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sorry about that. this is what I meant to post. http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/koh-i-noordiamond .html

Here is an interesting case of divergent evolution when one species isolated itself from another by taking to the skies: http://informationcentre.tripod.com/carevolution.h tml

With respect to Evolution (all hail Evolution!), how many these snakes had to fall to the ground *splat* before they evolved the ability to flatten themselves out into a pseudo-airfoil and actually glide? Or did they evolve the airfoil capability first (at some indeterminate biological cost and no corresponding benefit), then one day one of them mistakenly fell out of a tree and found, to its amazement, that it could glide?

Or was it one of those "hopeful monsters" postulated by Richard Goldschmidt -- just bang and there it was, instant Rocky the Flying Snake?

Actually, I like Gould's and Eldredge's punctuated equilibrium better. See this for a Gould article on the subject of p/e.

Now, as nice and scientific as that is, and I really like science and crap like that, at heart I believe that God created it all. But that is not, as they say, falsifiable, even with Intelligent Design. And some of you are going to hold me in derision for the idea of having God (or the supreme being of choice) involved at all, and make rude comments and insults to and about me, but you know what? Blow it out your ear. :-)

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I was attempting it on the WinME I'm currently using with no success. Before trying to strain my eyes, I figured that an internet search is in order...

Apparently, I'm not alone here.

Those with 95/98/ME can't use this cheat.

... Leander Kahney (of 'Cult of Mac' book fame) received much heat in February over his "Hide Your iPod; Here Comes Bill" story for Wired describing Micro$oft employees being admonished for using iPods at work. I think /. might have even linked that story. Well, it later turned out (according to other journalists and MS employees) that many of his quotes and sources were possibly somewhat nonsensical and not representative of the entire M$ campus culture.

Now, I, being a big fan of Leander, have noticed that it's been nearly two months since a posting has appeared on his once daily blog, and he hasn't published a story for Wired in nearly three months either.

So it looks like Wired might be doing a lot of house cleaning lately....

Put yourself in the place of the poor kid this web page is written about. They of course claim that he "recovered from autism" because of all the abuse. I'd say he learned to compensate for being autistic inspite of the abuse. If ABA is so great where are all the ex patients raving about how wonderful it was for them?
Sumlin ABA Program Notes
Given the large number of Aspies/autistics in the technical field. I really wish we'd see an article about the abuses that happen in ABA make it to the top here.

I was a bit incredulous so I looked it up. Parent is not a troll. No, really. Rosen is in fact lesbian...

http://gayinfo.tripod.com/A-Z-R2.html

Now I get it! The RIAA/MPAA are staffed by Kender!

Actually I was ponting out a semantic slant to the headline. You seem to be inferring, a moral arguement here, where one was not implicitly stated.

But let me explain something to you, Sport: You're right - the ultimate moral failure in employer-employee relations comes with the introduction of force. Guess who usually is the party to do that, and to who's advantage? I'll give you a hint: The Ludlow Massacre

It's also mathematically impossible because the force per unit time you get out of a solar sail is constant.

Unless, of course, you can control your solar sail - like, say, its surface :-)

>Where in animal evolution did the eye develop?

It has developed many times, maybe originally in something like this.

>Where are the fossils of non-vertebrate to vertebrate creatures

right here.

>Where did gender come into play?

Possibly 2.5 to 3.5 billion years ago.

>When did we evolve from chemicals to bacteria?

We don't know, but this has nothing to do with evolution. It deals with what has happened to life since it began.

>Micro-evolution is what is commonly accepted and should be taught, but where did macro-evolution come from

There is absolutely no difference between 'micro-evolution' and 'macro-evolution'. They are exactly the same process, just on different timescales.

>and why shouldn't valid alternatives be proposed with the condition that NONE currently meet the requirement of being proven scientifically?

Maybe because there is no such thing as 'proven scientifically'. There is one theory that has so much supporting evidence behind it that nothing else even comes close to being in the same standing. ID is not a valid alternative, since it has *no* supporting evidence unless you consider incomprehension to be evidence.

"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor--not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules...

The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists... Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights... This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism.

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

It was Lenin who said that and he actually didn't say it. It was invented by the John Birch Society to describe Ronald Regan.

Source

There is much more evidence that Lenin referred to them instead as "Deaf Mutes" which is much less of a marketable term for the anti-communists to use in describing how communists view their dupes.

Article that Makes Reference to the Deaf Mutes Quote. This quote was also referenced by Theodore Radzinsky in his Stalin Biography as being authentic.

