News aggregator that allows you tread 200 of the world`s newspapers.. simply amazing.. and it`s done in .net!! amazing stuff.
SneakyFeelings.com is much more than just another dating site; it is a community of people who laugh together, share experiences, and, hopefully, meet the person of their dreams!
The Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to. This limits what we can do with it and exposes us to growing dangers. If we do nothing, we will face rapidly proliferating episodes of theft and deception that will cumulatively erode public trust in the Internet.
Kim Cameron has his Laws of Identity, so why can’t I have mine? Mine are simpler and probably not complete, but they arose from the paper I wrote with Mary Rundle as a better way to explain what I’m getting at.
In the few short years of its existence, Google has come a long way, simultaneously striking fear in the hearts of major players in the computer industry and also arousing their curiosity.
Over the years, there have been many, many failed attempts to create alternative VMs for Python, in the hopes of increasing program performance. Even if we ignore the many half-finished Python-to-Parrot translator projects still lurching erratically onward like a half-decayed zombie army, the road to better VM performance is lined on both sides by the gravestones of colorfully-named projects like Mamba, Rattlesnake, and Vyper, all lying untended and forgotten.
UFFI is a package to interface Common Lisp programs with C-language compatible libraries. Every Common Lisp implementation has a method for interfacing to such libraries. Unfortunately, these method vary widely amongst implementations. Without the use of UFFI, to support multiple implementations, developers must write a different interface library for each Common Lisp implementation.<br /> <br /> UFFI
Investment and portfolio management web service with a user interface that targets the novice investor (learner), the academic and the sophisticated investor<br />
Reading Tim`s post today got me thinking and raised some questions. I love the idea of searching the full text of books, but I wonder about Google`s execution on Google Print Library.
Separate account management programs are generally costly, error-prone and inconsistent, yet provide only limited personalization and tax-sensitivity. Smartleaf provides a complete and fundamentally new solution to these problems, enabling financial institutions to offer their clients the "next generation" of separate accounts
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Paul Graham`s recent essay Great Hackers. His sermon is well-written, and I assume it played very well when he preached it to the choir at OSCON.<br /> <br /> Graham describes the notion of a "great hacker", which he seems to roughly define as a programmer who is several times more productive than average. (Please note that some people use the word "hacker" to describe programmers who engage in illegal activity. That connotation is not applicable here or in Graham`s essay.) He then asks the following questions:
"Memeorandum is as much about aggregating reader intelligence as it is about aggregating articles," Torkington said in an e-mail. "It`s a great step toward a tool that can turn a flood of grapes into a trickle of fine wine. Google News aggregates the editorial judgment from newspapers, but Memeorandum treats blogs and newspapers equally, which means it`s tapped into the collective zeitgeist of the net."
This truism appeared in a recent Business Week article about Yahoo. The author goes on to say that Yahoo’s relatively static, but crowded, homepage suggests infighting beneath, as corporate departments battle it out for lucrative positioning.
Can the former leader of one of the biggest players in the commercial content management arena make a successful transition into the open source community? That`s exactly what we`re going to find out with the initial releases of Alfresco scheduled for later this year
CLSQL is a SQL database for Common Lisp interface maintained by Kevin M. Rosenberg. CLSQL uses the Universal Foreign Function Interface (UFFI) library for broad compatibility.
ontacts, file sharing, and shared applications. Joyent delivers simple, powerful, web-based software for small teams. Nothing to install, nothing to configure, and no need for computer staff or consultants. Just connect over the web and your Joyent sof
Paul Allen has an interesting post on why it is important to write down ideas when ideas pop up in your head. This is something that I`ve been struggling with. I often have ideas that I know is important to me but I fail to write them down and I end up forgetting the idea. I`m sure many of you also face this problem. I`m trying to overcome this issue by using my mobile phone to record my ideas. Anyway, you should read this post.
Innovation drives our industry, attracts the best talent, attracts VC money, and wins fame for its leaders. Innovation leaders burst onto the scene, win early market leadership, but sometimes can`t sustain the pace. Why do "fast followers" often jump in later and make fortunes? Is management responsible for the success or failure? Or, are these innovation leaders acquired by larger players before they have a chance to evolve into successful stand alone companies?
DIY News writes "Microsoft has claimed the cost of software is not an important issue in the developing world. According to MS, while you can give people free software or computers, they won`t have the expertise to use it."
More and more employers and universities are becoming aware of the amount of time their employees or students are spending using the Internet for personal reasons. Obviously employers want to discourage this behavior and may implement a number of different ways to do so. These can include;
Computers and networks now touch the lives of us all, from the youngest to the eldest members of the information society. The way we use them today, as passive consumers of human-based computer activities, must undergo radical improvement if we are to evolve into a true knowledge society. Effectively supporting active creation, connection and collaboration among all members of the knowledge society will be essential for future computer-based human activities.
