Pharyngula::If you doubt this is possible, how is it there are PYGMIES + DWARFS??

Pharyngula::If you doubt this is possible, how is it there are PYGMIES + DWARFS??: "Ever wonder how the hell a moron like George W. Bush got elected? 'If you doubt this is possible, how is it there are PYGMIES + DWARFS??'"

Coping with Finiteness.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Coping with Finiteness.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The three dots “ ... ” here suppress a lot of detail – maybe I should have used
four dots

Yahoo! GeoCities - Your Home On The Web®

Yahoo! GeoCities - Your Home On The Web®: "What distinguishes the Betriebsrat from its continental European cousins is an explicit set of codetermination rights on what are termed 'social matters'. Examples of those areas in which the works council has joint decision-making authority with management are the commencement and termination of working hours, principles of remuneration, the introduction of new payment methods, pay arrangements to include the fixing of job and bonus rates and other types of performance related pay, the regulation of overtime and reduced working hours, the introduction and operation of technical devices to monitor worker performance, and of course health and safety measures. In all such areas, failure to reach agreement leads to their adjudication through a conciliation board"

It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet (MSFT)

It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet (MSFT): "Microsoft still has an AWESOME business in enterprise software and services. This business continues to provide the vast majority of its revenue and all of its profit. By continuing to pour resources and attention into its mediocre consumer Internet business, Microsoft is failing to fully exploit an opportunity that it has a much better chance of dominating: Enterprise applications, including SAAS services such as those offered by Salesforce.com, et al.
Importantly, Oracle and IBM are still making major hay in enterprise software. While Microsoft fiddles with search and advertising, Larry Ellison has bought up most of his competitors. Every dollar of revenue and profit Oracle, IBM, SAP, Salesforce, et al, generate is a dollar that Microsoft is leaving on the table in a misguided attempt to make headway in a business it has no core competency in."

The Last Psychiatrist: The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius

The Last Psychiatrist: The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius: "A genius has three abilities, which are actually the union of amateur and scientist: 1. to know the state of the art, what is known and what is not known. 2. To be able to think 'out of the box'. 3. To be disciplined enough to concentrate on the tedium of a formal investigation of his wondrous speculations"

Researchers Hail Creation of Stem Cells Safe for Human Use - TIME

Researchers Hail Creation of Stem Cells Safe for Human Use - TIME: ". Just three years since a Japanese researcher first reprogrammed ordinary skin cells into stem cells without the use of embryos, scientists at a Massachusetts biotech company have repeated the feat, only this time with a new method that creates the first stem cells safe enough for human use. The achievement brings the potentially lifesaving technology one step closer to real treatments for disease."

A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks - NYTimes.com

A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks - NYTimes.com: "In a region of the brain called the basal ganglia, known in people to be involved in language, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Enard says. Dr. Enard argues that putting significant human genes into mice is the only feasible way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest living relatives."

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: First Evidence of Entanglement in Photosynthesis

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: First Evidence of Entanglement in Photosynthesis: "In the first rigorous quantification of entanglement in a biological system, an answer is beginning to emerge. Researchers from various institutions in Berkeley California have shown that molecules taking part in photosynthesis can remain entangled even at ordinary atmospheric temperatures."

CIOs Slow to Embrace Cloud Computing - BusinessWeek

CIOs Slow to Embrace Cloud Computing - BusinessWeek: "A 2009 survey on IT spending by Goldman Sachs ranked cloud services #33 on the list of spending priorities among CIOs, with about 50 percent saying that it was a low priority. Software as a service ranked even lower at #36, with more than 60 percent categorizing it as a low priority."

Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all - Ars Technica

Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all - Ars Technica: "The study confirms what anyone who has ever wanted to rip a DVD to their computer or iPod could have told you: DRM, coupled with anticircumvention laws, makes pirates of us all."

Jim Gray 2003

http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0403/0403019.pdf
Computing economics are changing. Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database
access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a
megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale distributed
computing: one puts computing as close to the data as possible in order to avoid expensive network
traffic.

NIST.gov - Computer Security Division - Computer Security Resource Center

NIST.gov - Computer Security Division - Computer Security Resource Center: "NIST is posting its working definition of cloud computing that serves as a foundation for its upcoming publication on the topic (available below). Computer scientists at NIST developed this draft definition in collaboration with industry and government. It was developed as the foundation for a NIST special publication that will cover cloud architectures, security, and deployment strategies for the federal government"

An Unorthodox Approach to Database Design : The Coming of the Shard | High Scalability

An Unorthodox Approach to Database Design : The Coming of the Shard High Scalability: "Sharding is different than traditional database architecture in several important ways"

Sex Sells. Here's Why We Buy - TIME

Sex Sells. Here's Why We Buy - TIME: "Both depended on the same insight: individuals work hard mostly because they want to show off to others, not for the good of the group. This tendency holds true in both organic evolution and human economics ... We've known since Darwin that animals are basically machines for survival and reproduction; now we also know that animals achieve much of their survival and reproductive success through self-advertisement, self-marketing and self-promotion"

Meet Intel, Software Maker and Rival to Microsoft - NYTimes.com

Meet Intel, Software Maker and Rival to Microsoft - NYTimes.com: "The smartphone is certainly the end goal,” said Doug Fisher, a vice president in Intel’s software group. “It’s absolutely critical for the success of this product.”"

ScienceDirect - NeuroImage : When thoughts become action: An fMRI paradigm to study volitional brain activity in non-communicative brain injured patients

ScienceDirect - NeuroImage : When thoughts become action: An fMRI paradigm to study volitional brain activity in non-communicative brain injured patients: "this paradigm may provide a method for assessing the presence of volitional brain activity"

XL97: Data Not Returned from Query Using ORACLE Data Source

XL97: Data Not Returned from Query Using ORACLE Data Source: "Method 2: Move Your Mouse Pointer
If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to Microsoft Excel, the query may not fail. Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel."

Who Has the Most Web Servers? « Data Center Knowledge

Who Has the Most Web Servers? « Data Center Knowledge: "Google: The search giant’s server count has long been the focus of speculation. There’s a widely circulated estimate of 450,000 servers"

Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk

Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk: "The authors take the position that persuasion is a science, not art, hence with the right approach anybody can become the master in the skill of persuasion"

Fictive Reward Signals in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex -- Hayden et al. 324 (5929): 948 -- Science

Fictive Reward Signals in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex -- Hayden et al. 324 (5929): 948 -- Science: "individual ACC neurons process both experienced and fictive rewards"