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Once I saw this, I decided the IPhone wasn’t for me!

Well, actually I was never going to buy one anyway…

Next2Friends is a new venture that is soon to offer a revolutionary platform for lack of a better term “social networking”. A true and tangible extension to the online “fluff” with real world applicability. So quite simply we are offering anyone that pre-registers for free, a chance to win a new laptop every 30 days. No scam, no strings attached. Our goal is to generate a count list of possible interested parties in order to introduce a coming beta. For which you can decide at the time to join or not (not required). So, give us your email address, for which we will only use internally and within 30 days you will be notified if you win. If you do not win, your email will automatically go in to the next months drawing.

Sounds too good to be true. One email address for a chance to win a new dell laptop. Well, we couldn’t think of a better way to get people to give us their email addresses. The reason the Genetiblog is hosting this information is that some of the people at Genetibase are part of this venture. If you get spam from us, at least you know where we are.
It’s real, It’s tangible and it is almost here. Click the image below to pre-register.

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Great vid… If this is for real, well then going out to purchase a little force to reckon with!

Could be cool for CPU intensive operations…

Did he say 80 times faster than the Intel?

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80 times faster than the intel woodcrest http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/13/intel_woodcrest_speeds_feeds/

thats a speed of 234.4 ghz

4 of those could produce almost 1Thz of computing power!

What to say about this… Seriously… Some of Manson’s songs are pretty good. And throughout the “Marilyn Manson” history I most often took him to be just an eccentric person. But, the recent news of one of his former band mates suing him, and that Manson is into buying Hitler artifacts really puts it over the edge for me. I don’t really have a position on his music, I don’t really care that much. But, buying Eva Braun’s reported handbag is just whacked. I mean if you are a collector of historically significant items, then maybe… But, he gave it to his fiancé’ as a gift… A gift!!! Manson apparently likes to collect Nazi paraphernalia… I just don’t get it… And, if he was smart (as smart as he likes to portray) he would down play this publicly. Although, even that wouldn’t change my opinion now.
Agree?

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Talk given to the Chicago chapter of the MIT Alumni Association on 11 Feb 2004. The audience was about 40 people with a range of backgrounds, most of whom had taken a year or two of physics while at MIT.

A little short, but good.

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In the past few years we’ve seen a huge rise of successful systems built following a Document Object Model
(DOM) type of architecture. By that I mean: open systematized models of complex domains that are easy for applications to specialize and extend in a cooperative manner.

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In this post I take a look at Acropolis - what it is and why should developers be concerned about it. Also, I compare it to some offerings on OS X to help clear things up.

# Parts. A part is a reusable, discrete component of business logic. Don’t try and map this to an existing class in an existing app because unless you’re currently doing composite app building using something like the CAB (Composite Application Block, another offering from Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices gurus) you probably don’t have any one object that performs this task. Let’s say you’re building a point of sale application and you have a screen that has a transaction ledger on it. You might (if you’re a good little programmer) encapsulate the business logic required for maintaining a transaction ledger in a Part. This leads us to the next piece of the puzzle: Part Views.
# Part View. A part view is essentially a self-contained class (comprised of both XAML and C#) that is the view of a part. In true and proper Model-View-Controller/Model-View-Presenter fashion, the view is responsible for receiving input from the user and rendering underlying data. It does nothing more than that.
# Services. Unlike what the current buzz around the word “service” indicates, this is not a web service, nor is it a network service or a REST/POX service and it is not a 24-hour service station serving donuts (though, that would be awesome…mmm…donuts….). In the Acropolis (and generic Composite Application Programming terminology), a service is a self-contained piece of loosely coupled code that provides a service to a part or to the entire application. In the financial ledger example, you might have a Service that downloads transactions from the bank. That Service can then feed the transactions to the Part, which will be picked up automatically by bindings in the Part View. Savvy?

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This Website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. Actually the song is represented in 1102 different programming languages and variations.

Giant list!

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Molecular biology is undergoing its biggest shake-up in 50 years, as a hitherto little-regarded chemical called RNA acquires an unsuspected significance

IT IS beginning to dawn on biologists that they may have got it wrong. Not completely wrong, but wrong enough to be embarrassing. For half a century their subject had been built around the relation between two sorts of chemical. Proteins, in the form of enzymes, hormones and so on, made things happen. DNA, in the form of genes, contained the instructions for making proteins. Other molecules were involved, of course. Sugars and fats were abundant (too abundant, in some people). And various vitamins and minerals made an appearance, as well. Oh, and there was also a curious chemical called RNA, which looked a bit like DNA but wasn’t. It obediently carried genetic information from DNA in the nucleus to the places in the cell where proteins are made, rounded up the amino-acid units out of which those proteins are constructed, and was found in the protein factories themselves.

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The best explanation of what e really is and how to use.

e has always bothered me — not the letter, but the mathematical constant. What does it really mean?

