by Edward de Bono. "There is a story of a man who painted half his car black and the other half white. He said he did this because he loved to hear the witnesses dogmatically contradict each other whenever he was involved in an accident. A wife tries on a new dress and loves it. Her husband who is with her dislikes it. She is looking at the colour and shape - he is looking at the price."
The Lenna (or Lena) picture is one of the most widely used standard test images used for compression algorithms.'lena' or 'lenna' is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972. (Lenna is the spelling in Playboy, Lena is the Swedish spelling of the name.) Lena Soderberg (ne Sjööblom)
a type of nuclear explosive being developed by the US Department of Defense could blur the critical distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The work has also raised fears that weapons based on this technology could trigger the next arms race.
Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). More than 4,000 pages have been scanned, including his annotated copy of Principia Mathematica, containing Newton's laws of motion and gravity.
devoted to game / 3D graphics programming with DirectX / OpenGL using C++. Contains downloadable source code for several small and very specific sample programs that I think will be very helpful to anyone trying to learn both 2D and 3D game programming.
previously at http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ , ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 is the international standardization working group for the programming language C++.
Li Fan, Pei Cao and Jussara Almeida & Andrei Z. Broder - this new protocol, each proxy keeps a summary of the cache directory of each participating proxy, and checks these summaries for potential hits before sending any queries.
designed over a 20 year period by Carl Sassenrath, the system architect responsible for the world's first multitasking multimedia operating system, the Commodore Amiga OS.
treats parsing in its own right, in greater depth than is found in most computer science and linguistics books. It offers a clear, accessible, and thorough discussion of many different parsing techniques with their interrelations and applicabilities,
by Alex Rest, describes some problems, bugs and technique solutions that correspond to using pointers. This article would be useful for beginners and programmers that are using other programming languages and are starting to study C and C++ now.
a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright.
Designed for the PlayStation 3, Sony, Toshiba and IBM's new "Cell processor" promises seemingly obscene computing capabilities for what will rapidly become a very low price.
explores the challenges of constructing a distributed e-business architecture based on the concept of Request Based Virtual OrganiZation (RBVO) and presents a solution based on ebXML, Open Source e-business component
Two new (in the sense that, as far as I know, they were never before programmed for a computer) algorithms for the classical Tower of Hanoi problem and their variations are discussed.
@ Ars Technica by Wayne "Hat Monster" Hardman "The BIOS is that dark, cavernous pathway to your computer's very soul that both beckons and repels the would-be performance seeker."
"In my opinion, good knife skills are an essential component of being a good cook. And good knife skills are not particularly difficult for the average person to learn."
by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes "I've been writing on CPU technology here at Ars for almost five years now, and during that time I've done my best to communicate computing concepts in as plain and accessible a manner as possible while still retaining some level
a compilation of all the JVM options for various versions of the JVM on primarily SPARC/Solaris Platform. The descriptions for each option are taken mostly verbatim from the reference documents.
not a full reference to the standard library. Some elements are listed using actual class or function declarations; other elements are listed using a shorthand to make things simpler and/or more concise.
From Jakob Nielsen, usability guru. The user's experience should be similar to all other similar applications to minimize learning curve and maximize usability.
Latest technology news; monthly journal; events, hot forum topics; top articles; viewpoints; links to papers and reports; career centre; dedicated C++ forum - some pages with hundreds of views; media centre with audio, video, netseminars to subscribe to
"I refer to the tools and techniques on this page as "notemaking" because "taking notes" is passive: just as we must make meaning, so we must make notes---in our head, on the page, and in our notebooks"
Mac OS X, which combines a powerful core foundation with a compelling user interface called Aqua. With advanced features and an aesthetically refined use of color, transparency, and animation.
lecture notes for the course Programming Graphical User Interfaces (PGUI). The course belongs to the curriculum of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Tampere.
In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. 72 years later, the eighth drop is only just about to fall.
Almost every application with GUI needs icons. And they better be sexy. And stylish. And consistent. And small. Here are few tips for programatically creating icons using Java 2D features
Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men.
Sunlight can convert triclosan, a common disinfectant used in anti-bacterial soaps, into a form of dioxin, and this process may produce some of the dioxin found in the environment, according to research at the University of Minnesota.
The numbers that control your life. You're identified by dozens of numbers. Your phone number, your driver's license number, your social security number, your zip code, your license plate, your credit card numbers. I find these numbers fascinating. Who distributes them? What can they be used for? How can you use them? How are they issued?