ieee is the institute of electrical and electronics engineers. they're responsible for developing a number of standards, such as the 802.11g wireless standard which you may have seen before. there are a number of different societies within the ieee, most of which publish at least a couple monthlies or quarterlies with titles like 'IEEE Transactions ( Read more... )

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here's something obvious that nonetheless deserves to be written. a person's reaction to stimulus (a comment, a picture, etc.) depends in part on their mood. this is illustrated below in words with the help of a language invented especially for this purpose, so that the reader is limited in their opinion of what is said in the example ( Read more... )

person M's opinion of person N is influenced by the company person N keeps. this contributes to the notion that person N could be embarrassed as a consequence of what the person(s) in their company is/are doing, and hence phrases of the nature "don't embarrass me!" I don't like this notion that part of how I'm judged depends on how others around me ( Read more... )

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I wish I could've added drums/bass to them, but I don't own propellerhead's recycle and so cannot create a rex2 file from .wav audio to import into reason, and I'm not interested enough to look for a cracked copy on bittorrent.

there are buildings which act as a buffer between the sidewalk and my preferred walking path. occasionally I'll see people in the distance leaning up against the buildings or walking in circles, taking smoke breaks from work or just killing time. or there might be a usps or ups delivery van unassumingly parked in an empty lot, as the driver has ( Read more... )

if I ever marry, it'll be to a girl whose first language is english. having grown up in a bilingual household, I've witnessed the severity of the disadvantage associated with trying to argue your case in a language you didn't learn until your college years. even people who, under normal conditions, have a good grip on a language can get tripped up ( Read more... )

game developers need to stop striving to emulate reality. eventually, virtual worlds are going to be so convincing that people will claim they were playing a video game when they committed a crime. "um...your honor, when I took out the high school principal with a headshot, that was actually part of a covert operation that I was involved in with ( Read more... )

the process of creating a piece of work that didn't formerly exist in the world can surround the author of the work in a cloud of bias that doesn't dissipate for a long time. this may not be true for a majority of people, but I've noticed it in myself. I'm rarely more proud of what I've written or drawn than in the minutes and hours after having ( Read more... )

here's something strange. in my experience, when people say "I have a bike," they're referring to a mountain bike. ambiguity between road bike and mountain bike doesn't exist because so often they mean the latter. none of this is strange yet. it makes sense that the abbreviated form of a word, or of groups of words, be used if the abbreviation is ( Read more... )