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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:42pm CEST
Yes folks, it's that time of year, where I poke and prod all my proof sheets, put on my thinking cap and start the annual round of gallery applications, [starting with the CCP] . This year, it's the maps series. Having found a commercial scanner that scans the way I want format bit depth and with a good quality scanner, I'll be able to afford a whole series of high end scans, which I'll then then print as I can afford them. But first, a basic edit of the low rez scans, on my work's Epson 1680,
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:36pm CEST
Barcelona: HP - Large Format Design Campus I’ll be heading to the HP ‘Behind the Scenes 1988 - 2008′ media event in Barcelona later this week. I have never been to the HP Large Format Design Campus or the HP Labs for Large Format Printers - although I have reviewed them. I notice that a ‘Vision for Design and Construction: Building Information Modeling [...]
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:32pm CEST
I was reading an article over the weekend by Dan Roam covering the use of visual thinking to solve problems. As a mind mapper I know how an image can be used instead of a memo to convey ideas. I use Mind Map on my Mac but not as yet at my current workplace. I'll be interested to see if there are any insights that Dan has and be sure to post them in due course. I'm also reading an article on trust and as a knowledge manager, this is an area that I examined in my thesis and has been a subject of
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:25pm CEST
Garmin GPSMap 60CSx 2.6-Inch Mapping Handheld GPS The venerable Garmin 60CS just got a whole lot better. The 7.5-ounce GPSMap 60CSx now features an insanely accurate, high-sensitivity GPS receiver by SiRF that tracks your position even in tree cover and canyons. Plus, you get a bright, sunlight-readable color TFT display and an included a 64 MB microSD card for storage of optional map detail. Add all that to the 60CSx’s integrated barometric altimeter and electronic compass, and you’ve got a
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:17pm CEST
You’ve been taught how important goal setting is. And lately, you’ve been hearing a lot about writing your goals down. Why would you need to write them down? I promise if you try it, you’ll discover why. First off, let me ask you candidly: “What are your current specific goals”? (Silent pause for you to consider some ideas while looking up to the sky ~ or maybe a beautifully constructed coffered ceiling) I think I heard you say: I want to be happy I want to make a lot of money and be successf
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:48pm CEST
Snowboarding GPS foo After last year’s snowboarding GPS fun, I decided once again to carry a GPS for this year’s trip to St Anton, so I could keep a record of where we boarded. Using Rob’s, now slightly battered, Garmin Etrex Legend C, I set the GPS to record our location every 2 seconds and put it in my jacket pocket for the day. At the end of each day, I downloaded our traces from the GPS onto my laptop using GPSBabel, then at the end of the trip, loaded them all into Google Earth and mun
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:48pm CEST
Patrik Löwendahl blogged about using C#3 features in .NET 2 via VS.NET 2008 a few days ago:
[www.lowendahl.net] There are quite a few of the new features that works straight out of the box. However, Linq does not, alot of the code that Linq uses is simply not present in the .NET 2 BCL. So, inspired by Patriks post I opened up an old custom Linq engine that I wrote a while back and spiced it up and adapted it for .NET 2. I also added a few of the standard list ex
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:11pm CEST
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 8:07pm CEST
Thanks to Dr. Hawamdeh for recommending this Mind Mapping video, which contains advice on how to enhance the learning and memory skills of your organic cerebrum cells:
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 7:08pm CEST
from the Journal of Neuroscience Language processing involves multiple neuronal structures in the human auditory cortex. Although a variety of neuroimaging and mapping techniques have been implemented to better understand language processing at the level of the auditory cortex, much is unknown regarding how and by what pathways these structures interact during essential tasks such as sentence comprehension. In this study, the effective and structural connectivity at the level of the auditory
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 6:31pm CEST
