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Set Theory Clock 1.0

2008-03-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Downloads - Dashboard Widgets - Just Added
 
...Theory Clock This Widget can be used to display the time of day (yet another clock, but a nice one). The local time of day is displayed with the Set Theory Clock or Berlin Clock, freely after an idea of Dieter Binninger The display of the time takes place according to the principle of the set theory in a notational system to the base of 5. A...
 
Tags: clock, set theory clock, set theory, berlin clock, time, time takes, local time, dieter binninger, display
 
 
 
 
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Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory

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2008-07-02 22:15:18 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...theory The Long Tail is Wired editor Chris Andersons theory (based on an article and resulting book of the same name) that as it becomes easier to distribute a wider variety of items, consumers will venture down the long tail of the distribution curve and find the products that exactly match their interests and idiosyncratic needs. Elberse...
 
Tags: tail, tail theory, long-tail businesses, demand, long-tail demand, long-tail, percent, elberse, elberse cites evidence
 
 
 
 
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Dan Ackerman Greenberg Theory Turned Into YouTube Comedy, Funded By Warner Bros

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2008-04-22 10:52:06 by Duncan Riley in TechCrunch
 
...theory of viral video one step further into a fully fledged viral video machine The series comes from Warner Brothers Studio 2.0 and takes a look behind the scenes at the webs hottest User Generated Content studio for an exclusive look at the real viral video industry: a digital Hollywood where the A-listers are celebs (Chris Crocker and the...
 
Tags: viral video machine, viral video, favorite youtube classics, warner brothers studio, crunch network, crunchgear drool, chris crocker, content studio, digital hollywood
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 14:35:47 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...Theory, the underlying theory behind the newly popular field of behavioral economics. Prospect Theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 (Kahneman went on to win a Nobel Prize for this and other similar work) to explain how people make trade-offs that involve risk. Before this work, economists had a model of economic...
 
Tags: security, utility theory, theory, traditional economics, traditional economics predicts, computer security, people, percent chance, chance
 
 
 
 
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Designing Online Social Networks: The Theories of Social Groups

2008-03-31 21:45:52 by Lisa Halabi in CenterNetworks
 
...theory suggests that we form our own attitudes and behaviours by comparing ourselves with other people and their opinions. Mostly we compare ourselves against people whom we believe we're reasonably similar to Facebook capitalises on people's drive for social comparison by offering a plethora of applications like the visual bookshelf that...
 
Tags: social, social networks, networks, social facilitation, social comparison, social acceptance, online, social image, people
 
 
 
 
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Strasheela 0.9.5 (Default branch)

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2008-04-17 00:06:05 by Editor in freshmeat.net announcements (Global)
...theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint programming is style-independent and is well-suited for...
 
Tags: music, music constraint, microtonal music, music theory, theory, music representation, strasheela, music composition system, formats
 
 
 
 
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A minor response about a critique of economic ideas in Accelerando

2006-12-10 08:51:19 by Editor in Never enough time
 
...Theory of Value with its polar opposite subjective theory as enshrined by the Austrian School While it's not obvious merely from the quote what Macx meant by the thought of which part is expressed above, my own assumption on reading it was that this referred to those who not only believe that the free market works well, but that it's...
 
Tags: post-scarcity world, scarcity, market, free market, market system, world, post, market economics, post-scarcity
 
 
 
 
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Tellme It's Not True: Microsoft's Voice Search on Blackberry Before Windows Mobile

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2008-04-24 13:17:00 by Rocco Augusto in Pocket PC Thoughts
...theory but to quote Lawrence Peter Berra - "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not". As amazing as Microsoft's Voice Command service is on our handsets the one major drawback I have always encountered is that it just does not work very well at all if you are not in a quiet room. Same thing goes for voice enable...
 
Tags: voice, windows mobile, voice command feature, microsoft, tellme, windows mobile devices, handsets, command, windows mobile handsets
 
 
 
 
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SAGE 3.0.1

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2008-05-21 10:27:16 by Tobias in MAC OS X FREEWARE, APPLE
...theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and exact linear algebra Use an Open Source Alternative By using SAGE you help to support a viable open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB. SAGE includes many high-quality open source math packages Use Most...
 
Tags: sage, sage includes interfaces, sage includes, source mathematics software, mathematics software, mathematics, mathematics program, algebra, source alternative
 
 
 
 
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When Will EA (ERTS) Walk Away From Take-Two (TTWO)? Soon

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2008-06-23 15:17:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider