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Lesson 4. The clothing stores
See the clothing stores.
See the posters in the window.
See the people in the posters.
See how thin they are.
Later they eat a lot.
Then they throw up.
See the people shopping there.
They all look the same.
See the clothes in the store.
See the name on the shirts.
It is the name of the store.

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Windows 2000 and XP support right-to-left languages at the system level.
Users of Windows 95, 98 or ME can type right-to-left in bidirectional applications such as

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• Internet Explorer and Outlook Express 5.01 or later
• Mozilla 1.0 or later
• Netscape6.2 or later

• Word Processors and Text Editors
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Windows 2000 and XP support right-to-left languages at the system level.
Users of Windows 95, 98 or ME can type right-to-left in bidirectional applications such as

• Browsers and Email Clients
• Internet Explorer and Outlook Express 5.01 or later
• Mozilla 1.0 or later
• Netscape6.2 or later

• Word Processors and Text Editors
• Microsoft Word 2000 or XP
• WordPad for Windows Millenium
• WordPad for Windows 98 with the RichEdit3.0 update
• AbiWord BiDi
• DingDang Write 2000
• Sharmahd Computing UniPad

Why is there this almost pervasive belief that changes made (during extreme times) cannot be unmade? That is that a worsening condition must asymptotically get worse? History does not bear this out.

What about Income tax?

I ask you to name me another time the US mainland was attacked to such effect by a foreign entity

Well, how about I just reference the Battles of the War of 1812. Determining which ones occured withing mainland US is an excersize left for the reader.

Okay, fact nitpicking aside....

We are in extreme times

We may or may not be, I honestly don't know. What I find unsettling is there are no clear metrics defined so that we will all know when this 'crisis' has passed.

If this 'crisis' continues until there is not a single terrorist organization that would like to do us harm, I'm afraid we're in for the long haul.

I know referencing 1984 on slashdot will get me pingeoholed, but there are certain advantages (as far as the state is concerned) to perpetual warfare, and reading about the posibility of the partiot act being extended indefinitly does not fill me with confidence.

With news however, it is often not enough time to go through and check each fact.

Well then, they'll just have to hire Dan Rather, though I would prefer Capt. Janks.

Screw the holodeck. Give me Better than Life from Red Dwarf!

SiO2

"The critical question is, How good and different are [the cold fusion researchers'] new results?" says Allen Bard, a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin. "If they are saying, 'We are now able to reproduce our results,' that's not good enough. But if they are saying, 'We are getting 10 times as much heat out now, and we understand things,' that would be interesting. I don't see anything wrong with giving these people a new hearing." In ERAB's cold fusion review in 1989, he adds, "there were phenomena described to us where you could not offer alternative, more reasonable explanations. You could not explain it away like UFOs."

Isn't this basically a smoking gun? New fundamentl physics is often revealed by results that differ by as little as one part in a million from preditictions of current theory, or one part in whatever. If there is any discrepancy, WHATSOEVER, within the statistical and systematic errors, that is enough. Your old theory is TOAST. This is completely bonkers. He is saying that consistent excess heat production is not enough, unless it is bigger than before.

Personally I suspsect the writer of this article, Toni Feder, intentionally tricked Dr. Bard into revealing this on the record. That last bit -- about phenomena that you can't just "explain away" -- seems as though Dr. Bard thinks he is speaking to a member of the group that is sympatico repressing cold fusion research, doesn't it?

There is known to have been disputes between editorial staff and management at Physics Today over the coverage given to less mainstream areas of research. The following exerpt from a letter to the American Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics Today, protests the treatment suffered by a past editor, Jeff Scmidt:

Indeed, we understand that you were displeased with Jeff's workplace activism and had tried to silence him through a number of very repressive measures short of dismissal.

As you know, Jeff worked with other Physics Today staff members to ... increase staff participation in decision-making, broaden the narrow range of viewpoints allowed in the magazine ... .

By the way, Jeff Schmidt is the author of "Disciplined Minds", and I think this book includes more coverage of this editorial dispute at Physics Today.

Back to the question of how anomalous the results have to be, we move from the comments of scientists to the behavior of the reporters, in this case Gary Taubes, with "What If Cold Fusion Is Real?", Wired, November 1998:

Meanwhile, electrochemist John Bockris announced that one of his graduate students at Texas A&M, Nigel Packham, had collaborated on a successful cold fusion experiment. Packham had even detected small amounts of tritium, a radioactive by-product virtually guaranteeing that fusion had taken place.

