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Train Snow Plowing - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Kirill Petrovsky, scott willeke, Brian Johns and 34 other people liked this
That is AWESOME!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
whoa
- VAL D. Zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Sean O'Connor
wow!
- Susan Beebe
There's a large number of these in Roseville, CA where I grew up. You knew the weather was bad up the hill (towards Truckee and Reno) when these got sent out.
- Neal Krummell
You know weather is bad when one of those can't make it through!
- Gabe
Sean: That's a fixed-blade plow; rotary plows are rare and generally only used when the snow is really high.
- Gabe
Gabe: Yeah, I've never seen one in person, but YouTube has some pretty cool footage of Rotary plows.
- Sean O'Connor
When I first saw the title, I thought of this bit of cold war trivia: http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclo...
- Ray Cromwell
Here's a good video about rotary plows: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Gabe
Putin Performing His Judo - http://2leep.com/news...
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Putin Performing His Judo On Dec 19th Russia’s PM Vladimir Putin had a Judo training session with the students of high sports school in St Petersburg, Russia. He enjoyed with the students with a cup of tea and photo shoot after the training. Here are some of the photos which sho more...
I want to see pics where one of the high school kids beat him! :)
- scott willeke
GPS Podcast 12-27-09 - http://podcasts.cnn.net/cnn...
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Best of GPS. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and a fascinating interview with author Malcolm Gladwell.
GPS Podcast 12-20-09 - http://podcasts.cnn.net/cnn...
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A great interview with inventor and billionaire Nathan Myhrvold. Plus, Vali Nasr on fighting terrorism with capitalism.
Former CTO of Microsoft describes how to combat global warming by pumping sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere with a garden hose.
- scott willeke
Transcript at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCR... , another article w/ video at http://www.techflash.com/seattle...
- scott willeke
Nexus One (aka Google Phone) will cost you $530 - http://gizmodo.com/5436673...
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First Crisp and Clear Video Demo of Google’s Nexus One. 10 Minutes of it. http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Sergey Kapustin
Exclusive: Google Nexus One hands-on, video, and first impressions http://www.engadget.com/2010...
- Sergey Kapustin
If we can't catch a Nigerian with explosives in feminine underpants, whose father alerted the U.S. embassy, whose ticket was bought in cash, who didn’t check bags, whose visa was denied by the UK, who studied in Yemen, whose name was on a watch list, who can we catch? - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
Neşe Uyanık, Mustafa Şenay, Jens Holze and 84 other people liked this
Damn...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
:|
- AJ Batac
Saddam Hussein.
- Cristo
If only he'd been using OpenID with the new 'terrorist' attribute.
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? :)
- Tudor Bosman
wow
- .LAG liked that
Maybe we're not trying to catch terrorists? Maybe we're trying to manufacture excuses to more tightly control US citizens, and terrorism is just the rationalization du jour?
- Mr. Gunn
Mr. Gunn: Space aliens are actually doing the terrorizing in preparation for 2012.
- Christopher A Carr
I second .LAG's "wow"
- Jan Ole Peek
I usually tend more toward the incompetence than conspiracy viewpoint.
- Cristo
We need better spam filters to stop the Nigerians before they ever get through, they're all trouble.
- Jimminy Fuller
Maybe they're thinking if they let one underpants bomber get through, then they have justification to go to war on all underpants.
- Morton Fox
Next, only masculine underpants will be allowed on flights.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Okay, that's it then. No more flying for me.
- Cristo
They're waiting until they fileshare. Once these guys fileshare, they're toast.
- Spidra Webster
exactly! ... this was, again, inside operation - the guy was just let go /aided even/ to board that plane. ..the good thing is, that unlike 9/11, inside job was set up so that no fatalities occur - bomb did not explode. i like that ... http://krunchd.com/inside , http://WorldNewsRecord.wordpress.com , http://Twitter.com/911news , http://Friendfeed.com/911news
- Petr Buben
Petr: While I'm sure it, in a strange way, comforts you to think there a Grand Order behind all things -- a Big Conspiracy to rule them all -- that's really not the reality. Human brains are exceedingly good at recognizing patterns, but sometimes this capacity is hyperactive (as in your case). If you think the Virgin Mary appears to us in common objects, your brain will construct Virgin Mary visages on burnt toast. And you ascribe way too much competence to human organizations.
