Slashdot Mirror

Mirror HERE

HERE ya go bro!

"We're fundamentally opposed to DRM. We think it's a dead end for society," Greve said, adding all software should be free to use and that artists could be paid for their films and music by a general 'taxation' on Internet connections.

The Itanium is definately NOT dead - we're selling them like crazy.

Thanks -

http://tinyurl.com/e3ynh

http://tinyurl.com/7hoqg contains 5 frames (PNG, no image data loss):
328
329
330 - frame where you can see the red flash on the right side of planet Earth
331
332

search terms: fencing foil sabre timings milliseconds interval

motivation: the fencing federation recently changed the timings on the electronic scoring equipment.

yahoo: http://tinyurl.com/8tutq one page, but it's what I wanted.

google: seven pages, all junk. http://tinyurl.com/a9hd9

search terms: fencing foil sabre timings milliseconds interval

motivation: the fencing federation recently changed the timings on the electronic scoring equipment.

yahoo: http://tinyurl.com/8tutq one page, but it's what I wanted.

google: seven pages, all junk. http://tinyurl.com/a9hd9

Hmmm... a box on every TV set, that connects to Sony's servers and reports back to big brother, and also can send back information that could disable your box, or worse. I think I know who Sony hired to design this...

Extrapolating to your situation, if the combined toner / drum in the HP cartridge means that it cant be refilled, you are paying "diamond dust" (counterpart of the "liquid gold" inkjet inks) prices to HP for the toner, replacing the drum when you don't need to. And being an ecological vandal unless the old cartridge is recycled by someone & does not just go into landfill.

I was thinking more like this.

For sure. However, here is a better article that explains it alot better.

http://tinyurl.com/dpunv

Its just a pity that the UK & Europe are stuck with v1.52 PSPs that cant run all the Brilliant Homebrew and Emulators for the PSP including tonight the release of an Atari ST Emulator for the PSP, theres also discussion today that certain Firmware versions of the PSP Can Play UMD Films from all Regions. One final thing the PSP is being sold in the UK for £179 (if you can get one) but Success HK are selling it for $239 or £125. Why is the UK still being ripped off :(

I entered Pluto Nium as my name, but when I check the site to make sure they've got me on the list it isn't there.

For some reason they don't want us to know Pluto Nium is on-board.
--
You didn't know.

-Eric

Do not try to understand the point -- that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.

What truth?

There is no point.
--
You didn't know.

I use the term "outlaw" figuratively -- innovations come from the spirit of constrasting the status quo, original thinkers and rule-breakers. Like the guys who invented Napster, Gnutella, and BitTorrent. Those are outlaws almost in the literal sense, and they are the true internet innovators of our time. Think of rule-breakers like Steve Jobs, Linus Torvalds, Larry and Sergey, and frankly even Jeff Bezos and the young Bill Gates. They are those who dared to, dare I say it, "Think Different".

The great innovations do not generally come from large corporations and especially not monopolies -- mainly because large companies do not succeed by making great software, but rather by sucking less than their competition. It's the smaller, agile, rule-breakers make the great software -- while it may be a stretch to include companies like Apple and Google among this list of "small companies", I do for convenience and because they are the exceptions.

For more of this sort of thinking, and a fun read, pick up "Hackers and Painters" by Paul Graham.

Sam

Our present engines are the equivalent of Windows 95: http://www.renewamerica.us/bb/viewtopic.php?p=5000 2 . Inertia? Inertia plays a part: http://tinyurl.com/ack2u . I wonder. If we did convert to such a gasoline-less engine, How many days would it take to balance the National Debt? Hhmmm. How much farther could our military march without needing for a fuel supply convoy in tow? How much of a reduction in all forms of cancer, emphysema, chronic asthma & lung diseases, should we expect from doing away with fossil fuel pollution? Interesting questions.

For instance, everyone who identifies BillG as the wellspring of all evil forgets how scared we all were of IBM back in the day. Now IBM is seen with much favor in the community. It wouldn't be that way were it not for Microsoft.

So really, it isn't Google's turn to be villain, it's Microsoft's turn to be the good guys.

Hrm, did I really just say that?

--
You didn't know.

What in the world could that mean? Does the 35mm master-print lose its soul during an HD transfer?

And thanks to the Wayback machine... I can. Yes folks the infamous "Baked Apple"

Recipe for a Baked Apple

Ingredients: 1 Apple iBook

    Remove all keys and keep seperate. Preheat oven to 200 Degrees F. Place keys and laptop on an ungreased cookie sheet. Insert both laptop and keys into oven for 20 minutes.

Click here for more

With drugs, the dose is the poison. You take one aspirin, you lose your headache, you take 200, you drop dead. You smoke one pack of cigarettes, you're fine, but if you smoke two packs of cigarettes [a day] for 10 or 20 years, you may get emphysema. It is the same with drugs. If you snort a line of cocaine on a weekend, you probably won't notice the difference. But if you inject it intravenously two or three times a day, that's when the toxicity shows up. We're designed to take some shit. But we're not designed to inject cocaine three times a day. People have been having a little cocaine in their tea in South America, yes, but not injecting it three times a day, and nobody was inhaling nitrites - nitrites are toxic as hell. Nobody was taking amphetamines at those doses; they were not available. That's what's new.

*

An autoimmune disease is a misdirected immune response. It cannot tell a harmful virus from a harmless one, it overreacts. If the virus were the trigger, that should follow as soon as the virus gets in you.

*

They call it "Idiopathic CD-4 lymphocytopenia." Or ICL. When you're HIV-free now, it's no longer called AIDS.

*

They accept what you call "presumptive diagnosis" - AIDS cases without HIV tests. You know what that means? The guy wears a leather jacket, has an earring, and is coughing. And he's from San Francisco. That's an AIDS case. I don't even have to check it, his physician thinks.

[...] Even in the latest AIDS definition, in January 1993, they allowed presumptive diagnosis. In other words, a good number of them even now will be reported without an HIV test.

*

Now, what's the prediction for a non-infectious disease, a toxic disease? One of them is, it's not distributed equally between the sexes or randomly in the population, it's distributed according to exposure. The smokers are the ones who get lung cancer, the nonsmokers hardly ever get it. The alcoholics get the liver cirrhosis and not the milk drinkers. And so it's exposure to the toxin. The health consequences are not immediate. You don't get sick from one cigarette. It takes years of build-up. You have to reach a certain threshold of toxicity.

*

In 1984, in Science, Gallo said HIV kills T-cells and that is the cause of AIDS. Also in 1984, in May, he signed under oath to the U.S. Patent Office that this same virus can be produced in permanently growing human T-cells. And these T-cells are still growing in his laboratory, in dozens of companies on this planet, enough to conduct at least 25 million tests per year in this country alone, over 20 million in Russia, millions all over the world. These T-cells have yet to die.

[...] If I understand you correctly, if you isolate the polio virus, and you apply it to healthy cells, it will infect those cells?

It will kill those cells in 8 hours.

*

That is the reason why we have chased retroviruses so dearly in the last 20 years, because we thought they might be a cause of cancer. Because they don't kill cells. That's why Gallo is a retrovirologist, or David Baltimore [Nobel Prize-winning researcher who discovered reverse transcriptase] or me. We were chasing this class of viruses as possible carcinogens. Cancer is caused by cells that grow out of control, not by cells that are dying.

*

A scientist is not a politically correct crowd pleaser, he is supposed to find the cause of disease. Otherwise, we get what we get now: we try to please the gays by approving AZT, and now 200,000 of them are dying for it, and we keep telling them that this is the best we can do for you guys, because we mix politics with science.

*

Drug addicts have always been described with the same d

http://tinyurl.com/dy6tp

http://tinyurl.com/drvu5

Did anyone see the latest SCO stance on the Sun project? All I can say is not again...

What about teenagers with AIDS?

780 in the United States in the last ten years, so divided by year that's 78 per year in a country with 30 million teenagers. A third are hemophiliacs, another third are gay prostitutes, and another third are IV-drug users who started at 10 and 11. Those are your 780 American teenagers with AIDS. That's not a lot. The only significant number in people under 20 are the infants. One-or twoyear-old, possibly three-year-old babies born with AIDS in Europe and in America. A full 80 percent of them were born to mothers who were injecting drugs during pregnancy. These kids are intrauterine junkies. They have been on drugs since before they were born.

What about the other 20 percent?

