May 2010
- May 05macbraughtonmacbraughton's Bookmarks on Delicious
Just imported all of my old #bookmarks into #delicious --> #rip #twine, I met a lot of cool peeps there http://icent.ca/co
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china-electronic-products.com » Smartbooks Prepare to Compete in Mini-laptop SpaceMini-laptops based on Arm chips are set to make their way to users, which could heat up the battle in a space dominated by netbooks with Intel’s Atom chips.Sharp last week announced the PC-Z1, also called the NetWalker, which will be one of the first mini-laptops based on an Arm chip to reach store shelves. The device has a 5-inch touch screen and a 68-key keyboard and offers 10 hours of battery life. It is designed for those who rely on the Web for computing, and it will start shipping in Japan by the end of September.Many similar devices with larger screens may become available by the end of this year. They will be based on Arm chips designed by companies such as Freescale Semiconductor, Nvidia and Qualcomm. No major PC maker has officially announced Arm-based mini-laptops, which have been called “smartbooks” by some chip makers, though Dell is investigating the concept.Smartbooks are designed to have similar characteristics to netbooks, including compact keyboards and screens. The...
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- May 05macbraughtonI, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Men Behind the Curtain | PBS
It's a challenge for a journalist coming late to a story like Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo. I had literally just pressed the SEND key on last week's column when news hit the wire. What to do? The way things are structured at PBS I couldn't just pump out another column (that structure may be changing by the way), so the big question was whether the passage of seven days would make pointless anything I would have to say. So I waited and waited, and it is a testament to the shallowness and endless repetition of both the tech and business media that there is still plenty to say about the deal, the true nature of which few people yet understand.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
- May 05macbraughtonGreta Christina's Blog: Atheists and Anger
http://gretachristina.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/15/scream.jpg]I want to talk about atheists and anger.This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry.But I think it's important. One of the most common criticisms lobbed at the newly-vocal atheist community is, "Why do you have to be so angry?" So I want to talk about:1. Why atheists are angry;2. Why our anger is valid, valuable, and necessary;And 3. Why it's completely fucked-up to try to take our anger away from us.So let's start with why we're angry. Or rather -- because this is my blog and I don't presume to speak for all atheists -- why I'm angry.***** http://gretachristina.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/15/graph.jpg]I'm angry that according to a recent Gallup poll http://www.gall...
- May 05macbraughtonDebian ( Sarge ) / Nvidia Driver - Linux Forums
Debian ( Sarge ) / Nvidia Driver Debian Linux Help
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- May 05macbraughtonAffective computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
is a branch of the study and development of artificial intelligence that deals with the design of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, and process human emotions. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer sciences, psychology, and cognitive science. While the origins of the field may be traced as far back as to early philosophical enquiries into emotion, the more modern branch of computer science originated with Rosalind Picard's 1995 paper on affective computing.
- May 05macbraughtonOsx Tiger Continuous Disk Activity - Mac Support
I just updated Tiger on my system to 10.4.3 on a PB 1.67 Ghz with 1.5 GB ram. I now have a returned problem that I thought had gone away a few weeks ago : namely, the system is constantly writing to the hard disk even when sitting idle. Activity monitor shows the process mdimport belonging to the user "nobody" is constantly active. If I force quit this process, the continuous writing stops. I have repaired permissions and repaired the disk with DiskWarrior to no effect. I have also tried running via Terminal the S-register cache reset that apears in some forums as a way to stop the system from unnecessary disk writes, also to no avail. A related symptom might be this : when I click on a file icon (eg, a photoshop file) a box appears to the effect that this is the first time I am opening Photoshop and do I want to proceed. Naturally, this is not the first time I'm using Photoshop. Could the weird mdimport process belonging to "nobody" be related? I'm lead to believe that mdimport is a...
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- May 05macbraughtonIn Test, Canadian ISP Splices Itself Into Google Homepage | Threat Level from Wired.com
A screen shot posted to the web over the weekend seems to show that Canada's largest provider of high-speed internet access is exploring a controversial data substitution technique that lets it add its own content to the webpages customers visit.Expect this development to become Exhibit A in the case for net neutrality legislation. http://blog.wired.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/10/rogersgoogle.jpg] Lauren Weinstein, a technology consultant in Los Angeles and a long-time Internet activist, posted a screen-shot of a Rogers-modified Google search page this past Saturday on his blog http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000337.html].The screen shot, forwarded from "a concerned reader," shows a Rogers-Yahoo branded customer service message apparently on Google's home page. The message informs the Rogers customer that they are approaching their data cap limit for the month, and provides them with a link to information on how they would be able to upgrade their account,...
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- May 05macbraughtonThe Mythology of Moore's Law
This article counters the growing misconceptions about an interesting observation that, since 1965, has acquired a strange life of its own. There is something romantic about Moore's law that has propelled it into popular mythology.
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- May 05macbraughtonRichard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering
On January 28th, 1986, was launched at 11:38am on the 6-day . During the first 3 seconds of liftoff the (o-shaped loops used to connect two cylinders) in the shuttle’s right-hand (SRB) failed. As a result hot gases with temperatures above 5,000 °F leaked out of the booster, vaporized the o-rings, and damaged the SRB’s joints. The shuttle started its ascent, but seventy two seconds later the compromised SRB pulled away from the Challenger, leading to sudden lateral acceleration. Pilot Michael J. Smith uttered "Uh oh" just before the shuttle broke up. Torn apart by excessive force, it disintegrated rapidly. Within seconds the severed but nearly intact crew cabin began to free fall and seven astronauts plunged to their deaths. I was a child then and remember watching in horror as Brazilian TV showed the footage.nnnnnnnnnnnnn
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