BMW is looking pioneer a move away from proprietary systems used for in-car entertainment systems, allowing developers to build plug and play applications especially for their cars. This could be extremely good news for the open source community and another ‘notch in the bed post’ in the fight against closed source systems.
When a manufacturer or [...]
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Many of you here are either involved with the marketing of a web site for another company or operate a web site or blog of your own. For either case, being able to immediately see if a page is cached by Google would be invaluable. That’s exactly what the Google Cache Checker extension [...]
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His strap line is:
Seeing things, thinking things, writing things.
Andrew Hatch wants you to find out why he says this
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Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast by Microsoft
An input audio data stream comprising speech is processed by an automatic censoring filter in either a real-time mode, or a batch mode, producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases [...]
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From the HiRISE Website
The north polar layered deposits, and the bright ice cap that covers them, are very young (by geologic standards) features. To try and figure out the age of an area, or how quickly it’s being resurfaced, planetary scientists count up the number of craters at different sizes. An older surface has more [...]
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The EU have been pushing for more stringent regulation of Internet content for quite a while, however Lord Currie, the Head of Ofcom, has hatched an ingenious plan to combat growing numbers of unemployment. Internet regulation could possibly create thousands of jobs, as the Register have pointed out:
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The Reg took up the challenge and with [...]
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I am quite sure that you have all done something similar to me; had a few drinks, then sent a text message or email whilst not quite ‘mentally balanced’. Most of the time these drunken messages result in nothing more than a slightly red face. Very occasionally something that may have seemed like an infallible [...]
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Because of the numerous hours in a day (and various other constraints), the lines in a diary are typically very narrow. They are also usually equally distributed (somewhat). But our information is a hierarchy. Some are more important to us. Some we feel happier about. We want to highlight stuff that’s important to us. We [...]
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I will be looking to diagonalgrade my crappy copy of Vista Home Premium, that I never use…
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It may be cliche, but it seems that people who get good at writing software are motivated by laziness. If everyone was as constructively lazy as a good programmer is, the whole world would be more efficient.
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I wish I could grep my keys.
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Programming teaches you that the universe is predictable and deterministic. I’ve personally found [...]
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