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Sandy Jones (tattoo artist), and Priyanka Dhanda (Sourceforge programmer). She's grinning, too, but she's not the one getting poked with high-speed needles!
Just some stuff I saw on the ground Saturday. The single objects near a crack or line reminded me of the "/." used in some computer languages.
RAW is very ill, as you may have heard: slashdot.org/articles/06/10/04/0213218.shtml
He was running out of rent money, but fans all over the net raised money for him.
Genuine pope:
www.principiadiscordia.com/book/43.php
See the fnords!
So I walk in yesterday into the honors physics lab and BAM!!! NEW IMAC G5s?! DO THEY EVEN NEED THIS?
so now, not only will our future physicists be able to run IGOR, Mathematica, and IP while the prof is talking, they can read slashdot and watch flash videos and terrify each other with hi res pictures of goatse!
"A couple of weeks ago, there was a nutty idea discussed in The Independent that claimed the electromagnetic radiation from cell phones was causing bees to become disoriented, preventing them from returning to the hive. The flimsy cell phone argument was used to explain Colony Collapse Disorder. Today the LA Times reports that researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered what they believe to be the real culprit: a parasitic fungus. Other researchers said Wednesday that they too had found the fungus, a single-celled parasite called Nosema ceranae, in affected hives from around the country."
Screenshot of the footer on a weblog entry that was linked from the front page of Digg recently.
I get it. Del.icio.us is cool, and it's cool to have a button for it. Digg is cool, and it's cool to have a button for that too. And Reddit. And StumbleUpon. And Slashdot. And, uh, DZone? And Fleck, and Furl? And Scuttle, and Taggly, and Spurl?
Is it just me, or is the cutesy icon thing beginning to reach a point of diminishing returns, vis-a-vis actually being useful?
I'm getting my nerd on today, thanks to FGR.
I'm reading Slashdot and fixin' to reply to an article called "Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote". I must say, the outcome wasn't very mixed at all. If you read the replies to the comments though, you'd realize that mentioning any challenge to the religion called Darwinism is like poking a stick in an anthill.
I also must say, that if you don't read Slashdot—or even know what "slashdot" means—you are NOT a nerd and clearly not a geek. You're just a sorry, pathetic nerd-poser.
A bingo sheet for all those threads on Macworld, Gizmodo, Engadget, YouTube, PC World, Slashdot, Digg, Reddit and every other computer-related website that has a comment section or a forum. I tried to be even-handed here with the stereotypical Mac, Windows and Linux comments, even though I do have a fairly strong preference for the Mac platform.
Saturday December 31st, 2011
Being New Year's Eve, Kathryn and I had a very brief celebration tonight. As in, we opened a bottle of Patritti (sparkling, non-alcoholic grape juice, see www.patritti.com.au) to share. Then we went to bed. It might have been almost 11:30 before we were in bed, although we hoped and planned for it to be earlier.
Kathryn had some things to do with the baby (I think), so I took my glass, the rest of the bottle, my camera and my flash into the kitchen, to try and have a play with the bubbles and Patritti.
I found the 'IKEA' brand at the bottom of the glass quite interesting - 365+. I think it's meant to indicate that their products are for everyday use. But it was fitting that this was indeed the 365th day of the year (unless you live in Samoa - news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/30/1810227/samoa-and-tokela...). New Year's has never really been much of a big deal to me - it's just another one of those 365 days (or 366 in 2012). It is an opportunity to reflect on the past year, and look forward to the coming year, but I see no reason not to do that more regularly anyway.
I do recall one time I had a New Year's resolution that was very beneficial to me and that I actually stuck to. So that was good!
But today I am grateful for everyday. Each one being a new beginning and a new opportunity to do more and be better.
I remembered his name from articles such as this one where he is vilified for his legal shenanigans in fighting violence in video games and media
L to R: Major Nelson (moderator, Microsoft), Chris Grant (Joystiq), Godfree (Gamertag Radio), Ashley Jenkins (Ubisoft), Michael Zenke (Slashdot.Games).
December 8, 2000: Bourbon Street
Brian was in New Orleans for LISA 2000. LISA stands for Large Installation Systems Administration.
TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007
"... The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages ... TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007! ..."
Ho hum. Python has been a pretty useful language for a lot longer than the title suggests. [0] Is it just me or do lists like this one reek and makes me think this is the kind of "language-popularity" graphy PHB"'s look at to start new projects.
Read "Being popular" [1] to gain a different perspective on how language popularity has nothing to do with how useful a language is to hackers.
some time later ...
