Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off. Google's very own "Loch Ness monster," also known as Google Drive, has finally launched.
It's the new face of Google Documents, and it's also Google's oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It enters a scene crowded with competitors besides Dropbox that let you sync multiple folders, collaborate with friends, and stream data to your mobile device — so how does Drive fare? We'll take a look at the top apps that let you sync files between all of your devices automatically, share files using password protection, pick which folders you want to sync, and do anything else you might want to do with a syncing app. While our evaluations of each app aren't full-on reviews, they are encapsulations of where each app excels and what makes each unique. Refer to the chart at the bottom of the page for full breakdowns of each application. Hazards of the Cloud: Data-Storage Service’s Crash Sets Back Researchers. Dedoose, a cloud-based application for managing research data, suffered a “devastating” technical failure last week that caused academics across the country to lose large amounts of research work, some of which may be gone for good.
SocioCultural Research Consultants, the company that sells Dedoose, is still scrambling to recover as much of its customers’ work as possible, and has said in a blog post that “the vast majority” of research data on its platform were not affected. The crash nonetheless has dealt frustrating setbacks to a number of researchers, highlighting the risks of entrusting data to third-party stewards. Margaret Frye, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, is one of them.
Ms. 8 Subconscious Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day. Editor's Note: This is one of the most-read leadership articles of 2013.
Click here to see the full list. Get ready to have your mind blown. I was seriously shocked at some of these mistakes in thinking that I subconsciously make all the time. Obviously, none of them are huge, life-threatening mistakes, but they are really surprising and avoiding them could help us make more rational, sensible decisions. Especially since we strive for self-improvement at Buffer, if we look at our values, being aware of the mistakes we naturally have in our thinking can make a big difference in avoiding them. Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love. Tony DeRose wanders between rows at New York's Museum of Mathematics.
In a brightly-colored button-up T-shirt that may be Pixar standard issue, he doesn't look like the stereotype of a scientist. He greets throngs of squirrely, nerdy children and their handlers — parents and grandparents, math and science teachers — as well as their grown-up math nerd counterparts, who came alone or with their friends. What You Believe About Homosexuality Doesn't Matter. Today, there are 2 news stories that have been circulating all over my Facebook and Twitter news feeds.
One you are probably aware of, the other maybe not. The two, though, are closely related. Straight Talk about the Clouds. Higher education institutions can choose from a range of cloud computing approaches.
As these three senior IT leaders explain, the "right" solution for a given institution depends on many factors such as size, existing investments, the availability of system-level services, and campus culture. By being mindful of these issues and collaborating with campus constituencies, you can choose the approach that best suits your institution's specific needs. Kathy Gates is CIO at the University of Mississippi; Betsy Tippens was assistant vice chancellor for Information Technologies at the University of Washington Bothell and is now director of Administrative IT Programs at EDUCAUSE; and Joseph Vaughan is CIO at Harvey Mudd College.
IT's Losing Battle Against Cloud Adoption. Asking IT about emerging trends in enterprise computing is increasingly a fool's errand. Open source pioneer Billy Marshall once quipped that "the CIO is the last to know," because she was too far removed from what open-source code her IT team was downloading or which SaaS services they were accessing. Now this phrase may apply to entire IT organizations, with major lines of business tuning into the cloud and tuning out IT prescriptions. Of course, this has been happening for years. What's striking is just how pervasive the shift away from IT has become. What IT Doesn't Know We know cloud computing is big. Salvo Magazine: Slave Master: How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain - Salvo 13. SEX: Feature Slave Master How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain by Donald L.
Hilton, Jr. While some have avoided using the term “addiction” in the context of natural compulsions such as uncontrolled sexuality, overeating, or gambling, let us consider current scientific evidence regarding the brain and addiction. This article will seek to answer two questions: (1) Biologically, is the brain affected by pornography and other sexual addictions? The Story of the Gypsy Moth Let’s begin with a seeming digression. In 1971 a paper was published in the journal Nature that described how pheromones were used to prevent the moths from mating. The gypsy moth was the first insect to be controlled by the use of pheromones, which work by two methods.
The other method is called the trapping method: Pheromone-infused traps are set, from which moths cannot escape; a male moth enters looking for a female, only to find a fatal substitute. Dying Wilberforce Learned Slaves Were Freed - Church History and Timeline. No man fought harder to abolish slavery than William Wilberforce.
A member of Parliament, he introduced antislavery measures year after year for 40 years until he retired in 1825. On this day July 26, 1833, as he lay dying, word was brought him that the bill to outlaw slavery everywhere in the British empire had passed in Parliament. The dream for which he had struggled for decades was now within sight of fulfillment! Wilberforce had not always been a serious opponent of slavery. As a youth he was a witty, somewhat dissipated man about town who had misspent his time at Cambridge.
A friend of William Pitt (who became Prime Minister) and a member of Parliament, Wilberforce seemed assured of a bright political future. Milner had become a deep and evangelical Christian. At once he began to wonder if it was proper for him to hold a seat in government. Friends suggested that the young man take up the slavery issue. Rarely in history have so many owed so much to so few. Easy Timelines with Timeline JS. Challenging the Presentation Paradigm: Bee Docs Timeline. A couple of weeks ago, Prof.
Hacker kicked off a series called “Challenging the Presentation Paradigm” with a look at Prezi. This week, we’re going to look at Bee Docs Timeline as an alternative (or a supplement) to presenting lecture content with a more traditional, linear slide program (such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote). Bee Docs Timeline ( comes from Bee Docs, a 2 person boutique software developer based in Seattle. As its name suggests, Bee Docs Timeline allows you to create visually compelling (and somewhat interactive) timelines.
Email is as addictive as a slot machine. Back in the early 1990s, email was a privilege granted only to those who could prove they needed it.
Now, it has turned into a nuisance that's costing companies millions. We may feel that we have it under control, but not only do we check email more often than we realise, but the interruptions caused are more detrimental than was previously thought. In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. Redefining marriage threatens social advances of women, rights of children: UK law professor. LONDON, November 7, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The debate about same-sex “marriage” in the UK is not, as the government and other supporters would have it, about “equality,” “rights” or “fairness,” but about “using law to change the meaning of the social institution of marriage.”
So says Julian Rivers, a Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Bristol Law School. Any new definition of marriage that would include partnerships not based on a single man and a single woman for the procreation and protection of children, would “unavoidably call into question its exclusivity, its permanence and even its sexual nature,” said Rivers in a report issued by the Jubilee Centre, “a Christian social reform organisation that offers a biblical perspective on issues and trends of relevance to the general public”. Accounting by Faith: The Negotiated Logic of Elite Evangelicals’ Workplace Decision-making — J Am Acad Relig.
Abstract Workplace decision-making is shaped by institutionally delimited and individually appropriated logics of action. Since 1997, when President Clinton issued a White House directive that protected religious expression in the workplace, religious rhetoric and symbolism have played a more significant role in the semiotic codes through which these logics are expressed.
While a growing literature has attended to the interplay between the domains of faith and work, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways elite actors negotiate the sometimes competing demands of religious convictions and workplace responsibilities.
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