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Vendors shipped 100.9 million smartphones during the fourth quarter, according to Monday data, while IDC logged 92.1 million PC shipments during the same time period, according to IDC numbers from January.
http://www.idc.com/about/viewpressrelease.jsp?containerId=prUS22653511
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379665,00.asp

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2011/01/08/ST2011010…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2011/01/07/GR20110…

"It's all or nothing over at IBM as the company goes for the gold and files the patent troll patent. Forget the Hyperlink patent or the POS shutdown patent, IBM wants the patent patent. Its idea is centered around an approach to manage patents from inventor training to filing and protection strategies, including competitive monitoring. At least in theory, IBM could get approval to own the idea how to manage patents and make a business out of IP. The next time you file a patent, you may want to contact them as you may need a license to file for filing."
http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/1534223/IBM-Files-the-Patent-Troll-P…

Want more comments on your blog posts? A higher follower tally on Twitter? Then be prepared to resort to flaming to anger and upset people. That's the conclusion of a study into the role emotions play in online interaction.

A group of Slovenian and British researchers used something called "sentiment analysis" to identify emotional content in posts left on the BBC's online discussion forums and the link-sharing website digg.com.

The team's algorithms look for features such as keywords, emoticons, and subtle linguistic markers such as misspellings, and use the results to calculate a "happiness score" for each post.

The 3D printing scene is just getting weirder and weirder as more and more 3D printers get out into the wild. Today’s 3D printing development is a series of extendable clamps that allows the MakerBot 3D printer to print larger objects. This is not particularly strange on its own. The weirdness: The clamps can be printed by MakerBots.
The clamps were an entry in a contest specifically for MakerBot modifications that could be printed out on a MakerBot. Other entries included modifications to the print head and troubleshooting tools for various common 3D printer "jams."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/211577/3D_Printer_Prints_its_Own_Upgrade…
http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/11/23/pattywac-dueling-design-giveaway-wi…

http://translate.google.com/
1) Go to Google Translate
2) Set the translator to translate German to German
3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
4) Click “listen”
5) Be amazed
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/11/google-translate-beatboxing

The new record was accomplished during the 2010 “Sort Benchmark”, when the team of scientists from the UC San Diego broke the terabyte barrier: sorting more than one terabyte of data in just 60 seconds.
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The system is composed of 52 computer nodes; each node is a commodity server with two quad-core processors, 24 gigabytes memory and sixteen 500 GB disks – all inter-connected by a Cisco Nexus 5020 switch.
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The team actually won two prizes; the second is for tying the world record for the “Indy Gray Sort” which measures sort rate per minute per 100 terabytes of data. “We’ve set our research agenda around how to make this better…and also on how to make it more general,” said Alex Rasmussen, a PhD student and a team member.
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“Generally, sorting is a great way to measure how fast you can read a lot of data off a set of disks, do some basic processing on it, shuffle it around a network and write it to another set of disks. Sorting puts a lot of stress on the entire input/output subsystem, from the hard drives and the networking hardware to the operating system and application software.”
While current sorting methods apply for most data structures, the major difference when dealing with data larger than 1,000 terabytes is it’s well beyond the memory capacity of the computers doing the sorting. The team’s approach was to design a balanced system, in which computing resources like memory, storage and network bandwidth are fully utilized – and as few resources as possible are wasted.
http://thefutureofthings.com/news/10635/computer-scientists-break-terab…

Another example of a non-cryptographic man-in-the-middle attack is the "Turing porn farm." Brian Warner says this is a "conceivable attack" that spammers could use to defeat CAPTCHAs.[2] The spammer sets up a pornographic web site where access requires that the user solves the CAPTCHAs in question. However, Jeff Atwood points out that this attack is merely theoretical — there is no evidence that any spammer has ever built a Turing porn farm.[3] However, as reported in an October, 2007 news story while perhaps not being a farm as such, spammers have indeed built a Windows game in which users type in CAPTCHAs acquired from the Yahoo webmail service, and are rewarded with pornographic pictures.[4] This allows the spammers to create temporary free email accounts with which to send out spam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack


$ awk 'func f(n){return(n<2?n:f(n-1)+f(n-2))}BEGIN{while(a<24){print f(a++)}}'

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7142/fibonacci-numbers-with-…
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes


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Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.


Server Error in '/' Application.