A science writer named Gary Taubes, who has written two books and several articles investigating allegations of fraudulent activity in science, went to Texas A&M on a fact-finding mission.

"We thought Taubes was genuine at first," Bockris told me recently, speaking in a clipped, precise British accent that he acquired before he moved to the U

yeah. because Acclaim was making such great games, had top-notch marketing, and always kept fans wanting more.

there's no reason they wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for those dirty pirates.

I,Robot was a selection of short stories. Did you expect them to make a selection of short films?

Harlan Ellison wrote the correct screenplay for I, Robot . It's the story of Susan Calvin.

More info here. The making of the recent action flick rather than Ellison's script is a crime against art and against the human soul.

Forget the spoon.
Forget the fork.
It's all about the spork!

Holpfully, this dig will confirm that the first people in America were not the ancestors of the current Native Americans, but of another race, so to speak.

It appears that the first homo sapiens settlers of Asia and of North America were related to some of the Australian aborigines, specfically, the Murrayians, which were a mix that included a protocaucasoid type.

You can see a picture of what these amazing people may have looked like here.

THey are also related to the Ainu of Japan.

They conquered Asia, Indonesia, Australia and then the Americas long before the ancestors of the present Asians moved across the Bering Straits.

Traces of them have been found in the Americas, however. The Kennewick man was likely related to them. In the next year or two, new research out of mexico will likely confirm their presence. Some traces of the typical Murrayian skeletal features (but their genetics) have been seen in current (or recent) native Americans in Baja California and Tierra Del Fuego (see here for more.

THey may have been the first homo sapiens out of Africa. However the Negritos may have been before them.

People are saying that this is fake. But based on other email comments I have seen from Jack Thompson, this is totally keeping in line with his responces.

In a thread on a videogame forum there are people who claim that they have emailed Thompson and got such pithy responces as: "the rubbish is up your cranium, take it out," "you're biased against lawyers. grow a brain," "No, actually it's all about ignorant gamers," "You don't know my motives, so don't try guessing," and "children are allowed to buy them. do your research, junior."

In another email exchange I've found, he basically says, that he would rather sue videogame companies than have laws passed.

Finally, Thompson is also famous for being the lawyer behind the Two Live Crew obsenity trials, , and most bizarly, claiming that Janet Reno was unfit for office in Florida because she was gay and people would blackmail her because of it (except by making a public deal of it, wouldn't that make it impossible to blackmail her) which resulted in Reno getting a restraining order against him.

In short, Jack Thompson is certainly 100% capable of the odd responces stated in the article. There is actually lots more odd things that this lawyer has done. Do a search for "jack Thompson" and videogames and tons of stuff will come up about him.

Maybe his resume Moby Games profile would shed more light on what is going on? How about his projects list?

He's R&D at Sony, in other words.

"Developed single-pixel particle demonstration, covering physics based particle motion, use of alpha blending and optimized rendering of this type of particle using VU1 microcode on Playstation II
Developed demonstration of high-speed texture loading (10 megabytes per frame) and presented the technique at Playstation II developers conference and several smaller gatherings.
Developed application to do "zoom from orbit" going from a full-earth weather satellite photo down to a 1 meter resolution image of San Francisco in one continuous zoom. This included development of a new (so far as I know) technique for mapping corrected or uncorrected satellite photos onto a globe with a minimum of distortion.
Research on the consumer ease-of-use, economic and technical issues surrounding downloadable music and music subscription services.
Early testing of a number of Playstation II code libraries in development.
Participation in internal Sony groups dealing with networking and interoperation of Sony products.
Support of misc Sony developers.
One Patent pending"

He's also doing something with macs, though that might be unrelated to his work at Sony. He's also a nexistentialist and a commie.

Isn't google fun?

Anyway, I'm not trying to rain on your parade, Greg, I just hope this wraps up questions about who you are.

Maybe his resume Moby Games profile would shed more light on what is going on? How about his projects list?

He's R&D at Sony, in other words.

