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POPSTouch Screen Back in 1998/99, myself and a co-worker were brainstorming on computing ideas. We came up with an idea for a computer screen that would act like a kiosk of sorts, for the elderly. Realizing that there was a need to keep in touch and up to date with technology, it 'felt right' to bring something like touch screen for the elderly or those that could not type, into age (pun intended). Our idea was to set up these kiosk style monitors in senior assisted/non-assisted homes; on campus clubhouses, etc so anyone could send email and play a few games. Easy stuff that would not be intimidating or difficult to learn. Idea blown away when presented to our employer as not 'marketable enough.' About 3 weeks ago, I walked into Sam's Club; the computer section. A round table was set up with HP Touchscreen monitors. Curios, I walked over to inspect and could not get close enough except to watch. Persons much older than myself standing around the table, playing games by touching the scre
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POPS45th Mersenne Prime Revealed As for the next prime number record waiting to be crunched, the EFF will award $150,000 to the first person or group who discovers a prime with at least 100 million digits and $250,000 for a prime with at least a billion digits. You can download the GIMPS distributed computing software and join the hunt here .
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POPSEconomists Search for New Definition of Well-Being
"GDP has increasingly become used as a measure of societal well-being and changes in the structure of the economy and our society have made it an increasingly poor one," Stiglitz told the news agency Bloomberg in a recent interview. "So many things that are important to individuals are not included in GDP." In the model they unveiled last week in Paris, the academics recommend including other factors, such as sustainability and education. Significant Shortcomings Even the inventor of the gross domestic product measure, the late Russian-American economist Simon Kuznets, was aware that the classic method of computing GDP had significant shortcomings. "The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income," he said in 1934. This is because the growth rate says nothing about the distribution of wealth in a country, the state of health of its citizens or their life expectancy. The number provides no information about the cleanliness of rivers or the amo
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POPSOnline Premium Web Directory Premium Directory of Information and business resources. Search on various categories, Cadillac Tight is family friendly human edited directory. We review all listing prior accepting into our directory.
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POPSMeet the Algorithm Small thank you to Alan Turing for making this a mathematical possibility. Also available in one form or another in video games, flash animations,java scripts, php.
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POPSTen ways to smooth the switch to Linux If you're spreading the gospel of Linux among your Windows-based friends and family (or a sysadmin planning a full changeover), here are things you can do to ease others into the wonderful world of open-source.
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POPSFinally ! Where we came from revieled !
Unimpressive.” The chemist then commented: “All quite similar, derived from different sequences of four chemical ingredients.” Next the computational expert opined: “Limited computing abilities. But one, the hairless biped, is unlike the others. It exchanges information in a manner that is primitive and inefficient but remarkably different from the others. It creates many odd objects, including ones that are consumable, others that produce symbols, and yet others that destroy members of its tribe.” “But how can this be?” the engineer mused. “Given the similarity in form and chemistry, how can their computing capacity differ?” “I am not certain,” confessed the computational alien. “But they appear to have a system for creating new expressions that is infinitely more powerful than those of all the other living kinds. I propose that we place the hairless biped in a different group from the other animals, with a separate origin, and from a different galaxy.” The other two aliens nodded,
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POPSNow They Want Our Feelings, Our Emotions They are breaking us, tearing us down so they can rebuild us the way they want. It's what the military did to the draftees before they sent them to Viet Nam. They've already started to tell us that we're happy. Are we happy?
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POPSImmunet: New Cloud-Based Anti-Virus Program Note that I haven't actually used this, since I haven't booted up Windows in a while. Also, Windows 7 will still think you don't have an anti-virus program if you run Immunet in Vista-compatible mode.
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POPSDitching binary will make quantum computers more powerful But other possibilities exist, Neeley explains. "We could use a 'trinary' system with three digits – 0, 1 and 2 – and then the fundamental units would be trinary digits, or trits, that would essentially be three-position switches." A single "trit" would contain more information a conventional "bit". Neeley's team have now built a quantum computer whose building blocks have five basic states.
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POPSWiki-List of common misconceptions weather this stuff's actually true (it has a "needs verification" thing at the top), i have no clue. but it's interesting.and some of it i have read other places. Worth a read.
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