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  Time Boxing is an Effective Getting Things Done Strategy 

  http://www.davecheong.com/2006/07/26/time-boxing-is-an-effective-getting-things-done-strategy/

  34 Responses to “Time Boxing is an Effective Getting Things Done Strategy” Says: July 29th, 2006 at 12:32 am […] Time Boxing is an Effective Getting Things Done Strategy - Dave Cheong […] Until its done ... at Kyun.org Says: July 30th, 2006 at 2:47 pm […] Time Boxing as Dave Cheong calls it has worked for me each and every time. The basic idea behind this is to fix a time limit to what you are working on. At the end of that time limit, stop all tasks. Review what you have done, mark them as done and mark all the remaining items as unfinished. Then setup another time slot for all those things in the unfinished list. Repeat the process. […] Creating a Better Life Says: July 30th, 2006 at 11:01 pm The Personal Development Carnival - July 30, 2006 Welcome to the latest edition of the Personal Development Carnival. Let’s get right to the growth! — Gleb Reys presents Recover From Personal Development Failure posted at Personal Development Ideas Blog. David Maister presents Are You D… Bob   [More...] [Less...]

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  An Intuitive Explanation of Fourier Theory 

  http://sharp.bu.edu/~slehar/fourier/fourier.html

  Steven Lehar slehar@cns.bu.edu Fourier theory is pretty complicated mathematically. But there are some beautifully simple holistic concepts behind Fourier theory which are relatively easy to explain ... intuitively. There are other sites on the web that can give you the mathematical formulation of the Fourier transform. I will present only the basic intuitive insights here, as applied to spatial imagery. Basic Principles: How space is represented by frequency Higher Harmonics: "Ringing" effects An Analog Analogy: The Optical Fourier Transform Fourier Filtering: Image Processing using Fourier Transforms Basic Principles Fourier theory states that any signal, in our case visual images, can be expressed as a sum of a series of sinusoids. In the case of imagery, these are sinusoidal variations in brightness across the image. For example the sinusoidal pattern shown below can be captured in a single Fouier term that encodes 1: the spatial frequency, 2: the magnitude (positive or negative),   [More...] [Less...]

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  Nanotechnology Made Clear 

  http://www.understandingnano.com/

  NANOTECHNOLOGY... ...can seem like a complicated topic. The Understanding Nanotechnology Website is dedicated to providing clear and concise explanations of nanotechnology applications in areas such as ... energy, medicine, and consumer goods. Just as I tried to do when co-authoring Nanotechnology For Dummies , on this site I attempt to make the concepts of nanotechnology understandable by anyone. One visitor posted this comment on his blog "It can't get any simpler" which makes me think I'm headed in the right direction. You can find the information on each nanotechnology application through the links to the left, or browse through the introduction below. Let us know of any new nanotech topics you would like to see covered. If you like what you see, we'd be delighted if you added a link to our site to your own Web page, or mention us on your blog. INTRODUCTION TO NANOTECHNOLOGY Nanotechnology is the study and use of structures between 1 nanometer and 100 nanometers in size. To give you an   [More...] [Less...]

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  Enterprise Java Community: Introduction to the Spring Framework 

  http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=SpringFramework

  Since the first version of this article was published in October, 2003, the Spring Framework has steadily grown in popularity. It has progressed through version 1.0 final to the present 1.2, and has been ... adopted in a wide range of industries and projects. In this article, I'll try to explain what Spring sets out to achieve, and how I believe it can help you to develop J2EE applications. Yet another framework? You may be thinking "not another framework." Why should you read this article, or download the Spring Framework (if you haven't already), when there are so many J2EE frameworks, or when you could build your own framework? The sustained high level of interest in the community is one indication that Spring must offer something valuable; there are also numerous technical reasons. I believe that Spring is unique, for several reasons: It addresses important areas that many other popular frameworks don't . Spring focuses around providing a way to manage your business objects. Spring   [More...] [Less...]

