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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 08 2013 @ 01:30 PM EST |
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| Authored by: squib on Friday, March 08 2013 @ 02:08 PM EST |
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Samsung
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Friday, March 08 2013 @ 04:03 PM EST |
| Dotcom's shutdown good for US studios [NZ Herald]
You can't tell
from the headline nor from the information before the very end of the article,
but here is what the article apparently is really saying:
The prestigious
name of Carnegie Mellon University is on a report from the Initiative for
Digital Entertainment Analytics (Idea), which was founded last October with an
"unrestricted gift" from the Motion Picture Association of America. Using
accounting data supplied by two anonymous studios, the study "estimates that the
MegaUpload shutdown in January last year boosted the two studios' revenues from
online movie sales and rentals by 6 to 10 per cent over the subsequent 18
weeks." That comes out to something over $1M per week in revenues based on
their assumed average sale and rental prices in the 12 countries that the two
studios had digital sales channels.
The article does not indicate any
independent verification of the accounting data supplied by the studios, and
does indicate that the study contradicts earlier results from a study by German
and Danish researchers that was released last October, coincidentally about when
the MPAA gifted Carnegie Mellon University with the funds to found IDEA.
For
some interesting background see the Wikipedia article Hollywood accounting
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 08 2013 @ 06:46 PM EST |
| "A Singaporean university has denied tenure for a second time to an outspoken
journalism professor known for his critical political commentary, prompting some
scholars and students to accuse the school of curtailing academic freedom."
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| Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 05:47 AM EST |
From an article at
networkorld.com:
France Telecom retired Minitel on June 30,
2012. At its
height it is said as many as 30 million people in France
used
the system and that an enormous subculture of 10,000
companies offering some
26,000 different services were
available.
Minitel offered e-commerce, bill
payment and home banking in
many cases way before such services were available
elsewhere
in the world. "The huge use of dating and personal bulletin
board
services using the consumer-coded 3615 number in the
early years of Minitel
caused some members of the French
government to speak out on what they believed
were wasted
valuable public funds spent developing nothing more than a
glorified online bar," the IDG New Service wrote in 1998.
"The Web world would
do well not to discount the Minitel and
to learn from its mistakes. Do mantras
such as 'contribute
to improving democracy and citizenship,' 'create a system
accessible to the entire population,' and eliminate 'a two-
tier information
society' sound familiar? These were some of
the charges of the initial Minitel
system in 1983," the IDG
story stated.
Given the large user base
and large commercial activities it
had this may be a serious source for prior
art in software
use, albeit in French.
Hope they can preserve and
expose much of what is left.
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IMANAL
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| Authored by: hardmath on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 09:26 AM EST |
According to
Webster's 1828 dictionary, apotropy is "In
ancient poetry, a verse
or hymn composed for averting the
wrath of incensed deities. The deities
invoked were called
apotropeans."
Still looking for a satisfactory
definition of
entropos.
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Recursion is the opprobrium of the
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 04:49 PM EST |
http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxcert/2013/02/18/google-blocks/
Yes,
it's nearly a month old, but trim the url
to
http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxcert/
to find background on the
situation and updates.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 04:56 PM EST |
| The machine at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory can
perform 27 quadrillion calculations a second, putting IBM’s Watson to
shame ---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 05:01 PM EST |
Yes, they're still watching,
Stingray cellphone
tracker,
Ragtime NSA domestic
surveillance, both stories from slate.com
Any concealed weapons? NY DailyNews
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 10 2013 @ 01:40 PM EDT |
First it was Asus and Acer, then Fujitsu. Now Samsung has added its
voice to the growing chorus of PC manufacturers whinging away about sluggish
demand for machines running Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating
system.
Asked for his take on recent reports that the PC market will
continue to contract through 2013, Jun Dong-soo — president of Samsung’s memory
chip division — said he doesn’t expect the PC industry to rebound anytime
soon.
And if and when it does, that rebound won’t be driven by Windows
8.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 10 2013 @ 04:00 PM EDT |
Not a business merger, just market pressure
pushing their design and
technology closer
suggests
The Economist
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 10 2013 @ 06:26 PM EDT |
A while ago there was a controversy about the like button ( by being loaded from
a facebook site) that reveiled ones visit/interest for the particular site that
set up the request for a like button.
iirc that was resolved by sites making a connect only when the button was
clicked.
Now I stuble upon scripts that have a connect.facebook.net
clue in it.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 10 2013 @ 07:02 PM EDT |
Back in 2009, Harvard political philosopher Michael
Sandel made his course, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to
Do?, available on the web for free (
YouTube - iTunes - Web). Suddenly lifelong learners
around the world had access to a popular course enjoyed by more than 14,000
Harvard students over 30 years.
Starting this Tuesday, Sandel plans to
offer Justice
as a free course through edX, the provider of MOOCs (or Massive Open
Online Courses) created by Harvard and MIT. And here’s one thing you can
guarantee: In a single offering, Sandel will bring his course to more students
worldwide than he did through his decades teaching at Harvard. You can enroll
and reserve your
free seat here.
Students who receive a passing grade in the course
can earn a certificate of mastery, which will bear the name
HarvardX.
Justice has been added to our every growing
list of MOOCs
from Great Universities.
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