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andLinux.org
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications in Windows without modification. It supports quick launch icons, start menu, system tray, Explorer shell extensions and file type associations.

Or, you may choose to use the andLinux Launcher, which ships with andLinux since Beta 1. It consists of:
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andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design. andLinux is

andLinux is a complete Linux system running seemlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only])

Enables Linux running seamlessly with Windows

Fait tourner Ubuntu dans Windows avec coLinux.

andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design.

Run Ubuntu apps, in Windows.

Umm… cool!

Just so we’re clear - it uses a Windows-based X-Server(*) for GUI and as everyone who ever tried that - this setup has issues.

Any reason to suspect it uses a TCP socket? Windows has all sorts of other IPC mechanisms.

No, coLinux is more like wine

I had not considered this possibility…though I’m not really sure what you’d gain, other than a slow running version of Ubuntu.

Because Windows XP has vastly superior drivers for my photo printer and scanner. If I wasn’t a photographer and only used my PC for web, e-mail, and word-processing, then I would likely use Linux as my primary OS.

Yes? Well what about Virtualbox?

10 best CSS hacks | StylizedWeb.com
Here is the list of 10 hand picked CSS hacks and tricks which can help you in your CSS code and also save some time.

[…] StylizedWeb.com - web trends and tutorials Blog Archive 10 best CSS hacks Since the front page of Swerdloff (dot com) is in need of a resdesign again (this thing is wonderful but not the message I want to send) it’s time for me to bone up on my CSS …
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Here is the list of 10 hand picked CSS hacks and tricks which can help you in your CSS code and also save some time.

StylizedWeb.com stellt die wichtigsten CSS Hacks zusammen. Nice to know!

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If you are front end coder you must know how important is to make cross browses, valid CSS and xHTML code.

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Great list of the best CSS hacks…

Article is chock full of nearly nothing.

Airport Security ftw! en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos!
Apparently, even the security consultants are strip searching 95 year-old women at the airport to avoid terrorist attacks.
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At least the flights are on time.

Buried as old and dupe.

my new computer tech http://tinyurl.com/399fvo

“Uploaded on July 8, 2007
by sirbrett84″

this is at least as old as it says it is on the flickr page, but ive definitely seen it in several other places before

It’s not really that a big deal. They probably have security beyond that point. At least the computers running the screens are isolated from fragile and more important equipment. probably running a tunneled VPN connection from a database server, that’s probably all the networking on them.

That system is handled by the Airport Authority and anyone who has worked with them knows they are bat shit crazy! Regardless I wouldn’t worry about the FIDs system as there is no way to gain access to them as they are a closed system.

Oops.

A4 PAPER CUT
“My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality.”

Big wave moving towards a small castle made of sand, 2005
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I can believe that this was submitted 11 days ago and isn’t on the front page.

… holy *crap*.

Impressive art done with A4 sheets of paper

Cool ass shit.

About my paper works

My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost as a magic process (…)

Really awesome art made from a piece of paper.

Peter Callesen: “My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality.”

I have been sent this link at least twice a year, and it still leaves me with my jaw on the floor everytime I look at it….especially if you poke around the rest of his site and take a look at some of his larger scale paperwork.

Wonderful stuff. I particularly like the hummingbird flying towards the flower…

my brain can’t get around how some of these work!

how do you make these are there templates or is it just a lot of free time?

All cool, except for this one: http://www.petercallesen.com/index/images/web.jpg

I think what el0rg is trying to say is that it is impossible to truly recreate art work. You absolutely can not recreate a piece because you can’t be at the same time as the author, in the same place, thinking the same things, and acting on the same (e)motivations. Sure I could find an abandoned urinal and write “R. Mutt” on it, but it would never have the effect, and therefore be the same, as Fountain.

Do you dress like a douchebag? [flowchart]
Well, do ya?
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i went through the chart the first time and i turned out ok. i went through the second time saying that i wore stripes and it said i was a douche bag. just because some one wears stripes and their not to hide their fat doesn’t mean they dress bad. this chart is extremely judgmental and who ever made it was biased to make themselves look good.

“Well maybe you aren’t a douchebag after all.” YES!

I wish I had 4 hands, so I could give this chart 4 thumbs down

Love the flowchart. I’d like to add: are you wearing an Obama 08, Hillary 08 or McCain 08 T-shirt and if so, yes you’re a douchebag!

Do you spend more than 15 minutes a week thinking about what you are going to wear?? You are a douche bag.

exceptions: dates, interviews

Incredibly retarded. I was expecting something more “put together,” because apparently I’m a douchebag because I’m wearing a sweater with horizontal stripes and I’m not fat. I know it’s supposed funny, but its just stupid how two steps in and half the universe is a douchebag.

Do you dress like a douchebag?

Last Statement - Henry Porter
Death Row Inmates Last Statements
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Someone please tell me why the most “Christian” states are the most un-Christian like? Christian states seem to have the least social programs and greatest disdain for the poor, more likely to embrace the death penalty despite a commandment against killing, and the greatest amount of racism. When did Christianity get painted conservative?

They’re from a private (paid) archive.

Brutal.

Why downmod alamandrax? He’s correcting westsan, who said:

I don’t see a problem with correcting bad mistakes like that, because people might learn and not do it in a professional context where it would make them look bad.

