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  1. Additional Nodes = Increased Adaptive Cognition on DARPA Wants Extreme Wireless Interference Buster · · Score: 1

    Situations where a single transmitter and single receiver are the norm are almost never the case anymore (at least in the wireless domain). A favorite paper on the subject is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1624625 Cooperative MIMO, Spread Spectrum, and Cognitive networks potentially allow EM jamming to be avoided and more easily predicted. Perhaps DARPA suspects that the channel is, in reality, a non-zero-sum game. That would overturn Shannon alright!

  2. Apple's Human Interface Guidelines on GUI Design Book Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Tog's great.

    Apple's HI Guidelines are really the distillation of [practical, achievable] best practices, as laid down by all the HCI greats that have ever worked there:

    http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGHIDesign/chapter_5_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000353-TPXREF130

    There's plenty of theory and pontification, but this is backed up by API's. If only Apple would consistently follow their own dog pee.

  3. Re: Waving around at invisibles, in public...Neat? on Using Wireless Signals in Games · · Score: 1

    A better option would to have the enemy strength INVERSELY related to ambient wifi traffic... then all the epic battles happen in the countryside!

  4. Re:Ubuntu rough around the edges on A Review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hate to beat a dead horse (Windows), or a promising pony (Ubuntu), but the solution to your problems is to install and enjoy MacOS - a quality assemblage of software, created by professional Linux fans (ie they get paid to fix bugs), and it has two of the nicest text/code editors ever seen:

    TextWrangler and Coda (from panic sw)

    TextWrangler is incredibly powerful, and free. Coda is incredibly gorgeous and useful (integrated file transfer/sync, terminal, pdf/reference book viewing).

    I cannot believe that between Windows and Linux you had to boot up the Word empire to remove hard wraps. Them's hard knocks. Anyone experiencing similar frustration, please give Apple a try, I don't think you'd be disappointed after an initial acclimatization period, period.

    For power users/linux users, I highly recommend checking out osx.hyperjeff.net for all your Mac-specific application/sourcecode needs.

    Be well,

    BDB