"Developed single-pixel particle demonstration, covering physics based particle motion, use of alpha blending and optimized rendering of this type of particle using VU1 microcode on Playstation II
Developed demonstration of high-speed texture loading (10 megabytes per frame) and presented the technique at Playstation II developers conference and several smaller gatherings.
Developed application to do "zoom from orbit" going from a full-earth weather satellite photo down to a 1 meter resolution image of San Francisco in one continuous zoom. This included development of a new (so far as I know) technique for mapping corrected or uncorrected satellite photos onto a globe with a minimum of distortion.
Research on the consumer ease-of-use, economic and technical issues surrounding downloadable music and music subscription services.
Early testing of a number of Playstation II code libraries in development.
Participation in internal Sony groups dealing with networking and interoperation of Sony products.
Support of misc Sony developers.
One Patent pending"

He's also doing something with macs, though that might be unrelated to his work at Sony. He's also a nexistentialist and a commie.

Isn't google fun?

Anyway, I'm not trying to rain on your parade, Greg, I just hope this wraps up questions about who you are.

Nah, it should sound something like this

Yes, here is the source.

Type....................Number
Suicide.................18,940
Firearm homicide........18,571
Handgun homicide........13,980
Justifiable homicide....251
Accidental..............1,521
Un determined............563

That is a fairly telling breakdown.

I'd like to see a source for a statistic that crime rates are inversely proportional to gun ownership. I think you'll be hard pressed to find one.

Murder rates are almost directly proportional to gun ownership.

My argument stands. Gun safety is the critical element. Criminals can always get their hands on guns. But many, many accidents, spur of the moment homicides / suicides could be prevented with increased safety, care, and accountability.

Why shouldn't suicide count? I have a family that are close personal friends whose 16 year old son had a fight with his girlfriend, grabbed the family's .22, drove down the road and shot himself in the head.

According to this study you are 16 times more likely to have a suicide occur in your home when guns are accessible.

It is my opinion that my 16 year old friend would not have killed himself if he had to go in search of a means. With a gun readily available an impulse decision to kill himself was easily acted upon. Yes, there are other means. Yes, if he was determined, it would have happened anyway. But in this case and many others it is my opinion that gun availabiliyy was a factor. I am a lifelong hunter and gun owner, and no counter-argument will change that opinion.

There are plenty of sources for statistics. But statistics rarely change opinions, so it's a moot point.

Jason Janet, an adjunct professor in Duke's electrical and computer engineering department and faculty advisor on the robotics project.

All links taken from Google, so YMMV.

• The Mobil Process
• Fuels Synthesis
• Biomass Gasification (2) (3)

I have yet to try it on byte-code produced by non-Java languages, but I'd be interested to see the results...

(It sucks that it's no longer free. The version I've got I installed through Debian, for goodness sake, years ago. Does anyone know any free alternatives that work as well?)

If you read the original report you can see hard facts against Ruslan Ibragimov.

The binary comparison in the report shows evidence for a correlation between Send-Safe and Sobig-F which could be proved if Ibragimov would be forced to open the Send-Safe source.

Can someone tell me where I can sign-up for the upcoming Civil War?

Certainly, here you go... Free the Bear

Or.... Southern Independence Party Of Texas Platform

Or, from A whole BIG list of Separatist movements

Alaskan Independence Party -- Seeks referendum with choice of statehood, independence, commonwealth, or self-governing territory.

Alaskans for Independence

Free the Bear - California Secession and Independence

California Secessionist Party

The Republic of Cascadia -- Advocates independence for the Pacific Northwest from both America and Canada, with a libertarian and pro-business perspective.

Cascadian National Party -- Advocate secession of the present states of Washington and Oregon from the United States.

Cascadia Confederacy -- Advocates independence of the Pacific Northwest region from the U.S. and Canada, with an anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist perspective.

State of Jefferson -- The rich history surrounding the events leading to the State of Jefferson secession movement of 1941. The State of Jefferson lives on in the hearts and minds of many residents of northern California and southern Oregon today.

Hawai`i -- Independent & Sovereign -- Separatist movement of Hawaiian aboriginal people.

La Voz de Aztlan -- Separatist movement that seeks a reconquista (reconquest) by chicanos (ethnic hispanics of Aztec descent) of the Southwestern United States and creation of a new nation of Aztlan (legendary ancient homeland).

New England Confederation Movement -- Seek independence for New England states. Also see New Hampshire Chapter.

South Carolina League of the South -- Seek independence through secession, perhaps for all of the Southern states of the 1861-65 Confederate States of America.

Republic of Texas -- This is one of several pages for the somewhat fractured Texas Independence Movement which has recently received a great deal of attention. We do not support the movement. Constitutional compliance throughout the United States is attainable. Independence is not necessary, and distracts from the cause of constitutional compliance. But they do raise a number of interesting issues.

