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Google shows an interactive graph when you search for a Math function or a list of functions separated by commas. "You can zoom in and out and pan across the plane to explore the function in more detail. This feature covers an extensive range of single variable functions including trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic and their compositions, and is available in modern browsers,"
pl:
sin(x)/x,1/x^2
csajoknak példa
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/12/googles-graphing-calculator.ht…

Smartphone shipments to China rose to a record 24m during the period, compared with 23m for the US, according to research done by Strategy Analytics.

The consultancy said shipments to China were boosted by "a wave of low-cost Android models from local Chinese brands".
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China is the world's biggest market for mobile phones with almost 952m users, and continues to grow at a fast pace.

At the same time, there has been a push by mobile phone operators to get more users to sign up for 3G services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15850028

aki tudja a választ az már nem mai gyerek :)

The iPod touch (30%) and iPhone (27%) came in second and third in the 2011 wish list
Apple's (AAPL) iPad topped a new Nielsen survey of the most desired electronics products among young Americans this holiday season.
In a similar survey last year, the iPad came in first at 31% and a generic "computer" was No. 2 at 29%
The teenagers surveyed had somewhat broader interests. The iPad was their No. 1 choice at 24% (up from 18% last year), but computers, e-readers, TV sets, non-Apple tablets and Blu-Ray players scored higher than the iPhone at 15%, perhaps because so many of them already have one.
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/us-kids-looking-forward-to…

annyira szar, hogy ingyen sem kell az embereknek, fizetni kell, hogy hasznaljak.

Microsoft is offering "gifts" for users who use IE9 to visit certain sites like Grooveshark, Hulu, Vimeo and Fandango. If you visit the IE9 Holiday Page from Windows 7 using Chrome or Firefox, you'll get a come-on to upgrade. If you use something else, you'll get a page telling you to go to Windows 7.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/11/microsoft-gives-up-on-co…

az ok:
Microsoft's IE posts biggest share drop in three years
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221367/Microsoft_s_IE_posts_big…

Are motorcycles — even superb and lovely Italian motorcycles from the land of Donatello and Bertolucci — being replaced as love objects, as arm candy, by other more contemporary show-off desirables?

Electronic ones. Mostly made by Apple.
The iPhone 4S, the iPad 2, the 11-inch and 13-inch thin, light MacBook Air computers — these are the sleek gorgeousness young people go on about, have to have, and do have, in the millions.
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They are buying a slice of what Apple does — and how it does it — and how it looks doing it. They are buying function but, just as important, they are buying glamour. The device enhances the buyer’s sense of self. It helps the person think and at the same time not think. Once, not so long ago, motorcycles did the same thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/opinion/sunday/is-the-iphone-replacin…

The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held in Jinan, China, organized by industry and government organizations. The new machine, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in eastern China.

The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second — a petaflop — will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, it is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai.
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Photos of the new Sunway supercomputer reveal an elaborate water-cooling system that may be a significant advance in the design of the very fastest machines. “Getting this cooling technology correct is very, very difficult,” said Steven Wallach, chief scientist at Convey Computer, a Richardson, Tex., supercomputer firm. “This tells me that this is a serious design. This cooling technology could scale to exaflop. They are in the hunt to win.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/world/asia/china-unveils-supercompute…

http://ngphoto.livejournal.com/158009.html

http://vimeo.com/28962540

Supplementary material video for our 2011 SIGGRAPH Asia paper (see the project page here: kevinkarsch.com/​publications/​sa11.html). 3D objects are rendered using LuxRender (luxrender.net).

Abstract: We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements. With a single image and a small amount of annotation, our method creates a physical model of the scene that is suitable for realistically rendering synthetic objects with diffuse, specular, and even glowing materials while accounting for lighting interactions between the objects and the scene. We demonstrate in a user study that synthetic images produced by our method are confusable with real scenes, even for people who believe they are good at telling the difference. Further, our study shows that our method is competitive with other insertion methods while requiring less scene information. We also collected new illumination and reflectance datasets; renderings produced by our system compare well to ground truth. Our system has applications in the movie and gaming industry, as well as home decorating and user content creation, among others.

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We present the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera which captures a full spherical panorama when thrown into the air. At the peak of its flight, which is determined using an accelerometer, a full panoramic image is captured by 36 mobile phone camera modules.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/10/throwable-panoramic-ball-camer…
http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th5zlUe6gOE

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.2832

Steve Jobs took over as CEO of Apple on September 16, 1997 (he was interim CEO from then to January 5, 2000, when he officially dropped “interim” from his title). That’s almost 14 years as CEO—a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. companies is around six years.

Simply put, during this time, his performance was astounding. If you had invested $100,000 in Apple the day he rejoined in 1997 and held that investment until he stepped down this year, your investment would have been worth $6.86 million, a 35.4% compounded annual growth rate. That means, on average, Apple’s shareholder return grew 35%, year in and year out, for 14 years.
http://www.businessweek.com/management/how-good-was-steve-jobs-really-1…
it is worth noting something really important: if you look at the shareholder return performance from 1997 to 2011, it is not a linear, steady upward trajectory (see the chart, which shows cumulative total shareholder return, expressed as the return on $1 invested on September 16, 1997). He did not add 35% growth in shareholder return every year. The chart is in fact pretty flat from 1997 to mid 2000, when it starts moving upward. There is a long build-up period, followed by a rapid increase. It took Jobs several years to put the house in order after he came back in 1997, when Apple was nearly bankrupt. Patience and a long-term view were hallmarks of this path to amazing performance.
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In the new book, Great by Choice, Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting. It was a period of instilling discipline and launching innovations that started small and gradually were built out to big things (e.g., the first retail store, or the first iPod/iTunes product in 2001 that only worked on a Mac and had no online store). It wasn’t a period of chasing the next big breakthrough innovation, even though in hindsight it may look like it. Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale.