- Christopher A Carr
I read this week that the two most important changes to airline security since 9/11 are re-enforced cockpit doors and that now passengers know to fight back. Who knows how many plans have been thwarted by the first, and between 1 and 3 have been thwarted by the second (depending how you count it: Flight 93, the shoe bomber, and the underwear bomber).
- Kevin Fox
I'm with you Cristo....heavy on the incompetence.
- Bonnie Foster
Never attribute to conspiracy that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
- Joel Webber
from BuddyFeed
wow
- ★ Soner Gönül
sublata causa tollitur morbus
- A.T.
*remove the cause - sickness will go away itself* - old medical proverb (yes, in Latin)
- A.T.
if people can crash a White House party and it goes on and on
- VAL D. Zone
And yet we have no problem putting 12 year old girls on the no-fly list because of a name match ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-k... ). The people working at the TSA are clearly fast-food burn-outs. At what point do we, as citizens, stop putting up with this tomfoolery?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I'm not convinced this can adequately be explained by incompetence. I don't know that there was a conspiracy, but I can't dismiss the possibility given the depth of incompetence required. Assuming conspiracies never happen is as mindless as assuming everything is conspiracy.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce: And now they want to form a union...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
It *is* pretty interesting that people bitch about too much airport security until there's a thwarted bombing, then they say there's never been enough.
- Kevin Fox
I'm not complaining about there being too much, Kevin, just that there isn't any effective.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Anyone know the names of the companies who are making whole body scanners? I think I need to buy some stock.
- Victor Ganata
Try Skynet, Victor...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Victor: http://www.cyberware.com/
- Rochelle
Kevin - There's a reason for the "no getting up last hour" rule, and it's not to prevent a terrorist from going to the bathroom. It's to prevent innocent people with headscarves from being tackled by well-meaning but jittery passengers.
- Mr. Gunn
As I understand the TSA strategy, it involves catching anyone who tries to do something that has already been tried. In other words, we're preparing for the previous "war" rather than the next one.
- Mark It's 2000-Oh-1-Oh J
In other words, the TSA strategy = FAIL.
- Victor Ganata
Seriously. An amazingly _expensive_ FAIL. All that time, people-power, money spent, so we can hear platitudes about why it did not work or that there are things that can be improved.
- Rick Cogley
Three hours delay at Paris CDG for this the following day on-route to Detroit. Most of this spent in the queue at the departure gate as they had only one male and one female officer to carry out an intensive search of 300 pax and their carry-ons. Explanations from Air France were very sparse, fortunately I'd caught all the details on Sky News at Manchester.
- Nick B.
@Chris..No, I do not think there is one big conspiracy, and that all is conspiracy. Let's please stick to FACTS and lets debate that. ok? (1). Detroit bomber was on a Britain 'no-entry' radical Islamist list. IF THIS will not hint CIA FBI DHS TSA to not only not to allow this guy in the US, BUT ALSO to search him down while boarding, then I DO NOT believe it was complete imbecile fail...
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- Petr Buben
@Chris.. further, please understand, that nanothermite high military explosive was found on the site of WTC controlled demolition inside operation pretext for wars, just as pools of molten steel. please understand that buildings were PULVERIZED with the speed close to free fall, 11 floors per second .... NoT possible other than masterpiece controlled demolition, per irrefutable scientific evidence .... i mean, have seen the video footage? http://ae911truth.org
- Petr Buben
HOW do you colonize countries in the age of airplanes as suicide weapons, of people willing to die in a suicide and terror act to resist occupations, in the age of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons? ....these wars are a big mistake .. http://krunchd.com/911 pretext for wars
- Petr Buben
Person of the Decade?! - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Well deserved Dave, sort of obvious I might add...but no amount of labeling can recognize the daily contributions you make to advance our collective understanding..thanks!
- Mahesh CR
At least a geek is in there :)
- scott willeke
TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive - http://www.wired.com/threatl...
