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Friday, March 29, 2002
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Codeweavers runs Office without Windows
"It is a huge job. Windows contains 15,000 function calls, each of which takes a day to write," White said. "We essentially have to implement everything that has not been done, so if there is a DLL Microsoft has that WINE doesn't have, we have to implement that DLL. It took us nine months just to make that happen," White explained. what a neto quantification! | ||
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New Scientist Neural network 'in-jokes' could pass secrets "Synchronised neural networks jump to the same conclusion, given the same limited information."
i forgot that neural networks entrain to be each other's mirror, but using them as a function to get encryption keys seems like a bad excuse for an article. what's the point? it's one of a million ways of working with secret keys. | ||
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Study: Watching TV Increases Teen, Adult Aggression (washingtonpost.com): ""the correlation between violent media and aggression is larger than the effect that wearing a condom has on decreasing the risk of HIV. It's larger than the correlation between exposure to lead and decreased IQ levels in kids. It's larger than the effects of exposure to asbestos. It's larger than the effect of second-hand smoke on cancer."" | ||
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Yahoo! News - As the Web Matures, Fun Is Hard to Find
"We lost our sense of wonder," he said. "The Web is old hat." Just 11 years after it was born and about 6 years after it became popular, the Web has lost its luster. Many who once raved about surfing from address to address on the Web now lump site-seeing with other online chores, like checking the In box. so much for the web-as-fun perspective :) | ||
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Loss hits you between the eyes
The brain region in question, the medial frontal cortex, or MFC, is part of the limbic system, which produces our emotions. It is finally being linked to how we make decisions - by looking sideways at how somewhat obsessive thoughts may be arising and affecting our behaviour.
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Greeks were slaves to the beat
Mathematical methods like the ones now widely used to analyse texts, and for the spotting of plagiarism show that Greek poets had more rhythm than the Romans :)
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GameBoys cause of physical mutation |
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Mercury News | 03/23/2002 | Thumbs are the new fingers for GameBoy youth "Discovering that the younger generation has taken to using thumbs in a completely different way and are instinctively using thumbs where the rest of us are using our index fingers is particularly interesting.''
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written documentation still an admission of failure |
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Volume Control Knob Turns Heads
"People see it on someone's desk, glowing and pulsing, and they've got to know what it is," he said. "We get people saying, 'It's incredibly useless, I use it every day.'"
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Catch of the Day: "This very uncertainty can be modeled, apparently. Entelos' data system uses a grammar that allows the description of just what's known about drugs, chemical pathways, and their effects on organ systems. The "top-down" multivariate, nonlinear simulation is quite different from modeling, say, an airplane wing, in which a more complete understanding of mechanics and physics drives a bottom-up construction of the simulated universe. Plugging this incomplete, and often contradictory information about biology and drugs into the system yields results that are surprisingly accurate, CEO James Karis says. Entelos has made two clinical predictions regarding asthma drugs, both of which were later verified in the field."
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Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam It's clear from the opening day of Spamcon -- the anti-spam conference occurring here this week -- that there are dedicated spam-fighters out in the world. But it's also clear that they're fighting a losing battle, trying to plug a river with their fingertips.
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Yahoo! News - Beijing Spring Brings Mongolian Sand: "It crawls up nostrils. It nests in hair. It lodges itself between teeth and â014 ouch! â014 burrows under contact lenses. And let's not forget the gritty mess that's sure to ensue if someone has the temerity to open a window."
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Sensei's Library: Front Page: "Sensei's Library is a collaboration web site about and around the game of Go (Weiqi/Weich'i, Baduk/Paduk). It is a repository, a discussion medium, it is the pot of Go(ld) at the end of the rainbow :-) Basically, it is whatever you make of it. "
"Anyone can edit pages. There is no registration, no username, no password." and it works! | ||
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New Scientist: Intuitive people worse at detecting lies
One possible explanation is that intuitives in fact rely on common misconceptions about how to spot a liar, he says. "It could be that they look for a lack of eye contact or shifting - cues that people think are linked to lying but are not. While the non-intuitives in fact use what people are actually saying, and other cues, such as their arm or leg movements." | ||
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This is the Soundbug |
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"A British-designed gadget aimed at young people that turns any hard, smooth surface into a loudspeaker." "Rare material.
