http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/ 2010-09-09T09:46:06-06:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/ http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-01-18T09:24:10-06:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:france_in_a_state_of_civil_war?rev=1263831850&do=diff “We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists,” said Michel Thooris, the head of the hard-line trade union “Action Police”. 2,500 police officers have been wounded this year, according to France's Interior Ministry. <http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20061013-083614-1432r> text/html 2010-01-18T09:24:30-06:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:hello_world?rev=1263831870&do=diff int main(int argc, char ** argv) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); } I wonder what language the first Hello World program was written in? text/html 2006-10-25T10:29:10-06:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:how_to_fix_the_computer_industry?rev=1161793750&do=diff The Inquirer claims that Nvidia is preparing to produce it's own CPU. I don't know. I've never heard of this Stexar thing before. Anyway, they say the following about the problems with non-x86 compatible CPUs, and they're mostly right: "To step aside for a moment, let's ask this question. If Nvidia does not make an X86 CPU, but an ARM, PPC or some other ISA? Well, it is, again more than capable, but that would mean giving up the market it has a pretty solid lock on now. Buy the new Nvidia CP… text/html 2010-01-18T09:25:12-06:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:observations_on_arabs?rev=1263831912&do=diff Stephen Browne spent a year living in Saudi Arabia, and has some things to say about Arabs. <http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2006/09/observations-on-arabs.html> EDITED TO ADD: “Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped by Sunni Muslim insurgents in Baghdad on Jan. 7, 2006. Over the next 82 days, she had closer contact with Sunni insurgents than any American who has lived to tell the tale.” text/html 2010-01-18T10:12:38-06:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:panel_urges_federal_government_to_meddle_in_the_private_lives_of_canadian_families?rev=1263834758&do=diff CBC: "Activities that boost children's “cardio-respiratory fitness” should be the focus of a federal tax credit, an expert panel urged Thursday as it outlined the types of activities and costs that should qualify." The war is over. The socialists won. text/html 2010-01-18T09:25:45-06:00 http://www.flamewars.org/wiki/blog:the_emperor_s_new_ai?rev=1263831945&do=diff Machine Intelligences are not 'just around the corner', and if they were, they probably wouldn't change anything much, says The Register. I agree. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/25/bogus_ai/>