First introduced by George Spafford in this article, the law states that the more the user is presented with false or erroneous alerts, the more they will ignore real alerts in the system.
The Lenna (or Lena) picture is one of the most widely used standard test images used for compression algorithms.'lena' or 'lenna' is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972. (Lenna is the spelling in Playboy, Lena is the Swedish spelling of the name.) Lena Soderberg (ne Sjööblom)
tries to end the confusion by identifying the most important innovations in software, removing hardware advances and products that didn't embody significant new software innovations.
In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. 72 years later, the eighth drop is only just about to fall.
By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese June, 2005 "I tend to define Web design as being one of many disciplines within the larger field of design (a peer to print design, industrial design, interior design, etc.)."
Paul Graham Aug 2001 "I said something that upset a lot of people: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project."
Paul Graham May 2001 "You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to understand the essence of Lisp"
a Nigerian invention keeps food fresh without electricity, a large pot inside which fits another smaller pot with a clay lid. The space between the two pots is filled with sand, creating an insulating layer around the inner pot. The sand is then kept damp
"While MFC remains the library of choice for full application development, ATL provides an attractive alternative when a simple set of window wrapper classes is all that is needed." March 1999
PhysOrg, A pioneering new way of creating computer programs could be used in the future to design and build robots with minds that function like that of a human being, according to a leading researcher at The University of Reading.
@ Scientific American, Mental exercises with neurofeedback may ease symptoms of attention-deficit disorder, epilepsy and depression--and even boost cognition in healthy brains
by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes "I've been writing on CPU technology here at Ars for almost five years now, and during that time I've done my best to communicate computing concepts in as plain and accessible a manner as possible while still retaining some level
The numbers that control your life. You're identified by dozens of numbers. Your phone number, your driver's license number, your social security number, your zip code, your license plate, your credit card numbers. I find these numbers fascinating. Who distributes them? What can they be used for? How can you use them? How are they issued?
discuss how paintComponent can be overridden to customize the look of your components, and then we'll discuss a trick that uses paintChildren to paint custom content on top of the component and its children.
XML.com, by Drew McLellan Feb 09, 2005 "One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed."
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.” »