Quoting from this sfgate article: "The remains that Reiser revealed Monday were found about 4 p.m. buried on the side of a steep hill off a deer trail between Redwood Regional Park and the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, less than 200 yards behind a house on Skyline Boulevard, said Reiser's attorney, William Du Bois, who accompanied his client to the site"
What is it with nutjobs and claiming they have done work for important government agencies? Yeah, I understand there was a program in the 70s to explore using psychics against the commies but is there a form of dementia that causes one to hallucinate that they are serving a higher power?
Check "Psychic Detectives" in True TV (ex Court TV). They go though police cases solved with help from psychics.
OT thread and all I disagree. I am really happy with how Eve runs in my AMD X2 5600, GeForce 8600gt, Ubuntu and Wine. I run two premium clients in dual monitors pulling up to 80fps each.
Snopes is wrong about this one. I grew up in South America and there I heard the Chevy Nova joke a lot. It was pun based on these cars breaking down a lot.
It's like part of latin american culture to use puns to joke about things not working as expected.
Your mind perceives much more information about your surroundings is amazing. We are "blinded" by our 5 senses we "ignore" what some people call six-sense. Let's say you have a leak somewhere in your house, you could be guided under hypnosis to point the exact source even if it is 3 feet under an area of your yard you never walk through.
And before some skeptic replies to this laughing, there was an episode of mythbusters where they actually confirmed you can get an amazing amount of detail about an scene under hypnosis.
Instead of blurring and complicating all this even more, why not take a fresh look into HTML and how to create a new open markup language that allows for powerful and rich UIs instead of having to mess with HTML/XML/Javascript/Ajax/etc.
HTML and all the technology around it did its job. Now it is time to come up with something better.
I learned long time ago you "choose" your feelings. It is just a state of mind.
While growing up we see everybody around us is slave to their feelings, so we think it's normal behavior, we are even educated that way ("Mom is very disappointed", "Dad is outraged", "you offended me", "that's not nice", etc)
If somebody insults you, you choose to feel insulted, outraged, etc. If you do something and Mom/Dad/Girlfriend/Wife feels disappointed at you, it's their problem, not yours. You can't do anything to make them "choose" another feeling (maybe that's why I don't get laid much)
Likewise, if that broadcast outrages you, it's not their fault. Change the channel. This country would be much better without all these laws and regulations driven by feelings. It would even make the "flamebait" moderation moot.
I don't mean this as a flame or anything but I think we are going the wrong way about all this anyways. The only reason Flash and now Silverlight exists is to cover the need for a UI experience HTML cannot provide.
IMHO, HTML (XML, and anything else ending with ML) have done their jobs. Now we are at the point adding more features to it is making it overly complicated so we need to say goodbye and create a new simpler markup language that allows for these rich UI features instead of stuffing more tags into HTML.
We need a new standard with new browsers and all. We could use the opportunity to patent it by a non-profit and license for free to anyone who wants to implement it. The only restriction should be not adding any "extensions" to it (to prevent embrace, extend, extinguish tactics).
So they filed on June 30, 2000? I was a developer in a dot-bomb startup from Dec 1999 through May 2000. The company's name was Coursenotes (renamed to Classmap later before blowing up). We developed this web app that did pretty much all I can skim from this patent. The system was live around the middle of January 2000 (start of semester) and it was used by around 500 students in UT Austin.
I think I still have a copy of the sources somewhere. We were Blackboard's competition and I bet they used some of our work in that patent.
Alan, if you're reading this better call your lawyer;-)
I mourn the day XML was born and I would put out a bounty for the heads of anybody related to it (along with millions of suffering developers).
I long for the day something simpler, cleaner and prettier is created although pretty much anything you can come up with will do (except perl of course)
btw: Why the hell are we still using HTML?, can somebody please come up with a better markup language for the new generation of browsers instead of patching and complicating HTML even more?
I installed Ubuntu 7.10 in my home desktop a few weeks ago: put cd, boot, click install, answer 4 or so questions, wait 10 minutes and it was up an running. Anything I plug into that machine just works (portable harddrives, flash drives, card readers, DVI camcorder, digital camera, etc)
Now last weekend I decided to upgrade from AGP so I replaced with a PCI-e motherboard and video card. Didn't need to reinstall anything. The thing just booted and everything still just works. I only had to tweak screen resolution since it defaulted to a lower, safer resolution because of new video card.
Task switching and multitasking are bad for productivity at work. I was at a scrum seminar with Mike Cohn and he mentioned a Harvard Business Review article stating that if you are switching between two tasks you are only 60% as efficient on each one (I don't have the actual figure but it was around 60%). This means you are better off sitting tight and waiting for that build to finish instead of doing something else in these few minutes. As soon as I realized that I streamlined the build processes and cut build time as much as I could.