Thanks. I just finished reading Tortilla Curtain and I’m extra vigilant against stuff like that. Every American should read it.

Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved | Science | The Guardian
The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.

One of the remaining mysteries is why the Greek technology invented for the machine seemed to disappear. No other civilisation is believed to have created anything as complex for another 1,000 years. One explanation could be that bronze was often recycled in the peri…
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Amazing discovery, to be sure, but a computer it is not. The machine discovered is not a general purpose, Turing-complete computing machine.

But does it run linux?

Upon closer inspection of the intricate reading, decrypted by infrared readers, Scientists are now able to confirm the scripture which reads: THIS IS SPARTA!!!

I remember seeing this amazing device during a trip to Greece back in 1974. That was about a year after it had been featured on the show “In Search of Ancient Astronauts” as some kind of evidence that aliens had helped ancient civilizations build things like it and the pyramids. Of course, all it really proves it that we underestimated the technological skills of the people of those times.

“Greeks did it!”

This isn’t particularly amazing. Humans have always been *nearly* as clever as we are now. All they lacked was knowledge. There were millions of humans, not recorded in history, who realised that the Earth is round, that there is no god, and who understood the principles of mathematics.
If anything is amazing about the instrument, it is the engineering work which went into making it.

Antikythera Mechanism

andLinux.org
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications in Windows without modification. It supports quick launch icons, start menu, system tray, Explorer shell extensions and file type associations.

Or, you may choose to use the andLinux Launcher, which ships with andLinux since Beta 1. It consists of:
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Dumb. why would you run both at the same time? run one or the other.

We need some mirrors. Or someone who has it needs to put it on a bittorrent tracker.

So I can has linux with a windows GUI? DO NOT WANT.

Sounds like a good idea. I would rather to it the other way around, but it don’t matter.

Ahhh yes… the old “Let’s make it easy to run a secure, stable, software depleted OS inside an insecure, flaky but software laden OS” trick.

Or you can do it the other way around
Running Windows in Linux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxk6oFqMJVY
The author includes a how-to as well. You might want to check this out before you try andLinux.

Does anyone know if copy and paste works from applications?

Any reason to suspect it uses a TCP socket? Windows has all sorts of other IPC mechanisms.

Ok, that’s a really compelling use!. Since I assume that your stuck with exchange.

Why? Why would you do this? why run an OS which is horribly inefficient with system resources, in order to run a virtual version of an OS which is not? It makes far more sense to run a virtual copy of windows on *nix

Cute penguins! I think I’ll put ‘Happy Feet’ on my DVD rental list.

It crashed for me while trying to read my media directories.

Conversion Chart for Dating... Sad but True
Things you love about your new boyfriend/girlfriend and how they change in the future..
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now: nice bonkers - then: tubes

i am a young and handsome man from us. i just wonder if i can meet a rich momma here, because i am at the beginning of my career and i need someone’s support..i uploaded my hot photos on sugarmommameet.com under the name piccolo , maybe you want to check out my photos firstly!

Just going to play for a few minutes -> Twelve Level 70’s

Ladies, without further ado and in hope of scaring you off, here I am:

I’m very cynical, immature at times, I can be somewhat of a posessive workaholic busybody. I’m not stupid, I’m arrogant when I want to be, I’m not prudish, but sometimes a lazy snobbish showoff when the wrong people rub me that way. As you can see brutally honest and not really aloof and never quiet! Frigid is a word I’ve never been called, I’m probably too slutty for you.
So. if you are not too gullible to handle a muleheaded argumentative know-it-all, drop me a line!

wheres the row on sandwhich making?

where is the “fuck the RIAA” comments?

10 year reality chart

Pictures that Changed the World
Slate magazine has a collection of Magnum photos which changed the world. Mostly doused in black and white gradients, these pictures feature significant historical incidents. Some of them, like the picture of the girl who grew up in a concentration camp are remarkably powerful reflections on our actions.

I was hoping someone would present a valid arguement to my (not well thought out) hypothesis (July 10, 2007 @ 3:05 PM). My God, I hope I’m wrong. I was expecting someone to say “Bullshit!”. Can we change the course of history? Of course we can, …
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What about ‘hello.jpg’

The last one always conjures up the sound of Buffalo Springfield’s ‘For What It’s Worth’.

http://ruliweb4.empas.com:8080/ruliboard/gup/img_l …

yeah, im going to have to agree with some others. these didn’t so much change the world, but more so make us say “fuck, this place is going to hell, and we can’t stop it.”

hopefully we can, though.

hey this pictures are OUTSTANDING, sure, but they sure as shit didn’t change the world . .

Anymore information on the little girl who drew “Home”

great pics of Iranian women firing and iconic shots

Pictures that Changed the World

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The person in front of the demolition tractor is a woman, not a man - look at her body?

I Have A Dream

Stunning.

A Solar Grand Plan: Scientific American
By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions. Read on!

The federal government would have to invest more than $400 billion over the next 40 years to complete the 2050 plan. That investment is substantial, but the payoff is greater. Solar plants consume little or no fuel, saving billions of dollars year after year. The inf…
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It’s amazing to me how many diggers just take this projection as gospel.

