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Why should you participate? Prior to acquiring, hardware, software or services, enterprise users from entities large and small develop market intelligence profiles on vendors and solution providers they are considering. How can you participate? The level of participation is entirely up to the individual and, if desired, anonymity is guaranteed in a secure online environment. OpenPilot – Open Source UAV Autopilot. Subjot Is Like Twitter, But With Fewer Birds. Mashape | API Marketplace for Cloud based Services. Could rugby take off in the US? 7 September 2011Last updated at 23:51 By Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington DC A new television deal means millions of Americans will be able to watch their rugby union team at the World Cup later this week. As the sport enjoys a surge of popularity, could this be the moment when the land of American football takes rugby to its heart? The US love affair with an odd-shaped ball is very well known. Continue reading the main story Former England star Ben Cohen In my view there is just as much passion for rugby in the US as in the UK.
We can see in the Churchill Cup and World Cup that The Eagles are building and they are not easy to play against. I have experienced US rugby at different levels through the gay/gay-friendly clubs I visited to promote my anti-homophobia charity Stand Up. There is no reason at all why rugby can't make it in the States. But away from the newspaper headlines, there are the first signs that rugby is starting to take root in the land of gridiron. Rugby in inner-city LA. BlackVPN. Nintendo Gets Sued Over The Wii. Ever heard of the Wavit remote? It’s totally okay if you haven’t; that’s not what this story is about. The Wavit Remote’s makers on the other hand… Well, they’ve decided to up and sue Nintendo over the Wii. Not only that, but they’ve included other retailers and manufacturers — including WalMart — in the complaint as well. And they’ve chosen the setting most likely to yield a win: the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas.
Now, that’s not to say that Wavit makers ThinkOptical will get a win, but this particular court circuit tends to favor the patent holder over all else. The patent in question, U.S. “The rejection of [...] applications — assigned to Nintendo Co. ThinkOptic included two other patents in the case, as well — one called “Handheld Device for Handheld Vision Based Absolute Pointing System” (7,852,317) and the other titled “Handheld Vision Based Absolute Pointing System” (7,864,159). Ken Iverson Quotations and Anecdotes. Wrapper for AWK providing modules | Download Wrapper for AWK providing modules software for free. 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency. What doesn't matter There's a ruinous misconception that a Ph.D. must be smart.
This can't be true. A smart person would know better than to get a Ph.D. "Smart" qualities like brilliance and quick-thinking are irrelevant in Ph.D. school. Certainly, being smart helps. Moreover, as anyone going through Ph.D. school can tell you: people of less than first-class intelligence make it across the finish line and leave, Ph.D. in hand. As my advisor used to tell me, "Whenever I felt depressed in grad school--when I worried I wasn't going to finish my Ph.D. Since becoming a professor, I finding myself repeating a corollary of this observation, but I replace "getting a Ph.D. " with "obtaining grant funding.
" Update: Within a month of writing that last line, I was awarded my first three grants. Perseverance To escape with a Ph.D., you must meaningfully extend the boundary of human knowledge. You can take classes and read papers to figure out where the boundary lies. That's easy. Tenacity Cogency Translations. Privacy by Design. Cablegate's cables: Full-text search. Geiser: Top. Geiser is a collection of Emacs major and minor modes that conspire with one or more Scheme interpreters to keep the Lisp Machine Spirit alive.
It draws inspiration (and a bit more) from environments such as Common Lisp’s Slime, Factor’s FUEL, Squeak or Emacs itself, and does its best to make Scheme hacking inside Emacs (even more) fun. Or, to be precise, what i consider fun. Geiser is thus my humble contribution to the dynamic school of expression, and a reaction against what i perceive as a derailment, in modern times, of standard Scheme towards the static camp. Because i prefer growing and healing to poking at corpses, the continuously running Scheme interpreter takes the center of the stage in Geiser.
A bundle of Elisp shims orchestrates the dialog between the Scheme interpreter, Emacs and, ultimately, the schemer, giving her access to live metadata. Here’s how. The gnu extension language. I'm sitting on a train waiting to leave Paris for Barcelona, returning from the 2011 GNU Hackers Meeting. It was fantastic, clearly the best we have had yet. Thanks a lot to Ludovic Courtès for organizing it, and to IRILL and Sylvestre Ledru for hosting. I hope to write more about it in the future, but this essay will be long enough :) I gave a talk entitled "The User in the Loop", which made the perhaps obvious argument that "extensibility is good & stuff". I hope that it did so in an entertaining and illuminating fashion. It also argued that Guile is a great fit for the extensibility needs of the GNU project. Going meta: goals and strategies Guile is the GNU extension language. So, Guile is a great language. Goal Why care about extension languages? Guile was conceived by the GNU Project following the fantastic success of Emacs Lisp as an extension language within Emacs.
I think that Guile is a great strategy to achieve this goal. Languages do matter macros: language extensibility goops. Comparing FRP to RDP | Awelon Blue. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) was pioneered by Conal Elliott and Paul Hudak around 1995 and published as Functional Reactive Animation in 1997. It has developed much since then. There are two common approaches to FRP: signal composition (Signal a), or composition of signal-transformers (Signal a -> Signal b).
The latter version is sometimes called ‘arrowized’ FRP. A Signal is a time-varying value, but there is a lot of tension among developers between the choice of continuous time vs. discrete time. Naively, Signal might be: type Signal a = T -> a. FRP semantics, at least as originally designed, are purely functional. Reactive Demand Programming (RDP) was invented by me (David Barbour) around April 2010 and has developed over the last year.
In RDP, access to an external resource is represented as a an RDP behavior – a signal transformer with constrained effects. The input signal is called demand, and the output is called response, though the substance (signals) is the same. Help.