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I want to see this comedy forum ...

Thanks i can use some more sprite sheets too add to my colection n_n

well I believe that mental illnesses are hereditary, my friends mom has Bipolar disorder, and my friend has it too. but in some cases it may skip a generation, my grandma has OCD, my mom doesn't, but I do... see what I mean? so the mental illness that are passed on may affect the choice of someone wanting to commit suicide or not it just depends on how much of the mental illness was passed to them.

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»Microsoft Buys Tellme

Microsoft sure does love voice recognition software companies. <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-6167422.html">They purchased Tellme for nearly $1 billion (est)</a>. Microsoft cannot 'innovate' without buying other companies.

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Although Microsoft did not disclose how much it is spending to buy Tellme, it is one of its biggest purchases in years. Several media outlets estimated the deal at $800 million, while one Wall Street analyst claimed the purchase price topped $1 billion. Microsoft's bets on the potential of voice recognition go well beyond Tellme. The company has spent years building its own voice interface into products like Windows and Exchange Server. Speech recognition has also been a longtime priority for Microsoft's research unit. Kai-Fu Lee, the Chinese executive whose departure for Google sparked a multiple-state legal battle, is among those who have focused on voice recognition work at the company.

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Sounds pretty good. Got a bit of metal to it.

thanks ive been going crazy trying to find one

I haven't found any information on how to perform this. What games are you playing that require that much juice?

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Not at all.

The 'leader' was some dude called "The WRAITH!!!!"

I want to see this eventually. And the older one.

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I hate the PS3, but Sony is on to something.

Look at Second Life.

I'd have to agree.

That's pretty sweet.

Wow, that's interesting.

Nice. xD

Viacom has filed a $1 Billion lawsuit agianst YouTube, and Google due to copyright infringement...

http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/commentary/mediabiz/index.htm?postversion=2007031413

Jason would be great in this movie... Although, he is a bit too over the top, and perhaps he would not fit, as Hitman has always been a stealthy game.

Can you imagine how much money our gov't would save by switching to Linux? We could afford at least 3 more Iraq wars!

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What is troubling is that the administration said it was a success that no one "meant" to break the law but did so accidentally. I think that is called a failure in my book.

Yeah and I'm totally sure these incidents were accidents. FBI agents just can't be bothered to get a silly little thing like a warrant. @_@

I'm thinking in these cases they abused Patriot Act to get information in ways that a judge would never approve of. Like finding out the new address their ex-wife moved to from a credit card company so they can teach a lesson to her new husband.

This sounds completely plausable.

Noticed that I failed to actually post the image:

After some snooping, I'm thinking it is an AGP 1.5v.

I noticed that autoupdates kills my laptop and stops networking from running for about 3 minutes on startup. I finally killed the security center and that wasn't a problem anymore.

I hate to say this... but since you are already running on 2003... ISA Server will do exactly what you requested.

I would suggest the program Process Explorer by SysInternals to provide more reliable information and allow you to kill tasks off easier and find out exact paths to where a program is running from.

In addition to this, this app also has a great feature which is it allows you to search for what task is currently using a file. If you ever get a 'Cannot delete this file, it is in use by another program.' warning, this tool can help you find it immediately. Great for finding ActiveX/DLL based spyware that is linked directly into Internet Explorer or Explorer.exe

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Meat-loving calf eats chickens
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070307/od_nm/india_cow_dc

This is excellent! I particularly liked the comment: "The local vets said the cow was probably suffering from a disease but others said Lal was a tiger in his previous birth." It's amazing how some superstitions surface when confronted to unusual events, and how people's mind goes into overdrive. This reminds me of a Gary Larson cartoon where you see how to thwart a vampire cow by shaking a piece of beef at it!

Do meat-eating bovines fart less, though? Feeding them chicken may help reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses.

A recent study has demonstrated that some people are more willing to take an immediate, more intense pain than have to wait longer for a milder one. The feeling developed during the wait for the impending discomfort that people are dreading is more closely related to pain than to fear or anxiety. Think about it next time you go to the dentist's and sit thoughtfully in the waiting room before getting 'tortured'...

Read more at Scientific American

Before falling into a coma or losing all decision-making abilities, very few people sign what is known as an “advance directive”, which specifies what type of medical care they would prefer. Doctors must then rely on the decision that relatives and loved ones make on their behalf. If a simple formula could predict how these patients would want to be treated in dire medical situations as accurately as their loved ones could, then computers may one day be able to assist the surrogate decision-makers to better assess the wishes of people in a coma or with severely impaired mental abilities.

A study designed to estimate how accurately the wishes of these patients can be predicted was run by a team of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Another aim of the study was to determine how this accuracy could be improved, as surrogate decision-makers had previously been shown to be right in only 68% of the cases. A parallel study of the information collected by pollsters and scientists about the attitudes towards medical care held by the general US population showed that, should there be at least a 1% chance of full recovery, people would want to be treated, whereas they would prefer to die if this chance was below 1%. Using this information and a new, easier to understand questionnaire, it was found that surrogates predicted the patient’s wishes with an increased accuracy of 78%.

A computer algorithm could then be designed, taking into account not only the chances of full recovery, but also the ethnic and cultural characteristics of the patient and relatives, with data on medical preferences collected on a much wider scale. Such a tool would certainly relieve some of the pressure on those who have to make a decision on whether or not a life support machine should remain switched on.

Obviously, a delicate question of ethics is raised. As a computer is not able to make life-or-death decisions, it should simply assist but not replace the human element in this extremely subtle equation.

Original Article: How Should Treatment Decisions Be Made for Incapacitated Patients, and Why?

LiVES is a pretty simple audio and video editing program as is Kino. But they're small potatoes and old news (how many bad metaphors can I use here?) compared to Cinelerra.

What has happened to Phil Collins? I haven't heard anything about him lately. I also preferred when Phil Collins was in the band. I haven't heard anything about this renioun. Would be a good one to see.

Has anybody seen The Trailer Park Boys movie?

I hear Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson plays a cop, which should be amusing considering his problem with the cops in Florida.

I meant pleasantly surprised. BTW I love Linux. I hope more and more people starts using Linux and still Linux remain safe like it is today.