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nodey

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:04:14 GMT

clipped by: gravitrulz

Nodes are polymorphic in the classical sense. If a module needs to display a node, for example, it can call node_view() on that node to get an HTML representation. The actual rendering, though, will depend on which type of node is passed to the function; this is directly analogous to having the class of an object determine its behavior when a message is sent to it. Drupal itself handles the same introspection tasks required of an OOP language's runtime library.

Furthermore, the rendering of the node in this example can be affected by the active theme. Themes are polymorphic in the same way; the theme is passed a "render this node" message, and responds to it in a different way depending on the implementation of the active theme, though the interface is constant.

Polymorphism

Greenwald: The Republicans' Cheerful Viciousness

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:18:56 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Rendering issues irrelevant and converting campaigns into culture wars (h/t ratilfar!)

Clip Source: www.salon.com

With last night's cheerfully vicious speeches from Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin, the Republicans did what they always do in order to win elections: they exploited raw cultural divides while mocking, belittling and demonizing Democratic leaders.

Ever since Ronald Reagan's election, this is what the Republicans do every four years. They render issues irrelevant and convert campaigns into cultural wars and personality referenda

Republicans are well aware that they can't possibly win the election if it is even partially decided based on issues. They need and intend to win despite the fact that Americans hate their positions on the issues, and to do that, they want to ensure that a majority of Americans love and respect the strong, honorable, principled, culturally familiar all-American mavericks John McCain and Sarah Palin

while strongly disliking that wishy-washy, snooty, foreign, exotic, self-absorbed Eastern elitist Barack Obama (even if he says the right things on issues).

Tags: republican

JAVA API,documents BY EXAMPLES

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:02:22 GMT

clipped by: sdhklsd

Clip Source: www.javadocexamples.com

org.apache.commons.lang

org.apache.commons.httpclient

org.apache.lucene.index

org.apache.lucene.search

javax.faces.lifecycle

javax.faces.model

javax.faces.render

javax.faces.validator

javax.faces.webapp

javax.imageio

javax.imageio.event

javax.imageio.metadata

javax.imageio.plugins.bmp

javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg

javax.jcr.observation

javax.management.j2ee

javax.management.j2ee.statistics

javax.management.loading

Tags: jsp, java, j2ee, jee, servlet, jdbc, jms, ejb

Effective Genital Warts treatment

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:53:44 GMT

clipped by: kerken

Clip Source: www.genitalwartstreatment.co.uk

Effective Genital Warts Treatment

There is still not a lone method of wart treatment which as everyone wishes, is painless, doesn't leave scars, doesn't render one unable to work and doesn't harm later on. The no uniform therapeutic methods mirror itself in a lot of steps of mechanical, physical or chemical types, because none are meeting the above qualifications.

Tags: effective, genital, warts, treatment

Common Benchmarks

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:59:42 GMT

clipped by: Anneliese1981

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Industry Standard (audited and verifiable)

Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo)

Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC)

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)

Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)

[edit] Open source benchmarks

Dhrystone: integer arithmetic performance

Fhourstones: an integer benchmark

HINT: It ranks a computer system as a whole.

Iometer: I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems.

Linpack / LAPACK

NAS parallel benchmarks

PAL: a benchmark for realtime physics engines

POV-Ray: 3D render

TPoX: An XML transaction processing benchmark for XML databases

VMmark: a server virtualization benchmark suite from VMware.

Whetstone: floating-point arithmetic performance

Phoronix Test Suite: open-source benchmarking suite for Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD

Render Unto Obama...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:37:55 GMT

clipped by: bmeuppls
clipper's remarks: Your hope, your desires, your money, your lives....

Clip Source: www.powerlineblog.com

Portable Mobile Phone Jammer

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:59:31 GMT

clipped by: milmufmas

Clip Source: www.ixibo.com

This little beast is a hand-held portable universal cell phones Jammer. It can be used in conference rooms, classrooms , libraries, courtrooms, cinema halls and concert halls. On a fully charged battery, this device can keep all mobile phones jammed within 8 - 10 meter radius for upto 1.5 hours. the size is so small that it can easily fit the palm of your hand.

I have only once concern though that in hands of car thieves, this can render all kind of tracker devices useless as most of today’s car tracking devices use GSM / GPRS to connect to base stations. But I do like the fact that, If I have this one with me, I can silence all mobile phones around me without having to confront annoying people. although there are some states where use of such devices is prohibited by law.

list of frequencies it can block

GSM850 Band: 869-894 MHz
EGSM900: 925-960 MHz
DCS1800: 1805-1880 MHz
PCS1900: 1930-1990 MHz
CDMA800: 869-894 MHz
WCDMA/CDMA2000: 2110-2170 MHz
PHS: 1895-1919 MHz
DECT: 1880-1900 MHz

Butter Me Up

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:33:14 GMT

clipped by: tebvox

Clip Source: www.syracuse.com

Recycling Spreads

Butter that creamy, sweet bovine creation most often is seen dripping from corn on the cob, perking up popcorn or nestled snugly in a mound of mashed potatoes.

