You, Emily Miller , Paul Buchheit , mathew, up and down , Susan Beebe and 14 other people , Joel Webber , Chieze Okoye , tvtechgrl , Ross Miller , Chris Schrier , Jerry Schuman , Eric Rice , Patrick Jordan , Private Sanjeev , Tyson Key , Bret Taylor , directeur , Larry Kless , Benjamin Golub liked this
Seems that I only can download the uploader not the full picasa. am I missing something?
- directeur 
[4hr 35min ago]
Directeur, perhaps try this link: http://picasa.google.com/...
- Tony Ruscoe [4hr 33min ago]
Tony, ah yes! this time it's a 17 meg - but it seems that it's intel only :(
- directeur [4hr 32min ago]
Big hearty like for this one. I've used both Picasa and iPhoto a lot, and the former wins hands-down. My wife threatened to throw out our mac if I didn't do something about it!
- Joel Webber [2hr 42min ago]
@erica: you're demoing Picass at MacWorld? Sweet! Let me know how it goes.
- Joel Webber [2hr 41min ago]
Awesome timing, congrats and GOOD LUCK!!
- Susan Beebe [2hr 38min ago]
You, Peter , directeur , MikeAmundsen liked this
You, Steph Pickett , Roney Smith , directeur , Chris Ulbrich liked this
That's poetry DeWitt! Sounds like a phrase by Jaques Brel in his song "Le plat pays" :)
- directeur [6hr 50min ago]
Avec un ciel si bas qu'un canal s'est perdu --
Avec un ciel si bas qu'il fait l'humilité --
Avec un ciel si gris qu'un canal s'est pendu --
Avec un ciel si gris qu'il faut lui pardonner --
- directeur [6hr 38min ago]
You, Hassan Ibraheem , Shakeel Mahate , Alex Haar , Atul Arora and 3 other people , directeur , Andrew Smith , Joel Webber liked this
Homepage of MIT's EE and computer science courses on OCW.
- DeWitt Clinton
- via Bookmarklet [9hr 18min ago]
Funny to see my old scribe notes immortalized forever: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb...
- Steve Weis [7hr 55min ago]
@Steve - Are you still holding office hours? I have a few questions for you. : )
- DeWitt Clinton [7hr 14min ago]
You, RAPatton , Lindsey in Love , Maria , directeur and another person , Rodfather liked this
definitely Tad! I appreciate your comments all over the place. Thanks for sharing this lovely song!
- directeur [22hr 32min ago]
Needs more cowbell.
- Akiva Moskovitz [22hr 31min ago]
You, mathew, up and down , directeur , STEVEN OF BORG , potamus liked this
how did it go?
- potamus [1d ago]
So far so good. Now to install tweetdeck. We'll see how that works. :)
- Helen Somethingorothersky [1d ago]
too bad it's proprietary. I hate to install proprietary things on linux :(
- directeur [1d ago]
now that AIR is out of beta on linux it makes it much easier - the hard part will be finding enough non-twitter apps to make it worthwhile :-)
- Kevin Cearns [23hr 59min ago]
Dir., I'm used to downloading and clicking the .exe files in windows. Installing in Linux can be a pain. However, I like the clickable .air apps that I can access once AIR is installed. Kevin, next on my list is looking for FriendFeed apps. :D
- Helen Somethingorothersky [23hr 53min ago]
@directeur and it gets worse with 64 bit
- potamus [23hr 53min ago]
Helen, sure I understand the "user" you and me are. What I really wish is that air will be opensourced to make the community work on it and make it evlove with constant and diversified feedback and efforts.
- directeur [23hr 49min ago]
I know. Adobe likes to make things difficult. Didn't it learn anything from the OpenOffice project?
- Helen Somethingorothersky [23hr 46min ago]
definitely!
- directeur [23hr 32min ago]
You, Adnan , directeur , Paulo Gomes liked this
You, Michael W. May , mathew, up and down , Sparky , Live4Soccer and 11 other people , Amanda H. , Derrick , Brandon , johnpiercy , ☂Marcos Marado , ωαřмaiden , RAPatton , Kamath ॐ , directeur , Capn' One-Eye ☠ , Helen Somethingorothersky liked this
~Oscar Wilde
- Anna Haro [1d 1hr ago]
Very wise! I liked it, thanks Anna!
