So your argument against sweeping cultural generalization is a sweeping cultural generalization? I guess if your generalization is anti-American then it is okay, or at least that seems to be the prevailing philosophy these days.
the italians (as in the overwhelmingly majority of them) don't presume there was a motive. There have been plenty of official declarations.
Can you provide a believable reference for these "official declarations"? I have never heard of the US officialy declaring that they wanted to kill anyone in her car.
From what I have read, the Italians preceptions that there was a motive came from Sgrena herself. She has strongly suggested that the US intentionally tried to kill her. That is, of course, illogical. If the US had decided they wanted her dead, she would be dead. If the US wanted her or anyone else in her car dead and made a deliberate decision to cover up that murder, her car and all of her occupants would have disappeared without a trace. Maybe you can shed some light on the logic of the Italian populace who believe that the US attacked her car intending to kill her but then, for some reason unexplained by the Italians, stopped and provided her medical assistance. That is just an illogical conclusion.
It seems to me that the conspiracy theories against the US are so out of control that folks will believe anything.
It seems like they had more reason than just a watch:
"One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured hard drives associated with a senior al Qaida member".
That's quite a bit stronger evidence than a mere watch. And that is from a list containing only unclassified evidence; who knows what the classified evidence might be.
That isn't what I meant (you all should know that?!?!?), what I meant was that if you don't bump the TTL then your own nameserver if you do a SIGHUP won't show the changes and you can set the TTL to whatever you want and it won't do a bit of good.
I don't know why you assume everyone should know what you meant. The rest of your hateful post made you look uninformed so folks probably generally presumed you were just a newbie admin with an inflated ego.
And why would they bump the TTL on their nameserver, anyway? Could you possibly mean that they should bump the serial number? I think you keep confusing record caching with zone transfers to secondary servers.
Also while we're on the subject of TTL's I that our nameserver is actually setup to increase TTL's less than 24 hours to 24 hours. I believe thats in an RFC or best practices guide I read somewhere.
I presume you know nothing about global load balancing. Global load balancers, which are really just fancy DNS servers, work by varying the A records returned from queries. The GLBs monitor the servers (or more likely load balancer farms) and if one goes down the GLB will no longer resolve to that IP address. For that to work, the TTL must be set to a very short time. If an ISP ignores the TTL, it will cause problems for any of their customers who access the domain with the short TTLs. Many large sites with multiple data centers make use of GLBs to balance traffic accross their data centers. You should not ignore TTLs or you may find that folks who rely on your DNS servers will occasionally be unable to access various sites. Since GLBs also tend to direct traffic toward less busy data centers, you will find that ignoring TTLs will also result in slower access for your clients to their favorite web sites. And if that's in a best practices guide, you might consider throwing that guide away.
I do know that TTL is a recommendation, thats all.
And I suppose stopping when the guard rail drops at a train track is technically just a recommendation, too. People have good reasons for lowering TTLs even if you don't seem to think so. Ignoring them can cause real problems.
I don't know why you need to interject the condescending, hateful speech in your posts. I would have blown it off with your apology, but then you included that unnecessary "you all should know that?!?!?)" crack in your latest post. You act like a genius and then make mistake after mistake in your technical statements, making you look like a buffoon. Why don't you relax and humble yourself a bit. Your ego is too inflated.
I found this interesting comment at the bottom of the article that puts a bit of a different perspective on the issue:
20. Would you guys stick to the subject?
I'd like to first ask you all to read the whole article. It specifically says "In a more active version of the game" (Namely, RD&D).
Also, remember that you are reading a TRANSLATION! As someone who has read the article in Hebrew and English I can tell you that it's not a very good translation, either, as the Hebrew version mentions LARPing and RD&D specifically, with traditional D&D only mentioned as background on the game.
As for the subject at hand, I happen to know some LARPers here in Israel (In fact, I think I may know the people interviewed here...) but haven't heard of any problems with the IDF thus far. Obviously the very thought is ridiculous, you can't just generally say "LARPers are a bunch of lunatics". I'd admit that many of them are, but no more than other people enlisting.
Errr, sorry dude, but that is not exactly correct either, but you're close. Those maps you point to actually show kWattHours per meter squared per day, not kW/m^2/day.
Umm, that's a static mockup. You do know there is a difference between a mockup and something that actually works don't you?
