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Dennis Ritchie‘s work, though invisible to us laymen, is a fundamental building block of every computer system we use today. Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, [...]
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I was searching for some free data visualization software (to create “mind maps” of my hair-brained schemes), and I found tableau software. One of the demos of their software is a data visualization of graffiti incidents and resolution actions in NYC. This is obviously intended as a tool for the city to track crime and [...]
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Ben Millen, an industrial designer and engineer from Canada, has constructed an interesting diagram of the ecosystem that supports Apple’s iPhone: These are not maps in any conventional sense, but rather diagramatic representations of the interconnected space of technology, capital, instrumental value, exchange value, social and environmental impact that surround the device… via Ben Millen [...]
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Wow, a British accent even makes a video game journalist sound brilliant! I kid!! Mr. Ingham handles himself perfectly, deflecting the tired (and un-scientific) correlation of video games with causing children to be violent. He’s like Adam Sessler, but with no stutter. (I kid!): Thankfully, CVG editor Tim Ingham acquits himself very well in the [...]
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Old news. Forgot to post this earlier: Researchers on Wednesday demonstrated that they could hack a non-jailbroken iPhone, Safari running on Snow Leopard and Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox on Windows 7 as part of the annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security show here. iPhone, Safari, IE 8, Firefox hacked in CanSecWest contest | [...]
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DLC for video games is a booming sector of the industry, but are developers using shady tactics to squeeze money out of players? Some companies release anemic game discs that are later augmented by downloadable extra levels. Sometimes those levels are free, sometimes they aren’t. IGN.com reports on how that tactic enters shady territory: Namco [...]
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This tutorial comes from threadless.com member elleevee, and is especially nice because it applies to Photoshop versions 6.0 through CS4! Enjoy!! Any picture can be made 3d. But if you really want a cool 3d image you have to search for one with interesting features [like] good depth between [the subject] and…the net bottom frame… [...]
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I just reactivated the comments feature on this blog. Enjoy!
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