100 Websites You Should Know and Use. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. Infographic: LinkedIn's office trends over the next five years.
Présentation de Creative Cloud | Familiarisez-vous avec Creative Cloud. The Sites We Love Right Now | 50 Best Websites 2012. » 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!” Sure, your iPhone is 10X faster, and it’s completely useless to own one, but admit it . . you really want one, don’t you? The Cray-1A Architecture Now, let’s get down to specs – What is this bad boy running? It’s a fairly RISC-y design, with 8 64-bit scalar (S) registers , 8 64-bit/64-word vector (V) registers, and 8 24-bit address (A) registers. Vector Chaining in Action!
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. Do you think it is safer by plane? Terminology plaintext or cleartext : intelligible message that sender wants to transmit to a receiverciphertext : unintelligible message resulted from plaintext encryption using a cryptosystemencryption : the process of converting a plaintext into a ciphertextdecryption : the process of converting a ciphertext into a plaintext (reverse of encryption) Conventional cryptography It is also called symmetric-key or shared-key encryption. Advantages: Fast. Disadvantages: Not safe! Key distribution And here comes math. 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. So, this column is Marc’s fault. Send any criticisms to him (just kidding). In my June blog on Apple and Mapping , I postulated that the company would find building a high quality mapping application very difficult to accomplish. . • However, it is not (mapping) San Francisco that will give Apple heartburn. . • Currently Apple lacks the resources to provide the majority of geospatial and POI data required for its application. • My overall view of the companies that it (Apple) has assembled to create its application is that they are, as a whole, rated “C-grade” suppliers.
Unfortunately for Apple, all of these cautions appear to have come true. Recommendations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Conclusions. 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.
Surprisingly, Lenovo told us straight up the price tag when we asked: $799 and yes, it will launch October 26th (presumably at 12:01am). Up until now, the price of the ThinkPad Tablet 2 was only rumored to be between $600 and $700, making this on the higher end of that spectrum. Presumably, we could easily be looking at much less were you to buy it without the keyboard, bringing it back down to that $600 range or slightly higher if you add more options (like a fingerprint scanner). 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. 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.
Against Moore, Smiley continued his dominance. “I was about to resign,” Moore says. Moore was too focused on just avoiding checkmate to pay much mind to Smiley’s off-board behavior. “Forty-one and three? 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.