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I think you're eating bitter melon.

Bitter melon is a bit more warty than the typical cucumber. It tends to be pointy on the blossom end.

Bitter melon has all sorts of weird psyiological effects. From wikibooks:

Bitter melon has some interesting effects on humans. It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as a treatment for diabetes and to cause abortions. It impedes many things: viruses, bacteria, tumors... and the immune system. It lowers blood cholesterol. It is a laxative.

Wild, huh?

There is a picture there are well:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Bitter_Melon

As for the carrots: the bitterness has been bred out of modern carrots. Bitter ones are more nutritious and more poisonous.

Or Wikibooks.

If you would not have said it I would have done so.

Martin

PS: If you do get around trying to learn Ada here my shamless plug:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming

I've tried Maya (evaluation), 3DS Max (cad), AutoCad and Friends (cad), etc. They all have very different interfaces. These are the few that would seem to define "convention," yet they are totally different. They are also hardly within the "hobbyist" price range. Blender is well within the hobbyist price range, has some decent, free documentation. The "getting started" range of documentation is actually quite good.

Not to mention people are free to, for example, fork the project and make it how they wish.

If you watch "The Making of" for Elephants Dream, you'll see that they looked plenty productive and the new node compositing (think Shake) looks down-right sick!

Interesting concept, but I don't think those are credit courses. I'd like to take the entirety of college via something like this, or an over-the-web curriculum. Instead, I wait for something like Wikiversity, and perhaps other projects. I helped build this Internet instead of going to college. I'd like to get a some kind of diploma for it -- use the Internet to complete the rest of my education. Wikipedia has been a great non-credit way to make up for my some of my lack of schooling.

Bring on the singularity weapons and matter-energy conversion beams, I say!

You've got to research Applied Gravitonics first.

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There is no point in donating to this program without donating to a program for putting a full curriculum worth of textbook material into the public domain first.

Luckily that sort of project is already underway. Sure, it is rather incomplete and patchy in its coverage, and the quality can be a little up and down, but there are actually a large number of pretty good quality texts on there for a wide variety of subjects. Wikijunior books, for instance, have material good enough for the kids the laptop project is aimed at.

Jedidiah.

If you're interested in some more resources for Blender (or info on the movie), try checking these places out:

Blendernation

Blendernation article about Elephants Dream

Blender Artists Forums

Collection of WikiBooks

Elephants Dream on Wikipedia (in case you don't know anything about it, considering the main website is down and the original poster didn't say much of anything about the short itself)

Blender on Wikipedia

Seriously, though, considering how much has been happening with this project, and what a significant milestone it is for those who use OSS and/or CC, I find it almost sad that this is the first story on Slashdot in almost exactly a year. And that it took Slashdot editors well over a day since the first story submissions (some with links directly to the torrents to avoid killing the Elephants Dream homepage immediately) to get this up. Maybe I'm biased (I pre-ordered the DVD 9 months ago), but I just think that stories about people doing amazing things within and beyond the community deserves precedence over the latest reports about what the PS3 might cost. Not to anger anyone, just to toss that up for discussion.

Here's a nice write-up written by somebody very much in cahoots with the Orange team and the heads of the Blender project:

http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/18/the-worlds -first-open-movie-released/

You can get Blender here:

http://blender.org/cms/Blender.31.0.html

and learn how to use it here:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_P ro

and get community help here:

http://blenderartists.org/forum/
IRC: irc.freenode.net/ #blender #blenderchat #blenderqa

spiderworm

All Smash Bros. is is a button-masher's fighter.

LOL! In fact, going by this list of techniques, Super Smash Bros. Melee is just as deep as any 1-on-1 Street Fighter or Tekken clone.

Check out Blender: Noob to Pro. Once you get used to it, the interface makes a lot of sense.

In short, try not to think as depression as something simply psychological, but as a physical illness caused by chronic abuse of the brain. Giving it a chance to rest is the first step towards recovery.