But if Obama wants to sink hundreds of billions into this, that’s reason 5487 not to vote for him. The Constitution does not grant Congress the authority to spend my tax dollars on these types of things. (and yes, I know Bush spends trillions on things the Constitution doesn’t authorize, either)

Great, I’ll be almost 70 when this happens, wayyy too fucking late too enjoy it.

I just don’t see it, the cost of solar panels really needs to come down. For instance, figure up how much voltage your computer uses, look at the price of solar panels and how long it will take before they pay for themselves. You will realize quick that its expensive, and your looking at 8 to 10 years before its finally “free” energy. I want this to happen but i just don’t think we have the technology yet.

We could do this by 2025….Get your asses in gear engineers and politicians! We can convert South Dakota to “New Solar Cell”…Think how much cooler Mt Rushmore would be if it were shiny and powered Manhattan!

We really should be spending the money that has been allocated on the economic stimulus packages on a project like this.

That would result in true economic independence in reducing the need for foreign oil and coal plants for heating. Rather than supplying a tangential and fleeting 600 bucks to every person. Let’s use the great wealth of united states to transform the countries economy, while pumping money into into the hands of the workers who would build the structure and into the coffers of the companies that would innovate for it. That is akin to the great works that America was able to build during the New Deal during FDR’s time: the great turnpikes. Let’s fix the economic downturns through revolutionary expenditure rather than the short shot in the arm that the economic stimulus provides.

I thought we already were.

/google

By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions.

power

“By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions”

By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions

how you like dem apples

The money isn’t the problem. Why should the government pick the technology of the future? Subsidizing it to make it cost-competitive means that no other alternatives will succeed.

Yeah, and we all know that when solar advocates say solar will be cheap, it must be true. Fanboys never oversell their favourite technology. And solar power fanboys are by far the most honest, as proven by their record stretching back decades.

Where would the panels be placed? I’d suggest you install them in toilets, everybody knows the sun shines out of Americans arses.

The cost of entirely replacing the USA’s generating capacity would amount to no more than 2 trillion. These fuckers want a fifth of that just as subsidies. AND they’re lowballing it. Absurdly too since they’re lying through their teeth.

Yeah but it IS a fact that AC is better than DC for long ranges. If it wasn’t, why would all long range power transmission be done with AC?

I’m afraid you’ll just invade other countries to get minerals and copper for solar panels. Mark my words.

VG Chartz | Hardware Sales From Launch
What does it say when a console launched a year later, being more expensive, was prey to the most crazy anti-viral smear campaign ever, had two massive competition to deal with and “no” games to speak off… and still sold better/faster than the 360? Wow.

Hardware Sales From Launch
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And the 360 is still the better system, with better online capabilities. Still, there are no stand out games for the PS3. Even with the faults in hardware design, and the recent XBL outage, MS took care of their customers, putting aside 1 BILLION dollars to fix hardware problems, and offering a free game download when it clearly states in the EULA that there would be no compensation for outages. MS cares and listens to it’s customers, unlike Sony who tells you what you want. Anyone remember the PSP [ ] button fiasco? That’s Sony for ya. Grats on selling so many Blu Ray players…

If nothing else, this shows the value of the Japan and Europe when it comes to worldwide sales. PS3 can be a distant 2nd to the 360 in North America, but can make up most, if not all, of that ground in other regions because the 360 is just doing ok in Europe and terrible in Japan. Time to step it up in Europe, MS!

Whoop-Dee-Fucking-Doo!

Good for sony. This was such a huge gamble, with the blu-ray and whatnot, and it’s great that it paid off!

/me hugz ps3

Cant wait for all the good games this year.

Another post to justify the pruchase for all these Sony fanboys. This place has become the harbinger of Apple and PS3 rejects. Enough with the PS3 news already. Who cares.

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Evolution of Car Logos
We took a look at the evolution of tech logos before. Today, lets take a look at the fascinating stories behind the logos of some of the most popular cars in the world

With the money, Buick founded the Buick Motor Company and within a few years ran it to the ground. He was kicked out of the company by his partner William “Billy” Durant in 1906 and later sold his stock for a mere $100,000. Had he held on to his shares, it …
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toyota needs to fire their logo designer, it’s a shame the biggest automaker has the worst logo

This is the second article in 3 days about car logos…

fascinating..

Mitsubishi’s story is pretty interesting…
would have been interesting to know the stories behind other japanese auto makers (Toyota, Nissan, Honda etc).. pity the article focused mostly on European cars…

Wow. Mazda has always had the crappiest logos. Who knew?

I never knew Audi used to be 4 different companies. And Mazda has always had cool logos.

darned interesting

“This article should come in handy for the next time youre stuck in traffic… Did you know that the Cadillac emblem was inspired by a family crest of a nobleman who later turned out to be a fraud? Or that Volkswagen was Hitlers idea?”

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Evolution of many automotive companies.

Cool!

Cool article on the history of car logos.

Mitsubishi: a joint venture of Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern.

Logos with solid plain 2D colors have the potential to be timeless.

Find a copy of the Fedex Logo.

DId you know that the circle is the most pleasing shape to the eye? It’s by far the most popular shape in advertising, with advertisers going so far as to make sure the letter “o” is as round as possible.

