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Enterprise Output Management from Actuate - Xenos Group
Products Xenos products comprise a fully integrated application framework for the development, implementation and management of enterprise-class content management solutions. The framework if made up of Actuate BIRT for statement design and interactive presentation, Xenos Enterprise Server for high performance processing and systems management, Xenos Document and Data Transformation for content agility and repurposing, and Xenos Repository for storage and multi-channel delivery.
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"Free Energy" implies an alternative energy which can be produced that is more efficient and cleaner than what is presently in use today. This energy can be much cheaper or almost free. We need a free-energy power source now more than ever because...
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Amplify is shutting down immediately. We’ve had a wonderful run and we are grateful to everyone for taking the journey with us. We’ve arranged for all of our users to be granted Clipboard accounts, which we believe is the best place for you to continue clipping the Web. Our existing users will receive an invitation by email, but anyone else can request an invitation directly at www.clipboard.com .James Clerk Maxwell: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
20 Quaternion Equations James Clerk Maxwell, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" ( Royal Society Transactions , Vol. CLV, 1865, p 459 ); Orally read Dec. 8, 1864. [ MS-Word.doc ] Andre Waser : On the Notation of Maxwell's Field Equations [ PDF ] The 1873 edition of A Treatise on Electricity & Magnetism contains the 20 Quaternion Equations that later were rewritten --- censored --- by Oliver Heaviside, et al..
20 Quaternion Equations James Clerk Maxwell, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" ( Royal Society Transactions , Vol. CLV, 1865, p 459 ); Orally read Dec. 8, 1864. [ MS-Word.doc ]
Maxwell's 20 Quaternion Equations
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I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API . That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating.
REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled
MIT's Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a Day - Popular Mechanics
Amy B. Smith grew up in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Mass., not far from MIT, where her father taught electrical engineering; Smith's mother taught math and Latin in a local school. A childhood year the family spent in India sparked Smith's interest in the developing world.
MIT's Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a Day - Popular Mechanics
The Peruvian village of Compone lies 11,000 ft. above sea level in El Valle Sagrado de los Incas, the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Flat but ringed by mountains, the tallest capped year-round in snow and ice, the valley is graced with a mild climate and mineral-rich soil that for centuries has produced what the Incas called sara—corn. The farmers of Compone feed corn to their livestock, grind it into meal, boil it for breakfast, lunch and dinner and stockpile it as insurance against future unknowns. They burn the corncobs, stripped of kernels, in the earthen stoves they use for cooking and to heat their homes.DISCERN Artificial Neural Network - How to Build a Schizophrenic Computer - Popular Mechanics
Schizophrenia is one of the most infamous and mysterious mental disorders. Attempting to get to the root of the problem, scientists recently came up with an extraordinary solution: They built a schizophrenic computer. In a study published in the online version of Biological Psychiatry in March, researchers altered an artificial neural network capable of learning language and stories, to the point where it started "acting" schizophrenic. People who suffer from schizophrenia often have difficulty thinking logically or discerning what is real or not real in their lives. "It is characterized by delusions or disassociation of language, often with hallucinations of spoken speech," says psychiatrist Ralph Hoffman of Yale University, coauthor of the study along with computer scientist Risto Miikkulainen of the University of Texas, Austin. Because of that language disassociation, struggling to recount stories correctly is one of the early signs of schizophrenia.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)? - Definition from Whatis.com
The GPS (Global Positioning System) is a "constellation" of 24 well-spaced satellites that orbit the Earth and make it possible for people with ground receivers to pinpoint their geographic location. The location accuracy is anywhere from 100 to 10 meters for most equipment. Accuracy can be pinpointed to within one (1) meter with special military-approved equipment.
Bootstrapping a Startup - Business Exchange
Bootstrapping a startup refers to starting a small business by funding it yourself or through customer receipts -- without getting any external investment. Companies that go the bootstrapping route have their own set of challenges to overcome. This topic covers the latest news and trends on bootstrapping a startup,... more Bootstrapping a startup refers to starting a small business by funding it yourself or through customer receipts -- without getting any external investment. Companies that go the bootstrapping route have their own set of challenges to overcome. This topic covers the latest news and trends on bootstrapping a startup, including best practices for success. Bootstrapping a Startup is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Anita Campbell .Ninety percent of microphones used today are based on the ingenuity of James Edward West, an African-American inventor born in 1931 in Prince Edwards County, VA. If you’ve ever talked on the telephone, you’ve probably used his invention. Dr. James E.
Dr. James E. West: Inventor of the Electret Microphone | Famous Black Inventors - May the Words have Power
Solve For X
Solve for X is a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems. Radical in the sense that the solutions could help billions of people. Radical in the sense that the audaciousness of the proposals makes them sound like science fiction.Remember that Bouncer Google put in the Android Market to act as a goalie for all potential malware attacks? It would seem that Google’s Bouncer doesn’t catch everything as Professor Xuxian Jiang, the same guy who discovered dozens of other Android malware attacks, has found yet another exploit called RootSmart. RootSmart works very similarly to a proof-of-concept app built by Jon Oberheide, by “dynamically fetching the GingerBreak root exploit from a remote server and then executing it to escalate its privilege.” This basically means that a malicious RootSmart app installs itself on the device with virtually no malicious code whatsoever, and the code is then fed to the app/device from remote servers.
RootSmart Android Malware May Be Able To Sneak By Google’s New Bouncer (Update) | TechCrunch
26 models of Trendnet webcams have been identified as vulnerable to a bug that lets anyone tap into the video stream with just an IP address. The flaw was noted a month ago and the company has been working to alert people and patch the devices. Unfortunately, the company has no way of contacting non-registered webcam owners, and so the devices may remain accessible if the users never suspect anything. It’s a bit scary, but certainly not unprecedented. Although it’s not quite the same thing, two years ago a school was accused of spying on its students via the webcams in school-owned laptops (the district later settled).