The Boohbah website also has this kind of stuff. It's a flash app you should put in full screen mode. There are more sites like this if you look around, as every tv show has a web page nowadays.
I also recommend Mind Performance Hacks by Ron Hale-Evans, published by O'Reilly. It has 75 "hacks" you can choose from, sorted by subjects as memory, information processing, creativity, decision making and mental fitness.
It's kind of a follow-up to Mind Hacks, which shows how your brain works. Mind Performance Hacks focuses on improving its performance.
In that thread, I pointed to Brain Workshop, an open source version of the game used in this study by Susanne Jaeggi, a psychologist at the University of Michigan. The study deals with improving "fluid intelligence" - the part of your mind that deals directly with the raw newness of experience or, as defined by Jaeggi, "the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge."
Others pointed out there's also a Javascipt version that's much more light-weight.
By pointing out the older versions on Slashdot, enough geeks will duplicate those pages before Apple has a chance to take action. Remember the Streisand effect?
But don't despair: Susanne Jaeggi, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, may be able to help. She has devised a brain-training game that actually works. It's a strange, complex game involving sequences of squares on a computer screen, and it definitely improves "fluid intelligence" - the part of your mind that deals directly with the raw newness of experience or, as defined by Jaeggi, "the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge".
Here is a link to the abstract of her study. And the project Brain Workshop has released an open source version of the game used in the study.
It totally sidesteps the problem of early symptoms not typically getting people to the doctor where it can potentially be reported/tracked.
For a number of years, I'm a participant in "The Great Influenza Survey." This internet-based survey is conducted in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and since this year also in Italy. At the moment they have about 25000 participants.
Once each week the participants receive a mail with a link to report possible symptoms. This provides more data than Google Flu Trends, as more about the participants is known (age, received a flu shot,...)
(assuming os x makes up 0%, which is possible due to neo office)
Now that OpenOffice has native support for OS X, I switched from NeoOffice to OpenOffice 3. I don't see the need anymore for an extra layer above the original software, and releases which lag behind those of OpenOfiice. I suspect a lot of Mac users are doing the same.
That is what the parent said: "you can generate two files which collide with eachother."
The site you linked to explains:
It is important to note that the hash value shared by the two different files is a result of the collision construction process. We cannot target a given hash value, and produce a (meaningful) input bit string hashing to that given value. In cryptographic terms: our attack is an attack on collision resistance, not on preimage or second preimage resistance. This implies that both colliding files have to be specially prepared by the attacker, before they are published on a download site or presented for signing by a code signing scheme. Existing files with a known hash that have not been prepared in this way are not vulnerable.
The outer Oort cloud [...]. Its total mass is not known with certainty, but, assuming that Halley's comet is a suitable prototype for all comets within the outer Oort cloud, the estimated combined mass is 3x10^28 grams, or roughly five times the mass of the Earth. Earlier it was thought to be more massive (up to 380 Earth masses), but improved knowledge of the size distribution of long-period comets has led to much lower estimates. The mass of the inner Oort cloud is not currently known.
I've always used it too. The trick in the past was using "https://mail.google.com/" instead of "http://mail.google.com/" to connect to Gmail.
But now there is an option in Settings - General, "Browser connection: Always use https". I've never seen it before (but maybe it's there for some time already).
As far as I know, the most used variant is the blue LED + yellow phosphor one. In this case, the blue light, emitted by the LED, is cast directly, besides the yellow light coming from the phosphor. The mix of blue and yellow produces white light.
Unfortunately, these LEDs don't produce a very broad spectrum of light either. The spectrum has a sharp peak in the blue range, and a bit broader yellow range, as can be seen on this graph on the Wikipedia page.
I heard a lot of good from friends of mine about the Synology Cube Station CS407, and that's the one I have on order now. I like the fact it's expandable, I'm e.g. planning to run a Squeezebox server on it. It has good support, and a large user community.
Others I heard about: Intel SS4200-E (Helena Island). It exists in two versions, one with an embedded OS on a flash and one without any soft. The one with software included has not that much possibilities and is not expandable, it's in the category "it just works." For the other version, I heard installing Linux or Windows Home Server on it is a PITA...
The ReadyNAS by Infrant (recently bought by Netgear) also gets good comments.
And yes, the front page has been updated, and it has pink and yellow UFOs now! With new alien technology, I suppose they will have an easy time supporting the server load now.
