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Five years ago this week, Apple launched the iPhone. It seems safe to safe that never in history has a single product been so astoundingly successful so fast and had such a radical impact on the world. Here are a few highlights... Like it or not, the iPhone changed the game.
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The sci-fi genre has given us some of the most iconic and daring designs in Hollywood history. We discuss the very best designs in sci-fi movies throughout the ages, with a host of influential designers giving us their thoughts on our picks. What's your favorite sci-fi movie creation?
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Kelly Brock (Weird Science) or Six (Battlestar Galactica) 
Steve
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Well, this[^] is a good start.
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I am not sure what this device "really" offers. It is kind of odd device to me.
The Nexus 7 tablet, however, is a great deal.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: The Nexus 7 tablet, however, is a great deal.
Totally agree, Quad Core Cpu and 12 Core GPU it has to rock especially for 199usd
As for the Nexus Q, I think it could be summarised as a D-Link Boxee Box on Steroids!
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Seriously ? a device WITH wires... ?
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name a common electronic device that doesn't have wires?
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Pretty sure it still has wires. To start at the obvious one, a power cord. To go to the technical definition, even the metallic lines on a PCB are wires, so unless it manages to function without any circuits it still has wires.
Not to mention, in pretty much every situation wired network connection will outperform a wireless one, and I don't know of a better way to send picture and video to most TVs (yes some support WiFi, but they are the minority).
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Using the APIs of Facebook and Foursquare, the website We Know What You're Doing mines the public status updates and check-ins of random strangers and republishes them, telling us who’s unhappy at work, been partying a bit too hard, or is a little too generous with their contact information. [ITworld]
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For some of us, the issue isn't that someone could track us and what we do. The issue is the fact that it would reveal just how depressing our existance really is. 
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The Death Star has cleared the moon, and the X Wings have all but been wiped out. Patent Wars looks to be stepping up as a US judge orders Samsung to stop selling Galaxy tables in the US. This order will go into effect as soon as Apple lodges a $2.6m bond to protect Samsung from damages should the ruling go their way. Source[^]
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US Court/Justice system - so pathetically amateurish.
The EU bangs Microsoft and Intel for Euros-By-The-Billion (the new plan to help the Greek Economy).
I believe it's time for revolution: turn-about is fair play.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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During TechEd 2012, Telerik announced their first commercial library for building Windows 8 Metro applications. This control library is a set of controls for XAML and HTML apps. User can chose the language of their own choice and deliver a high end Windows 8 enterprise and consumer applications using these controls.
In this blog post, I will describe more about the controls and guide you to kick start with your Metro application development using the Telerik RadControls. The controls set is neither yet released nor available publicly to download. In case you want a special early adopter access, this blog post will help you to get one too.
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all you need to know is here[^]
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I invented/discovered/came-upon "Inverse Fizzbuzz" while mucking about with Scala & Partial Functions. While Fizzbuzz answers the question "Can Shipper code?", Inverse Fizzbuzz tells you "How well does Shipper code?" Given a list of strings, what's the nerdiest thing you can do?
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Microbenchmarks are evil. Ya, I said it. Folks spend hours in tight loops measuring things trying to find out the "best way" to do something and forget that while they are changing 5ms between two techniques they've missed the 300ms Database Call or the looming N+1 selects issue that has their ORM quietly making even more database calls. Fun with Microbenchmarks!
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Folks spend hours in tight loops measuring things trying to find out the "best way" to do something
Really? I mean, really?
In my experience when anyone dares to wonder aloud if a pice of code could be done more efficiently, There's a barrage of an out-of-context "Premature Optimization is the Root of All Evil!" raining down on a poor guy wanting to learn.
They always claim "folks spend hours squeezing useless microseconds." Without even as much as anecdotical evidence. Optimization is the new goto.*
I think this mantra is an excuse to ignore performance questions - because the "first make it run, then make it fast" is based on an assumption that fails on modern hardware: that performance problems are isolated. Wondering if something can be made faster is the best way to demystify the compiler, especially for people who never used low-level languages.
[edit] Oh wait, Scott just had to pull a "I'm not a witch" defense before doing some microoptimizations.
*) which is appropriate only because of the original source of the quote.
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There was a time where you could significantly improve the memcpy of the standard libraries. More than one, actually - and sometimes it even did matter.
With the move towards more-RISCiesque instruction timings, looping and unrolling would improve over REP MOVSD especially for large blocks.
With the move to better optimizers, an inlined loop could omit alignment arithmetics, and use SIMD instructions.
So it depends when and what for that guy did it
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