Thanks to declining click-through rates and cost per click (down a hefty 18%), Yahoo/Bing’s effective cost per impression has plunged by almost 23%. Partly as a result, Google’s share of search ad spend remains even higher than its search market share, rising to 81.6% in the third quarter. Yahoo/Bing’s share fell from 20% a year ago to 18.4%.

Why? Pretty simple, says IgnitionOne President Roger Barnette: “The dollars are best spent on Google,” he says. “Google is incredibly good at innovating rapidly and delivering a great user and advertiser experience. Yahoo and Microsoft haven’t been able to migrate to the rapidity of change needed.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2011/10/04/bings-a-bust-in-search…

Steve Jobs did not create products. He created an organization that predictably and reliably created emotionally resonant products.
Steve Jobs did not make movies. He made a company that predictably and reliably made blockbusters.
Steve Jobs did not wrest market share from competitors. He created new markets that attracted and sustained competitors.
Steve Jobs did not design anything. He gave others the freedom to think about what jobs products are hired to do.
Steve Jobs did not re-engineer processes. He brought engineering processes to works of creativity and the creative process to engineering.
Steve Jobs did not develop new management theories. He showed by example that innovation can be managed.
Steve Jobs was not a visionary. He put the dots together and saw where they led.
Steve Jobs was not a futurist. He just built the future one piece at a time.
Steve Jobs did not distort reality. He spoke what he believed would become reality at a time when those beliefs seemed far fetched.
Steve Jobs was not charismatic. He spoke from the heart compelling others to follow him.
Steve Jobs was not a gifted orator. He spoke plainly.
Steve Jobs was not a magician. He practiced, a lot.
He had taste.
He was curious.
He was patient.
He was foolish.
He was hungry.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tests, my team looked at subjects’ brain activity as they viewed consumer images involving brands like Apple and Harley-Davidson and religious images like rosary beads and a photo of the pope. We found that the brain activity was uncannily similar when viewing both types of imagery.

This past summer, I gathered a group of 20 babies between the ages of 14 and 20 months. I handed each one a BlackBerry. No sooner had the babies grasped the phones than they swiped their little fingers across the screens as if they were iPhones, seemingly expecting the screens to come to life. It appears that a whole new generation is being primed to navigate the world of electronics in a ritualized, Apple-approved way.
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Earlier this year, I carried out an fMRI experiment to find out whether iPhones were really, truly addictive, no less so than alcohol, cocaine, shopping or video games. In conjunction with the San Diego-based firm MindSign Neuromarketing, I enlisted eight men and eight women between the ages of 18 and 25. Our 16 subjects were exposed separately to audio and to video of a ringing and vibrating iPhone.
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But most striking of all was the flurry of activation in the insular cortex of the brain, which is associated with feelings of love and compassion. The subjects’ brains responded to the sound of their phones as they would respond to the presence or proximity of a girlfriend, boyfriend or family member
In short, the subjects didn’t demonstrate the classic brain-based signs of addiction. Instead, they loved their iPhones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/opinion/you-love-your-iphone-literall…

http://spikedmath.com/445.html

http://www.bitterwallet.com/windows-1-v-windows-8-have-we-really-come-t…

TeleGeography’s free interactive submarine cable map is based on our authoritative Global Bandwidth research, and depicts 188 active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations. Selecting a cable route on the map provides access to data about the cable, including the cable’s name, ready-for-service (RFS) date, length, owners, website, and landing points. Selecting a landing point provides a list of all submarine cables landing at that station.
Cables shown include international and US domestic submarine cables with a maximum upgradeable capacity of at least 5 Gbps. Cable routes are stylized to improve readability, and do not reflect the physical cable location. Similarly, cable landing stations do not show the precise coordinates of the building, and are meant to serve as a general guide to where a cable system lands.

<@joosa> how do you say float in java? just 1.5f?
<@Gliptic> FloatFactoryFactory.getInstance(FloatFactoryFactory.defaultInstanceDescriptionString).getFactory(Locale.getLocale("en-US")).createBuilder().setString("1.5").getResult()

http://bash.org/?946461

http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2011/09/16/white-trash-repairs-turboc…

Google also released an estimate that an average search uses 0.3 watt-hours of electricity, a figure that may be difficult to understand intuitively. But when multiplied by Google’s estimate of more than a billion searches a day, the figure yields a somewhat surprising result: about 12.5 million watts of Google’s 260-million-watt total can be accounted for by searches, the company’s bread-and-butter service.

The rest is used by Google’s other services, including YouTube, whose power consumption the company also depicted as very small.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/technology/google-details-electricity…

Seated in front of the family computer, with his mother watching him, Lucas, 7, let his 30 Twitter followers know that “my cousins Eva and Léa are coming to my house tonight.” It’s just like he does at school. In 2010, Lucas was a pupil in the first primary school class in France to use Twitter to learn how to read and write.
http://worldcrunch.com/french-teachers-use-twitter-teach-elementary-sch…

http://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/