The City of Leon, Mexico, is installing real time iris scanners from biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. These scanners don't require people to stop and put their eyes in front of a camera. They work in real time, as people walk
In der Debatte über die gemeinsame Obsorge für ein Kind nach einer Scheidung melden sich jetzt die Familienrichter zu Wort. In Österreich gebe es weniger ein Obsorge- als ein Besuchsrechtsproblem, sagen sie. Die Vorsitzende der Familienrichter, Doris Täubel-Weinreich, schlägt nun eine Reform vor - mit Sanktionen, die die Geldbörse treffen.
the LePad is expected to run the Gingerbread build of Google's mobile OS and will likely be an amalgam of ideas previously seen in Lenovo's Skylight and IdeaPad U1 Hybrid.
Canonical has won the buzzword bingo for the week by putting Ubuntu, cloud, and appliance in the same sentence in announcing a partnership with IBM.
Standardsituationen der Technologiekritik
Wondering how Arkanoid, Tetris or Pong were created?
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YOUNGTIMER & OLDTIMER Treffen Wien
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Flower POWER Classic Rallye
70er SoulSugar Disco-Sound
The Cold War computing race from the Russian side, including the development of the MESM -- for 'Small Electronic Counting Machine' -- powered by more than 6000 vacuum tubes.
Firefox 3.5 has a new JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, that runs many JavaScript programs 3-4x faster than Firefox 3, speeding up existing web apps and enabling new ones. This article gives a peek under the hood at the major parts of TraceMonkey and how they speed up JS. This will also explain what kinds of programs get the best speedup from TraceMonkey and what kinds of things you can do to get your program to run faster.
o I peeked into the Jar source code (after many years), and it turned out we had a very embarassing bug in the jar code: We were doing a O(n) look-up on a Hashtable (via the contains() method) for each and every file we were jarring, where it really should be a O(1) look-up operation with a HashSet.