Looking for the The Google Font? It is Catull, but found out more about the Google logo by reading the Google Font Page
Fancy reading my Looking for the Spam collection ? It's even getting multilingual
Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux... want to try it ??? Knoppix is really nice. And easy. Download, burn, reboot. Et voila, Linux is running...
Les universités américaines doivent leur efficacité à ce qu'elles apportent une réponse aux contradictions majeures qui traversent l'organisation du savoir : l'équilibre, tout d'abord, entre compétition et coopération, l'arbitrage, ensuite, entre recherche fondamentale et recherche appliquée.
Les universités américaines sont indiscutablement concurrentielles. Elles se disputent les meilleurs étudiants, les meilleurs enseignants et disposent du nerf de la guerre : l'autonomie financière, qui leur est donnée à la fois par les droits d'inscription élevés et des dotations financières propres. Elles sont aussi un lieu de coopération : les enseignants passent de l'une à l'autre au gré des séminaires ou des années sabbatiques, présentent ensemble des projets de recherches à la NSF, l'équivalent de notre CNRS (qui n'est outre-Atlantique qu'une agence de moyens).
I grew up in California, couldn't handle junior high school and the insistence on sitting in neat rows, so I dropped out after the eighth grade, ran away from home, took some extension classes at UC Berkeley when I was 14, and then against the advice of everyone applied to UC Berkeley and was accepted when I was 15. Berkeley was a lot better than junior high school, but it still involved homework, which deep down in my heart I could never believe in. Reading textbooks, yes, arguing with the professor in class, yes, but homework I could only possess a theoretical understanding of the social purpose of. Such a pity one cannot get a scholarship to go to the bookstore for 10 years, and at intervals prove by discussion of it that one learned something. I never got a PhD, and never will, because of this. Instead I wrote Reiser4, which was a lot more work, but something that I can care about so it is easier for me.
There were things I never really understood until I did Reiser4 about being a scientist.
For instance, those careful logs that seem so stupid and annoying in lab class, they are important in real life. [...]I also learned to focus on the little things in the data that don't make sense. Often the guys I hire will disregard them, thinking there must be something wrong with the benchmark since it does not make sense. Being more experienced I know that the things that don't make sense are the most important data collected.
[Jean-Pierre Helfer, strategy professor and director general of the Audencia Business School in Nantes] refers to the preparatory system as the voie royale into the Grandes Ecoles. "In our schools we syphon off the best 1,000 minds in a generation. During these preparatory classes, the potential of these young people is pushed up like turning up the heat under a pan."
At present these classes are taught in the lycées, not in the business school, and the students are taught a range of subjects, not business. There is a growing view in France that some business should be taught in the second year of these programmes.
Elsewhere in the world such men are bypassed as totally non-eligible for relationships or marriage (and the first definition of an otaku is that he cannot, or prefers not to communicate with other human beings) and indeed, in Japan the otaku was long shunned as social outcasts.
Not that the otaku cared very much. Who needed to date when Rei Ayanami (heroine of "Evangelion") beckoned from the DVD?
But as the years went by the otaku, once a minor and underground species, increased their numbers to become very-nearly-mainstream. Yoshika says her decision to marry had much to do with the fact that in modern Japan, it's hard to find a man who's NOT an otaku in one way or another. "Otakuga iyada nante yuttara kekkon dekinai shi, otaku wa uwaki shinai kara ne (if one refused to marry an otaku, one can't get married and besides, otaku will never have affairs with other women)."
The World Summit on Free Infrastructures is an international series of grass roots free infrastructures events to take place in 2005/2006. Wsfii is a chance for pragmatists and builders of free information infrastructures of different kinds to get together, share experiences, workshop new techniques and create documentation, explore crossovers and publicise their practices.
When did hacking become confused with breaking and enteringand their tagline is Making the world a safe place for hackers since 1978... Will scan soon since I can't find it online.
Sous ses aspects ludiques en 1999 et en 2000, elle a été conduite simultanément dans plusieurs musées et permettait aux visiteurs d'interagir avec les agents , elle visait à tester quatre idées théoriques. La première était que la langue émerge à travers l'auto-organisation, du fait d'interactions locales entre les utilisateurs de cette langue. La deuxième est que le sens est construit lentement par chaque individu, à travers un processus cumulatif. La troisième hypothèse est qu'une métaphore écologique, avec ses processus d'adaptation et de sélection, est plus réaliste que celle de l'esprit ordinateur pour rendre compte des mécanismes cognitifs. Enfin, Luc Steels soutient que la grammaire non plus n'est pas innée, mais qu'elle est un produit de l'usage de la langue.