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[Loving Hut - Vegan News] Loving Hut - Study: Rapid Tests Often Wrong on H1N1: Chip company Intel has launched a beta application that lets people contribute their spare processor power to humanitarian scientific projects. The grid-computing application Progress Thru Processors, which people can download from social-networking site Facebook, allows users to donate spare computing cycles to research into climate change, cancer and malaria.

[Xtreme CPU] Folding @ Home Vs. Environment Worth It? - Xtreme CPU: SETI@Home was something I using processor cycles for years, but figured FAH was more worthwhile. There's plenty of distributed grid computing projects out there now to have advancements all over the place with the computation power that's out there.

[ReadWriteWeb] Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know: If your solution to every problem is in code, it's wrong, if your solution to every problem is in the db, it's wrong, the correct answer is knowing how to solve problems leveraging both." Instead of poking the db with simple queries I always run my developers through an exercise of "tell the db everything you know in a very complex sql statement and see what it does with it". They quickly become quite interested in what other things this "magical db" thing can do.

[Peter S Magnusson] iPhone's missing killer app: social networking « Peter S Magnusson: I happen to agree that social networking and Web 2.0 functionality are essential for any new product to become the next “killer app.” I think it is really important to always be looking critically at both the pros and cons of new technology, because it will only improve if power users like ourselves not only fawn over it, but also pick it apart for ways to make it more powerful.

[NosillaCast Mac Podcast] NosillaCast mac macintosh podcast how-to tips freeware shareware ...: when you buy the MacBook Pro, meaning they should ask “do you need any adapter cables because Steve changed the connectors yet again?” Oh yeah, I had to get a Display Port adapter too so I could connect my cruddy old VGA display to the new Mac too.

[KK Lifestream] The Technium: Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism: But as Allen Tough, an ETI theorist told me, "Unfortunately, radio and optical SETI astronomers pay remarkably little attention to intelligence.  Their attention is focused on the search for anomalous radio waves and rapidly pulsed laser signals from outer space.  They do not think much about the intelligence that would produce those signals." The cloud computer a global superorganism swims in is nothing but unnatural waves and non-random signals, so the current set of SETI tools and techniques won't help in a Sii.

[Gavin Wilson's blog] IT Industry Quarterly Summary: 2Q09 « Gavin Wilson's blog: He plans to increase investment in Sun’s SPARC processors, and work with Fujitsu (which has been helping Sun design its SPARC chips for many years) to improve the performance of Oracle’s database software running on Sun’s servers. Fujitsu has recently made hefty commitments to the alternative x86 chip architecture, so Oracle will need to work hard to persuade Fujitsu to stay in the Solaris/SPARC business.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For July 15, 2009: There is a growing suspicion that the tentacles of Goldman in US government and global business have given it excessive power and influence - or as Mat Taibbi writes in his article “The Great American Bubble Machine” in this month’s Rolling Stone, the bank has become “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

[webservices.xml.com] XML Outlook for 2008 - O'Reilly XML Blog: OpenSocial, their social networking API, has met with both yawns and jeers, both because of some questionable design issues and because of the concern that perhaps Google is seeking to promote OpenSocial largely as an effort to undermine Microsoft and Facebook. I also suspect that the social networking market right now has too many dollars chasing it for a formal open source initiative to be that successful - they would be better to shelve it now and wait for a couple of years as the Social Networking space collapses (see below).

[Etcheberry Consultores - Noticias Seleccionadas] Etcheberry Consultores - Noticias Seleccionadas » Blog Archive ...: Once Salesforce and NetSuite had shown that the SaaS model works, the incumbents began to move faster. In September last year, for instance, SAP presented “Business ByDesign”, a package of web-based enterprise applications for smaller businesses.

[AI and Social Science - Brendan O'Connor] Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS ...: I know 2 people using STATA (social science), 2 people using Excel (philosophy and economics), several using LabView (engineers), some using R (statistical science, astronomy), several using S-Lang (astronomy), several using Python (astronomy) and by using Python, I mean that they are using the packages they need, which might be numpy, scipy, matplotlib, mayavi2, pymc, kapteyn, pyfits, pytables and many more. And this is the main advantage of using a real language for data analysis: you can choose among the many solutions the one that fits you best.

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