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It’s been awhile since I put together a list of random stuff I’ve found on
the web and cool tips that have made their way into my inbox. So today I’ll try to make
amends with an extra-long list:
Forbes is offering up its take on the Cogent-Sprint peering fight story I broke a few weeks
ago.
It is worth a read.
Yahoo
may have sold Kelkoo off for $57 million, much less than the $126 million sale previously
reported. Damn, they spent $600 million buying France-based Kelkoo in 2004.
Sarah Tavel of Bessemer has some excellent analysis as to how, much in the same way Wal-Mart
and “category killers” like Staples have shuttered mom-and-pop stores, the same is
happening online. Her story,
“The Staples 2.0 Effect,” is one to bookmark.
My friend David Isenberg is ready to rock with the 2009 edition of F2C: Freedom to Connect conference in Washington, D.C., in March
2009.
3G be damned, the wireless industry is printing money with SMS. About $190 billion in 2008,
according to Portio
Research. That number is going to surge to $330 billion by 2013, they say.
There were 174 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names
(TLDs) at the end of the third quarter, up three percent over the second quarter and 19 percent
higher than the same quarter last year. More on the VeriSign web site.
The State of Spam and Internet Security Threats by Messagelabs is available here.
img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/emmajane.png alt= pI've been having some random
problems with my RSS reader, a href=http://liferea.sourceforge.net/Liferea/a. I think it was a
permission problem on the settings folder, but it was enough of an annoyance that I started to set
up the Google Reader for my feeds. But I almost immediately bailed. I didn't like how the
application felt at all. I'm so used Liferea after years of using it that it was hard to switch my
mental model over to quot;this is a Web site.quot; It wasn't just the buttons and the GUI, it was
also how the application worked. In Liferea I know when I'm caught up because the stories stop
coming. The data is downloaded to my machine and I can read it and then it's read. But in Google
Reader the data keeps coming. It reaches further and further into the history of the Web site to
pull more and more stories and it feels as though you will never catch up on the news feed. (Being
able to search for a feed instead of having to know the URL for the feed was, however,
ibrilliant/i.) /p pAs I neared the end of my ten minute foray into using Google Reader I started to
think about why I want my desktop experience to be different from my Web experience. Do I want my
desktop experience to be a Web experience? Have you seen the new a
href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI6Tr0Tz5UgOS/a (links to YouTube demo), a
href=http://www.thinkgos.com/cloud.phpCloud/a (links to site)? (a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOS_(operating_system)More about gOS here/a and a
href=http://www.thinkgos.com/here/a. It's based on Ubuntu.) Your computer as a thin client to the
cloud of applications out there. Brilliant, but also really scary to think that realistically my
data IS actually all out there. (I like to pretend I'm in control at least once a week.) So
although I have switched back to my desktop application, Liferea to keep track of news, I've
started thinking a little bit more about applications and data and access and status. (Have you
watched the Van Jacobson talk yet? He talks about a
href=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840amp;q=engeduaccessing data/a too.)
/p pSo let's look at the quot;statequot; of my computer. A while ago Mark blogged about the new a
href=http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/233user switching status applet thingy/a. Now that
I'm using 8.10, I'm also using this little widget. Was it a
href=http://mjg59.livejournal.com/Matthew/a who was talking about wanting a system that just
iknew/i when he was on a plane and therefore turn off the wireless when booting? (I think so...I
think it was part of the power management talk and how things just ought to know without you having
to tell them.) Regardless of who said it first, quot;statesquot; are definitely of interest. I am
almost finished writing a href=http://safari.oreilly.com/9780137007752Front End Drupal/a (and will
begin the editing process this weekend) but for the last month (or three) I have been almost always
set to quot;awayquot; in a href=http://www.pidgin.im/Pidgin/a (I don't like the red icon for
quot;do not disturbquot;, so I use quot;awayquot; instead). Not because want others to leave me
alone, but because the little clock icon reminds me that I ought to be working. Years ago I had
very interesting conversations with sociologist a
href=http://www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/people/bios/GaleMoore.aspxGale Moore/a about interruption and
instant messaging. And now here I am thinking about how I do, or do not, want to be interrupted.
quot;Statequot; isn't just the status of me or my computer, it is the status of
quot;wequot;...that's me, me and my computer and you and me. /p pThere are currently four states in
the status switching applet:/p ul liOnline/li liAway/li liBusy/li liOffline/li /ul pBut what if I
could define my states? I think my list would look like this (yours would probably be different, we
should be able to define these states):/p ul libSocial/b (all on)/li libWorking/b (please try not
to distract me too much)/li libOn the phone/b (you will not get my full attention)/li libAway/b
(AFK)/li libUnplugged/b (gOS-cloud-esque to optimize for battery power)/li libOffline/b (no
internets)/li /ul pAnd when I switch to different states my whole computer ought to shift with me.