also in the group Kim and Madeline i looked around the web and i got a few ideas United Nations Environment Programme a source of ideas that we could look at to create useful maps Global Environment Outlook a source of ideas that we could look at to create useful maps Toxic Release Inventory Maps in ESRI some shape maps from the TRI that that could be apart of our maps Environmental GIS Maps of the World looks like a good source for maps that may be able to aid us in our project US Geo
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 4:11pm CEST
Como funciona o processo de Ray tracing e Photon Mapping? Publicado por: Allan Brito Depois de algum tempo usando ferramentas gráficas, principalmente com tanta freqüência como eu uso, seria normal que me interessasse pelos mecanismos que fazem as coisas acontecerem. Principalmente no meu caso, em que preciso ministrar aulas sobre esses softwares, explicar a função de um botão é fácil. Mas contextualizar a lógica matemática e códigos por trás dele é mais complicado. Apesar de vá
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 4:00pm CEST
Normal mapping and vertex-displacement mapping from the same texture. This ones uses the Kineme texture tools to create the displacement texture. It’s a classic use of the technique. Not sure I’ll ever use this one ‘in anger’ but it’s an interesting test. I’m glad the lighting works so well, too. The base colour comes from the normal map, incidentally. The final screenshot shows the mesh from the back. Not quite sure why it looks so different from that side… Next I have to work out
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:58pm CEST
Thought I’d have a go using the Normal Map code from the last post to do some bump-mapping. Turns out it’s quite easy to use the output of the Normal Map CIFilter as normals in a Fragment Shader. All that needs to be done is to transform it into the correct range by multiplying the RGB value of each pixel by 2.0, then subtracting 1.0. Some examples using a simple Phong lighting model, and normals extracted from first a static image, then the live video from the iSight camera, run through the
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:51pm CEST
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re doing some pretty nifty stuff with Google Maps (and perhaps in the future, other mapping vendor maps …) on Backyard Post. Most modern browsers support this mixture of CSS and JavaScript hackery, but some do not. Specifically, Internet Explorer 6 is not supported at this time. While you can navigate the site and read the content, the Google Maps are likely to be very slow and/or generate errors. We have spent and will continue to spend time resolving these
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 2:02pm CEST
Google’s master plan 31Mar08 Filed under: info graphics - mapping |
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 1:59pm CEST
Following news of the murder of 14-year-old Amro Elbadawi in London, the Telegraph has plotted figures of murders in the capital last year on a Google map to show their location and frequency by borough. The map gives an at-a-glance overview of the 26 teenagers murdered in London in 2007 and complements the text article, though it would be useful to have more of the information referred to in the piece included on the map - e.g. Metropolitan Police stats on the ethnic origin of last year’s v
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 1:40pm CEST
Food fight - American warfare through history 31Mar08 Filed under: Art-design stuff, info graphics - mapping |
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:18am CEST
Verizon isn't kidding when it comes to social networking. Few days ago, they've announced their customers will have a quick access to MySpace Mobile and now they are launching social-mapping service Loopt. Previously, we saw Sprint partnering with Loopt and under these circumstances — when two of the leading mobile operators in the U.S. are adding Loopt to their offerings — the service is getting the real traction it deserves. From the release: With Loopt, Verizon Wireless customers can leve
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 11:17am CEST
Just follow the page link on the right to get to my Sector files. I have explained in detail how I came to view the UWPs in these sector files as THE BEST AVAILABLE UWPs on the web. I want to thank Daryen from The Traveller’s Aid Society forums and the Citizens of the Imperium forums for sending me the raw 1117 UWP Sec data and for his insight on the origins and accuracy of the UWPs. For those who use Universe or Heaven and Earth and play using the Classic or Mega Traveller setting, I think yo
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 10:18am CEST
Following on from our announcement that myPOIs.ie had launched, we have now fully integrated both sites - you can now easily purchase a myPOIs.ie subscription on mySatNav.ie. Both Premium and Premium+ products are available on the following product pages: myPOIs.ie Premium Subcription myPOIs.ie Premium+ Subcription Time Limited Special Offer!! If you purchase any compatible Garmin GPS, and add either a Premium or Premium+ subscription you’ll Save €25. When you purchase a Premium or Premium+
