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Anyway, Angie emulates the new breed of female action heroine by squeezing herself into a skin-tight latex costume that incorporates a push-up bra designed along the same lines that made the facade of the Sydney Opera House possible. Then she begins crawling through air shafts.
rogerebert.suntimes.com - clausd about 13 hours ago
And Chinese manufacturing isn’t the only conspicuous example of these advantages in the modern world. Germany remains a highly successful exporter even with workers who cost, on average, $44 an hour — much more than the average cost of American workers. And this success has a lot to do with the support its small and medium-sized companies — the famed Mittelstand — provide to each other via shared suppliers and the maintenance of a skilled work force.
www.nytimes.com - clausd about 14 hours ago
It’s been said it a thousand times before, by me and many others, but it's worth repeating again: people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly.
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com - clausd about 17 hours ago
People often ask me about my research techniques. You would think this would be a relatively straightforward question, but the truth is that I have to keep changing my answer, because my techniques are constantly shifting as new forms of search or discovery become possible.
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com - clausd about 17 hours ago
The QR codes don’t really work very consistently since little knit v’s are not easily recognized as square pixels. They sort of work in the dark. You could improve this by writing a QR code reader filter that “sees” v’s as pixels. If you are the first to code such a filter, or if you are the first to code up any other means for creating readable QR codes for knitting, and you open source the code, I will give a cosy to you for free.
fabienne.us - risager 1 day ago
For what it’s worth, it’s stuff like this that gets me excited about the future of web design. We’re leaping past any point where the word webpage makes any sense, and into a a world where what is seen at any one screen size (or Photoshop comp) only captures a sliver of the display capability responsive websites muster.
trentwalton.com - risager 2 days ago
McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is often joked about because of its scoreboard, which reads "Visitors" in the guest slot and "Tourists" in the home slot.
en.wikipedia.org - clausd 3 days ago
Sometimes I feel arguing on Twitter is like doing surgery while wearing boxing gloves. It has to be swift and precise, but ends up being generalizing and messy
marks.dk - boab 3 days ago
Over the past 20 years, Americans and Europeans have quietly gone about destroying these facts. The very systems that could have provided markets and governments with the means to understand the global financial crisis—and to prevent another one—are being eroded. Governments have allowed shadow markets to develop and reach a size beyond comprehension. Mortgages have been granted and recorded with such inattention that homeowners and banks often don't know and can't prove who owns their homes. In a few short decades the West undercut 150 years of legal reforms that made the global economy possible.
www.businessweek.com - clausd 3 days ago
The “Ah Hah!” moment that I needed to spend some serious time understanding the digital humanities came at the recent Modern Language Association meeting in Seattle where two English professors talked about Big Data and two computer scientists talked about the need for digital storytelling to go with their worlds of Big Data. The world it is a shifting.
skipwalter.net - clausd 3 days ago
This is a branch of the philosophy of physics, in which you happen to be treating the entire universe
--which is one huge physical object-- as a subject of study, rather than say studying just electrons by themselves, or studying only the solar system.
There are particular physical problems, problems of explanation, which arise in thinking about the entire universe, which don't arise when you consider
only its smaller systems. I see this as trying to articulate what those particular problems are, and what the avenues are for solving them, rather than
trying to translate from physics into some other language.
www.theatlantic.com - clausd 3 days ago
A discussion about why the ASF is still solving a problem projects don't have, source hosting, appears to be beyond the capabilities of the organization.
After a fierce battle CouchDB has been allowed to begin the move to git. The process appears to be going well and is being led by committer Paul Davis.
Enter PhoneGap. The PhoneGap project has been on GitHub for quite a while and already contains an enviable list of contributors. The project has been very successful and the move to Apache is a result of Adobe's recent acquisition of Nitobi, creators of PhoneGap.
By ASF regulations the project must spend time in the "Incubator" even though it has already proven itself as a technology and as a community to the rest of the world. The project requested git as its version control rather than subversion, for obvious reasons. The request was met with some hostility and new pressure has now come down on the CouchDB "experiment".
www.mikealrogers.com - clausd 4 days ago
But the Bannered Mare is far too small to be seen on a map of the overworld, so I needed another step. I timed how long it took my character to run the distance of A and B. By using the two different measurements, I hoped to minimise the prospects for error. To run A it took 1.8 seconds, while B took 3.4 seconds. Those both agree that my character runs at 5.6 metres per second.Armed with this knowledge, I timed my character running a longer distance, outside of the walls of Whiterun, such that the distance would be visible on a full map of Skyrim.
www.quora.com - clausd 4 days ago
‘‘Your surveillance idea is a bad one because it is Orwellian’’ – we can import all of that novel and its horrors with one compact word. The argument becomes a duel of narratives: the cool, impartial intelligence apparat that catches the bad guys versus the human reality of the corrupting nature of power and the way that our social contract and good behavior are eroded by constant surveillance and a culture of suspicion.
www.locusmag.com - clausd 4 days ago
Take away these trivial predictions and the number of genuine predictions – as opposed to inventions, such as Clarke’s geostationary orbits; or inspirations, such as Paul Krugman’s Foundation-inspired career in economics – from the literature underperforms a random-number generator.
It’s not just science fiction writers. The false belief in the predictive acumen of small groups of esoteric professionals is a recurring error in our society. Money managers, for example, almost never perform better than the market (and often underperform a straightforward index fund), but have a similar (and similarly undeserved) reputation as pickers of future winners.
www.locusmag.com - clausd 4 days ago
I was in upstate New York over Christmas break when I read an article in the local paper about a man who had purchased a decommissioned 1960′s missile launch site in 1995, built a few houses and an airstrip on the property, and was now looking to sell it ($750k and it’s yours! click here!), or perhaps lease it for film production use.
