June 2012
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LaTeX Hypenation Syntax →
A correct way of putting custom hypenation rules to TeX documents. For details, refer to http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/latex-hypenation-syntax.html
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Samsung Is Rolling-out an OTA Upgrade for... →
More details on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/samsung-is-rolling-out-ota-upgrade-for.html
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ASUS Builds Nexus 7
Asus builds Nexus 7, which will run Jelly Bean. It has Tegra 3 Chipset with a Quad-core CPU and 8-cores (Oct-core?) GPU. The display is 1280 x 800 and dons NFC. It boasts 9hrs of HD videos.
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No More Pirating Paid-apps on Google Play Store.
Paid apps are often re-packaged into apk files and distributed (for free) in the past. Supposedly starting now, Google Play Store will encrypt each app for each device before downloading. Less chances to pirate paid-apps. Good for developers!!!
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Google Now knows what you are doing
Siri only replies when asked. Google Now can sense and based on history, Google Now knows your habit and get the information ready (without the need to ask verbally or using keywords). Android rocks!!!
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Android finally talks back.
Jelly Bean has answered who the prime minister of Japan, what a robot is and how tall the Space Needle (in Seatle) is. It even showed some pictures of pygmies (at the voice prompt). Android rocks !!!
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What I Expect from Google I/O 2012 →
Guess what? Google I/O, the developers’ conference of the Big G has come again. Doughnut I/O is really excited to see new innovations and gedgetaries in Google I/O (pun intended).
More on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-io-2012.html
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New Android (Jelly Bean) Has Offline Voice Typing.
Over are the days when you need either 3G or Wi-Fi to voice-input on an Android devices. It works offline now!!!
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300M More Android Devices Activated Since Last...
100 million Android devices has been activated back in Google I/O 2011. Now, it has become over 400 million. Way to go, Android !!!
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“There are close to 40,000 items in Stalin’s archive. Many of them are not...”
– Oh, wow. Mesmerizing.
Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive | Publishing Perspectives (via infoneer-pulse)
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I'm on a following spree, you guys.
So, for @moneyisnotimportant, what have you got?
moneyisnotimportant:
Are you interesting? Do you have a unique point of view on the world?
I’m looking to freshen up the ‘ol dashboard, so let me know what you’ve got!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18534... →
Shocking
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“All USBs are equal but some USBs are more equal than others.”
– More on http://t.co/rSGJE6lX
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Stanford adds social learning component to free... →
In the world of social-this and social-that, here come another social. Social-learning.
infoneer-pulse:
Stanford University began sharing recordings of events and faculty presentations on iTunes U in 2005, and since then it has steadily increased its online offerings. With the launch of the updated iTunes U app in January, Stanford began to offer supplemental materials, such as assessments,...
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“We are very happy that our students have proved themselves in this prestigious...”
– Associate Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli, 2012. More on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/our-team-wins-grand-prize-at-bank-of.html
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“ … It was so new that the Canadian Customs quarantined the Microsoft Mouse...”
– [Steve Ballmer, 2012]
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The sustainable energy challenge...
Sustainable energy is a must and the first step to Trekkies’ Utopia.
thisbigcity:
1 in 5 people don’t have access to modern electricity, but energy accounts for 60% of greenhouse gas emissions. So how do make energy accessible and sustainable? (and if you want some of our answers, check out our new post.)
全球20%民眾無現代電力可用，但使用能源排放的溫室氣體占全球六成，能源應如何更普及、更永續？我們的新文章提供部分答案。
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How Depressed People Use the Internet →
An interesting read.
infoneer-pulse:
There were two major findings. First, we identified several features of Internet usage that correlated with depression. In other words, we found a trend: in general, the more a participant’s score on the survey indicated depression, the more his or her Internet usage included these (rather technical-sounding) features — for instance, “p2p packets,” which...
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Android vs iOS -- more Facts. →
Android has Unlimited Calendar Data Backup (through Google Calendar)
Android has More than 7GB of Contacts and E-mail Backup (through GMail)
Android has Unlimited Photo and Video Backup (through Google+ and Picasa) — 2GB very high quality, unlimited reasonably high quality — and
Android has 5GB of Document Backup (through Google Drive) while
iOS6 has 5GB free cloud storage for...
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Return of the Big Opera →
More on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/return-of-big-opera.html
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Added iOS Features Were Available on Android for... →
More on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/added-ios-features-were-available-on.html
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Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing...
Noted as a leisure reading :D
nosql:
Google’s paper about their large-scale distributed systems tracing solution Dapper which inspired Twitter’s Zipkin:
Here we introduce the design of Dapper, Google’s production distributed systems tracing infrastructure, and describe how our design goals of low overhead, application-level transparency, and ubiquitous deployment on a very large scale system...
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Three More Games on Humble Indie Bundle V. →
Humble Indie Bundle V has increased its package. More on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/humble-indie-bundle-v-has-three-more.html
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“One small step for me is one giant step for expanding the universe of video...”
– Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo
More on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/nintendo-all-access-presentation-e3.html
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“In order to be complete entertainment device, central to the living room, it...”
– Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo.
More on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/nintendo-all-access-presentation-e3.html
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Facebook wants to be Google Plus →
An interesting opinion piece. Too bad GM left Facebook.
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“…bony fish as a rule have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical...”
– [Richard Dawkins], more on http://doughnutio.blogspot.com/2012/06/flat-fish-prime-example-of-evolution.html
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Geeks' Talk on Star Wars
My friend: Since Jedi has ample Force power, why do they waste energy on their spaceships? They can just use the Force to propel their stuffs. Since it is weightless in Space (I'd add they can also slingshot too!), there won't be much drain on their Force.
Me: Well, I don't know about this matter but given the point that they (Lucas et al.) did not give detailed Star Wars Tech (and that it happened long long ago, in a galaxy far far away), we can safely assume these spaceships are propelled with the Force. I think there is some limitation to the Force power the Jedi has. If they are too strong, Darth Vader wouldn't need to fight the X-Wings in the Battle of Yavin. He just pull the X-Wings away with the Force. In fact, the technology in Star Wars is a bit wield. Why didn't they just have some sort of shield on the exhaust ports?
Him: Interesting. Then the Death Star will be an impenetrable fortress.
Me: Given the fact that in the Return of the Jedi, the shield generator for the new (second) Death Star is on the moon of Endor, it seemed like the Death Star design does not account for shields.
Him: Well, Death Star has a very terrible design.
Me: Even then, they should know the port is unprotected and have someone wait there, probably with a SAM.
Him: May be they think to shoot a proton torpedo into a two-meter hole is impossible.
Me: Nope. They know. Even Darth Vader said, "The ability to destroy a planet, or even a whole system [of your Death Star], is insignificant next to the power of the Force," and force-choke the officer.
Me: Well, he should have rather than dog-fighting with the X-Wings.
Him: I conclude that Darth Vader et al. were so stupid.
Me: Sad truth.
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