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 7:01am CEST
A good short article about how people are telling stories with maps. This one makes explicit use of mapping as a story telling device. The map become part illustration / comic. Of course, maps can be used to tell much more subtle and implicit stories, simply by the way that they are formed and the choices for data represented. I'd love to see some sort of analysis of the inherent biases represented by Google/Yahoo/MSN maps... What stories are lurking beneath the substrate on which so many peop
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 5:38am CEST
There wasn’t much in South Dakota worth blogging about. And I’ve been preoccupied since I got home Friday. Caught up on sleep, went and saw Dan do a great set at Bedrock. Then I met up with C yesterday and saw the exhibit of images from the Hubble space telescope at the Walters Art Gallery - really small exhibit, only one room, but absolutely gorgeous (see illustration). Tomorrow, however (this time I mean it), you’ll get to hear my thoughts about this. Having nearly lost a limb myself, I feel
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 1:10am CEST
For now, see the image…I had a delightful insight this morning…and I will get around to explaining it. This is the placeholder for now. It might be no surprise that organizations can collaborate this way. Many already do. However, what I see collective intelligence efforts doing creates the hub and spoke network shape. Being intentional about creating collaborative organization at face to face events and collaborations seems valuable to me. Furthermore, processes like Open Space, to a grea
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:47am CEST
I just received an email from Brad Allan of TPAssist 2007 to let me know that TPAssist 2007 has been updated and is available for download. Please take a look at this significant upgrade to a wonderful MindManager 7 Add-in. TPAssist 2007 version .1 3 is now available for download. This is possibly the most significant update since TPAssist 2007 was launched in September last year. This update draws on knowledge gained from case studies and feedback from our growing communicate of subscribers
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:46am CEST
A few weeks ago I ran an extensive test of a number of free analytic tracking packages. Hopefully nobody noticed the added load time from the extra scripts being run? It’s taken me a few weeks to find the time to write up the results but I think they provide some very valuable insight. I think it should be stated that coming into the test I was very commited to Google Analytics. I installed the code and tested the following services for 20 days. Some of these services were only for free tr
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:24am CEST
This brief tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of the Google Charts API, but no knowledge of the new map chart type. This tutorial will cover all of the required and optional Charts API parameters for the map chart type and will culminate in displaying a US map of red states and blue states. Producing the base map To produce our base map using the Google Charts API requires a URL similar to the following one:
[chart.apis.google.com]
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 8:14pm CEST
Well, hello again. It's time for our second teaser. I announced some weeks ago it would come soon, and now it's time for it. First I would like to tell a bit how the progress is going. The map is doing quite OK, and we expect it to be finished (well, everything that needs to be finished for the opening) somewhere in august. The scripting however is not really going fast, which is kinda hard for us mappers, (we don't know a lot about scripting) to get everything working. Although that doesn't
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 5:51pm CEST
I have long felt deep in my heart the why of what I do…but I have been too quiet on what I actually do in the big picture. For example, why this blog on thrivability? I study network theory and mapping so we can see the territory we are working with and map it. I also attempt the visualization of information in other ways so we can better see ourselves. I brain-crunch on collective intelligence and wisdom so we can collaboratively learn and act from wisdom as a whole. I delve deep into curren
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 3:08pm CEST
I launched the BrandStars brand mapping tool on Slideshare around 7 months ago. I’ve been very pleased with the level of interest and recommend using Slideshare to distribute ideas and presentations to planners and marketing people worldwide. The Link for BrandStars So far 11,417 perople have viewed the document, with 2,475 downloading a copy.
