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Ooo, instant love! Thanks for that one, too bad they don't have these crap whachyacallthem "yeerapean" models with the really big return key, short right shift and the backslash to the right of the right shift key. Sorta like this thing:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Qwertz-si.svg/540px-Qwertz-si.svg.png
but without the additional key to the left of backspace (meaning a longer backspace key). This is how my ol'skoo IBMish clone is layed out, but I guess you can't have everything ;) .

The Wikipedia distorts the colors and shrinks a 4x8 foot painting to postage stamp size and this is how you make a judgment?

A Pollock Is Sold, Possibly for a Record Price [2006]

For a better example: Lavender Mist No. 1 1950 Oil on canvas, Oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas. 7x10 feet. National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC.

The depth of a Pollack is not easily captured on screen. You need to visit a gallery.

The element of chance in Pollack's "drip paintings" is no less an illusion than the effects of a representational artist. The colors and materials used in Lavender Mist were consciously chosen and layered to achieve a particular effect.

You don't have to be an art critic to know that Jackson Pollock's true art form was not painting, but rather convincing people that he was an artist. Polock's "art" was typical of the stupid abstract expressionist movement--- intentionally devoid of representational content.

Of course Pollack's drip paintings are devoid of representational content.

There are entire cultures whose art is a mastery of abstraction. There are also perfectly intelligible reasons why a Titian can set a modern audience off into gales of laughter.

...from an early beta.

Polar bears don't actually live 'at the pole':

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Polar_bear_range_map.png

They live in areas around which, according to the article, have plenty of ice...

While I agree with Dr. de Grey's philosophy and idea, I also agree he needs to change his look to be a little more in-line with what most people expect. It makes him look a bit kooky to have that Gandalf-style beard.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/AubreyDeGrey.JPG

Seeing as how he's only 45 (according to WP), he'd probably look pretty healthy and young without it, making him a more effective advocate.

Especially when the last five complete database dumps are corrupt

Especially when the last five complete database dumps are corrupt

Especially when the last five complete database dumps are corrupt

Especially when the last five complete database dumps are corrupt

Especially when the last five complete database dumps are corrupt

It's probably more illuminating to look at those separately:

• Slashdot reach: ~0.03% per day
• Wikipedia reach: ~10% per day

Wikipedia gets 300 times the traffic that Slashdot does, according to Alexa. And that doesn't even count the sister projects. wikimedia.org gets 0.6% reach, 20 times Slashdot. Slashdot isn't even up to some of the small projects like Wiktionary and Wikibooks. To quote the Wikimedia Bugzilla's quips list,

Xirzon: are the servers up for slashdotting ? brion: we get more traffic than /. usually we don't even notice the bump on the traffic graphs

According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers Wikimedia (and by extension, Wikipedia):

"About 300 machines in Florida, 26 in Amsterdam, 23 in Yahoo!'s Korean hosting facility."

also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_partners_and_hosts

According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers Wikimedia (and by extension, Wikipedia):

"About 300 machines in Florida, 26 in Amsterdam, 23 in Yahoo!'s Korean hosting facility."

also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_partners_and_hosts

I've actually built an AI that has achieved (almost) human levels of intelligence. It is self-aware, capable of debating with other humans and has passed the Turing test. Unfortunately, it's a Canadian project, so DARPA can't have it. If you want to look the project up it's code name is 'Robo-Harper'.

There are a few problems: it lacks realistic human features (particularly skin, we try covering it with makeup, but that only partially helps, the hair also looks like that of a Lego man); it has a propensity for gullibility and self-gratification; the bot also has problems with large numbers of interrupts (we have a work-around for this: he just goes out via the fire exit, to avoid the crowds).

So there you have HarperBot: it could almost be mistaken for a human (once we get the bugs ironed out)!

I'm guessing it's due to Moore's law. If it keeps going for a couple of more decades, we should be able to simulate all the neurons in a brain, thus creating simulated intelligence.

Mister, you ain't kidding.

Even if the Tacoma Dome were a true "geodesic dome", which it isn't, using the spherical shape for a dome had been in use for at least 1500 years before Buckminster Fuller was born.

Bill Gates in 1977
Yet another classic

Strangely enough, in my unmodified install of Opera's current stable version, an svg example renders just as well as the WoW Armory in it's full XMLy glory ("Mask as Fx", checked the source to make sure there was no XHTML ;)). Having said that, I'd like you to have sexual intercourse somewhere else (i.e. "fuck off").

Step 2: Carve memorable/important parts into stone.

I tried with my ex-wife's family family album photos and boy are my arms tired!

Unless you're in THIS situation...

...and thanks for the mammaries! ;)

Four More Fears!

I think I'd call it a minority. It's supposed to be an international system of measures. At this point, I'd call said country rather backwards. Especially considering you can't even walk into a science classroom in any university in the US and use the imperial system. SI is the way of science, and the way of the world, except for the US - a paltry 300 million people who are falling behind the rest of the world.

If you look at this list linked from the page the previous poster mentioned, you'll see several of these "mirrors" do fetch pages through open proxies.

