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dcp "Sunnydale Press" Jan 1, 2008 8:51:42 am PST
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Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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dcp - Jan 17, 2008 3:58:18 pm PST #4420 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
DebetEsse - Jan 17, 2008 4:42:35 pm PST #4421 of 25501
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Thanks.
I'm going to choose to believe that the digital thing is the cover story for a conspiracy...now to figure out that conspiracy it's covering up...
Jon B. - Jan 17, 2008 5:14:53 pm PST #4422 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Well, there's the fact that the government gave away the digital spectrum to existing analog broadcasters. The analog spectrum is being given back to the government who will auction it off. This was a HUGE giveaway to the Telecoms. The government should have instead auctioned off the digital spectrum, allowing the telecoms to sell off the analog frequencies they no longer needed.
Don't even get me started about the whole telecom immunity bullcrap.
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2008 5:16:20 pm PST #4423 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yep, according to Republicans, Welfare is good - as long as it's the corporations getting it....
P.M. Marc - Jan 17, 2008 5:32:08 pm PST #4424 of 25501
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sigh. Anyone have any recs for laptop battery sellers? My beloved ThinkPad Z60t's battery is fading (after less than a year and half of use, though admittedly, pretty heavy daily unplugged use), and I'm leery of shelling out $150 or more for an OEM one.
DCJensen - Jan 17, 2008 7:02:15 pm PST #4425 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
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Liese S. - Jan 17, 2008 7:08:24 pm PST #4426 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My favorite part of that, other than the utter absurdity, is the disclaimer at the end.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2008 7:14:00 pm PST #4427 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Which part of California was it that they were lucky to not set ablaze?
I've always wondered what the people who set off the big fires were doing--I'm assuming it's rarely as big as this.
Liese S. - Jan 18, 2008 6:13:23 am PST #4428 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I was definitely thinking during a part of that, "I hope you're planning on cleaning up after yourselves, young man."
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2008 11:18:11 am PST #4429 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data
Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, [link] will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and first previewed to the scientific community at the Science Foo camp at the Googleplex last August, missed its original launch date this week, but will debut soon.
Building on the company's acquisition of the data visualization technology, Trendalyzer, from the oft-lauded, TED presenting Gapminder team, Google will also be offering algorithms for the examination and probing of the information. The new site will have YouTube-style annotating and commenting features.
The storage would fill a major need for scientists who want to openly share their data, and would allow citizen scientists access to an unprecedented amount of data to explore. For example, two planned datasets are all 120 terabytes of Hubble Space Telescope data and the images from the Archimedes Palimpsest, the 10th century manuscript that inspired the Google dataset storage project.