"The so-called cultural element of Western Eurpoe and America are incapable of comprehening the present state of affairs and the actual balance of forces; these elements must be regarded as deaf-mutes and treated accordingly....

(The Lufkin News, King Featurers Syndicate, Inc., 31 July 1962, p. 4, as quoted by the Freeman Report, 30 Sept. 1973, p. 8).

As the other replies said, like a hard link. But NT already has hard links (and symlinks)! There's even an API CreateHardLink to make them, so any Win32 program can do it. This program is a nice GUI to create symlinks: http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm ...and this one creates hard links: http://hermann.schinagl.tripod.com/nt/hardlinkshel lext/hardlinkshellext.html So it shouldn't be too hard to get a native version of ln, by doing something like using MinGW and replacing link(2) with CreateHardLink, and symlink(2) with the necessary FSCTL to make a symbolic link (a.k.a. reparse point)

and I thought my Esterbrook No. 62 was tiny!

My links dont seem to work . So here are the links
SU 30 MKI http://vayu-sena.tripod.com/comparison-f16-f18-su3 0-1.html
Article
http://www.afa.org/magazine/Oct2004/1004train.asp

THX-1138 was an admirable piece of work. Despite the fact that seemingly few even know of it, it's nonetheless managed to influence the interesting side of popular culture.

Nine Inch Nail's "The Downward Spiral" album, for example, opens with a sample from the movie even. On the other hand the Star Wars films have at times had a deleterious effect (the original---and actually Asimov approved--- I, Robot screenplay was trashed by the studio to a large part due to Star Wars . And for that alone, Star Wars actually robbed us of good sci-fi, not the opposite).

I find it interesting that, having watched the original version and then the directors cut when it recently came out, THX-1138 actually benefitted from the modern additions; it helps smooth over the production values (and is a treat to see widescreen), instead of, I dunno, changing details to make characters more kid-friendly and less edgy (*cough*).

Lucas started out with talent and vision; but mainstream audiences wanted none of that. Somewhat bitter, he created a little fantasy movie. Audiences loved it! He had learnt his lesson, and continued along those lines . . . but it would be nice if the old Lucas could safely come out now. It's not like spending lots of money on something that doesn't quite succeed will make all that much of a dent in his absurdly large bank account balance.

Umm. My Nikon experience is just fine. The 8700 came with a disk of software, Arcsoftware ( which I've never used) and Nikon View which does quite a lot thank you very much. Just this second I opened up Nikon View and opened a NEF file in another second. Opened the file in Nikon Editor which admittedly took about 30 seconds. In Photoshop that would take minutes. From there I could mess with the image in various ways. Saved it in high quality jpeg in about 5 seconds. Opened the jpeg in Photoshop and got it websized quickly. All good. What was the problem again? The picture was taken with my Nikon 8700 and was made ready for the web with the included Nikon software. Perhaps your friend got the camera from a internet site and I hear that sometimes they strip some of the items that Nikon sells with the camera. Here is the picture. http://members.tripod.com/~gadbuddhaa/nikonpicture .htm

I think you give the grand parent too much credit in granting the premise that Corporate charters are granted to "advance the public good" at all. That might have been the intent 200+ years ago when they were debating creating a national bank; but, Corporations are all about shielding their owners from liability, unearned income (i.e., profit), and self-preservation.

Because of the generally selfish nature of the artificial entities we call Corporations, one would expect that we will always advocate for legislation that is in their best interest, often at cross-purposes to the "public good."

I would suggest that Corporations have no place in the political/legislative process what-so-ever -- advocating neither for nor against legislation; and, interestingly, that is also in the interest of share-holders as profits are not wasted on advocacy.

As an aside, would the Free State Project support passing a gay-rights bill in New Hampshire; or, is that not the kind of Liberty you have in mind?

"Hm, this reminds me of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. That's not changing any time soon, is it?"

Great Britain and Australia have seen their violent crime rates soar since revoking the right of ordinary citizens to own guns.

Over 50 million people were murdered by their own governments during the 20th century, and the first thing these governments did to start their cleansing programs was outlaw guns for ordinary citizens.

So tell me exactly why the Second Amendment makes no sense?

Get back to me when you have read a few hundred books, and maybe we can talk then....

Way ahead of you.

The link works fine for me. Play with it some.

Sigh, it's hosted on tripod, if someone clicks your link, they get this. However, once I manually copied the link, clicking it brings me to the correct location.

I ain't white. That threw a wrench into your little program, didn't it?

