I think there is only a finite number of people interested in social networking sites like Orkut, Friendster, Tribe, etc.
Given the proven theory of 6 degrees of separation, it shouldnt take very long for all possible connections to be made before the growth reaches a plateau.
Eventually, everyone on each social network will want to have the most connections and will also get an account at all the other social networks.
I've seen this happen in online dating websites that offer "free" accounts.
I've browsed all the online websites that have a sizeable number of people in my city, and 90% of all the women with a free account are the same women across all those sites.
"While we're at it, Mr. Johnson's article should be printed out and mailed to every member of Congress, the Senate, and to Mr. Bush to stop any of the "anti-Open Source" lobbyists dead in their tracks."
not a good idea. you forget that Bush's interests are very much on the "for-profit" side of things.
you can turn on your brain's genius mode by repeating to yourself, as you fall asleep, something like "i'll be a genius when i wake up", over and over again til you fall asleep.
I prefer this Linux fark.com thread
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from Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12 543,573349,00.html (link contains rat brain slices photos)
The safety of cellphones has been called into question, again. This time the scientific community is paying very close attention.
Last summer neurosurgeon Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund University in Sweden published data showing for the first time an unambiguous link between microwave radiation emitted by GSM mobile phones (the most common type worldwide) and brain damage in rats. If Salford's results are confirmed by follow-up studies in the works at research facilities worldwide, including one run by the U.S. Air Force, the data could have serious implications for the one billion?plus people glued to their cellphones.
The findings have re-ignited a longstanding debate among scientists and cellphone manufacturers over cellphone safety.
Many of the hundreds of studies performed during the past decade suggest cellphone use may cause a host of adverse effects, including headaches and memory loss. Other studies, however, have shown no such effects, and no scientific consensus exists about the effect of long-term, low-level radiation on the brain and other organs. A comprehensive $12 million federal investigation of cellphone safety is currently under way but will take at least five years to complete.
Meanwhile, the research world is scrambling to replicate Salford's surprising results. His team exposed 32 rats to 2 hours of microwave radiation from GSM cellphones. Researchers attached the phones to the sides of the rats' small cages using coaxial cables -- allowing for intermittent direct exposure -- and varied the intensity of radiation in each treatment group to reflect the range of exposures a human cellphone user might experience over the same time period. Fifty days after the 2-hour exposure, the rat brains showed significant blood vessel leakage, as well as areas of shrunken, damaged neurons. The higher the radiation exposure level, the more damage was apparent. The controls, by contrast, showed little to no damage. If human brains are similarly affected, Salford says, the damage could produce measurable, long-term mental deficits.
The cellphone industry so far has been quick to dismiss the data, saying emissions from current mobiles fall well within the range of radiation levels the FCC deems safe (body-tissue absorption rates of under 1.6 watts per kilogram). "Expert reviews of studies done over the past 30 years have found no reason to believe that there are any health hazards whatsoever," says Mays Swicord, scientific director of Motorola's Electromagnetic Energy Programs. Dr. Marvin Ziskin, chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Committee on Man and Radiation, is similarly skeptical. "The levels of radiation they used seem way too low to be producing the kinds of effects they're claiming."
Salford is the first to admit that it's too early to draw any conclusions, but contends the unusual results deserve a closer look. "The cellphone is a marvelous invention; it has probably saved thousands of lives," he says. "But governments and suppliers should be supporting more autonomous research." Meanwhile, Salford advises users to invest in hands-free headsets to reduce radiation exposure to the brain.
When the United Province of Canada came into existence in February, 1841 and Kingston was named its capital, the city became the centrepiece of an immense and important British colony. The other major cities in the new Canada were Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton.
The Act of Union which united the former Upper and Lower Canadas, brought together some 650,000 mainly French-speaking Upper Canadians and approximately 450,000 predominately English-speaking Lower Canadians. Renamed Canada East and Canada West, the two sections, however, had equal representation in the first Parliament.
Although one of the oldest settlements in Canada West, Kingston had been incorporated as a town only in 1838, four years after Toronto had become a city. It was a small community, but important nevertheless: Its Loyalist antecedents and leadership provided self-confidence; its Imperial past provided a sense of destiny; its transshipment role provided prosperity and a mercantile elite. Equally, effective men in public office and with good Family Compact connections, had kept Kingston in the forefront of provincial politics. In sum, Kingstonians were confident that they possessed the facilities, the amenities and the society required of the capital of an enormous territory with a brilliant future.
Consequently, on Friday, May 28, 1841, Kingston citizens, dressed in their Sunday best, gathered at the Commercial Wharf to greet Governor Sydenham. All shops and businesses were closed and the assembled citizenry was in a festive mood. When the steamer Traveller bearing Governor Sydenham arrived, the guns of Fort Henry gave a Royal salute. John A. Macdonald, members of the St. Andrew's Society and the public then followed the Governor's carriage to Alwington House, the official residence of the new Governor.
