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http://amultiverse.com/2010/09/29/dont-ask-dont-swim/
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is a good call
if you want to avoid the Alienware tax (which does have a few
advantages, including being just a luxury BMW brand).
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Kaku's or Brian Greene's books? In my experience
they are both wonderfully accessible writers with very firm grasps in
the details of quantum and string/M theories. I've certainly enjoyed
what I've read from both writers. (They are also both humble, working
theoreticians.)
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they've given it a new name doesn't mean it is
some new thing...
But then, maybe I just don't understand the Tea Party as a movement at
all. Maybe I'm too elite to get it, I suppose.
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ads, thus paying for the right to be jerks,
but I certainly don't have the ad metrics to data mine in order to test
that particular hypothesis.
The lesson: more privately hosted mailing lists, less Facebook. Please.
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) long meandering tangent en route
to some sort of Singularitarian capstone...)
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it
explained that radioactivity is also a natural effect and not all
radioactivity in the world/universe is human-enriched/created...)
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out as quickly as it became a fad.
Of course I'm just judging by what I read in tech journals.
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on both of
them, being semi-historical in nature. I also don't think the
intentionally fictional elements of Titanic are substantial enough to be
spoiled, but that's just my opinion.
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, and part of why it has become the message to get out to encourage
people to pay for that 3D or IMAX upgrade at their local popcorn stadium.
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be
designed around that problem...)
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/usage.
You can watch the long video (and it is long) trying to explain the
thing at the Wave website:
http://wave.google.com
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to go into each
relationship with some idea of your intent and the company/entity's
trustworthiness. Perhaps if you named specific services or concerns your
questions might be answered.
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reflecting technical reality and I think there is a need for
some mechanism to break the tedious Hype then Fear/FUD/Doom/Gloom cycle.
To me this is exactly the sort of story that breaks that doesn't get a
healthy grain of salt...
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, and was
reading many of the earlier books alongside of new releases.
(Speaking of new releases, Unseen Academicals is in stores on the 6th...)
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awesome book in Discworld. :) Ask enough
Pratchett fans and you'll find a glowing recommendation for any and
every book, for one reason or another.
Apologies for the rant, hopefully it helps,
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another seems to me a
hypocritical thing to do.
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doubt that it would be easy to amend
the Constitution to try it, but it might be something to play with at
local or state levels and see if it survives/replicates...
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script from Comic Con in a useful fashion for those of us who couldn't
make it to Comic Con...
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pretty quickly. Currently
the show is on the back half (6 eps) of Season 1, which I believe is
also doubling as the front half leading into Season 2.
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their own. At
best, his works make you think and question your place in society. So
certainly the political ideals in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are
flawed, but it is hard not to admire their spirit.
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that among other things built the titular
Halo devices).
I'm certainly interested to see Greg Bear playing in this space.
http://kotaku.com/5200423/greg-bear-penning-halo-forerunner-trilogy
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of emails, but Thunderbird should give you a good idea of its progress
and at least you will be able to do other things as it works.
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actually cared to invest in real security...
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Security through annoyance Maru
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. It won't solve any real
issues. But who knows how to solve the real issues here?
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We haven't evolved past the need for words Maru
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how big a 2-Liter Bottle is in
metric... 3 Liters is a better response than some of the ones I've used.
It's funny how so many anti-metric people don't even realize how often
they use SI units already.
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and its taxation.
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prior to the event (Terrastock 7).)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28Japanese_band%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrastock
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of
this is entirely speculation, but I'm of the opinion that you talk about
cool ideas long enough and you never know who will hear or how the ball will
get rolling...
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! in the episode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot
It tells the plight of Billy Everyteen in the world of sexbots. This
seems to be a borrowed copy of the documentary (didn't load for me):
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/48647/detail/
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One
of the above services have better DRM and DRM policies
than SecuRom and other DRM du jour products used in individual games and
often nowadays the same games with weird on disc DRM can be found in a
digital distribution network with better DRM.
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Yes, Stross has a CS degree and it shows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross
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The wiki has so many easy answers Maru
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for the 360. At the moment I'm favoring 360 purchases over PC purchases,
for a variety of reasons, including not having to worry about DRM.