At the heart of the Soundbug is a small piece of a material called Terfenol-D, originally developed by the US military for sonar work. The makers hope the product will go down well with the youth market "It's 60% iron with a couple of rare earth elements in it and it's grown like a piece of silicon," explained Mr May. "When you put it in a magnetic field, it moves very slightly, perhaps a micron or so, but with an enormous force of maybe 400 pounds," he said. | ||
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electronic pet dies if owner forgets their medication |
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Beyond 2000 | Medicine | Doctor's Orders: "DOCTOR'S ORDERS In a bizarre twist on the Tamagotchis, a US team has created an electronic pet that dies if its owner forgets to take their medication." | ||
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Rejection Lowers Your IQ |
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Techdirt:Rejection Lowers Your IQ:
"This can't be good. It seems that a new study says that people who are "rejected" by others have their IQ drop by about 25%. That's pretty significant. Past studies have shown that people who were rejected are more aggressive and violent - so now we have dumber, more aggressive and violent people who are upset that they've been rejected. I'm not sure how much I buy the results of the study, though. It says that IQ dropped 25% immediately on the person being rejected. Isn't the whole point of IQ that it's supposed to stay fairly constant? Also, how long does the effect last? Is it permanent? That makes no sense. So, is it a momentary rage that takes over the brain and makes you dumb, angry, and violent until civilization kicks back in? All I know is that my IQ is low enough as is. Don't expect me to ask any women out for a date in a long time. It's just way too risky..." | ||
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New Scientist "Defective" cigarette filters hidden for 40 years, claim scientists"
"These fibres are known to be coated in tumour promoters, carcinogens and a diverse range of toxins," he told New Scientist. "These toxins are being delivered on a non-degradable matrix. That is ample cause for concern." Ok.. first i thought i just had nothing to say today.. then i read this claim about how people were not told about the dangers of cigarette filters. what nonsense! ok, i smoke. about 10 hand-rolled cigarettes per non-suit day.. and maybe 8 hand-made shermans per suit-day. When I first started to smoke I was told by people that it was the filters that would puncture my lungs and that I should stay with natural tobacco and away from pre-fabs. smoking is a trance-anchor for me... (i love the better labeling/discernment about inner states that i got out of this weekend) and i use it to mark some introspective spaces. its bad for me in general to smoke but i'm ok with the indulgence and simplicity of it right now. i just want to log this because i for one knew/know that filters in cigarettes are bad news for the smoker. its not like you could not know these facts in germany when i first started doing this a disgustingly long 22 years ago. anyway, that's my 22*52*7/5*$4.. or 640,640 cents on this.
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favlets for basic google tasks. |
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Here are four google favlets for basic tasks. drag them to your toolbar. they will 'install' there by becoming editable .url files in your IE 5+ favorites. favlets are bookmarks of urls containing general purpose javascript. all are set to open new browser windows with attributes and sizes that work for me.
these pick up the url of the current page and format google queries about it: _Google Related _Google Links _Google Cache this one uses the currently selected text to initiate a phrase search: these favlets (more) are inspired by Mike Krus's RadioExpress. (see the javascript object model page for window.open options.) Happy googling! | ||
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THE CULT CONSTRUCTION SET
"So if you think you have a Biblical Scripture that can support some strange practice let us know so we can add it to the Cult Construction Set." we need to find some scripture for these guys to enable the cult of bLog! via [linkfilter] | ||
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google time bombs |
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Deep Linking is Good Linking (Alertbox March 2002): "Deep linking is your friend: It gets users to their preferred destination as quickly as possible. " | ||
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New Scientist Gifted few make order out of chaos: Some people have a special gift for predicting the twists and turns of chaotic systems like the weather and perhaps even financial markets, according to an Australian psychologist: "They have some sort of intuition. My guess is that they are sensitive to subtle non-linear structures like chaos."
... which would mean this cognitive psychologist is hot on the trail of energetics | ||
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Slashdot Ad Free: The Worst Subscription Service Ever Launched :: Dotcom Scoop :: Business news, commentary, rumors & gossip
having stopped reading slashdot daily almost 2 years ago i read their redesign as a signal that the end of slashdot has come. rather than adding value to the site, heavy users are now paying the most to see no ads. this is backwards. slashdot could have spent the last two years doing something about liberating the wealth of insights trapped in their archives without a decent search, added ads to 'the mining zone' and made themselves useful to folks. instead they serve up a newbie knee jerk monetizer. bad karma dudes. | ||
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Doctor of love: "Anthropologist Helen Fisher argues that romance, marriage and divorce follow predictable patterns as old as the species. She says men, for example, are inherently much more aggressive than women, and this innate aggressiveness is one of the reasons men tend to dominate the worlds of business and politics. She says that furthermore, despite their protestations, women prefer such dominant males as sex partners and long-term mates. These views haven't endeared her to traditional feminists." | ||
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A Site for Seeing Amazon Sales
"Philip Kaplan created Amazonscan.com to track sales of his book, F'd Companies, which will be published in April. But Kaplan -- founder of Fuckedcompany.com and Postget.com -- won't be the first to use his system, as the two-month-old website is quickly becoming an obsession for authors, publishers, marketers and readers. Amazonscan.com is turning out to be a serious marketing tool." breakthrough. | ||
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Catch of the Day / The Hand of God: "There are no menus in the game, and no buttons. You use the mouse cursor to manipulate items on screen. You reward or punish your creature, for example, by petting or slapping him (with quick horizontal movements of the cursor). To cast your godlike spells, you sketch runes on the ground. "
an article about the return of the dataglove. we should see in-game hand-moves used by kids on the street by the time os's get affected by this. imagine 'even just' a transition device/aid, something to not fully engage (with) the glove while using it; a rod-supported 'finger rest' to let one point with my elbow at 90 instead of 130 degrees. why not use a camera? not from the couch. | ||
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Meditation mapped in monks: "Since the sense of spiritual reality is more powerful and clear, perhaps that sense of reality is more accurate than our scientific everyday sense of reality."
I hooked up with the Monroe Institute in 1984 and what the above study reports as news was well known and used already then. Makes practical sense. | ||
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formfactor futuristics |
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Brainstorming next year's PC - Tech News - CNET.com: "A year and a half from now, desktops and notebooks should be noticeably different" via [fmh] | ||
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Techdirt.: "Would it be petty to remind everyone that Techdirt.com is free and has no ads at all? " | ||