Provisional Government of the Republic of Texas -- Another Republic of Texas site.

United People's Party (Partido Nacional La Raza Unida) -- Many of them seek to separate the part of the U.S. taken from Mexico from the U.S. and make it an independent Hispanic nation called Aztlan.

Of http://authortravis.tripod.com available here, for those that don't know Coral yet.

Who Wrote Sobig?

As the one year anniversary of the Anti-Virus Reward Program bounty for Sobig approaches, we felt this was an appropriate time to publicly release the current state of our Sobig forensic investigation. Appropriately, the authors of this document have chosen to release it anonymously for many reasons, some of which are:
By releasing the information publicly, we hope to increase tips to law enforcement concerning the Sobig authorship and spur efforts toward apprehension of the malware author(s); This document shows how computer forensics can identify virus authors. The computer forensic methods demonstrated throughout this document have been utilized to successfully identify authors of other viruses as well; Our focus is the objective analysis of Sobig. It is our contention, position, and belief that associating this paper with any specific company, organization, group, or individual will only serve to detract from the investigation. Because this site may be shutdown, you are free to copy this document to other web sites. Please do not modify the contents of this document.

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Dungeons of Daggorath probably gave me the most enjoyment of any game ever. A pc port was made (both a linux and a windows version) but the site where it was still hosted until very recently is not up at the moment. http://mspencer.net/daggorath/dodpcp.html In case it comes back (there were forums there as well). http://members.tripod.com/~Frodpod/index-2.htmlsti ll seems to be up, though not updated in some time.

--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.

I found it here, but I highly doubt it's going to give you any hints on when to duck. =)

Is probably the Mario Brothers movie with John Leguizamo.

I agree completely. Maxwells 4 equasions to fully join electic and magnetic phenomena are absolute masterpieces of physics.

Maxwell's equasions

I've always had a fondness for Schrodinger's wave equasions too. Between the two of them they express the full spectrum of the old and new in physics prior to the introduction of flavored quarks and other such modern concepts.

When I develop my new rat-brain oracle, there will be no need to consult http://members.tripod.com/funky.hippy/spock.html Spock's Brain! http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/epis odes/TOS/detail/68782.html Just think, Kirk could have grown a new one rather than spend a whole episode hunting down Spock's old one.

As an aside, we built a robot that images and solves cubes here at the university of our own. It is rather crude looking but we have video to prove it works.

http://osutodd23.tripod.com/Rubiks/RCSR.jpg

-osutodd23@yahoo.com

those godless communist bastards are preying on our innocent capitalism aryan heros like 50 cent, eminem, and britney... think of the children!!!

I can totally recommend Blender, as it not only has a good 3d-engine for animation, it also has a complete scripting environment, making it possible to create user-interaction schemes.

I wanted to post additional Blender Tutorial links:

i found a collection of Tutorials, the Blender Classroom Tutorial Book or a list of Blender Tutorials found on the net.

thanks for responding... hope I didn't come off as bitter, I'm just not a fan of gated communities, but I respect peoples' choices.

Where I grew up there were lots of neighborhoods that decorated. My favorite, in Pimmit Hills, even put xmas lights on their vw beetle.). We always took family and visitors on evening car tours to the best houses. People respected the privacy of the homeowners and the neighbors... hopefully people out here don't ruin it and do the same.

Keep up the good work!

according to this blog by the author of the Wired article:
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog? entry_id=479527

Pakeerah was beaten to death with a claw hammer by a friend who, Thompson claims, was inspired by Manhunt.

Yeah, and everybody seems to overlook one fact: the "damning evidence" that the police found the game in the kid's bedroom was, in fact, found in the victim's bedroom.

That wasn't the first time Thompson has been involved in cases like this; he's a well-known crank who foists himself on the families of victims and convinces them that the games are to blame. In one case, he tried to persue a case against the wishes of the victim's family. He's also harrassed people and had restraining orders taken out against him. He's a crank of the highest order. You want to know why you hear so many stories about "evil games"? It's him and people like him.

What's a "radio"?

Ancient, steam driven device to pick up sound from the air :) Utter hype when I was born!

CC.

Republicans have done more damage to the liberty, safety, and overall strength of the USA than anyone else has in recent history.

Really? How/What/When, give examples!
Sticking with "recent history", I guess the last Democrat president was never for the "glory, power and wealth of the few": Clinton Scandals

When was the last time someone poor ever gave you a job? Don't totally knock the rich.

