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OMG, this is easy and if you are a student or faculty member that has access to Dreamspark or MSDNAA. If you are creating a game using Expression Blend 3 or Silverlight, you might find that you need to convert a .WAV file to a .WMA file. This
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Why FORTRAN and not F#? FORTRAN works well, has a strong history and none of that nasty object oriented nonsense. F# works well, based on OCAML, and supports object oriented nonsense How about F# and FORTRAN? Can F# use FORTRAN? Alfred
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Wow! No, no, WOW! The Messenger Series from Cornell brings Feynman back from the dead. Here is Dr. Feynman lecturing on the nature of physical law. Microsoft has put together a respectful and interesting series of lectures by Richard
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I read the 112 page report found at http://ethics.calpoly.edu/ONR_report.pdf , which exhaustively examines the concept of the autonomous device. Including the idea of the autonomous device as a “comfort” robot, see page 80, I am NOT going into detail
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Recently a few of my colleagues were on Twitter, tweeting about robotic ethics. Seemed pretty dumb to me. I think I have some real world encounters with autonomous vehicles with my work on auto-flight systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Oh NO! Take a look at this article on using software with nanotechnology: Designing Structures Made of Nanomaterials Algorithmic design of self-assembling structures Stargate and Replicators Read these articles NOW, before it is too late. Just kidding
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Yeah right, have you tried to make money off of the web? Read any of those books on “Secrets of Google”? How is that going for you? In this paper, which uses simple arithmetic presented in a complicated manner, to show how to mine data
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OMG, people tracking what I search and what I click on. Isn’t that an invasion of my privacy? I think that I should have the right to protect my privacy, but what is privacy on the Internet? On the other hand, how do others help me to protect
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Autocollage is pretty cool, after all you just got back from the Imagine Cup in Egypt or hanging out by the pool at your friend’s house down the street, and you got a ton of pictures. Time moves on, how do you share them? Use one of the recent outputs
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Check out a good brief article about video and 3D, if can read only one article this summer on 3D Video, this is the one you should read! 3DVideo Reading and viewing the videos will give you insight into what occlusion is and isn’t. Being able to utilize
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WTF? ESP? Satellite people? Is this a Coast to Coast show with George Noory for long haul truckers and insomniacs? No, Embodied Social Proxies , this isn’t a problem that my team suffers from, even though we rarely meet in person, none of us work together
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Take a look at this article: 'Secret' Questions Leave Accounts Vulnerable , now ask yourself: Could someone guess the answer to your secret question. I have always felt that these secret questions were silly and I usually have not utilize them.
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Fireworks were initially invented by the Chinese, and likely the medical protocol for missing hands from explosions followed shortly. In the United States July the Fourth represents the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
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A retail person might answer: “When they buy something!” Not the case here. The question could be: Can a browser also be an operating system? I don’t agree with Janie Chang, the author of this article in general, businesses are being forced
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Use the Interactive Panel in VS 2010 to learn how to use F#. I have not included the code used in my examples, my guidance to you is to visit: F# 1.9.6.16 Draft Language Specification , start off with: “Making Data Simple” use the interactive panel
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