Social, for example, should have Pidgin set to quot;onlinequot;, Liferea open and checking for new
stories, IRC open and sending alerts, and why not have Skype open too because I use that for
specific contacts. Working should set Pidgin to quot;Trying to get the mortgage paidquot;, Liferea
should be disabled. etc. So a state is not just a status, but a whole suite of how I want to be
interrupted and interact with people and my computer./p pWhat are your states?/p
br / bAuthor:/b a href='http://forum.newsbin.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofileu=15190'T_llguy/abr
/br / bPosted:/b Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:14 pmbr /br / br /br / I noticed that until I press clear the
headers are in random order, so when I go from tab to tab I have to keep pressing clear. If there
was a way to do this I would appreciate.br / br / Also when just before pressing clear there are 5
headers showing and press clear orders them and other headers show up.br / br / Thanks for any
help, T_llguy
Estoy leyendo un artículo
muy bueno que trata de explicar lo inexplicable dentro de lo inexplicable y es por qué
unos terroristas musulmanes cuyo objetivo era matar a 5000 personas en Bombay usaron el 20% de
sus recursos para matar a dos personas, un rabino de 28 años y su esposa. Es una historia
muy triste de un antihumanismo y antisemitismo extremo. Pero todo es trágico, los
musulmanes tuvieron muchas más historias de horror ya que 40 de los 173 asesinados por los
terroristas musulmanes eran musulmanes. Lo único positivo fué la respuesta de la
comunidad judía Chebab a la masacre. Esta sugirió responder a actos aleatorios de
violencia “random acts of violence” con actos aleatorios de bondad. También es
importante que la hija de dos años del rabino y su esposa pudo escaparse gracias al valor
de su niñera que salió del centro judío antes de que la encontraran.
Cumplió dos años un día después del asesinato de sus padres.
Statements from Chabad in reaction to the torture-murders of a 28-year-old Chabad rabbi and
his wife called on humanity to react to this evil “with random acts of kindness.” Evil hates goodness.
That’s why the terrorists targeted a Chabad Rabbi and his wife.
Agrego unas
estadísticas. Los cristianos son aproximadamente una de cada 3 personas del planeta.
Los musulmanes son una persona cada 5. Los judíos una persona cada 500 del mundo. En
España hay un judío cada 5000 habitantes. No se cual era el número en India
pero para encontrar judíos en India tuvieron que montar un operativo exclusivo porque de
manera aleatoria no hubieran matado a ninguno ya que casi no hay.
Termino diciendo que no voy a aceptar comentarios que digan que ya que el estado de Israel comete
injusticias que cualquier judío que va por el mundo tiene que saber que lo pueden
asesinar. Así como sería absurdo asesinar a cualquier cristiano por las injusticias
cometidas por algún cristiano o asesinar a cualquier musulmán por las injusticias
cometidas por algún musulmán o para traerlo a España asesinar a vascos por
las injusticias cometidas por algunos vascos no aceptaré comentarios que digan que
está bien matar judíos porque el estado de Israel comete injusticias. Yo estoy a
favor de un Israel con las fronteras del tratado de Oslo al lado de un estado Palestino pero a mi
esos terroristas me matarían igual. Es más una gran cantidad de judíos
super religiosos son
antisionistas. El racismo no tiene explicación salvo en el instinto tribal aún
floreciente entre seres humanos.
Purchasing gifts for a loved one is often difficult, especially
when expectations are high. So, gentlemen - if you’re struggling to find the perfect
present for a significant other, please let me share a story about one of my most
“memorable” gifts.
Back in 2001, my then-boyfriend (now husband) and I had our 1st real Christmas together. Although
it was technically our second time celebrating the holiday, I didn’t really count the
first. Since we had only started dating weeks beforehand, I didn’t anticipate much. But
after a whole year together, I was curious to see how well he knew me. Apparently not as well as
I had hoped.