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the timelines that might have resulted indirectly from vastly
different presidents and moon landings.
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and is very eloquent when discussing them...)
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the same thing
for any other poster that posted similarly useless, rude posts that
don't fit the mailing list medium and would be better in some other
environment such as the aforementioned social bookmarking sites.
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Don't Copy That Floppy or News Site
as
well, particularly for any installed proxy/VPN set up. Also double
check all of your installed firewall software (don't forget to check if
your virus scanner or other third party security tool is doing
firewalling of any sort).
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that one of
the commentary tracks will be Commentary! The Musical with entirely
new songs, presumably a satirical commentary on commentary...)
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depths...
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near the polish that Valve was able to
give it, particularly with the addition of the writing skills of Old Man
Murray alum and Psychonauts collaborator Eric Wolpaw. It's absolutely
the writing that turned it from interesting tech demo to endearing game.
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tips help,
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talks about (including the importance of lots of
usability testing and lots of automated feedback of product usage) in
his presentations on and about the ribbon. Well worth the attempt to
find the presentations that you can online.
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Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 24 Apr 2008 at 20:18, Max Battcher wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 24 Apr 2008 at 8:05, Nick Arnett wrote:
So... I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of
what
I'd suggest upgrading further to Open Office, it's less of a change
in UI
/Penelope
Maybe that plugin will help you. I have to admit that I never used
Eudora, so I don't have any idea of whether the Penelope project is
sufficient or not.
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ourselves and so I think there is a lot of
good things to learn from the mistakes of the various deities that are
worshipped today. Hopefully we aren't doomed to repeat those mistakes.
(That's the plot of Zelazny's Lord of Light, among others.)
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to the challenge at the moment, but if
Kurzweil's tracking for the upcoming singularity is correct we may have
to sink or swim sooner than we think... (At GDC Kurzweil apparently
said that those that can live to 2015 may probably live forever, I
only wish I had been there to see his charts...)
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Hope that helps,
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Did you look at Orion's Arm? It has a couple of the things you mention:
http://www.orionsarm.com/
Trent Shipley wrote:
I am going to launch a world building wiki. The working name for the project
is Red.
Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use
) from the oblivion it probably deserved (it
was actually filmed with the hopes of making theaters and probably would
have gone straight to the DVD bargain bin if Sci-Fi hadn't spent the few
dollars it did to call it a Sci-Fi original and air it on a few random
Saturdays).
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-fi watchers aren't into the show because I'm
not turning up much more of a synopsis than my own poor recollection on
the usual OCD sources...
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pretty intriguing, particularly as it looks
like they'll follow Iron Man's origin story pretty closely (albeit
swapping contemporary Iraq for comic-contemporary Vietnam/Gulf War).
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to good use in
a community that they know. One of the few places where I feel that
religion actually is serving some sort of good...
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my opinion,
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, for those that don't know: jmsnews.com is a nice way to
keep track of his news posts.
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setting
this storyline apart from the similar ones (frex: X-Men) and slightly
more realistic from a genetics standpoint (not that mutant powers
ever can be all that genetically realistic)...
I'm really looking forward to seeing how the writers expand this
mythos in the coming seasons...
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episodes in...
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You Sunk My Battleship Maru
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pressure to eat faster than strictly necessary...
I've come to the point where I'm starting to appreciate that sometimes
people need to just slow down.
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the interstate
roads for masses of congested automobiles box.
Remind me sometime to talk about my crazy idea for air travel...
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that is an airplane...
Sometimes the future isn't as good as it used to be.
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Science damn you!
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Who wouldn't buy space beers? It's makes a whole lot more sense than
a lot of the flavored beers and energy beers the big guys keep
putting onto shelves...
I demand to see a race for the first beer brewed in space to reach
store shelves. Perhaps we need a Beer X-Prize.
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Messenger that allows you to screen who messages you
(Jabber servers require explicit permissions), whatever...
Honestly, why do people chase these sort of scapegoats?
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of
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and
generally in my judgment of the system itself says. The I/E I tend to
flip-flop depending on several factors. Another choice would be to use
something like I?NTP, as the I is often more dominant, but again,
subject to change.