Also, it's worth reading the Wikipedia article on the Motorolla DVR. Some of the codes it gives for programming hidden buttons into the remote are very useful. For example, you can program in a "swap" button that will allow you to switch tuners when you decide to record a channel. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use_a_Motorola _DVR

Personally, I'm very tempted to buy one of the new iMacs that can turn an HD cable box into a DVR by using Firewire.

Actually the presence of 802.11b devices on a 802.11g network will slow the network down, just not all the way to b speed. See this table for example. As stated there, you seem to drop about a third of the speed, and noting the source [PDF], I'd assume that data is reliable.

How do you program without using discrete math(Or an algorithm for that matter)? It's very hard to program without conditional statements.

I think when the parent refers to a 'hash' he means a perl hash, not a cryptographic hash.

GSM radio transmissions, particularly control signals (e.g., periodic mobile device registration, SMS message transmission), can induce audible interference (buzzing) in nearby speakers. (Hearing aids can also be affected.) The general issue of radio frequency interference (RFI) is exacerbated by the short pulsing nature of these time division multiplexed transmissions. The most straightforward solution is to separate the mobile device (e.g., cell phone) from the speakers; otherwise, shielded speakers and/or shielded speaker wiring may help.

My solution wasn't to turn off the phone, but rather to turn off the speakers ... and in my last move, I placed my bed table on the opposite side of the room from my computer (and its speakers), so that I can have music when my phone is charging. ... Sadly, this means I can't roll over in bed and hack on the computer.

Visual BASIC.NET and ASP.NET are free at Wikibooks. No SQL Server Express version yet, but there is a Wikibook on SQL which novices can read. I am sure one can read it and adapt it to SQL Server.

Visual BASIC.NET and ASP.NET are free at Wikibooks. No SQL Server Express version yet, but there is a Wikibook on SQL which novices can read. I am sure one can read it and adapt it to SQL Server.

Visual BASIC.NET and ASP.NET are free at Wikibooks. No SQL Server Express version yet, but there is a Wikibook on SQL which novices can read. I am sure one can read it and adapt it to SQL Server.

I live in a constitutional monarchy, but it is also a democracy. Just like the US, the people of Belarus have a republic. The difference is that theirs is in fact a dictatorship.

I have a feeling that too many slashdotters base their knowledge of this field on the game Civilization's forms of government.

To summarise it, what if stress and depression arise from chronic overuse of the brain? Information overload and lack of sleep could be the real culprits. Think about it.

Everyone knows that Total Annihilation did it first.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Engineering_Acoustics /Car_Mufflers

One down, three to go.

-Glee

Some examples of boundaries:

• The wiki approach has worked fairly well for Wikipedia, but generally not so well for wikibooks. (I say this as someone who has spent a lot of time working on WP, and some on wikibooks.) This seems to be because an encyclopedia is uniquely well suited to the wiki approach (lots of factual articles, on lots of different topics, with no need for strict coordination between them).
• Certain types of software work well as open source projects (TeX, emacs, gcc, Linux, BSD, ssh, Firefox), but others don't (tax software, big-budget commercial games, software that has to interoperate with proprietary systems, inherently boring projects, projects with very small user bases).

On the other hand, there are some cases where the boundaries are evaporating, and it's very cool. For instance, I've written some copylefted physics textbooks. At the time when I first wrote them (8 years ago), it was very hard to get photos. I ended up doing a lot of photography myself, which was fun, but there were limits on what I could do, both in terms of quantity and in terms of quality. Nowadays, if I say, "I need a photo of someone swimming as an illustration of Newton's third law," I just hop on over to Wikipedia, grab a nice photo, and drop a thank-you note to the photographer. We both get a warm, fuzzy feeling.

Didn't we already have the wheel group for this? No direct root login and only members of wheel can su to root. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Explana tions/Becoming_Root

Interesting to note that even though the US has tougher immigration and naturalization policies than Japan...

Bullshit. Look up the word "jus sanguinis". Better yet, let me just tell you what it means.

