PORTLAND, Ore.—The first automated software-to-chip dream came out of the closet Monday April 23, when Algotochip Corp. Sunnyvale, Calif. claimed to be able to produce a system-on-chip SoC design from a C-code specification in just eight to 16 weeks.
Perl Regular Expressions
Now what if you want the comparison to be case insensitive? All you do is add the letter i after the ending delimiter:
$string =~ m/^sought_text$/i;
MIT Completes the “Holy Grail of Hacks,” Turning the Green Building into a Game of Tetris
Home of the Institute’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, the Green Building lends itself as an ideal grid for the game. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery, “MIT hackers have long considered ‘Tetris on the Green Building’ to be the Holy Grail of hacks.”
The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed
First they proposed five types of developer, and you won’t find it hard to recognize them:
- S0 – the innovator always builds apps with a wide range of novel features.S1- the milker who implements slight largely unnecessary variations on a single app.
- S2 – the optimizer who simply releases improvements on their most successful app.
- S3 – the copycat simply copies the best apps in the market.
- S – the flexible developer who adopts whichever strategies seems good at the moment.
via The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed.
Badoo set to help facilitate hookups across the U.S.
Essentially, as its Russian founder has explained before, Badoo is a “nightclub on your phone,” where people, “as adults, are looking to do adult things.” The site first was launched in Spain, where it soon expanded to neighboring Portugal, France, and then, hopped the pond to Brazil and Mexico and now, claims users in 180 countries.
via Badoo set to help facilitate hookups across the U.S..
Last fall, The Economist proclaimed it as having “a shot at becoming one of Europe’s leading internet firms.” But now, says GigaOm, the site appears poised to grow rapidly in the United States,particularly after its official American launch just last month.
Look out Facebook!
AACS encryption key controversy
A controversy surrounding the AACS cryptographic key arose in April 2007 when the Motion Picture Association of America and the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA) began issuing demand letters[2] to websites publishing a 128-bit (16-byte) number, represented in hexadecimal as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0[3][4] (commonly referred to as 09 F9),[5][6] which is one of the cryptographic keys for HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. The letters demanded the immediate removal of the key and any links to it, citing the anti-circumvention provisions of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
via AACS encryption key controversy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Traveling Salesman Problem
Given a collection of cities and the cost of travel between each pair of them, the traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short, is to find the cheapest way of visiting all of the cities and returning to your starting point. In the standard version we study, the travel costs are symmetric in the sense that traveling from city X to city Y costs just as much as traveling from Y to X.
via The Problem.
How to Buy a Facebook Girlfriend for $5
How to Buy a Facebook Girlfriend for $5.
The web service GirlfriendHire has what it takes to make real human relationships obsolete. And why not? Facebook has already diminished friendship to a cowering, anemic orphan of a concept. Next up: Sex and love. The site allows you to directly order a fake girlfriend for $5. It’s a deal. You’ll pay far more for a Match.com subscription, where you own only the chance of meeting someone.
Who’s the real “Dropbox of the enterprise”?
Who’s the real “Dropbox of the enterprise”?.
Dropbox relies on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) for data storage, which spreads files across multiple data centers throughout the United States. While Dropbox encrypts these files, the encryption process occurs only *after* they have been uploaded. For some companies, this approach may not be good enough, which is why enterprise and business competitors such as Accellion have made a point of offering “seamless client-side encryption of files before they are sent.” SpiderOak, which Ars examined earlier this month, is another example of a Dropbox competitor with client-side encryption.
Asteroid takeout—a one-billionaire mission to bring a 500-ton asteroid to Earth by 2025
Visiting (and eventually mining) asteroids is viewed by space development advocates as an imperative stepping stone to making our way out into the solar system. One group of President Obama’s advisors, the Augustine Commission, counseled that a manned asteroid mission might bring the highest payoff per dollar spent in terms of science and essential skills for space exploration. A study was also commissioned to check the feasibility of bringing a small asteroid—on the order of 10,000kg—back to the International Space Station. It reported no showstoppers.
via Asteroid takeout—a one-billionaire mission to bring a 500-ton asteroid to Earth by 2025.