Atheist Music TOC

Atheist Music TOC

The Humanist Hymnal and More

The Humanist Hymnal and More: "'Not one man in ten thousand has the goodness of heart
or strength of mind to be an atheist.'
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable
in terms of the not worth knowing.'
---H.L. Mencken"

Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1 -- TechNet Magazine, February 2007

Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1 -- TechNet Magazine, February 2007: "In Windows Vista, the scheduler uses the cycle counter register of modern processors to track precisely how many CPU cycles a thread executes"

Intel MSS

Intel slows Advanced Micro Devices gains in server chips: "Intel controlled 74.4% of the microprocessor market at the end of the fourth quarter, down from 76% in the prior quarter. AMD owned 25.3% of the total market, up from 23.3% a year ago, based on calculations from AG Edwards analyst David Wong, who cited preliminary data from Mercury Research.

Once again, the server market was a bright spot for Inte"

ReadyBoost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ReadyBoost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Strange but True: Turning a Wobbly Table Will Make It Steady -- For every table—turn, turn, turn... t

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Strange but True: Turning a Wobbly Table Will Make It Steady -- For every table—turn, turn, turn... there is a proof: "Strange but True: Turning a Wobbly Table Will Make It Steady"

Biology's next revolution : Article : Nature

Biology's next revolution : Article : Nature: "Nowhere are the implications of collective phenomena, mediated by HGT, so pervasive and important as in evolution. A computer scientist might term the cell's translational apparatus (used to convert genetic information to proteins) an 'operating system', by which all innovation is communicated and realized. The fundamental role of translation, represented in particular by the genetic code, is shown by the clearly documented optimization of the code. Its special role in any form of life leads to the striking prediction that early life evolved in a lamarckian way, with vertical descent marginalized by the more powerful early forms of HGT."

Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1 -- TechNet Magazine, February 2007

Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1 -- TechNet Magazine, February 2007: "All versions of Windows NT® up to and including Windows Vista program an interval-timer interrupt routine to execute approximately every 10 or 15 ms (milliseconds),"

Guardian | Life lessons

Guardian | Life lessons: "Susan Blackmore Science writer and broadcaster, and visiting lecturer at the University of the West of England in Bristol

Frighteningly, most people do not understand Darwin's great insight. What people miss is the sheer inevitability of the creative process. Once you see it —copy, vary, select; copy, vary, select —you see that design by natural selection simply has to happen. This is not like Isaac Newton's laws, or quantum physics, or any of the other great theories in science, where one can ask 'why is this so?' It simply has to be the case. Then, the scary implications follow. If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe."

AlterNet: Atheist Richard Dawkins on 'The God Delusion'

AlterNet: Atheist Richard Dawkins on 'The God Delusion': "what is comforting isn't necessarily true, and it is sort of intellectual cowardice to say, 'We should let people wallow in their illusions, because it comforts them.' I think it's rather patronizing."

My Way News - Sun Microsystems Again Courts Startups

My Way News - Sun Microsystems Again Courts Startups: "Brazil, Russia, India, China and Korea - the entrepreneurial bloc Sun refers to as 'BRICK.'"

The Ghost in the Lisp Machine « minor emacs wizardry

The Ghost in the Lisp Machine « minor emacs wizardry: "A friend of mine uses to say that Emacs fills our yearning for a Lisp Machine"

Old video game system leads U.S. sales - International Herald Tribune

Old video game system leads U.S. sales - International Herald Tribune: "Americans bought 1.4 million PlayStation 2s during the period. That was more than the Xbox 360, which sold 1.1 million units; the Nintendo Wii, which sold 604,000; and the PlayStation 3, which sold 491,000."

Why do record companies release artist albums on Tuesdays?

Why do record companies release artist albums on Tuesdays?: "albums are released on Tuesdays because sales figures for albums are released on Mondays. "

Formation of Hybrid Storage Alliance to push "flashy" new hard drives

Formation of Hybrid Storage Alliance to push "flashy" new hard drives: " 'Hybrid hard drives combine the best features of two storage technologies in a single product to deliver high capacity, responsive storage for portable PC users. Formation of the Hybrid Storage Alliance "

Team Dysfunction

The 5 areas

POWER6, Intel's 80-core chip, and more at ISSCC '07

POWER6, Intel's 80-core chip, and more at ISSCC '07: "For my part, I wonder if this has any relation to the whole Intel GPGPU skunkworks project that the Register has been on about recently. If Intel uses the Terascale chip's TSV (through silicon via) interconnect technology to stack a bunch of fast SRAM onto a cutting-edge GPU design, they may eat everyone's lunch."

Debunking the Self-Esteem Myth « Meditations on Meaning

Debunking the Self-Esteem Myth « Meditations on Meaning: "More recent studies tracked the behavior of children over time, and showed that their self-esteem levels rose when they received good grades, and fell when they received bad grades. Grades were the cause, not the effect of low self-esteem. And pregnant teenagers more than likely suffered from low self-esteem after they became pregnant teenagers… because they were pregnant teenagers. And violent criminals, counter to assumptions of many, actually tend to have higher self-esteem, which enables them to feel far enough “above” their victims to commit their crimes."

The Road to Know Where: Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

The Road to Know Where: Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Grid, Virtualization Get Closer

Grid, Virtualization Get Closer: "As grid technology gets absorbed into enterprise fabrics, it could become inseparable from technologies such as virtualization and service-oriented architectures (SOA) and the creation of enterprise utilities, according to 451 Group analysts Steve Wallage and William Fellows. "