Michael Ax: LinkLogLinks of the _then day(Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Codeweavers runs Office without Windows "It is a huge job. Windows contains 15,000 function calls, each of which takes a day to write," White said. "We essentially have to implement everything that has not been done, so if there is a DLL Microsoft has that WINE doesn't have, we have to implement that DLL. It took us nine months just to make that happen," White explained. what a neto quantification!http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/29.html#a550 (Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Catch of the Day: "This very uncertainty can be modeled, apparently. Entelos' data system uses a grammar that allows the description of just what's known about drugs, chemical pathways, and their effects on organ systems. The "top-down" multivariate, nonlinear simulation is quite different from modeling, say, an airplane wing, in which a more complete understanding of mechanics and physics drives a bottom-up construction of the simulated universe. Plugging this incomplete, and often...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/24.html#a540 written documentation still an admission of failure- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Volume Control Knob Turns Heads "People see it on someone's desk, glowing and pulsing, and they've got to know what it is," he said. "We get people saying, 'It's incredibly useless, I use it every day.'"http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/25.html#a541 GameBoys cause of physical mutation- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Mercury News 03232002 Thumbs are the new fingers for GameBoy youth "Discovering that the younger generation has taken to using thumbs in a completely different way and are instinctively using thumbs where the rest of us are using our index fingers is particularly interesting.''http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/25.html#a542 (Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Greeks were slaves to the beat Mathematical methods like the ones now widely used to analyse texts, and for the spotting of plagiarism show that Greek poets had more rhythm than the Romans :)http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/27.html#a543 (Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Loss hits you between the eyes The brain region in question, the medial frontal cortex, or MFC, is part of the limbic system, which produces our emotions. It is finally being linked to how we make decisions - by looking sideways at how somewhat obsessive thoughts may be arising and affecting our behaviour.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/27.html#a544 (Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Yahoo! News - As the Web Matures, Fun Is Hard to Find "We lost our sense of wonder," he said. "The Web is old hat." Just 11 years after it was born and about 6 years after it became popular, the Web has lost its luster. Many who once raved about surfing from address to address on the Web now lump site-seeing with other online chores, like checking the In box. so much for the web-as-fun perspective :)http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/28.html#a545 (Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Study: Watching TV Increases Teen, Adult Aggression (washingtonpost.com): ""the correlation between violent media and aggression is larger than the effect that wearing a condom has on decreasing the risk of HIV. It's larger than the correlation between exposure to lead and decreased IQ levels in kids. It's larger than the effects of exposure to asbestos. It's larger than the effect of second-hand smoke on cancer.""http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/28.html#a546 (Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) New Scientist Neural network 'in-jokes' could pass secrets "Synchronised neural networks jump to the same conclusion, given the same limited information." i forgot that neural networks entrain to be each other's mirror, but using them as a function to get encryption keys seems like a bad excuse for an article. what's the point it's one of a million ways of working with secret keys.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/29.html#a549 (Untitled)- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam It's clear from the opening day of Spamcon -- the anti-spam conference occurring here this week -- that there are dedicated spam-fighters out in the world. But it's also clear that they're fighting a losing battle, trying to plug a river with their fingertips.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100169/categories/linklog/2002/03/24.html#a539 |