I. HAD. TO. SEE. THIS. PLACE.
www.scoutingny.com - clausd 4 days ago
That scariness makes ambitious ideas doubly valuable. In addition
to their intrinsic value, they're like undervalued stocks in the
sense that there's less demand for them among founders. If you
pick an ambitious idea, you'll have less competition, because
everyone else will have been frightened off by the challenges
involved. (This is also true of starting a startup generally.)
www.paulgraham.com - clausd 4 days ago
I remember going through this realization myself.
There was a point in 1995 when I was still trying to convince myself
I could start a company by just writing code. But I soon learned
from experience that schleps are not merely inevitable, but pretty
much what business consists of. A company is defined by the schleps
it will undertake. And schleps should be dealt with the same way
you'd deal with a cold swimming pool: just jump in. Which is not
to say you should seek out unpleasant work per se, but that you
should never shrink from it if it's on the path to something great.
www.paulgraham.com - clausd 4 days ago
This means that if you are in apparently more fundamental professions — perhaps you are a baker with a small business — you are effectively useless, not because bread isn’t important, but because surviving in the bread business is now a matter of having developers on your side who can help you win in a game that Yelp, Groupon and other software companies are running to their advantage.
www.forbes.com - clausd 4 days ago
Moore found he was able to listen in on meetings, remotely steer a camera around rooms as well as zoom in on items in a room to discern paint flecks on a wall or read proprietary information on documents.
Despite the fact that the most expensive systems offer encryption, password protection and the ability to lock down the movement of cameras, the researchers found that administrators were setting them up outside firewalls and failing to configure security features to keep out intruders. Some systems, for example, were set up to automatically accept inbound calls so that users didn’t need to press an “accept” button when a caller dialed into a videoconference, opening the way for anyone to call in and eavesdrop on a meeting.
www.wired.com - clausd 4 days ago
It looks at
the three places where Google only shows Google+ results and then automatically googles Google
to see if Google finds a result more relevant than Google+.
www.focusontheuser.org - clausd 4 days ago
One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
www.nytimes.com - clausd 5 days ago
The end result is a 64-core chip that handles more transactions and consumes less power than an equivalent batch of x86 chips. A 400-watt Tilera server can replace eight x86 servers that together draw 2,000 watts. Facebook’s engineers have given the chip a thorough tire-kicking, and Tilera says it has a growing business selling its chips to networking and videoconferencing equipment makers.
www.wired.com - clausd 5 days ago
Despite the crucial importance of these devices and the absence of comprehensive
federal oversight, medical device software is considered the exclusive property of its
manufacturers, meaning neither patients nor their doctors are permitted to access
their IMD’s source code or test its security.3
www.softwarefreedom.org - clausd 5 days ago
Stories are about conflict.
What makes a story hot is the friction in its core. When that friction ceases, the story ends. Take the story of Apple vs. IBM. As enemies, they made great copy. As collaborators, they are boring as dirt.
The whole notion of “positive” stories is oxymoronic. Stories never begin with “happily ever after.” Happy endings may resolve problems, but they only work at the end, not the beginning. Good PR recognizes that problems are the hearts of stories, and takes advantage of that fact.
Unfortunately, bad PR not only ignores the properties of stories, but imagines that “positive” stories can be “created” by staging press conferences and other “announcement events” that are just as bogus as press releases — and just as hated by their audiences.
blogs.law.harvard.edu - clausd 5 days ago
we were never able to scale beyond a small early adopter community and into critical, mainstream usage. While the initial launch and traction proved extremely exciting, it misled us into believing there was a larger market ready to adopt our product. Over the subsequent year and a half, we struggled to refine the product’s purpose and bolster its central value proposition with better functionality and design, but we were ultimately unable to make it work
techcrunch.com - clausd 5 days ago
The best estimates of actual behavior – the ones that factor in how often a customer would have bought a movie or piece of music that was obtained for free illegally – predict the user would have paid for the content only about one time in five. The other 80 percent of the time, if the content had cost anything at all, the pirate wouldn’t have bothered, Sanchez concludes and the GAO confirms.
So even the lowest estimates of the total amount lost by the entertainment industry to content piracy are overstated by about 80 percent.
That's not the $250 billion figure, it's $446 million, at least for movie content. That puts the total loss to the entire movie industry in the U.S. due to content piracy at $89 million.
www.itworld.com - clausd 5 days ago
Long-term there’s no future in printed books. They’ll be like vinyl: pricey and for collectors only. 95% of people will read digitally. Everybody in publishing knows this but most are in denial about it because moving to becoming a digital company means laying off like 40% of our staffs. And the barriers to entry fall, too. We simply don’t want to think about it.
Amazon is thinking about it, though, and they’re targeting the publishers directly.
pandodaily.com - clausd 8 days ago
Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches at the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business, recalls writing a report in 1979 detailing, fairly accurately, how different parts of the market would switch from film to digital, starting with government reconnaissance, then professional photography and finally the mass market, all by 2010. He was only a few years out.
Fujifilm, too, saw omens of digital doom as early as the 1980s. It developed a three-pronged strategy: to squeeze as much money out of the film business as possible, to prepare for the switch to digital and to develop new business lines.
www.economist.com - clausd 8 days ago
Kodak once dominated its industry and its film was the subject of a popular Paul Simon song, but it failed to embrace more modern technologies quickly enough, such as the digital camera -- ironically, a product it even invented.Its downfall hit its Rust Belt hometown of Rochester, New York, with employment there falling to about 7,000 from more than 60,000 in Kodak's heyday.Its market value has sunk to below $150 million from $31 billion 15 years ago.
www.reuters.com - clausd 9 days ago
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