"Last night I heard that Wesson oil doesn't soak through food. Well, that's true. It's not dishonest; but the thing I'm talking about is not just a matter of not being dishonest; it's a matter of scientific integrity, which is another level."
Math can be terrifying for many people. This lists will hopefully improve your general knowledge of mathematical tricks and your speed when you need to do math in your head.
highlight of twelve of the most important US laws when it comes to blogging and provides some simple and straightforward tips for safely navigating them.
a Forth compiler with a little difference. Instead of the standard Forth engine it features a conventional compiler. 4tH is a very small compiler that can create bytecode, C-embeddable bytecode, standalone executables, but also works fine 4 scripting
This report was originally written in 1992-1993. Therefore, some of its information is out-of-date. The Object Agency, Inc. believes, however, that the report still provides many useful insights.
This guide was mainly distilled from On Writing Well by William Zinsser and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Other sources are listed. Compiled by Joshua Sowin
by Eva Golinger. Transcription of the interview of Noam Chomsky about Venezuelan and Latin American done as promotion for the III International Book Fair in Venezuela, which this year focuses on the theme: "United States: Is Revolution Possible?"
This tutorial is intended for os/2 users starting with OS/2 2.30 or 3.0 or WARP. It is probably applicable mutatis mutandis to other systems as well, since REXX exists on a variety of platforms.
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.
a C++ template library for generic programming. It contains implementations of AVL Tree, Linked List, Vector, Binary Search Table, Queue, String and Sort.
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."
Before you start working with photo images on your computer (or even view them), you should really make sure that your video subsystem is capable and is displaying things correctly. These pages will assist you in adjusting your monitor by providing various test patterns. They also give a brief introduction to issues involved in calibrating a monitor
allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use editor to create your games, and a run-time engine to play them. (the editor requires .net)
a high-level graphical application framework. Although Agar was initially developed as a game engine for the upcoming Trek to the Cave, it is also being used in different types of applications, such as CAD.
This letter was submitted to U.S. president George W. Bush via the Swiss embassy in Tehran on May 8, 2006, originally written in Persian. This translation provided by the Islamic Republic News Agency, official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
contest offers a cash prize for the winning entry. In the past it has ranged from a low of $100 to a high of $500. Cash prizes for second place are usually awarded as well.
a multi-platform game library for C/C++ developers that provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse, and joystick), and timers.
works by recording the images produced by an adaptive optics front-end at high speed (20 frames per second or more). Software then checks each one to pick the sharpest ones.