Indeed. That is because a circle is the most basic symbol for the donut. It is a model of eternity itself in its most tasty, sugary form. All hail the almighty donut!

Those names aren’t a joke?

Demonoid Tracker Is Back, Will the Site be Next? | TorrentFreak
It has been three months since the popular (semi)private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about its future, and many feared that the site would never return. Totally out of the blue, however, the tracker is now responding again.

You plums bitching about subdemon, is only because you’re too stupid to follow the rules. It’s gimps like you that bring things on top, and bring the heat to sites, cos you can’t follow basic rules and keep your fat mouths shut. The mods at subdemon…
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WE LOVE YOU DEMONOID.
*LIFTS SHIRT*

Was the tracker ever gone? It seemed to keep going for a while. Long live the demon (i hope my old account name works!)

Since the site went down and all….do they still have our user info or are we going to have to sign up again?

are you fucking kidding me? I deleted all my saved demonoid torrents last night.

FUCK the RIAA!!!

I hope when it does come back that it isn’t just a lame wannabe (re: suprnova returns!)

Good question

Thank fuck for that, Lets just hope Deimos gets the site back up and running A.S.A.P Go Demonoid !

Are you Sure your Email isn’t being Hacked? | MakeUseOf.com
If someone has cracked your email password, it may not be apparent to you. A snooper can easily read an email then mark it as unread again. So the best thing to do would be to set up an electronic tripwire? so if someone breaks into your account, youll know about it.

Although this may function to reveal someone snooping your inbox; it is not going to catch someone who is definitely intelligent enough not to be caught. To be completely honest, especially as an individual with a background in security; it would not be executed. T…
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Hey stop trying to spoil my fun!

I hate to point out the obvious, but why is it so difficult to just change your email password once in a while? Have we become that lazy?

emails are plaintext. Anyone with a hex editor and a packet sniffer can read them. Encrypt your mail, then no one can read ‘em without your private key so hacking your account is moot.
http://gnupg.org/

Remember kids if your breaking into someones account and see attachments saved in .htm make sure you open them in text editors instead. Disable macros in any word documents you open. Don’t run execs etc etc. After all YOU got their password. who knows what other stupid shits lurking around their account waiting to blow up in their(or your) face. Its a good idea but i don’t think it will get some of the more intrepid crackers. I wouldn’t rely on it as proof your account hasn’t been breached. Especially now that the technique is front page digg material.

If you need a website to walk you through step by step how to do small things like this, don’t bother;
You’ll fuck it up anyway.

My web mail (Fastmail) tells me what time the last login was whoever logged in. It also tell me when the last time someone tried to log in and was unsuccessful. Not too hard from there to figure out if someelse has logged in.

Good anti-hacking for your email

email

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Instructions on how to know if your email is hacked

If someone HAS cracked your email password, it may not be apparent to you. A snooper can easily read an email then mark it as unread again. So the best thing to do would be to set up an electronic tripwire? so if someone breaks into your account, you

secure.sunshinepress.org
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Celebrities include:

Hey, rich people are the new enemy. How dare they amass large amounts of money, and find loopholes in the tax laws?!?!

so the site now says this information is false, what is the conclusion of redditers?

Rich people evade taxes? Shocking!

Completely agree, but on the other hand, doesn’t it seem a bit unreasonable that poor people be taxed as much as rich people when their income is not just their next mansion, but their livelihood?

Thanks for highlighting the glaringly obvious–Watch your back.

88.80.13.160
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It is rather cute to see someone futilely attempt to shut down Wikileaks, if indeed that is what is happening. Taking something off the internet? That’s like taking pee out of a pool.

Seriously. And we’ve trained for this. Remember that whole digg censorship thing?

that policy to me has really gone, fftt. boy. and I wenanravand I… there’s a time I went through, and said “you know what”, when I reddit, I just went pphoo.. this is it. this is exactly it.

Oh, the good-ol BBS days. I ran a BBS on my C64 with 5MB HD that I bought with donated money from the BBS users.

More like:

OSX is just too cool to care man. Nevermind, you wouldnt even understand, you’re probably an unworthy heathen.

Honda Recaptures Lost Heat, Blows Highway Hybrids Away | EcoGeek | Heat, Energy, February, Written, Electric
Honda just dropped a bit of a bombshell on the world with it’s announcement that their heat-harnessing hybrids recapture more lost energy than even Toyota’s hybrid drive during highway driving.

Honda has decided that, at current efficiencies (and gas prices), it will not be cost-effective to include heat-capturing devices in production cars. Similar projects have come to the same conclusion. But with rising energy costs, and better engine designs, this coul…
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sounds very similar to the six cycle engine. Biggest obstacle is the added weight on the car from the steam components

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crower_six_stroke

Honda ftw.

The Honda ads on this digg page are epic.

Yay thermodynamics

HAs anyone ever thought of putting a little turbine on the two tires in the back that don’t turn or provide thrust? All I am saying is that those tires turn all the time. Sure a shame to waste all that kinetic energy

Not really a new idea being this same basic concept is used for your heater and for the good old manifold ovens. But its good to see someone using wasted energy for something.