Or a governor.

Here's some more evidence that Super Mario is a pinko communist. The anti-Koopa sentiment springs from Mushroom Kingdom propaganda.

Tell that to Harry Daghlin. During a partial criticality test just after the war, a core slipped during a test and went full critical. Harry had to knock one of the two plutonium hemispheres apart by hand. He saw a blue flash, Harry was that quick but it was not quick enough. He died 25 days later.

Actually, it is Harry Dahlian for those who want to learn more about it.

This guy became the "first peacetime atom bomb" fatality by dropping a brick on a ball of plutonium.

1. I hate hitler. If I was to point out some of his crimes would you just brush them off saying I am just some "political ideologue, with an anti-hitler paranoia".

No, I'd point to this and let you figure it out. :}

I believe the tradition is that a glass used to remember a lost friend may never again be used for a lesser purpose. It is placed upside-down, so it cannot be refilled.

The phrase is used in many places, among them, Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the 10th-century Persian poetry of Omar Khaiyyam.

The Russian tradition of smashing a shot glass after a toast stems from the same source

Not sure where you are getting your facts from but...

Before we were officially the glorious US of A, the person in charge of military forces for British-controlled America, Jeffrey Amherst, did indeed use smallpox-infested blankets to decimate Native American tribal populations in what is now the Northeastern U.S.

In addition to biochemical warfare, we have been pretty effective at plain old murderous genocide when it came to the folks who inhabited these lands before us.

or here

or google

Oh and I need more characters per line

There are some interesting write-ups here:
The Internal Combustion Engine
and
Concept IC Engine

As for the origin of sign language, it's as old as the origin of Native American tribes. Anyone who has taken an ASL course would know that Native American tribes used signs as a sort of inter-tribal language among themselves.

Even after that, it is not rare for an isolated group of people to develop a language of their own. That is exactly how sign language developed (Somebody didn't just make up a system of sign language out of pity for the deaf who couldn't possibly communicate on their own). Even now, a small group of people often come up with their own system for basic communication needs (i.e. mother and baby, a deaf person without formal education and his close family, etc.) Also, twins are known to come up with their own languages--this is a very well documented case.

This article falls short of other details that might have been interesting. It says,

That method of communicating now shows similarities to other languages, researchers say in Thursday's issue of the journal Science.

What similarities? That it is used to communicate (isn't it how one defines language)? Knowing the diversity of modern languages, I find it difficult not to find any similarity to other languages. Do they tend to put the subject in front of everything else? Every language does that (for obvious reasons...). Do they tend to omit the subject? I know Korean does that regularly, whereas in English it's done only when brevity is paramount. Do they sometimes put the object first? Find any inflected language and you can do that there as well (usually means emphasis on the object, though). Tell me when the children have matured enough to learn multivariable calculus on their own and they happen to use the inverted capital delta for their "del" operator. Then I will be astonished at the similarity. Frankly, I doubt that this new language thing will go far (same case with twin language--for the twins to live in the world, they have to learn the language of their society, the process which inevitably all but destroys their own language). Or, if it is to "evolve" to show a parallel structure, well, expect to have generations of isolated (hereditary) deaf children for a century or a millenium.

Even the article's sidenotes about similarity among existing languages is trivial.

The mothers in every country reported that their children learned significantly more nouns than other types of words. The researchers said this held true regardless of whether the language emphasized nouns, as does American English, or verbs, as does Korean.

Might as well say, "The mothers in every country reported that their children learned significantly more words related to food or household item than words used to describe linear vector spaces or binary operation structure." Of course they know more nouns! That's what the mothers teach most, because it's the easiest thing to teach ther children. And, I'll bet, among nouns, the children know more concrete nouns abstract nouns. It's not just that. In all the languages I know (and I know more than 2, if you count a few dead languages), nouns comprise the biggest group of part of speech. Also, usually, there is always a way to make a word from any other part of speech (excepting a few specialized parts like conjunctions or articles) into a noun (but not the other way around--for example, how would turn the noun "apple" into a verb?).

This study reveals nothing new--that is, other than the fact that there are too many (useless) researchers around the world with too much time on their hands (even then, that's not new either, eh?).

Here's pics for comparison ;-)
old one
new one

you might have to reload the tripod one a couple of times because of anti-hotlinking or whatever

He'll get geud just like the poor Opti-Grab inventor was.