2005-10-24
2005-10-23
Reed-Solomon ECC
The ECC Page - Links, code, and such.
4i2i Reed-Solomon Codes - A nicely written overview of RS.
The Wikipedia entry on RS.
4i2i Reed-Solomon Codes - A nicely written overview of RS.
The Wikipedia entry on RS.
2005-10-21
2005-10-20
2005-10-19
M'Gold!
(Trying to emulate that weird gold-mad dog in Duck Tales.)
Kitco has some interesting precious metal resources, such as historical pricing and a bunch of stuff I can't really appreciate.
They also link to GoldMoney, which is an electronic payment system based on a gold standard. Sounds more interesting than the other e-payment schemes I've seen lately.
Kitco has some interesting precious metal resources, such as historical pricing and a bunch of stuff I can't really appreciate.
They also link to GoldMoney, which is an electronic payment system based on a gold standard. Sounds more interesting than the other e-payment schemes I've seen lately.
2005-10-17
Warthog
Cute. I'd rather have a firearm with larger magazine and longer barrel, though, since I don't have a concealed carry license anyway. (And currently living in Japan, I can't even use a gun here....)
2005-10-14
Lazy Stockpicking
It's interesting to see how other people's stock portfolios perform. Check out this article called Lazy Beats the Street on Motley Fool.
The article links to this older piece on Warren Buffet's thinking on investments. 20 stock picks, eh? I've already used up 10 or so. The problem is, only a few of them have been LTBH for me, like INTC and RGR. Getting the good stocks at good prices is a tough one. On the other hand, playing risks probably has me breaking even right now, largely because my errors made in learning wiped out my profits, c.f. shorting GOOG in the low $200s (it went up) and a currently sagging gamble on GTE.
Other interesting articles on the 'Fool:
Will Caribou's Shari'ah Affect Shares? - I didn't realize Caribou's primary investor was Islamic. It'd be a good idea to pay attention to who's holding the majority of the share pie.
A Super Sonic Stock - Sonic might be a good stock to study, as well as BW3's.
The Beef's at McDonald's - I figured "Supersize Me" would depress their stock price. Maybe I should get a piece.
McDonald's Burrito IPO - Hadn't even realized that Mickey D's had bought Chipotle. Maybe the IPO would be worth watching.
The article links to this older piece on Warren Buffet's thinking on investments. 20 stock picks, eh? I've already used up 10 or so. The problem is, only a few of them have been LTBH for me, like INTC and RGR. Getting the good stocks at good prices is a tough one. On the other hand, playing risks probably has me breaking even right now, largely because my errors made in learning wiped out my profits, c.f. shorting GOOG in the low $200s (it went up) and a currently sagging gamble on GTE.
Other interesting articles on the 'Fool:
Will Caribou's Shari'ah Affect Shares? - I didn't realize Caribou's primary investor was Islamic. It'd be a good idea to pay attention to who's holding the majority of the share pie.
A Super Sonic Stock - Sonic might be a good stock to study, as well as BW3's.
The Beef's at McDonald's - I figured "Supersize Me" would depress their stock price. Maybe I should get a piece.
McDonald's Burrito IPO - Hadn't even realized that Mickey D's had bought Chipotle. Maybe the IPO would be worth watching.
2005-10-13
2005-10-12
Clinton's war on Iraq?
Found this interesting link off of slashdot (here). Apparently before Bush got in office, Clinton was making preparations to go to war with Iraq. Doesn't mean that oil wasn't the main reason, though.
LCD Arms
Wintechno - The horizontal stand is something like out of the Matrix, and I may just have to buy the moving workstation rig....
LiveCreator - Lots of variety, but the arms just look cheap.
Forvice - Is it just me, or is that not a good name for a company? Their LCD arms look cool, though.
Eizo / Nanao
? - For Sharp LCDs. There's some stuff here but it looks like Forvice's stuff.
LiveCreator - Lots of variety, but the arms just look cheap.
