100 Websites You Should Know and Use. Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.
Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture. Infographic: LinkedIn's office trends over the next five years. Familiarisez-vous avec Creative Cloud. The Sites We Love Right Now. » Homebrew Cray-1A. As part two (see previous attempt) of my ongoing series in ‘computational necromancy,’ I’ve spent the last year and a half or so constructing my own 1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1.
This project falls purely into the “because I can!” Category – I was poking around the internet one day looking for a Cray emulator and came up dry, so I decided to do something about it. Luckily, the Cray-1 hardware reference manual turned out to be useful enough that implementing most of this was pretty straightforward. The Cray-1 is one of those iconic machines that just makes you say “Now that‘s a super computer!”
Techblog - From 0 to cryptography. Published on September 18, 2012 by Tiberiu Barbu This guide is designed to explain why you need to hide information and how can you do this when you do not trust the channel through which messages are conveyed.
We will discuss about cryptographic system, encryption, decryption, one-way function, asymmetric keys and more. You may think of cryptography as the thing that keeps you untouchable inside of a soap bubble travelling by air around the world. Exploring Local » Blog Archive » Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps. UPDATE September 24, 2012: The Comment Cycle for the following entry is now closed.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed. I had a call from Marc Prioleau of Prioleau Advisors this morning and speaking with him prompted me to look into the uproar over Apple’s problems with its new mapping application. Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 to be priced at $799 with keyboard. ThinkPad 2 for $799 w/keyboard?
Last night we popped by PepCom, a little tech event that happens every few months here in New York City. We were curious if Samsung would be there with their ATIV lineup (answer: no) and we were hoping to maybe spot some interesting tidbits for you folks. We're not too heavily focused on tablets here, but sometimes we find out things. For instance, we managed to get our mitts on the upcoming Lenovo Thinkpad 2, sporting Windows 8 Pro and a 10.1” 1,366 x 768 IPS display.
Impressions? Surprisingly, Lenovo told us straight up the price tag when we asked: $799 and yes, it will launch October 26th (presumably at 12:01am). The evolution of cheating in chess. It happened this spring, in the 2012 Virginia Scholastic and Collegiate Chess Tournament.
Both Quentin Moore and his opponent, a rising star on the D.C. -area chess scene named Clark Smiley, came into their match undefeated over the weekend-long competition. So the state title and an expenses-paid cross-country trip to the national high school championships would likely go to the game’s winner. Judging by his pre-tournament rating — 2141, according to the U.S. Chess Federation system, making him the second-highest of the 75 players vying for the high school title — Moore shouldn’t have had any trouble getting past Smiley (1875). And in a match played in an earlier round at the Scholastic tournament, held at a Best Western in McLean, Virginia, Smiley had whupped Aravind Ponukumati, a teammate of Moore’s on the perennial state champion chess squad from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. “He was playing so aggressive,” Ponukumati said. He now faces a lifetime ban. Coolest Engineering Professors Ever Help Flash Mob Students. The Future of Local Storage Is Practically None At All.
Stand Back or Your Hard Drive Is Going to Get It First they came for our floppy drives.
Then, they came for our CDs and our DVD drives. It won't be too long until the concept of a hard drive, or any local storage, beyond that needed for temporary offline use, is itself antiquated. After decades of dramatically increasing PC hard disks, from megabytes to terabytes, saving local data is more likely to put you at risk of loss, relative to remote backup, than it is to keep your data safe, helped along by many trends pushing toward cloud storage and applications. In April of last year, I talked about how I planned to forego the purchase of physical media, disavowing books, CDs, DVDs and other printed materials, when digital would do, and I haven't looked back - getting to my media from any device that recognized my signed-in identity. Goodbye Desktop Applications. For the rest of the day, without exception, I am on my Chromebook, or my Android devices.
Knocking Down Lagging Apps One By One.