling one or more fourth functions to access system and runtime resources."

That covers a lot of ground that you don't need to develop something like Mono to be in conflict with.

In summary, this is not a .Net-specific patent.

Flubbed above; corrected below:

Second, I like to drive long distances / cross-country (for instance: I plan to go east in not many weeks from now on this route and back to Seattle via a slightly less direct path ), and would like something that can fake AI pretty well as a travel aid. ("Infotainment!")"

timothy

Flubbed above; corrected below:

Second, I like to drive long distances / cross-country (for instance: I plan to go east in not many weeks from now on this route and back to Seattle via a slightly less direct path ), and would like something that can fake AI pretty well as a travel aid. ("Infotainment!")"

timothy

Solution to article => http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/22/1616239 i.e. Why don't you real men like condoms? Seeing as how I prefer earning my Gravity Wheel invention seed money (last pgh) and not gov't handout money extorted from your paychecks by Hussein Obama just send the $4.23-$423,000.00 consultant fee for solving these pressing sexual dysfunction issues to Member One Federal Credit Union #162895 in Roanoke Virginia please => the answer to this "Why men don't like condoms?" question is that men sense they are being poisoned by the biphenyl baby bottle plastic poison contained in rubber condoms. The male brain has a high flow of blood + the male penis having also the high flow of blood equals

THE BRAIN DETECTS INCOMING POISON FROM THE CONDOM ENCLOSED PENIS

FOLLOWING PLACEMENT & SUBSEQUENT INTENSE HOT HEAVY-SEX-HEAT

AND SWEAT-RELEASED CONDOM CHEMICAL POISON INTO BRAIN-BOUND BLOOD

RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICAN MEN NEEDING VIAGRA & CIALIS TO RECOVER LOST PENIS FUNCTION.

The human brain
#1 recognizes the condom-released chemical poison coming its way &
#2 makes the man feel uncomfortable using condoms because
#3 MALES ARE BEING POISON-CASTRATED WITH CONDOM-DELIVERED BIPHENYL PLASTIC

developed primarily to placate women ditto vasectomies.

This solution will be added to my web sites for the record how I solved the worldwide male poisoning-by-condom by our present male-is-only-a-sperm donor despising society but no, Woodrow Riley isn't so brain dead stupid he thinks a "consultant fee" will be deposited in my bank account above. No one else does it. I could however stop receiving monthly disability checks with enough small donations of thanks were received so I could buy a tractor-trailer rig and get back to work or get to work completing the design of my Gravity Wheel that will power each person's home by a gravity-run generator => http://www.newpath4.com/firefox_best_links.htm. PayPal any help you feel motivated to send for me alerting you YOUR RUBBER IS KILLING YOU to riley101 at cox dot net. See also http://tinyurl.com/GravityWheelOne and, thanks for the help; it will come back to you many times over and likely your children,

especially your MALE children who should be

spared chemicals doused on their penis.

If one does a little digging and actually reads the letter the FDA sent to the company, they said that the "FDA has concluded that these products MAY pose a serious risk to consumers who use them....". Whereas, the press release says "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today advised consumers to stop using three products marketed over-the-counter as cold remedies because they ARE ASSOCIATED with the loss of sense of smell (anosmia)." The two differ a lot in meaning. The message to the company says that there could be a connection, whereas the news release just says there is a connection. Personally, I think that the FDA is being overly aggressive. The Obama admin. has encouraged a change from the (awful) years of Bush. Likewise, the FDA has taken a very aggressive stance toward companies. PS- I have used Zicam and it works, and I can still smell! Sources: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm167065.htm http://preview.tinyurl.com/lq68wd

There seemed to be several approaches but everyone was playing their cards close to their (patent) chest. They all seemed to be targeting lower altitudes of about 500-1000 metres.

One is described in some detail here and used cables to provide guidance (just the kite aloft): http://tinyurl.com/m57qtp (no, not a Rickroll).

The NS article has a summary image for another approach: http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2656/26562001.jpg

Basically the "terrorist" label is used in the U.S. for anyone power holders do not like and who may compromise profits. Animal rights activists who sabotage fur farms but who have hurt no person nor have threatened to are on the FBI lists as "terrorists".

BTW, the Neo-Nazis are organized at least as well/bad and there are violent extremist Christian/anti-abortion groups. So by your definition they are "terrorists" too.

http://tinyurl.com/az7bw (I don't need to remind slashdotters to use Ray's sig rather than click on my link when you're planning to give money, right? No-one would ever click on a link in slashdot and put in financial info, right? Right.)

Thanks again Ray, for being a voice of reason in this ongoing RIAA fiasco. My money should already be in your Paypal account.

For the rest of you slashdotters, Where's Your Donation? Go ahead, you know you want to help...

Canadian zip code humor: http://tinyurl.com/V4G1N4

Yeah, it's funny... kinda. But Canada doesn't have zip codes ;)

Canadian zip code humor: http://tinyurl.com/V4G1N4

That would be a lot funnier if Canada actually used zip codes. Or "humor". But at least you spelled the first word right.

Security is a process - not a state. Computer security is like a horizon - an imaginary line that seems to move farther away as you move toward it.

Bruce? Is that you?

See my response at http://verificationguild.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=15517#15517 or at http://tinyurl.com/oamkc4 Ben Cohen http://www.systemverilog.us/ * A Pragmatic Approach to VMM Adoption 0-9705394-9-5 * SystemVerilog Assertions Handbook * Using PSL/SUGAR * Real Chip Design & verification * VHDL Coding Styles & Methodologies * Cmpts desig