Niklaus E. Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist.
This lecture focuses on a review of three different aspects of input output:<br /> <br /> * User level I/O requests<br /> * Virtual devices -- the abstractions provided by the system<br /> * I/O drivers -- the implementation of those abstractions <br /> <br /> The term virtual device is not standard, but it is realistic! The device interface presented to applications running under an operating system is usually quite different from the actual device interface, at least as different as the virtual memory abstraction is from the actual physical memory resources, and therefore, it seems quite reasonable to use the adjective virtual to distinguish the view of the device supported by the system from the actual resources provided by the device.
When you want to gain a historical perspective on personal computing and programming languages, why not turn to one of the industry’s preeminent pioneers? That would be Alan Kay, winner of last year’s Turing Award for leading the team that invented Smalltalk, as well as for his fundamental contributions to personal computing.
This web page is a revised and extended version of Appendix A from the book Conceptual Structures by John F. Sowa. It presents a brief summary of the following topics for students and general readers of that book and related books such as Knowledge Representation and books on logic, linguistics, and computer science.
Alan Kay, born May 17, 1940, is an American computer scientist, known for his early work on object-oriented programming and user interface design. He is currently a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, and an Adjunct Professor at MIT. He is also the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute.
We introduce utility-directed procedures for mediating the flow of potentially distracting alerts and communications to computer users. We present models and inference procedures that balance the context-sensitive costs of deferring alerts with the cost of interruption. We describe the challenge of reasoning about such costs under uncertainty via an analysis of user activity and the content of notifications. After introducing principles of attention-sensitive alerting, we focus on the problem of guiding alerts about email messages. We dwell on the problem of inferring the expected criticality of email and discuss work on the Priorities system, centering on prioritizing email by criticality and modulating the communication of notifications to users about the presence and nature of incoming email.
Over the last five years, our team at Microsoft Research has explored, within the Attentional User Interface (AUI) project, opportunities for enhancing computing and communications systems by treating human attention as a central construct and organizing principle. We introduced to the research community a broad array of AUI challenges and opportunities, including (1) the treatment of attention as a rare commodity and critical currency in sensing and reasoning about the information awareness versus disruption of users, (2) the use of attentional cues as an important source of rich signals about goals, intentions, and topics of interest, and (3) the triaging of computation, bandwidth, and rendering resources in guiding precomputation and prefetching with forecasts of future attention. We shall first describe several principles and methodologies centering on integrating models of attention into human-computer interaction. Then, we shall review representative efforts that illustrate how we can harness these principles in attention-sensitive messaging and mixed-initiative interaction applications.
Don Dodge, former Director of Engineering at Altavista, posts some interesting thoughts on why AltaVista failed and the current battle between Google and MSN.<br />
"I`m going to take over the world," boasts Damon Dash. "My company will be worth billions of dollars—maybe worth a quarter of a trillion." The CEO of Roc-a-Fella Records and RocaWear clothing is standing in his 6,500-square-foot home in Manhattan`s TriBeCa district. There`s a Brunswick fawn-colored pool table, two Cruisin` in Exotica racecar arcade games, a mug shot of Frank Sinatra, and a marble-top chef`s kitchen. A closet holds hundreds of pairs of new white athletic shoes. The scene feels as if it were pulled from MTV`s Cribs.
The Grammy-winning rapper and new president of Def Jam talks to FORTUNE about his new role, his influence on hip-hop, and why he doesn`t want to just dial it in.<br /> <br /> Grammy-winning rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter already had a hip-hop empire, but it`s his new role—as president of Def Jam—that`s drawing notice. He sat down with FORTUNE`s Nadira A. Hira recently to talk about the unprecedented move, having "a real 9-to-5," and his still-charmed life.
The Fade Anything Technique (FAT) is inspired by 37signals Yellow Fade Technique. FAT builds upon the YFT by allowing you to fade any element from any color back to its native background-color without the use of inline JavaScript. To activate FAT on an element you simply give it the class of “fade”. [See the code]
You don`t need to install anything, you don`t even need an harddisk to run a whole free software operating system running out of the box on your PC! Download the ISO-image, burn your own CD, reboot your machine and you`ll get back true love ;^)
In order to lock out both copied games as well as homebrew software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, Microsoft built a chain of trust on the Xbox reaching from the hardware to the execution of game code, in order to avoid the infiltration of code that has not been authorized by Microsoft. The link between hardware and software in this chain of trust is the hidden "MCPX" boot ROM. The principles, the implementations and the security vulnerabilities of this 512 bytes ROM will be discussed in this article.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met Sundance.<br /> <br /> "I have no idea what I`ll be doing, but I know it will be reverse engineering, and I`m sure it will be interesting," Johansen told Wired News during a Friday stopover in San Francisco
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, and inventor. He was also a professor at Southern Illinois University and a prolific writer.