Another 5 or 10 percent are congenital conditions like hemophilia. Some are simply infant mortality under a new name, "ghetto kids." Infant mortality is higher in this country than in all comparable industrialized nations. We have the suburbs, where you get every health care you want, and then we have places like Harlem, Richmond, Oakland, deep impoverished conditions, that you don't find in Europe where you have socialized medicine. Starvation, malnutrition, all these kinds of things. Teenage mothers who run away from the kids, or are working on the streets while the kids are alone at home. Those are the American AIDS babies.

Is it really true that the death rate among hemophiliacs with HIV is identical to those without HIV?

As far as we can tell from the few studies available, it's the same. In fact, the irony is, it is probably even lower. And I tell you how I arrived at that. There are 20,000 American hemophiliacs, 75 percent of them are HIV-positive. 75 percent-or 15,000-have HIV, for nearly ten years now, because as of 1984-85 they started AIDS testing, so they eliminated blood with HIV. Now, in the last 10 to 15 years, the median age of hemophiliacs has doubled. They are now twice as old as they were 10 to 15 years ago. The fact is, during that same 10 to 15 years, the Factor-VIII treatment has been developed and perfected and everybody gets it. That's the clotting factor that's missing in hemophiliacs, extracted out of blood donations and because they extract it, you extract viruses, too; that contaminated FactorVIII. But they are irrelevant, mostly harmless things, because a blood donor is typically not a terribly sick person-you wouldn't collect blood from somebody who's dying from a disease. So these are usually your ubiquitous little microbes that don't harm you. As a result, they picked up HIV. So the treatment that also brought them HIV has doubled their life.

HIV didn't hurt them?

No. In fact, it disproved the virus hypothesis in the largest human experiment ever done. 15,000 people infected with HIV. And now they live twice as long as hemophiliacs ever lived before in history. Better, longer.

It's really an overwhelming point. It's not a minor experiment. We have a huge population: 15,000 people with HIV. Sure, it's true, some of them get what they call AIDS now. But they get less of it than they did before, and they get it because of transfusions. Because even now, they constantly get these transfusions. They need FactorVIII. It's not chemically clean, and that is immunosuppressive.

I believe I saw this code being demonstrated at a recent New York PHP meeting; the IBM guy was tabbing through a tree menu and the voice would say, for example, at what level down the tree the current focus was, the tag in question, whether or not the field was editable and the like. Far and beyond the functionality of, say, JAWS.

The demo was mainly focused on the "ajax" lirary which was a rapid-deployment web-app framework and the accessibility features were an aside, but it was pretty impressive. See here for the code and here for an example app.

I believe I saw this code being demonstrated at a recent New York PHP meeting; the IBM guy was tabbing through a tree menu and the voice would say, for example, at what level down the tree the current focus was, the tag in question, whether or not the field was editable and the like. Far and beyond the functionality of, say, JAWS.

The demo was mainly focused on the "ajax" lirary which was a rapid-deployment web-app framework and the accessibility features were an aside, but it was pretty impressive. See here for the code and here for an example app.

I'm not disputing the accuracy of their cost-benefit analysis.

I'm simply pointing out that the reason they reached this conclusion wasn't because they were using StarOffice, but because everybody else was using Microsoft Office.

The costs were in getting StarOffice to work with Microsoft Office. The article makes it sound like it's the fault of StarOffice. It isn't. It's Microsoft who throws up the barriers to prevent OSS from working with their software, not the other way around.

If everybody else were using StarOffice, no way would they be switching to Microsoft Office.
--
Why didn't you know?

The other 95% were using Microsoft Office. So that answers why they were having so much trouble with StarOffice. They weren't. They were having trouble working with everybody else using Microsoft Office.

You know, it's crazy giving cops tools like Microsoft Office or StarOffice in the first place. 99.99% of people who use word processors don't get past the part where you hit keys and watch text appear on the screen. Oh yeah, and open and save documents. That's all they ever do.

I'd bet real money that the textarea element in a browser like Firefox provides all the text-editing functionality that these people need, especially if you add spell correct via JavaScript. Hit submit and there's your save function, to a central server that can be accessed from any department. Click a link and there's your file open functionality. Amazing!

You can even do forms! LOL

Why aren't they using a system like this? Because some idiot somewhere equates more-expensive with easier-to-use. It's the oldest story in IT, and it's always a tragedy.
--
Why didn't you know?

thousand sites that have picturs of FedEx stuff to go: http://tinyurl.com/8lqrw

Being that it's a relatively compact island, I wonder if any consideration was given to a series of satellites in low-Earth orbit.