Japan is a jus sanguinis state, meaning that it recognizes citizenship by blood, not by birth (as is the case in the United States, Ireland and many other countries). Article 2 provides three situations in which a person can become a Japanese citizen at birth:

1) When either parent is a Japanese citizen at the time of birth
2) When the father dies before the birth and is a Japanese citizen at the time of death
3) When the person is born on Japanese soil and both parents are unknown or stateless
These rules are very strictly applied, which often creates problems for unmarried non-Japanese mothers. In such cases, unless the Japanese father gives express recognition of paternity before the birth, the child is generally not recognized as a Japanese citizen

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese_Immigration_ Law

There is also some more good reading found here:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/displ ay.cfm?id=39

Japan is better then it was, but that isn't saying much.

I agree with you in theory, but as with most wiki concepts, it works better in practice than theory would suggest. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page The key is to stop behaving as though it were an electronic copy of an authoritative textbook and start treating it as a giant cross-referenced mass of raw data.

...Pokémon. There's an article for almost all of the three-hundred-something monsters in the series of games. For a more data-oriented site (with an index), there's also the "Wikibooks Pokédex".

I love my MythTV, although it is not without its share of bugs. I store the shows and music on a 160Gb drive and have never had any problems with filesizes or number of files. Apparently the filesystem that the MythTV data is on plays a large role in determining how well it scales with lots of data. I use ext3 and it has worked well.

Your home media networking sounds complex, and that's something that MythTV does pretty well. The MythTV backend (which records programs and manages the database) can run on a different computer than the frontend (which allows browsing and playing of content). So you can get at your content from anywhere. And of course you can store your data on a different computer than the backend runs on if you really want to (just mount the drive appropriately). You can even have multiple frontends access the database at the same time. I often transcode recorded shows and sync them onto my laptop, so that I can watch shows elsewhere (I use TV-out on my Macbook to play shows on other people's TVs). I've never used MCE so I don't know if it can do similar things.

While I don't use my Myth to store terabytes of data, I suspect it's up to the task. I'd say give Myth another try (I wrote a tutorial after getting my system running: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MythTV).

Besides the comments already in this thread, you may be interested in some different projects. One is the Wikibooks project, and specifically the Rhetoric and Composition book developed as a class project for a computers and writing class. There is also the School and university projects projects page listing several different class projects that have used Wikipedia in teaching. Your contributions would be appreciated too.

Besides the comments already in this thread, you may be interested in some different projects. One is the Wikibooks project, and specifically the Rhetoric and Composition book developed as a class project for a computers and writing class. There is also the School and university projects projects page listing several different class projects that have used Wikipedia in teaching. Your contributions would be appreciated too.

Taking time to learn the idiosyncrasies of an engine can be quite rewarding, it just takes time.

And Super Smash Bros. Melee has that in spades.

Here, here.

To the parent: Despite the brevity and intended humour, that was still very well done. You have a concept, and an idea to base it on. Why not write a book?

Heck, if you're not into it, maybe a bunch of us can start one together. WikiBooks is intended for textbooks, but a multi-author novella might do just as well.

• The Semantic MediaWiki:

  Provides a common platform for discussing extensions of the MediaWiki software that allow for simple, machine-based processing of Wiki content. This usually requires some form of "semantic annotation," but the special Wiki environment and the multitude of envisaged applications impose a number of additional requirements.

• A Semantic MediaWiki demo wiki:

  This site runs a demo of the Semantic Web extension to the MediaWiki-Software that runs Wikipedia.

• WikiSense - Mining the Wiki by Daniel Kinzler:

  I would like to present a project that aims to apply techniques of data-mining and knowledge-management to the Wikipedia corpus. The idea is to extract semantic relations directly from the link structure, as opposed to trying to analyze natural language. Wikipedia is an excellent basis for such an analysis because every node in the web of links represents exactly one topic. The results may be used to benefit the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects. Key points are support of multilingual features and computer aided structuring.

• Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - The Missing Links by Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandei, and Max Völkel:

  The current excessive usage of article lists and categories witnesses the fact that 19th century content organization technologies like inter-article references and indices are no longer sufficient for today's needs. Rather, it is necessary to allow knowledge processing in a computer assisted way, for example to intelligently query the knowledge base. To this end, we propose the introduction of typed links as an extremely simple and unintrusive way for rendering large parts of Wikipedia machine readable.

