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Conclusion - Tom's Hardware : Atom, Athlon, or Nano? Energy-Savers Compared
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VIA clearly offers the best processor performance with its new Nano L2100 CPU on the EPIA-SN mini-ITX motherboards, but the processing performance comes at a price—its peak power is significantly higher than the peak powers of the AMD and Intel systems.
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We are not sure what to think of the Atom solution, as it offers an interesting, extremely low-power processor, which delivers at least acceptable performance. But Intel stopped somewhere on the way and decided to pair its excellent low-power processor with an average mainstream chipset, which consumes four times the power as the processor.
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Atom, Athlon, or Nano? Energy-Savers Compared : Which Is The Best Low-Power Platform? - Tom's Hardware
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We compared an Athlon 64 2000+, Atom 230, Nano L2100 with the goal of figuring out which solutions serve up enough speed.
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Science Friday Archives: Do You Want to Believe?
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People see false patterns in all types of data, imagining trends in stock markets, seeing faces in static, and detecting conspiracies between acquaintances. This suggests that lacking control leads to a visceral need for order – even imaginary order,
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The Snowclones Database
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c. 1940s (?), as described in Geoffrey Pullum’s The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.
This is the journalistic cliché that started it all — the granddaddy bleached conditional that inspired the name “snowclone.” A collection of examples has been collated from the web here.
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Originated with Yakov Smirnoff’s “In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!”, which has also come to be known as the “Russian reversal.” X and Y are placed in such a way that if they were reversed, the statement would be perfectly mundane
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The Snowclones Database
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c. 1966-1969 [and later; this expression appears in several Star Trek shows and films], Dr. McCoy in Star Trek to the erstwhile Captain Kirk: “Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a(n) {engineer, mechanic, bricklayer}!”
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1979, the film Alien: “In space, no one can hear you scream.”
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The Snowclones Database
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I have traced references to this to 2004, but it may be older than that. According to the wiki spoof site Encylopedia Dramatica it originated as “Im in ur base killin ur d00ds”. Sources around the web believe that the phrase appeared on a StarCraft screenshot in the Something Awful forums
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Most people connect this with Dundee’s line in Crocodile Dundee (1986): “That’s not a knife; that’s a knife”
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c. 1600, from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “to be or not to be.”
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Hamlet’s original utterance is morose and philosophical, of course. You can’t get much more emo than pondering suicide, considering whether not “to be.” Since X is so semantically flexible, however, modern variants do not recall this feeling of overwhelming responsibility.
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The Snowclones Database
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This originated in the 1975 movie Jaws. The group setting out to kill the great white shark are told, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
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“WWJD?” for “what would Jesus do?” became popular in the 1990s “as a personal motto for … Christians who used the phrase as a reminder of their belief that Jesus is the example to be followed in daily life
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The original, “the only good Indian is a dead Indian”, has been attributed to American Civil War General Philip Sheridan
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This snowclone goes back to the 1611 King James translation of the Bible, Psalm 23, verse 5, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.” The original version implies gratitude to a higher power (”thou”) for life’s plenty. Modern variants are more likely to carry a sense only of “too much” and not allude to this gratitude.
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This snowclone originated with the 1993 California Milk Board ad
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the ad was very popular, and was part of a set of similarly-themed ads in which the protagonist finds himself alone with a mouthful of something sticky and no milk. Its ubiquity is what I think helped snowcloneize the phrase, since “got X?” isn’t a particularly idiomatic construction.
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This snowclone is used in situations where someone is trying to sell X, or it is presumed that X is something everyone needs or wants.
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This one may be traced to the 1972 soul song “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right.”
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X may be something that is considered morally wrong (”lusting after naked Daniel Radcliffe”), morally ambiguous, or wrong on some other level (”using ‘irregardless’”).
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The Snowclones Database
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“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” speaks the eponymous King Richard in desperation as the battle turns against him in William Shakespeare’s c. 1591 Richard III.
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This snowclone comes from dialogue in the 1977 film Star Wars:
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sometimes it’s a direct reference to someone’s attempt to wave away another person’s curiosity
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Snowclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A snowclone is a type of cliché and phrasal template originally defined as "a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different jokey variants by lazy journalists and writers."
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It emphasizes the use of a familiar (and often particular) formula and previous cultural knowledge of the reader to express information about an idea. The idea being discussed may be different in meaning from the original formula, but can be understood using the same trope as the original formulation.
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Yakov Smirnoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yakov Smirnoff
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Russian reversal or "In Soviet Russia" is a type of joke originated by Arte Johnson on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and popularized by Smirnoff, and is an example of antimetabole. The general form of the "In Soviet Russia" joke is that the subject and objects of a statement are reversed, and “In Soviet Russia”, or something equivalent, is added.
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All of Smirnoff's original "In Soviet Russia" jokes made use of formulaic wordplay that carried Orwellian undertones.