he East African Centre for Open Source Software (EACOSS) is the first specialised Free and Open Source Software training centre focusing on the East African region.<br /> <br /> Our mission is to promote the use and access to Free and Open Source Software in the East African community and contribute to the development through empowering people with skills to use ICT.<br /> <br /> The centre was founded in April 2004 and opened its doors in August 2004 on Port Bell Road in Nakawa - Kampala Uganda. The training center is located at the premises of Uganda Institute of Information and Communication Technology
You can give people free software, but they won`t have the expertise to use it, says Microsoft Nigeria`s manager
This page was produced to meet the CMPT 857 WWW page requirement. It introduces suffix trees, highlights applications of suffix trees, and provides links to additional information.<br /> <br /> For a more detailed explanation of suffix trees and their uses, see "Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences" by Dan Gusfield. This book was the reference for most of the information on this page.<br />
Is the CIO a dinosaur? Will it be an extinct position in a few short years? Merial, a large animal health care enterprise co-owned by Merck and sanofi-aventis, believes so; in fact, it`s already buried the title. I spoke with Steve Lerner, IS director at Merial, about what led to its decision to eliminate the CIO position. The answer, in short, is Sarbanes-Oxley.
For two years after the dot-com crash, Bram Cohen could almost always be found at his small dining-room table, first in San Francisco’s Nob Hill and later in Oakland. His long brown hair would flop in front of his eyes, and he’d curl it back over his ears as he stared at the screen of his Dell laptop, writing line after line after line of code. Occasionally Cohen would take breaks—there was a club to visit some nights, a conference on coding to help organize, a trip to Amsterdam—but then he’d return to his wooden chair, his keyboard on his lap, his laptop propped up on some books, his back perfectly straight (thanks to posture classes he was taking), and he’d program some more. First he lived off savings from the handful of jobs he’d worked during the bubble. When that ran out, he lived off credit cards, following a rigid system for applying for and transferring debt to 0% introductory-rate cards. Friends would ask what he was doing. Why wouldn’t he just get a job? Cohen shooed them away. He was determined to solve a puzzle that was consuming him.
he fans are loving it. On a warm Sunday evening in June, one of hip-hop’s hottest stars, Kanye West, is spitting rhymes for 50,000 fans at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. West is a bona fide superstar: three Grammys for his first album, millions in sales, a Time cover in the works. But all of a sudden, the crowd turns away from him. A single figure has run onto the stage, prompting such a deafening roar that West is forced to stop and join the adulation, leading the crowd in a chant of “Hova! Hova!”—shorthand for J-Hova, the latest self-styled nickname of the rapper Jay-Z. Though West is the headliner, it is Jay-Z who steals the show.
<br /> <br /> Set Your Priorities<br /> <br /> By Joel Spolsky<br /> Wednesday, October 12, 2005<br /> Printer Friendly Version<br /> <br /> It was getting time to stop futzing around with FogBugz 4.0 and start working on 5.0. We just shipped a big service pack, fixing a zillion tiny little bugs that nobody would ever come across (and introducing a couple of new tiny little bugs that nobody will ever come across) and it was time to start adding some gen-yoo-ine new features.<br /> <br /> By the time we were ready to start development, we had enough ideas for improvement to occupy 1700 programmers for a few decades. Unfortunately, all we have is three programmers, and we wanted to be shipping next fall, so there had to be some prioritization.<br /> <br /> Before I tell you how we prioritized our list of features, let
Books on java, scheme,lisp, c++ and linux
It contains Lisp code for various applications which is:<br /> <br /> Common Lisp<br /> i.e. runs in ANSI Common Lisp implementations<br /> Free Software<br /> according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (e.g. licensed under GPL, LGPL, MIT or BSD licenses, or public domain)<br /> Portable<br /> i.e. should be portable among CL implementations with low effort, and does not require modifications to the CL implementation itself<br /> Self-contained<br /> i.e., does not require packages not in this repository<br /> Ready to use<br /> i.e., runs out of the box in the Free CL implementations.
pad <br /> <br /> Ideas for Startups<br /> <br /> October 2005<br /> <br /> (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2005 Startup School.)<br /> <br /> How do you get good ideas for startups? That`s probably the number one question people ask me.<br /> <br /> I`d like to reply with another question: why do people think it`s hard to come up with ideas for startups?
Service that allows you to generate a gif based on your gmail address.
Growl is a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen. Growl currently works with a growing number of applications.
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