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Of course by the time you wrote your comment you were aware of the fact, that URL shorteners have a preview function.
Like in http://preview.tinyurl.com/pleaseclickmeomg

Leopard is $118 from Amazon. And you can go cheaper if you buy 'used'.
Or find a friend who has a spare license left in a family pack.

Methinks thou doest protest too much.

Here you go, have fun with your physical slashdotting.

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We offer a donor management system that includes many of the same features as DonorPerfect, Raiser's Edge and some of the other solutions mentioned here.
There is a good comparison, including DonorPro and many of other products mentioned above, here http://tinyurl.com/lb5ve2
Good luck!

How can you "not know", unless you put your head in the sand when you look at office supply web sites/go to any store with office supplies?

I mean, REALLY?

http://tinyurl.com/pv534w

That's why I camouflage the password. It's not a post-it with "Password: aa\x5Ahf". But something like:

"""
TODO:
- fix bug http://is.gd/av+a3ohW
- file header should be: aa\x5Ahf
- upgrade http://tinyurl.com/ov-eiP2o
"""

As the other responder noted, that is not necessary. Check THIS out. They are very accurate. The exact same technology could be used in a headset to determine your location and where you are looking.

There are lots of "virtual reality" scenarios that do not call for any kind of shape or image recognition. For example, have you seen one of THESE?

The Celestron uses its integral GPS, electronic compass, and accelerometers to determine exactly where you are looking, and it will identify stars for you.

Using the same detector technology, a heads-up display could overlay "virtual" 3-D objects onto your glasses, that appear to be in any location, anywhere. Those objects could move, you could see them in 3D, and so on. There is no need for image recognition at all, just to do that.

Further, if you had two such units networked together, they could communicate their respective locations, and you could see a "monster" image overlaid on top of your friend. Admittedly, this would be a bit rough without the recognition you mentioned, but it could still make for a satisfying virtual experience. All kinds of "virtual" objects could be inserted into your world, and there are a number of fairly trivial ways that could be rigged up for you to interact with them.

Google totally dumped the Immersive Media VW BUG data footage and the company itself from Street View when the camera quality and function would not perform as advertized. Immersive Media then used the Google name to run up their own stock price and cash in for the Canadian executives. Google refused to even speak to the Immersive Media CEO after repeated lies and the stock games came to light in June 2007. Between that and Canadian Privacy problems this company is now trying to dig for clean coal or something? their stock is in the toilet. You can download all the docs yourself online: http://tinyurl.com/googlestreetdocs

Google totally dumped the Immersive Media footage and the company itself from Street View when the camera quality and function would not perform as advertized. Immersive Media then used the Google name to run up their own stock price and cash in for the Immersive executives. Google refused to even speak to the Immersive Media CEO after repeated lies and the stock games came to light in June 2007. Between that and Canadian Privacy problems this company is now trying to dig for clean coal or something? and their stock is in the toilet. You can download all the docs yourself online: http://tinyurl.com/googlestreetdocs

1. Will Flash media, WITH SOUND, work out of the box?

Been awhile since I've installed. However, I don't remember having to do more than install Flash (sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree). Sound worked, and non-Firefox browsers work also.

2. What about VPN?

This post will be submitted via a VPN. In fact, currently all traffic, including DNS, is routed through that VPN.

3. What about wireless?

Yes, and out of the box. That's more than I can say for XP.

4. Any specialty software?

Some yes, some no. However, at what point would Linux become ready? There is specialty software which does not work on the Mac, and no one claims that's not ready for the desktop. There's even specialty software which does not work on Windows.

5. Printing?

Point-and-click, out of the box, no need to install drivers or anything. Try to add a network printer, it'll even scan the local subnet for anything listening on port 631.

I don't print often -- I don't need paper often. But I often remember asking people, "Can I borrow your printer?" and being able to print something maybe 30 seconds after plugging it into a USB port. I can't ever remember this not being the case -- I honestly can't remember printing ever being a problem.