This should be one more argument to help your argument on getting faster workstations and servers. The less time you are waiting for your computer to complete something, the less task switching and loss of productivity.
FCC should get their head out of their asses and force one CAM for ALL. Satellite and cable STBs should use the same CAM. And while at it:
Fine ATSC broadcasts without EIT
Define a unique national tv channel numbering scheme for cable and satellite providers, no matter where in the US and whatever TV provider you use you should find ESPN in channel xyz
Police satellite uplinks and fine providers that don't follow ID standards. Have you tried to scan DVB feeds with mythtv?, it's a mess, all these feed transponders have the same damm ID and you have to enter them manually or you only get one fsk channel per satellite.
Stewart and Colbert are stand-up comedians, you have to be very good at improv comedy to do that. Colbert has the upper hand thought since he studied improvisational theater
To begin, I'll echo the biggest disappointment as being the Wii's lack of anything good from companies not named Nintendo. A number of my friends are regretting the purchase of the Wii because of this reason, wishing they'd bought a 360 instead. Surely having both is best but I certainly haven't felt so much of the same sentiment from 360 owners I know.
I sold my wii for that reason after almost a year waiting for decent games that would exploit wii's controls to their full potential.
That's the kind of answer this individual got from them. Does it sound to you like a "scientific" answer?
Regardless of what they believed about this guy's claim, they should have at least make the effort of coming up with a safe protocol to test his claim. Have paramedics at hand and run tests on his condition every few hours. If he shows signs of starvation stop the test and declare it a failure.
The funny thing is they insulted and laugh at him instead of letting him know challenge rules would not allow challenges that would put claimant's health at risk.
There were a couple other cases I can't find were the claims seem to have a good chance to succeed, so Randi's guys did all they could to insult and laugh at the applicant to make him quit the challenge, the ones who didn't quit seemed to "stop responding" to Randi's or Kramer's emails and therefore their applications got closed.
Randi's challenge is a hoax because there is no transparency in the process.
I recall reading of an applicant claiming being able to live out of thin air (no food or water) and the "challenge facilitator" instead of proposing a testing protocol just dismissed him in a plethora of insults. I can't find that case anymore in their challenge applications forum. I saw that one a couple years ago... now it seems it was (conveniently) removed.
Since you need "media exposure" to qualify for Randi's sweepstakes, we come up with a scientific protocol here in./ and have some geeks take the test. The winner goes for Randi's prize.
I volunteer, just write the protocol and meet me somewhere in DFW.
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Quoting from this sfgate article: "The remains that Reiser revealed Monday were found about 4 p.m. buried on the side of a steep hill off a deer trail between Redwood Regional Park and the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, less than 200 yards behind a house on Skyline Boulevard, said Reiser's attorney, William Du Bois, who accompanied his client to the site"
Compare with what this guy posted in 2007
Check "Psychic Detectives" in True TV (ex Court TV). They go though police cases solved with help from psychics.
OT thread and all I disagree. I am really happy with how Eve runs in my AMD X2 5600, GeForce 8600gt, Ubuntu and Wine. I run two premium clients in dual monitors pulling up to 80fps each.
In my opinion it was not a confusion at all, it was just a joke purposely made to the fact these cars were not very reliable.
Snopes is wrong about this one. I grew up in South America and there I heard the Chevy Nova joke a lot. It was pun based on these cars breaking down a lot.
It's like part of latin american culture to use puns to joke about things not working as expected.
Your mind perceives much more information about your surroundings is amazing. We are "blinded" by our 5 senses we "ignore" what some people call six-sense. Let's say you have a leak somewhere in your house, you could be guided under hypnosis to point the exact source even if it is 3 feet under an area of your yard you never walk through.
And before some skeptic replies to this laughing, there was an episode of mythbusters where they actually confirmed you can get an amazing amount of detail about an scene under hypnosis.
I wonder if this guy was right... we will know if they describe the place the body is found o.O
forgot to mention not based on XML please... xml is - imho - ugly
Instead of blurring and complicating all this even more, why not take a fresh look into HTML and how to create a new open markup language that allows for powerful and rich UIs instead of having to mess with HTML/XML/Javascript/Ajax/etc.
HTML and all the technology around it did its job. Now it is time to come up with something better.
I learned long time ago you "choose" your feelings. It is just a state of mind.
While growing up we see everybody around us is slave to their feelings, so we think it's normal behavior, we are even educated that way ("Mom is very disappointed", "Dad is outraged", "you offended me", "that's not nice", etc)
If somebody insults you, you choose to feel insulted, outraged, etc. If you do something and Mom/Dad/Girlfriend/Wife feels disappointed at you, it's their problem, not yours. You can't do anything to make them "choose" another feeling (maybe that's why I don't get laid much)
Likewise, if that broadcast outrages you, it's not their fault. Change the channel. This country would be much better without all these laws and regulations driven by feelings. It would even make the "flamebait" moderation moot.
