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I can’t remember at what point I put two and two together and realized that he was the person I had read about a few years earlier who had successfully taken on the crazy project of translating Georges Perec’s famous book La Disparition, a novel (in French) that does not use the letter E. It goes without saying that Gilbert Adair’s translation, A Void, also does without the letter E.
gowers.wordpress.com - clausd about 2 hours ago
As an example of the problem, he cites the example of Anwar Awlaki, the New Mexico-born member of Al Qaeda who was killed by a U.S. drone in Yemen last September. "We needed a court order to eavesdrop on him," Hayden notes, "but we didn't need a court order to kill him. Isn't that something?"
www.latimes.com - clausd about 3 hours ago
Some of the stories made Mr Idema seem almost lovably heroic. He preserved genetic material from his dog, for example, so that he could later be cloned. Sarge was, after all, no ordinary dog but a Tibetan shepherd that would jump out of aircraft with his soldier master and help sniff out bombs (when not scuba diving).
www.economist.com - clausd about 23 hours ago
Most
of the moving images produced for science, industry, commerce and medicine
are seen only by a specialised audience, and disappear soon after they
have been made. The Rumour of True Things is constructed entirely from
these transient images - including computer games, weapons testing,
production line monitoring, marriage agency tapes - in which traces
of our society are indirectly, but strikingly etched.
www.paulbushfilms.com - clausd 1 day ago
Måden man laver IT der virker, er ved at finde nogle unge talenter og give dem lov til at forandre ens processer undervejs.Stort set alle IT successer er startet af en eller to mand der ikke havde skrevet en kravspecifikation, men i stedet tilpassede forretningsmodellen til hvordan virkeligheden, markedet og IT systemet spillede sammen.
ing.dk - clausd 2 days ago
Returning to the point. Platforms. Niche platforms. Major disruption will come from start ups and inventors creating “niche” platforms around specific areas of interest. Facebook, Twitter and Google+ is going to be to generalized and to broad for capturing all the potential action, it will probably be the “backbone” of a lot activity. But my guess is we’ll see a continual rise of the a mulitude of niche platforms – like Shareleap.com and conferize.com taking on specific business’ - where there are specific conditions and in particular specific social contexts and values to cater for.
www.socialsquare.dk - clausd 3 days ago
When Google reported its results two weeks ago, the first headlines focused on the 25% increase in fourth quarter revenues compared to last year. Investors, however, focused on the drop in the cost per click that Google is able to charge advertisers. The main reasons for the decline in this all-important metric is increased competition from Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.
business.time.com - clausd 4 days ago
Burleson talked with police through a robot inside the house that is equipped with an audio/video link.Police officers watched and spoke to him throughout the day, trying to resolve the situation without force.Greensboro police had been trying to negotiate with the man, but needed relief from other area agencies.Greensboro police tactical teams were replaced midafternoon by teams from the High Point Police Department and Guilford County Sheriff’s Office. The Winston-Salem Police Department let Greensboro officers use their robot when the battery died on the Greensboro robot, Miller said.
www.newsrecord.com - clausd 4 days ago
It could still happen in a few cases — Tesla has this mentality for the traditional auto industry and electric cars and seems to be doing well. However unfortunately there is no Moore’s Law that we’ve discovered for energy, clean power, or batteries, so the two year rapid progress rate just doesn’t apply to these verticals. It’s going to take decades and billions of dollars in funding to move the needle on many of these industries, which Professor Vaclav Smil has written about in depth.
gigaom.com - clausd 5 days ago
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
www.itworld.com - clausd 5 days ago
Rises in productivity started the Fed to worry about deflation, rather than inflation. The low interest rates that were a result of that contributed to a huge asset price bubble (the dot.com bubble) that was driving on hopes that 'this time would be different.'So instead of the traditional business cycle, we got the familiar 19th century debt deflationary cycle.
seekingalpha.com - clausd 5 days ago
Explosions of industrial creativity rarely follow the invention or discovery of a technology but instead its commoditisation i.e. it wasn't the discovery of electricity but Edison's introduction of utility services for electricity that produced the creative boom that led to recorded music, modern movies, consumer electronics and even Silicon Valley.
blog.gardeviance.org - clausd 5 days ago
Opgørelsen fra Undervisningsministeriet viser desuden, at eleverne i det almene gymnasium starter i 1.g med bedre karakterer fra folkeskolen, end deres jævnaldrende i de andre gymnasieuddannelser gør, ligesom deres forældre er bedre uddannede end forældre til elever på de øvrige gymnasiale uddannelser.
Forskellen i eksamensresultat mellem elever med forskellig forældrebaggrund er større i det almene gymnasium end på de tre andre gymnasiale uddannelser. Studenter fra det almene gymnasium, hvis forældres højeste uddannelse er grundskolen, får i gennemsnit 5,7, mens studenter, hvis far eller mor har en ph.d., får 8,5 i gennemsnit.
www.b.dk - clausd 5 days ago
In 1982, Tom DeMarco wrote in his excellent book Controlling Software Projects: "an estimate is the first date by which you can't prove you won't be finished".
www.quora.com - clausd 6 days ago
Engineers attempt to scope work by estimating the time all known substeps will take to address. Any other kind of scoping seems unprofessional, since you are basically making things up. Yet everyone agrees that there will be a number of potentially large unforeseen issues (the unknown unknowns).
www.quora.com - clausd 6 days ago
Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
www.lettersofnote.com - clausd 6 days ago
Holding SxSW in the neutral ground of Austin allowed the mixing of the various geek tribes from San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, and other places to exchange ideas and concepts over kickball, BBQ, and beers. Amazing ideas and companies came out of the mix at SxSW. Even a number of marriages between the blogerati began at SxSW. The cross-pollination that happened in the casual surroundings of 6th Street has led to numerous great things.
