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I agree that style of Picasso is cubism and this process isn't able to replicate that. But I assume it's an early experiment to show what's possible now.

Roads are subject to wear and tear. Higher traffic means more wear and thus more repairs. Repairs for most roads come out of municipal budgets. Municipal budgets are paid for by pr…

I couldn't get it to work because my region is Canada but my speech language was set to English (US). I had to install the speech recognition pack for English (Canada). In a way I …

Good point. According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_diaspora ) there are 6.3 million Americans living abroad or ~2% of Americans. So perhaps ~0.04% of Americ…

Nice emulator, but I'd love to have the real thing, a genuine old-school monochrome monitor, the kind that you used with a Hercules graphics card. Those monitors were so easy on th…

In google's case, you can print out a set of auth codes for times when you don't have your phone.

"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write…

Gmail has a feature that lets you see what IP addresses you have logged on from. (Look for the little link at the bottom right.) Would LinkedIn's IP show up there if they are using…

I used to teach English to non-native speakers. All of them wanted to learn English with an American accent. I think they are actually doing themselves a disservice because they fa…

Shocked to learn that Brian Dunning has done this. I've been listening to his Skeptoid podcast for years. I always pictured someone of modest or middle class means because he solic…

After reading your comment, I did some googling to find something that could convert an existing spreadsheet into code. I found a few commercial solutions that turn Excel into C++ …

The stories in the post all have repeatable bug conditions. If you read bugs submitted for something like Chrome or Firefox (or any big complex program) you see a lot of trying to …

It does seem like an odd oversight that Chrome allows you to block plugins per site but not extensions. If you click the green lock in your address bar now, you can see the option …

How do other people keep databases in sync between multiple developers and the production server? Source code is easy. Source control and code merging are mostly straightforward. B…

There's a great sci-fi novel, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, set in a post-oil world where tightly wound springs are used to store energy, as we do now with clocks. One of th…

So this is hardware manufactured and sold under the Microsoft brand? Wow. That's a big re-alignment. I think you are right about this being the endgame for third-party builders. An…

Between slide 4 and 5 there's one tiny bubble that blows up into a big giant bubble and a small one on the left that sinks a little. They are Yahoo, up 3,590%, and Apple, down 25%.…

Retailers and consumers love Linux! It has has 61% market share. (Source: http://tinyurl.com/ce6t8dk ). Maybe people just don't like Gnome. (viz. http://tinyurl.com/834bn2j )

It's weird. When I was a kid, it took hours to make a trans-atlantic call to my grandmother. Now I feel like a man lost in the desert if I'm momentarily disconnected from globally …

I think older programmers will side with Crockford and for good reason. The bootstrap code makes assumptions about the future of the js spec and browser implementations that aren't…

I don't know that I would want an implant, but I'd like to try a haptic compass. You strap it on and it gives you a physical sensation of where north is, as if you were a bird with…

U.S. soldiers have been tried in foreign courts for breaking local laws. From a Stars and Stripes article regarding a soldier tried for rape in Korea: "The U.S.-South Korea status …

It's almost 100 years since Scott died on his expedition to the South Pole (29 March 1912). We live in a science fiction future.

FTA: "If one’s hacked or the list of tokens leaked, everyone who ever used that service risks exposing his complete Gmail archive." Is that even true? The advantage of Oauth over t…

Food for thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence Not all animals are pre-programmed for an early death. I wonder if curve for these animals looks like the ligh…