On Realism and Virtual Murder (Wednesday 01st of July 2009 12:15:01 PM)
Gamasutra has an interesting article about how the push toward realistic movie house and
extremely lifelike ideograph in modern games is making the term "murder simulator" — once
laughed off for concerned with to pixelated dying Nazis — a ...
(more)Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story (Tuesday 23rd of June 2009 12:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The decision by the polity Post to publish an article exclusively online
has angered many readers who still pay for the print edition of the fish wrapper and
highlighted the thorny issues extra editors still face in serving both print ...
(more)Swedish Court Says IP Numbers Privacy Protected (Thursday 18th of June 2009 08:30:11 PM)
Oh2 writes "The highest applicable Swedish court, Regeringsrtten, has ruled that IP numbers are
protected (in Swedish) since they can be traced to individuals. This means that only control
agencies are allowed to track and store IP addresses, leaving ...
(more)How To Sponsor an Open Source Sprint (Thursday 11th of June 2009 01:45:03 PM)
Esther Schindler writes "Does your favored open source project need just a little extra
functionality? As Esther Schindler explains in this IT World article, your company can nerve
the developers to add the face you've been yearning for — for far, ...
(more)If I update my website with one article everyday or 6 article all at once will this make any difference in SEO? (Wednesday 10th of June 2009 06:06:20 AM)
Some one told me that it does not makes any difference but i would like to know how does search
engins think?Its best to update your website regulatory with new content as this shows natural
growth to the search engines. Its always important to seem ...
(more)Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs (Friday 05th of June 2009 04:30:01 AM)
Sgt scrub writes "I've never thought about sniffing my CDs before buying them but that is all
about to change. by the book to this Yahoo! news article, dogs can be trained to tell the
divergency between a legit copy of a DVD and one ...
(more)College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni (Sunday 24th of May 2009 04:15:10 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that as college papers have
begun digitizing their back issues, their Web sites have become the latest front in the battle
over online identities. Youthful activities like underage water fountain ...
(more)Article marketing: how often should i post articles to article directories for the same site? (Wednesday 20th of May 2009 06:08:27 AM)
hey,
anybody knows how to do article marketing the proper way? i would be interested to know
how often i should post articles to article directories for an adsense website. let's say that
the website has 10 pages and that i write 10 articles (1 for ...
(more)Why Programming Rituals Work (Tuesday 19th of May 2009 12:30:01 PM)
Narramissic writes "Programmers may not think that their rituals are unusual, but if you swear
that your code is less buggy if you recite it aloud or you prepare for coding by listening to
certain music, don't be thrown off guard* if you get a ...
(more)Dooms Day Deflationary Depression Article? (Monday 18th of May 2009 06:01:15 AM)
I've been a firm believer that with the amount of money the US Gov't is printing, massive
inflation is just around the corner.
Today, I read this article:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/companyNewsMolt/idUKTRE54D4IL20090514
from Robert Prechter, who ...
(more)Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible (Thursday 07th of May 2009 11:15:01 AM)
Trunks writes "No doubt trying to ride the hype train that's currently going for the new Star
Trek film, Space.com has a new article affirmation how warp drive may not be impossible to
acheivefrom the article,'"The idea is that you take a chunk of space-time ...
(more)Future of Financial Mathematics? (Sunday 26th of April 2009 12:30:01 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a famous 'Quant,' has long been a strong
critic of the use of mathematics and immigration statistics in the fiscal markets. He has been
very vocal in his books The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. ...
(more)Analyzing YouTube's Audio Fingerprinter (Wednesday 22nd of April 2009 07:45:11 PM)
Al Benedetto writes "I stumbled across this article which analyzes the YouTube audio content
identification system in-depth. Apparently, since YouTube's system has no transparency, the
behaviors had to be fixed based on dozens of trial-and-error video ...
(more)The CDA Is Dead, But States Are Trying To Revive It (Sunday 01st of March 2009 08:30:01 AM)
Oliphaunt writes "This week at The Legality, Tracy Frazier has an article discussing the damage
that can be done by unsigned online comments. While regulars here are versed with infamous bits
of Net censorship like the Fishman Affidavit fiasco, and everyone ...
