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More musings about IPR
via confused of calcutta by JP on July 08, 2008
If you haven’t seen it already, do take a look at this letter to the Times last week, from Joseph Stiglitz and John Sulston.Here are a few excerpts:The question of “Who owns science?” is therefore a crucial one, the answer to which will have broad-reaching implications for scientific progress and for the way in which the benefits of science are distributed, fairly or otherwise. Two of the...
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JProfiler: Your Java code could be running faster in under two hours
via Either You Succeed or Explain by Zviki on July 08, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in a position which is well known to any professional Java developer: my software was simply too slow. After tackling some obvious pain-points, I had to turn to help of a profiler. At the end of the day, I managed to cut the execution time of some processes by 50% and more, by using JProfiler form ej-technologies. The Open Source Alternatives As an Eclipse...
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Check Yourself for Genetic Abnormalities
via Wired How-To Wiki by snackfight on July 07, 2008
Summary: Nearly every day, somebody in the research community claims to have found a genetic marker associated with some sort of health condition. If you are curious and want to check yourself for those inherited traits, there are several options at your disposal. Some are easy, others are quite hard, but none of them are cheap.==Option 1: Visit a Genetic Counselor==The easiest, and most...
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Rounding up...
via The F-Word Blog by Jess McCabe on July 07, 2008
Rapists face little risk of being convicted in this country - that much we know. But research by Fawcett out today shows that the situation is much worse in some parts of the country than others.But the society said the conviction rate had got worse in 18 out of 43 police areas. For example, in Bedfordshire the conviction rate four years ago was 8.3% but it had dropped to 3.2%. Northamptonshire...
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Add Profiles to FriendFeed and Extend Your Twitter Profile
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on July 06, 2008
Micro-blogging darling Twitter and the charming aggregation site FriendFeed are missing one huge thing that most users don't mind overlooking: profiles. While, it really isn't a big deal profiles can be helpful when determining whether or not to add someone as a friend. So if you've been missing those features, here's a way to add a profile to FriendFeed and extend your Twitter...
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SHARP AQUOS con TV Móvil y pantalla WideScreen
via Celularis by pablo on July 08, 2008
... de Japón, podemos ver muchas fotos y saber que las dimensiones no son tan alarmantes como hubieramos pensado, son de 50 x 113 x 18.6 mm, tiene peso de 135 gr.Además de la función de TV Móvil, incluye GPS, bluetooth y una cámara digital con sensor de 5.2 megapixles con autofoco digital, además de un software con reconocimiento de rostros y estabilizador de imagen, entre otros detalles.
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Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk
via MedicineNet Daily News by (author unknown) on July 03, 2008
Title: Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer RiskCategory: Health NewsCreated: 7/3/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 7/3/2008
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Better Amazon Firefox Extension Upgrades Amazon.com [Lifehacker Code]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on July 07, 2008
Firefox only: Save time shopping at Amazon.com with the new Better Amazon Firefox extension, which adds helpful tweaks and features to Amazon's pages. Better Amazon highlights which products the big A offers Super Saver free shipping for in search results, automatically enlarges product images, shortens Amazon URLs for easy emailing, and collapses superfluous junk on the page when you just...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES | Google, Zen Master of the Market
via MSDN Blogs by M&E News on July 07, 2008
July 7, 2008News AnalysisGoogle, Zen Master of the MarketBy STEVE LOHR Bill Gates, who walked away from full-time work at Microsoft last month, was perhaps the foremost applied economist of the second half of the 20th century. Mr. Gates and Microsoft fundamentally shaped how people think about the behavior of modern markets in which technology plays a central role. Under Mr. Gates, Microsoft also...
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Swift3D and Silverlight
via Frank La Vigne by Frank on July 06, 2008
I've done a lot of work with Swift 3D in the past. [Sample 1 | Sample 2 | Sample 3 ]Swift 3D is a 3D rendering environment for Flash that's been around for about eight years.Now that version 5 includes Silverlight and WPF support, I decided it was time to take another look at the tool.Check out this sample animation.The tool works by rendering out each frame of a 3D animation into a...
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