It’s all about web developers! ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

Ever wonder which industries have the most web developers? Do you know how many people develop for the web on Linux? Are there more web designers out there than web developers? Where do web developers hang out and what do they think of the resources out there today? Which JavaScript library is the most popular? How many developers use Google Code or visit the MDN for documentation?


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Android Is 2nd in Mobile Sales, Gartner Says - NYTimes.com

According to a new mobile phone report released Wednesday by Gartner, the technology research company, sales of smartphones and mobile devices continued to surge in the third quarter.

Gartner said in the report that a staggering 417 million mobile phones were sold worldwide during this past quarter, up 35 percent from the same period last year. The report also notes that the sale of smartphones, which include phones on the Android platform from Google, the BlackBerry from Research In Motion, and the iPhone from Apple, grew 96 percent from last year.

Android took top honors in the report. Android-based phones “accounted for 25.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the No. 2 operating system” in the world, right behind Symbian, Nokia’s operating system.

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Real time lightsaber on the Kinect on PC

Galactic zoo: Browsing the galactic zoo | The Economist

IN AN age of compulsory PhDs, expensively equipped laboratories and a collaborative approach to research, astronomy is one of the few sciences still amenable to the interested amateur. For a few hundred dollars anybody can buy a decent telescope, set it up in his garden and hope to make a meaningful contribution, such as spotting a supernova or a new comet.



Nowadays, indeed, not even the telescope is necessary. An online project called Galaxy Zoo lets amateurs do astronomy from the comfort of their own living rooms. Inspired by distributed-computing projects—which use idle time on internet-connected computers to achieve the sort of number-crunching power normally reserved for supercomputers—Galaxy Zoo employs human brainpower rather than silicon chips to make sense of the sky. The project’s 300,000 volunteers receive pictures of galaxies taken as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by an automated telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, which they then assign to categories based on a few simple rules.


For Details:Galactic zoo: Browsing the galactic zoo | The Economist

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Evolutionary machines: The Difference Engine: Darwin on the track | The Economist

WHILE watching the finale of the Formula One grand-prix season on television last weekend, your correspondent could not help thinking how Darwinian motor racing has become. Each year, the FIA, the international motor sport’s governing body, sets new design rules in a bid to slow the cars down, so as to increase the amount of overtaking during a race—and thereby make the event more interesting to spectators and television viewers alike. The aim, of course, is to keep the admission and television fees rolling in. Over the course of a season, Formula One racing attracts a bigger audience around the world than any other sport.




Yet, each time the FIA mandates some draconian new rule change—whether the introduction of non-slick tyres, narrower aerodynamic wings or a smaller engine size—the leading teams have invariably trumped the restriction a few races into the season. And the cars fielded by the wealthier teams, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, are then going faster than ever. Once again, races become a tedious high-speed procession which, barring an accident or mechanical failure, all but guarantees that the pole-sitter (the fastest in qualifying) leads, lap after lap, to the chequered flag.

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Evolutionary machines: The Difference Engine: Darwin on the track | The Economist

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Minds of their own | The Economist

IN ONE of William Gibson’s early mind-bending stories, the protagonist suddenly needs to fly a jump jet. In the cockpit, he finds his employer has thoughtfully stashed a biochip containing all the necessary piloting skills for him to plug into his own nervous system. While your correspondent applauded the idea at the time, he nevertheless dismissed it as pure science-fiction. Today, he’s not sure.



The progress being made in neuroengineering—devising machines that mimic the way the brain and other bodily organs function—has been literally eye-opening. In the decade since Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University in Britain, had a silicon chip implanted in his arm so he could learn how to build better prostheses for the disabled, we now have cochlear implants that allow the deaf to hear, and a host of other spare mechanical parts to replace defective organs.

For details:Tech.view: Minds of their own | The Economist

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Fine structure constant

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Gdp and labour force by sector shows why developing countries are behind

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Future of mathematics

Source:www.ted.com

interesting comparison of world languages

Arabic



English



French


Portugese


Russian


spanish


Comparison


Source: www.WIKIPEDIA.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

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We Showed 'Troll Physics' Comics to a Physics Professor. Here's His Reaction.

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/10/25/i-showed-troll-physics-comics-to-a-physics-professor/

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Hitting turbulence

An engine failure on a Qantas Airbus A380, possibly caused by an oil leak, sent debris hurtling to the ground and forced an emergency landing. After the airline grounded its fleet of six A380s, Rolls-Royce said that the cause of the incident was specific to its Trent 900 engine, which it built for the superjumbo, and was the “first of its kind to occur on a large civil Rolls-Royce engine since 1994”. Singapore Airlines took the precaution of replacing the same engine on three of its A380s.
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Swedish firms exploiting labour migrants: report - The Local

Swedish companies are exploiting labour migration legislation, with work permits being sold for up to 30,000 kronor ($4,560) and either non-existent or poorly paid jobs offered in return.

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TeliaSonera helps launch 3G on Mount Everest

for more info http://www.thelocal.se/29894/20101029/

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We Showed 'Troll Physics' Comics to a Physics Professor. Here's His Reaction.

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/10/25/i-showed-troll-physics-comics-to-a-physics-professor/

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Airbag bike helmet

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Broadband in America: Come sooner, future | The Economist

Verizon has paid dearly to build a fast network. Now it needs customers

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Technical Educaition system inside out

A special report on smart systems: It's a smart world | The Economist

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The future of biofuels: The post-alcohol world | The Economist

The future of biofuels: The post-alcohol world | The Economist

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Greenview: Greenview: The unsolid Earth | The Economist

Greenview: Greenview: The unsolid Earth | The Economist

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http://www.economist.com/node/17173886?Story_ID=17173886&fsrc=nlw|hig|10-07-2010|editors_highlights

http://www.economist.com/node/17173886?Story_ID=17173886&fsrc=nlw|hig|10-07-2010|editors_highlights

Portrait of the 2009 Laureates in Economic Sciences - Media Player at Nobelprize.org

Portrait of the 2009 Laureates in Economic Sciences - Media Player at Nobelprize.org

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Shadow economies: A lengthening shadow | The Economist

Shadow economy does not mean ill-gotten gains here, but legal economic activity that is not taxed.
Shadow economies: A lengthening shadow | The Economist
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Greenview: Greenview: The unsolid Earth | The Economist

Greenview: Greenview: The unsolid Earth | The Economist

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Social networks and statehood: The future is another country | The Economist

Social networks and statehood: The future is another country | The Economist

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Google announced WebM

Last Week Google announced WebM, a new web media project that combines the VP8 codec (which Google acquired in its purchase of On2) with the Vorbis audio codec and parts of the Matroska multimedia container. As part of this project Google has open-sourced the VP8 codec, which could have far-reaching consequences for the future of video in HTML5.

If you're late to the HTML video game, here's the play-by-play: the upcoming HTML5 specifications include a <video> tag, which is intended to provide integrated video playback in web pages without the need for a third-party plugin (the browser would provide the necessary video decoding and playback controls). However, the HTML5 spec doesn't specify a particular codec to be used for the video content. At present, the state of browser support is varied: Google Chrome and Safari both support the proprietary H.264 codec, with both browsers' parent companies paying licensing fees to include the codec. Chrome, Opera, and Firefox all support the Ogg Theora codec, a free and open source alternative that many say provides inadequate quality. IE currently supports neither, but has confirmed that the upcoming version 9 will support H.264.

Up until recently, this was a standoff: Apple and Microsoft won't use Theora because they say it lacks the performance of H.264, and Opera and Mozilla refuse to use H.264 because it's patent-encumbered and they want to avoid paying licensing fees.

Enter Google. In August of 2009 it acquired On2, the company that owned the up-and-coming VP8 codec, which was rumored to offer comparable performance to H.264. At the time there were murmurs that Google planned to open source the codec, thus potentially putting an end to the "video wars" once and for all. Well, that's exactly what Google has done.

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Randi's Challenge and indictment of irrational beliefs

...but couldn't agree more..



Source: ted.com

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Salman Taseer removed twitter page after shameful statement given for doctors

Salman Taseer removed twitter page after shameful statement given for doctors. To dig the exact statement, I had to ref to Google cache. visit
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:wVM6x01VNUoJ:twitter.com/SalmanTaseer+salman+taseer+twitter&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pk
 to see it yourself.

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RnD in relation to Patents

For those who think pakistan can prosper otherwise. visit http://www.economist.com/innovation-visualisation/

Source: Economist

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The world's biggest arms-makers

Source: Economist

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http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15895032&fsrc=nwl

http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15895032&fsrc=nwl