Thought this might interest some members of the board.
Just came across it in a NASA news letter.

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By using SAGE you help to support a viable open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB. SAGE includes many high-quality open source math packages.
/ENDQUOTE/
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www.sagemath.org/
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howard melton
God bless

naruto: snake sannin stays
www.fanfiction.net/s/3775...rfly_Wings
(Edit: Sorry, yesilmavi, the misspelling in the subject was bugging me, so I felt compelled to fix it. -- Bob)
(Edit2: No problem. I actually copied the title from the previous thread...)

Saturday, 12/29, 10pm.
Dark Heart High will be 'rescuing' Baby New Year. Headmistress deWinter has uses for the little muppet.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Quote:

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...what, are you people going to make me beg? Comments, please? ^_^

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Evening folks! ^_^
I have again updated my webpage, this time by adding a page for my finished COH fanfics. (Well, okay, story #4 isn't finished yet, but I'm working on it! ^.^ )
Anyhow, you can find them here:
www.bgcrisis.com/siege/COHFiction.html
I've put up the PDF comic I made for the COH Story contest, two short stories I made about one of my scrappers, and the third story is my newly-retitled Saberkitten story.
I won't spoil the surprise by telling you the title now. Go forth, read, and comment after you've seen it. (^_^)
Regards,
Bert V.V.
skyknight@sentex.net

The WTO has given Antigua and Barbuda permission to ignore US copyrights in films, television, and music because of the US' refusal to allow Antiguan internet gambling websites to accept US clients.
Details here.
It's about time - when a country signs a treaty, that country should abide by it. The US didn't. This was the only sanction that Antigua could get against them.
So, how long before Antiguan copies of Hollywood blockbusters start showing up on eBay?
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Ok, I'm trying to find a Turn-based game that makes a good multiplayer game for PC. I'm tired of Master of Orion 2, Birth of the Federation, and Civilizition II. I'd like to find a game that starts up kinda fast, any suggestions?
EdwardIF SRW means Sexy Romance Weapon, does DW mean Dynamic Woman?
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

I just clicked 'Confirm' on an order for memory using money given to me for Christmas; it should arrive by the end of next week. That will eliminate my computer problems with CoH. I've been running in 768 megs RAM so far, which is a bit... tight.
So there's one excuse down.
After my next paycheck my finances should be back to the point where I have 'play money' again. I don't know if I'll resubscribe or simply buy game cards, but either way, I should have the funds and my wife is threatening to use HER money to get me back into the game if that's what it takes. (I'm apparently grumpy, or something, I dunno.)
So there's the other excuse down the toilet.
Fair warning, y'all: I'm coming back.
(Great. Now I've got a cheesy movie trailer scene running through my head:
"Coming to a server near you this January! Sofaspud Returns: Attack of the Alts!"
Sheesh.)

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Bob, You sure no-one like this exists in Doug's homeplane?
Link to Apple Quicktime site.

Youtube vid of a completely virtual idol singer.
Clicky
I am amazed at the quality of the Japanese voices for this technology versus the English ones.
Somewhere you can also find this same "performer" doing Fly Me to The Moon at LEAST as well as Megumi Hayashibara did it.
And... Someone has already created a "Rickroll" video with the synth voice.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll