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Threading
We’re quite familiar with the idea of writing a program that follows a specific sequence of steps as outlined in, say, a main() function. A Thread is also a series of steps with a beginning, a middle, and an end. A thread’s sequence, however, can run independently of the main program. In fact, we can launch any number of threads at one time and they will all run concurrently. Visit the Java site for a more involved explanation.
This is incredibly useful when it comes to data mining, as we can have separate threads retrieving different pieces of information from the network. If one gets stuck or has an error, the entire program won’t grind to a halt, since the error only stops that individual thread. To create independent, asynchronous threads, we simply extend the Thread class.
Google LatLong: Evolving the look of Google Maps
Today the Google Maps team is rolling out a number of refinements to the look and feel of our maps, the biggest such changes since we first launched about 4.7 years ago. In that time we've been steadily adding details like walkways, address labels, bus stops, new country coverage, and improved satellite imagery, but the look of the map hasn't changed much.
Search Quizilla Search GO Lingerie to bring to the mind a pile of ideas
The day of San Valentin (14 of February)
5 Design Decision Styles. What's Yours?
In our research, we found that the most effective teams were skilled in all five styles, choosing the style that best fit the needs and goals of a project. For example, they might concurrently be involved in deep research on a User-Focused project, while relying on their experience for a Genius designed project, and spend a little time whipping out some one-shot functionality whose results would be Unintended Design.
Since the teams are working with different styles all the time, does it matter? Our research says it does. The teams that produced the best experiences knew these styles well and how to quickly switch between them. They knew when they needed to go whole hog and pull out all the stops for a User-Focused style project, while also knowing when it was important to bang out a quick design, knowing the results would essentially be unintended. Those teams had a rich toolbox of techniques and a solid understanding on how and when to use them.
There is no silver bullet.
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2008
Fingerprint screening stops 846 | The Japan Times Online
oui mais pas des terroristes…Of the 846, 748 were ordered to leave Japan and 98, most of whom used fake passports, were expelled from Japan and banned from entering the country for the next five years.
Fotokuo | Trans-Mongolian | photographs by Eugene Kuo © 2008
his is part two of my Trans-Siberian/Mongolian trip from Moscow to Beijing: Ikrutsk to Beijing, with stops in Ulaan Batur and Da Tong.
Annual Report Photographer David Tejada "The f-Stops Here"
Dynamic Photo HDR, high dynamic range imaging software with Anti-Ghosting
Surf's up
Data-mining detects the disaffected | Military Tech - Mark Rutherford looks at how the military merges with the digital age - CNET Blogs
The technology, based on something called Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PDF), scours an organization's e-mail traffic and constructs a graph of social network interactions illustrating employee activity. If a worker suddenly stops socializing online, abruptly shifts alliances within the organization, or starts developing an unhealthy interest in "sensitive topics," the system detects it and alerts investigators.
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SVG vs. Silverlight head-to-head fight - Just code - Tamir Khason
Adobe stops supporting SVG next year, thus there are some SVG consumers are looking for the replacement of this technology, by other, that will be supported. The only technology, can actually replace SVG is Silverlight. Yes, Flex, too, but it's too complicated to perform transitions. Today, we'll look into those two technologies and try to understand how to perform migration easily. Let's start from SVG (Adobe SVG 3.x) vs SL (Silverlight 1.0) syntax
2007
spinning mind
» 10 pieces of hardware you should replace rather than repair | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
PhpSuexec and Movabletype
Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On Debian Etch | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
Original Sony Ericsson FM Transmitter MMR-60
Original Sony Ericsson FM Transmitter MMR-60
Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » 10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed
