Randomness Redefined

It’s tough to feel warm and fuzzy about an infinitely dense object that holds light hostage, a dead star that would rip your feet from your head if you came within a few thousand miles of it. But, new research suggests they are triggers for galaxy development – nurturing nannies for star systems.

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Gates conceded that MS has made mistakes, including picking the wrong people to lead certain efforts. He also said Google has “done a great job on search and what they’ve done with advertising.” But, “We will keep them honest, in the sense of being able to do better in a number of areas,”

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If you’re looking for a job that’s here to stay, here’s a counterintuitive piece of advice: Look into tech. It’s one of several sectors on our list that is slated to see the sharpest job growth between now and 2014.

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Recent changes in the website are turning longtime fans against the video service.

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Here is the Space Cubed which is claimed to be the world’s smallest personal computer. At the size of 2 x 2 x 2.2 inch, it has a 300 MHz processor and 64MB of SDRAM. Shown in the picture, it includes number of ports such as USB, Ethernet, flash memory. monitor port, serial connection and microphone. Pocket PC anyone?

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Intel filed a motion Wednesday asking a federal court judge to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit brought by its archrival, AMD!

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I’m trying a new style that is a hell of a lot cleaner than the old one. I have also updated K2 to revision 167 to prepare things for the eventual next release of K2. In other news I am indeed still alive byt I am completly covered with crap to do for school that all needs to be done before I graduate on the 19th. I hope everyone is doing well, back to my Roman Civ. paper I go.

Sorry about the recent downtime the last few days. Something went wrong at the datacenter and the server was unable to reach the outside worrld. Once that was resolved we decided this would fo a pretty ideal time time to do some upgrades to the server itself. The biggest change is that we finally dumped Red Hat in favor or Debian which will be much easier to us to update and what have you. At any rate, have a great weekend!

I just thought you guys might like to see the newest edition to the Elliff family. Thank you Blair for recording this for me.

My Spring Break week is almost over so I thought a little humor was in order. Enjoy!