To be fair, I did receive two gifts that day. The first was a beautiful green necklace.
(Thankfully, it did not come attached to a Benny Bear.) And while I appreciated the tasteful
choice in jewelry, the item was unfortunately not the thing I remember most about that December
25. It was a completely random selection still waiting in the wings: the ice crusher.
An ice crusher that my boyfriend/husband saw in Pottery Barn and thought was “cool”
and “very pretty.“ (Granted - the Metrokane Ice-O-Matic did have a nice art deco
design.) An ice crusher I didn’t know I needed. An ice crusher my husband’s coworker
told him NOT to buy. (She said it wasn’t exactly a “romantic” choice.) An ice
crusher that said “crush my heart” and “ice queen” all at the same
time. An ice crusher that up until last night (when I reminded my spouse of its existence),
hadn’t seen the light of day in years.
So in case you missed the lessons from my cautionary tale, let me list them out for you:
“Pretty” things don’t necessarily make good gifts.
Don’t ever buy your loved one something YOU want.
Products that require manual labor should never be given, unless it’s something they
requested.
If you ask another woman for a second opinion, please heed her advice.
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/annoyatron_v2.jpg" width="400"
height="385" style="display:block;" /You may remember a
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/annoy+a+tron-lose-friends-for-cheap-232824.php"the
original Annoy-a-tron/a, a tiny device designed to annoy the crap out of friends and enemies alike.
Well, now there's the new Annoy-a-tron 2.0, taking the obnoxiousness to new heights./p pThe
Annoy-a-tron is a tiny device that plays annoying sounds at random intervals, perfect for hiding in
your targets office. While the original would just play one annoying sound, the 2.0 version has
five different sounds, allowing you to specifically choose your form of torment. The sounds are:/p
p-15kHz (Mosquito tone) (full volume)br -Cricket chirping (medium/low volume)br -IM Doorbell (low
volume)br -Grating Electronic noise (full volume)br -Typical Electronic Beep (medium volume)/p
pYes, that mosquito tone is the frequency that young people can hear and older people or people
with bad hearing cannot, making it the perfect setting for "annoying" your toddlers when they're
trying to sleep./p pThe tiny device has two magnets on board and a battery that will provide it
with four full weeks of juice, provided you hide it well enough to torture someone for a full
month. [a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/"ThinkGeek/a]/p br style="clear:
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iJ Neurophysiol, Vol. 97, No. 4. (1 April 2007), pp. 2917-2929./ibr /br /We estimated the
frequency-intensity (f-I) curves of P-unit electroreceptors using 4-Hz random amplitude modulations
(RAMs) and using the covariance method (50-Hz RAMs). Both methods showed that P units are linear
encoders of stimulus amplitude with additive noise; the gain of the f-I curve was, on average, 0.32
and 2.38 spikesmiddle dots-1middle dotmicroV-1 for the low- and high-frequency cutoffs,
respectively. There were two sources of apparent noise in the encoding process: the first was the
variability of baseline P-unit discharge and the second was the variation of receptor discharge due
to variability of the stimulus slope independent of its intensity. The covariance method showed
that a linear combination of eigenvectors representing the time-weighted stimulus intensity (E1)
and its derivative (E2) could account for, on average, 92% of the total response variability; E1 by
itself accounted for 76% of the variability. The low gain of the low-frequency f-I curve implies
that detection of small (1 microV) signals would require integration over many receptors ([~]1,200)
and time (200 ms); even then, signals that elicit behavioral responses could not be detected using
rate coding with the estimated gain and noise levels. Weak signals at the limit of behavioral
thresholds could be detected if the animal were able to extract E1 from the population of
responding P units; we propose a tentative mechanism for this operation although there is no
evidence as to whether it is actually implemented in the nervous system of these fish.