Sigh. It's not a "mockup". It is actual code that renders on a browser. Yes, I acknowledge it's not a full, ready-to-implement patch, but there's nothing being done with CSS that isn't already being done in a more laborious way with tables, so your intimation that moving to CSS is going to hurt Slashdot in the speed department just isn't supported.
It is a mockup. All the author of the article you quote did was take a copy of a Slashdot page, store it on his local computer and then convert that single page to modern HTML/CSS. When you receive a page from SlashDot, that page is rendered by a set of scripts known as SlashCode. SlashCode itself will need to be modified to implement modern coding standards. I have never looked at SlashCode, but I suspect that the update is no small undertaking.
1) Get out your wallet. 2) Get out the card. 3) Place the card in the reader 4) Swipe downward 5) Swipe upward 6) Wipe card on shirt hoping to make the f'ing thing work 7) Repeat steps 4 through 6 until you give up 8) Hand card to cashier for typing in by hand
Now the steps will be:
1) Hold ass up to scanner (assuming wallet is in back pocket)
or alternatively (if purchase is less than $25):
1) Trick person behind you into standing really close to the scanner so their card is debited
I think that would be a bit less frustrating than the old way.
Ahhh, the old DOESNTWORKFORME response. I've used Linux with a large assortment of hardware. I've also used Windows. I am not a Linux zealot like everyone else nor a Windows zealot, but I have generally had more trouble with Windows drivers than Linux drivers. For example, I have a Hauppage WinTV card on one of my dual-boot machines. It works flawlessly under Linux. I get weird errors under Windows and can't use the card at all. I've reinstalled the drivers in Windows, but no luck. The quality of many Windows drivers simply suck; I find that the Linux drivers tend to work much better. The main reason tends to be that many Windows hardware drivers include all kinds of unnecessary bells and whistles. My favorite recent example is the driver for the Lexmark Z11 inkjet printer. It's just a printer, so I could probably use a generic driver and it would work great. But Lexmark included all this unnecessary crap so that it puts an unneeded icon in my task bar as well as having a man come over my speaker telling me each time I print a job (I know I just printed, but thanks for telling me;-). Linux drivers tend to simply do whatever they are supposed to do, nothing more nothing less. They probably do so with less code than their Windows counterparts because of the lack of bells and whistles and less code generally means fewer bugs.
Driver support used to be a problem under Linux, but it really hasn't been a problem for quite some time. There are certainly exceptions to that statement, but your blanket statement that Windows has vastly better driver support simply isn't true anymore.
I think you are going out of your way to close your ears to everyones concern about what you did. Having the information available on WhoIs is hardly the same as posting it on a major web page. You still haven't bothered to show the relevance between his whiney front page and your mean-spirited post. Go ahead and complain about his whiney front page, no problem, but did you really need to provide such easy access to his information? Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean that it does not bother other folks.
Reading between the lines, it's not hard to imagine what is going on there. It seems likely to me that a friend of the web page author posted the page to SlashDot before the author was ready for everyone to see it. The web page rant was likely aimed at that friend. Is that so hard to understand? He probably had every intention of sharing it with the world but was hoping to have everything the way he wanted it before it went out to the world. Then his friend came along and screwed it up. The author was probably just disappointed. He's just a human, you know. Was it really necessary for you to punish him?
This is unbelievable. Maybe I skimmed through all of the posts too quickly, but not a single person questioned the results of this study. Do any of you remember being in high school? Did any of you ever do anything silly or foolish just for the fun of it? Ever put down ridiculous answers to a survey just to skew the results in an absurd direction?
I don't know that I would take this survey to be the definitive measure of the average students views on anything. In general, polls are something to be viewed skeptically, though noone ever does. There are many ways to screw up a poll and many ways to interpret the results, so I don't tend to take them as seriously as everyone else seems to. You can make a survey say anything you want.
It's extremely rare there's any relevent reason to try to compare arbitrary groups of people (having a penis vs having breasts being arbitrary in the context of mathematics) in terms of skills. As a result, when people have done so, it's usually to back some agenda for which the argument...
That statement is unsupportable and follows a tactic I've seen too many times to avoid rational discussion of various issues. You start with the assumption that the only difference between men and women is the sexual organs. That is completely false. There are countless other physical differences between men and women that affect every aspect of the definition of the sexes. Despite what you choose to believe, there are actual differences in the makeup of the brains of the typical male versus that of the typical female. I'm sure you'll twist that statement to mean "men are better than women", but that's of course not what I am saying. I am saying there are differences but that does not make one better than the other. You for some reason really want to hold onto the idea that men and women have very few differences but that is just not true.
