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  1. thallium oxide on Bismuth No Longer the Heaviest Stable Element · · Score: 1
    bismuth-209 decays into thallium-205

    Oh, no! The Pak will take over! ... eventually

  2. Re:Pascal (for static Algo, ...) on Teaching Programming Skills to Children? · · Score: 1
    Pascal - Afterall it was meant for teaching programming. for the statically type Algo family.
    And Scheme was meant for Teaching also. (I was going to say everything else but that's Common Lisp)
    Not every kid a l33t haxor (another post)- how about Logo in CL, then the kid has something to break through to, if not that's OK also.

    Single Paradyme (ST - OO) languages teach you what happens when they get to their edges, when you need singletons, multiple inheritance, or something completely non-OO(that paradyme).

    Funny you should match it up with this tagline -

    // "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

    All that nice (Xerox PARC, others?) research in the 60's realized the need for a minimum "1 Meg Workstation". 1 Megabyte (real, backed by VM) RAM, 1 Megabit Network, 1 MegaPixel video. We have far exceded (except video) and still have to manage memory, check bounds manually, etc...

  3. Pot, Kettle, Black on Linux Xbox Project Seeks Microsoft Signature · · Score: 1

    So it's OK for overweight out of touch geeks
    to call overweight out of touch C?O's names?

  4. Coordinating keyboard shortcuts on Interoperability Between the GUI and the CLI? · · Score: 1

    Of course, with everything from pixels (X), window managers, Object layers (GNOME) to Apps in
    a single lisp address space, you can avoid or work around more than one layer binding the same key.

    Have there been any developemts in seperate address space systems (X level?) to coordinate?

    Pop-up? Was this shortcut destined for the App, GNOME, wm, or X ?

  5. A correct program in a correct env? Re:Yahoo Store on Small Businesses and the Outsourcing of e-Commerce? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it is still written in Common Lisp?

  6. The right tools / Languages on Return of the Independent Game Developer? · · Score: 1

    Nobody wants to do the bitch work... all the hardest stuff to get started. Hmm... let me think, what was another hard CS project? What languages try to provide the highest level abstractions, yet have had years for their compilers to mature?

  7. talented people on Recruiting Help for Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1
    how do I attract talented people?

    try a LFSP

  8. Redirector vs L4 switch Re:Cisco on Load Balancers for Linux? · · Score: 1

    If it works the same way, I was told:

    It send a Meta redirect to the client
    then if the browser isn't old/broken connects

    chews up some extra bandwidth, and s..l..o..w

    OK, the request, redirect, and new request are
    probably small compared to the returned page
    and I was told this by a stateful, wire speed, L4+ switch vendor

  9. Re:Code Morphing and x86 on Transmeta Needs Microsoft · · Score: 1
    ...Or, given enough on-chip resources, accelerators (co-processor) for

    bytecodes (Java, .NET?), sandboxes, emulation (z80 in NEC V series)

    Do they license developement access to create new morphing layers at any level?

  10. complete catagorization? on Researching Searching Algorithms? · · Score: 1
    you already said it is not in-place

    another catagory I know is:

    Is it stable or un-stable?

  11. Re:Latin is the assembly language of human languag on Learning Latin - Has It Helped You? · · Score: 1

    I was not offered ANY other languages, until High School. Latin was not one of them.

    I did not understand some of what they were trying to teach me in English, until then.

    The article did not say if Latin was the only choice in school systems that had dropped all other languages or not. The chance to see the similarities and contrasts between languages, as early as possible (before language lock-in) would have been useful.

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    As a side note - I have heard that Japanese may be one of the few modern languages that has lot a Latin-like structure?

  12. Lease - Buisness write-off Re: Zipcar on What's with Zipcar? · · Score: 1
    Our car was costing us $600/month in lease, insurance...

    ...you weren't using it for business?