Posted on Twitter: "hey everyone: servers coming back up soon, please be patient." - which links to the Mozlla blog:
Firefox 3 coming soon! mshapiro - 10:39, June 17th, 2008 Firefox, Mozilla News The outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around Firefox 3 has been overwhelming (literally!). Our servers are currently feeling the burn and should be back to normal shortly. Download day will officially commence once the site goes live. The 24 hours period will be clocked from that moment. Thanks for your continued support.
Some people do not like the new URL bar because it gives too much (unwanted) results because it also looks in your bookmarks and the browser history.
I'd just like to point out that it adaptively learns how to sort the results, so you shouldn't discard it on first use. Give it some time to come up with the most relevant URLs (for you) on top.
With the low price of current new 1TB HDs, I think your project will cost more than buying new hardware (I may be wrong).
So I suggest building some enormous speaker arrays with the drives, as e.g. demonstrated in this video of Radiohead's Nude (the hard drive array kicks in around 1'40").
This should improve the speed and ability to lock to satellites. It can even provide (less accurate) location data without a GPS signal, using WiFi and cell tower info (the iPhone 1.0 and iPod Touch already use this).
The first sentence of the article is also important, I think: "While there is no good alternative, The Netherlands vote with pencil and paper." Having no guaranties against eavesdropping at any moment (to ensure voter anonymity) in combination with high cost led to this decision.
The last paragraph talks about tests with two forms of automation for the counting of the votes (cast on paper). In both methods humans are involved in the process to ensure correctness and integrity.
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The Boohbah website also has this kind of stuff. It's a flash app you should put in full screen mode. There are more sites like this if you look around, as every tv show has a web page nowadays.
I also recommend Mind Performance Hacks by Ron Hale-Evans, published by O'Reilly. It has 75 "hacks" you can choose from, sorted by subjects as memory, information processing, creativity, decision making and mental fitness.
It's kind of a follow-up to Mind Hacks, which shows how your brain works. Mind Performance Hacks focuses on improving its performance.
This recent Slashdot thread (and the accomplishing article) discussed the effectiveness of brain training games.
In that thread, I pointed to Brain Workshop, an open source version of the game used in this study by Susanne Jaeggi, a psychologist at the University of Michigan. The study deals with improving "fluid intelligence" - the part of your mind that deals directly with the raw newness of experience or, as defined by Jaeggi, "the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge."
Others pointed out there's also a Javascipt version that's much more light-weight.
By pointing out the older versions on Slashdot, enough geeks will duplicate those pages before Apple has a chance to take action. Remember the Streisand effect?
From the article:
But don't despair: Susanne Jaeggi, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, may be able to help. She has devised a brain-training game that actually works. It's a strange, complex game involving sequences of squares on a computer screen, and it definitely improves "fluid intelligence" - the part of your mind that deals directly with the raw newness of experience or, as defined by Jaeggi, "the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge".
Here is a link to the abstract of her study. And the project Brain Workshop has released an open source version of the game used in the study.
So the Lich King didn't have to twiddle his thumbs for long...
And there's also a Ctrl-Alt-Del "silly" on the new WoW expansion.
Where is the "andnothingofvaluewaslost" tag now?
It totally sidesteps the problem of early symptoms not typically getting people to the doctor where it can potentially be reported/tracked.
For a number of years, I'm a participant in "The Great Influenza Survey." This internet-based survey is conducted in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and since this year also in Italy. At the moment they have about 25000 participants.
Once each week the participants receive a mail with a link to report possible symptoms. This provides more data than Google Flu Trends, as more about the participants is known (age, received a flu shot,...)
Link to an introduction in English.
Map on front page: current status in the Netherlands and Belgium (mostly Flanders). Legend: green dot = measurement, yellow triangle = common cold, red cross = probably flu.
Current time line (percentage of people with flu)
What about content created on Wikipedia after 1 November? Wikipedia is still licensed under the GFDL 1.2 for the moment.
(assuming os x makes up 0%, which is possible due to neo office)
Now that OpenOffice has native support for OS X, I switched from NeoOffice to OpenOffice 3. I don't see the need anymore for an extra layer above the original software, and releases which lag behind those of OpenOfiice. I suspect a lot of Mac users are doing the same.
That is what the parent said: "you can generate two files which collide with eachother."
