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As our smartphones and computers continue to become obsolete and get discarded, the environmental problem of electronic waste gets worse. Needless to say, the greater the number of electronic components that can be reclaimed and reused, the better. That’s why scientists from the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have developed a printed circuit board that falls apart when immersed in hot water. What happens when you spill coffee on it? Asking for a friend...
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Emergency crews and gear in place will help operators respond, but some portable phone-charging stations will go offline temporarily [ITworld]
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The recent launch of Windows 8 brings a lot of new opportunities for both designers and developers to build beautiful apps that are fun and easy to use. This site is a collection of explanations of the most important aspects of the new Windows 8 design language. Your instruction book for designing Windows 8 apps.
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Piercing a key defense found in cloud environments such as Amazon's EC2 service, scientists have devised a virtual machine that can extract private cryptographic keys stored on a separate virtual machine when it resides on the same piece of hardware.... The attack relied on "side-channel analysis," in which attackers crack a private key by studying the electromagnetic emanations, data caches, or other manifestations of the targeted cryptographic system. "But actually implementing such an attack has proven surprisingly difficult."
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IntelliCommand - an extension for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 which helps to find the short keys. It shows the help windows with all possible combinations when you press Ctrl or Shift or Alt or their combinations (hold it for about 2 seconds to see this window). Also it shows the list of possible combination when you press first combination of chord shortcut keys, like Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C (this combination comments selected text in editor). Ctrl+Awesome!
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I think the Metro CSS files are a good mix of how to structure a Cascading Stylesheet as well as provide some insights as to what we can and should do to make our web applications easier to maintain and add a performance boost. Study good CSS practices and architecture by finding good resources, but also by studying real-world implementations.
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Many programmers learn one platform, one language and stay in their monoculture. Learning many different programming languages can definitely change your programming style and the way you think about problems. It was certainly beneficial for me, here is why. A fantastic journey from PHP to .NET to Java to NoSQL to F# to Python to...
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On the back-end, in the months after Microsoft's acquisition of Skype was finalized, the pair have been moving Skype to use the Windows Messenger infrastructure. Storage of pictures, video and other Skype content is now happening on Windows Azure. Once users migrate from Messenger to Skype, they will be able to use not just Skype's instant messaging, but also its video calling, Skype's landline calling capability, screen sharing, video calling on mobile phones and with Facebook friends and Group Calling. Stay tuned for Windows Live Skype Messenger Instant Messaging 2013 CTP Beta!
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Stay tuned for Windows Live Skype Messenger Instant Messaging 2013 CTP Beta!
And will that come with a sprinkling of Lync?
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Since Apple has announced the Fusion drive, people have wondered if it’s possible to use the fusion drive on older machines with a SSD and HDD. Fusion drive uses a core storage VolumeGroup. Well, let’s try create our own Fusion drive... ...but is your data really safe on any HFS+ disk?
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Microsoft has confirmed what many had suspected, that it didn't offer a 16GB Surface RT tablet because there would have been virtually no room for customer content on the device. According to a FAQ published Monday, a 32GB Surface has approximately 16GB of storage space available after accounting for the Windows RT operating device, numerous built-in "Windows Store" (formerly "Metro") apps, OS recovery tools, and the bundled Office RT. Lean, mean and using half the machine.
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So size and price wise it is just like the iPad then. They are just marketing different. As I have seen on iPads the size is what you have to use. The OS does not consume any of that.
I am merely going off the little graph they display for content (2GB used on Pictures, 2GB on Apps, 5 GB on video etc) as there is nothing in it that is not the users content and it has the fully amount "specd".
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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The key to my success, I believe, was not in a sophisticated financial equation but rather in the overall algorithm design which tied together many simple components and used machine learning to optimize for maximum profitability. You won’t need to know any sophisticated terminology here because when I setup my program it was all based on intuition. What's worth coding is worth coding for money.
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 Interesting one 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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While Apple is now committed to Intel in computers and is unlikely to switch in the next few years, some engineers say a shift to its own designs is inevitable as the features of mobile devices and PCs become more similar.... Any change would be a blow to Intel, the world’s largest processor maker, which has already been hurt by a stagnating market for computers running Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Windows software and its failure to gain a foothold in mobile gadgets. A move by Apple may lead others to follow suit. Is a major confrontation between ARM and Intel on the horizon?
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A few days ago, Microsoft released a preview of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 update to Visual Studio 2012. This update adds some really useful new features to MVC and Web API projects (along with some minor updates to Web Forms) that should save .NET developers a lot of time. ITworld
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$1.5B?
BFD
doing whatever it is we did in Iraq will cost several Trillions of dollars, once it's all reckoned.
i'd rather buy a few thousand space flights than ... that.
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The Delta IV Heavy has a launch price of $254 million. Quite a bit less. The Space Shuttle was suppose to make space travel more economical. It did not.
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Maybe the Space Shuttle program helped make the Delta IV Heavy launches "cheap"... I don't know and I am not really defending the program. I always thought that ceramic tile construction was a sub-optimal design choice.
Soren Madsen
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The tiles made it work with current technology. They wanted to get the Shuttle off the ground, so sometimes had to just make it work. That is the problem with not building demonstrators. You cannot test any of the technologies for the final product without having whole design work.
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There is very little from the space shuttle that probably was used on the Delta IV. The Delta IV is the latest of a long line of Delta boosters that have one of the longest histories with a 95% success. In the first decade of the century there were two partial failures of Delta rockets where the satellite was not put in the correct orbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thor_and_Delta_launches_(2000%E2%80%932009)[^]), one the first launch of the Delta IV Heavy.
It is well known that the tile system was not a good design (http://www.keithcompany.com/Article%201-23.aspx[^]). There has been some work on other options (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry[^]), but I guess without a future space plane in the works, probably not a lot of work has been done on the concept. I would guess that a lot of the reason for the shuttle's economic failure comes from the tiles (it was suppose to make space flight cheap).
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...but out of Iraq we got.... wait, let me think about that one... 
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i would prefer spend that money to build beach resorts - imagine, free vacation for everyone
dev
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It's only about 3 USD per citizen, so it's maybe 1 free burger. 
Wout
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