Honda just dropped a bit of a bombshell on the world with it’s announcement that their heat-harnessing hybrids recapture more lost energy than even Toyota’s hybrid drive during highway driving. This is fantastic news, since about half of American passenge

I don’t understand why they aren’t running totally off of batteries and having the batteries recharged by a small diesel engine that runs at a constant peak efficient rpm. The newer locomotives use something like that. It just seems like an easier system. They could also have a plug to recharge the batteries from the electric grid when parked.

The newer locomotives? We’ve used these things in the UK for many decades in the local ’sprinter’ type of locomotive.

Nobody has every put one in a production car. Only Honda, BMW, and a few others have even researched the idea.

I think the Tesla is probably the way of the future. It would be nice to fit a small generator though to take it on long trips cross-country. Another idea might be to team up with a hotel chain that wants to be seen as eco-friendly and offer charging stations for all electric cars at their locations.

It’s no violation to run a heat engine. You just can’t get efficiency higher than the Carnot limit.

So in other words, they’re only (at most) getting peak theoretical efficiency. Wow, that’ll save us!

Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats
Microsoft Open Specification Promise required Microsoft to release specifications for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Office Drawing, and they finally have. But are they complete?

Supporting Technologies
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The documents listed below are covered by the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.
Word 97-2007 Binary File Format (.doc) Specification PDF | XPS

Especificaciones abiertas de MS Office (hasta 2007)

Office Binary File Formats !!!!!

Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats

Official documentation for doc, xsl and ppt file formats.

Nice!

For binary OFFICE formats. This is the second story I've seen that leaves out “Office” from the headline.

Are you serious?

TeX.

Why, whatever do you mean? Even Microsoft’s binary formats, the ones your organization are using right now, are perfectly open! No need to trouble yourself with seeking out alternatives just to comply with some silly regulations.

If people don’t use MS Office any more it makes Windows susceptible to being dropped too.

I heard using html tables with an excel mime type and file extension works fine.

Bad Astronomy Blog » Is science faith-based?
If you read any antiscience screeds, at some point or another most will claim that science is based on faith just as much as religion is. This is completely wrong. It shows (unsurprisingly) an utter misunderstanding of how science works. Science is not faith-based, and heres why

In Euclid’s Elements, axioms are split into “common notions” and “postulates”. Common notions are ideas that are impossible to prove, but necessary for any logical framework. An example from Euclid is the notion that if A equals B, and t…
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Science is merely the thoughts and opinions of the scientists in that particular field of science. If you feel strongly enough about a particular issue you can find scientific ‘evidence’ to prove your theory.

P.S. the heart controls the brain…

Um, flagged as inaccurate??? WTF

Yes this is a somewhat accurate (the assumption stated is only partly valid) description of the scientific method, but a complete and total fantasy when applied to the practice of science in general. Science is a pursuit by human beings and human beings are incapable of being totally neutral in their observations. This is why double blind studies are the minimum standard and even these are not beyond compromise. The need for double blind studies is ample proof of my opening statement.
Call it religious zeal or safety in numbers, scientists and thus science is not immune to these forces.

The current man made global warming debacle is a perfect example. In the future it will continue to be studied to understand how science was so completely corrupted by fear and political forces…..

“I think, therefore I am” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_ergo_sum) - that’s the only thing every thinking creature actually _knows_. Everything else is faith based. If it is too hard for you brain to apprehend, maybe “The Matrix” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/) will give you some ideas.

lol @ the buried comments in this thread. The posters of which seem to only be trying to convince them self of there own ignorance

Faith is the acceptance of a ‘truth’ without needing ‘proof’. It doesn’t matter if the proof is available. It doesn’t matter if the proof doesn’t exist. If an individual accepts a concept as ‘true’ without needing proof, they have accepted that truth as a matter of faith.

Is science faith based. I certainly hope not.

of course not, you fucking idiot.

The religious are well-known, notorious even, for not adjusting their point of view to align with how the universe behaves. To wit: geocentrism, abstinence-only education, flood mythology.

Yes but 99.999% of the people don’t really understand science. So the must have FAITH in a very small minority of scientists that what they say is true, just like religious people believe in what priests tell them.

The difference is, you can ask a scientist why he believes that gravity makes apples fall, and get an answer, and try it for yourself, and reproduce his results. Of course it’s not that easy; not just anyone is capable of checking a proof or interpreting particle accelerator runs or what have you. But the fact is, people do train to do science, and then they tell everyone, “Hey, I’m a smarty-pants scientist too now, and these people weren’t bullshitting when they said gravity makes apples fall down.”

Reality is faith-based. Once you give up your faith that what you perceive is anywhere but inside your own mind, things get a bit wonky.

Strictly speaking, philosophically speaking, we can’t be sure there even is a world out there. Basically, we can’t be sure if there are other minds, if the past is an illusion et cetera, all that one can know with absolute certainty is that if one thinks, they exist. Cogito ergo sum, son. So in that sense, pure Cartesian skepticism, science is faith-based.

Life On Other Planets: A Second Earth in Our Solar System
It could be that there are objects of Earth-mass in the Oort cloud (a band of debris surrounding our planetary system) but they would be frozen at these distances. They would look like a frozen Earth.
So all we need to do is haul one of those babies into our orbit, defrost it, and start populating. Earth 2, here I come!