• Wikidata (an 'outdated' proposal but with links to superseding discussions):

  Imagine that you can edit the content of an infobox on Wikipedia (e.g. Germany) with one click, that you get an edit form specific to the infobox you are editing, and that other Wikipedias automatically and immediately use the same content (unless it is specific to your locale). Imagine that some data in an article can be automatically updated in the background, without any work from you - whether it is the development of a company stock, or the number of lines of code in an open source project. Imagine that you can easily search wiki-databases on a variety of subjects, without knowing anything about wikis.

• WikiDB:

  WikiDB is a PHP software that allow to create cooperatively data table online. It is inspired by WikiWiki system for cooperative aspect and by PHPMyAdmin for the interface.

• The Semantic MediaWiki:

  Provides a common platform for discussing extensions of the MediaWiki software that allow for simple, machine-based processing of Wiki content. This usually requires some form of "semantic annotation," but the special Wiki environment and the multitude of envisaged applications impose a number of additional requirements.

• A Semantic MediaWiki demo wiki:

  This site runs a demo of the Semantic Web extension to the MediaWiki-Software that runs Wikipedia.

• WikiSense - Mining the Wiki by Daniel Kinzler:

  I would like to present a project that aims to apply techniques of data-mining and knowledge-management to the Wikipedia corpus. The idea is to extract semantic relations directly from the link structure, as opposed to trying to analyze natural language. Wikipedia is an excellent basis for such an analysis because every node in the web of links represents exactly one topic. The results may be used to benefit the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects. Key points are support of multilingual features and computer aided structuring.

• Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - The Missing Links by Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandei, and Max Völkel:

  The current excessive usage of article lists and categories witnesses the fact that 19th century content organization technologies like inter-article references and indices are no longer sufficient for today's needs. Rather, it is necessary to allow knowledge processing in a computer assisted way, for example to intelligently query the knowledge base. To this end, we propose the introduction of typed links as an extremely simple and unintrusive way for rendering large parts of Wikipedia machine readable.

• Wikidata (an 'outdated' proposal but with links to superseding discussions):

  Imagine that you can edit the content of an infobox on Wikipedia (e.g. Germany) with one click, that you get an edit form specific to the infobox you are editing, and that other Wikipedias automatically and immediately use the same content (unless it is specific to your locale). Imagine that some data in an article can be automatically updated in the background, without any work from you - whether it is the development of a company stock, or the number of lines of code in an open source project. Imagine that you can easily search wiki-databases on a variety of subjects, without knowing anything about wikis.

• WikiDB:

  WikiDB is a PHP software that allow to create cooperatively data table online. It is inspired by WikiWiki system for cooperative aspect and by PHPMyAdmin for the interface.

1. whatever change it is,[myelination was their pick] higly localized changes in brain areas that integrate emotion and decision ARE changeing.
2. their data do little to pick apart the nature vs nurture issues that may rule such changes...only supporting the conclusion that at 18 something is still rewiring your brain.

How about sending "Hello World!" by E-Mail? In Java you just use the appropiate E-Mail class and the programm will only be about 3 lines larger. Those 3 lines will set FROM, TO and SUBJECT.

I am not a fan of Java - but I think comparting languages like this is plain stupid - because you are not comparing languages but the libraries.

printf is not C - it's a C library function.
OutputStreamWriter is not Java - is's a Java library class.

Shure the standart libraries. But they are library function which you can replace if you don't like them.

What you can't replace is:

unsigned int = -1;

or

char const y[] = "Hello World!";
char x[5];
for (int i = 0; y[i] != '\0'; i++)
    {
    x[i] = y[i];
    }

These are language features. Both show a common bug not detected by the compiler. A library can be replaced by a better one - a bug generating language feature will be with you all the time. No matter how much experience.

When I did C/C++ work I was hunting down bugs based in integer ranges, buffer overuns, dangeling or null pointers all the time.

Now I have an Ada assignment and those kind bugs are all gone. If it compiles it runs. I am a happier man now.

There is more to a programming language then the count of lines for "hello word".

Martin

PS: I did not use strcpy (which does the very same) because I want to show languages features.

PS2: Declaring a variable inside "for" has become valid for C99.

