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OK, I just finished downloading the source. It looks like the source is licensed under the same terms as the binary (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/legal.html).

Pretty cool.

The license states that it is free.

The download page has source links too

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/aboutus.html
Look at the first developer. How could he fill the .Net developer stereotype more than that???

BSD-like License: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/legal.html

Eastern Washington University, Cheney

Eastern Washington University, Spokane at Riverpoint

Gonzaga University

Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS)

Intercollegiate College of Nursing, WSU College of Nursing

North Idaho College

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Community Colleges of Spokane (Spokane Community College)

Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute (SIRTI)

Spokane Public Schools

University of Idaho

University of Idaho, Research Park, Post Falls

Washington State University, Pullman

Washington State University, Spokane

Whitworth College

Website: http://www.vpnet.org (a little bland at the moment, but still good info).

Eastern Washington University, Cheney

Eastern Washington University, Spokane at Riverpoint

Gonzaga University

Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS)

Intercollegiate College of Nursing, WSU College of Nursing

North Idaho College

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Community Colleges of Spokane (Spokane Community College)

Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute (SIRTI)

Spokane Public Schools

University of Idaho

University of Idaho, Research Park, Post Falls

Washington State University, Pullman

Washington State University, Spokane

Whitworth College

Website: http://www.vpnet.org (a little bland at the moment, but still good info).

Eastern Washington University, Cheney

Eastern Washington University, Spokane at Riverpoint

Gonzaga University

Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS)

Intercollegiate College of Nursing, WSU College of Nursing

North Idaho College

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Community Colleges of Spokane (Spokane Community College)

Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute (SIRTI)

Spokane Public Schools

University of Idaho

University of Idaho, Research Park, Post Falls

Washington State University, Pullman

Washington State University, Spokane

Whitworth College

Website: http://www.vpnet.org (a little bland at the moment, but still good info).

Common errors in english.

'Nuff said :)

Actors will always be around. I always laugh when people say that CG will replace all actors... which begs the question... why on earth would I try to replicate human expression... when I could just film it!

This is what you said, above.

I hate to have to correct you again, but you don't say 'begs the question' while you are doing it. That's an incorrect use of the term, again. If you had said 'CG will replace actors because actors are dumb', you would be begging the question. When you say something 'begs the question' and then ask a question, you're using it wrong. *shrug* I provided you a very helpful link which would have sorted all that out for you, if you had read and understood it. Yes, language changes, blah blah blah. That's why split infinitives are off my 'list of corrections'. However, 'begs the question' still doesn't mean what you want it to mean. 'Raises the question' does. I appreciate that you took the time to rationalize your mistake, but it was and is still a mistake. I really am not trying to diss you. Here's the link again. Don't feel you must take my word for it, or Mr. Brians'. Research it for yourself, if you like.

Here, follow this link to learn what 'begs the question' means. Hopefully, once you understand what it means, you will not use it again as you have here.

What you meant to say is 'raises the question'. Just say that next time you want to say 'begs the question'.

relevant studies universally show this is not true.

Time to market was simply not a factor in the design and implementation of Linux

and security was focused on starting at line 1 of the code for the Linux kernel.

Don't become too attached to M$ operating systems.

I wondered what was at the top of that ad (yesterday's on campus paper @ WSU had one of those ads. )
Interesting scanning the list, you have lots of "@KaZaA", "@fileshare", some "(DirectConnect)" and some "@Grokster" and some "(LimeWire)" I think I saw an "eDonkey". Most are either KaZaA or fileshare though.

I may be wrong, but I was told by some important-sounding people many years back that although it defies logic, apostrophes are appropriate in plural usage. A quick Google reference verifies that this has worked it's way into modern usage to the point that its a new rule. You might want to check an official style manual on that one, because I think that it might be right.

And yes, my "it's" and "its" were just to make you cringe. But it hurt me more than it hurt you.

This doesn't beg the question, it raises the question. See here.

You mean it raises the question

Yay, one of my favourite grammar mistakes. for all intensive purposes. Not flaming (posting AC to avoid karma backlash though), trying to be informative.

I have first-hand knowledge of both Thailand and China, and I can tell you that the hardware there is already cheap by our standards. But it's still beyond the reach of most of the population. Ballmer does make a semi-interesting point about the cybercafes (although he manages to scramble it, like most of his other utterances)--the people can't afford to have a PC at home, so they have adopted a scheme that they can afford. And therein lies a fundamental point that Ballmer and Co. just don't get: They would have to practically give away PC's with Windows already loaded to get these people interesting in taking one home with them.