NASA’s Alan Stern said these planets are so far away from the sun that we haven’t seen them yet: Our old view, that the Solar System had nine planets will be supplanted by a view that there are hundreds if not thousands of planets in our Solar System. It could be tha…
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Sounds like a good idea, put it in the same orbit as earth , maybe on the exact opposite side of us. At least we could manage the temperature, i don’t know what we would do about water, and an atmosphere. I have no clue how we would move a planet or if it could be done.

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Earth Mark II?

i think we should make a second earth out of marshmallows and colonise it. it would solve both world’s hunger problems.

I feel that until we acheive faster-than-light travel it doesn’t really matter if we find a perfect planet to live on. If it takes longer than a human’s life to travel there, not much point imho. We can’t drag planets around or get to the ones on even the outer reaches of our own solar system. I enjoy reading about them but once we find one… then what?

Perhaps we should send a manned mission to mars before we start talking about bringing planets from the outer solar system to the habital region of the solar system.

They’re just sitting in a cold, dimly-lit part of the solar system, waiting to be defrosted and colonized.

YouTube - VISTA WONDERS!!
Well, I guess I just like Linux better even though I use Microsoft products everyday.

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” Added: November 01, 2007 ”
If you dugg this, I’m gonna come to your house and punch you.

Why is it ok to bash Vista, but not the RROD? If this video targeted Xbox, it’d never make the front page.

I currently have a System uptime of 34 days on my Vista64 PC… that never ever ever happened with XP. So to say it crashes a lot is asinine. It would have been twice as long though but there was something sucking up my ram and I restarted to start off fresh.

VISTA RULES! AND GIVES GREAT HEAD! ^_^

oooooh, funny as in “this is lame”
By the title I was assuming funny as in “heh heh heh”

Burried - Vista crashes far less than XP!

Wikileaks survives censorship, ddos, fire - Wikileaks
Yes, a fire. Coincidence, or did someone really want the site off-line?
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Yes, a fire. Coincidence, or did someone really want the site off-line?

You should see how much those Kegel-Flex(TM) machines go on the black market, it’s a racket. I’m glad I got mine before they merger and supplies weren’t so much in demand.

A site where whistleblowers can anonymously submit documents

WTF, the whole data center isn’t on fire, just the UPS.

His point is that the fire was not a deliberate attack whereas DDOS was. Learn to read.

And it looks like we have a backup site… For now.

It comes and goes. Here’s the Coral Cache:

Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over - Engadget
Toshiba just made a statements saying, “It will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” Finally.

@ cheese head, etc. increasingly downloads are 720p and even 1080p. Get yourself some decent broadband.Toshiba will focus on NAND flash, it says, and rightly so: show me a 64GB SD flash card for under $50 and I’ll show you the end of Blu-Ray. Anyone want to guess how…
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Well, I suppose the lesser format always wins. First VHS, and now BluRay.

Seriously, since when have you ever had to upgrade your CD Player, DVD Player, or tape deck to play the latest media? Or worried whether or not your player supported the features on the tape or disc? How about the draconian copy protection used on BluRay? It is ridiculous how anti-consumer this technology is, and yet droves of fanboys defend the Sony brand. Meanwhile somewhere in Japan, Sony execs couldn’t care less.

I’m not going to spend hundreds of dollars on a device that can be disabled on the whim of the entertainment industry. Sure, it isn’t likely unless I’m tampering with the player, but that industry exec looking over my shoulder making sure I’m a good consumer doesn’t sit well with me. I don’t care if it is not likely that I will ever run into problems with having my player deauthorized. The fact that it is possible at all is wrong.

BluRay did not win because it is a superior format. You can talk about disc storage capacity and interactive software all day long. It doesn’t change the fact that Hollywood supports BluRay because of it’s copy protection. That much should be obvious. What boggles the mind is that some of you defend BluRay as if you were employed by Sony. I’m sure you’ll still be there when Sony accomplishes their next feat. . rootkits on BluRay players!

FINALLY!!! Now all those HD-DVD fan boys can STFU! Game over.

Now is a good time to buy stock in Sony.

It’s just a flesh wound!

I’m glad one of the formats finally won, now I just wish the price of the players and burners would come down a little more.

can we have a party? no….oh…ok. just a small one? with women?

The 15 Most Annoying Video Game Characters (From Otherwise Great Games) | Cracked.com
In honor of this week’s Game Developer’s Conference, some characters that should have stayed undeveloped.

I definitely argee that Dead Rising’s Otis should be here. If not for the constant calls, regardless of what peril you might be in, then for the call you get back if you dare to hang up on him. Nevermind that he’s safe in a bunker while you’re out getting your asshol…
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Tales drove me nuts everytime in Sonic 2, goddamn that flying prick. If he wasn’t a guy, I would have been more forgiving, but no, he’s a guy who’s so cute you think he’s a fucking cute female creature

This was a fantastic article. The Duck Hunt Dog is definitely the greatest.

Pac Man. That guy is one mean drunk…

I never really liked Cracked as a magazine, but goddam, some of these lists they blog are hilarious. I almost fell out of my chair laughing about that Slippy Toad thing, hehe.

I was looking for Tidus, but the headline did mention the game had to be good. FFVIII was atrocious, save for FMV scenes.

Dugg for awesomeness.

Thiefbot.