Forvice - Is it just me, or is that not a good name for a company? Their LCD arms look cool, though.
Eizo / Nanao
? - For Sharp LCDs. There's some stuff here but it looks like Forvice's stuff.
2005-10-11
この切替器が欲しいな。
PKV-04PUA
PS/2の端子 もUSBの端子も付いていて、使用はいろいろありそうだ。USBの周辺機器をシェアできるのがいいけど、他の製品ではUSBを切り 替えるのが時間かかるから、キーボードとマウスはPS/2のままがいい。どうせマック意外まだPS/2端子が付いてる。本当はDVI対応のが欲しい。だけ ど、モニターとパソコン一台しかDVIじゃないから、あまり買う必要がないかも。
これは新しい製品だから、ほとんど見つからない。メジャーな店にまだ置いてないらしい。
PS/2の端子 もUSBの端子も付いていて、使用はいろいろありそうだ。USBの周辺機器をシェアできるのがいいけど、他の製品ではUSBを切り 替えるのが時間かかるから、キーボードとマウスはPS/2のままがいい。どうせマック意外まだPS/2端子が付いてる。本当はDVI対応のが欲しい。だけ ど、モニターとパソコン一台しかDVIじゃないから、あまり買う必要がないかも。
これは新しい製品だから、ほとんど見つからない。メジャーな店にまだ置いてないらしい。
2005-10-10
2005-10-06
2005-09-28
void main()
I ran into an issue when trying out Xcode where it would flag an error if main() were declared to return void. Since I knew that in C "void main()" is legal, I went looking on the Net and found this document. Apparently in C++ it's not legal...one of those tricky little differences between the two languages. I guess I missed that in my reading of the Stroustrup book; and although I have a copy of the C standard, I don't have the C++ standard. Nor would I want it...it's not one of my favorite languages.
2005-09-23
Interesting Mini-ITX Case
In this article, there's a rather interesting case. The article itself isn't anything special. In my opinion, though, making the PS external is cheating!
Goofy Hacks
Hack A Day has some weird links:
Some guy built a sentry BB gun....
How to build a generator.
An on/off box?! You've got to be kidding me. Some hack.
Some guy built a sentry BB gun....
How to build a generator.
An on/off box?! You've got to be kidding me. Some hack.
2005-09-14
Articles from 9/12
A couple interesting articles that I'd like to recall:
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - Very good security advice
What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum? - A prime quote:
Whoa, that's hard-core! One has to have a lot of spare cash to buy Knuth's encyclopedic work, and a lot of perseverence to read the encyclopedia. But that's the spirit—those kinds of people are what we're missing now.
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - Very good security advice
What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum? - A prime quote:
As for the author's distinction between "computer science" and "software engineering", well, I'm sorry but I really don't think someone who can whack and hack a server-side PHP application is a "software engineer". A software engineer, by my definition, is someone who owns and has read Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming", knows who Edsger Dijkstra was (and can pronounce his name correctly), can define the difference between a binary and counting semaphore, and can tell me why Java and C++ are generally bad ideas for use in high-reliability, hard real-time systems. A real software engineer, in my opinion, should also know the difference between a waterfall and a spiral, and what IEEE 12207 is (DO-178B is a bonus, but I don't hold out much hope for ever seeing that on the resumes I get).
Whoa, that's hard-core! One has to have a lot of spare cash to buy Knuth's encyclopedic work, and a lot of perseverence to read the encyclopedia. But that's the spirit—those kinds of people are what we're missing now.
2005-09-08
The squatter's right
I was looking for a Japanese translation of "cybersquatter", then I realized I didn't know what a "squatter" was in Japanese, so I looked it up on Yahoo!辞書. It says:
squatter
〔名〕 1 うずくまる人［動物］ the ～'s right 《米》男性と同数のトイレを使う女性の権利. 2 《米》公有地［空ビル］の無断居住者.3 《豪》牧場公有地借地人，（大規模な）牧畜農場経営者. ..
