Adapted from a Z Media Institute talk, June 2007 - « UN Charter which says that—in Article 2—the threat or use of force in international affairs is a crime. “Threat or use of force.” »
by Dirk Riehle - "The advent of open source software has produced more than lower software costs for users. It has also created major changes in the economic interaction among players in the software ecosystem."
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results:
10% of what we READ, 20% of what we HEAR, 30% of what we SEE, 50% of what we SEE and HEAR, 70% of what is DISCUSSED with OTHERS, 80% of what is EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY, 95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE
Department of Mathematical Sciences San Diego State University, Vernor Vinge - Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
Windows Script is a comprehensive scripting infrastructure for the Microsoft® Windows® platform. Windows Script provides two script engines, Visual Basic® Scripting Edition and Microsoft JScript®, which can be embedded into Windows Applications.
This page list codes for accented letters and other characters. In order to use these codes, your computer should have a separate numeric keypad on the right.
developer's resource for computer interfacing, especially USB, serial (COM) ports, mass storage, Ethernet and Internet for embedded systems, and the parallel port.
Google Labs: Code Search. Granted access to billions of lines of code and the awesome power of Google’s search technology, I did what any rational, thinking programmer would do: I typed in some profanity and hit enter.
By James Turner. Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else?
Having only the services you need running will make your system faster, more stable and secure. So the first thing you need to do after installing a Linux distribution is to manually edit the list of enabled services.
So how to combat with all those difficulties and save your time on these cleaning tasks? Do It Yourself.com has some (well over 150) tips, tricks and how-to on cleaning stains, items and rooms.
The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World - Sam Harris gives a speech on the rational thinking and logics behind the idea of no god at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
The GNU C compiler apparently still permits this, and the VC++ 2005 compiler permits it too, though it issues a Level-4 warning if it’s C code, and a Level-2 warning if it’s C++ code.
Content Types, Content Subtypes, Character Sets, Access Types, and conversion values for MIME mail will be assigned and listed by the IANA. [RFC2045,RFC2046]
Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned professional, sometimes we all need our memory jogged. It’s never a bad idea to have some convenient references handy just in case. I have listed what I think are some helpful cheat sheets to keep in your camera bag.
B-Trees are often mentioned as a good way to store and retrieve data, especially to and from disk. They're efficient to use and easy to program, and they're often mentioned but not-so often discussed. They show up all over the place.
Norse mythology, Scandinavian mythology, Viking mythology; all refer to the pre-Christian religion of the Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Danish peoples.
to provide entrepreneurs with the tools and assistance necessary to help achieve their desired goals as well as to provide a forum for the exploration of entrepreneurial ideas and issues.
Mazes in general (and hence algorithms to create Mazes) can be organized along seven different classifications. These are: Dimension, Hyperdimension, Topology, Tessellation, Routing, Texture, and Focus.
a great list of keyboard shortcuts for the upcoming IE7. What makes it even greater, however, is that almost all of the shortcuts work identically in Firefox.
"When the lady at the corner market runs the package over the scanner (or whatever it is they do in your area), the computerized cash register reads the UPC code as a string of binary digits."
all the Linux subjects, in a well organized order, in 100 chapters in six courses: Base, WebMaster, X Window, Networking, System Administration and Programming.
Speech for Windows® applications, includes freely distributable text-to-speech engines (in U.S. English and Simplified Chinese) and speech recognition engines (in U.S. English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese).
dedicated to all beverages and products that contain caffeine; including tea, coffee, chocolate, mate, caffeinated soft drinks, caffeinated pills, coffee beans, etc.