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2005-10-05T20:40:36 Ning and Yang
- What if creating your very own Craigslist or Flickr was as simple as point and click. Ning aims to make it happen. This new social networking toolkit from Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreesson offers easy ways to mix and mash...
What if creating your very own Craigslist or Flickr was as simple as point and click. Ning aims to make it happen. This new social networking toolkit from Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreesson offers easy ways to mix and mash the building blocks of Web 2.0 - discussion, rating, list, photo and file sharing, map, people matching etc. functionality. In beta. Get in line for the developers kit.
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2005-10-05T16:01:08 Vitruvian Newton
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Hardware, Odds and ends, Portables
Noted Newton evangelist Grant Hutchinson has found what Newton-wielding geeks like me would consider a great historical image -- an X-ray of a Newton Messagepad's inner workings. He's posted an artificially colored portion of the image on his blog, and a much larger, annotated black and white version on his Flickr account. As Grant notes, "It's partly an exercise in technical documentation, but it's also pure,
green-bleeding geekiness. Come on, admit it... you would've done the
same thing." Yes, I would. Check it out.
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2005-10-05T16:01:08 Could this be the iPod video?
Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Rumors
Engadget has a grainy, blurry, distorted yet all-too-mouth-watering photo of what could either be the "iPod video," set to be announced at Apple's Oct. 12th "One More Thing" event, or it could simply be the next Photoshop gag which we're merely helping to propogate.
Since a movie theater curtain adorns the invitations Apple sent out, one can only dream.
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Wi-Fi Networking News
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2005-10-05T20:28:51 At Long Last, 802.11e Ratified
- The quality of service (QoS) standard for improving voice, streaming data is out the door: The news that it was approved for publication in late September seems to have eluded most of us who cover the industry. A subset of 802.11e has already been released by the Wi-Fi Alliance as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), a set of extensions that helped voice applications. The full specification defines four queues that determine packet priority. The article quotes a SpectraLink executive who says the default priority is voice, video, best-effort, and background. Devices transmitting packets must mark the packets with this priority information....
- The quality of service (QoS) standard for improving voice, streaming data is out the door: The news that it was approved for publication in late September seems to have eluded most of us who cover the industry. A subset of 802.11e has already been released by the Wi-Fi Alliance as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), a set of extensions that helped voice applications. The full specification defines four queues that determine packet priority. The article quotes a SpectraLink executive who says the default priority is voice, video, best-effort, and background. Devices transmitting packets must mark the packets with this priority information....
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2005-10-05T20:28:51 iBahn Adds 802.1X
- iBahn says that they're the first to put 802.1X across their whole hotspot network: But T-Mobile rolled out 802.1X in the form of WPA Enterprise quite a while ago. I'm not sure why iBahn is maintaining this because when I spoke to the company's CEO in July for some background on their then-new WPA Enterprise effort, I didn't think there was a dispute that T-Mobile had rolled out 802.1X network-wide. iBahn's approach is, by the way, not "WPA" but WPA Enterprise. WPA Enterprise uses 802.1X to allow unique logins that are assigned unique encryption keys. The company didn't want to say WPA Enterprise when I interviewed them in July because it's a little unwieldly. T-Mobile's head and iBahn both agree that a better rubric is needed to make 802.1X and WPA Enterprise more understandable in the way that Wi-Fi signifies so much, so clearly. iBahn spent a million dollars upgrading their network. I know that T-Mobile's costs were lower because their gear already supported multiple virtual SSIDs on the same AP; iBahn needed to swap out early gear, it seems. They operate 900 hotspots with up to 80 access points in each location as they serve the hotel market. This line in the story doesn't make sense to me: "WPA, and its successor WPA2, distribute different keys to individual users, and will also shut down if an attack is detected." First, as noted above, this is WPA and WPA2 Enterprise, but this isn't an integral part of the standard. Perhaps iBahn is running intrusion-detection software?...
