Software, Methods
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What is the point of software
Interconnected An article to make you think about how humans and computers are supposed to work together through software to make life easier for everyone… Social software’s purpose is dealing with with groups, or interactions between people. This is as opposed to conventional software like Microsoft Word, which although it may have collaborative features (“track…
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Understanding BitTorrent
based on MLDonkey via Don Park BitTorrent is smart software to distribute large downloads. It divides a large download into small pieces. Each piece is tagged and a checksum is computed for each piece. These are used to track each piece of the download and to ensure that the data received matches the data sent.…
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Multi-Dimensional
I spent the evening in the company of a very clever mathematician (aren’t they all…) who is working on multi-dimensional spaces. This sort of thinking is needed to properly handle string theory which in turn may be required to explain many of the more exotic aspects of the Universe. I guess it was all beyond…
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Happy Birthday BASIC
Onlineblog.com My first programming language… “On May 1, 1964, the BASIC computer programing language was born and for the first time computers were taken out of the lab and brought into the community. Forty years later pure BASIC – Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code – has all but disappeared, but its legacy lives on,” reports…
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Happy Birthday BASIC
Onlineblog.com My first programming language… “On May 1, 1964, the BASIC computer programing language was born and for the first time computers were taken out of the lab and brought into the community. Forty years later pure BASIC – Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code – has all but disappeared, but its legacy lives on,” reports…
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Lost? Try taking a picture…
New Scientist You are lost in a foreign city, you don’t speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone, photograph the nearest building and press send. For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends…
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Lost? Try taking a picture…
New Scientist You are lost in a foreign city, you don’t speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone, photograph the nearest building and press send. For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends…
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Social Software + 3D Imaging = Virtual Church
BBC News The preacher, congregation and prayers will be real enough. Only the building will be virtual – but this 3D church could be a taste of things to come. This is the view inside what’s believed to be the first virtual church, due to be launched next month as part of a scheme to…