Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think - James Somers - Technology. There is something remarkably abstract about commercial air travel. You walk from your New York apartment to a taxi to a terminal, amble through a series of tubes, fight discomfort in an ugly chair, and three hours later you're in Orlando. You can plausibly go the whole way without realizing you've left the ground. It's a testament to the progress we've made since the Wright brothers first proved their concept late in the morning on December 17th, 1903. Airplanes are now so expertly engineered, and so well-built, that you no longer have to think about them. Unless you want to.
Then you'll discover that there's a lot to think about indeed, a fact I'm learning quickly as I roll into a shallow turn over the Florida coast in a two-seater PiperSport light aircraft. It's only been about forty seconds since we took off. But here's what happened instead: on a whim, I called a number I found on sportpilot.org and set up an appointment for a $79, 45-minute lesson. The pedals, not so much. Utilitaire pour Windows : Cobian Backup 9 Amanita. Speed Up Windows XP. From Wired How-To Wiki The Windows XP desktop. Image courtesy Microsoft Despite Microsoft's best marketing efforts, you haven't yet upgraded to Vista.
You still prefer your trusty old copy of Windows XP. And, despite your diligence in protecting your beloved XP machine from viruses and sneaky trojan horses, Windows is noticeably slower than when you first installed it. Don't panic -- there are a number of things you can do to get your XP system running faster.Important thing is to use the software Reg Cleaner other than the steps explained below. Keep in mind though, that, while these tips listed below can help you speed up Windows and recover hard drive space, you aren't going to see the sort of speed boost you'd get from upgrading your key hardware components.
Other How-Tos in this series: Defragment Your Hard Drive XP's Disk Defragmenter. Fragmentation happens when the computer writes files to disk without keeping everything together in one spot. In XP, it's fairly simple process. Reinstall and Restore Your Windows PC in Eight Easy Steps - Business Center - PC World. Maybe your PC won't boot. Or it could be infected with some kind of persistent malware. Perhaps Windows puts up a Blue Screen of Death every time you type the word aardvark. No matter what kind of trouble your computer is having, someone will probably tell you to reformat your hard drive, reinstall Windows and your applications, and then restore your documents, photos, and music from a backup.
That isn't always good advice--according to a 2004 Salon.com article, incompetent tech support people use it to get customers off the phone. But if nothing else fixes a problem that's impossible to live with, starting over from scratch may be the best solution. Don't do it unless you've tried everything else, however. If after all that you determine that you must wipe out and reinstall Windows, follow these seven steps to make the process as safe and painless as possible. Step 1: Find and Know Your Restore Tool A restore partition lies hidden on the hard drive. Step 2: Gather Everything Else You Need. Les astuces pour profiter au mieux de votre Eee PC. Home PC Firewall Guide. Why - Convert a PC into a network-attached storage device - CNET.com Digital Home - CNET.com. To bring you the most comprehensive smart home product coverage, would you believe we bought a house? We'll turn this house into a smart home, and use it to test products in a fully connected residential environment.
Come take a tour. See what we're building. Computer Communication Networks. Vinton G. Cerf Senior Vice President, Data Services Division MCI Telecommunications Corporation The Internet Phenomenon The Internet has gone from near-invisibility to near-ubiquity in little more than a year. In fact, though, today's multi-billion dollar industry in Internet hardware and software is the direct descendant of strategically-motivated fundamental research begun in the 1960s with federal sponsorship.
Although not easy to estimate with accuracy, the 1994 data communications market approached roughly $15 billion/year if one includes private line data services ($9 billion/year), local area network and bridge/router equipment ($3 billion/year), wide area network services ($1 billion/year), electronic messaging and online services ($1 billion/year), and proprietary networking software and hardware ($1 billion/year). As this article is written in 1995, the Internet encompasses an estimated 50,000 networks worldwide, about half of which are in the United States.
Packet Switching. Dux Computer Digest Forums - Networking and Internet Sharing. Avis dâexpert : Les pionniers de l'Internet non latin par Stéphane Van Gelder â Tribune e-Business. En arabe ou en cyrillique, quatre extensions de noms de domaine très différentes viennent d'être lancées sur Internet. Pour faire partie de ces pionniers de l'Internet non latin, les entreprises françaises doivent s'y intéresser dès maintenant.
Profonde et silencieuse, il s'agit d'une évolution actuellement en cours pour l'Internet. Cette évolution, inaperçue pour un grand nombre d'Internautes, tient presque de la révolution pour de nombreux autres. Pour eux, il devient envisageable d'accéder à leurs sites préférés - même d'envoyer des emails - sans pour autant devoir utiliser le jeu de caractère traditionnel du Web, celui de l'alphabet latin sans accent que les anglo-saxons ont baptisé ASCII. Depuis plusieurs années, des expériences ont eu lieu pour donner des accents aux noms de domaine, porte d'entrée obligatoire au réseau des réseaux. L'enjeu est donc la démocratisation du Web dans des contrées où la barrière de l'alphabet anglo-saxon est trop forte.
Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimovâs 3 Laws. Two years ago, a military robot used in the South African army killed nine soldiers after a malfunction. Earlier this year, a Swedish factory was fined after a robot machine injured one of the workers (though part of the blame was assigned to the worker). Robots have been found guilty of other smaller offenses such as an incorrectly responding to a request. So how do you prevent problems like this from happening? Stop making psychopathic robots, say robot experts. “If you build artificial intelligence but don’t think about its moral sense or create a conscious sense that feels regret for doing something wrong, then technically it is a psychopath,” says Josh Hall, a scientist who wrote the book Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of a Machine.
For years, science fiction author Issac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics were regarded as sufficient for robotics enthusiasts. A human-robot co-existence society could emerge by 2030, says Chen in his paper. See Also: Photo: (wa.pean/Flickr) Should You Worry About Data Rot? - Pogueâs Posts Blog. David PogueThe Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. Last week, I shared with you an interview transcript from one of my CBS Sunday Morning stories. It reminded me of another great interview I’ve been meaning to share. This one was for my “Sunday Morning” story about data rot, which aired a few weeks ago ( Meet Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.
It’s an amazing place, as you’ll see in this edited transcript of our tour and chat. David Pogue: What is data rot? Dag Spicer: Data rot refers mainly to problems with the medium on which information is stored. The second aspect of data rot is actually finding the machines to read them. The problem, strangely enough, is not so bad on the older stuff, but quite bad on the more recent stuff. DP: You bake the tapes? DS: Yeah, we put them in an oven and we dry them out, because after time, the tape just sticks. DP: Most people would be shocked to hear that.
DS: Right. DP: Well, who should be? Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu pirater sans savoir comment (1)
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