Unfortunately, by and large, the vast majority of people who promote the "men are better than A", "women are better at B" discussions are those who want to back their preference for discriminatory behaviour.
Again, that is a baseless statement. You have only reached the conclusion because you want to believe there is still rampant discrimination against women. If you accept that baseless statement as fact then anytime someone makes an observation regarding the differences between the sexes you can assume that he is merely trying discriminate against women thereby supporting your out of date belief that rampant discrimination against women still exists.
There you go jumping to yet another unsupportable conclusion. Why is it you have concluded that the mere observation of a difference between men and women automatically results in the limiting of women's opportunities? Noone is limiting anyone's opportunities. But observing the real differences between men and women might just help us separate whether peculiarities that exist in the real world occur due to sexism versus actual differences in the sexes. Are there fewer female engineers because of rampant sexism or merely a lack of interest from the majority of females? If the first is true, then it would need to be addressed. If the second is true, women are free to choose whatever occupation they like so why would we waste time trying to push them into something they don't want to do?
One of the posts I found amusing was the announcement of eBay which was apparently originally called "AuctionWeb". I thought this auction was particularly funny:
Autographed Marky Mark Underwear Current bid: $400 Auction ends on: 09/25/95, 10:09:29 PDT Auction started on: 09/11/95, 10:09:29 PDT
$400?!? Holy crap... that is some seriously expensive underwear! Why did Marky Mark bother with his music career? He could have simply sold underwear and gotten just as rich.
I have an idea. I think it might help if patents were only issued to individuals, not corporations. The original idea behind patents, as I understand it, was to protect the little guy from competition and give him the chance to profit from his invention, thus encouraging innovation. Large corporations might like the protection offered by a patent, but it can hardly be argued that they need that protection. Also, we see brilliant inventors create ingenious products and then they see nothing more for that than a nice Christmas bonus. I think I would be demotivated if I studied for years, created some incredible technology and then sat back and watched my company claim it as their own and make hundreds of millions off it while I got basically nothing.
Also, I think it might help to shorten the duration of patents. Technology moves too fast these days for long patents and a lot of cases would never make it to court because they would have been past the statute of limitations. And they should not permit software patents.
I don't know much about the Treo 650, but I am pretty interested in the upcoming Nokia 6255i. Some of it's features:
Dual color LCDs
Bluetooth, infrared & USB
Plays MP3s and AACs
Built-in FM stereo radio
Digital Camera (640x480 with flash and zoom)
MMC slot
Voice Recognition
Speakerphone
Phone book, calendar and to-do list
Alarm clock
Tri-mode (800/1900 MHz CDMA, 800 MHz AMPS)
It's a bit on the ugly side, but not too bad. Should be available in the next few weeks. I have no idea how much it will cost; I assume I won't be able to afford it:-(
Wrong on both counts. I am neither new to Slashdot or computers. I guess you are a troll, but I'll adress your ignorant assumptions anyway.
Did you read my post? Did you read the article? I know that IE is faster and I fully understand why. And it makes sense that FF would be slower since it has to load everything the first time. But I have read many times by various Firefox advocates (including this article... did you read the article?) that despite these facts Firefox still loads faster than IE. It doesn't make sense to me and it does not jive with what I have observed which is why I asked the question. Contrary to what you seem to think, I did not ask why Firefox is slower to load. I asked why Firefox advocates think that it is faster to load than IE.
Firefox, a free open-source browser that loads twice as fast as Internet Explorer
I keep reading comments like this from time to time. I like FireFox and I find that it is pretty fast once it is loaded, but on every box I have tried it typically takes 8 to 10 seconds to load the first time I use it. IE always loads in under 2 seconds, usually less than 1 second. Is there some trick I am unaware of? Does anyone know why folks keep claiming that it loads faster than IE?
No, actually, it's not. Pico Electronics Ltd created the protocol at the request of British Sound Reproduction. See here for a history of the X10 protocol (you may have to scroll down a bit).