- iBahn says that they're the first to put 802.1X across their whole hotspot network: But T-Mobile rolled out 802.1X in the form of WPA Enterprise quite a while ago. I'm not sure why iBahn is maintaining this because when I spoke to the company's CEO in July for some background on their then-new WPA Enterprise effort, I didn't think there was a dispute that T-Mobile had rolled out 802.1X network-wide. iBahn's approach is, by the way, not "WPA" but WPA Enterprise. WPA Enterprise uses 802.1X to allow unique logins that are assigned unique encryption keys. The company didn't want to say WPA Enterprise when I interviewed them in July because it's a little unwieldly. T-Mobile's head and iBahn both agree that a better rubric is needed to make 802.1X and WPA Enterprise more understandable in the way that Wi-Fi signifies so much, so clearly. iBahn spent a million dollars upgrading their network. I know that T-Mobile's costs were lower because their gear already supported multiple virtual SSIDs on the same AP; iBahn needed to swap out early gear, it seems. They operate 900 hotspots with up to 80 access points in each location as they serve the hotel market. This line in the story doesn't make sense to me: "WPA, and its successor WPA2, distribute different keys to individual users, and will also shut down if an attack is detected." First, as noted above, this is WPA and WPA2 Enterprise, but this isn't an integral part of the standard. Perhaps iBahn is running intrusion-detection software?...
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2005-10-05T20:18:08 Comment on Singularity draft review by: Anonymous
By the way, I’d like to make one other comment. This one regarding the whole “point out other things in life that aren’t speeding up dramatically”.
Isn’t that just a big non-sequitur?
I don’t recall Kurzweil making any claims about things like that in the book. He’s not claiming your traffic jams will clear up, your car speeds will increase exponentially, etc.
He’s making claims about carefully selected fields, which DO show the exponetial growth, which DO have an explainable basis as to why they will continue growing, and which DO contribute significantly to showing how they could combine into a Singularity event.
Bringing in other stuff is just avoiding the issue in my opinion. It’d be nice if we could stick to the book’s ideas and hypothesis instead of rigging up straw men to attack.
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2005-10-05T19:27:34 Anatomy of Electromagnetic Zero Point Energy
The essence of indestructible life as a part of integrated consciousness – the singularity.
The physical Universe as we know is an illusion – a function of time dimension which makes it seem real but actually is virtual or unreal.
Quantum physics predicts the existence of an underlying sea of zero-point ...
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2005-10-05T19:23:17 Comment on Singularity draft review by: Jake
sorry for the petty ad hominem that really has nothing to do with your very nice review.
also, I forgot to add a link.
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2005-10-05T19:19:47 Anatomy of Electromagnetic Zero Point Energy
The essence of indestructible life as a part of integrated consciousness – the singularity.
The physical Universe as we know is an illusion – a function of time dimension which makes it seem real but actually is virtual or unreal.
Quantum physics predicts the existence of an underlying sea of zero-point energy at every point in the universe. This is different from the cosmic microwave background and is also referred to as the electromagnetic quantum vacuum since it is the lowest state of otherwise empty space. This energy is so enormous that most physicists believe that even though zero-point energy seems to be an inescapable consequence of elementary quantum theory.
It is real energy which we cannot directly sense since it is the same everywhere, even inside our bodies and measuring devices. From this perspective, the ordinary world of matter and energy is like foam atop the quantum vacuum sea.
The physical Universe is the temporary illusion. What is real behind all these is the essence of indestructible life as a part of integrated consciousness – the singularity.
There is a force associated with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum: the Casimir force. This force is an attraction between parallel metallic plates that has now been well measured and can be attributed to a minutely tiny imbalance in the zero-point energy in the cavity between versus the region outside the plates.
This is the essence of Zero Point Energy. All energy in the Physical and other Universes and the Hyperspace exists in the form of Zero Point Energy (ZPE). Other forms of energy are really illusions in the Physical Universe. Eventually it is the manifestation of the ZPE.
Quantum physics predicts that all of space must be filled with electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations (also called the zero-point field) creating a universal sea of zero-point energy. The density of this energy depends critically on where in frequency the zero-point fluctuations cease. Since space itself is thought to break up into a kind of quantum foam at a tiny distance scale called the Planck scale (10-33 cm), it is argued that the zero point fluctuations must cease at a corresponding Planck frequency (1043 Hz). If that were the case, the zero-point energy density would be 110 orders of magnitude greater than the radiant energy at the center of the Sun.