10.1152/jn.01243.2006br /iDaniel Gussin, Jan Benda, Leonard Maler/i
It would seem that the Blackberry Storm is so [H] that when you get more than two dozen of them
together at one time they form themselves into a giant [H]. Thanks to Laleet S. and his brother for
todays random [H] sighting!
pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=49375b8b14b9b93000d47baemaxX=334maxY=217" border="0"
alt="times-extra-zoom.gif" title="times-extra-zoom.gif" width="334" height="217" /Another neat tech
offering from the emNew York Times/em: A new edition of its site called TimesExtra, launching
today, which adds related headlines from around the Web directly to its homepage./p pTimesExtra
uses the emTimes/em' Blogrunner tool to add related links to homepage stories, as illustrated at
right. (See below for a screen shot of the whole top section of the homepage. It's not very
intrusive above the fold.) TimesExtra does not turn on automatically. You have to activate it,
which lasts for 24 hours. The next day, you'll need to activate it again./p pThis isn't for
everyone -- we imagine many of the emTimes/em' readers enjoy the editors' edition of the homepage
enough. And we imagine some emTimes/em editors are shuddering at the idea of sharing their precious
real estate with random bloggers. (And we're not sold on the scrollbar interface.) But it will
appeal to some people./p pMoreover, as publishers, we certainly wouldn't mind getting more clicks
in from NYTimes.com readers, and we can't imagine outlets like the emWall Street Journal/em or Fox
News would mind, either. So it's a fairly bold move for the emTimes/em to share its traffic with
competitors like this, even if only a small percentage of readers use it./p pTimesExtra certainly
won't a
href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/reducing-our-offer-for-the-new-york-times-nyt-"save the
emTimes/em (NYT) from its financial crisis/a, but we think it's a smart add-on, like many of the
tech features the company has been working on lately a
href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/whats-next-for-the-nytimes-online-widgets-iphone-apps-apis"under
NYT digital CTO Marc Frons/a./p pimg
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alt="times-extra.jpg" title="times-extra.jpg" width="630" height="418" //p pstrongSee
Also:/strongbr /a
href="../../2008/9/timespeople-the-new-york-times-social-network-launching-tonight"TimesPeople, The
New York Times' Social Network, Launching Tonight/abr /a
href="../../2008/7/whats-next-for-the-nytimes-online-widgets-iphone-apps-apis"What's Next For The
NYTimes Online? Widgets, iPhone Apps, APIs, And More/abr /a
href="../../2008/6/nyt_timespeople_social_network"NYT's "TimesPeople" Social Network: Another Good
Idea From The Times/a/p pa
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Category: Lifestyle
Released: Oct 28, 2008
Price: Free
Description:
This program facilitates the use of the I Ching
(æÂ?Â?ç¶Â?
or the Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese classic text, as an oracle. The book has long been used
as an oracle and many different ways coexist to
�cast�
a reading, i.e., a hexagram, with its dynamic relationship to others. The process of consulting the
book as an oracle involves determining the hexagram by a method of random generation and then
reading the text associated with that hexagram, and is a form of bibliomancy. The program uses the
same method. It simulate the casting of three coins for six times and then determines the
corresponding hexagram. The text related to this hexagram will represent "the Present", the actual
state of the thing. Once a hexagram is determined, each line has been determined as either changing
(old) or unchanging (young). Any line in a hexagram that is old ("changing") adds additional
meaning to that hexagram. Those are "the Mutations", the changes that are happening. Taoist
philosophy holds that powerful yin will eventually turn to yang (and vice versa), so a new hexagram
is formed by transposing each changing yin line with a yang line, and vice versa. Thus, further
insight into the process of change is gained by reading the text of this new hexagram and studying
it as the result of the current change. This second hexagram is "the Future" and represents the
resulting state after the current change. The program will cast a new reading any time you will
launch it. There is no way to "save" a reading, every cast is a single act that should be consumed
on the very moment it happens. This program is part of a series of freeware programs that helps the
I Ching reading for various Operating Systems and platforms, sharing the same engine. You can find
them via the main web site.
Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application
developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.
Category: Lifestyle
Released: Nov 17, 2008
Price: $2.99
Description:
Feeling bored with usual calendar applications? Ever wanted to have something special, exciting,
pleasing, something like a portable wall calendar? The Landscapes Calendar 2009 brings to you 64
high quality landscape views as calendar sheets. 16 thematically arranged photographs per season in
random order lets you discover another secret beauty of the bavarian landscapes each time you dive
into it. Features: - 64 hight quality photographs of one of germanys leading landscape
photo-artist. - An exclusive selection, specially edited for iPhone/iPod Touch. - Position the
calendar with your fingertip. The position will be saved for each image individually. - Have fun
sliding the calendar sheet to advance the calendar. - Best viewed in landscape orientation - The
calendar is not restricted to the year 2009
Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application
developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.
