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Submission + - Feynman Lectures Released Online, Free 2

Submitted by Anna Merikin on Saturday August 30, 2014 @03:33PM

Anna Merikin writes: In 1964, Richard Feynman delivered a series of seven hour-long lectures at Cornell University which were recorded by the BBC, and in 2009 (with a little help from Bill Gates), were released to the public. The three-volume set may be the most popular collection of physics books ever written, and now the complete online edition has been made available in HTML 5 through a collaboration between Caltech (where Feyman first delivered these talks, in the early 1960s) and The Feynman Lectures Website. The online edition is "high quality up-to-date copy of Feynman's legendary lectures," and, thanks to the implementation of scalable vector graphics, "has been designed for ease of reading on devices of any size or shape; text, figures and equations can all be zoomed without degradation."

Volume I deals mainly with mechanics, radiation and heat; Volume II with electromagnetism and matter; and Volume III with quantum mechanics.

Submission + - Post-Microsoft Nokia Offering Mapping Services To Samsung (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh on Saturday August 30, 2014 @12:13AM

jfruh writes: With Nokia's Windows Phone handset line sold off to Microsoft, one of the company's remaining businesses is its Here digital mapping service. No longer feeling loyalty to Microsoft or its OS, Nokia has inked a deal with Samsung to supply Here services to both Tizen and Android devices, including the upcoming Samsung smartwatch.

Comment Re:No jurisdiction? (Score 1) 242

by cvenky on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @07:19AM (#45198991) Attached to: NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President

Well, in most kinds of democracy legislature is the most powerful organ. It can make laws and policies. It can in effect 'take on'/'subvert' judiciary. In the end legislature means (representing) people and people are supposed to be the most powerful in any democracy.

Submission + - Windows Phone 8 SDK - By Appointment Only (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Friday September 07, 2012 @10:34AM

mikejuk writes: Developers worried about the changes that might be waiting for them in the new Windows Phone 8 API are going to have to wait even longer to find out. Microsoft has just announced that the SDK will be available soon, but only to the developers it approves.
If you already have a published app, then you can apply to be part of the program but the announcement says:
"But I do want to set your expectations that program access will be limited."
The public SDK will be made available "later this year" which is behind the time table that developers were led to expect.
As you can imagine, the developer community, judging by the comment stream, is less than happy.
What makes this whole strange development even more strange, is that the announcement was made on the day Nokia previewed a range of WP8 devices.
The Nokia launch got most of the publicity, so perhaps the idea was that a little negative news wouldn't be noticed.
The real question is, why the limited availability?
Is there some dark secret lurking in the SDK?

Comment Re:Misleading (Score 1) 237

by cvenky on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:17AM (#40775453) Attached to: Are Indian High Schoolers Manning Your IBM Help Desk?

"None of IT/ITeS companies employ Non-Grad people".

I will correct "None of IT/ITeS companies employ Non-Grad people for actual work" as in for Software Engg, Support etc etc in legal registered companies. I am talking about core business not of office boys or maids or people doing shady jobs. I do not know about you, but I am actually speaking from real ground and have seen my share of things.

Comment Misleading (Score 1) 237

by cvenky on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:01PM (#40772345) Attached to: Are Indian High Schoolers Manning Your IBM Help Desk?

Background: Indian, Bangalore and have worked for IBM. I do not know the intention behind this article, but I can assure that High school kids do not man GDC, or for that matter none of IT/ITeS companies employ Non-Grad people. They may hire non-techie grads but not High schoolers. In fact there are such a huge number of unemployed Grads roaming around for a job that you don't need to hire high school kids. Also(though not important) these days nobody in India considers a person as educated unless he is a university graduate.

Submission + - India's proposal for government control of Internet to be discussed in Geneva (thehindu.com)

Submitted by cvenky on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @12:48PM

cvenky writes: Indian Government is proposing to constitute a intergovernmental body " to develop internet policies, oversee all internet standards bodies and policy organizations, negotiate internet-related treaties and sit in judgment when internet-related disputes come up". This committee will be funded and staffed by UN and will report to UN General Assembly which effectively means the control of the internet passes on to World Governments directly. It is worth noting that Government is trying for Censorship of Information & Media in India in many ways since some high impact social protests against rampant corruption last year, though they where successful only to a small extent. This will finally give all 'free', 'democratic' and 'other' governments, the much desired 'Protection' they seek from their own people.

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