Not to karma whore, but the list of X Prize contenders can be found here. I looked at a few of the web sites and none of them seem to have anything to say about todays accomplishment. It might not be fair to judge these teams by their websites, but I looked at some of the team's websites and many of them appear to be quite lame. I have difficulty taking a team seriously that has a completely lame website. Maybe one of you who is not as sleepy as me can finish what I intended to do which is to get some idea of the future plans of the other X-Prize contenders now that the prize has been won.
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So your argument against sweeping cultural generalization is a sweeping cultural generalization? I guess if your generalization is anti-American then it is okay, or at least that seems to be the prevailing philosophy these days.
They could be French, too. Those folks know how to drive ;-)
Or German, come to think of it.
the italians (as in the overwhelmingly majority of them) don't presume there was a motive. There have been plenty of official declarations. Can you provide a believable reference for these "official declarations"? I have never heard of the US officialy declaring that they wanted to kill anyone in her car. From what I have read, the Italians preceptions that there was a motive came from Sgrena herself. She has strongly suggested that the US intentionally tried to kill her. That is, of course, illogical. If the US had decided they wanted her dead, she would be dead. If the US wanted her or anyone else in her car dead and made a deliberate decision to cover up that murder, her car and all of her occupants would have disappeared without a trace. Maybe you can shed some light on the logic of the Italian populace who believe that the US attacked her car intending to kill her but then, for some reason unexplained by the Italians, stopped and provided her medical assistance. That is just an illogical conclusion. It seems to me that the conspiracy theories against the US are so out of control that folks will believe anything.
It seems like they had more reason than just a watch:
"One of the detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured hard drives associated with a senior al Qaida member".
That's quite a bit stronger evidence than a mere watch. And that is from a list containing only unclassified evidence; who knows what the classified evidence might be.
That isn't what I meant (you all should know that?!?!?), what I meant was that if you don't bump the TTL then your own nameserver if you do a SIGHUP won't show the changes and you can set the TTL to whatever you want and it won't do a bit of good.
I don't know why you assume everyone should know what you meant. The rest of your hateful post made you look uninformed so folks probably generally presumed you were just a newbie admin with an inflated ego.
And why would they bump the TTL on their nameserver, anyway? Could you possibly mean that they should bump the serial number? I think you keep confusing record caching with zone transfers to secondary servers.
Also while we're on the subject of TTL's I that our nameserver is actually setup to increase TTL's less than 24 hours to 24 hours. I believe thats in an RFC or best practices guide I read somewhere.
I presume you know nothing about global load balancing. Global load balancers, which are really just fancy DNS servers, work by varying the A records returned from queries. The GLBs monitor the servers (or more likely load balancer farms) and if one goes down the GLB will no longer resolve to that IP address. For that to work, the TTL must be set to a very short time. If an ISP ignores the TTL, it will cause problems for any of their customers who access the domain with the short TTLs. Many large sites with multiple data centers make use of GLBs to balance traffic accross their data centers. You should not ignore TTLs or you may find that folks who rely on your DNS servers will occasionally be unable to access various sites. Since GLBs also tend to direct traffic toward less busy data centers, you will find that ignoring TTLs will also result in slower access for your clients to their favorite web sites. And if that's in a best practices guide, you might consider throwing that guide away.
I do know that TTL is a recommendation, thats all.
And I suppose stopping when the guard rail drops at a train track is technically just a recommendation, too. People have good reasons for lowering TTLs even if you don't seem to think so. Ignoring them can cause real problems.
I don't know why you need to interject the condescending, hateful speech in your posts. I would have blown it off with your apology, but then you included that unnecessary "you all should know that?!?!?)" crack in your latest post. You act like a genius and then make mistake after mistake in your technical statements, making you look like a buffoon. Why don't you relax and humble yourself a bit. Your ego is too inflated.
I found this interesting comment at the bottom of the article that puts a bit of a different perspective on the issue:
20. Would you guys stick to the subject?
I'd like to first ask you all to read the whole article. It specifically says "In a more active version of the game" (Namely, RD&D).
Also, remember that you are reading a TRANSLATION! As someone who has read the article in Hebrew and English I can tell you that it's not a very good translation, either, as the Hebrew version mentions LARPing and RD&D specifically, with traditional D&D only mentioned as background on the game.
As for the subject at hand, I happen to know some LARPers here in Israel (In fact, I think I may know the people interviewed here...) but haven't heard of any problems with the IDF thus far. Obviously the very thought is ridiculous, you can't just generally say "LARPers are a bunch of lunatics". I'd admit that many of them are, but no more than other people enlisting.