PS3: Hello World in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Basic

PS4: Integers in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types /range

PS5: Arrays in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types /array

How about sending "Hello World!" by E-Mail? In Java you just use the appropiate E-Mail class and the programm will only be about 3 lines larger. Those 3 lines will set FROM, TO and SUBJECT.

I am not a fan of Java - but I think comparting languages like this is plain stupid - because you are not comparing languages but the libraries.

printf is not C - it's a C library function.
OutputStreamWriter is not Java - is's a Java library class.

Shure the standart libraries. But they are library function which you can replace if you don't like them.

What you can't replace is:

unsigned int = -1;

or

char const y[] = "Hello World!";
char x[5];
for (int i = 0; y[i] != '\0'; i++)
    {
    x[i] = y[i];
    }

These are language features. Both show a common bug not detected by the compiler. A library can be replaced by a better one - a bug generating language feature will be with you all the time. No matter how much experience.

When I did C/C++ work I was hunting down bugs based in integer ranges, buffer overuns, dangeling or null pointers all the time.

Now I have an Ada assignment and those kind bugs are all gone. If it compiles it runs. I am a happier man now.

There is more to a programming language then the count of lines for "hello word".

Martin

PS: I did not use strcpy (which does the very same) because I want to show languages features.

PS2: Declaring a variable inside "for" has become valid for C99.

PS3: Hello World in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Basic

PS4: Integers in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types /range

PS5: Arrays in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types /array

How about sending "Hello World!" by E-Mail? In Java you just use the appropiate E-Mail class and the programm will only be about 3 lines larger. Those 3 lines will set FROM, TO and SUBJECT.

I am not a fan of Java - but I think comparting languages like this is plain stupid - because you are not comparing languages but the libraries.

printf is not C - it's a C library function.
OutputStreamWriter is not Java - is's a Java library class.

Shure the standart libraries. But they are library function which you can replace if you don't like them.

What you can't replace is:

unsigned int = -1;

or

char const y[] = "Hello World!";
char x[5];
for (int i = 0; y[i] != '\0'; i++)
    {
    x[i] = y[i];
    }

These are language features. Both show a common bug not detected by the compiler. A library can be replaced by a better one - a bug generating language feature will be with you all the time. No matter how much experience.

When I did C/C++ work I was hunting down bugs based in integer ranges, buffer overuns, dangeling or null pointers all the time.

Now I have an Ada assignment and those kind bugs are all gone. If it compiles it runs. I am a happier man now.

There is more to a programming language then the count of lines for "hello word".

Martin

PS: I did not use strcpy (which does the very same) because I want to show languages features.

PS2: Declaring a variable inside "for" has become valid for C99.

PS3: Hello World in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Basic

PS4: Integers in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types /range

PS5: Arrays in Ada:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types /array

Really, a wiki could be useful in many a collaborative project, it's all about making a multisource fount of information.

As for an example, WikiBooks (generally howto or technical in nature) are a great idea, and I could see the creation of "story worlds" for actual novel-style books being a possible wherein authors developed individual characters, stories, or parts of a greater world.

I am surprised with most opinions expressed here, that tend to go against the "information wants to be free" /. dogma.

The problem is that 1up isn't licensed under the GFDL; sure, the GFDL allows commercial use of information, but it's still pretty bizarre for such a large site that gets so much profit copypaste something others wrote. If someone were to mirror the information on Wikibooks, it wouldn't have been as wrong as this.

"With C++ I can write one piece of code that can process pixels with 8 or 16 bit integer channels or 16 or 32 bit floating point channels. Fanboys of Objective C and Java are obviously not writing image processing software."

And C++ fanbois are prone to assume silly things about other languages from what somebody they agree with says about them. As an example of this, the fact that Java has templates seems to have escaped you.

As to image processing:

Objective C: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OsiriX_Specifications . Could have found a lot more stuff, but can't be bothered just to provide even more proof of the fact that you are talking utter crap.

Java: lots of examples here, as Sun's JAI (Advanced Imaging API) is specifically designed for image processing. Google is your friend.

