Fast Company has an excellent article about Wal-mart’s big compact fluorescent push. Very interesting to see how once an idea makes economic sense big business gets behind it 100%.
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Fast Company has an excellent article about Wal-mart’s big compact fluorescent push. Very interesting to see how once an idea makes economic sense big business gets behind it 100%.
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Jem Matzan has an article regarding driver-downloaded firmware and the issues this causes for free operating systems. The root of the problem is that hardware vendors don’t just deal in hardware: they also write software for their products, and they don’t make this software free — this is a little absurd, since you’d think they’d want their products used as widely as possible.
06 February 2018: updated URL
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Jem Matzan has an article regarding driver-downloaded firmware and the issues this causes for free operating systems. The root of the problem is that hardware vendors don’t just deal in hardware: they also write software for their products, and they don’t make this software free — this is a little absurd, since you’d think they’d want their products used as widely as possible.
06 February 2018: updated URL
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It appears that many root canals will be avoidable, as a new technique can be used to regrow dentin. Anything which prevents dental pain is good in my book.
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It appears that many root canals will be avoidable, as a new technique can be used to regrow dentin. Anything which prevents dental pain is good in my book.
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I’d just like to point out that this is the woman who invented frequency-hopping spread-spectrum radio:
Now she’s a geek’s dream girl!
3 February 2018: reformatted, linked to Wikipedia
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I’d just like to point out that this is the woman who invented frequency-hopping spread-spectrum radio:
Now she’s a geek’s dream girl!
3 February 2018: reformatted, linked to Wikipedia
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I heartily endorse this product and/or service.
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I heartily endorse this product and/or service.
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Presenting a short parable:
The Parable of the two Programmers
Neil W. Rickert Dept. of Math, Stat., and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Once upon a time, unbeknownst to each other, the ‘Automated Accounting Applications Association’ and the ‘Consolidated Computerized Capital Corporation’ decided that they needed the identical program to perform a certain service.
Automated hired a programmer-analyst, Alan, to solve their problem.
Meanwhile, Consolidated decided to ask a newly hired entry-level programmer, Charles, to tackle the job, to see if he was as good as he pretended.
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Presenting a short parable:
The Parable of the two Programmers
Neil W. Rickert Dept. of Math, Stat., and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Once upon a time, unbeknownst to each other, the ‘Automated Accounting Applications Association’ and the ‘Consolidated Computerized Capital Corporation’ decided that they needed the identical program to perform a certain service.
Automated hired a programmer-analyst, Alan, to solve their problem.
Meanwhile, Consolidated decided to ask a newly hired entry-level programmer, Charles, to tackle the job, to see if he was as good as he pretended.
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