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Gotta love the TSA (or else!) "The two agents who visited him arrived around 7 p.m. Tuesday, were armed and threatened him with a criminal search warrant if he didn’t provide the name of his source. They also threatened to get him fired from his KLM job and indicated they could get him designated a security risk, which would make it difficult for him to travel and do his job. “They were indicating there would be significant ramifications if I didn’t cooperate,” said Frischling, who was home alone with his three children when the agents arrived. “It’s not hard to intimidate someone when they’re holding a 3-year-old [child] in their hands. My wife works at night. I go to jail, and my kids are here with nobody.”"
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
how crazy is the TSA for doing this - don't they realize that Bush is no longer in the whitehouse and they don't have a executive cover now? (and that is probably the first and last political statement I make here)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
the bomber was classified as a security risk too... this guy's got nothing to worry about.
- Jim: Now With Caffeine
Bear, all evidence from the past year shows that they *do* still have executive cover. :(
- Michael R. Bernstein
And the ridiculous thing is that they're always trying to stop the last attack! What good is that ever going to do?
- Gabe
FastFlow [Università di Pisa e Torino] - http://calvados.di.unipi.it/dokuwik...
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"Fastflow is a parallel programming framework for multi-core platforms based upon non-blocking lock-free/fence-free synchronization mechanisms. The framework is composed of a stack of layers that progressively abstracts out the programming of shared-memory parallel applications. The goal of the stack is twofold: to ease the development of applications and make them very fast and scalable. Fastflow is particularly targeted to the development of streaming applications."
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
How does this compare to OpenCL or CUDA?
- Ray Cromwell
Haven't tried it yet, the details elude me this late at night. "Fastflow is specifically designed for cache-coherent multiprocessors, and in particular commodity homogenous multi-core (e.g. Intel core, AMD K10, …). It supports multiprocessors exploiting any memory consistency, including very weak consistency models. As we shall see, Fastflow implementation is always lock-free, and for...
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- Jim Norris
With Nexus One, Is Google Eating Its Own Dogfood Or Its Own Children? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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I never liked the expression "eat your own dogfood". It seems to imply that what you make isn't fit for humans.
- April Russo (app103)
If it's an alpha version it usually isint.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Alphas are restricted to my own desktop. Yes, I eat my own cooking, but I still won't call it dogfood. Betas get distributed to friends and family for awhile. Only after it passes full idiot testing with the bunch of AOL housewives I know. does it get to have the beta label removed.
- April Russo (app103)
"AOL housewives" ROFL.....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Oh, you have no idea. It's one of the reasons why my applications are so easy to understand, without ever reading the readme file.
- April Russo (app103)
Craziest Police Car Chase Ever - http://2leep.com/news...
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Craziest Police Car Chase Ever Crazy and funny police chase happened in Orange County, California more...
13,000 people think Facebook is going to start charging in 2009. Please DO NOT invite these folks to FriendFeed. Idiots.
Daniel Rowley, Paolo Rossi, Olivier Brisson and 52 other people liked this
It's just a hype; I think every service got this stuff. Wait a few weeks, maybe month, and nobody remembers. I've seen this in ICQ over a decade ago.
- Uwe Schwarz
Uwe: yeah, I just think it's funny that some people will believe the lamest crap just because it's on the Internet.
- Robert Scoble
I just remember "Wag The Dog": "the war is over, I've seen it on TV". Same story, many people just believe instead of asking.
- Uwe Schwarz
You can count me in for not inviting them over here!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Robert these 13000 people would not know what to do on Friendfeed and leave in less than 5 minutes of signing up.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
this isn't the first or the last group like it, it's a good indicator of which of your friends are morons.
- Richard Lawler
Eldon: I hope I don't have that many idiots following me. :-)
- Robert Scoble
How about emails like these: "Bill Gates/Nokia/whatever will donate <something>, if this message is sent to 1000000 people". When I get something like this from some friend, I get disappointed on him/her...
- Jemm
there are 100 of these groups each week... everyone ignores them (well everyone important anyway ;))
- Thomas
Funny thing is - facebook is probably worth $3.99. Although I notice the French says $3.99 per month which would be a bit steep.
- Matthew Neale
but wait, i thought hotmail was closing the free service unless 2 million people add group Z ?
- Matt Randles
These groups are as old as Facebook itself. All they do is prove: heavy Facebook users = lemmings. :p
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I love you, Robert!
- Ladybug Heather
Wow, now it's at 18,000.