Transaction (Process ID 71) was deadlocked on lock | communication buffer resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

A number of heavyweight venture capitalists in the tech hubs of Silicon Valley and New York are calling for serious patent reform in Washington.
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Software patents “have become a contrast to innovation and a tax on any kind of success,” said Brad Burnham, a partner at Union Square Ventures. “I cannot come up with a single defensible reason for
software patents.”
Patent laws haven’t evolved to accommodate the rapid pace of innovation on the Web and, more recently, in Web-based applications, venture capitalists say. The current shelf life of a patent is 20 years — a lifetime by Silicon Valley standards — even though software tools can be created in a matter of days and are constantly tweaked by developers.
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“We need shields from all these people who are bastardizing the patent system,” said Jason Mendelson, a managing director at Foundry Group. “We wish we didn’t have to get them, but it’s used as a shield or an insurance policy.”

This project is a meter that measures your Internet connection bandwidth using an antique gauge. It is based on an old voltmeter and on Arduino board. A perl script is getting the information from a Linux router and send it to Arduino via serial connection emulated by FTDI chip. The Arduino convert it into a pulse width. To drive it full scale it needs about 10V and 150mA and that too much fro Arduino to handle, so it uses a switching amplifier made from transistors.

http://www.electronics-lab.com/blog/?p=6806
http://blog.skytee.com/2010/11/torrentmeter-a-steampunk-bandwidth-meter/

This week marks the third anniversary of ROS (Robot Operating System), an open-source software platform for the robotics industry developed by Stanford and Silicon Valley robotics research lab Willow Garage. In that short time, ROS has skyrocketed in popularity. Robot hardware manufacturers, commercial research labs, and software companies are all adopting the platform.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1701076/the-future-of-open-source-personal-r…
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There are more than 50 public ROS repositories featuring open-source libraries and tools, more than 1,600 software packages, and at least 50 robots around the world using the platform, including underwater vehicles, boats, space rovers, lawnmowers, helicopters, cars, indoor robots, outdoor robots
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Want to see ROS-powered robots in action?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cslPMzklVo

Google is so decisive on making the web faster with the tools and resources it creates. Also remember that they had announced "speed being a factor in Google's search rankings".

Google is now sharing an open source Apache module named mod_pagespeed that automatically optimizes web pages.
http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/an-apache-mod-by-google-for-faster-web…
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/overview.html

The Great Moore's Law Compensator (TGMLC), generally referred to as bloat, is the principle that successive generations of computer software acquire enough bloat to offset the performance gains predicted by Moore's Law. In a 2008 article in InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy,[31] formerly of Intel, introduces this term using successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007 as his premise. Despite the gains in computational performance during this time period according to Moore's law, Office 2007 performed the same task at half the speed on a prototypical year 2007 computer as compared to Office 2000 on a year 2000 computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1010/gallery.google_best_ph…
1. Maps and navigation
2. Notify bar
3. Widgets
4. Carrier choice
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Like many other high scale web sites, we at DeNA(*) had similar issues for years. But we reached a different conclusion. We are using "only MySQL". We still use memcached for front-end caching (i.e. preprocessed HTML, count/summary info), but we do not use memcached for caching rows. We do not use NoSQL, either. Why? Because we could get much better performance from MySQL than from other NoSQL products. In our benchmarks, we could get 750,000+ qps on a commodity MySQL/InnoDB 5.1 server from remote web clients. We also have got excellent performance on production environments.
Maybe you can't believe the numbers, but this is a real story. In this long blog post, I'd like to share our experiences.
(*) For those who do not know.. I left Oracle in August 2010. Now I work at DeNA, one of the largest social game platform providers in Japan.
http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-sto…

iSuck

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/10/extreme-parenting-wild-wild-kid…
http://www.funtasticus.com/tag/iphone/

http://frecklednest.blogspot.com/2010/10/old-to-new-typewriters.html

DIY USB Typewriter Conversion Kit
This is one of two kits for converting your typewriter into a USB-ready keyboard. It comes with two blank PCBs and all electronic parts (unassembled), so that you can have the knowledge and satisfaction that come with wiring up this fun electronics project by yourself.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/58062120/diy-usb-typewriter-conversion-kit

http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/12/software-evolution-storylines/
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/research/storylines/
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/storylines/apache.svg
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/storylines/python.svg
Data comes from the project repository logs. Time flows horizontally from left to right. At each timestep (usually a month) developers are clustered by the files they modify. A histogram at the bottom shows the volume and type of file committed. You can mouse-over individual lines to see them better.

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It seems like all the mobile groups are suing each other these days. Who's suing whom? What company is suing the most? Who's getting sued the most? There was a mini-wave of graphics last week to help answer these questions.
http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/11/mobile-patent-lawsuits/

meretaranyosan a kulonbozo online kozossegek.
http://xkcd.com/802/
http://xkcd.com/802_large/