"... Even hackers like to have handy libs, and those are more likely to exist for more things, the more people use the language. ..."
That could explain the popularity of 'c'. Something written in 'c' can be used just about everywhere. One of the reasons I despise Java & C#. Not because they are bad languages. Because they don't share very well.
"... That said, this is old news in any case, and my own site, www.langpop.com does a better job of aggregating more data sources:-) ..."
Looks like your have been thinking about this a lot deeper. Do you supply the data? One other minor quibble the x-axes graph titles are hard to read. What graphing lib are you using?
some time later
"... I remember using Google back in 1997 or 1998 when it was hosted off of stanford.edu and receiving occasional Python error messages ..."
You have a better memory than me "gunga din". I remember using google when it was at stanford via slashdot [0] though I don't remember seeing errors. Looks like python was used at google from the start.
Reference
[0] Here is the graph of popularity ~ www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Python.html At what stage did google decided to adopt python?
[1] www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
[2] web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/www.google.com/
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I drew this back in 1979 (long before computer graphics), got the idea after reading an abstract about asteroid retrieval in a NASA publication. I had this book with a cool pic of an eagle and drew this (with obvious influence from Robert McCall). This is a copy of a copy (looking for the original). There was some tracing, literal cut and paste (can see the lines).
Fast forward to 21st century when on April 24, 2012, "Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids" tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/21/229248/billionaires-and-...
The asteroid retrieval report can be found at ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790024063...
Retrieval of Asteroidal Materials [1979]
BRIAN O'LEARY, MICHAEL 1. GAFFEY, DAVID 1. ROSS, and ROBERT SALKELD
Earlier scenarios for mass-driver retrieval of asteroidal materials have been tested and refined after new data were considered on mass-driver performance, favorable delta-V opportunities to Earth-approaching asteroids with gravity assists, designs for mining equipment, opportunities for processing volatiles and free metals at the asteroid, mission scenarios, and parametric studies of the most significant variables. We conclude that the asteroid-retrieval option is competitive with the retrieval of lunar materials for space manufacturing, while a carbonaceous object would provide a
distinctive advantage over the Earth as a source of consumables and raw materials for biomass in space settlements during the 1990's. We recommend immediate studies on asteroid-retrieval mission opportunities, an increased search and followup program, precursor missions, trade-offs with the Moon and Earth as sources of materials, and supporting technology.
Amazon homepage (and all other pages) down! While they may not be selling at their record-breaking 32 items per second pace, this is surely an expensive problem to be having inthe middle of the workday.
After reading an article on Slashdot about CodeWeavers "porting" Google Chrome over to OS X, I decided to try it out myself.
Finally got my hands on some sweet Chrome action... without any sweet OS X bells and whistles. Ugh.
See the blog post for more info: LinuxWorld 2006
This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you use this photo, please list the photo credit as "Scott Beale / Laughing Squid" and link the credit to laughingsquid.com.
This image was used to discuss the alleged "AOL E-Mail Tax" on my blog entry regarding 19 Moments of Online Protests
and a lot of tech talks. External speakers so far:
- Jeff Powers (Occipital)
- Mark Ramm (TurboGears)
- Andrew Turner (Mapufacture)
- Jonathan Cohen (Sony Imageworks, NVIDIA Research)
- David Ward (Red Hat / JBoss)
- Jose Nazario (Arbor Networks)
- Scott Collins (Slashdot, Mozilla, Qt)
- Eric Kustarz (Sun Microsystems)
- Jeremy Linden (Cataphora)
it held up well considering we haven't configured rails to only create sessions when needed.
Slashdot doubled our page view from 20k a day to 40k a day
This picture was in the Lincoln Journal Star on July 13th 2008 in the Hometown Nebraska section (Page 4c), written by Jack McKee. The title: O Street's ever-changing course through history. This photo looks east on O street from about 8th street at the razing of the 1894 viaduct over the railroad yards before construction of the Harris Overpass, which now has met the same fate and is being replaced with the third bridge over Lincoln's rail yard.
I've scanned the article and located it Here.
This is a 7 meg png file so it may take awhile to load.
Also, there's a larger version of the scanned photo from the paper Here
This image/pun occurred to me last weekend and, against my better judgement, I couldn't get rid of it.
See the blog post for more info: LinuxWorld 2006
This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you use this photo, please list the photo credit as "Scott Beale / Laughing Squid" and link the credit to laughingsquid.com.
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