- Michelle Martinez
There will always be a VIP group of sorts... back when Facebook started it looked like early adaptors were joining over there. Then came Twitter, now Friendfeed. If Friendfeed gets too mainstream (if that's possible) I'm wondering what's next.
- David Bisset (sn)
Why would they do that? They are already getting tons of money from sponsors and advertisers. Duh!
- Shevonne
@David: In the Web 2.0 world, there's bound to be something new and already in the works. I wonder what it is too, but I'd be surprised if it's not currently under construction, or even ready to launch.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I wouldn't call them idiots. If they believe it, they believe it. So if it happens are the non-believers idiots? Hmmm
- Bwana ☠
:/... I doubt it will happen. They get enough money from advertising surely.
- ralphsaunders
This was the funniest quote I've seen microblogged in a while! Of course how many of these people use to (or still do) pay for Classmates or Reunion, so naturally they believe this garbage.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Reminds me of the false rumors a few years ago about AOL, Yahoo, and MS planning to charge for email to eliminate spam. Move on - nothing to see here.
- Mike Doeff
It's already 39,265 members in that certain group…
- Daniel Schildt
One thing to notice in this compared to older rumors is the amount of speed people notice it.
- Daniel Schildt
I might join and post something saying "Suckas!"
- Shevonne
40,000 now. Wow. I kind of enjoy the silly little worries of people.
- Daniel Zarick
wow. morons. Everybody knows that friendfeed's not gonna start charging until 2010!
- Jim: Now With Caffeine
@Jim - Facebook
- Shevonne
Shevonne... yes, I know. I was referring to Scoble's original post where he urged us not to invite them over here.
- Jim: Now With Caffeine
@Jim - We should. We would probably scare them from ever using the Internet. hahaha
- Shevonne
Shevonne -- good point.
- Jim: Now With Caffeine
These are the same idiots who are worried about being charged per email. I don't think they'd know what to do with friendfeed even if they were invited.
- Mr. Gunn
I wonder how many are over the age 0f 17. How many of voting age are in the group of 13,000.
- Franklin Pettit
I swear that first sentence just made my blood pressure shoot up 20 points. The second sentence rapidly lowered it. I have a few people added who unfortunately take everything forwarded to them as fact. They will never get an invite. This is my hideout from the people who shouldn't be allowed online.
- ilene
Chris, the group is not about pro features. They claim there will be NO free access to FB after Dec 31. Quite a different thing...
- Ray Metzen
And the group has 56,000 members now! Amazing... :(
- Ray Metzen
More than ever… 91,481 members at the moment of writing.
- Daniel Schildt
LOL, yes! Go go go!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Amen
- Tyler (Chacha)
Hmm... I'm not sure which disappoints me more... People being overly anxious over the idea that Facebook will supposedly be charged for use. (This evidentially isn’t true) Or the knowledge that a number of people I don't care to count are here on FriendFeed discussing those that have joined groups concerning Facebook fees as if they are second class citizens. Take a good look at...
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- Jamie Howlett
12 Photos of the Incredible Real-Life Invisible Ma - http://2leep.com/news...
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12 Photos of the Incredible Real-Life Invisible Ma Like something straight out of a science-fiction film, the actual 'invisible man' is amazing! more...
The Master, The Expert, The Programmer - http://zedshaw.com/essays...
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"What I notice is that my peers are progressing to more and more complicated and convoluted designs. They are impressed with the flashiest APIs, the biggest buzzwords, and the most intricate of useless features. They are more than happy to write endless unit tests to test their endless refactoring all the while claiming that they follow XP’s “the simplest thing that works” mantra. I’ve actually seen a guy take a single class that did nothing more than encapsulate the addition of two strings, and somehow “refactor” it to be four classes and two interfaces. How is this improving things? How can more somehow equal simpler? This should never be the case. These are the actions of an expert. These experts are very smart, capable, and skilled, but they are too busy impressing everyone to realize that their actions are only making things worse for themselves. In the end all of their impressive designs are doing nothing but making more work for themselves and everyone around them. It’s as if...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This applies to experts in any field.
- WorldofHiglet
It takes smart people to make complicated things simple.
- imabonehead
Is it possible he's talking about Java programmers?
- Gabe
i really liked this post (it resonated with me) until the end, at which point i felt alienated.