Nope, what you said is still crap. And now you just added the stupid notion of "only whites can be racist" on top of your "teehee, aborigenese look different... they must be less evolved" load of BS.

take a look at this photo of the eastern australian aborignes (now wiped out). They were descendants of the Murrayian aborignes. Some say they were part homo erectus. You can still see some aspects of the murrayians in some aborgines today. They may have mixed with erectus on the way down to Australia.

BTW, most aborigines has visual cortexes that are 25% larger than other humans.

Good Thread! I've learned a lot. To summarize, we could say that "everything we need to know about gene replacement therapy we have learned from Sesame street." when we learned the "One of these things is not like the other" song :)

I just really bugs that I can look at hex and turn it back into op codes and get a general idea of what the code does, but we can't do the same with DNA. Maybe one day someone will be able to read DNA gene sequences like the morning newspaper.

Back in High School, I thought we would have a DNA construction kit by now, where you could hook it up to your computer and make custom organism with a limit on genome complexity e.g. (Banana Tomato Plant) or custom pets e.g. (Pet dog with tiger stripes). I believed we would have a complete understanding of DNA by Y2K, but then again I also believed that in the future we would have flying cars and computers would be able to program themselves with voice commands from the end users making programmers obsolete. Now I am wondering if we will figure it all out before my life is over.

More like an a mecha from a Mazinger manga or anime. Kind of like GOOOO DIVVVVAAAAH.

I would pay good money if they made the Mandriva distro's mascot a super penguin robot with a pointy head and sharp wings. Go Nagai would be proud.

How can you imagine that there would ever be a standardized mechanism for contacting a website's owner though? Do you really think there will ever be a reliable method of contacting the owner of http://real-ebay-validate-your-credit-card-31337.t ripod.com/ to notify them that golly-gosh, they aren't complying with strict XHTML?

I too was expecting some pinball player profile with mad skills. Like the Billy Mitchell - the all time Pacman champion of the world of pinball. Has society moved past this now? I mean these perfect scores do get you recognition, but still wouldn't you feel you missed achieving other things you could have been doing?

I hope it was not H.A.R.L.I.E., because then I also know how the rest will go and that is not really good.

(for those who do not know what I am tallking about)

The liberator pistols (and probably the Vietnam era Deer Guns too) have been melted down as scrap. The Deer Gun had to be reloaded by poking out the spent shell casing with a stick and then reloading by hand with one round of .45ACP. The Vietnam version, called the Deer Gun required its user to unscrew the barrel to reload its single shot of 9x19mm parabellum.

More info can be found right here.

Those 4,000 users now save 3 seconds, 10 times an hour, 8 hours a day. It's like getting an extra 33 employees for free.

Did a consultant compute that number?

from the they-took-my-precious-krow dept.

Krow or Krow
Poor krow indeed. How we shall miss her/him.


Google cache of first krow
Second

Bah, the Program Segment Prefix was PSP long before that.

The 5-year-old company, which employed 25 people last year and had 350 clients, will continue to operate under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, he said.

Far Side Link...

http://taptrance.tripod.com/pymusique-0.4.tar.gz

http://taptrance.tripod.com/pymusique-0.4.tar.gz

I think they refer to the cooking of one's wife (or widow, actually) as sati.

In many South East Asian cultures that were influenced by India, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, it referred to as satay. (In case you were wondering what it is you're really ordering at that Thai restaurant.)

I have to disagree. The NeXT had amazing icons back in the late 80s and early 90s, many of which still hold up today (though they were only 2-bit black and white).

I really like having the side-by-side comparison of icons, but they've chosen mostly modern, mostly mainstream OSes. "Trash" icons in particular are a favorite of mine, but here they're all nearly identical (with the exception of OS/2's wacky shredder). It's also weird that they don't include the folder icon, one of those basics that some OSes did slightly differently (eg, the Amiga's "drawers").

They do show some Lisa icons here, but what about all the other early GUIs? It would be great to include DEC GEM, a sampling of X11 icons from different UNIXes, and geesh - the NeXT, which they claim to be represented by Rhapsody (it's not! Where are the Black Hole and Recycler?!?)

Plus, any history of the GUI that excludes Xerox is missing the prime mover! With a quick search I found this site which includes screenshots from the Xerox Star. The icons are distorted, being photos of a curved screen, but surely someone somewhere has the original bitmaps.

The "interactive chart" of GUI influences on this page shows dozens of sources I've never even heard of...I'd like to see a history that cites these designs, to show the initial struggle to represent all these machine functions graphically, not just the differences between popular, modern UIs, after everyone's adopted a common visual vocabulary for most things.

