- mental_floss Blog » Flu Epidemic vs. Flu Pandemic: What’s the Difference? – A “flu pandemic,” however, does mean that Pestilence has moved in and is setting up shop. A flu pandemic has two main characteristics: That it’s a new strain of the virus, meaning that few people, if any, have resistance to it, and that it’s managed to work its way to more than one continent.
Posts Tagged: GPS
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Apr 08
Daily Links
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Grammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi. Below are ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on how to fix them.
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Apr 08
Lazyweb: Google Android UI Possibilities
The Google System Blog lists some of the hardware that is supported by Google’s Android SDK:
- Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
- Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
- Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
- Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
- QLite for structured data storage
- Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
- GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
- Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
- Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
- Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE
When you look at the hardware on a fully-optioned phone, you get an opportunity to rival the iPhone interface (let’s be honest, that’s what’s sexy). I’m particularly thinking of the ability to run a server on the device, and the possibilities to tie in location, hand-movements, speed, time, directionality, and context (based on previous use) into the interface.
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Feb 08
Daily Links
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A variety of theories…
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A summation of a trackrecord of NOT being on the correct side of many, MANY debates…
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Oct 07
Daily Links
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GOP base = 23% of Americans.
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Happy IFAW people!
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Debating the radical muslim strawman.
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Jun 07
Introduction
Table of contents for Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise: Leveraging Network Effects.
The new network economy, best represented by Web 2.0, is wildly popular, albeit only with technologist, early-adopters, and industry professionals. It is possible to implement Web 2.0 technologies in the Enterprise, taking advantage of collaborative network effects to engage your employees, enrich the employment experience, and enlarging the pool of business data required for effective decision making.
Imagine a future business world, where the Rolodex is online and shared. Visualize your customers, suppliers, distributors, staff, revenue, and expenses in real time, displayed on a map, with information displayed intuitively, in such a way that no outside information is necessary. Contemplate discussions, work processes, organization charts, invoices, billing, calendars, and more all living online, with all of your data available, searchable, and capable of being used and repurposed. When faced with an emergency, the plans to your physical plant, succession plans, financial contacts, and important contracts could all be easily accessible, constantly updatedand be saved offsite. By importing GPS data, one can view the routes your product takes on its way to market, and how that is affected by weather and traffic. Review a data dashboard presenting the current, updated, and relavent metrics for successful operation. Imagine being able to collect and archive the organizational intelligence of the Enterprise, preserving it so it outlasts the coming transition of a workforce dominated by Baby Boomers to that of one of Generation X'ers and Millenials.
Think of a future where the data that you already have is merged with information you are already collecting organized in such a way as to represent knowledge, which could then be aggregated, mixed, and redisplayed, representing the Enterprise's knowledge.