The other issue facing MS is one of national pride, which they also don't seem to get. I know from my own experiences that many Asians regard MS as an arrogant and obnoxious US company, and their monopolistic game plan causes a significant amount of anxiety, and some degree of embarrassment, for both governments and end users. When they pay for Windows, where does their money go? Back into Thailand or China? No, it goes into Ballmer and Gates' pockets. And then they get to watch Ballmer on video do his "monkey-boy" prancing at MS presentations, or Gates going on about his great vision for the future, which is something that even makes me squirm to watch. Do the Thai and the Chinese resent giving their hard-earned money to a bunch of greedy American bozos? Hell yes they do.

Trying to sell marginally usable and drastically overpriced software to people in other countries without giving them some reason to feel good about their money going overseas is never going to work for MS, or any other company. You've got to give something back, and you've got to make the buyers and users feel like they have a stake in it, otherwise you're just another foreigner intent on taking advantage of the locals. The Chinese still remember the Boxer Rebellion and the occupation of Manchuria very clearly. A little thought will show why the Chinese want their own version of Linux and not Windows on their PC's. It makes perfect sense from a Chinese point of view.

Ballmer's biggest problem with Asia is that he appears to be completely incapable, like many Americans, of even recognizing that the Chinese, the Thai, or anyone else in Asia, might have a point of view different than his own.

Many of my friends could have cared less.

No they couldn't

"a powerful positron-generating accelerator under development at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash"

Whaa?? I've been going to school here for three years, and I haven't heard about them building that. Where is it hidden, The New Johnson Hall Addition?

We're a land grant school, damnit! We're supposed to be researching wheat or something!

(One interesting note is the rumor of living cows with fiberglass panels attached to their sides. No one has confirmed this secret program)

The selection of articles that are published all seem to have a lot to do with things that Bush did bad.

The Confucian point of view endows a righteous ruler with a Mandate of Heaven. In this context, incidents similar to the ones listed above would strongly indicate the displeasure of the Divine with the ruler and necessitate his immediate removal.

This notwithstanding, I have to agree with the parent message: the NYT article should not be linked from Slashdot. Not for reasons of bias - the notion that Iraq war was based on a number of poorly concocted lies and misrepresentations is simply not news.

"How about shays (chaise) lounge?"

It's "chaise longue," not "chaise lounge." "Longue" means "long," "chaise" means "chair."

It's ulterior, not "alterior."

The end consumer could care less...

No they couldn't

Don't you know that a 'factoid' is an INCORRECT fact?
Darn CNN: Here comes the science.

Do believe he's referring to the apostrophe in It's which it seems that EVERYONE seems to get wrong. You never use an apostrophe in it's to show possesion. EVER!

FYI

There are four distinct words here. When "affect" is accented on the final syllable (a-FECT), it is a verb meaning "have an influence on": "The million-dollar donation from the industrialist did not affect my vote against the Clean Air Act." A much rarer meaning is indicated when the word is accented on the first syllable (AFF-ect), meaning "emotion." In this case the word is used mostly by psychiatrists and social scientists-- people who normally know how to spell it. The real problem arises when people confuse the first spelling with the second: "effect." This too can be two different words. The more common one is a noun: "When I left the stove on, the effect was that the house filled with smoke." When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it. The less common is a verb meaning "to create": "I'm trying to effect a change in the way we purchase widgets." No wonder people are confused. Note especially that the proper expression is not "take affect" but "take effect"--become effective. Hey, nobody ever said English was logical: just memorize it and get on with your life.

When I went to put the date on my calendar (not like I'll make it, but I can dream), I noticed that September 29 is also the date that earth-crossing asteroid Toutatis is scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth. The bizarrely-shaped object is the size of a "small city" (whatever that means), and is due to get no closer than four times the earth-moon distance.

According to the wsu.edu page: 'Toutatis (also called Teutates) was an ancient Celtic god of war, fertility and wealth worshipped in Gaul. His name means "the god of the tribe".' His name is invoked regularly by the French cartoon character Asterix, who also fears that the sky will fall on his head.

Certainly an auspicious day for anyone interested in the heavens. Let's hope what's already up stays up, and what goes up comes down safely.

This might help

Quotation marks aren't always used for direct speech. See this. However the submitter's usage doesn't seem to be either the incorrect (but common) usage or the correct usage.

I published a paper in the Journal of Chemical education last December, but I also posted in on our own website for anyone to download...

Delivering ads on the fly
New York-based Massive, Inc. is taking a different tact with a technology that both serves and measures in-game ad impressions.

Delivering ads on the fly
New York-based Massive, Inc. is taking a different tact with a technology that both serves and measures in-game ad impressions.

Osama Bin Laden is pissed off with the states for something the states did to him and his country.