I don't mean this as a flame or anything but I think we are going the wrong way about all this anyways. The only reason Flash and now Silverlight exists is to cover the need for a UI experience HTML cannot provide.
IMHO, HTML (XML, and anything else ending with ML) have done their jobs. Now we are at the point adding more features to it is making it overly complicated so we need to say goodbye and create a new simpler markup language that allows for these rich UI features instead of stuffing more tags into HTML.
We need a new standard with new browsers and all. We could use the opportunity to patent it by a non-profit and license for free to anyone who wants to implement it. The only restriction should be not adding any "extensions" to it (to prevent embrace, extend, extinguish tactics).
So they filed on June 30, 2000? I was a developer in a dot-bomb startup from Dec 1999 through May 2000. The company's name was Coursenotes (renamed to Classmap later before blowing up). We developed this web app that did pretty much all I can skim from this patent. The system was live around the middle of January 2000 (start of semester) and it was used by around 500 students in UT Austin.
;-)
I think I still have a copy of the sources somewhere. We were Blackboard's competition and I bet they used some of our work in that patent.
Alan, if you're reading this better call your lawyer
hmmmm... build a big one outside just to generate power with a wind-powered mechanical contraption to lift the weights...
* calls patent troll lawyer
I mourn the day XML was born and I would put out a bounty for the heads of anybody related to it (along with millions of suffering developers).
I long for the day something simpler, cleaner and prettier is created although pretty much anything you can come up with will do (except perl of course)
btw: Why the hell are we still using HTML?, can somebody please come up with a better markup language for the new generation of browsers instead of patching and complicating HTML even more?
And what is the government doing with my hard-earned tax dollars to fix all this?
New phones are all using Usb chargers because China is forcing them to.
Use the Print button, Luke
WTF are you talking about?
I installed Ubuntu 7.10 in my home desktop a few weeks ago: put cd, boot, click install, answer 4 or so questions, wait 10 minutes and it was up an running. Anything I plug into that machine just works (portable harddrives, flash drives, card readers, DVI camcorder, digital camera, etc)
Now last weekend I decided to upgrade from AGP so I replaced with a PCI-e motherboard and video card. Didn't need to reinstall anything. The thing just booted and everything still just works. I only had to tweak screen resolution since it defaulted to a lower, safer resolution because of new video card.
This should be one more argument to help your argument on getting faster workstations and servers. The less time you are waiting for your computer to complete something, the less task switching and loss of productivity.
- Fine ATSC broadcasts without EIT
- Define a unique national tv channel numbering scheme for cable and satellite providers, no matter where in the US and whatever TV provider you use you should find ESPN in channel xyz
- Police satellite uplinks and fine providers that don't follow ID standards. Have you tried to scan DVB feeds with mythtv?, it's a mess, all these feed transponders have the same damm ID and you have to enter them manually or you only get one fsk channel per satellite.
</RANT>Stewart and Colbert are stand-up comedians, you have to be very good at improv comedy to do that. Colbert has the upper hand thought since he studied improvisational theater
To begin, I'll echo the biggest disappointment as being the Wii's lack of anything good from companies not named Nintendo. A number of my friends are regretting the purchase of the Wii because of this reason, wishing they'd bought a 360 instead. Surely having both is best but I certainly haven't felt so much of the same sentiment from 360 owners I know.
I sold my wii for that reason after almost a year waiting for decent games that would exploit wii's controls to their full potential.
I bet these guys are already working on it.
Randi?... is that you?... Kramer?
That's the kind of answer this individual got from them. Does it sound to you like a "scientific" answer?
Regardless of what they believed about this guy's claim, they should have at least make the effort of coming up with a safe protocol to test his claim. Have paramedics at hand and run tests on his condition every few hours. If he shows signs of starvation stop the test and declare it a failure.
The funny thing is they insulted and laugh at him instead of letting him know challenge rules would not allow challenges that would put claimant's health at risk.
There were a couple other cases I can't find were the claims seem to have a good chance to succeed, so Randi's guys did all they could to insult and laugh at the applicant to make him quit the challenge, the ones who didn't quit seemed to "stop responding" to Randi's or Kramer's emails and therefore their applications got closed.
Randi's challenge is a hoax because there is no transparency in the process.
I recall reading of an applicant claiming being able to live out of thin air (no food or water) and the "challenge facilitator" instead of proposing a testing protocol just dismissed him in a plethora of insults. I can't find that case anymore in their challenge applications forum. I saw that one a couple years ago... now it seems it was (conveniently) removed.
Since you need "media exposure" to qualify for Randi's sweepstakes, we come up with a scientific protocol here in ./ and have some geeks take the test. The winner goes for Randi's prize.
I volunteer, just write the protocol and meet me somewhere in DFW.