In June, 1841, Kingstonians watched the impressive ceremony of the opening of Parliament in the converted hospital building which now forms part of Kingston General Hospital. Because the building was to be only interim accommodation, Lord Sydenham arranged to buy land, now City Park, where he planned to erect the permanent Legislative Buildings.
Kingstonians predicted that if everything continued to go well, their town would soon become a city. But three months later their mood changed. Severely injured in a riding accident, Lord Sydenham died in September, 1841.
His successor was Sir Charles Bagot, a retired professional diplomat. Ill and facing important decisions that would have far-reaching results - principally involving the contentious call for responsible government for Canada - Sir Charles died in May 1843 before his successor, Sir Charles Metcalfe, arrived.
At the same time, opposition to the designation of Kingston as capital of Canada was growing and , in 1844, the capital was removed from Kingston and opened in Montreal in November of that year . After being moved again, briefly, to both York, now Toronto, and Quebec, it was finally located in Ottawa. Its removal from Kingston was no doubt hastened by the pronouncement of Charles Dickens that Kingston "which is now the seat of government in Canada . . . (is) a very poor town . . . . The Government House is neither elegant nor commodious, yet it is almost the only house of any importance in the neighbourhood."
Originally called Bytown, the city was incorporated as Ottawa in 1855. On December 31, 1857 Queen Victoria, asked to settle a dispute between Talk:Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Kingston and Ottawa, chose Ottawa to be the capital of Canada. The original Parliament Buildings in Ottawa were burned down on February 3, 1916.
Slashdot Mirror
Just kidding!
How about a spinoff/remake of Moon Patrol:
Mars Patrol: Avoid glitches! Grind rocks! Examine patches of mud!
G.W. Bush once asked "Is our children learning?"
The answer are clearly no:
"For those slashdotters who is not familiar with..."
if i ever get invited to join orkut (not likely), i'll invite all of you slashdotters, and everyone else i can convince to join as well.
we'll show em.
there s already a friendster-hater tribe :P
friendstersucks.tribe.net
I think there is only a finite number of people interested in social networking sites like Orkut, Friendster, Tribe, etc.
Given the proven theory of 6 degrees of separation, it shouldnt take very long for all possible connections to be made before the growth reaches a plateau.
Eventually, everyone on each social network will want to have the most connections and will also get an account at all the other social networks.
I've seen this happen in online dating websites that offer "free" accounts.
I've browsed all the online websites that have a sizeable number of people in my city, and 90% of all the women with a free account are the same women across all those sites.
I read that as "Buy You Cock Ten"
I'm going to start a "I Hate Orkut" tribe at tribe.net
http://www.esa.int/export/externals/images/ob_22_r eull_v.jpg
we already know about "dry ice", so...
you've got it all wrong...
they found water on Mars... Is it frozen, or is it wet?
well it s a pretty well known fact that Mars is very dusty...
so if the Spirit's builders didnt ***at the very least*** make the rover dust-proof, they were pretty stupid.
check out the Mars Express photo featured at the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3422841. stm
looks like there's a sinkhole... and where there are sinkholes, there are....? CAVERNS!
Diamond has a thermal conductivity between 1000 and 2600 W/m^-1/K^-1
i bet diamond paste is going to be the next big thing.
hey maybe NASA has time to rework the insertion of Opportunity to land it in the Gusev crater and have it check out what happened to Spirit...
now they know what happens when you try to grind a strange "rock" shaped like a pyramid.
/tinfoil
Richard Hoagland is gonna be soooooo all over this.
you can play DDR on a PC... it just has another name: Pydance (http://icculus.org/pyddr/).
You can even use a dance mat if you get a PS2 controller USB adapter such as the ones sold by liksang.com
"While we're at it, Mr. Johnson's article should be printed out and mailed to every member of Congress, the Senate, and to Mr. Bush to stop any of the "anti-Open Source" lobbyists dead in their tracks." not a good idea. you forget that Bush's interests are very much on the "for-profit" side of things.
you can turn on your brain's genius mode by repeating to yourself, as you fall asleep, something like "i'll be a genius when i wake up", over and over again til you fall asleep.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =796964
er did I say Linux? I meant Linus. Linus Torsvald. In a photoshop contest.
from Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12 543,573349,00.html
(link contains rat brain slices photos)
The safety of cellphones has been called into question, again. This time the scientific community is paying very close attention.
Last summer neurosurgeon Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund University in Sweden published data showing for the first time an unambiguous link between microwave radiation emitted by GSM mobile phones (the most common type worldwide) and brain damage in rats. If Salford's results are confirmed by follow-up studies in the works at research facilities worldwide, including one run by the U.S. Air Force, the data could have serious implications for the one billion?plus people glued to their cellphones.
The findings have re-ignited a longstanding debate among scientists and cellphone manufacturers over cellphone safety.
Many of the hundreds of studies performed during the past decade suggest cellphone use may cause a host of adverse effects, including headaches and memory loss. Other studies, however, have shown no such effects, and no scientific consensus exists about the effect of long-term, low-level radiation on the brain and other organs. A comprehensive $12 million federal investigation of cellphone safety is currently under way but will take at least five years to complete.