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2005-10-05T19:19:14 Comment on Singularity draft review by: Graham Heffern
Those of us whose lives are centred on computers and the Internet have experienced recent decades as periods of unprecedently rapid technological advance. Yet outside this narrow sector the pace of technological change has slowed to a crawl, in some cases failing even to keep pace with growth in population. The average American spends more time in the car, just to cover the basic tasks of shopping and getting to work, than was needed a generation ago, and in many cases, travels more slowly.
Is it just me or is this wrong? Not so much in the facts but in the way of looking at it. Hasnt the average car gone up in efficiency that is derived soley from technological advances?
This efficiency generally goes towards faster and bigger, then safer and more gas milage but from my eyes i still can picture singularity type growth rates in design and development of cars. Even more so in the future as IT spreads more pervasively into that industry.
Also as far as time it takes to travel to do various task. That seems almost entirely limited by human norms or limitations. As IT technology improves and spreads to cars and roads and such perhaps we will see gains in this area as the human equation is taken out and most of the functions of transportation are automated.
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2005-10-05T19:18:45 Comment on Singularity draft review by: Jake
Kurzweil:
Giant squids are wondrous sociable creatures with eyes similar in structure to humans (which is surprising given their very different phylogeny) and possessing a complex nervous system. A few fortunate human scientists have developed relationships with these clever cephalopods.
whah?
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2005-10-05T18:26:14 On the Singularity and progress:
Over at Crooked Timber, John Quiggen notes:This is part of a more general paradox, only partially recognised by the prophets of the Singularity. Those of us whose lives are centred on computers and the Internet have experienced recent decades as periods of unprecedently rapid technological advance. Yet outside this narrow sector the pace of technological change has slowed to a crawl, in some
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2005-10-05T17:57:31 Comment on Singularity draft review by: Daniel
only comments would be 1) I wouldn’t bother to go out of your way to credit me for that joke; consider it covered by a public domain licence. and also when you say “functional emulation of human brains” what weight does “functional” carry? I seem to remember that functionalism is a quite controversial position in philosophy of mind and you might want to stay out of those trenches.
cheers
dd
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2005-10-05T17:52:50 Comment on Singularity draft review by: Antoni Jaume
“Surely the religious viewpoint …” means all religion holds the same point of view, and that’s not so. Soru should write “maybe some religious viewpoint …”
DSW
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2005-10-05T17:48:41 Comment on Singularity draft review by: Jeremy Osner
I regularly see fresh apples in our stores that purport to be from New Zealand.
And the kicker is they’re not particularly good, certainly nowhere near as good as the fresh apples available from just up the road in NYS, which take way less techbnology to transport.
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2005-10-05T14:31:57 Eliezer S. Yudkowsky über Ray Kurzweil
Gefunden auf aiplayground.org
Was mich am Rande der Diskussion über das neue Kurzweil Buchs ‘The Singularity is Near’ nicht überrascht hat ist das sich Kurzweils Buch wohl zu weit in den Mainstream gewagt hat. Eliezer S. Yudkowsky der Gründer des ‘Singularity Institut for Artifical Intelligence’ jedenfalls schreibt dazu in SL4 :
What I fear is a world in which people hear about the Singularity and use it to rationalize whatever they were already doing. What I fear is a world in which Kurzweil, as the first presenter of the Singularity meme, inadvertantly inoculates his audience with the idea that we can derive comfort from the Singularity concept without *doing* anything to achieve the actual Singularity. If this happens, spreading the word about the Singularity will do nothing to achieve the humanistic goal that is the Singularity itself, and the people who insist that the Singularity is a religion will be right.
Mit anderen Worten .. die Leute könnten denken, das jetzt die richtige Zeit ist sich hinzusetzen, die Chips rauszuholen und den Fernseher anzustellen, denn die Show würde von ganz alleine abgehen. Die ganze Singularität klingt anscheinend in dem Buch nur nach der Fortsetzung unserer bisherigen Wissenschaft und nicht nach einem elementaren Durchbruch den die Menschen bewusst und selbstständig durchführen müssen. Nebenbei kritisiert Yudkowsky in dem Vorrangegangenen Beitrag das Kurzweil zu denken scheint, das es unnötig sei das Wesen der Intelligenz zu verstehen um künstliche Intelligenz entstehen zu lassen.