It's also incredibly stupid when Wikipedia has SQL dumps up for download.

i might not be following you correctly, but xsan is a software product that allows a unified volume of storage over a network of available space, while the xserve raid was a physical piece of hardware comprised of an xserve and an array of hdds.(See image here) When discontinuing the xserve raid apple has advised existing clients of other similar products.

The wikipedia article on gravitational lensing has a neat animation produced with a numerical model. I wouldn't make it your desktop background though because it might warp your file icons.

really? I don't like mandelbrot, it's just a sort of blob with a line coming out of it, like an alien vessel from some extremely low budget sci-fi show. I think the Julia set is much more aesthetically pleasing. (like this). Each to his own.

I have Munch on my wall. Very relaxing and inspiring when you are behind schedule.

And Linux will never replace mainframes. Nothing will.

But what if you live in Quebec? They use a different traffic light than most places in Canada.

Try this on Wikipedia itself. If it is not a problem anymore, it probably means that it was fixed in a version that's newer than what the CIA is using. (Currently, all Wikimedia Foundation wikis run MediaWiki 1.13alpha, straight from the Subversion source control repo.) If it is still a problem, email security @at@ wikimedia.org and we'll try to deal with that ASAP.

Hmmmm... what does this remind me of? Oh yeah... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Hindenburg_burning.jpg Of course the Germans have learned from their mistake and as a result you won't be able to buy any in New Jersey.

Yes, there is less rear leg room in the new Mini, just take a look at the inside of the old mini: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Cutout_mini.jpg

The entire interior was far more sparse, one could almost blame the lack of rear leg room in the new model on the width of the new front seats compared to the old ones.

Sit that 2008 Toyota Camry next to a 1980 Toyota Camry and tell me again that 500kg weight difference comes entirely from added safety features. Same with the Honda Civic. I drive a 2004 Corolla, and compared to a Corolla made 10 years earlier, it doesn't even look like its in the same vehicle class. This trend appears across almost the entire market, although the imports tend to be far worse about it than the American companies. Toyota in particular seems to like to keep names around for cars that are nothing at all like their predecessors (Exhibit A: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Toyota_Land_Cruiser_yellow_vl.jpg -> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/2008_Toyota_Land_Cruiser.jpg ) while it seems most American car companies are all too happy to kill off an old name when they move to a new design.

Sit that 2008 Toyota Camry next to a 1980 Toyota Camry and tell me again that 500kg weight difference comes entirely from added safety features. Same with the Honda Civic. I drive a 2004 Corolla, and compared to a Corolla made 10 years earlier, it doesn't even look like its in the same vehicle class. This trend appears across almost the entire market, although the imports tend to be far worse about it than the American companies. Toyota in particular seems to like to keep names around for cars that are nothing at all like their predecessors (Exhibit A: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Toyota_Land_Cruiser_yellow_vl.jpg -> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/2008_Toyota_Land_Cruiser.jpg ) while it seems most American car companies are all too happy to kill off an old name when they move to a new design.

> If you want to cut down on corruption, simplify the laws and reduce the role of government.

Huh? Have a look at this map linked from this page. See the many countries with a "larger government" (= real social welfare, good public schools, ...) than the USA, that still score lower on corruption? (hint: scandinavia, central europe, ...)

Are you saying that Barack Obama Sr (shown here with Jr) is mostly arabic? You have a very broad definition of that term.

Amazing how any nonsense can be posted around here and get modded informative.

The cameras weren't as good then, so it would have been harder to tell a photo of a model from a photo of a painting of the model. The cameras were not in color. Nobody expected a photo of a painting to be anything but a photo.

I have to beg to differ on this:

1861: The first known permanent color photograph is taken by James Clerk Maxwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography Check out the link for excellent examples of early color photography as well

Some of these color photos look like they could have been taken in the past couple of decades, but this one was from nearly 100 years ago and in full color: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Prokudin-Gorskii-12.jpg

The cameras weren't as good then, so it would have been harder to tell a photo of a model from a photo of a painting of the model. The cameras were not in color. Nobody expected a photo of a painting to be anything but a photo.

I have to beg to differ on this:

1861: The first known permanent color photograph is taken by James Clerk Maxwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography Check out the link for excellent examples of early color photography as well

Some of these color photos look like they could have been taken in the past couple of decades, but this one was from nearly 100 years ago and in full color: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Prokudin-Gorskii-12.jpg

Or nowadays, there's always the internet

BAM, Stephen Hawking just signed that document you're faxing to someone :P.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Elephant_near_ndutu.jpg

A SIGHT TO BEHOLD

The most famous examples would be Jeanneke Pis in Brussels and Mieke Stroel in Zelzate. Of the top of my head: there's also one in Ellezelle and Dubrovnik.

Here's the famous one in Brussels

I think we should dismantle every building with naked babies perched on top of massive, rock-hard shafts

"A christian themed burial site would indicate a greater likelihood of intermingling with non-viking cultures from Southern Europe. This could be an indicator of genetic intermingling as well."

Are you sure? Prior to the introduction of christianity in Denmark my ancestors raided, conquered, traded and settled all over Europe and most likely brought back women as war booty or if returning home from a failed settlement.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Viking_expansion.png

After the introduction of christianity we pretty much stayed at home. One of the points in the article is also that the genetic diversity has decreased in the period following the Viking Age. How can that be if intermixing was higher for the christian elements?