Peter: for starters we're making sex education more fun School House Rock: Vagina junction what's your function School House Rock: Taking in sperm and spitting out babies.
Exactly. I have a strong belief that the government tries to control too much and the power should be reserved for the states. The US is very strongly divided along a number of lines. Massachusetts wants to legalize gay marriage while some southern states overwhelmingly outlawed it. If everything like this was left up to the states, everyone would be much happier. The federal government is way to powerful. Some states are ultra-liberal and would have tons of health care and social security while the more conservative states would be popular amongst the selfish rich (nothing wrong with that, mind you) and churchgoers. Also, it would be nice to not have to subsidize the red states:).
Well, once oil goes above $80, they can raise their price to match. They can then take their large profit and reinvest in more plants to produce this stuff. This would allow them to have quite rapid expansion. Once they reach a certain number of plants and income, they may choose to reduce their prices, or they may not.
The thing is, they don't make enough of the stuff to justify under cutting petro oil. Even at $80 a barrel now, they are able to sell the stuff to environmental types. They would likely not lower prices until they are unable to sell what they produce.
They do run double checks. Every time a number is computed and isn't a Mersenne Prime, it outputs a little string (can't remember the technical name). Once the double check is run (which can take a well, last time I checked there was a large time difference between the first time checks and the double checks), the server compares the strings. The numbers must be computed by different users. If the strings aren't equal, it is rereleased to have a triple check run. This process repeats until two of the outputs are equal. If a lot of your computations produce errors, it is a sign you might have a hardware problem (or overclocked too much).
Wow, that is impressive. I'm currently at the UW and I don't have much need to bicycle anywhere, but I try to go out and about as much as possible, especially with the great weather we've been having recently (yes others who may read this, we are having beautiful weather in Seattle in February). I use the bus on occasion (like when going home to visit the family), and I love how you stick your bike on it. It is really nice since you can venture out and explore new places, and if you get tired and can't make it back, you can just put your bike on a bus and head home. Yay for Metro!
Do you mean the Greater Seattle area, or are you really in Seattle proper? I'm just wondering how you get across the lake. 520 doesn't have bike/pedestrian lanes, does it?
It seems Google has been linking to answers.com for a little while for select users. Over the past few weeks, I was occasionally sent there. It appears to have started in January, judging from the Alexa data.
They are still experimenting with putting Google Image search on the front page. I experienced this last night when Google showed me this page.
Finally, I don't really like the new Google invite text box, I think it makes the interface a little ugly. And why must they switch it every month? I swear, that is like the dozenth place I've seen it.
I searched for my name (my website is top result on Google) and I got no hits for it on the first few pages. Then I remembered I only allow Google and the Internet Archiver on my website. However, for some reason, I think MSN used to include my website in their index.
Google is well behaved and there are too many weird, poorly behaved bots out there to block them individually. Instead, I only white list the robots I want.
I had this idea a few months ago, but I wasn't expecting Google to become a registrar. For the average user, buying a domain and pointing the MX entries at Google would be a lot of work. It looks even more plausible now, because Google would tie it all together really nicely and make it very simple to sign up. If you don't want @gmail, you type in your own domain, buy it, and Google handles the DNS as well as everything else. It's perfect!
Good point about it being Beta still. It is very stable, so people wonder why that is. Perhaps this is one of the final features before initial release. They might also implement a non-Javascript version.
I don't know.... maybe the block photos! I think it is pretty sweet. I'll keep this in mind next time I'm going to a new restaurant and I'm glad there is competition between Amazon and Google. If A9 continues competing well and coming up with these new ideas, it could be a cool place to work.
Well, you could always just follow your sig and sign up for freeliveextension.com in 30 years. Then even the poor people could live forever, assuming they could find five friends to sign up as well.
I tried joining donating a few MXs, but it wouldn't let me. First of all, it had a problem with profanity in my domain: andrewhitchcock.org. This happened with an online game one time. Why can't people make smarter filters!? Also, whenever I tried entering a sub-domain for another one of my domains, it would always give me an error saying it didn't exist, but if I did the domain without the sub-domain, it would work just fine. It seems they have a few problems with the script (or I am missing something obvious).