- directeur [1d 1hr ago]
:))
- Anna Haro [1d 1hr ago]
n my soul are infinitely dirty and dark things that can never be scoured away ;)
- ωαřмaiden [1d ago]
sounds a bit like a paraphrase: "Sell what you have and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves moneybags that never wear out. Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot destroy it." -- Luke 12:33
- Karim [1d ago]
You, tsudohnimh , Tyson Key , Roberto Bonini , Saad Kamal and 28 other people , conformist™ , Dallas Cao , Jemm , Denton Gentry , Christopher Perry , The Amber , i80and , mikepk , Numan Arda Çebi , LPH™ , ☂Marcos Marado , Terry O'Fee , SnakeDoc , Duane , Herb , Anika Malone , Grant Bierman , Andrew Trinh , Mo Kargas , mathew, up and down , Derrick , Helen Somethingorothersky , Brian Daniel Eisenberg , Ali Atashin , Threepwood , directeur , Tamar Weinberg , Mona N. liked this
Your brother was totally set up by the daughter. :)
- Tamar Weinberg [1d 1hr ago]
Thats the same one I have! Love it!
- mathew, up and down [1d 1hr ago]
that's no mouse, it's a space station! what a strange shape for a mouse.
- Terry O'Fee [1d 1hr ago]
Exact same thing happened here. Missing my wireless mouse for a few months (on a backup, little used computer) so I finally buy a new one. Take it out of the box and show it to my 2.5 year old son and he starts pointing toward a small closet. I open it and he points to a box and there it was. Grr.
- Andrew Leyden [1d ago]
OMG that's funny!
- Susan Beebe [1d ago]
lol
- potamus [1d ago]
My 16mo is a horrible mouse swiper.
- Heather Solos [1d ago]
In my head I see a toddler grabbing my trackball and making a run for it, then the feet continue for another foot, foot and a half, as the toddler's top half stops going. The CORD has gone completely taut, and the youngun's swept off his/her feet. I eventually stop laughing and comfort said youngster, and he/she lives to swipe more wisely another day.
- MiɳiMagɘ is EnderMage [1d ago]
Terry, that's the 3 year old Logitech MX Revolution. I have it. It's a great mouse.
- Tamar Weinberg [17hr 8min ago]
Whenever there is anything I can't find and whenever I lose a computer game, I blame my son.
- Dallas Cao [15hr 46min ago]
At least the little one didn't point to the cat!!!!
- Roberto Bonini [15hr 27min ago]
You, Akhmad Fathonih , Chuck , directeur , Helen Somethingorothersky and 16 other people , Kamilah Gill , Casey , RandaL Hicks , ilter , Melanie Reed , Richard Walker , MikeAmundsen , Hanna , İbrahim Uzun , Bill Romanos , idnan , Susan Beebe , Brandon , richard mckay , Phil Margolies , Robert Scoble liked this
"Liliputing is a news and information web site covering low cost, ultraportable notebook computers, often refered to as netbooks. A netbook is loosely defined as a laptop computer with a 10.2 inch or smaller display, which weighs around 3 pounds or less, and typically costs $500 or less, although some netbooks push these limits."
- Erhan Erdogan
- via Bookmarklet [1d 9hr ago]
Thanks! A site just for netbooks like the one I'm using right now! I <3 my Acer Aspire One!
- Kamilah Gill [1d 1hr ago]
You, STEVEN OF BORG , Duncan Riley , Nation Hahn , Derrick and 7 other people , BeeLing , Lindsey in Love , RAPatton , directeur , Kamath ॐ , Helen Somethingorothersky , Shevonne Polastre liked this
Did you click your ruby slippers? It's true. There is no place like home.
- Shevonne Polastre [1d 1hr ago]
Just got back myself. Hi Shey :)
- Kamath ॐ [1d 1hr ago]
Hey Kamath, how was Vegas?
- Shey [1d 1hr ago]
Hello fellow TOers- heading back soon myself. Is it warmish?
- Abby Martin [1d 1hr ago]
Hi Shey! long time, no see! Hope you're fine :)
- directeur [1d 1hr ago]
@Shevonne @directeur Yup!
- Shey [1d 1hr ago]
@Abby It's not too terrible, but not time to bust out the t-shirts and shorts yet :P
- Shey [1d 1hr ago]
Good to see you, Shey!
- Derrick [1d 1hr ago]
Derrick's right- you've been missed. [Especially that sarcastic streak :P]
- Abby Martin [1d 1hr ago]
Shey, Vegas was great. But SFO was even better - cooking, eating, drinking, talking shit with friends - felt great to retard back to our 1st year univ. avatars ;). Where did you go?