I think I can say as a completely unbiased observer that Tails, in Sonic 2 & 3, is the best character in the history of video games. Simply awesome. Everyone always wanted to play as Tails. But then, they gave him a voice, made him younger, and whiny. They destroyed a perfect character. All I want is my silent, cool fox I can play as instead of Sonic.

I agree about comeback AI in racing games. It was really bad in F-Zero for N64. Magically, two designated “escorts” would be in front of you no matter how fast you went…until the last 3 seconds of the race where they magically break down and let you pass them.

Where’s Catalina from San Andreas? She drove me nuts.

I’d like to add Deekin from Neverwinter Nights

Wealth and Religiosity en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos!
Religiosity is measured using a three-item index ranging from 0-3, with 3 representing the maximum religious position. Respondents were given a +1 if they believe faith in God is necessary for morality; and +1 if they say religion is very important in their lives; and +1 if they pray at least once a day.

Crea una cuenta gratuita, o inicia sesi?n (si ya eres miembro).
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What it shows, is that you have to be an idiot to believe in magic.

And idiots dont make good money (usually)

The Alieness is kicking ass in the comments on that page.

Why were respondents given a +1 if they believe that faith in God is necessary for morality. I think it is, however, I don’t necessarily believe in God. If there is no God and no eternity, why limit yourself with often arbitrary rules if there is no atonement for bad decisions?

This is almost of statistical graph of when Jesus said, “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Very interesting.

All of you calling the graph misleading aren’t reading it correctly. The graph is not implying a causation between religiosity and wealth, merely a correlation. The interesting part of that graph is the high religiosity of the US compared to other wealthy nations.

So basically people who live in the real world where god does not exist make more real money.

This is interesting. Do wealthier nations tend to not be as religious because wealth leads to selfishness, or are poorer nations’ citizens believing in false hope due to their desperate situation?

Is Saudi Arabia off the charts?

well that doesn’t give me a good feeling, thanks

This from the comments…

because those wealthier countries worship money.

In other words.. unless you are US or Kuwaiti, you are either religious or poor… interesting concept….. I have a theory to explain this.. but the Saudis demographics kinda blow it out of the water…. and don’t get me started on some of the other gulf states like Quatar or UAE…

Look again… unless you are US or Kuwaiti, you are either religious or rich

Using Weather Data to Change Your Website’s Appearance through PHP and CSS - CSS-Tricks
Using a little magic and trickery (read: PHP and CSS), we can change the appearance of a website automatically based on the weather outside, in real time! In the example site we have created, the header graphic will change to one of four different styles based on Sunny, Rain, Snow, and Cloudy.

I’ve fancied the header/weather images Dunstan Orchard had on his blog for a long time but outside of sharing the graphics he never gave any sort tutorial on it. I don’t blame him though, I’m sure he put a great bit of work into it. (Click the tab t…
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Trickery to change appearance of site based on weather.

Using a little magic and trickery (read: PHP and CSS), we can change the appearance of a website automatically based on the weather outside, in real time!

como usar el clima para cambiar el look de tu web

Beautiful use of css

how to use css to change your site according to the weather

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The World's 16 Least Inspiring Flags | Cracked.com
Just try and salute one of these monstrosities.

Saint Roch poses with a shepherd’s staff, holding up his clothes to reveal a leg wound, as his dog looks on with a loaf of bread in its mouth. Rather than going through who Saint Roch was, why his cloak is red, what that thing on his staff is, what that shell means o…
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Yay Vexillography!

Pics or they don’t exist.
Seriously though, this article is kind of meaningless without pictures unless you already know all the flags in question.
Also, my 2 cents: NZ, Australia and any other flags with Union Jack in the corner are gay as hell. U.S. flag aint that shit hot visually either.

I think the canadian flag is terrible. I say this as a canadian too.

In Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Flag disgraces you.

This had me cracking up about the Sicilian flag: “If you ain’t had bread from a Gorgon’s asshole, then you ain’t had bread.” that is comedy.

We might as well have a script that auto-submits every Cracked article as soon as it’s posted.

Brings us full circle to Antarctica: “This is the Volga German ASSR.”

Torontoist: The Ones That Mother Gives You
Interesting anti-pharma ads at bus stops in Toronto.

We finally followed a lead from Accordion Guy Joey deVilla’s blog and called up Rob Savage, the director of communications for Colleges Ontario, “an advocacy organization representing the provinces 24 colleges of applied arts and technology.” He told us, “In terms o…
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Interesting anti-pharma ads at bus stops in Toronto.

Ironic username.

What happens if a man chooses to obey though? Is it like divide by zero?

That’s my ultimate goal.

great statement for a pill-popping, ADD selling world.

Atlas, Atlantis. Whatever.

C’mon you know you like the book though, you librarian bastard you.

30 Photos That Inspired Me to Learn Photography
A selection of 10 great photographers, 3 pieces of their work, and an inspiration to learn to shoot great photos for yourself. In a world where everyone can take photos, these are some reasons to take the time to do it right.
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Michael Kenna and Tod Hido were the ones that stood out for me.

My favorite photographer is O. Winston Link: http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/02/19/black-and-white …

Check these out… Amazing colors and light…Ken rockwell rocks!

http://www.kenrockwell.com/trips/2007-10-395/18.ht …

I have a Todd Hido hanging in my bathroom. Sorry Todd, but thats where it works the best.

