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Begin forwarded message: From: James Gosling Date: August 24, 2007 8:16:58 PM PDT To: Jonathan Schwartz Subject: How was Java named? The story goes like this: We needed a name. We had been using "oak" (which was selected essentially randomly by me), and while the team had grown attached to it, the trademark lawyers ruled it out. We had lots of email debates about names, but nothing got resolved. We ended up in the awkward position where the #1 thing stopping us from shipping was the name. Our marketing lead knew someone who was a "naming consultant" (I don't remember his name, but he was great). We could neither afford the price nor the time of a conventional product naming process. He agreed to do something rather odd, but effective and quick: he acted as a facilitator at a meeting where about a dozen of us locked ourselves in a room for an afternoon. He started asking us questions like "How does this thing make you feel?" (Excited!) "What else m...

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My Collection of Quién Será (Sway) By Pussy Cat Dolls Melinda Dolittle My Favourite by Rosemary Clooney

Tether Blackberry pearl to PC for internet surfing The procedure was pretty straightforward. Had to make sure that I have the correct desktop manager (should be available from the CD that you get with the phone or you can install it from your career (it was faster for me to download it from tmobile's website (my career) instead of blackberry's ). I used couple of messages from Blackberry forum. Also used the following link: http://mobilewirelessnews.com/2006/10/30/how-to-tether-blackberry-pearl-to-pc-for-use-as-a-modem/

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Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software. I advocate a novel approach: constructively channel human brainpower using computer games. For example, the ESP Game, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game -- many people play over 40 hours a week -- and when people play, they help label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to significantly improve the accuracy of image search. People play the game not because they want to help, but because they enjoy it. Here Luis describes other examples of "games with a purpose": Peekaboom, which helps determine the location of objects in images, and Verbosity, which collects common-sense knowledge. I also explain a general...

Google Tech Talks December 7, 2006 ABSTRACT Andre will be covering topics such as the following: - ImageMagick and geographic data: creating custom Google Map overlays with RMagick - Google Maps custom controls: creating a better (or at least different) zoom control - Demystifying the geocoder: you, too, can create a geocoder from scratch