Interesting. This story has almost enough posts to put it on the Hall of Fame (albeit, the 10th spot). Even the Mac mini duplicate story has over 1000 replies!
In picture number 2, they didn't do a very good job hiding the info. If you do a google search for <inurl:akienm>, you get just a few results. Just by looking at the snippet from the first result (without actually traveling there), you can see his domain is weirdness.org. From this you look back at the message and deduce that the login URL is http://weirdness.org/akienm/checkpointjob. The username starts with ak, so it is probably akienm. The password starts with bi. This dramatically reduces the amount of work needed to brute force his password. Hopefully akienm will change his password soon.
Yeah, a bunch of us in the dorm were watching it, until around 53 minutes or so when they started demoing iMovie HD. Then it kept crashing my QuickTime and it seems the rest of the movie's audio is corrupted. Someone gave me a link to download the file directly, but it stopped part way through (and was only downloading at like 15 kBps max).
You hit the nail on the head. When I used to use Windows as my main machine, I dreaded having to open PDFs, but they are my new favorite format on the Mac. Preview opens them very fast and offers wonderful page previews, searching, and table of contents. Now, whenever I need to save a website or some other random document, I just hit command-P and click "Save as PDF." I love how OS X has PDF built into the operating system, because it works/so/ well.
Either way, they'll try to track it back to the person who violated the NDA and punish them heavily. This guy will still be punished for being an idiot and posting it on BT.
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Peter: for starters we're making sex education more fun
School House Rock: Vagina junction what's your function
School House Rock: Taking in sperm and spitting out babies.
From here, with audio clip.
Exactly. I have a strong belief that the government tries to control too much and the power should be reserved for the states. The US is very strongly divided along a number of lines. Massachusetts wants to legalize gay marriage while some southern states overwhelmingly outlawed it. If everything like this was left up to the states, everyone would be much happier. The federal government is way to powerful. Some states are ultra-liberal and would have tons of health care and social security while the more conservative states would be popular amongst the selfish rich (nothing wrong with that, mind you) and churchgoers. Also, it would be nice to not have to subsidize the red states :).
Well, once oil goes above $80, they can raise their price to match. They can then take their large profit and reinvest in more plants to produce this stuff. This would allow them to have quite rapid expansion. Once they reach a certain number of plants and income, they may choose to reduce their prices, or they may not.
The thing is, they don't make enough of the stuff to justify under cutting petro oil. Even at $80 a barrel now, they are able to sell the stuff to environmental types. They would likely not lower prices until they are unable to sell what they produce.
They do run double checks. Every time a number is computed and isn't a Mersenne Prime, it outputs a little string (can't remember the technical name). Once the double check is run (which can take a well, last time I checked there was a large time difference between the first time checks and the double checks), the server compares the strings. The numbers must be computed by different users. If the strings aren't equal, it is rereleased to have a triple check run. This process repeats until two of the outputs are equal. If a lot of your computations produce errors, it is a sign you might have a hardware problem (or overclocked too much).
Wow, that is impressive. I'm currently at the UW and I don't have much need to bicycle anywhere, but I try to go out and about as much as possible, especially with the great weather we've been having recently (yes others who may read this, we are having beautiful weather in Seattle in February). I use the bus on occasion (like when going home to visit the family), and I love how you stick your bike on it. It is really nice since you can venture out and explore new places, and if you get tired and can't make it back, you can just put your bike on a bus and head home. Yay for Metro!
Or, in keeping with the theme of Google everything, extension poles.
Do you mean the Greater Seattle area, or are you really in Seattle proper? I'm just wondering how you get across the lake. 520 doesn't have bike/pedestrian lanes, does it?
Maybe Google will donate a search appliance... or three.
Just look what IBM did for Apple with the G5.
You mean promise 3 GHz for the summer of 2004 and still not deliver six months later? Oh, woops, I forgot, we aren't supposed to talk about that.