- Neha Narula
I'm a big fan of keeping it simple, but some problems do require a thorough approach.
- Andrew C
"In contrast there are masters in the martial arts who learned their art as a means of survival and became masters in a realistic and hostile environment. We don't have anyone like this in the programming profession, " ... what about Carmack and Abrash & co?
- Andrew C
BTW, I dunno if this is what put Neha off, but it almost sounds like Shaw wants to deny the reality of a nice O(n log n) solution beating out an O(n^2) solution (assuming small k, whatever) on a problem of decent size.
- Andrew C
I mean, the stories of the martial arts masters may involve simple-looking moves, but they are also (in the stories) _perfectly_ executed, the product of careful observation of one's opponent and expert timing and precise angles. You might be able to pare down a simple linked list to the bare essentials, but I don't think it's quite analogous to not using a more complex structure _where appropriate_.
- Andrew C
Nice... "The main thing I noticed about the experts I’ve encountered is they are into impressing you with their abilities. They are usually incredibly good, but their need for recognition gets in the way of mastery. Everything they do is an attempt to prove themselves and in order to do this they must perform like an actor on stage. There’s nothing wrong with this, and I don’t think the...
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- Ken Sheppardson
Andrew: Maybe the point was that an Expert would say "Aha! You need to keep these items in order, so a self-balancing tree is the perfect solution.", while a Master would say "Ah, but you never have more than 5 items, so a linked-list will always be faster!"
- Gabe
this part, so much guy/son stuff! i dislike superfluous interfaces as much as anybody else: “There was this guy I worked with who once optimized a complicated red- black tree getting 300% performance boost. I was baffled and ask, 'How’d you do that? That’s impossible.’ To which he responded…” “'That’s my linked list my son.’”
- Neha Narula
This is the kind of crap that gives java such a bad image. It used to be that people used it for what it was -- a simple OO language with garbage collection and a fast VM. Now you have architecture astronauts going off the deep end and making everyone assume the language has to be that way. I believe this disease stems from people who focus more on the process than on the product of their work. That's a recipe for disaster in my book.
- Joel Webber
from BuddyFeed
The impulse is good, but people have such different senses of what is simple, what has quality, what flows with the Tao. It's like beauty that way. What the story doesn't say is the 300% performance boost was on a limited test data set, in the real world it performed 3x worse and all the complexity had a reason that made sense once you "know." :-)
- Todd Hoff
Complexity that's "there for a reason" is the worst kind. But who even talks about red-black trees vs linked lists? TreeMap vs LinkedList isn't the issue, interface swaddling and hyperfine dependency injection is the issue. Thing is, fights are decisively won, but code maintainability is much harder to measure, and even the importance of performance can be disputed.
- ⓞnor
from Android
I find it funny how the article, while praising simple approach, suffers from superfluity of language.
- andrei_c
egnor: unnecessarily so.
- Neha Narula
Neha, I thought the final "That's my linked list my son" was to make clear the parallel with the earlier quote "That was my foot my son" from Mestre Bimba.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Todd: Imagine the situation where you are storing data for the US Census, and need to keep track of the people in a household by age. Since it's sorted and unbounded (there's no maximum number of children a family can have), you can easily think that a nice O(n lg n) algorithm that keeps a balanced binary tree is the right way to go. However, if you bother to look at the data, you'd see...
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- Gabe
I wish I could "Like" this article again :)
- scott willeke
might have created a "MEGA-liked" button:)
- alex melnikov
Love this article.
- Mon Geslani
It's a great analogy, but in reality, the martial arts stuff is mythology. Wing Chun proponents often talk about simplicity of the art, but they'd get their butts kicked in a sloppy street fight because invariably, most real world fights are messy, quickly go to the ground, and result in grappling and choking and eye gouging. Bullshido has lots of examples of this. The 80 year old guy...
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- Ray Cromwell
ru_designer: Вы слышите меня, бандерлоги? - http://community.livejournal.com/ru_desi...
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"Рекламная кампания зоопарка Копенгагена (Дания)."
