Symbian shipments up but royalties stall 20. May 2008
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Symbian Limited has announced first quarter results which show shipments are growing steadily but a drop in average royalty per unit has left income static.
When code goes bad: What to watch for
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentEmergent Design: Pathologies uncovered
Book extract, part five Scott Bain’s book, Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development by Addison Wesley, looks at the principles involved in building and maintaining robust, reliable, and cost-effective code. In this, our concluding extract, Scott identifies the pathologies in code when coupling, cohesion, and redundancy have not been adhered to.
DIY: Zune Projector for $5
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The maker of the DIY Zune Projector admits “It doesn’t work well”, but I think it is a good starting point for something that might. It seemed to work better with bright animations rather than movies. Perhaps hacking a better light source?
Though it doesn’t work well it was an interesting experiment. I figure at the very least if it doesn’t work well it may as well look cool. It’s a pretty contraption at least. I may even find myself using it a bit if I can find a suitable projection surface that has hi gain.
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Boffins’ breakthrough boosts fuel cell output by 50%
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with a way to improve the power output of fuel cells by more than 50 per cent: a better membrane.
Ballmer utsatt för äggkastning i Ungern
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En ungersk student kritiserade öppet Microsofts vd Steve Ballmer när han besökte Budapest. Studenten gick från verbal attack till att kasta ägg mot Ballmer som tvingades ta skydd bakom en kateder. Här är filmen.
Brown brown-noses Google, Brin demands privacy
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Gordon Brown might be short of friends within the Labour Party, but they must love him down at Google. He gave a speech yesterday at Google’s annual Zeitgeist conference which had the smack of George Galloway’s ringing endorsements of Saddam Hussein.
Transport svarar nu på direkten
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Transportarbetarförbundet har hittat ett sätt att få medlemmarna att stanna kvar. Man har börjat svara i telefonen. Ett nytt system som samlar ip-telefoni, medlemssystem och ärendehantering är hemligheten.
Airbus jets could be converted to fuel-cell propulsion
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Plans are afoot to propel Airbus A320 airliners using clean, green electricity, according to reports. Disappointingly for the carbon-fearing and oil-worrier lobbies alike, however, the aircraft will be so propelled only while on the ground.
Paper Circuitry: Electric Origami
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories comes up with another great project. This time it’s Electric Origami, and the results are really interesting and unique. It is a fairly simple technique that is very well documented on the web site.
This little LED-lit cube is much more than just a paper lantern: It’s a translucent and flexible thin-film electronic circuit that hooks up a battery to an LED, limber enough to be folded into an origami box. And the coolest thing about circuits like these? You can make them at home.
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Webbhotell börjar med ipv6
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentWebbhotellet Loopia planerar att erbjuda det nya internetprotokollet ipv6 för samtliga kunders webbplatser. Redan i dag är Looias egen sajt tillgänglig genom IPv6.
En innføring i Java: Del 2
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentI denne delen av “en innføring i Java” skal vi gå igjennom to enkle applikasjoner.
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The Making of the Pentultimate
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Cool puzzle (and making of) over @ Puzzleforge, thanks Erin!
In early 2007, I made a pencil sketch of a deep cut vertex turning icosahedron puzzle. I later realized this ground had been covered by others before in dodecahedron form, including Christopher Pelley, who coined the name “Pentultimate”.
The first Pentultimate was completed on March 19th at around 8 PM.
Here’s a little back story on how this puzzle was created.
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Svårt för Microsoft att förklara missförstånd
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentMicrosoft la nyligen upp en lista pÃ¥ “missförstÃ¥dda” funktioner i Vista men drog sedan tillbaka listan pÃ¥ grund av “felaktigheter”.
Test: Qpad XT-R
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentVi har testet en Qpad XT-R , den første “harde” musematta til Qpad sammen med Qpad EC-R. Det er faktisk mulig å få bedre glid enn skigutta.
