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Microsoft’s Imagine Cup brings students together from across the world each year, in effort to use technology to solve the world’s toughest problems. Here are four of the finalists projects. Which of these ideas do you think could have a lasting impact? When I left you, I was but the learner, now I am the master.
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Whether you’re curious but not sure where to start or you’ve decided along the way that you just can’t stomach the stuff (read: you need to be tricked and cajoled), we have a book for you here, so click through and get to expanding your horizons. And hey, sci-fi buffs: be sure to add to our list in the comments! <Jedi wave>These are the books you've been looking for.
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A hands-on assessment of Apple's pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling. Anyone who calls it rubbish didn't actually try one in 1992. It was brilliant.
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Microsoft announced Thursday that the next version of its browser, IE 10, will ship with the controversial “Do Not Track” feature turned on by default, a first among major browsers, creating a potential threat to online advertising giants. You could Google it... but the ads might not be as relevant.
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I enjoyed the David Fincher remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo more than I thought I would. Rather than a shallow and cynical Hollywood cash-in, it's actually a tense, atmospheric, only slightly voyeuristic crime thriller. My favourite part, though, was when Lisbeth Salander begins to solve a 40 year old murder cold case using SQL. Dial MySQL for murder.
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People who have never tried this before will learn enough to be able to download Windows installation media, hunt down drivers, and reinstall their own operating system. Technical users who have done all of this before can pick up some information about how Windows installation media and the Windows activation process have changed since the Windows XP days. And everyone should come away with an idea of what goes into installing Windows from scratch on a new PC, and just what that $99 will pay for. I'm Earl Scheib, and I'll repave any PC for $29.95.
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I'm just having trouble dealing with the paradox. If we know they're behind the Facebook crash, then they're not anonymous. And if they're not anonymous, then anonymous isn't behind the Facebook crash...
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They could even claim both at the same time .. and be right.
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The heart of The Code Project is member contributions. Articles, Answers, and to mix it up a little - News. Each week this month we're going to be awarding a $25 Amazon gift card to the best tech-related news posting made in the Insider News forum. Post a link, post a summary, and add your little dash of spice and help keep our readers up to date on the goings-on in the industry.
News doesn't have to be boring. Read the full competition details.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified 1-Jul-12 19:50pm.
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The next version of Internet Explorer, called IE10, will force users to opt-in if they want to be tracked by ads...Though the feature is available on Chrome, Firefox and other browsers, Microsoft is the first to make users actively decide that they want to be tracked.
Whether or not ad networks actually abide by the setting is another question entirely.
Be The Noise
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Karl Sanford wrote:
Whether or not ad networks actually abide by the setting is another question entirely.
but it's a question that is so easy to answer that it might as well be rhetorical.
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U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the Stuxnet cyberattacks on Iran in an effort to slow the country's development of a nuclear program, according to a report in The New York Times. [ITworld]
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He also had Humpty Dumpty pushed. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: He also had Humpty Dumpty pushed.
I heard he was selling raw eggs and milk. 
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Obama accelerated attacks related to an effort begun by the George W. Bush administration
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Chris Losinger wrote: an effort begun by the George W. Bush administration
Just like killing Bin Laden.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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"I don't really think about him very much. I'm not that concerned. ... I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."
George W Bush, March 13, 2002
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In order to get its Linux distribution to run on the next generation of secured desktop computing hardware, the Fedora Project will obtain a digital signature from Microsoft, a developer from the project announced Wednesday. [ITworld]
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Oracle's pursuit of Android revenue came crashing down Thursday afternoon when even the notion of APIs being copyrightable was rejected by the judge. [ITworld]
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For the month of June, contribute a news item in the Insider News forum and you'll have a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card. The heart of The Code Project is member contributions. Now you can contribute news, too.
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We've got the Raspberry Pi, we've got the Cotton Candy. Add to those the Mele A1000, the VIA APC, the MK802 and more, and it's becoming increasingly difficult not to compute like a Lilliputian. Where's it all going? Mighty works from little kernels grow.
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