- Michael Yakovis
from Bookmarklet
а под питерским снежком он бы смотрелся очень грустно, скорее как реклама WWF
- Танюша
@tatireti сегодня с коллегами как раз обсуждали эту работу, мне представился образ: печальный заснеженный и очень грязный удав, нанесенный на какой-нибудь дряхлый автобус, пердящий в пробке на Стачек. в окнах видны плотно набитые серые лица, как бы удушаемые заснеженным удавом.
- kenest
Плотно набитые серые лица (с). Удав бы символизировал не столько зоопарк, сколько бюрократическую систему управления городом, не способную хоть какую-то часть денег не спиздить, простите, а направить в нужную сторону для финансирования нужно собственно города.
- Танюша
социалка про коррупцию :) впрочем, непонятно, каков месседж тогда.
- kenest
ну то есть как - каков месседж? как обычно. "Предлагаю сбросить жадных гидр империализма! и выбрать новых."
- Танюша
Russia could further lower key lending rate by yearend - http://rss.feedsportal.com/c...
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Soyuz craft successfully docks with space station for 6-month mission - http://rt.com/Top_New...
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The Soyuz space rocket, which blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday, has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
Russia Receiving SU-32/34 Long-Range Strike Fighters - http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/russia-...
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It is also a design success, with a basic airframe whose characteristics absorbed lessons from all of America's "teen series fighters" to produce a 4+ generation aircraft that remains the yardstick by which others still measure themselves.
Hey White House, where's our broadband stimulus money? - http://arstechnica.com/telecom...
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In previous social and economic crises, we waited for Lefty, then for Godot. Now we're waiting for government broadband money. As the holidays approach, broadband developers and policy folk everywhere are wondering when the White House's $7.2 billion stimulus package is really truly going to kick in, and there's some disappointment with the process being vetted.
Comcast settles P2P throttling class-action for $16 million - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
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Comcast has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the throttling of P2P connections that had users up in arms in late 2007 and 2008. The company still stands behind its controversial methods for "managing" network traffic, but claims that it wants to "avoid a potentially lengthy and distracting legal dispute that would serve no useful purpose." It was more than two years ago when Comcast subscribers began finding evidence that the broadband provider was blocking packets—particularly those being sent through BitTorrent. When the complaints mounted, the Associated Press went ahead with its own investigation and came to the same conclusion: downloads through BitTorrent were either being blocked altogether or being slowed down significantly.
Mozilla Messaging building nest for Thunderbird 3.1 - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
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Mozilla Messaging, the Mozilla subsidiary behind the Thunderbird project, has revealed a preliminary roadmap proposal for the next major version of the open source e-mail client. The developers could potentially adopt a more incremental development model with shorter release cycles. According to a new proposed schedule that has been published in the Mozilla wiki, Thunderbird 3.1 is tentatively planned for release in April. The new version will include an updated Gecko engine and some features that weren't quite ready for the 3.0 release. The roadmap states that large and disruptive changes will be avoided during this development cycle.
Open is in the eye of the beholder. (Scripting News). http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Open is in the eye of the beholder - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Atsushi Enomoto: Mono WCF Advent Day 7: Moonlight - http://veritas-vos-liberabit.com/monogat...
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Our WCF is ready in Moonlight 2.0. It provides Silverlight 2.0 compatibility, and filling 3.0 support should be almost easy (we need to implement things like CookieContainer support etc.). Actually our WCF stack has been improved a lot by the moonlight effort (the team gave several bug reports). I haven't explained how to prepare Moonlight environment. Theis a wiki page for instructions I linked above (I assume it will be frequently updated, so I'm not going to give the anchor to the build instruction section now). Also, when creating moonlight apps, make sure you have 'moonlight-web-devel' package (in case it is available in your distro) or some sort of equivalents (e.g. "MoonSDK") installed and set up. Some notes WCF in .NET and WCF in Moonlight are significantly different. We have almost feature complete WCF in Moonlight, while we lack a lot of features in .NET WCF. In WCF only BasicHttpBinding is supported in System.ServiceModel.dll (as Silverlight does). As I mentioned on Day 5,...
How To Handle Angry Callers in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps - http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news...