Im Grunde genommen ist aber genau diese Ansicht die, die ich an dem ‘Singularity Institut for Artifical Intelligence’ für falsch halte. Dort glaubt man nämlich mit Hilfe eines Samens den grössten Teil der künstlichen Inteligenz sich selbst erschaffen zu lassen. Genau dieses Gedanke das es leichter sei einen Samen zu erschaffen, als eine ganze Pflanze ist aber Absurd, da die Pflanze ja bekanntlich im Samen ‘enthalten’ ist. Vieleicht habe ich Yudkowsky aber auch falsch verstanden und er meint wie ich, das es unumgänglich ist das Wesen der Intelligenz zu verstehen bevor man sie künstlich schaffen kann. Es ist keineswegs Abwegig etwas zu erschaffen ohne es zu verstehen ein gutes Beispiel ist die Klimaentwicklung, aber bei der künstlichen Inteligenz will es mir so nicht in den Kopf.
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2005-10-05T13:19:59 So How Come Siri Bercakap Dengan Jin oleh Tamar Jalis is Not in the List then?
- Ok, I was asked by Jenab to do this. Not like she tagged me exactly but I think it will be cool to see how many books I've actually read. Oh, yes, to you nimbus out there... I'm sure you already have a list of books I've supposedly have read, hmm ? Good for you, onward!
Oh, Jenab was tagged by babe for this...
The rules are as follows:
- Bold the ones that you've read
- Italicise the ones you started but did not finish
- Add three books (that you have read) to the list
Note: Books that you have read do not include blurbs on the inside/back covers or reviews and / or movie adaptations of the books.
001. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
002. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
003. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
004. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
005. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
006. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
007. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
008. 1984, George Orwell
009. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
010. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
011. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
012. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
013. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
014. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
015. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
016. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
017. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
018. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
019. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
020. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
021. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
022. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
023. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
024. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
025. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
026. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
027. Middlemarch, George Eliot0
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
029. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
030. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
031. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
032. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
033. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
034. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
035. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
036. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
037. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
038. Persuasion, Jane Austen
039. Dune, Frank Herbert
040. Emma, Jane Austen
041. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
042. Watership Down, Richard Adams
043. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
044. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
045. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
046. Animal Farm, George Orwell
047. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
048. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
049. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
050. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
051. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
052. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
053. The Stand, Stephen King
054. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
055. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
056. The BFG, Roald Dahl
057. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
058. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
059. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
060. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ß I think I had to read this for my Jurisprudence (or was Criminal Law?) subject. Bleargh.
061. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
062. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
063. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
064. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
065. Mort, Terry Pratchett
066. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
067. The Magus, John Fowles
068. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
069. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
070. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
071. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
072. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
073. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
074. Matilda, Roald Dahl
075. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
076. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
077. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
078. Ulysses, James Joyce
079. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
080. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
081. The Twits, Roald Dahl
082. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
083. Holes, Louis Sachar
084. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
085. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
086. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
087. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
088. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbns
089. Magician, Raymond E Feist
090. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
091. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
092. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
093. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
094. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
095. Katherine, Anya Seton
096. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
097. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
098. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
099. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dah
l178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery *in French! Nonetheless*
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike *I had two copies of this book - both stolen*
355. The Divine Comedy, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
374. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
375. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb
376. number9dream, David Mitchell
377. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
378. Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
379. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
380. Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
381. Dance On My Grave, Aidan Chambers
382. Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Leguin
383. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
384. Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
385. Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett'
386. To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
387. A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
388. The Egyptian, Mika Waltari
389. Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry
390. Contact, Carl Sagan391. Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
392. Feersum Endjinn, Iain M. Banks
393. The Golden, Lucius Shepard
394. Decamerone, Boccaccio
395. Birdy, William Wharton
396. The Red Tent, Anita Diaman
397. The Foundation, Isaac Asimov
398. Il Principe, Machiavelli
399. Post Office, Charles Bukowski
400. Macht und Rebel, Abu Rasul
401. Grass, Sheri S. Tepper
402. The Long Walk, Richard Bachman
403. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
404. The Joy Of Work, Scott Adams
405. Romeo, Elise Title
406. The Ninth Gate, Arturo Perez-Reverte
407. Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
408. Dead Famous, Ben Elton
409. Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley
410. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol4
411. Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks
412. The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
413. Branded, Alissa Quart
414. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
415. Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
416. White teeth, Zadie Smith
417. Under the bell jar, Sylvia Plath
418. The little prince of Belleville, Calixthe Beyala
419. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
420. A King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
421. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
422. Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Peter Kropotkin
423. Hija de la Fortuna, Isabel Allende
424. Retrato en Sepia, Isabel Allende
425. Villette, Charlotte Brontë
426. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
427. Ubik, Philip K. Dick
428. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
429. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
430. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
431. Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre
432. The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
433. The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
434. The Angel Of The West Window, Gustav Meyrink
435. A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
436. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
437. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
438. In the Eyes of Mr. Fury, Philip Ridley
439. Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
440. Into the Forest, Jean Hegland4
41. Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
442. The Giving Tree -Shel Silverstein
443. Go Ask Alice -Anonymous
444. Waiting For Godot, Samuel Becket
445. Blankets, Craig Thompson
446. The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing, Melissa Banks
447. Voice of the Fire, Alan Moore
448. The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
449. Coraline, Neil Gaiman
450. The Circus of Dr. Lao, Charles G. Finney
451. Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
452. John Lennon: The Lost Weekend, by May Pang and Henry Edwards
453. A Long Fatal Love Chase, Lousia May Alcott
454. Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
455. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Trumate Capote
456. Skinny Legs And All, Tom Robbins
457. Written On The Body, Jeanette Winterson
458. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
459. The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
460. Glory Season, David Brin
461. The Steel Bonnets, George McDonald Fraser
462. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
463. My Dateless Diary: An American Journey, RK Narayan
464. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
465. Notes from the Big Country, Bill Bryson
466. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
467. Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris.
468. Undead and Unwed - Mary Janice Davidson
469. Undead and Unemployed - Mary Janice Davidson
470. Metro Girl - Janet Evonovich
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2005-10-05T17:54:18 Answers to Ask Simon #1
Thanks for the impressive feedback to the first installment of
Ask Simon
. I tried to answer the questions to the best of my abilities. I also tried to not give you some marketing bullshit. Please tell me how I performed in this regard ;-)So here are the questions and answers:
An anonymous reader asks:
Why is the time between releases so long? Why can't there be some minor point releases on a more regular basis?
There are several reasons for the long time between releases.
- First of all we had a huge code rewrite shortly after 0.2 was released. This will definitely benefit us in the long-term, but we also still see regressions from the behaviour in 0.2. And of course we don't want to ship releases which are worse than the release before.
- We have always been pretty short in terms of developer manpower. A lot of people offer support, but very few really live up to their promises.
An anonymous reader also asks:
Can calendar sharing happen over a LAN without the need for a WebDAV server? I can do this in 0.2 by using file://calender.ics
This should be possible with current trunk nightlies.
djc asks:
What are the plans for Sunbird on XULRunner? Does it work already? If so, how do I do it?
Sunbird does not run on XULRunner at the moment. But there are plans to move to XULRunner, probably shortly after Firefox makes the switch.
Claude Fortier asks:
I wanted to know what is the current status of Calendar/Sunbird sync with Palm or other handheld. Thanks! BTW, is there any third party solution to sync with Calendar/Sunbird?
The current status is, that we do not have this feature. But our new backend will make it much easier to do synchronisation, so if someone steps up, we would greatly welcome him/her. I'm sorry, but I haven't followed the status of 3rd party sync solutions. So I can't really answer this question.
An anonymous reader asks:
When will it be able to fully replace the Outlook calendar?
I really don't know when, but it will take some time.
Another anonymous reader asks:
How many developers works on Sunbird/Lightning?
Currently Dan Mosedale, Joey Minta, Michiel van Leeuwen and gekacheka do most of the work. There have been major contributions from Stuart Parmenter, Vladimir Vukicevic and Mike Shaver in the past. But those three have moved on to other projects.
Of course we also get various code and QA contributions from other people and we're very grateful for that.
Another anonymous reader asks:
When will the 0.3 release be out?
When it is ready.
Peter asks:
Sometimes I feel, that the Mozilla Foundation turns it attention to much on firefox. Thunderbird etc. gets a raw deal here. Do you share this opinion?