People are also doing image processing in Python because it is used by lots of scientists, and image processing is something they do. And of course good old venerable C, which completely lacks all the "++" bits which you seem to think are necessary for writing any type of software.

"Without such important features as operator overloading, constructors, stack-based objects, and references, I really can't take Objective C seriously."

And these are necessary to write software because... Oh, that's right, you need a Turing complete language to write any conceivable piece of software, and what's that? A language can be Turing-complete without having any of these? What strange heresy is this?

"I can't imagine it being used for much mission critical software, that's for sure."

It seems you are incapable of imagining lots of things that exist, but that's your problem. For example, one thing that has escaped your imagination is the fact that C++ is far from being the language du jour for writing mission-critical software: the bulk of what can truly be classified as mission critical (i.e. extremely high reliability stuff where lives are at stake such as medical embedded systems, aerospace, real-time operating system kernels, etc,) are written in C or Ada, usually with a liberal sprinkling of assembler. How can this be when these languages lack all of those amazing features that you insist are necessary for them to be taken seriously? Is it possible that they are missing critical pieces of functionality that can only be implemented by using references to pass parameters? Maybe you should tell them!

If you're new to Blender, you just may dig this book:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D/Noob_to_Pr o

Happy Blending!

spiderworm

Browsing through wikibooks, wikipedia's sister project to try to write other books the wiki way, it's generally pretty difficult to find anything good, even though wikibooks is 2.5 years old. I recently did an unscientific study as part of my research for an article on free books, and the Blender books on wikibooks were one of the very few success stories out of the massive piles of junk there. However, a lot of the best content on wikibooks seems to be stuff that was more or less just dumped into wikibooks after having already been written elsewhere, and comparing the wikibooks stuff on Blender with the stuff on the Blender site, it looks like that may actually have been the case here. There's nothing wrong with that per se (WP has a lot of 1911 Britannica articles that were just copied over), but it doesn't exactly help to convince me that the wiki book model has much potential for success outside of WP, which is uniquely well suited to the wiki approach.

Browsing through wikibooks, wikipedia's sister project to try to write other books the wiki way, it's generally pretty difficult to find anything good, even though wikibooks is 2.5 years old. I recently did an unscientific study as part of my research for an article on free books, and the Blender books on wikibooks were one of the very few success stories out of the massive piles of junk there. However, a lot of the best content on wikibooks seems to be stuff that was more or less just dumped into wikibooks after having already been written elsewhere, and comparing the wikibooks stuff on Blender with the stuff on the Blender site, it looks like that may actually have been the case here. There's nothing wrong with that per se (WP has a lot of 1911 Britannica articles that were just copied over), but it doesn't exactly help to convince me that the wiki book model has much potential for success outside of WP, which is uniquely well suited to the wiki approach.

Browsing through wikibooks, wikipedia's sister project to try to write other books the wiki way, it's generally pretty difficult to find anything good, even though wikibooks is 2.5 years old. I recently did an unscientific study as part of my research for an article on free books, and the Blender books on wikibooks were one of the very few success stories out of the massive piles of junk there. However, a lot of the best content on wikibooks seems to be stuff that was more or less just dumped into wikibooks after having already been written elsewhere, and comparing the wikibooks stuff on Blender with the stuff on the Blender site, it looks like that may actually have been the case here. There's nothing wrong with that per se (WP has a lot of 1911 Britannica articles that were just copied over), but it doesn't exactly help to convince me that the wiki book model has much potential for success outside of WP, which is uniquely well suited to the wiki approach.

Yeah, me too, I loved the 6502, 68000, then ARM. I really need to have a go on the PowerPC. It looks cool too.

Oooh, and there's one right in this Mac!! ;-)

That's right, you didn't say "all slashdotters". Nonetheless, effective newsbreakers choose venues where the news isn't widely known. That, or they just don't toot their own horn so ineffectively.

You may want to review the laws of formal logic regarding quantifiers. Try http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Formal_Logic/Predicat e_Logic/The_Predicate_Language

You're just an adorable li'l imp, ain't you?

Anyway, thanks much. I'll be sure to brush up on them, whaddya call'em, "quantifiers".