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When I was first in technical phone support for the software I was building, I found out that I wasn't exactly a... um... "natural" at putting customers at ease. I used the following information from an AT&T magazine (I was working for a AT&T VAR at the time) in the fall of 1992 to start my education: Don't react. Stay calm. When confronted with an irate caller, everyone has the urge to return fire. But don't fight back. And don't take it personally, or you'll become an emotional basket case. Keep relaxed by breathing deeply. And remind yourself that this discussion will not change the destiny of mankind. Let them vent. Remember, you simply cannot get customers to deal with the logic of a situation until you've dealt with their emotions. Trying to attack the problem before people have fully vented their anger or disappointment just won't work. Defusing the anger. When a tirade is winding down, try asking - sincerely - "Is there anything else?" By this point, they're usually exhausted...
Stead Defines 'Customer' - http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news...
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And here's one more from the paper file I'm putting into electronic format to reduce the pile of papers in my life: During the all-associate broadcast, Jerre Stead shared with the team a memo another associate had sent about defining a customer. Here are the highlights: Customers are individual companies with unique needs. Customers are struggling with their competitors for success. Customers are people with feelings and opinions, therefore relationships and experiences matter. Customers will judge us by our performance, not by our words. Customers are influenced by every contact with us, each and every day. Customer "Must Not's" We must not import our products or ideas on customers. We must not ask customers to deal with people who cannot make decisions. We must not make customers wrestle with our bureaucracy. We must not allow any question, issue or awkwardness go unattended or unresolved. We must never unpleasantly surprise our customer. We must never, never take a customer for...
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ffsms: (now, released for USA) Send Your FriendFeed Posts via SMS! Sign up, get your PIN and post to FF from your mobile phone. It is FREE! #ffsms Try it now: - http://ffsms.com/
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Users from the USA can use our new project "ffsms": ffsms is the first FriendFeed service brings you ability of posting to FriendFeed via SMS. After its pre-release in Turkey, it is available for you! You'll just pay for a standart SMS. Try it now! (Feedback: http://friendfeed.com/ffsms)
- Alp
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Kol, you're too fast!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
congrugulations. :) i have used it in Turkey. It was fantastic. :)
- Onur Şentüre
Alp, who are you using to provide SMS functionality here in the U.S. ?
- Carter Rabasa
Carter, we use services of Zeep.
- Alp
Alp çok iyi işler çıkarıyorsun :) helal olsun
- Mert
Alp, will MMS work and attach files/photos?
- chrisofspades
@chris, no that is just for raw text.
- Alp
(in Canada, so can't try it) but this is fantastic for Turkey and the US - great job Alp!
- Micah Wittman
Micah, I think it may work for Canada but will charge extra fee. btw thanks, help spreadin'! :)
- Alp
Well done Alp :)
- Hamdi Kavak
That's great!
- . -
it's working perfectly. way to go! =)
- Elif Crt
Hayırlı olsun!! Keep up the good work, guys :)
- directeur
E süpermiş bu :)
- Onur Gündüz
When's it coming to the UK? ;)
- Nicholas James
Nicholas, I'm not sure about it. Most probably in a few weeks, it seems nobody wants to use this in the US, so maybe we will never launch for UK. Even Turkish people are using it a lot but American friends haven't liked it. We included launching for Iran in our plans.
- Alp
I read that as FFS MS rather than FF SMS - I liked mine more ;-)
- Graeme Spice
Thanks, Alp.
- Micah Wittman
Oh, you're welcome :)
- Alp
Thanks for the update Alp
- Nicholas James
That's great! Now I'll just wait till they have it in the Netherlands as well - or move to the states, whichever comes first ;)
- James Kuypers
@James I've no idea about how many of FriendFeed users are from Netherlands or other European countries. I think Russia and UK are the at the 1st and 2nd place about FriendFeed usage. Do you have any idea?
- Alp
and Canada?
- Zachary TG
It maybe launched soon.
- Alp
great idea...i also hope it will launched in Italy very soon! :-D
- bevero
"1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15, y0u r34||y n33d 70 637 |41d."
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lol The last 2 words took me forever to figure out!
- Heather
Nice - very nice.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
I know.
- Parth Awasthi
I can, and I do. :(
- Derrick
hehe happily married and could :-)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
took me a second with the last 2 words too.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I was the other day. ;)
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Done and done. :)
- Ayşe E.
This has gotten harder to read since the last time I read it. -_-
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Thanks for the reminder.
- Michael Hocter
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