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  Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

  The 800 million-Euro EUREKA Prometheus Project on driverless cars (1987-1995) showed that fast autonomous vehicles, notably those of Ernst Dickmanns and his team, can drive long distances (over 100 miles) ... in traffic, automatically recognizing and tracking other cars through computer vision , passing slower cars in the left lane. But the challenge of safe door-to-door autonomous driving in arbitrary environments will require additional research. The DARPA Grand Challenge was a race for a $2 million prize where cars had to drive themselves over a hundred miles of challenging desert terrain without any communication with humans, using GPS , computers and a sophisticated array of sensors. In 2005, the winning vehicles completed all 132 miles (212 km) of the course in just under seven hours. This was the first in a series of challenges aimed at a congressional mandate stating that by 2015 one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles of the US Armed Forces should be unmanned. [30] For   [More...] [Less...]

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  Which virtualization is right for you? - Ian C. Blenke 

  http://ian.blenke.com/system/virtualization/paravirtualization/hardware/software/vmx/svm/vt/raw/iron/pv/hvm/qemu/xen/solaris/zones/brandz/jails/openvz/power5/virtual/machine/which_virtualization_is_right_for_you.html

  Picking the right virtualization technology requires a basic understanding of what is available out there today. Rik Van Riel has put up the virt.kernelnewbies.org page that shows a number of the existing ... virtualization methods. You might want to peruse this first to get a feel. "Bare Metal" or "Raw Iron" Basic computing today typically occurs on "Bare Metal". This would be where your Operating Systems is installed directly on a given hardware platform. This "Raw Iron" role is how most people treat computing platforms today. Some higher end hardware platforms offer "Hardware Partitioning". This is where the hardware platform is divvied up between multiple parallel operating systems at the same time. The hardware platform offers up CPUs, memory, and disk to independent operating systems that then run on the resources allocated to them. This isn't as much virtualization as it is resource partitioning. An example of this would be higher end Unix hardware like Sun T1 processor based ser   [More...] [Less...]

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  Nanotechnology Basics 

  http://www.nanotech-now.com/basics.htm

  Home > Introduction > Nanotechnology Basics Nanotechnology Basics Last Updated: Thursday, 15-Jun-2006 15:24:19 PDT What is Nanotechnology? Answers differ depending on who you ask, and their background. ... Broadly speaking however, nanotechnology is the act of purposefully manipulating matter at the atomic scale, otherwise known as the "nanoscale." Coined as "nano-technology" in a 1974 paper by Norio Taniguchi at the University of Tokyo, and encompassing a multitude of rapidly emerging technologies, based upon the scaling down of existing technologies to the next level of precision and miniaturization. Taniguchi approached nanotechnology from the 'top-down' standpoint, from the viewpoint of a precision engineer. Foresight Nanotech Institute Founder K. Eric Drexler introduced the term "nanotechnology" to the world in 1986, using it to describe a 'bottom-up' approach. Drexler approaches nanotechnology from the point-of-view of a physicist, and defines the term as "large-scale mechanosynth   [More...] [Less...]

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  Social bookmarking - Wikipedia 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

  [ edit ] Introduction On a social bookmarking system or network, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists can be accessible to the public by users of a specific network ... or website. Other users with similar interests can view the links by topic, category, tags, or even randomly. Other than web page bookmarks, services specialized to a specific subject or format — feeds, books, videos, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. — can be found. [ edit ] History The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Within the next three years online bookmark services became competitive, with venture-backed companies like Backflip , Blink, [ citation needed ] Clip2 , Hotlinks , Quiver , and others entering the market. Lacking viable models for making money, most of this early generation of social bookmarking companies failed as the dot-com bubble burst. In 2005 and 2006, social bookmarking sites, such as del.i   [More...] [Less...]

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  Untitled Document [pdf]

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-13.pdf

  261 CHAPTER 13 Biometrics And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said. Let me go over; that the men of Gilead ... said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of the Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. —JUDGES 12:5–6 13.1 Introduction The above quotation may be the first recorded military use of a security protocol in which the authentication relies on a property of the human being—in this case his ac- cent. (There had been less formal uses before this, as when Isaac tried to identify Esau by his bodily hair, but got deceived by Jacob; or indeed when people recognized each other by their faces, which I’ll discuss later.) Biometrics identify people by measuring some aspect of individua   [More...] [Less...]

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