Meanwhile, the research world is scrambling to replicate Salford's surprising results. His team exposed 32 rats to 2 hours of microwave radiation from GSM cellphones. Researchers attached the phones to the sides of the rats' small cages using coaxial cables -- allowing for intermittent direct exposure -- and varied the intensity of radiation in each treatment group to reflect the range of exposures a human cellphone user might experience over the same time period. Fifty days after the 2-hour exposure, the rat brains showed significant blood vessel leakage, as well as areas of shrunken, damaged neurons. The higher the radiation exposure level, the more damage was apparent. The controls, by contrast, showed little to no damage. If human brains are similarly affected, Salford says, the damage could produce measurable, long-term mental deficits.
The cellphone industry so far has been quick to dismiss the data, saying emissions from current mobiles fall well within the range of radiation levels the FCC deems safe (body-tissue absorption rates of under 1.6 watts per kilogram). "Expert reviews of studies done over the past 30 years have found no reason to believe that there are any health hazards whatsoever," says Mays Swicord, scientific director of Motorola's Electromagnetic Energy Programs. Dr. Marvin Ziskin, chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Committee on Man and Radiation, is similarly skeptical. "The levels of radiation they used seem way too low to be producing the kinds of effects they're claiming."
Salford is the first to admit that it's too early to draw any conclusions, but contends the unusual results deserve a closer look. "The cellphone is a marvelous invention; it has probably saved thousands of lives," he says. "But governments and suppliers should be supporting more autonomous research." Meanwhile, Salford advises users to invest in hands-free headsets to reduce radiation exposure to the brain.
www.TimWarner.com
When the United Province of Canada came into existence in February, 1841 and Kingston was named its capital, the city became the centrepiece of an immense and important British colony. The other major cities in the new Canada were Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton.
The Act of Union which united the former Upper and Lower Canadas, brought together some 650,000 mainly French-speaking Upper Canadians and approximately 450,000 predominately English-speaking Lower Canadians. Renamed Canada East and Canada West, the two sections, however, had equal representation in the first Parliament.
Although one of the oldest settlements in Canada West, Kingston had been incorporated as a town only in 1838, four years after Toronto had become a city. It was a small community, but important nevertheless: Its Loyalist antecedents and leadership provided self-confidence; its Imperial past provided a sense of destiny; its transshipment role provided prosperity and a mercantile elite. Equally, effective men in public office and with good Family Compact connections, had kept Kingston in the forefront of provincial politics. In sum, Kingstonians were confident that they possessed the facilities, the amenities and the society required of the capital of an enormous territory with a brilliant future.
Consequently, on Friday, May 28, 1841, Kingston citizens, dressed in their Sunday best, gathered at the Commercial Wharf to greet Governor Sydenham. All shops and businesses were closed and the assembled citizenry was in a festive mood. When the steamer Traveller bearing Governor Sydenham arrived, the guns of Fort Henry gave a Royal salute. John A. Macdonald, members of the St. Andrew's Society and the public then followed the Governor's carriage to Alwington House, the official residence of the new Governor.
In June, 1841, Kingstonians watched the impressive ceremony of the opening of Parliament in the converted hospital building which now forms part of Kingston General Hospital. Because the building was to be only interim accommodation, Lord Sydenham arranged to buy land, now City Park, where he planned to erect the permanent Legislative Buildings.
Kingstonians predicted that if everything continued to go well, their town would soon become a city. But three months later their mood changed. Severely injured in a riding accident, Lord Sydenham died in September, 1841.
His successor was Sir Charles Bagot, a retired professional diplomat. Ill and facing important decisions that would have far-reaching results - principally involving the contentious call for responsible government for Canada - Sir Charles died in May 1843 before his successor, Sir Charles Metcalfe, arrived.
At the same time, opposition to the designation of Kingston as capital of Canada was growing and , in 1844, the capital was removed from Kingston and opened in Montreal in November of that year . After being moved again, briefly, to both York, now Toronto, and Quebec, it was finally located in Ottawa. Its removal from Kingston was no doubt hastened by the pronouncement of Charles Dickens that Kingston "which is now the seat of government in Canada . . . (is) a very poor town . . . . The Government House is neither elegant nor commodious, yet it is almost the only house of any importance in the neighbourhood."
Originally called Bytown, the city was incorporated as Ottawa in 1855. On December 31, 1857 Queen Victoria, asked to settle a dispute between Talk:Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Kingston and Ottawa, chose Ottawa to be the capital of Canada. The original Parliament Buildings in Ottawa were burned down on February 3, 1916.
Well they should, we've got the longest outdoor ice-skating surface in the world! The Rideau Canal, which was a marvel of engineering in its time...
Ok I admit it, I can't spell anything Austrailian. Here's proof:
a in
New South Whales
Pert
Adelade
Melbarne
Cranberra
Brisb
Captain Kangaroo
on purpose. notice in the first paragraph of their article, the word 'australian' was in the same line as the word 'Ottowa'.