- Kamath ॐ [1d 1hr ago]
@Kamath Detroit, hanging with friends as well
- Shey [1d 1hr ago]
@Derrick @Abby Thanks :)
- Shey [1d 1hr ago]
You, Vox , Greg , directeur liked this
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- Russellreno [1d 9hr ago]
You, Bill Strathearn , dekay , Amund Tveit , Hassan Ibraheem and 3 other people , Atul Arora , imabonehead , directeur liked this
Abstract: "In the past decades, advances in speed of commodity CPUs have far outpaced advances in RAM latency. Main-memory access has therefore become a performance bottleneck for many computer applications; a phenomenon that is widely known as the "memory wall." In this paper, we report how research around the MonetDB database system has led to a redesign of database architecture in order to take advantage of modern hardware, and in particular to avoid hitting the memory wall. This encompasses (i) a redesign of the query execution model to better exploit pipelined CPU architectures and CPU instruction caches; (ii) the use of columnar rather than row-wise data storage to better exploit CPU data caches; (iii) the design of new cache-conscious query processing algorithms; and (iv) the design and automatic calibration of memory cost models to choose and tune these cache-conscious algorithms in the query optimizer."
- DeWitt Clinton [1d 8hr ago]
Why don't hardware architects do this instead? I mean, it'd be better if the hardware or the OS takes care of this for developper, isn't it?
- directeur [1d 8hr ago]
directeur, my understanding is that memory latency optimization that have been attempted in hardware to date have been expensive with minimal impact. This article was somewhat interesting http://www.extremetech.co...
- Jason Wehmhoener [1d 8hr ago]
They try their best, but the hardware only has a very immediate view of what the CPU is requesting. It can't modify the entire application algorithm to optimize the for memory bandwidth, that's really only something you can do at a high level as an application designer. The same way as an application designer you'd make different choices if you're writing to magnetic tape or a hard disk, and no hardware can make that transparently efficient.
- ⓞnor [1d 8hr ago]
One of the sad side effects of our layered abstraction approach to software development is that developers often lose sight of the hardware that makes it all possible.
- Jason Wehmhoener [1d 8hr ago]
Jason, yes, I see... hardware makers can't design machines for all algorithms, and thanks ⓞnor, the "magnetic tape vs. hard disk" example explains it very well!
- directeur [1d 8hr ago]
Jason, I remember one of my teachers telling us that it was because of the languages we use. He said that our use of C for example is often limited by the algorithms we're used to. We often use the same things: loops, conditionals, functions...
- directeur [1d 8hr ago]
Column store databases are clearly the wave of the future for most high scaling applications. That said, I've never seen one I was happy with. CStore, MonetDB, and even the commercial Vertica fall flat in different ways. Whoever makes a good one will be a software god.
- Eric Florenzano [1d 7hr ago]
You, directeur , Mohomed=genieyclo , Brian Daniel Eisenberg liked this
here here! (or is it hear hear!)?
- Mohomed=genieyclo [1d 8hr ago]
You, Tyson Key , Lars Trieloff , Greg , Christian Stocker and 6 other people , Ken Sheppardson , Mohomed=genieyclo , directeur , Mike Davies , Thomas Bøhm , Susanne "Renee" Bullo liked this
"Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications."
- Chris Messina
- via Mento [1d 9hr ago]
Open open open! Love this - thanks Chris!
- Susanne "Renee" Bullo [1d 9hr ago]
Saw this the other day, it's using GTK, right? wouldn't be easier, IMO, if it was built using xwidgets. easier to deploy?
- directeur [1d 8hr ago]
You, directeur , Nicola Quinn , David Adam , Egyirba and 8 other people , Brad Nickel , Internet Strategist , Kol Tregaskes , Gavin , STEVEN OF BORG , Amani , Mark VandenBerg , Philip Tomlinson liked this Un-Like
Some people can substantially lower their electric bill with this single tip, because the refrigerator is usually the item that uses the most electricity. - April Russo
[5d 12hr ago]
Gosh, that's a good thought! - Kol Tregaskes
[5d 5hr ago]
i didn't have a clue! - Egyirba
[21hr 28min ago]
Good tip! For years now, I've been making sure our fridge at home is always full, and if not, filled with several 2 liter bottles to reduce the leakage of cold air every time it's opened. Less cold air going out equals less work for the compressor. For those with older fridges, cleaning the cooling fins and tubes on the back can make a difference in your electric bills, as well as checking to see if the magnetic door gaskets still seal tightly. - Siddharth Deb
[4hr 45min ago]