6. Educational software?

There are whole distros designed specifically for education.

7. Stuff to keep the kids away from nasty sites?

Anything on the local machine is doomed to failure. Kids know more about this stuff than you do. Hey, maybe they'll try Linux themselves, on a Knoppix CD, where your "stuff to keep them away from nasty sites" won't work.

However, filtering at the ISP level is quite common, as an option. Sure, in the long run, it'll be broken also, but it's really a bit more effective, and works equally well with all OSes.

8. Home automation?

Right here.

According to him, this picture sucks.

According to this thorough article in norwegian (since norwegian scientists are involved), there is a lot of secrecy involved, so that results from Planck will not be released to the public before 2013 or 2014:

http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/05/14/nyheter/vitenskap/forskning/astronomi/verdensrommet/6203165/

(Briefly mentioned also, in this blog: http://planckmission.wordpress.com/ )

Sorry, no proper translation from norwegian to english available:

http://tinyurl.com/orlkmu

In short, it says that because of competition between the scientists, there will be strict regulations and that scientist who forget to log out of their PC ("turn their monitor off") or bring any data off the premises, will be excluded from further studies and further monitoring of the Planck observatory.

Which I find strange, since there is only one Planck observatory like there is only one Hubble telescope, and there were no secrecy around the images released from it.

If one scientist give up his or her data, so that other scientists can get advantages which might make them "win the competition", why exclude scientists who "volunteer" information?

This, I don't understand, do they expect to find proof of alien presence? :-)

We had a very heavy 1989 Oldsmobile station wagon. It got 25 City & 28 Highway! It was geared into the dirt. 3rd gear top speed was 45, but at that point it shifted into the 2nd speed of the transaxle. My friend, if SUV'S were geared even lower than that for front wheel drive up to say a 3rd or 4th gear then you could run a direct drive to the rear wheels for highway speeds only at the back tires. All vehicles could be made that way, lower gears and reverse on the front wheels, hi-speed at the rear but it only works if you have a powerful engine (see last paragraph). I imagine SUV'S and pickup trucks would then be getting maybe 45-65 mpg with no changes to the engines... especially with these new diesel engines they're coming out with.

Toyota came out with a engine for their little pickups that runs diesel but then it has a switch to jump over to METHANE. Damn thing is supposed to get 80 mpg. They could put a bigger one in SUV'S and Hummers. I presently only have a 1978 Ford Maverick and mileage is 14 or so, atrocious, but if I put some smaller diameter tires on next time I need tires I could IN EFFECT give it the extra/excess starting off power the Olds wagon had. That's where you need horses on the hoof, pulling away from a stop getting the car's weight moving with the least outlay of energy. Since I only drive it around town anyway & to work or the store I don't need it to do highway speeds. I can stand a top speed of 42-45 miles per hour. I'll tell ya something else you might not know this but I've read you can take the plugs and compression off a couple cylinders in the 302 and save gas that way! So with smaller tires I could have more torque to the road and make out well with fewer cylinders, probably double the gas mileage, if I chose to do all that.

IT'S ALL IN THE GEARING, THE GEARBOX AND DIFFERENTIALS IS WHERE YOU LOSE. They could keep every big SUV on the road. They just want people getting crushed into a bloody ball I guess. That's what they think of a man's family and children. Bloodsport without Van Damme. I'm too busy right now making a Gravity "Fuel" Home Engine generates electricity for homes to mess with it => http://tinyurl.com/GravityWheelOne but I invented a system for cars in 2003 that is a tornado engine, mixes super cold liquid air injected into a steam-filled hot cylinder (so th minus 320 degree air doesn't flash freeze the piston to the cylinder walls). Last year I designed the engine past theory to run like a mechanical heart. My son is making it up in 3-d Studio Max starting tomorrow. It's a Closed System; once put together no fuel in no pollutants out. I'm not much for making web pages but since I didn't have the bucks to pay anybody in 2003 I made this page telling the processes involved for the air-steam engine => http://www.newpath4.com/enginewow.htm . It's like an advanced steam engine in a way except the steam is no longer the "Prime Mover"; cold air takes its place => Steam pressure is replaced with air exploding pressure. It confuses people. Steam Heat becomes the catalyst that makes the liquid air explode rather than just expand. It's a weather cycle in an engine that should develop 600 horsepower. Here's the trick => all the cylinders fire at the same time PLUS another trick => it goes back to being a 2-cycle engine firing twice as fast. It's about 1100% more powerful than any diesel combustion engine.