No. The development resources of the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation are limited and it is the natural choice to put most of your manpower and energy into your flagship product, which is Firefox. We're very grateful for all the help we get
from MoFo/MoCo, for example the tinderboxes, the build infrastructure, the FTP server space, the bug database or the website hosting.
Another anonymous reader asks:
What are the attempts of mozilla foundation to recruite developers for sunbird/lightning? Do they do some marketing in order to recruite more developers for these projects?
I know of no direct attempts of the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation to recruit developers for Sunbird or Lightning. We're on our own there. I also know of no marketing activities directed specifically towards Sunbird or Lightning.
Let me add, that I don't think that big marketing activities like the SpreadFirefox initiative would be good for the Sunbird or Lightning project at this point of time. There's a reason that Sunbird is only at 0.2. We're not ready for primetime just yet and Lightning does not have one public release out in the open.
Jens asks:
Are there any plans to support SyncML-synchronization?
I know of no current plans from any developer to work specifically on SyncML synchronization. But of course we would be willing to take this feature, if someone comes along and develops it.
Christian Schmidt asks:
I work in a small company (15 employees). We recently all converted to calendars saved in iCal-format on a WebDAV server. People use Sunbird and Calendar. Adding other people's calendars is a bit complicated for end-users. When a new employee
starts in the company, every user have to add the new employee's calendar file to their own application.
Will there be some kind of mechanism in Sunbird/Calendar/Lightning that would allow the users to somehow subscribe to a calendar collection that can be updated in a central place?
Sorry, but I'm not qualified to know whether something like this is possible with our codebase. But of course we would be willing to take this feature, if someone comes along and develops it.
Another anonymous reader asks:
Will mouse scrollwheel use be posible in 0.3? I am used to using the scrollwheel when using Outlook and get frustrated not being able to scroll up or down a week of two without navigating over and clicking buttons in Sunbird 0.2.
You can use the scrollwheel in the day view or in the event overview. It does not work in the multiweek or the month view. Hopefully this will be fixed soon after the release of 0.3alpha1.
Bloom and an anonymous reader both ask basically the same thing:
What plans has the community about Mozilla Calendar, when new version is planned to be released?
Is there a intention to do a XPI release of Calendar for Seamonkey 1.0? If so, when?
We hope to release a new version about the time when we release Sunbird 0.3alpha1.
Michael Richter asks:
As I understand it, even though Calendar, Sunbird and Lightning are no high priority projects for the foundation, the Thunderbird folks are very interested in them, because especially buisness users need calendar functionality in their mail program. Do you believe, mofo will increase it's support for these projects in the future (perhaps, when revenue from moco comes in)?
I believe most of the devs working on calendar etc. are being paid by third partys. Do you know, who is being paid for his work on it and if yes, for how many hours per week?
Of course we hope that someday we might get more support from the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation in terms of paid developers, but if this will happen and when that could happen is not something I'd like to speculate about, because if I know if and when that would happen, I would probably also be able to guess the right numbers for the lottery :-)
At the moment I know of only one of our developers (Dan Mosedale) who gets paid (fulltime or parttime I'm not sure) to work on Lightning and Sunbird.
Another anonymous reader asks:
Do you guys get paid? Because you should! I use Sunbird and I love it!
Most of us don't get paid for our work on Sunbird. Thanks for your kind words.
OJ asks:
Does sunbird have a update-Feature for external calendars? I know you can reload them manually and they are reloaded at every start. but how about a
Reload every x minutes
? If it gets changed on the server, you dont know it until the next start.Such a feature is definitely planned for the future.
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2005-10-05T16:01:59 Solving the window.onload problem
An issue since virtually the first days of JavaScript has been the behavior of the window.onLoad event. When a page has images (or worse, externally-hosted ads) the event isn’t triggered until all of them are loaded.
Dean Edwards has found a solution: his approach uses separate methods to handle IE and Mozilla browsers. In a turnabout of typical browser behavior, IE supports an attribute that is part of the HTML standard, while Mozilla requires an undocumented feature. Be sure to read the comments on Dean’s post since there are a few quirks with this technique, and some commenters have suggested ways to get Safari to work as well.[via Simon]
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