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Har 66 % av luksus-markedet
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WiMax Promises to Shake up Wireless Data Market (PC World)
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Brains behind Maker Faire video
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentCore77’s Carl Alviani caught up with super-Maker-Faire-planner Sherry Huss and Make’s managing editor Shawn Connally for an interview video at Maker Faire. It’s nice to see two really special and crucial behind-the-scenes folks share their amazing ideas on camera.
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Review: Nintendo Wii Fit
Posted by Nerdmaster in : The Register , add a commentWii Fit serves as a great platform to introduce its impressive balance board. But for a game that’s being marketed so heavily on fitness and fun, it’s a little underweight in …
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Keeping 6 billion people fed boosts global warming more than all the world’s cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes put together. Agriculture accounts for almost 14 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One response is to eat fewer of the two- and four-legged greenhouse gas factories known as animals. Before you send back that T-bone, though, call in the bioengineers. Genomics experts have been optimizing food crops for decades, punching in traits for lower herbicide use, less tilling, and higher yields — carbon cutters, all. But the fountainhead of agricultural emissions is nitrogen-based fertilizer, whose manufacture (mainly from natural gas) and poor take-up rates add up to nearly one-third of agriculture’s contribution to global warming. Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, along with a flotilla of venture-backed startups, are trying to change that. California-based Arcadia Biosciences is already peddling genes for nitrogen-efficient rice that the company reckons could save the equivalent of 50 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. Arcadia’s CEO, a lifelong Sierra Club member, is working to get carbon credits for Chinese farmers who make the switch. What some greens deride as Frankencrops are also the only serious hope for biofuels. Right now, their net carbon benefit is negligible. Corn engineered for high yields and low fertilizer will help, but even better will be plants under development whose stalks and leaves can easily be turned into fuel. The plunging cost of gene synthesis should help bio geeks deliver on another big promise: a new economy in which biochemical reactions replace industrial processes. J. Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics is working with BP on microorganisms that produce cleaner alternatives to gasoline. Rival Amyris Biotechnologies is working on bugs that make jet fuel. Meanwhile, the genetic engineers are cooking up climate-friendly meat without feet: The first symposium on lab-grown animal flesh met in Norway in April. 1873: Blue jeans assume their distinctive form when a patent is issued for the rivet process used to strengthen the pockets on what were then called “waist overalls.” Jacob Youphes, a Latvian immigrant who changed his name to Jacob Davis (.pdf) after coming to the United States in 1854, was working as a tailor in Reno, Nevada, when he hit on the idea of using copper rivets to reinforce denim working pants (.pdf). Since he obtained his denim from Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco, Davis approached Strauss with an offer to file for a joint patent. Strauss — knowing a good thing when he saw it — accepted, and the modern “blue jean” was born. Levi Strauss (.pdf) — himself an immigrant from Bavaria — arrived in San Francisco 20 years earlier, at the height of the California gold rush, to establish a wholesale dry-goods business. From various locations along the San Francisco waterfront, Strauss sold clothing, fabrics and other sundries all over the West, including to miners headed for the gold fields. The business flourished, but the real turning point in company fortunes came when Davis, a regular customer, approached Strauss with his proposal to form a partnership selling these button-fly, riveted pants, which commanded the then-princely sum of $3 a pair (about 50 bucks in today’s moolah). Davis’ decision to approach Strauss was a case of simple economics: He didn’t have the money to apply for a patent. Nevertheless, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Blue jeans (a misnomer, since the pants were made of denim and not the lighter cotton textile known as jean) were an immediate success. So impressed was Strauss that he brought Davis to San Francisco to establish and supervise a factory when the demand for blue jeans outstripped the ability of individual seamstresses to make them. Davis remained at his post until his death in 1908, having sold his interest in the patent to Levi Strauss & Co. the year before he died. Source: Levi Strauss & Co.Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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May 20, 1873: The Pants That Changed the World
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