On the road I used a computer called Twinhead Subnote running Windows 3.1, with a built in modem I could connect back to the office. Here is a photo http://tinyurl.com/pybl33

Keir Thomas needs to http://tinyurl.com/gxhq

One exotic green woman, as requested:

http://tinyurl.com/cdqc6q

And speaking of the war, let's not forget Finland's part in it.

First POST!

When are people going to get that using "green" products is still producing consumer waste, and that if you want to truly make an impact, you need to ride your bike sometimes, or something!

Like eating less meat.

http://beforewisdom.com/blog/?p=155

http://tinyurl.com/2g47ac

Here's the latest tweet from @whitehouse:

Good Jobs Here at Home: The President offers proposals to curb tax havens and replace tax advantages for creatin.. http://tinyurl.com/cwzcv6

It's basically repeats of what they are posting on the White House Blog at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

Actually, these criticisms have been pretty thoroughly debunked, perhaps most significantly here.

For an up to date Google map of the Swine flue outbreak:

http://tinyurl.com/swinemap09

It's really incredible how quickly it's spreading around the globe.

http://tinyurl.com/dlzo96

"My life had got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater. Times is rough and tough like leather," said the senior senator of his 29-year membership with the GOP. "I figured out I went the wrong route. So I got with a sick tight clique and went all out."

Nice to see Change we can all believe in.

How much kerosene was that? http://tinyurl.com/dlagjc

Tell me about it.

Hmmm Eight POINT five percent. Very precise. Must not be any subjectivity in this study.

I_Voter

A work in progress Political Power in the U.S.

It has always been a basic principle, at least in the US: you cannot copyright a fact. You can copyright the way you word things about a fact, but that is not the same thing.

So, for example: your article about the beauty of yesterday's sunset at 7:45pm can be copyrighted. But anyone else can read your article, and in turn write that yesterday's sunrise was at 7:45pm, because that basic fact is not copyrightable.

That is a sufficiently thorough explanation, as it really is a very basic element of law. If you still don't believe it, http://tinyurl.com/2c9np

I don't understand: how is it possible to acquire a company with technologies that are this monetize-able: http://tinyurl.com/dh8mcr ?

This is not Wikipedia. http://tinyurl.com/2c9np

check the price, then come back and tell me how gyros aren't exactly expensive.

Furthermore you can bash whatever to high heaven or something, your view on why you felt the Wii unworthy or your living room is as ontopic my little rant on the various pbs MSFT have with their hardware (pb they actually handle well for a change).
I mean YetAnotherInternetToughGuyBashTehWee, everybody can go to various gaming websites to see this and NEWSFLASH : nobody cares.
And I mean I'm pretty nobody cares about whether or not you'll buy another wii (as a multiconsole owner you're a minority of a minority so...yeah).
And I agree that nobody gives a shit about my view on it too (which is why i keep it to myself).

Now about the M+, the tech is indeed expensive. if it wasn't Sony would have integrated it in the Sixaxis instead of the accelerometers.

Ah! The truth comes out!

Just pick yourself up a TRS-80 Model 100, and be done. It only uses about one Watt of power.

Or maybe an RS-232-equipped teletype; I have a TI Silent 700 here that uses thermal paper. It works fine after rescuing it from the hot equipment cabinet where it lived, powered up, for almost exactly twenty years. (Don't ask - you can't afford mine.)

