A common complaint about Linux is that it doesn’t support all hardware. Of course it doesn’t. Neither would Windows if Microsoft had to write drivers for all hardware devices. Most manufacturers still see Linux as too small a market to bother, so writing drivers is often left to users and volunteers, not the hardware vendors. [...]
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Her name was Lola
According to Wikipedia Copacabana may refer to: Copacabana, Bolivia, a town on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Copacabana, a district of Rio de Janeiro, named after the Bolivian town. Copacabana (nightclub), named after the district in Rio. Copacabana (song), by Barry Manilow, named after the nightclub. Copacabana (musical), by Barry Manilow, named after the song. [...]
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I’m PSPACE-complete but I’ll reduce you to 3-SAT
The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not [...]
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Anything for science
Professor Devendra Singh, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas, studied the physical attractiveness of Miss America beauty contestants and Playboy centrefolds over a period of 50 years. I’d really like to see how he formulated that in his research proposal to secure funding.
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Of mice and marketroids
For the past decade or so I’ve maintained that Microsoft should drop their useless software side and focus on what they do best: hardware. I’m having a hard time admitting it, but much of the hardware Microsoft puts out is actually pretty good. I loved the original 1995 Microsoft Natural Keyboard, and their first sausage-shaped [...]
Peace, man
There’s a page discussing the Muslim greeting of “assalaamu alaykum” (peace be upon you). A snippet: There are certain situations under which it is preferable not to offer salaam. These include; when a person is relieving himself, when one is having marital relationship, when someone is sleeping or when in the bathroom. I can think [...]
Check your spelling
I ran into a list of denied Finnish surname change applications. Agape, Agart, Alexzandrowich, Ardin, Axeliin, Axeliini, Axo, Balans, Banderas, Basswood, Bluefild, Campos, Canneliin, Carra, Citronen, Cobra, Corleone, Cristaldi, Cultti, D Arc, Dillinger, d Elèrs, Diezel, Enbäkg, Faithfull, Falkenberger, Falkenbergk, FireIsland, Firèl, Florestan, Fogelgrén, Gansenberger, Garrel, Garré, Gere, Graal, Gramén, Grossbergh, Haffuer, Haze, Heartlove, Hesring, [...]
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One down, way too many to go
I forgot to mention this earlier: An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus’ miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa. Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle, and he attempted it from a beach in Gabon’s capital of Libreville. “He told churchgoers he’d [...]
Father, two sons, and the holy ghost
Doesn’t that sound like an average family? You know how at Christmas when Santa Claus is very busy, he has assistant Santas to help him. In the same way, Jesus will probably be rather busy during the Rapture, what with the sorting of people, so he might need some assistants. For the bloggers covering the [...]