Math books and even my beloved wikipedia describe e using obtuse jargon:

The mathematical constant e is the base of the natural logarithm.

And when you look up natural logarithm you get:

The natural logarithm, formerly known as the hyperbolic logarithm, is the logarithm to the base e, where e is an irrational constant approximately equal to 2.718281828459.

Nice circular reference there. It’s like a dictionary that defines labyrinthine with Byzantine: it’s correct but not helpful. What’s wrong with everyday words like “complicated”?

Good post…

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If you’re not actively scanning through the list of Classic Software Development Mistakes as you run your software project, you have no idea how likely it is you’re making one of these mistakes right now.

Great post by Jeff Atwood

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If you browse the internet enough (more importantly, sites such as Slashdot or Digg) you
’ll come across people who think a computer science degree is worthless. They say “It’s nothing that I couldn’t teach myself”. And perhaps they have a point. I could have taught myself everything that I know. But I would have been deprived several things…

I believe a computer science degree is important because:

* You are exposed to many different aspects of the field.
* You learn how to solve HARD problems.
* Without someone prodding you in the right direction, would you really teach yourself about algorithm efficiency?

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interactive demos in math, science, and many other areas at all levels, from elementary education to front-line research (Mathematica not required to enjoy demos)

Makes you want to go out and buy a copy today! (if you haven’t yet that is)

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MonoDevelop 0.14 has been released. Major new features:
* Improved Toolbox and Properties pad
* Subversion add-in
* Refactory operations
* New Open Solution File Dialog
* Class and member selectors
* Improved Smart Indenting for C#
* Project export/conversion
* New packaging features

Oh my!

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Popfly, Microsoft’s mashup creator for the rest of us, has been updated with a ton of new features like a console to help power-users debug their mashups, much better performance, Silverlight Streaming-based screencasts, and a ton of new blocks: Live Image Search, Live News, Live Search, Live Spellchecker, Phonebook, Bar Graph, and more!

* Silverlight Streaming-hosted videos, so Mac users get a great video experience, too!
* Block suggestions to help you build your mashups
* Loading the mashup designer is enormously faster in IE, but it’s also faster in Firefox as well
* Saving mashups should now be a bit faster (for all browsers)
* Mashups that hang should now be the exception rather than the rule
* Loading avatars in search results should be much faster (for all browsers)
* You can see when every member joined Popfly
* Slick inline UI for adding a dev key (no more popup blocker madness)
* You can now click someone’s block from their project page to instantly use it in a mashup
* Preview-time console to help power-users debug
* Tons of new blocks: Live Ads, Live Image Search, Live News, Live Search, Live Spellchecker, Phonebook, Bar Graph, PhotoShow, and Straw Poll

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Browsing online, I found RemObjects Software company and I had no idea that there was a Pascal “resurrection” for .NET: Chrome. RemObjects believes in the combined elegance of Pascal with the power and flexibility of the CLR (.NET/Mono).

Language Features

* Class Contracts >>
* Generics (.NET 2.0 only) >>
* Virtual Properties and Events >>
* Enhanced Multicast Events >>
* First Class Namespace Support >>
* Iterators
* Nullable Types (.NET 2.0 only)
* Enhanced “for” loops
* Inline variable initializers
* Support for unsafe code, such as pointers
* Asynchronous Methods
* Partial classes (for .NET 1.1 and 2.0)
* Class references and virtual constructors

Compiler and IDE Features

* Cross-Platform Linking >>
* Full Integration with Visual Studio .NET 2003*
* Full Integration with Visual Studio 2005*
* Intellisense support with Pascal-specific Smart Editing™ extensions such as Class Completion, Sync Rename and Auto Property Completion™*
* Compiler runs natively under .NET, Mono and Portable.NET
* Enhanced Solution Explorer*

ASP.NET Support

* ASP.NET scripting support >>
* Full ASP.NET design-time support in Visual Studio*
* Full ASP.NET 2.0 designtime support in Visual Studio 2005*
* Free deployment of Chrome compiler for hosting of ASP.NET websites

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But why is a great programmer worth fifty good ones? It all has to do with the interfaces. If one person can do a whole project, there is a whole layer of complexity, documented interfaces, and misunderstandings that is eliminated compared to having two or more people working on the project.

Great programmers are orders of magnitude more productive than merely good programmers. It’s like basketball players. Michael Jordan isn’t just 20% or 50% or 100% better and more useful to his team than you or I would be; he’s simply in another league (or was).

The best thing you can do to make your technology-based company succeed is hire (or outsource to) a great programmer. Second best thing (Mary might disagree) is get a great marketing person but that’s another topic for another day. Today’s post is about the person who will build the better mouse trap for you.

Read the rest from Tom Evslin. Click below.

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Optimizing Java is like pimping out a Honda Civic, in the end you still have a slow POS.

haha, very funny & true!

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Creating the simplest GUI with Java

YAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNN!

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