More seriously: Perhaps looking to pro audio for the answer might be productive. You want physical durability, a fair bit of storage, and tolerance for hot environments, and dust. (I live in Ohio, where the humidity is rather high all summer, and I don't consider that to be a real concern since my stuff all seems to survive just fine.)

Nearly zero digging finds me this Ebay offering. I have no idea who really makes this case, but I've been seeing that particular design around for at least 15 years.

The important parts: Rack mount, lots of drive bays, ATX, dust filters, and (here's the clincher) hold-downs for the PCI cards.

Build the rest of the system as you see fit with whatever tradeoffs you want, and avoid copper CPU heatsinks due to the weight (and therefore stress) of them.

And then slide it all into a shock-mounted roadcase. Both Starcase and Anvil are capable of producing a shock-resistant, ATA-rated road case which will fit neatly with the aforementioned ATX case. Also, there is SKB. They don't do anywhere near as much custom work, and their stuff isn't (in my opinion) quite as durable as the others, but they're generally a lot cheaper and lighter, and they list several 4U shock-mounted racks as standard items here.

Does any of this come close to the mark?

Hell, I can't even upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 because they've fucked up support for Intel graphics.

[citation needed], troll.

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15061#post59645
http://tinyurl.com/cboaqa

After you learn to speak and read English it will all make sense.

E

That's 140 characters, not words. Besides, there's always tinyurl.

Use protection.

WOW!! I sure am glad that I live in an apartment.

I_Voter

Although the pile of democratic nations has been growing, when the ability of U.S. voters to influence their government is considered, the U.S. voter is close to the bottom of that pile!
Political Power in the U.S.
A Work in Progress

Friend, I know your pain having trouble losing weight and I am finally losing weight at 57 years of age with a half-operated away thyroid gland (very low metabolic rate). Go to a website called MSSO => http://www.mysupplementstore.com/ and look up Guggelsterones in a product called Guggelbolic Extreme. It's made from the Guggel tree in the Orient somewhere. What it does is it converts the lazy thyroid hormone T-4 into activated T-3 => that will get you up off the couch, feel like exercising or doing yard work, plus it's great for complexion too, for the women a softer silky skin. Then locate a second product there called MELTDOWN. It is scientifically engineered to cause the outer membrane of Fat cells to break apart and be absorbed by your body. However, it is a powerful formula says you can take 3 per day. Do not take 3. Your brain relies of fat for energy so taking 3 will pull too much fat out of the brain and well, 2 is plenty. I only take ONE.

Now visit a website called http://www.vitaglo.com/ and get some Stacker II and Mega Hoodia or somewhere else if you want. These will help you HOWEVER they are also very strong, too strong for older people. Mix one capsule of each of those dry in a pitcher with aloe vera capos from http://www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com/ and Oxy-Nectar from Vitaglo again. These are extremely healthy and healing products. Take two of these a day or just one, your choice.

That will get you on track by building your health so incredibly high your body will begin using the fat but it will also begin eating the bacteria in your body as food source par none and cannibalizing the viruses for protein: you won't starve I assure you. Now if you want to go ONE STEP FURTHER add Hyaluronic Acid from http://www.puritanspride.com/ is a good site for that. Their hyaluronic is very high quality. Hyaluronic is a well-kept secret. It is sold for making women's skin nice and soft/smooth but I found out it STOPS COLON CANCER DEAD IN ITS TRACKS when combined with Oxy-Nectar and Ibuprofens a few a day... because Ibuprofen relaxes cell membranes that allows more of the Oxy-Nectar and the Hyaluronic to get into the cell. What that does you can find here => http://www.prleap.com/pr/91843 . Not only can you turn your ship around and lose weight you can turn your body into a Disease-Killing Machine that does not allow cancers to live. Oxy-Nectar will raise your IQ, an added benefit, so that one day you might develop a Gravity Wheel like I have => http://tinyurl.com/GravityWheelOne and am preparing to show one running online in a few months probably June 2009. God bless your efforts to turn those microbes|bacteria|viruses|molds into a quality food source and enjoy life again.