But when the curtain falls on this year's New York State Fair, the 900 or so pounds of butter making up the famous butter sculpture will not end up on a plate anywhere, or in the garbage. Instead, it will be powering vehicles at a Syracuse college.

This year's butter will be turned into biodiesel fuel by students and faculty at the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The biodiesel will fuel cars and buses at ESF.

"Butter is 80 percent fat and oil and 20 percent water and protein," Nicholson said. "What we have to do is render it heat it to separate the fats and oils from the water and protein."

The water and protein is thrown away. Then the oil and fat is clarified making it pure and clean.

Tags: butter, biofuel, fuel

LivePlace IS the Second Life Killer

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:45:50 GMT

clipped by: bferman
clipper's remarks: All I can say is... simply amazing!

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

LivePlace.com has posted a video displaying a very impressive render of a 3D virtual world called City Space

The other nugget of information found in the video is that the game is running on OTOY, the 3D engine that renders graphics in the cloud. The technology allows relatively weak computers (or even mobile phones) to display incredibly detailed graphics comparable to those seen in Hollywood movies.

[Video]

While there are a number of online games that offer impressive graphics (though none of this caliber), the real potential behind LivePlace and the OTOY engine is the cloud-based rendering engine, which allows games on almost any computer to play without needing a powerful graphics card. OTOY has been developed to work in any browser without a plugin, which makes the barrier for entry into this virtual world much lower than Second Life

The 14 mins of real time rendering in this material is streaming live to a Treo 700 at 240 kpbs

Tags: liveplace.com, second life, 3d, rendering, game

Scientist close to making invisible cloak

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:37:13 GMT

clipped by: baumwolm

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects.

The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.

The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.

Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:09:57 GMT

clipped by: ekorstanje
clipper's remarks: This opens up some privacy issues. How would you know if someone from the Gov or Bussiness was not standing next to you inside your own home?

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

WASHINGTON - Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.

People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.

Metamaterials are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite. They are designed to bend visible light in a way that ordinary materials don't. Scientists are trying to use them to bend light around objects so they don't create reflections or shadows.

Tags: invisibility cloak

Invisible cloaks - not just science fiction!

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:47:39 GMT

clipped by: queerty
clipper's remarks: Harry P eat your heart out!

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible.

Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".

The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano scale, measured in billionths of a metre.

The team says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to hide people.

The findings, by scientists led by Xiang Zhang, were published in the journals Nature and Science.

The new system works like water flowing around a rock, the researchers said.

Because light is not absorbed or reflected by the object, a person only sees the light from behind it - rendering the object invisible.

The new material produces has "negative refractive" properties. It has a multi-layered "fishnet" structure which is transparent over a wide range of light wavelengths.

Tags: invisible, cloak, harry potter

Invisibility Cloak

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:05:03 GMT

clipped by: vsdnath
clipper's remarks: Nothing will be safe from unscrupulous Elements,in the future.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Invisibility cloak 'step closer'

Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible.

Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".

The research, funded by the US government, could one day be used in military stealth operations - with tanks made to disappear from the enemies' sight.

Tags: technology

Invisibility cloak a step closer

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:02:29 GMT

clipped by: valann 47

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible.

Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".

The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano scale, measured in billionths of a metre.

The team says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to hide people.

For now, the invisibility cloak remains a thing of science fiction

The findings, by scientists led by Xiang Zhang, were published in the journals Nature and Science.

The new system works like water flowing around a rock, the researchers said.

Because light is not absorbed or reflected by the object, a person only sees the light from behind it - rendering the object invisible.

The new material produces has "negative refractive" properties.

Tags: invisible, cloaks

Secret of invisibilty unravelled by US researchers

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:43:13 GMT

clipped by: Araetia

Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects. This development could soon result in technology that can render tanks, ships and troops invisible to the eye.

According to a report in today's Sunday Times, this breakthrough follows earlier work undertaken at the Imperial College in London that achieved similar results with microwaves. Like light, these are a form of electromagnetic radiation, but their longer wave-length makes them far easier to manipulate. Achieving the same effect with visible light is a big advance.

Substances capable of achieving such feats are known as metamaterials, which get their electromagnetic properties from their structural mix, rather than directly inheriting those of the substances composing them.

Tags: invisibility, technology, science