The site you linked to explains:
It is important to note that the hash value shared by the two different files is a result of the collision construction process. We cannot target a given hash value, and produce a (meaningful) input bit string hashing to that given value. In cryptographic terms: our attack is an attack on collision resistance, not on preimage or second preimage resistance. This implies that both colliding files have to be specially prepared by the attacker, before they are published on a download site or presented for signing by a code signing scheme. Existing files with a known hash that have not been prepared in this way are not vulnerable.
From the Wikipedia article:
The outer Oort cloud [...]. Its total mass is not known with certainty, but, assuming that Halley's comet is a suitable prototype for all comets within the outer Oort cloud, the estimated combined mass is 3x10^28 grams, or roughly five times the mass of the Earth. Earlier it was thought to be more massive (up to 380 Earth masses), but improved knowledge of the size distribution of long-period comets has led to much lower estimates. The mass of the inner Oort cloud is not currently known.
I've always used it too. The trick in the past was using "https://mail.google.com/" instead of "http://mail.google.com/" to connect to Gmail.
But now there is an option in Settings - General, "Browser connection: Always use https". I've never seen it before (but maybe it's there for some time already).
The most interesting part of the site, accessible without logging in, is their blog.
I found the three posts about the used printers rather informative, with discussions about possible materials, level of detail,...
As far as I know, the most used variant is the blue LED + yellow phosphor one. In this case, the blue light, emitted by the LED, is cast directly, besides the yellow light coming from the phosphor. The mix of blue and yellow produces white light.
Unfortunately, these LEDs don't produce a very broad spectrum of light either. The spectrum has a sharp peak in the blue range, and a bit broader yellow range, as can be seen on this graph on the Wikipedia page.
I heard a lot of good from friends of mine about the Synology Cube Station CS407, and that's the one I have on order now. I like the fact it's expandable, I'm e.g. planning to run a Squeezebox server on it. It has good support, and a large user community.
Others I heard about: Intel SS4200-E (Helena Island). It exists in two versions, one with an embedded OS on a flash and one without any soft. The one with software included has not that much possibilities and is not expandable, it's in the category "it just works." For the other version, I heard installing Linux or Windows Home Server on it is a PITA...
The ReadyNAS by Infrant (recently bought by Netgear) also gets good comments.
And yes, the front page has been updated, and it has pink and yellow UFOs now! With new alien technology, I suppose they will have an easy time supporting the server load now.
Posted on Twitter: "hey everyone: servers coming back up soon, please be patient." - which links to the Mozlla blog: Firefox 3 coming soon!
mshapiro - 10:39, June 17th, 2008
Firefox, Mozilla News
The outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around Firefox 3 has been overwhelming (literally!). Our servers are currently feeling the burn and should be back to normal shortly. Download day will officially commence once the site goes live. The 24 hours period will be clocked from that moment. Thanks for your continued support.
They also posted on Twitter: "hey everyone: servers coming back up soon, please be patient."
Some people do not like the new URL bar because it gives too much (unwanted) results because it also looks in your bookmarks and the browser history.
I'd just like to point out that it adaptively learns how to sort the results, so you shouldn't discard it on first use. Give it some time to come up with the most relevant URLs (for you) on top.
With the low price of current new 1TB HDs, I think your project will cost more than buying new hardware (I may be wrong).
So I suggest building some enormous speaker arrays with the drives, as e.g. demonstrated in this video of Radiohead's Nude (the hard drive array kicks in around 1'40").
Building instructions.
Another demo.
From this article about leaked firmware and the announcement the iPhone will combine GPS, Wi-Fi, and cell tower location technology, I conclude the new iPhone will use Assisted GPS, explained here.
This should improve the speed and ability to lock to satellites. It can even provide (less accurate) location data without a GPS signal, using WiFi and cell tower info (the iPhone 1.0 and iPod Touch already use this).
This seems to be corrected now, the timer on the tracking page is adjusted to show the same time as the one on the front page.
The first sentence of the article is also important, I think: "While there is no good alternative, The Netherlands vote with pencil and paper." Having no guaranties against eavesdropping at any moment (to ensure voter anonymity) in combination with high cost led to this decision.
The last paragraph talks about tests with two forms of automation for the counting of the votes (cast on paper). In both methods humans are involved in the process to ensure correctness and integrity.