Yeah, I was the one started saying excess human bodyfat is a Benign Cancer, about 3 maybe 4 years ago. It has taken the researchers a long time to catch up to me I see. I'm The CloudSeeder and one of Jehovah's Witnesses so they avoid acknowledging me much less that I solved cancer by showing people how to build extra of their own new stem cells. Now if the hospitals start doing the rest of my recommendations and set up triage fat surgery interventions rightfully to be fully paid by healthcare provider insurance free liposuction, free modified abdominoplasty and free mesotherapy and free cutting off the excess skin we'll be talking some progress. Food addiction was caused in us, so somebody has to pay the bill besides us. The Food Industry? DUH.

Flutter is the new twitter. Duh. KIM GET COFFEE!

Yup..no IMAP, just POP3.

here

Much of this "new" information was published in 1985 Kelly Johnson's biography, "More than My Share of it all". A fabulous read: http://tinyurl.com/d4ej8b

So, would this do anything to prevent dumbness such as http://tinyurl.com/c6p4yl ?

On the Twitter /. feed, this of course shows as:
slashdot Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? http://tinyurl.com/c3j4n8

P.S. Now if you want a really short URL, try http://tinyarro.ws/ (no affiliation; just impressed by the idea)

Here's a link to Google's cached version of the blog, in case anyone still wants to read it: http://tinyurl.com/cspfrq

a) mix it up. make the ratio one advert per 10 quality, humanistic, value-oriented tweets

b) be transparent. Some of those magpie ads in the article were a little misleading I thought.

b) be clever about it. I've never felt even remotely interested in any paid tweet because they're so crappy, or reduntant, or irrelevant.

I have personally used magpie for advertising, and with success. It's not as potent as pay-per-click (ala Adwords) because the intent to purchase typically isn't there. That's why marketing on Facebook is such a lame idea. Brands are only getting inbetween conversations with loved ones. Not cool.

Twitter has the advantage of having real-time search, so intent can be captured as it's happening.

You definitely can use contextual marketing on twitter and still look at yourself in the mirror each morning. You just gotta know how.

Twitter provides realtime search. It shows intent realtime. It shows trends. It's faster than the news media and blogs, and, with a 140 character limit, it cuts to the chase. And it's growing like crazy.

MS and / or Yahoo should be looking at Twitter seriously. It's the real deal.

Samschnooks wrote:
Strippers or any other woman in the sex industry basically thinks men are "suckers" and "losers". All women in the sex industry are head cases.
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Is the distance provided by an internet connection far enough away?

Also this could just be their natural response to men who believe in "free love."

I_Voter
Work in Proggress
Political Power in the U.S.

where the good guy find proofs an imminent disaster but nobody listen to him. That area was under an "earthquake storm" since december. http://tinyurl.com/cn47cf so putting him in the right context you can see he's predictions were quite inaccurate. Also, did he used official channels to publish his data? no, he just phoned sulmona mayor and told him his city would have been erased on 29th march which... didn't happen.

It's true, we're doomed, I tell you!!!
*reaches for tinfoil hat*

More seriously, original post is here. They're claiming it was a mistake in a feed...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ca37sl

An abstract...

"The surge in "Buying Power" was an accidental extension of credit to the customers' accounts. Actual funds were not deposited therein. After the error was discovered, the mistaken credit was withdrawn. However, not before some executed trades on the lines of credit, including including one guy who bought over $1 million in shares. The company then acted to reverse the errors, saying on their blog, "Except in a very small number of egregious and fraudulent cases, customers will not be responsible for losses (or gains) incurred for trades in excess of their buying power."

Wonder how they define "egregious and fraudulent"?
*removes tinfoil hat, reaches for lawyer*

http://tinyurl.com/cohrt4