(more)The Broken Design of Microsoft's "Fix it" Tool (Saturday 07th of February 2009 01:45:02 AM)
$luggo writes "Curious about MS Fix It, I latterly went hunting in the MS wisdom base for stuff
that provide the new EZ-button. After locating on few, I decided to click the button to program
the Microsoft Installer package containing the executable and/or ...
(more)Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? (Wednesday 21st of January 2009 05:30:01 AM)
Ruphus13 writes "Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, claims that the company is very close to
the $30M mark, at which point, they will be a self-sustaining company. While people feel that
this should not worry Microsoft, the real quiz is whether a 10,000 ...
(more)Two married Fellas, Jim and Alec were having a beer after work. ... (Thursday 18th of December 2008 11:10:02 AM)
Two married Fellas, Jim and Alec were having a beer after work. Jim says: "Have you ever said
article when you meant to say article else?""How do you mean?" said Alec."Well, see the other
day, instead of two tickets to Pittsburgh, I asked for two ...
(more)NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio (Monday 08th of December 2008 05:15:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes in with an article from a Texas paper on the NSA's new convenience in
San Antonio. "America's top spy agency has taken over the former Sony microchip plant and is
transforming it into a new data-mining headquarters... where billions ...
(more)Time To Get Good At Functional Programming? (Saturday 06th of December 2008 03:45:01 AM)
Prone2tech writes "From an article at Dr. Dobb's: Chipmakers have fundamentally said that the
job of enforcing Moore's Law is now a windows problem. They will concentrate on putting more
and more cores on a die, and it's up to the os/2 government to recraft ...
(more)"Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate (Sunday 30th of November 2008 10:45:01 PM)
An unnamed reader sends us to the NYTimes for a sobering look at the frontiers of "collective
intelligence," also called in the article "reality mining." These techniques go several steps
beyond the pedestrian version of "data mining" with which the Pentagon ...
(more)Web Browser Programming Blurring the Lines of MVC (Friday 28th of November 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Lkcl tips his in-depth article up at Advogato on the difficulties for the MVC neural knowledge
engineering model that are introduced by and AJAX, and solutions for
them. He writes: "This article outlines how the MVC concept is ...
(more)Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply (Friday 21st of November 2008 10:00:01 AM)
Somanyrobots writes with an interesting followup in the New York Times to the earlier-reported
substantial reconstruction of the woolly mammoth genome: "Scientists are talking for the first
time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if ...
(more)Largest Aussie ISP Agrees To "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:45:01 PM)
Klootzak writes "Michael Malone, head of Australia's largest ISP iiNet announced today that his
company would sign up to the Government's live trials of the Great Firewall of Australia. In an
article published by The Age, Mr Malone is quoted calling Stephen ...
(more)Modern Methods For Sharing Innovation (Monday 27th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
The New York Times is running a story about Johnny Chung Lee, a appliances hacker made famous
for his projects which modified the computerized game [tm] Wiimote to do things like positional
head tower and multi-touch display control. The article focuses ...
(more)A Look At Successful Game Mods (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 05:45:02 AM)
Parz writes "Mods have been an prominent part of gaming for well over 15 years. Not only have
they in the case that plenty of other
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(more)Google's GeoEye-1 Takes Its First Pictures (Friday 10th of October 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Kev92486 writes "I was cat computed axial tomography through my RSS feeds today and happened
upon an article about Google's GeoEye-1 imaging partisan which launched on Sept 6. Intrigued as
to what the quality of the image was like, I decided to check ...
(more)Knol, the Wikipedia Maybe-fork? (Friday 19th of September 2008 05:15:01 PM)
Bennett Haselton contributes the next essay on the ramification of license choice as it applies
to sites based on user contributions; read on below for more of his big idea for making Knol a
more useful resource. "Google Knol should allow its writers ...
(more)Software Spots Spin In Political Speeches (Thursday 18th of September 2008 04:00:01 PM)
T.S. Ackerman writes "According to an article in NewScientst Tech, there is now administrator
that can recognize the amount of spin in a legislator or candidate's speech. From the article,
'Blink and you would have missed it. The vocalization of disgust ...
(more)Stuck In Google's Doghouse (Sunday 14th of September 2008 11:00:01 AM)
Hansoloaf writes "The NY Times is running an article about a business, Sourcetool.com that seem
to be in a sort of a doghouse with Google. Initially Sourcetool uses AdWords to help build up
its business. The calling centers around subject to links for ...
(more)Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Cmd writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an
article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has
since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the ...
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