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Seeing Red and Blue Can Divide a Species — of Fish - NYTimes.com
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Seeing Red and Blue Can Divide a Species — of Fish -
members of a species can become isolated from each other in other, nonphysical, ways — through the way they sense the world
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Using Science to Sort Claims of Alternative Medicine - NYTimes.com
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Applying Science to Alternative Medicine -
only 40 percent of the studies used randomized controlled trials — the usual way of establishing reliable knowledge
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“the vast majority of these studies have been small,” averaging 30 or fewer subjects
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small studies often have a built-in conflict of interest: they need to show positive results to win grants for larger investigations.
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Social Bookmarking, Sharing, Tagging - webtools's posterous
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the information out there can be retrieved, mixed and remixed in the ways we need it when we need it
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if we use social bookmarking frequently, it becomes a mechanic process. Every time you see something interesting, we press the "share button", add as many tags, keywords as we can think of, and that's it. We'll filter the information later on, no need to deal with it right now. Even if this process doesn't save time right now. In the future, when you need to retrieve information for any kind of project, and if you have bookmarked it before, the whole process could be a time saver
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We are building this connected miscellany link by link and tag by tag. Its value is in the implicit relationships that turn it into an infrastructure of meaning
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The only immediate action has been to create a specific tag for later retrieval.
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Interesting results as I could mix and remix what I was considering for the course and my bookmarks gave me invaluable insights of what was worth keeping in or out.
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Deciding for a specific tag you want to focus on
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Tag for your private use and for the public good.
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RIAA Lawsuit Campaign Losing Credibility | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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EFF Releases Comprehensive Report on Five Years of File-Sharing Litigation
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the campaign has failed to get artists paid or reduce peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. Meanwhile, the legal foundation of the campaign is being questioned by several federal courts.
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Since September of 2003, the recording industry has leveled legal threats against close to 30,000 American music fans.
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(EFF) presents a comprehensive overview of the RIAA's litigation campaign and concludes that it is hurting music fans and artists alike, without making a dent in unauthorized file-sharing
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"More than 30,000 Americans have been targeted for legal action by the recording industry without putting a single penny into the pockets of any artists," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann. "At the same time, everyone agrees that P2P file-sharing is more popular than ever. The RIAA's litigation campaign arbitrarily punishes tens of thousands of people for what tens of millions are doing. It's futile and unfair. It is high time that the recording industry let fans pay them a reasonable fee for the P2P file sharing that we all know has become a fact of Internet life."
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For the full report "RIAA v. The People: Five Years Later":
http://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-years-later
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Goal Setting For Skeptics: Why "Goal Setting" Makes You Cringe
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Life goals are like religious views, salary, age, and weight—highly personal, rarely discussed, and for the ambitious and pie-in-the-sky among us, even embarrassing.
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the paradox of choice. In a media-saturated world where you see and hear about so many people doing so much interesting stuff day in and day out, it's even more difficult to settle down on one pursuit than it was 10 to 20 years ago, when people simply didn't have as many options.
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Choosing one thing really means you're not choosing a million others
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You can do anything if you put your mind to it, so the saying goes. Following that line of thinking, trying your best and failing means you're broken, weak, dumb, or hopeless.
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Facebook Application Development How-to: 11 Tips You Don’t Want to Miss | Cognition
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Cultural Clouds: A New Kind of Commons?
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By cultural clouds, I'm talking about the new layer of the human cultural stack we're busy laying down as a by product of all our social and creative activities in the inofverse.
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These new cultural clouds appear in the ever growing collections of crowdsourced collectively or socially accumulated judgements, cultural products, knowledge, history, relationships, etc., encoded in the form of managed digital information.
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By form and makeup, the cloud commons is ephemeral and distributed. But as digital information, it is eminently tangible and actionable. Our basic social structures and mechanisms - science, the law, economics, art, agriculture, religion, technology - will recognize the emergence of cloud commons, and respond accordingly
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What does the future hold? As recognition of cloud-based commons grows, expect to see all the patterns of activity typical of new frontiers and zones of instability: wildcatting, pioneering, piracy, squatting, privateering, enclosure, slums and shanty towns (informal settlements in the parlance of architecuter and urban planning) extractive industries, sovereign claims, colonization, speculation, etc.
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enclosure and extractive practices act as negative feedback mechanisms, decreasing current estimations of a commons or commons-based resource's future value, making the tragedy of the commons a likely outcome scenario.
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stach | Jorge Camoes' Charts
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- Color-code work/non-work related categories;
- Label the x axis with dates, not “days ago”;
- Remove non-working days;
- Use small-multiples to track each category;
- Use weeks instead of days;
- Annotate outliers;
- Show planned vs. actual time spending;
- Minimize the “undefined” category;
If I wanted to visually track my time online (I should…) these are some of the options I’d like to have:
Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]
