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The problem with the future is that by the time you get there, everything is pretty normal. Now that we've arrived in 2010 (something I could hardly imagine 10 years ago), we're now met with the annual tradition of predicting what will happen this year. Now that Kroc, Thom and Tess have recovered en ...

Here's something you probably don't know, but really should - especially if you're a programmer, and especially especially if you're using Intel's compiler. It's a fact that's not widely known, but Intel's compiler deliberately and knowingly cripples performance for non-Intel (AMD/VIA) processors.

The PC-BSD team has released the first beta release of PC-BSD 8.0. "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and KDE 4.3.4. Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements."

Over the holidays, the Cheyenne web server that is used in Syllable Server got a WebSocket framework. Cheyenne's author Nenad Rakocevic implemented WebSocket support in just a day on top of the UniServe universal network I/O subsystem that underpins Cheyenne. In a few more days, he designed an origi ...

NetApplications has released its latest browser market share figures, and these figures show that Chrome has overtaken Safari as the number three browser worldwide, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. IE, by the way, continues to lose popularity rather fast.

Iddo Genuth writes "Research conducted by a team of North American scientist shows our solar system is special, contrary to the accepted theory that it is an average planetary system. Using computer simulations to follow the development of planets, it was shown that very specific conditions are need ...

Kligat writes "For the first time since 2003, the International Space Station has utilized the rockets on the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle to dodge leftover remnants of a defunct satellite. The Russian Cosmos-2421 was launched in June 2006 to track Western Navy vessels and is b ...

Ostracus writes to share a new take on the word "treehouse." Engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv have taken the application of tree shaping to the next level, designing everything from streetlamps to houses. "A home built from trees, the researchers said, would be a natural storm protector. ...

KentuckyFC writes to mention that new data from the orbiting observatory PAMELA may shed some additional light on the question of dark matter. Still only a preliminary announcement, the new findings apparently support the "Minimal Dark Matter" model where a particle called a "Wino" is responsible. R ...

Anti-Globalism writes to tell us that in a new book titled The Numerati, author Stephen Baker introduces us to some of the math wizardry that is used to label or track our movements through purchases, phone calls, internet usage and other habits. "One of the most promising laboratories for the Numer ...

O Samuel a comer com pauzinhos! Quinta-feira, 17 Julho 2008 O meu puto é despachado e isto de comer com paus, com garfos ou colheres cá para ele vai tudo dar ao mesmo, o importante é levar a comida até à boca, pode não chegar lá à primeira tentativa... mas leve o tempo que levar há-de lá chegar! e ...

Quem precisa do Bob Proctor quando se tem a Julie Andrews? Terça-feira, 8 Julho 2008 Ora cantem lá comigo... sim cantem mesmo!!! Garanto que isto ajuda! I Have Confidence - The Sound of Music What will this day be like? I wonder. What will my future be? I wonder. It could be so exciting to ...

Foi hoje! Segunda-feira, 7 Julho 2008 Foi hoje - que fique registado para a posteridade - que assinei o contrato que nos vai levar nesta aventura que será a Alemanha! Foi hoje também que entreguei no departamento de recursos humanos da empresa onde já trabalho há quase 10 anos uma carta de demissão. ...

Samuel: Quarta-feira, 2 Julho 2008 Mais ou menos filho... vamos para aqui! Vídeo promocional da cidade de Düsseldorf, vale a pena ver até ao fim! Depois de ver isto, e como se não bastasse, fiquei ainda a saber que segundo estudos da Mercer (multinacional de recursos humanos) Düsseldorf é a 5ª m ...

Este ano já não vou ter férias! Quarta-feira, 2 Julho 2008 Pois é este ano não há mais férias para mim, foi uma semaninha em Junho e era agora no mês que vem... pois... era... mas ainda que isto pareça um pesadelo não é - é precisamente o contrário é um sonho que está prestes a tornar-se realidade! ...