Bin Laden is not pissed off with the US for something it "did" to him. The stated goal of Al-Qaida is the overthrow of the governments of the Middle East, which they consider to be corrupt, and the re-establishment of the Caliphate (http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ISLAM/CALIPH.HTM). To that end, Bin Laden is trying to use attacks against the West, specifically the US, to provoke a response (presumably military) that will help "unify" the Muslims of the Middle East and help achieve this goal. There's a larger picture to this conflict that what you're seeing. With such assumptions, it may be prudent for you to do some research into the nature of those involved.

Not where I am, nor, after a little Google:
[google] define:hawk

The verb "hawk" has 3 senses in WordNet.

1. peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitch -- (sell or offer for sale from place to place) ...

whereas "hock" though I would have given you it, appears to have a different meaning

The verb "hock" has 2 senses in WordNet.

1. pawn, soak, hock -- (leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch") ...

However, this mistake is as nothing to those who type "loose" when they mean "lose".
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/lose.html

I could of sworn it was Bill Gates..

Oh, could you of now?

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html

Anyway, while these results from Prusiner and colleagues go a long way toward demonstrating the infectivity of prions, there are still some problems with the experiment before one can conclude that Koch's postulates have been satisfied.

I've listed some of the problems (potential and real) with the experiment here:

• The strain of mice used is a transgenic strain that expresses 16 times the normal level of the prion protein (PrP). There are some in the field who say that the high level of PrP expression in this strain makes them unusually sensitive to developing neurological disease to ANY environmental perturbation.
• Prusiner's lab has many other prion strains. Laura Manuelidis, a neuropathologist at Yale, has said that the pathology of brain samples from these mice closely resemble RML scrapie. It is very important to eliminate the possibility that they developed disease by cross-contamination from another prion strain. Recall that the goal of the research is prove one of Koch's postulates that PrP is directly infectious, rather than any nucleic acid associated with a prion.
• Finally, injection of the same recombinant (E. coli produced) PrP fragments into normal mice that do not produce 16 times the amount of PrP do not produce disease. Producing disease in normal mice would be the best demonstration of Koch's postulates.

BTW, my scientific background is not in prions. I direct a lab that works on Epstein-Barr virus.

That being said, in this prion story, we have an some example of postulates 2-4. The Prusiner team synthesized an artificial agent that's implicated in disease, and used it to infect and create new diseased organisms. This is a scientific step forward. Previously, the prion agent itself correlative with disease, but as to whether it is the causative agent, it was unclear.

The brief criticisms in the NY Times articles may have some merit though. It's still possible that the disease has some other underlying cause, and the artificial prion only hastened onset. This is an important point, because the signs of aggregate prions (the amyloid plaques) are found in BOTH healthy and diseased animals, thereby violating the first Koch postulate in some sense. However, I warn the reader that my knowledge is deficient here. Perhaps the amyloid plaques are composed of misfolded variants of other proteins also.

This is a rough summary of what I know. I hope I haven't offended any experts who know the details. Please feel free to correct what I'm sure are numerous mistakes.

Whom has been dying an agonizing death for decades...
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/who.html

Drinky, your still not fully corrected.

Studies by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California suggest that even top-of-the-line duct tapes are poor at sealing ducts ... Clear polyester tapes with acrylic adhesives, in spite of their puny tensile strength, maintained their seals far longer than duct tape. Partly because of the Berkeley study, a California program that provides tax credits for building energy-efficient structures now prohibits the use of duct tape as a sealant, as does the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program.

Duck Tape

Did he mean...

For all intents and purposes ?

Another example of the oral transformation of language by people who don't read much...

Of course 'effect' can also be a verb and 'affect' can be a noun. But I won't risk screwing up the definitions.
Just take a look here.

Here's a pretty decent explanation:

WHO/WHOM

Here comes the "THAT'S NOT THE PROPER USE OF BEGS THE QUESTION" people. Get over it. English changes.

I'm sorry, but that's the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

I have just two quarrels with your comment. First of all, the original version is believed to be, according to a reputable source, "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.". Secondly, it would be respectful and perhaps informative to attribute this bit of wit to that excellent expositor of the English language, Winston Churchill.

You mean like this? Posted anonymously so I don't get blamed for the departments servers going down.

The professor (K.C. Wang) has been doing this for many many years. Its a great course. The idea is to create a system similar to minix (16bit multitasking OS) in a semester. The development is all done from minix, using the minix compiler, so the code must be written in ancient ANSI C syntax. One of first labs (available on the website) is to create a boot loader for your OS that must also be able to successfully boot linux. The lectures really do help you understand it better, and if you get to take the course the prof is very entertaining.

The course is offered most semesters, and every CS student must take it to graduate. That means that every CS graduate from Washington State University for the last 10-20 years has written their own OS in less than a semester.

Any slashdotters that want to try it should mirror the pages soon. The semester recently ended and he will soon take the pages down. They will go up again over the course of the fall semester as he covers the material...

So much for Ken Brown's "Nobody could do that on their own" argument.