Somehow, I don't think "the squatter's right" means the right of women to have the same number of toilets as men. I think someone at Yahoo dictionary has a strange sense of humor.
As far as I can recall, the squatter's right is if you live on an unowned or unclaimed piece of land for so long, then it becomes yours. Actually I couldn't find a clarification on the Web after a cursory search. Ah well.
squatter
〔名〕 1 うずくまる人［動物］ the ～'s right 《米》男性と同数のトイレを使う女性の権利. 2 《米》公有地［空ビル］の無断居住者.3 《豪》牧場公有地借地人，（大規模な）牧畜農場経営者. ..
Somehow, I don't think "the squatter's right" means the right of women to have the same number of toilets as men. I think someone at Yahoo dictionary has a strange sense of humor.
As far as I can recall, the squatter's right is if you live on an unowned or unclaimed piece of land for so long, then it becomes yours. Actually I couldn't find a clarification on the Web after a cursory search. Ah well.
2005-09-07
International Freight
Since Tetsuo's friend Ken quit the shipping company he worked for, unfortunately I don't have an insider connection. Here are some links to freight companies:
American Baggage, Inc.
Air Sea Int'l Forwarding
Taurus Logistics - a New Zealand company with a lot of info on their website.
Air Parcel Express - looks interesting, but website's crowded.
American Freight Companies - a really cheesy website.
JHM Freight - for moving out of Japan.
This site has some interesting details about shipping, but it's only from Israel to the U.S.
Gallery of Transport Loss - this is wild!!
Perhaps DHL / Danzas is the most likely. They have an import page as well as an international shipment howto and a resource guide.
American Baggage, Inc.
Air Sea Int'l Forwarding
Taurus Logistics - a New Zealand company with a lot of info on their website.
Air Parcel Express - looks interesting, but website's crowded.
American Freight Companies - a really cheesy website.
JHM Freight - for moving out of Japan.
This site has some interesting details about shipping, but it's only from Israel to the U.S.
Gallery of Transport Loss - this is wild!!
Perhaps DHL / Danzas is the most likely. They have an import page as well as an international shipment howto and a resource guide.
2005-09-06
Baby Names?
Katie sent me this name generator link. The interface to the Java applet is kinda interesting.
2005-09-04
Crazy News, 2005.09.05
I'm a pretty callous guy in general, but this AP article has me ready to chip into the relief effort:
Here's an article reporting that dinosaurs may've had feathers, not reptilian-like scaly skin. Our unknown history keeps revising itself.
Even more important, apparently Shell has come up with a novel way to extract oil from shale. Maybe the Peak Oil theories missed something? Either way, I need to read up on this. Maybe I should buy some Shell stock....
Lastly, here are a bunch of articles on Blu-Ray, including some very unpleasant ones.
Playstation 3 Blu Ray drive will cost Sony $100+
Blu-ray players to "punish" users who hack their gear?
DVD format war looms as Blu-ray backers plan launch
"The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home, and every day she called him and said, `Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said, `And yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday' _ and she drowned Friday night. She drowned on Friday night," Broussard said.And then more intellectual property stupidity, where by opening a "single-use item" you agree to not reuse it, and if you do, you're liable for patent infringement. Capitalism has its good points, but the dark side is that its political hooks bend the law so that perfectly legitimate things become criminal.
"Nobody's coming to get her, nobody's coming to get her. The secretary's promise, everybody's promise. They've had press conferences _ I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's sakes, shut up and send us somebody."
Here's an article reporting that dinosaurs may've had feathers, not reptilian-like scaly skin. Our unknown history keeps revising itself.
Even more important, apparently Shell has come up with a novel way to extract oil from shale. Maybe the Peak Oil theories missed something? Either way, I need to read up on this. Maybe I should buy some Shell stock....
Lastly, here are a bunch of articles on Blu-Ray, including some very unpleasant ones.
Playstation 3 Blu Ray drive will cost Sony $100+
Blu-ray players to "punish" users who hack their gear?
DVD format war looms as Blu-ray backers plan launch
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