Archive for March, 2009

Funny stuff.

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

if peanut oil is made from peanuts what is baby oil made from?
“I shook a bell pepper it sure didnt sound like a bell”
“Why is an orange an orange shouldnt bannas be yellow curvys?”
If you’re a discus thrower,and you practice alone… You have to go get it yourself.
if you throw a cat out the [...]

Optimization.

Friday, March 27th, 2009

The only way to make a computer program go faster is to make it perform less instructions.
There is no other way.
Never guess at what you might thing needs to be optimized. Premature optimization because you think an area might have an issue is bad. Often you guess wrong and waste time optimizing things [...]

Looks like the future of 3D is here.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=OpenGL+ES
OpenGL® ES is a royalty-free, cross-platform API for full-function 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems - including consoles, phones, appliances and vehicles. It consists of well-defined subsets of desktop OpenGL, creating a flexible and powerful low-level interface between software and graphics acceleration. OpenGL ES includes profiles for floating-point and fixed-point systems and the EGL™ [...]

Story idea: Clone planet

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

A planet is colonized by genetically perfect identical clones.  How long before tensions and strife destroy the new civiliation. What we think of as racial and religious tensions are just people problems.

Alternative theory of Gravity.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

When I was a kid my grandmother imparted a bit of folk wisdom onto me.  She said that nothing is pulled, everything is pushed.   Horses don’t pull a cart, they push against their harness, which pushes against the back of the pin holding the harness to the cart.
Based on this theory I think that gravity [...]

Anniversaries, a mix of pain and joy.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Been depressed the past few days.  Within the space of a couple of days it was the anniversary of the first first time I took my wifes hand and she looked up at me with doe eyes and also of her passing.  We were at a bar on a date as friends, playing darts (she [...]

Dashboards

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

A dashboard is a business tool used to get a high level general view of the status of the business.  Dash boards are used to monitor the status of key performance indicators of a business. Dashboards use visual, at-a-glance displays of critical data pulled in from disparate business systems to provide warnings, action notices, next [...]

Programming a chat bot to perform as a travel agent.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

The bot should guide them through the choices that are available. An advanced mode would be to remember the clients preferences and give options based on those preferences. Otherwise we have to ask questions to narrow down what they want at the time.

New Arm processor based netbook gets 10 hours of battery life

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Until now, all netbooks were engineered the same way: Power-hungry Intel Atom, ugly case, and outdated 90’s OS. Our goal: To achieve a breakthrough in both architecture and design. The result: a revolutionary device that works as both a netbook and a standalone tablet thanks to a detachable keyboard and a 3D touchscreen user interface.

Anyone else been getting strange IMs from people ending in coho?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

This is the page where people get added:
http://project-upstream.awardspace.com/
Couple of posts about how to opt out  type $optout
http://palafo.com/2009/01/06/caught-an-im-coho-and-threw-it-back/
http://adam.gerstein.net/archives/2009/01/26/aim_coho_ai_bots_oh_my.php
Here is where the project is asking for input:
http://community.livejournal.com/themissinghat/199227.html
From the info I found you can email them at  projectupstream@gmail.com