It seems Google has been linking to answers.com for a little while for select users. Over the past few weeks, I was occasionally sent there. It appears to have started in January, judging from the Alexa data.
They are still experimenting with putting Google Image search on the front page. I experienced this last night when Google showed me this page.
Finally, I don't really like the new Google invite text box, I think it makes the interface a little ugly. And why must they switch it every month? I swear, that is like the dozenth place I've seen it.
I searched for my name (my website is top result on Google) and I got no hits for it on the first few pages. Then I remembered I only allow Google and the Internet Archiver on my website. However, for some reason, I think MSN used to include my website in their index.
Google is well behaved and there are too many weird, poorly behaved bots out there to block them individually. Instead, I only white list the robots I want.
Andrew
I had this idea a few months ago, but I wasn't expecting Google to become a registrar. For the average user, buying a domain and pointing the MX entries at Google would be a lot of work. It looks even more plausible now, because Google would tie it all together really nicely and make it very simple to sign up. If you don't want @gmail, you type in your own domain, buy it, and Google handles the DNS as well as everything else. It's perfect!
Good point about it being Beta still. It is very stable, so people wonder why that is. Perhaps this is one of the final features before initial release. They might also implement a non-Javascript version.
I don't know.... maybe the block photos! I think it is pretty sweet. I'll keep this in mind next time I'm going to a new restaurant and I'm glad there is competition between Amazon and Google. If A9 continues competing well and coming up with these new ideas, it could be a cool place to work.
Because, no matter what caused it, climate change still has the possibility to kill lots of people and wreak havoc on civilization.
Well, it has had music videos for quite a while.
Also, H.264 should be able to give us much reduced file sizes... or much increased quality.
Andrew
Well, you could always just follow your sig and sign up for freeliveextension.com in 30 years. Then even the poor people could live forever, assuming they could find five friends to sign up as well.
Well, after trading a bunch of e-mails with them, and a lot of debugging on their end, they figured it out and fixed it. Good news :)
Andrew
Hmm. I was only doing one sub-level, though. It was just sub.domain.com.
I tried joining donating a few MXs, but it wouldn't let me. First of all, it had a problem with profanity in my domain: andrewhitchcock.org. This happened with an online game one time. Why can't people make smarter filters!? Also, whenever I tried entering a sub-domain for another one of my domains, it would always give me an error saying it didn't exist, but if I did the domain without the sub-domain, it would work just fine. It seems they have a few problems with the script (or I am missing something obvious).
Andrew
Interesting. This story has almost enough posts to put it on the Hall of Fame (albeit, the 10th spot). Even the Mac mini duplicate story has over 1000 replies!
In picture number 2, they didn't do a very good job hiding the info. If you do a google search for <inurl:akienm>, you get just a few results. Just by looking at the snippet from the first result (without actually traveling there), you can see his domain is weirdness.org. From this you look back at the message and deduce that the login URL is http://weirdness.org/akienm/checkpointjob. The username starts with ak, so it is probably akienm. The password starts with bi. This dramatically reduces the amount of work needed to brute force his password. Hopefully akienm will change his password soon.
Andrew
Well, you don't need anything extra to record HDTV.
Yeah, a bunch of us in the dorm were watching it, until around 53 minutes or so when they started demoing iMovie HD. Then it kept crashing my QuickTime and it seems the rest of the movie's audio is corrupted. Someone gave me a link to download the file directly, but it stopped part way through (and was only downloading at like 15 kBps max).
You hit the nail on the head. When I used to use Windows as my main machine, I dreaded having to open PDFs, but they are my new favorite format on the Mac. Preview opens them very fast and offers wonderful page previews, searching, and table of contents. Now, whenever I need to save a website or some other random document, I just hit command-P and click "Save as PDF." I love how OS X has PDF built into the operating system, because it works /so/ well.
Either way, they'll try to track it back to the person who violated the NDA and punish them heavily. This guy will still be punished for being an idiot and posting it on BT.