I have always liked
www.francesjuriansz.com
less uber creative and more geared toward everyday and commercial photography.

against most of them sexist.

horny bastards.

Photography

a flikr slideshow with some context, would be nice….hint, hint…nudge-nudge, wink-wink…say-n’more.

The Most Important Lesson You'll Ever Learn in School
When people are ordered to do something by someone they view in authority, most will obey even when doing so violates their consciences.
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And YOU sir…are a GIANT Buttface!!!

dugg for truth

http://i30.tinypic.com/b4c2g0.jpg Mirror mirror

Lesson #1: learn that you WILL have to kiss ass someday. Lesson #2: You must then learn who’s ass to kiss

Welcome to Duloc
Such a perfect town
Here we have some rules
Let us lay them down

Don’t make waves
Stay in line
And we’ll get along fine
Duloc is a perfect place

Keep your feet off the grass
Shine your shoes
Wipe your……..face
Duloc is
Duloc is
Duloc is a perfect place

I apologize for my ignorance, but I also do not get the last slide. It is also possible that I don’t get the whole strip because of the last slide.

I quite like aesthetics of this comic. The message is good, too.

The fact that I don’t get it make’s all this worse

I call Bullshit. People will respect you more if you shake things up. Try and fail but for gods sakes, try. Who knows, you may succeed.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

Its sad because its true

Learn it well..

The Worlds Most Inspiring and Creative Hotel Rooms
For those who want to make their room an individual piece of art, here are a few examples made by 21 international artists on graphic design, urban art and illustration. From fantastic street art and Japanese Manga to simply spaced out fantasies, you will find flowers, fairy tales, friendly monsters, dreaming creatures, secrets vault and more…

For those who want to make their room an individual piece of art, here are a few examples made by 21 international artists from the fields of graphic design, urban art and illustration. These amazing rooms are from the Fox Hotel ( the former Park Hotel ), that is lo…
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Utter rubbish. Paint some graphics on shitty little rooms and double the rates. Craptaculous!!!!!

Hmm… not really interested in sleeping in what looks like someone’s blog come to life.

I am disgusted by the amount of designs in this article that use the cheesy “target” that is far too common in vector art.

Apparently no one here as been to the Madonna Inn.

http://www.madonnainn.com/tour/index.asp

These rooms would make a nice change from the usual Stained Carpet Room, Leaking Tap Room etc.

None of these are as cool as the rooms as Dream in NYC. Everything is super-modern and bathed in a blue light. My favorite place to stay in NYC - especially with a girl.

http://www.dreamny.com/index01.html

Funky Hotel Rooms - Photos

Spiffy

YouTube - The Little Girl Giant
The little girl giant woke up some morning, got a shower from the Sultans Elephant, and wandered off to play in the park?

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that is some terrifying shit… but I’d still hit it… errr

I’m so sick of this video popping up every month. Please stop it.

That’s disturbing. I thinks I’m gonna have me some nightmares tonight.

ok the music…combined with the constant blinking….and the “little people” dressed alike…here come the nightmares

don’t poop!

Be cooler if it was a robot

On the morning of Sunday 7th May the little girl giant woke up at Horseguards Parade in London, took a shower from the time-traveling elephant and wandered o…

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Israeli woman claims to be world's oldest person | the Daily Mail
A woman has declared herself the oldest living person after her birth certificate was uncovered, showing she is 120. Mariam Amash rises every morning at 5am, walks unaided, and attributes her longevity to a diet rich in vegetables. “I eat, I drink, and I take showers. I hope to keep going for another 10 years,” she said.

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I can believable.

Everybody. When there a virus that kills 95% of the population. Go to this women. Not the really dark guy in the desert

if she had a Gatorade low-calorie hydration drink, I’ll bet she would be better off.

well i sure hope she does shower.
her family sure keeps busy in old boring wherever shes from place.
too many offspring, i guess she wouldn’t mind lending some to the government to be killed.

hahah stop wasting waters with those hot showers

She doesn’t look a day over 104

Marketers Salivate Over Lickable Ads - WSJ.com
Welch’s is taking out full-page print ads in People magazine this month that give readers a chance to sample its grape juice by licking the ad. The front of the advertisement shows a huge bottle of the juice, while the back has a strip that peels up and off, with text that reads: “For a TASTY fact, remove & LICK.”

While scent technology — such as scratch-and-sniff ads or fragrant ink — is commonplace in magazines, lickable ads are still in the experimental stages. CBS was one of the first companies to offer them in a marketing campaign. The network’s flavor strips, which ran…
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Lets hope 2 girls one cup doesn’t get a lickable ad!

Sort of like the time I was advertising my “lickable nads”. Talk about a bunch of stuck-up women!

I have the mag, but there is no removable part

No lawsuits here, move along.

If you’re dumb enough to lick an ad in a magazine set in a public place (doctors offices, etc.) and you get a disease, then maybe you deserve it.

Wow I though this title was about the “ad” we find as the first result when searching “lickable” in google image. Lawsuit and all, got mixed up. I don’t recommend anyone to look at it cause,.. it’s not safe in any situation.

wikileaks.org
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From a press release.

Anyone know how much data we’re talking about here?

Great i