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Computers - (USA)
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/category/computers/
The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering - (USA)
The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering “It will therefore be crucial that you see the world anew. That means looking from the outside in to reanalyze much that you have probably taken for granted. This will enable you to come to an understanding. If you fail to transcend conventional thinking at a time when conventional thinking is losing touch with reality, then you will be more likely to fall prey to an epidemic of disorientation that lies ahead. Disorientation breeds mistakes that could
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-financial-fire-trucks-are-gathering/
Be Prepared - Food Storage Economics Part 3 - (USA)
In PART 1 I talked about some good reasons to set aside a little extra food and water. Looking back on it I think I forgot one more good reason. I may have thought “No, this can’t happen here in the United States” so I didn’t consider it. But looking at the way the economy has failed in the last 8 weeks, and seeing our government’s solution to it, this could be a real possibility towards the end of next year. Uncontrolled INFLATION! That’s right, the cost of goods could dramatically increase
http://www.geekinspired.com/geek-inspired/be-prepared-food-storage-economics-part-3/
The Day After - (USA)
Today is the traditional first day of my personal "I Hate Turkey" season. I should be wearing an outfit of baggy sweatpants where I've snipped the elastic in the waist, one of my seasonal post-Thanksgiving t-shirts ("JUST SAY NO TO CRACK [POTATOES]!", "FUTURE BREATHARIAN," or "MY BABY IS A FOOD BABY" ), with a square of duct tape affixed firmly over my mouth. But no, I am at work today (which the sad few of us here have deemed the practice to be a hybrid of unsupervised day care and being sent
http://tangobaby2.blogspot.com/2008/11/day-after.html
Chess Computing - (USA)
Chess enthusiasts and computer engineers have attempted to build, with increasing degrees of seriousness and success, chess-playing machines since 1769. Motivations can essentially be consolidated into two: firstly, to build a machine to play chess with for solo entertainment, and secondly, to investigate chess as a problem which might provide some insight into human cognition. In this view, the history of computer chess is both a spectacular success and a virtually complete failure. Chess-p
http://www.sfetcu.com/content/Chess-Computing
perl.com: Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting... - (USA)
Larry Wall's 11th annual State of the Onion address discusses the past, present, and future of scripting languages, including some of the design principles for Perl 6.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html
Fifteen Classic Game Console Design Mistakes - (USA)
Video game systems may be toys of a sort, but they’re also complicated machines. They require precision engineering, specialized hardware design, and careful industrial design to successfully achieve what seems like a simple goal: to play games on a television set. Throughout the history of home game consoles, each generation of machines has brought new opportunities to innovate. Along the way, companies have often slipped up and made mistakes that came back to haunt them later–some of which
http://technologizer.com/2009/08/10/fifteen-classic-game-console-design-mistakes/
What We'll Miss About Bill Gates — a Very Long Good-Bye - (USA)
Get Wired's take on technology business news and the Silicon Valley scene including IT, media, mobility, broadband, video, design, security, software, networking and internet startups on Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/st_billgates
15 Classic Game Console Design Mistakes - (USA)
August 11th, 2009 by Benj Edwards Up now on Technologizer is my latest VC&G-related freelance work: 15 Classic Game Console Design Mistakes, a non-exhaustive analysis of various hardware and design goofs in video game consoles. In it, I discuss the Intellivision, Sega Saturn, NES, Atari Jaguar, and more.This latest article is a follow-up of an earlier Technologizer piece I wrote back in June: 15 Classic PC Design Mistakes.Interestingly, this latest piece is proving to be far more controversial.
