Link: All About Electric Text
This sounds like a really interesting book. Go read the review!
Month / October 2007
上海: After Dark
Link: 上海: After Dark
Really neat pictures… go see.
NASA Ikhana Assists SoCal Firefighters
Link: NASA Ikhana Assists SoCal Firefighters
ackthpt writes “Ikhana (a NASA drone) is primarily designed for suborbital earth sciences missions, but may be fitted out with a variety of sensors. Wednesday, Ikhana took off from Edwards Air Force Base for a 10 hour mission to observe forest fires in California, scanning the terrain from 23-25,000 feet using a variety of sensors for visible and IR light. Able to remain aloft for up to 30 continuous hours Ikhana serves up information in minutes, a process that takes hours when done by manned aircraft observation. ‘The data is processed on the aircraft, up-linked to a satellite and then downloaded to a ground station. From there it’s delivered to a computer server at NASA Ames. The imagery is then combined with Google Earth maps. Command center personnel can view the images on their computer screens and then delegate local firefighters accordingly.’”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
How To Motivate Employees
Link: How To Motivate Employees
Interesting stuff at the Business Opportunities and Ideas blog, as usual…
Hands on with Google’s OCRopus open-source scanning software
Link: Hands on with Google’s OCRopus open-source scanning software
The first alpha version of Google Code’s open-source OCRopus optical character recognition scanning software is out. We put it to the test to see how it handles an assortment of text samples.
Babel’s Nobel
Link: Babel’s Nobel
Observers seem to track the nations, not the languages, of the 104 Nobel-winning writers. Yet parsing the list of 25 languages that they wrote in turns up many interesting instances of disproportion.
Introduction to Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to (15 Oct 2007)
Link: Introduction to Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to (15 Oct 2007)
The UNIX Porting Guide is a first stop for UNIX developers coming to Mac OS X. This document helps guide developers in bringing applications written for UNIX-based operating systems to Mac OS X. It provides the background needed to understand the operating system. It touches on some of the design decisions, and it provides a listing and discussion of some of the main areas that you should be concerned with in bringing UNIX applications to Mac OS X. It also points out some of the advanced fe
The case of the missing CableCARD-ready set-top box
Link: The case of the missing CableCARD-ready set-top box
As of July 1, the FCC’s integration ban took effect, and cable companies needed to begin offering CableCARD-ready set-top boxes to their customers. Three months later, they’re impossible to find. Ars goes in search of the elusive set-top boxes.