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I'm gonna win, trust
, and he still can't
always manage it either. :)
I personally love how he managed to blame it on his own characters in
Thief of Time. How can he be expected to keep continuity when his
characters keep messing with the timeline? :)
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I'm gonna win
was frightening, but the real morality is in what you _do_ with that
technology.
xponent
The Heresy Of Rob Maru
I find myself more a heretic than ever, as I mature.
I started out very heretic, so I'm sometimes afraid there is nowhere to
go but less.
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sometimes wonder if the Greeks did too good of a job in
trying to separate the useful Philosophy from Religion that all that was
left was the Irrational stuff...)
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the end I'll get
/with several nations, in particular
Russia/Soviet Union.
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the end I'll get the grrrl! --Machinae Supremacy, Hero (Promo Track)
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on Rotten Tomatoes, which has become my
favorite indicator of a film's worth.)
The A Scanner Darkly trailers have me intrigued and I'm hoping for a
good translation of the book. (I have to admit I'm skeptical with Woody
and Keanu, but it can't be that tough to play druggies, can it?)
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Its a very neat way to both break from reality and yet stay firmly
grounded in reality.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/ascannerdarkly
Too bad it seems to be notoriously slow/needlessly expensive (how many
delays has it been?).
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they get up and run out.]
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they get up and run out.]
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to
be a slow memory+cpu leak, even with it told only to work in screensaver
mode).
On the plus side, you can use the same client to sign up for other good
scientific causes like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ClimatePrediction.net.
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I'm gonna win, trust in me / I
a new wife and a baby on the way.'
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/65830.htm
Anyone else curious how Isaac Hayes might feel now after this week's
Super Adventure Club episode?
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recently: the Mel Gibson school of
violent worship). In fact, the worrying thing is that most of what is
scathing about it is actual Scientology doctrine repeated in the midst
of the episode. It's just sad that Scientology is so inherently funny.
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secondary run with a new lead. The key here is, are the writers up to
the challenge? (Slider's writers in a few key seasons certainly were not.)
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flights. The 9/11 Commission Timeline shows so many points of potential
criminal negligence...
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of examining too deeply.
Look into the abyss and, well...
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of historical oddities.
and all the more ridiculous for your religious ranting
and racism.
I didn't see either of those things in Robert's post.
Covert in post, overt in referenced website of poster.
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ridiculous for your
religious ranting and racism.
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is partly their own.
(The only real solution to the Microsoft Problem would be to
institutionalize/nationalize the Operating System. Some States and
Countries are already working on this, in fact, at least for
government work.)
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All progress is based upon
Robert Seeberger wrote:
From where I'm viewing, a corner seems to have been turned in recent
months and most people in the US share opinions that are more
leftish than they were over the last few years.
Arguably the true American center has always been more to the left than
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Microsoft to deal with the Vim
v. Emacs debate.
The cmd.exe and Windows Script Host together support quite a bit of
reasonable commands, and the Monad Shell in beta-testing provides
everything but the kitchen sink.
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All progress is based upon a universal
. Other people like the way their
browser (Firefox) handles RSS (live bookmarks).
On the opposite end of things is something like Bloglines or
Reader.Google.com.
There are a veritable ton of RSS readers out there.
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History bleeds for tomorrow
that in Democracy there is always a
second chance. (Even if you have to, as Thomas Jefferson realized, once
and while bathe democracy in bloody revolt.)
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are going to end up
fighting people claiming your host is a spammer, too.
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numbers that are much easier/quicker to type on the
num pad.
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first the British slacker culture guy and then a
Hollywood reject (the talking baby producer/director/voice guy tried
that stupid schtick in that awful Baby Bob television show).
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be
summed up by pointing out the big Internet syndicates (comic hosts)
such as Keenspot and Drunk-Duck.
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it something special to its hard-core fans.)
This hard-core fan says what I just said, but from someone who knows
what he is talking about: http://www.batbeyond.com/
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I have no idea what I'm doing.
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on gasoline and thus miles per gallon doesn't hold much
meaning here.
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the
American editions of the Harry Potter series.
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pushed kids to
read several thousand pages of text.
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