Chopper is an action-packed, side-scrolling helicopter game. Complete your
mission, and return to base, while avoiding enemy fire from tanks, bazooka-wielding mad men, and
jets.
Chopper 1.2 adds ambient sound effects, adds new graphics, contains a completely new sound
engine, and includes four new missions! In 'Beyond The Caves' you fly through tight gaps to
rescue hostages on the other side. 'The Cliffs Have Eyes' plummets you multiple times into
valleys surrounded by cliffs filled with enemy bazooka mad men.
Features:
72 total missions across 3 difficulty levels
Addictive, adrenalin pumping game-play
Beautiful landscapes, weather effects, and explosions
Random elements each time you play
Machine Gun, Bombs, Rockets, Tanks, Jets
Universal Binary
WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.2.2:
Adds new 'More Trees' option.
Fixes bug in texture selection, so that high resolution textures are used on all high end
systems.
12/4/08 - It has been a long time since I last turned more than one creature sideways after
declaring an attack. What? Where did that come from? Pretty random right? Considering that these
are the words leading into an article written by the local Control-Freak, you can see why I
wouldn’t be doing this very often. I mean, there are times that I forget to attack with my
Mutavault when there is clearly no one to block, because I normally don’t declare attacks. I
am parrying them. So why would I be leading into an article like this? ~Chris Newton~
centerimg title="New Super Mario Bros. Board Game" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="New Super Mario Bros.
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pYou know, I'm starting to think that somebody should just take that Princess Peach and lock her up
somewhere to suffer the same fate as Rapunzel. After all, she can't seem to stay away from trouble
- virtually all Mario games see Bowser kidnap the poorly guarded Princess, leaving Mario to take
some time off his plumbing job to rescue a damsel in distress. For those of us who want to
experience a different take of a Mario game, here's the New Super Mario Bros. board game that
features the majority of villans and worlds from the video game alongside some Japanese gadgetry
that requires random chance to progress in the game. You can pick up this living room game for $45
a pop in Japan./p pPermalink: a
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okay so i bought an old power mac g4 off ebay for about $40, the description said it had a 40gb
hard drive, 1gb ram, dvd etc.. with panther preinstalled. I got the mac and all was good, except it
was a 4gb hard drive not a 40gb. the seller apologized and sent a 80gb hard drive in replacement
for the 4gb. he said panther was preinstalled on the 80gb hard drive but it wasnt. when i have this
hard drive in the computer a flashing finder/question mark icon comes up and it does not boot. i
have a copy of osx tiger and i put that in the dvd drive (ive tried leopard too) but for some
reason the machine itself, no matter what hard drive, will never boot from the dvd or cd. i try
holding c, or the cmd key, but nothing. How can i format this hard drive? or better yet fix it, and
if thats not possible. is there a way of transferring all the data (including the OS) from the 4gb
hard drive to the 80gb one?
Also i forgot to add, that i have a old windows machine, and when i put the 80gb hard drive in that
and try to boot from that, it says theres no operating system installed, in addition to that, ive
tried booting my xp disc so that i could format the hard drive, but i always get a random error and
the disc cant boot. its not the disc or the drive, because that works fine with the 4gb hard drive
with panther and the other original hard drive from my windows machine. so if anyone could help me,
thatd be great. thanks!
Motivation: Phosphorylation is a crucial post-translational protein modification
mechanism with important regulatory functions in biological systems. It is catalyzed by a group
of enzymes called kinases, each of which recognizes certain target sites in its substrate
proteins. Several authors have built computational models trained from sets of experimentally
validated phosphorylation sites to predict these target sites for each given kinase. All of these
models suffer from certain limitations, such as the fact that they do not take into account the
dependencies between amino acid motifs within protein sequences in a global fashion.
Results: We propose a novel approach to predict phosphorylation sites from the
protein sequence. The method uses a positive dataset to train a conditional random field (CRF)
model. The negative training dataset is used to specify the decision threshold corresponding to a
desired false positive rate. Application of the method on experimentally verified benchmark
phosphorylation data (Phospho.ELM) shows that it performs well compared to existing methods for
most kinases. This is to our knowledge that the first report of the use of CRFs to predict
post-translational modification sites in protein sequences.
Availability: The source code of the implementation, called CRPhos, is available
from http://www.ptools.ua.ac.be/CRPhos/
Contact: kris.laukens@ua.ac.be
Suplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at
http://www.ptools.ua.ac.be/CRPhos/
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