Elad Droree , Ramat Hasharon, IL (03.09.05)
Errr, sorry dude, but that is not exactly correct either, but you're close. Those maps you point to actually show kWatt Hours per meter squared per day, not kW/m^2/day.
Actually, the steps were:
1) Get out your wallet.
2) Get out the card.
3) Place the card in the reader
4) Swipe downward
5) Swipe upward
6) Wipe card on shirt hoping to make the f'ing thing work
7) Repeat steps 4 through 6 until you give up
8) Hand card to cashier for typing in by hand
Now the steps will be:
1) Hold ass up to scanner (assuming wallet is in back pocket)
or alternatively (if purchase is less than $25):
1) Trick person behind you into standing really close to the scanner so their card is debited
I think that would be a bit less frustrating than the old way.
Ahhh, the old DOESNTWORKFORME response. I've used Linux with a large assortment of hardware. I've also used Windows. I am not a Linux zealot like everyone else nor a Windows zealot, but I have generally had more trouble with Windows drivers than Linux drivers. For example, I have a Hauppage WinTV card on one of my dual-boot machines. It works flawlessly under Linux. I get weird errors under Windows and can't use the card at all. I've reinstalled the drivers in Windows, but no luck. The quality of many Windows drivers simply suck; I find that the Linux drivers tend to work much better. The main reason tends to be that many Windows hardware drivers include all kinds of unnecessary bells and whistles. My favorite recent example is the driver for the Lexmark Z11 inkjet printer. It's just a printer, so I could probably use a generic driver and it would work great. But Lexmark included all this unnecessary crap so that it puts an unneeded icon in my task bar as well as having a man come over my speaker telling me each time I print a job (I know I just printed, but thanks for telling me ;-). Linux drivers tend to simply do whatever they are supposed to do, nothing more nothing less. They probably do so with less code than their Windows counterparts because of the lack of bells and whistles and less code generally means fewer bugs.
Driver support used to be a problem under Linux, but it really hasn't been a problem for quite some time. There are certainly exceptions to that statement, but your blanket statement that Windows has vastly better driver support simply isn't true anymore.
I think you are going out of your way to close your ears to everyones concern about what you did. Having the information available on WhoIs is hardly the same as posting it on a major web page. You still haven't bothered to show the relevance between his whiney front page and your mean-spirited post. Go ahead and complain about his whiney front page, no problem, but did you really need to provide such easy access to his information? Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean that it does not bother other folks.
Reading between the lines, it's not hard to imagine what is going on there. It seems likely to me that a friend of the web page author posted the page to SlashDot before the author was ready for everyone to see it. The web page rant was likely aimed at that friend. Is that so hard to understand? He probably had every intention of sharing it with the world but was hoping to have everything the way he wanted it before it went out to the world. Then his friend came along and screwed it up. The author was probably just disappointed. He's just a human, you know. Was it really necessary for you to punish him?
This is unbelievable. Maybe I skimmed through all of the posts too quickly, but not a single person questioned the results of this study. Do any of you remember being in high school? Did any of you ever do anything silly or foolish just for the fun of it? Ever put down ridiculous answers to a survey just to skew the results in an absurd direction?
I don't know that I would take this survey to be the definitive measure of the average students views on anything. In general, polls are something to be viewed skeptically, though noone ever does. There are many ways to screw up a poll and many ways to interpret the results, so I don't tend to take them as seriously as everyone else seems to. You can make a survey say anything you want.
It's extremely rare there's any relevent reason to try to compare arbitrary groups of people (having a penis vs having breasts being arbitrary in the context of mathematics) in terms of skills. As a result, when people have done so, it's usually to back some agenda for which the argument...
That statement is unsupportable and follows a tactic I've seen too many times to avoid rational discussion of various issues. You start with the assumption that the only difference between men and women is the sexual organs. That is completely false. There are countless other physical differences between men and women that affect every aspect of the definition of the sexes. Despite what you choose to believe, there are actual differences in the makeup of the brains of the typical male versus that of the typical female. I'm sure you'll twist that statement to mean "men are better than women", but that's of course not what I am saying. I am saying there are differences but that does not make one better than the other. You for some reason really want to hold onto the idea that men and women have very few differences but that is just not true.
