Home - Icelandic Saga Database. World Wonders Project. James Gleick: Bits in the Ether. Science thrives in virtual worlds. Courtesy of George Djorgovski Second Life residents Desdemona Enfield and Curious George work on a virtual-reality visualization that classifies stars, galaxies and quasars according to their colors, brightness, distance and morphology. By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Does the virtual-reality world known as Second Life have anything to offer for real-world scientists? Absolutely — and a trailblazing researcher says the payoffs are sure to increase when the Internet goes 3-D. "We are really meant to interact in 3-D, with other people and with information," Caltech astronomer George Djorgovski, director of the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics, told me today during an interview in Second Life. "Because this works so well with the human perception system, as soon as there is an easy and 'good enough' 3-D approach, people will switch en masse.
" Virtual worlds have been around for decades, if you count immersive gaming environments such as World of Warcraft. Why is that? HitFix Film. Darren criss Addict-o-matic Aggregator. Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, News, Stories, Forum. Unallocated Space, Unlimited Possibilities for Hackers - Technorazzi. This is not your every day, run-of-the-mill hacker. This is C-P: the hacker with the world-record mohawk at DefCon. And this is C-P: the hacker with a hacker facility that facilitates other hackers with their hacking. About his background, C-P explains. “I was always into engineering growing up, didn’t call it hacking back then though. I used terms I knew. ‘Inventor’ was how I described my self as a child.”
Childhood heroes? The 1,640 square feet space is located in Severn, Maryland. C-P explains what motivated him. I moved out to the east coast a little over a year ago, from Southern California. C-P describes it as a very “Field of Dreams” moment. Unallocated Space was a dream that its founder C-P had. The response from Unallocated Space participants, or members, has been incredible. “I’m constantly finding little things, like a new sticker, or new whiteboard drawings, or *something* that bring a smile to my face. This is paradise for geeks The Harvard Club from. Demystifying Usability : New Study- Gender differences in Web Usability. Comscore just released a new study last month (June 30 2010) entitled Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet (download here).
The worldwide study adds some key insights into the growing research on gender differences on the Web and in particular around social networking usage. Why is this a big deal? Differences in gender are important to understand so we can increase our ability to provide more targeted, relevant and desirable user experiences. It's a design issue as much as an advertising and strategy issue. I feel the User Experience community, has not fully tapped the potential of gender-specific design aka Woman-centered Design. Gender as an audience sensitive criteria (differentiation) is barely present in North American technology product design (where it is much easier to do) let alone Web experiences.
Comscore report 'Women on the Web' Key Findings 1. Significance of the Data "Women were significantly less satisfied than men with the navigation of the site. Memory Collection and Analysis Tools. Recently, there was a post on the SANS Forensics blog about memory collection and analysis tools, but for some reason, it seems that folks are STILL having trouble with this process; I'm seeing posts in forums (forii??) Saying that "...this tool doesn't work... " or "...that tool crashed when I tried to use it... ". My suspicion is that the tools aren't being used correctly as folks may not understand their limitations. CollectionI tend to separate collection and analysis...I've found that it's better to do each one right separately than it is to try to do both at the same time and split your resources.
XP/2003There are a number of tools that allow for collection of physical memory on Windows XP and 2003 systems. The first and perhaps best known was a version of dd.exe modified by George M. These tools are also available on the Helix CD. The delineation mark for the tools came with Windows 2003 SP1, as that's when MS removed user-mode access to the PhysicalMemory object. File Carving: Recover Data From Hard Drive, USB and CD-ROM. When you erase a file on your computer, it doesn’t just disappear.
The directory table is updated saying that the space used by the file is now able to be overwritten. But the file is still intact. Data recovery programs exist to “un-erase” these files. Now, what if your hard drive is damaged, the directory table is corrupt or you need to get data off of a CD-ROM, USB or iPhone? What if you could recover data from a drive without using the directory table at all? What if you could search a storage media looking for picture files that are hidden or missing? When files are stored on a drive, they are stored in a particular pattern. It works very well, I ran it on my laptop and it found thousands of deleted items, which I could easily view.
Like this: Like Loading... 10 Destructive Faults in Our Way of Thinking. Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email The human mind is wonderful and powerful, but it’s far from perfect. There are several common judgment errors that it’s prone to making. In the field of Psychology these are known as cognitive biases, or fallacies in reasoning. They happen to everyone regardless of age, sex, education or intelligence. Over the past few months I’ve become fascinated by these biases and fallacies, so I’ve read several books about them . Negative self-fulfilling prophecies. – A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that motivates a person to take actions that cause the prediction to come true.
If you can relate to some of these destructive thinking faults, and you’re interested in learning more about them, give these books a read. Photo by: Pejman Parvandi If you enjoyed this article, check out our new best-selling book. And get inspiring life tips and quotes in your inbox (it's free)... Untitled. SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896.
Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow his or her propositions remain, the easier they are to defend by him or her. (abstracted from the book:Numerical Lists You Never Knew or Once Knew and Probably Forget, by: John Boswell and Dan Starer) Mom.me. Working at the Apple Store: Tales from the Inside.
While I think Apple's approach is a little over the top, welcome to working retail and dealing with the public. I may sound a little out of line because I'm an Engineer, but I've worked at many places throughout HS/college and my parents have both worked in retail and never held back telling stories. Anywhere you work where you have to speak to a customer, you're going to be given a set of lines and rules on how you speak to them, because the customer IS going to be a complete idiot while at the same time, thinking you're the idiot, but you can't make THEM feel like an idiot or they'll get mad at you and everything you represent.
Your company is going to give you incentives and goals in order to push customers into buying something they don't need. Not every employee has the kind of charisma to make a customer buy something, and because of that, something that was supposed to be an incentive will soon become a delinquency. (think *FLARE* from Office Space). iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows. Apple’s announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function — killing Microsoft. Here is the money line from Jobs yesterday: “We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device – just like an iPad, an iPhone or an iPod Touch. We’re going to move the hub of your digital life to the cloud.”
Just like they used to say at Sun Microsystems, the network is the computer. Or we could go even further and say our data is the computer. This redefines digital incumbency. Machines that nearly all of our data and our ability to use that data have been trapped. What this requires from Apple is a bold move that Microsoft would never make: Jobs is going to sacrifice the Macintosh in order to kill Windows. 30+ Accessibility Tools, Softwares & Resources for The Visually Impaired. Free ebooks are meant to be read and enjoyed by everybody regardless of physical imperfections, hence why this post is being made, although I must admit that this should be the first post that should be posted here. Having said that, do join me in the journey to increase this list of resources to make it a comprehensive one, to provide and create the proper accessibility channels.
I’m sure there are other list out there which covers some of the areas below, but I do hope this post will somehow be a part of the whole effort in making this a reality. Audio Ebooks Been covered here, 35 total sites found so far providing free downloadable audio ebooks. Adobe Reader 9 Accessibility Taking note that 99% of the ebooks on this site are in PDF format, Adobe has a site dedicated specifically in providing information in greater details on making it easier for people with disabilities to read PDF files. Since Adobe PDF Reader is free, I think it’s worth taking advantage of this built in feature. TEDxCLE | Ideas worth spreading.