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- OctaneZ writes "NASA announced that they will enter, in cooperation with Caltech, a 50ft robot in the Rose Bowl Parade - unfortunately it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd. However, they have mounted a camera to it, which will allow you to view the parade from the top of their creation."... |
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- It's time to polish up the crystal ball, gaze through the cloudy skies encircling Redmond and make some Microsoft predictions for the new year. |
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- Microsoft has been slowly but surely deemphasizing its Passport digital-identity service for more than a year. But Passport increasingly is being pigeon-holed as a service for Microsoft properties only. |
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- More than 110,000 people have lost their lives in East Africa and South Asia in the aftermath of the earthquake... |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Ranking: 718, Activity percentile: 95.65%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Download count: 13 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Project description: A Gnutella client for sharing CPU-time and a framework for distributed computing on a P2P grid. We support peaceful and open research and hope to build an internet supercomputer. Right now, we are able to render videos on a cluster of about 10 computers. |
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- Project administrators: akoese, artee, dangermaus, seeschloss, simbasabi, wppetersen |
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- Well, if you believe the likes of Jessie Stricchiola (why by the way has a vested interest in scaring advertisers because Alchemist Media sells click-fraud detection services), it would appear that the advertising world is about to come to an end. At iProceed, we conducted research into the extent of click fraud, and here are our findings: The advertisers would rather not have click fraud in a perfect world but they understand that advertising effectiveness is extremely low in all cases. In fact, in our analysis, we learned that advertisers found text links to have the highest ROI even if one considers the high-end estimate of click fraud (~20%). (Related link: |
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- Although I have been touting the new autoboxing and unboxing feature in Java 2 version 5, I didn't realize how far the language is willing to go with these automatic conversions. The following code doesn't work in version 4: public void setDeposit(Float deposit) { if (deposit > |
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- فرصت خوبی است که راجع به ابهامها و حاشیههای چند نوشتهی اخیرم کمی توضیح بدهم: وبلاگ از زندان منی که تمام عمرم را در ایران زندگی کردهام و فقط دو سال از آن دور بودهام چطور میشود که اوضاع ایران را فراموش کرده باشم. ولی وقتی میبینم که زرافشان و گنجی با شجاعت تمام راه به راه به بیرون از زندان پیغام و نامه میفرستند، چرا دنبال راهی نباشم که این نوشتهها و پیامهایشان ماندگارتر و موثرتر باشند؟ این یک واقعیت است که کسانی که در زندانهای عادی دوران محکومیت خود را طی میکنند، مثل زمان بازجوییشان تحت فشار نیستند و کم و بیش حقوقی مانند بقیهی زندانیها دارند. مسولان زندان هم اصولا نمیتوانند مثل دوران بازجویی آنها را در تنگنا بگذارند و برای همین است که نمیتوانند جلوی پیامها و نامههای زندانیان را به بیرون رسما بگیرند. مشکل زندانیان برای ارتباط با دنیای بیرون این است که هیچ رسانهای از ترس تعطیل شدن جرات انتشار مطالب آنها را از داخل زندان نمیکند. |
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- A fun gathering of listeners calling in and chatting and having a bit of a New Year's Eve party on-air. Thanks everyone for making it an exciting and busy 2004. May we all find peace where we least expect it in 2005... Title=Rant-N-Raving Muffin News, Friday December 31st 2004 - New Year's Eve Artist=Jimbob And Esther Golton Album=Whole Wheat Radio Archives Genre=Comedy Comments=http://www. |
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- I tested five desktop search tools for Slate. If your favorite (X1, Blinkx, Lookout, etc) wasn't in there, it's because we focused on those that are (a) free and (b) being mass-marketed by the big Web portals - AOL, Google, HotBot, Ask Jeeves, and MSN. Yahoo's X1-powered app isn't available yet. |
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- ForeverGeek live up to their name with these easy instructions for speeding up the Firefox browser, but only (as explained in the comments) if you have a fast computer and a broadband connection. Thanks to David Terrell for the link. |
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- Another Clubbo classic from their audio archives: Breaker Bear's 1995 comeback tune Log On, "a big ten-four for the 14.4" Don't miss the authenic modem solo. BONUS: USA Today listed Clubbo as "Best Internet Label" in their year-end music wrapup. |
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- Also from the SF Weekly, a profile of the popular character behind local political blog joefire.com, who passed away over Thanksgiving. "The Web site morphed into something larger than life," Cohen adds. "It's been argued that not many people read his site. But the people who read his site were the people who were running local politics. |
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- Local stuff: A very funny lowbrow parody by the SF Weekly, available as a 4 meg PDF file. Gonzalez is the Democrat-turned-Green candidate who barely lost to Gavin Newsom a year ago. |
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- CNN: U.S. ups tsunami aid from $35 million to $350 million Sen. Patrick Leahy Thursday said the intial U. |
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- Last year I ended up with 30 albums I felt were worth sharing. This year, I only have half of that. Although there were a few things I really enjoyed, I was not as excited by this year's releases. That being said, all of these records below made me extremely happy for a period of time. Instead of giving you a miniature review of each record, I'll just give you links to read about and then buy the album. |
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- Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:00:00 PST |
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- Nathan Fillion posts his belated holiday wishes at the the official Serenity movie site and shares his thoughts on helping the Tsunami victims. (registration is required). |
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- At a time when people are typically celebrating the start of a brand new year, the people of southern Asia and eastern Africa will begin the year 2005 recovering from tragedy and disaster. But even with this bleak picture, an international humanitarian effort ... |
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- Je me permets de vous souhaiter une nouvelle anne, sculpte selon vos gots et vos besoins, dans le respect des diffrences et des liberts d'autrui. Que cette nouvelle anne puisse induire dans votre entourage bonheur et paix. Bonne anne 2005.... |
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- Since I'm going to give a tour of UCLA today, I figure I may as well post a secret treasure map of the university's soft underbelly: the steam tunnels. The sweet adverturous nectar your departmental overlords don't want you to see! Legend has it that the tunnels have been sealed since my conspirators and I last explored them, but I'm sure an enterprising urban adventurer could find her way in. There's all sorts of treasure to be claimed and mysterious chambers to explore, like the Toilet Graveyard, the steam plant, and the Royce Towers (as seen on the seal of... |
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- Hi All, 2004 has been a really good year for Syndic8, and I wanted to take the |
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- Author: portablekitten Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:43 pm (GMT 1) Topic Replies: 12 Kusinagi wrote: |
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- Product : Fedora Core 2 |
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