    It would be a good idea for a seperate business credit card to use with the ZipCar

  13. Re:Common Lisp on Designing Computer Animation Software? · · Score: 1

    He did ask...

    "The question is, what is the best programming paradigm to use for such a project?"

    There are languages that supports them all.

    "I have all of the major concepts, and relationships in mind, but refuse to write one line of code until I have a good design plan."

    Have you investigated the suggestions of XP?

    Checked out tools such as Refactoring Browsers?

  14. Other Languages... on A Name for My Major? · · Score: 1

    ...Don't they do this in German all the time?

  15. Songs for Children... on Honeybees Trained to Find Landmines · · Score: 1

    I caught a baby bumble bee... *!* BANG *!*

  16. Symbolics MacIvory Re: ...or Mac II on Non x-86/Mac-PPC Workstations? · · Score: 1
    why not add a MacIvory to your 68K Mac?

    Some Other Info for Scroungers

  17. Can SMP offset some of this? on Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing? · · Score: 1

    How well does mach thread? and
    how threaded / multi-process is the environment?

    It would be good test if we had say, a dual 500Mhz
    -vs- a 1Ghz. (but the min dual was a 733Mhz, right?)

    But you say, 500+500M does not equal 1G, because of the overhead, locks, etc.

    When a task/thread becomes runnable, there is better % chance between
    1 of the N CPUs being idle to take the task, at the same load.

    Testing the theory that N x 1/N SMP is better for interactive work.

  18. Forget the Price... on Iomega's New Unix (Optional) NAS Appliance · · Score: 1

    What about the cost? TCO

  19. RealTime plus Camera? on Computers Seek The Call Of An Extinct Bird · · Score: 2, Interesting

    can't read the article (registration) BUT

    I wonder if it can be done RealTime, (how good are the current gen DSPs) and the
    direction triangulated with 3 or more mics to point a camera in the right direction?

  20. does RPG assume a DB ? assume 400 HW objects? on RPG Ports from AS/400 to Linux? · · Score: 1

    does RPG not run on anything but OS/400 because:

    it is tried to a DB?
    (substitute PostgreSQL, InterBase, etc.)

    tied to the 400 (OS or Hardware) and (Database or Objects)
    It has ACLs on everthing, right?
    Is it one of those data dictionary OSes (pick)?

  21. Has anyone seen a UTC hwc TZ .reg for Windows? on Weird PC Clock Behavior? · · Score: 1

    I could have sworn I saw UTC hardware clock based TZ registry entries for W32 once.

    Of course, I did not bookmark it, and can not find it again now.

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    Emacs (GNU?) changing names from Win32 to W32, cause Win implies a positive user experience.

  22. jazelle Re:Where's the JVM ? on Palm OS 5.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    ARM has the option of JVM accelleration, partial execution direct by the CPU, called jazelle

  23. Cyc on Arguing A.I. · · Score: 1

    I wonder what happened to Open Cyc, seems to have stalled.

  24. Palmtops / Handhelds - Palm on Structural Integrity of Laptops? · · Score: 1
    AFTER my wife (the more careful one of us) cracked her screen, even in a Concept kitchen Bumper Case - No web site?

    THEN I finally see A different screen protection? by a guy who does damage certification for insurance

    Mine will be going on its 3rd screen IF I decide to repair it. A little further down on that page is - Finally a chance to repair a broken screen

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    My wife may want to downgrade to just an organizer (address, calender) - I'll have to research one w/ an Open Source Sync

    I may want to wait for the ARM based Palm's, but only for a shock resistant one.

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    Some Apple Laptops (Duo's?) had a magnesium frame for stiffness?

  25. The Library on Resources for the Beginner Hardware Hacker? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your real local library, as well as B&N :-)

    Amatuer Radio Books
    good mix of analog theory & practice.

    learn power supplies first to run your later projects
    or sacrafice a few wall warts

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    Those x00-in-one labs ?

    real dip spaced experimenter boards may be a bit pricey