Unfortunately, by and large, the vast majority of people who promote the "men are better than A", "women are better at B" discussions are those who want to back their preference for discriminatory behaviour.
Again, that is a baseless statement. You have only reached the conclusion because you want to believe there is still rampant discrimination against women. If you accept that baseless statement as fact then anytime someone makes an observation regarding the differences between the sexes you can assume that he is merely trying discriminate against women thereby supporting your out of date belief that rampant discrimination against women still exists.
There you go jumping to yet another unsupportable conclusion. Why is it you have concluded that the mere observation of a difference between men and women automatically results in the limiting of women's opportunities? Noone is limiting anyone's opportunities. But observing the real differences between men and women might just help us separate whether peculiarities that exist in the real world occur due to sexism versus actual differences in the sexes. Are there fewer female engineers because of rampant sexism or merely a lack of interest from the majority of females? If the first is true, then it would need to be addressed. If the second is true, women are free to choose whatever occupation they like so why would we waste time trying to push them into something they don't want to do?
... cause it kept mooning passing ships.
$400?!? Holy crap
I have an idea. I think it might help if patents were only issued to individuals, not corporations. The original idea behind patents, as I understand it, was to protect the little guy from competition and give him the chance to profit from his invention, thus encouraging innovation. Large corporations might like the protection offered by a patent, but it can hardly be argued that they need that protection. Also, we see brilliant inventors create ingenious products and then they see nothing more for that than a nice Christmas bonus. I think I would be demotivated if I studied for years, created some incredible technology and then sat back and watched my company claim it as their own and make hundreds of millions off it while I got basically nothing.
Also, I think it might help to shorten the duration of patents. Technology moves too fast these days for long patents and a lot of cases would never make it to court because they would have been past the statute of limitations. And they should not permit software patents.
- Dual color LCDs
- Bluetooth, infrared & USB
- Plays MP3s and AACs
- Built-in FM stereo radio
- Digital Camera (640x480 with flash and zoom)
- MMC slot
- Voice Recognition
- Speakerphone
- Phone book, calendar and to-do list
- Alarm clock
- Tri-mode (800/1900 MHz CDMA, 800 MHz AMPS)
It's a bit on the ugly side, but not too bad. Should be available in the next few weeks. I have no idea how much it will cost; I assume I won't be able to afford itWrong on both counts. I am neither new to Slashdot or computers. I guess you are a troll, but I'll adress your ignorant assumptions anyway.
... did you read the article?) that despite these facts Firefox still loads faster than IE. It doesn't make sense to me and it does not jive with what I have observed which is why I asked the question. Contrary to what you seem to think, I did not ask why Firefox is slower to load. I asked why Firefox advocates think that it is faster to load than IE.
Did you read my post? Did you read the article? I know that IE is faster and I fully understand why. And it makes sense that FF would be slower since it has to load everything the first time. But I have read many times by various Firefox advocates (including this article
Firefox, a free open-source browser that loads twice as fast as Internet Explorer
I keep reading comments like this from time to time. I like FireFox and I find that it is pretty fast once it is loaded, but on every box I have tried it typically takes 8 to 10 seconds to load the first time I use it. IE always loads in under 2 seconds, usually less than 1 second. Is there some trick I am unaware of? Does anyone know why folks keep claiming that it loads faster than IE?
How do you go from the above to Superman? Someone please tell me cuz I've got a lot more under my belt than he does. I wanna be superman too!!!!
;-)
How much you have under your belt would only matter if this were a porn movie
No, actually, it's not. Pico Electronics Ltd created the protocol at the request of British Sound Reproduction. See here for a history of the X10 protocol (you may have to scroll down a bit).
You may be right. It seems that Dr. Williams may have tried to piggy-back on the work of others, inflate the evidence that this is a new species and then take all the credit for herself.
I love this comment posted at the bottom of the last article:
:-P
"Speed 3: It was not Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock in Vel Satis of the times? (Paris)"
I would have expected such a comment on Slashdot
Not to karma whore, but the list of X Prize contenders can be found here. I looked at a few of the web sites and none of them seem to have anything to say about todays accomplishment. It might not be fair to judge these teams by their websites, but I looked at some of the team's websites and many of them appear to be quite lame. I have difficulty taking a team seriously that has a completely lame website. Maybe one of you who is not as sleepy as me can finish what I intended to do which is to get some idea of the future plans of the other X-Prize contenders now that the prize has been won.