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/581
The web that time forgot - International Herald Tribune - (USA)
The web that time forgot
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/17/healthscience/17mund.php
Internet Safety Strategies That Just Make Sense - (USA)
by Judy Gray As a rule parents these days did not grow up with the any access to computers at all yet our children seem to have been born computer literate. Just like all of the parents before us we need to know everything we can about what our offspring are doing and where they are going and that is specially true on the Internet. There are horror stories that we hear on a daily basis about Internet predators and how they pose as something they are not in order to entice children over the
http://articles.newmillionaireleague.com/computers/internet-safety-strategies-that-just-make-sense/
George Dyson at the birth of the computer | Video on TED.com - (USA)
TED Talks Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/278
O'Reilly -- What Is Web 2.0 - (USA)
Tim O'Reilly attempts to clarify just what is meant by Web 2.0, the term first coined at a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Cop fired over anti-gay emails - (USA)
(London) A British police officer who sent emails to other officers condemning homosexuality and calling for gays to seek the help of a controversial American Christian group that claims to “cure” gays has been fired for misconduct. Constable Graham Cogman, 49, accused the Norfolk police of promoting gay rights over religious beliefs. The emails contained biblical quotes and in one mailing said ”love the sinner hate the deed” after calling homosexuality “sinful.” Another email espoused the so
http://outgaylife.com/inthenews/local-news/gay-england-news/cop-fired-antigay-emails/
The perfect geek age? - (USA)
Was being born in 1971 the perfect time to be born a geek? It meant I got to see Star Wars in the theater, 13 times, at ages 6 and 7, exactly when it would overwhelm my sense of wonder. I got an 8-bit computer at exactly the age when boys get obsessive about details, and I spent days PEEKing and POKEing and typing in listings from magazines and learning how computers actually worked . It meant at least half the new games I played were actually new ideas . And yet I got to play real
http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/05/14/the-perfect-geek-age/
This Day in Geek History: May 15 - (USA)
1718 The “Defence” rapid-fire gun, the world’s first machine gun, is patented by a London lawyer, James Puckle . (UK No. 418) The design is a flintlock revolver with a barrel 3 feet long and a bore of 1.25 inches. A pre-loaded “cylinder” held eleven charges and could fire sixty-three shots in seven minutes. It’s firing rate of nine shots per minute is three times faster than the fastest loading time of an infantryman. The patent describes it as “A portable gun or machine called a Defence
http://thegreatgeekmanual.com/blog/this-day-in-geek-history-may-15-2009
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Computer Storage (1956) - (USA)
Photograph shows a 1956 computer disk memory storage unit.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/storage.asp
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine - Hardware - Breaking Business and Technology News at - (USA)
An exclusive peek behind the scenes at Bletchley Park. Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. These
http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39170392,00.htm
Museum of Soviet Calculators - (USA)
Museum of Soviet calculators. Displays handheld and desktop calculators from the 1900s to the present, showing interesting features of each.
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/soviet.html
Bill Gates: top ten greatest hits (and misses) - the Microsoft years - Engadget - (USA)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/27/bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses-the-microsoft-y/
Exclusive interview with Jez San OBE - (USA)
Jez San is one of the veterans who made the British video game industry. An assembly language programmer for several different processors, his first major game hit was Starglider in 1986, many others followed. He is also a chip designer, book author, online gambling expert and highly successful businessman. In 2002 he was awarded the OBE. He is also a life member of BAFTA. Jez now owns or has interests in a range of companies in and around the gaming industry. Perhaps we can start by settin
http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/08/11/exclusive-interview-with-jez-san-obe/
Mac Specs, Prices, Answers, & More @ EveryMac.com - Established 1996 - (USA)
A complete guide of Every Mac, iPod, and Mac clone in the world, with detailed technical, configuration, and pricing information.
http://www.everymac.com/
Asus Eee Keyboard - Commodore Style Returns? - (USA)
It’s not just a keyboard, it’s the whole computer . A keyboard with the computer built in and an 800×480 touchscreen display/trackpad on the right. I had two initial thoughts when I saw this thing on Engadget . First, there’s going to be a lot of strained necks. This is absolutely not ergo-friendly whatsoever. Cool, yes, but not ergonomically sound. Second, I immediately thought, "Hey, this is reminiscent of the old Commodore 64 !" Several comment posters on the link above said the e
http://www.pcmech.com/article/asus-eee-keyboard-commodore-style-returns/
Eight SugarDaddy Role Models From Fiction - (USA)
Just to nail down what exactly we mean when we say “sugardaddy”, it’s useful to use some role models from fiction. It’s useful because we can identify tropes of the wealthy Playboy male and see how they shape the common public perception of the sugar daddy image. Also, this is just dang fun to do. Daddy Warbucks … from the newspaper comic strip “Little Orphan Annie”. We might as well start with an example with ‘daddy’ right in the name! Strip creator Harold Gray picked the name “Warbucks” to
http://www.thedivanetwork.com/2009/08/eight-sugardaddy-role-models-from-fiction.html
The Apple Way: How to Manage Your Business & Career - (USA)
I mention Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs a lot in these columns. Yes, I am a fan of Apple products, but the reasons for my admiration go deeper than a love of consumer electronics products. Below are some lessons I take away from his continuing legacy, which I feel can benefit any brand and any career: Focus on What Matters, Not What’s Easy. Jobs challenges people to create things that need to be created, not things that can be created. From the first Mac product, to developing the personal com
http://danblank.com/blog/2009/08/11/the-apple-way-how-to-manage-your-business-career/
Sustained Quantum Information Processing Demonstrated - (USA)
Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express,* overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors. In the new demonstration, NIST researchers repeatedly performed
http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2009/08/10/sustained-quantum-information-processing-demonstrated/
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