Pretty much everyone in New Zealand speaks English. The fact that Maori is an "official language" basically just means that all of the government minitries have Maori names as well as English ones, and Maori shows up in various government-produced documents. Almost no one (if anyone) speaks Maori as a first language, and very few speak it as a second language.

You can read more about the status of English in India here. Sounds like a pretty high percentage of Indians speak English.

You also forgot to include the many other members of the Commonwealth, which, since they are former British colonies, will include a lot of English-speakers. To say nothing of the huge number of Europeans who speak English as a second language. Ditto English-speaking Asians.

Christian "fundamentalism" is a product of the late 19th and early 20th century. As in the publication of The Fundamentals.

Hence the name fundamentalism.

Now if you want to say that Puritanism and Quakerism were involved in the birth of America, then go right ahead. But don't believe for a second the founders of the U.S. were the same kind of blockheaded folks that go around thumping Bibles today.

It was so easy I finished the game without dying.


For all of you who miss the challenge in recent Zeldas, I direct your attention to Alundra and Alundra 2.

is there anybody using that thing ?
http://rexgrep.tripod.com/rexfbd.htm
it is a module killing fork bomb. It works on a 2.4.x kernel. not 2.6 ?

If you can believe that, there's actually two other versions of Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Lord of the Rings....

Here and here.

... can it render the FF8 ballroom dance scene in realtime?

50 miles??? PAH!!!

More like 500 miles.

Linkey 1

Linkey2

Geological records indicate that Yellowstone erupts 'calendar like' every 600,000 to 650,000 years. It last erupted 640,000 years ago. It could go any day!

At most, there's only 10,000 years left!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

==plants in general (hemlock, foxglove, oleander)
Dosage: N/A
Time: N/A
Available: garden centre
Certainty: questionable
Notes: [1] says:
"Everything I have ever read about death from plant poisoning indicates that it is risky and painful. Symptoms range from nausea and vomiting to cramping and bloody diarrhea. .... .. Altogether, I consider poisonous plants as a means of exit far too unreliable and painful. No matter how desperate you are, don't even think about it!"

I think you're talking about a frenemy, or possibly a frenemy.

I've noticed something about sites that people say have popups. I go to these sites, and twice now, I see something similar to this. Notice I made the box on the top left. That's the FlashBlock symbol, which blocks all flash elements on web pages and replaces them with that symbol until you click on them. If I click on the symbol, I get the popup. Therefore, I say a possible way to stop these new popups, for now, is to use FlashBlock. It allows you to have flash installed while avoided flash ads, since most of the websites you visit don't use flash except for ads, and the ones that do have flash content you want you just click on the icon.

Its not an area where laws are consistent except to the extent that they have been consistently manipulated by/for the benefit of large companies. Analogies to railroads are apt but dangerous: a century and a half ago, our government knew it needed rails badly to make commerce efficient and mobility of the population easier. IT GAVE AWAY LAND AND GRANTED OR TOLERATED MONOPOLIES just to meet those objectives and the Goulds, ROCKEFELLERs and a host of other robber barons saw their chance. The debate about whether the public good is better served by public investiment or the enlightened greed of private enterpise is nearly as old as our repbulic. We the wireless public who will be ill served or well served by the decision about how the new infrastructure will be financed ought to be screaming at our congressmen right now. The risk/reward model for investiment in this technology is very different from the infrastructure developments that set the precedents for industrial lobbying in utilities. The cost of WiFi set up is low enough that many municipalities have it on their adgendas. Cities with money to burn are practially nonexistent in this country and still many are trying to be the first or best to enable a wirles citizenry. With costs that low and benefits that manifest, it is obscene that we as tax payers or wireless users would sit by and let corporations meter and profit from a service we could easily afford ourselves.
Where the analogy to older utility development may hold is uniformity of service: is local government, perhaps with guidance from standards bodies, or is private industry, jockying as it must for advantage over its internal competition and alternate services, the better way to provide a seamless or the most uniform WiFi service? Rail commerce did not take off until all the rail barons agreed on a rail guage that allowed cars to move from one carriers territory to another. Similarly, I expect WiFi won't be more than a convenience for pockets business travelers until WiFi is uniformly [and securely] supported in urban areas and the travel corridors between them. I want to be getting and sending my VOIP and email CONTINUOUSLY all the way from Boston to NY to DC and on my train ride to work in the morning...Are Verizon and SBC and their ilk going to cooperate on billing so I can do that?

If the stuff is manufactured as a sticky-backed sheet, you might well be able to just clean an old, tired set and stick down new ones on top just like you'd nail new shingles over old.