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Optical Illusion of The Day Vista Gadget (gadget): Optical Illusion of The Day Vista Gadget pulls the latest optical illusion from Mighty Optical Illusions Web site and shows it in your Vista sidebar. If you click on the image, browser takes you to that particular illusion's description and comments. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Illusion, Aheront, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet; Software downloads 2008-10-02
MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subway: MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subwayPrior restraintThe judge's order is clearly prior restraint on speech. I'd be shocked if it wasn't overturned on appeal. Unfortunately, the MTA will probably escape the financial spanking they deserve for violating the students' civil rights.Illusion is...; Tags: Constitution, students skill, security, security gap, subway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, illusion; Discussion threads 2008-08-11
Water Illusion Screensaver (exe): Water Illusion Screensaver offers animated water pictures with sound and weather effect for your ultimate nature experience. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Screensaver, Illusion; Software downloads 2007-11-29
Endless Series (zip): Four audio effect plug-ins based on the auditory illusion known as Circular Pitch or more commonly the Shepard Tone/Scale after Roger N. Shepard who discovered it in the 1960s. Shepard showed that using basic additive synthesis its possible to create the illusion of a continuously rising or descending chromatic scale....; Tags: Illusion; Software downloads 2007-10-31
Virtual robots fooled by visual illusions: Researchers at University College London UCL have written a computer program using neural networks which are duped by optical illusions the same way as we do. Their virtual robots, which were trained to 'see' like us, could help to understand why we fall for optical illusions. This might also be...; Tags: Brain, Robot, Illusion, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-09-30

F**k China: Seems like the F-word is more popular than China on the blogosphere. According to a Scansafes Monthly Global Threat Report for March 2007: "Up to 80 percent of blogs contain potentially offensive content, which can range from adult language to pornographic images, and about 6 percent of blogs host malware."It...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-25
Optical Illusion Of The Day (zip): Optical Illusion Of The Day pulls the latest illusion from Mighty Optical Illusions Web site and shows it on your desktop. If you click on the image, browser takes you to that particular illusion's description and comments.; Tags: Illusion, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-04-18
Water Illusion Bundle Screensaver (exe): Get 6 Water Illusion Screensaver in This Bundle. Beautifully created with all the amazing water effects and nature sounds. All 6 screensaver have a very scenic view and will mesmerize your thoughts and illusion your imagination definitely.; Tags: Digital Imaging, Screensaver, Imaging, Illusion, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Software downloads 2006-08-09
Virtual reality gets comfy: If you ever participated to some virtual reality VR experiments, you know that the environment is quite expensive and not always user-friendly. In fact, in some immersive environments, it's even possible to feel bad because of motion sickness. This is why researchers from Germany and Sweden have developed a new...; Tags: Poems, virtual reality; Blog posts 2006-04-17
Deaf dumb and blind boys: Deaf dumb and blind boysFrom title, I thought it was a story about M$hills!whoopsey..What kind of idiot lets an 11-year-old listen to Eminem?I'm a dad of an 18-year-old Marine/Freshman in college and a 7-year-old first-grader. I've discouraged my son from listening to mysoginistic, foul-mouthed stuff like Emimen puts out. He's...; Tags: CHILDHOOD, Eminem, daughter, illusion; Discussion threads 2005-03-05
SoftParticles Sample: Particle systems are a common method for creating volumetric effects in games. They can be used to simulate various effects such as fire, cloudes, smoke, dust, glowing projectiles, magic spells, etc. A common technique is to use 2D camera-aligned quads centered at each particle to represent the volume that the...; Tags: Technique, 2D, Particle, Illusion; Webcasts

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After McColo, spam way down - temporarily: Spam plummeted by two-thirds, in the wake of the plug being pulled on alleged cybercrime host McColo, according to news reports. But virtually no one thinks spam will continue at today's low level of merely 60 billion spam messages per day. ...; Tags: Spammer, Eastern Europe, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-11-14
Toshiba A305-S6872: Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. If asked to describe the $749 Toshiba Satellite A305-S6872 in a single word, we'd say this: solid. The 15.4-inch system incorporates middle-of-the-road components...; Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, Toshiba Corp., satellite, laptop computer; Product reviews 2008-10-27
John Galt is dead or Linus shrugs: John Galt is dead or Linus shrugsLinux isn't a good example.It's expense reduction vs Unix for servers, funded by lower staffing costs.A better example is a product like OpenOffice.org, proprietary software given to a project as a desperation play because the former owner4 couldn't make a profit. And hopes...; Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Dana, Whole Community, John Galt, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Linus; Discussion threads 2008-10-27
Could being sustainable save the world AND the economy? New book makes convincing case.: Could being sustainable save the world AND the economy? New book makes convincing case.Software as a service = sustainabilityIt seems like we use less when we make use of shared resources. Software as a service SaaS is turning out to be a very green proposition. Most of us...; Tags: Green Washing, sustainability; Discussion threads 2008-10-25
From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture: From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture*Standing Ovation*I finally understand your "Centralization of processing and de-centralization of control" shpeel. I think we are in alignment with the latter, but not the former. I believe in an Autonomic Distributed Architecture - where every *NIX machine client and server share the same...; Tags: Operating systems, Unix, hardware, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-10-24
Apple the software platform company: A couple of days ago, Steve Jobs sat down and spoke to analysts about Apple results, and future plans. It was quite an interesting read. Jobs would never come out and say outright that he considers Apple to be in the luxury category, as that that's one...; Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Apple Inc., Android Phone, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software, Management, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-10-23
Campus security: protecting our assets and asses: Campus security: protecting our assets and assesCherry Picking StatsYour choice of words belies your intent. Stating that the US has a huge gun crime rate and then linking to a an out of date Gun crime report is deceptive at best.The gun crime rate in the link you provided comes...; Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Asset management, Cellular phones, gun crime rate, crime rate, Campus security, asset; Discussion threads 2008-10-16
CEATEC Roundup: Sony's 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp's solar-power TV, Panasonic's LifeWall concept: While we all wait around until January for the Consumer Electronics Show, an event like CEATEC Japan can give us a taste of the future for home theater. And since ZDNet didn't offer to fly me over there to check it out first-hand (cough, next year, cough), I had to...; Tags: Sony Corp., 3D, Panasonic, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Sharp Corp., TV, Wall, Construction, Sean Portnoy; Blog posts 2008-10-06
Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads: Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloadsWho wrote this?!?Because whoever did needs to take a quick look at their article and proofread it.This article makes it sound like this vulnerability will mean certain death to content providers' business model and no one is going to pay for it unless...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Fair Use, Adobe Software, movie download, movie, Adobe Systems Inc., software; Discussion threads 2008-09-29