Many satellites, all in one orbit that takes each satellite across the nation along the long axis (i.e., north-to-south) should provide continuous coverage with very low latency.

Given the importance of VoIP it would seem that latency isn't something you can so easily get rid of.
--
Why didn't you know?

My phone is a Siemens M50, which came with the cheapest pre-paid package I could find (fido.ca). I didn't know about the voice notes feature until after a month of using it.

In a sense, it's similar to these little credit card sized doohickeys, but having it on your cell just means one less thing to remember to carry with you.

He's got a point though. Local-support voting has happened before, if not to the same extent - there are only so many Canadian SF writers writing books. It's unfortunate that some years have a wealth of good nomineees and others don't. For instance, Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis was also far superior to Sawyer's Hominids but, being published in December 2001, it didn't even get a nomination because of the heavyweight competition for that year.

Still, I think Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis is one of the great underestimated books of the last few years, perhaps as a side effect of the disappointment with the hyped-up second Foundation trilogy from the killer Bs a few years earlier. Similarly, Vernor Vinge's book Marooned in Realtime was much better than his later Hugo-winning (and quite good) A Fire upon the Deep but also didn't get properly recognized for its visionary insight until much later. I think that there are some indications that PhC may prove equally prophetic. I also find it highly ironic that Kingsbury's first novel, Courtship Rite, lost out to Isaac Asimov's Foundation's Edge in 1983. Hopefully, Kingsbury will find time to write a few more good novels so that he can get the recognition he deserves.

Apple pro mouse is NOT CHEAP. I use my mac with logitech optical trackball recently.

If you manage to break Apple pro mouse which came with your mac and for some reason you like it, check its price.
http://tinyurl.com/cv6nq

I hope you are not trolling as OS X/ OS 9 will run with anything HID compliant (basically everything). I hope you don't know this fact.

Pro mouse missed a wheel, this one fixes it. About buttons? I have seen $20 million advertising projects being designed with Apple "single button" mouse and (of course) Graphic Tablets. Thats the segment never said anything about buttons. There is triple click, long click stuff not known by switchers, thats the thing what generates this pointless discussion.

Buttons matter when you are into FPS gaming.

This has all be covered before: http://tinyurl.com/7vdey

We criticize terrorists for choosing violence over speech to make their point. Then we take away their ability to speak.

Even from a tactical point-of-view this doesn't make sense. They cite one web site as offering technical instruction on how to commit terror, OK, but what about the rest which undoubtedly contain information authorities could be using to predict and prevent future attacks?

Do they actually think that this will hurt their recruitment efforts? That some guy who is already of the mind to commit suicide for the cause is going to change his mind when his browser gives him a 404?

How is it in this most important of issues we see the least intelligent people making all of the decisions for us?
--
Why didn't you know?

Microsoft's role shouldn't be in improving the OS, it should be in creating the infrastructure necessary to allow the umpteen-zillion Windows developers out there to improve the OS instead.

I don't know how many of you have contributed to an OSS project, but, at least for those projects that are well-established the process can be a lot of work and not a little bit intimidating. Some progress has been made on the tool front to make it easier but it still takes way too much effort to get a patch mainstreamed on the really big projects.

What Microsoft should do is open up their software, and invest their money in more programmers, but not to do coding, to act as support for the rest of us who do the coding.

Make it so that if I find a bug, all I have to do is fix it and submit a patch. That's it. Nothing more. Nothing less.

This is the one opportunity they have that I don't see Linux/*BSD ever possessing. The kind of work necessary to support large projects is the very last thing most of us want to do. Sourceforge is littered with the remains of OSS projects that were fun to code and get working, but that nobody wants to maintain anymore.

They'd still make gobs of money. Ever browse their help wanted section? Sometimes it seems as if half the listings there are for build engineers. Guys whose only job it is to build Windows and all the other projects. Casual/notive users are never going to attempt this on their own (Gentoo/LFS users notwithstanding), and you'd be crazy to accept builds from third-parties given the complexity we're talking about and the potential for malware.

It's the best thing Microsoft could do right now. Which is why they won't do it. It's like what they say about generals always fighting the last war. Gates and Ballmer got where they are by hewing to a specific ideology. They're not changing their minds in this lifetime or the next, even if its clear that that ideology is antiquated and obsolete.
--
Why didn't you know?

MS Virtual Earth zoomed all the way out

http://tinyurl.com/9wmle together with some explanation.

http://tinyurl.com/8k3cn

(Yes, this tinyurl really *is* a Google Maps URL, not anything heinous. Guaranteed safe for work.)

Giant heat sinks with crazy fast fans are loud as all hell. And often the default fan that comes with the CPU is sufficient.

Unless you have an LGA775 intel proc. The fan is relatively quiet when it's not spun up, but once you fire up a game, or try and print something (why?) or burn a CD, or use Photoshop, or anything that makes the CPU load above 15%, the fan ratchets up to 4000 rpm and sounds like a helicopter taking off.

Most of the aftermarket fans I've seen for the 775 intel procs are focused on quieter operation.

FYI: I cut the bullshit and just bought a coolermaster Aquagate Mini R-120* for $100. It's a watercooled kit that comes pre-assembled with liquid already in the hoses, and supposedly no need to even check the fluid levels for 1-2 years. The pump is integrated into the waterblock and runs off of a motherboard fan header. Since I'm not overclocking, I leave the adjustable fan on the lowest setting, and my comptuer stays chilly and almost silent.

*not a refer link, just a link to the description.

~Will

Mutations occur, and when they occur in parallel for members of the same species, and those mutations survive into succeeding generations, you achieve speciation. End of story. What am I missing?

Now, if you want to talk about butterflies and evolution, then answer for me how it is that butterflies could have evolved in the first place. You're talking about a two-stage organism here, one stage does nothing but eat, the other stage does nothing but procreate. Which came first?

If it was the caterpillar, how is it that it suddenly figures out how to create a cocoon, lay dormant for a winter, then emerge as a completely different creature? They obviously had the means for procreation on their own, so why bother becoming a butterfly?

If it was the butterfly, why even bother with the caterpillar stage? If you can already fly around and stuff, why bother crawling?

People cite all these other examples trying to bring down evolution, and to me they never succeed, it's obvious to me for instance how eyes evolved. But caterpillars turning into butterflies still boggles my mind.
--
Why didn't you know?

You mean like Rubberhose?

(Seems down, see archive.org copy.) And i just noticed that /. breaks on archive.org urls, hence the tinyurl.

I fixed an engine (LN2000), later discovered the principle had been (sort of) used previously: http://tinyurl.com/c4ua4 . So my idea was original & wasn't that original at the same time! I think our inventions are starting to overlap.

In 1989, while playing with some JK flip-flops configured as a ripple counter, with variable resistors connected to the outputs, I discovered Digital to Analog Conversion. Having never heard of DAC's at that point.

That was pretty cool.

I fixed an engine (LN2000), later discovered the principle had been (sort of) used previously: http://tinyurl.com/c4ua4 . So my idea was original & wasn't that original at the same time! I think our inventions are starting to overlap. The Newcomen engine of 1712 engaged the power of an instantaneous vacuum to reset the piston for the next run. The Newcomen used the vacuum to pull the piston back while my adaptation works the other side, multiplying the power of the compressed air which explodes in the steam-filled cylinder. Issued a challenge to all nations yesterday: http://www.newpath4.com/opec_crude_oil_dilemma_or_ opportunity.htm . They'll read it in 2050. hehehehe

Google's new features are cool, no doubt, but perhaps it is losing popularity due to the ever-increasingly complex interface.

Sure it is.

Google on Dec 02, 1998

Google on Jul 21, 2005

It runs on Windows 98, which is over 7 years old. In comparison, you cant run the latest version of Safari on Panther, which is just over a year old.

It's only logical. Our right to peaceably assemble is in the process of being eviscerated, which means that future efforts on the part of the citizenry to protest the increasingly hateful policies of this government will become more and more confrontational, and which in turn sees the government resorting to ever more punitive policies in response.

Prediction: the ray-gun is on the streets in America in time for the 2008 Republican National Convention.

I can't wait to hear what they consider to be acceptable levels of casualties as the result of using this thing on people.

The thing I regret most in this life is that of all the science fiction movies I loved watching as I grew up, Soylent Green ends up being the one that most closely depicts the future.

(I'd rather take my chances on the Nostromo.)
--
Why didn't you know?

http://tinyurl.com/d6o2f should be the changes from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6

(If you don't trust the link then email me at my slashdot user name at gmail.com and I will send the link to you)