Too bad the idea of casual anything is gone from the SxSW experience. This mixing of tribes is going away as the branding of Silicon Valley, Alley, and Beach are creating business competition where there should be enjoyable coordination.
cruftbox.com - clausd 6 days ago
Kan man ikke skrive dramatik om den problemstilling uden at udnytte Breivik som en – for nu at citere Frank Rich – »usvigeligt sikker, teatralsk opmærksomhedsfanger«? CaféTeatrets relativt nye leder, dramatikeren Christian Lollike, har skrevet mange debatskabende og provokerende teaterforestillinger og må da selv kunne skrive et manuskript, der overgår Breiviks paranoide manifest. Lollike må være den manusforfatter, der overordnet tager fat i ekstremisme, forfølgelsesvanvid, religiøs paranoia og i den moderne verdens svigtende sans for at opdage disse mennesker og deres uhyrlige planer i tide. For vel kunne det være interessant og relevant at høre om yderliggående tankespind i det moderne Europa og få dem gestaltet i en dramatisk spændingskurve. Men fri mig for at bruge Breiviks tekst. Og fri mig for at bruge hans navn.
www.b.dk - clausd 7 days ago
Not long after a public demonstration of the Rapid Selector, Shaw was visited by an
engineer named Goldberg, who had worked before the war with the famous German
optical firm of Zeiss-Ikon. Goldberg said he was delighted to see that someone had
finally found use for his idea of a microfilm record combined with an index code--essentially the same idea as Bush's. Goldberg had received a U.S. patent for the idea in
1931.
people.ischool.berkeley.edu - clausd 7 days ago
Vi oplever en meget stor interesse. Der var næsten 5000, som inden lanceringen havde meldt sig til at modtage avisen på e-mail, og her til formiddag er der kommet 800 mere, så vi nærmer os de 6000 abonnenter. I de første par timer har der været over 5000 besøgende på siden, siger Karen Jespersen.
Ifølge Karen Jespersen har trafikken på siden i løbet af formiddagen været så stor, at serveren ikke kunne følge med, hvorfor besøgende ikke kunne komme ind på siden.
www.b.dk - clausd 7 days ago
Nabo:
”Bøger. De er spild af tid.”
Moi:
”Hvorfor det?”
Nabo:
”Det er jo bare noget de finder på.”
Moi:
”Nå, hvad læser du så når du ikke læser bøger?”
Nabo:
”Jeg læser Ekstra Bladet og B.T. hver eneste dag.”
Moi:
”Hm, det er da også bare noget de finder på.”
Nabo
(pludselig meget ophidset): ”Sikke noget vrøvl! Og hvad ved du for øvrigt om det?”
Moi:
”Jeg har været journalist på Ekstra Bladet i tretten år.”
michogsusse.blogspot.com - clausd 7 days ago
The /bin vs /usr/bin split (and all the others) is an artifact of this, a
1970's implementation detail that got carried forward for decades by
bureaucrats who never question _why_ they're doing things. It stopped making
any sense before Linux was ever invented, for multiple reasons:
lists.busybox.net - clausd 8 days ago
Anyway, Angie emulates the new breed of female action heroine by squeezing herself into a skin-tight latex costume that incorporates a push-up bra designed along the same lines that made the facade of the Sydney Opera House possible. Then she begins crawling through air shafts.
rogerebert.suntimes.com - clausd 10 days ago
And Chinese manufacturing isn’t the only conspicuous example of these advantages in the modern world. Germany remains a highly successful exporter even with workers who cost, on average, $44 an hour — much more than the average cost of American workers. And this success has a lot to do with the support its small and medium-sized companies — the famed Mittelstand — provide to each other via shared suppliers and the maintenance of a skilled work force.
www.nytimes.com - clausd 10 days ago
It’s been said it a thousand times before, by me and many others, but it's worth repeating again: people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly.
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com - clausd 10 days ago
People often ask me about my research techniques. You would think this would be a relatively straightforward question, but the truth is that I have to keep changing my answer, because my techniques are constantly shifting as new forms of search or discovery become possible.
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com - clausd 10 days ago
McCormick Field seats 4,000 fans, and is often joked about because of its scoreboard, which reads "Visitors" in the guest slot and "Tourists" in the home slot.
en.wikipedia.org - clausd 12 days ago
Over the past 20 years, Americans and Europeans have quietly gone about destroying these facts. The very systems that could have provided markets and governments with the means to understand the global financial crisis—and to prevent another one—are being eroded. Governments have allowed shadow markets to develop and reach a size beyond comprehension. Mortgages have been granted and recorded with such inattention that homeowners and banks often don't know and can't prove who owns their homes. In a few short decades the West undercut 150 years of legal reforms that made the global economy possible.
www.businessweek.com - clausd 13 days ago
The “Ah Hah!” moment that I needed to spend some serious time understanding the digital humanities came at the recent Modern Language Association meeting in Seattle where two English professors talked about Big Data and two computer scientists talked about the need for digital storytelling to go with their worlds of Big Data. The world it is a shifting.
skipwalter.net - clausd 13 days ago
This is a branch of the philosophy of physics, in which you happen to be treating the entire universe
--which is one huge physical object-- as a subject of study, rather than say studying just electrons by themselves, or studying only the solar system.
There are particular physical problems, problems of explanation, which arise in thinking about the entire universe, which don't arise when you consider
only its smaller systems. I see this as trying to articulate what those particular problems are, and what the avenues are for solving them, rather than
trying to translate from physics into some other language.
www.theatlantic.com - clausd 13 days ago
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