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 2:30pm CEST
cool flickr related tag browser a search engine that uses visualization and word mapping to display image results from flickr. Tags: flickr, mapping, word, display, image Postd in Related (Default) on March 30, 2008
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 2:06pm CEST
Matrix Marketing posted by admin in March 30th, 2008 in Marketing Tags: matrix marketing, mind mapping, online marketing, SEO If you had to compare a hobby or sport to Online Marketing I would like to say Playing the Yo-Yo would be very much like it. The age for playing a yoyo is irrelevant, I have seen old YoYo professionals playing this sport. If you have seen professional Yo-Yo competitions you would know exactly what im talking about. Playing a Yoyo is not only fun but also tricky an
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 1:19pm CEST
Gumballs March 30th, 2008 Try these Gumballs (GaD Variation #22, variation on Unhinged). Posted in Free Flash Games, Experimental, Abstract, Funky Input Mapping, G-a-D Variation, Concept Spelunking | No Comments »
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 10:57am CEST
We quietly launched V2 of our LouderVoice on the night before the Irish Blog Awards and have been tweaking for a few weeks. There is a lot more to come but we thought it’d be good to let you know what has changed now since we have a few more announcements coming in the next few days. The main aim with V2 was to make the activity on the site much more visible to the users and provide more opportunities to interact with others on the site. The most obvious change (apart from the very sexy re-des
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
I must confess, I stole the title from a post at Genetic Future, but I think I’ll get away with it since I just linked to the original post ;-) In this post, Daniel MacArthur discusses genome wide (SNP) association mapping studies and concludes that: The fact remains that despite the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on genome-wide association studies, most of the genetic variance in risk for most common diseases remains undiscovered. He then lists a number of reasons why we have problem
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 4:22am CEST
As I described during my Content Catalyst presentation at Tim Kerber’s and Ryan Lee’s Membership Site Owner Bootcamp, I highly recommend mind mapping as a way of getting more done in less time. At Published & Profitable, for used mind mapping to create my Write Your Way to Success list-building incentive. I also use mind mapping on a daily basis to track blog and site content as well as for my membership site owner consultation calls. I create personalized mind maps for each of my clients’
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 3:14am CEST
Reference: DF9492372. Category: Administrative/Clerical. Duration: Full Time. Rate: . City: Minneapolis, State: Minnesota, Country: United States. Description: Are you looking to make an exciting career move? A firm in the western suburbs is looking for someone with the ability to effectively utilize demographic and analytical software and other applications including word processing and spreadsheet pack... Requirements: call for details, Maintain demographic, mapping, and analytical software sy
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 12:58am CET
Is it possible to use animated textures on character models? ive tried using final blend textures but that doenst work. just wondering if its possible at all or, if it is what the trick?
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 9:36pm CET
After exchanging emails with Iain Holmes it turns out the restriction on building the application on Fedora was an experiment gone wrong. Iain has made an new Gypsy release (0.6) and I’ve built new packages: gypsy-0.6-0.fc8.i386.rpm gypsy-devel-0.6-0.fc8.i386.rpm gypsy-0.6-0.fc8.src.rpm Use these rather than the ones linked from my previous blog post.
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 6:24pm CET
Roaming around with Gypsy March 29th, 2008 Iain Holmes has written an application called Gypsy that multiplexes access to a GPS receiver connected to your computer. Debian/Ubuntu packages for Gypsy are available, so I decided I would have a go at building RPMs for Fedora 8. There are two packages available: gypsy-0.5-200803290.fc8.i386.rpm gypsy-devel-0.5-200803290.fc8.i386.rpm Install these using the normal RPM commands. Once you have the packages installed you should be able to follow I
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 6:07pm CET
(Crossposted from whiteafrican.com. With all eyes on Zimbabwe's election today and everyone hoping and praying for the best outcome - Sokwanele is an inspirational initiative which demonstrates how civil society can use Web 2.0 to engage at critical moments to try to ensure the best outcome. Comments on whiteafrican.com also very interesting, hinting at potential support for initiatives such as Sokwanele in the Ushahidi project which just made the finalist round in the N2Y3 Mashup Competition)
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:06pm CET
I read late last week that a new online map service had been launched in Korea - called ¡°Wings¡±. It offers a similar experience to Google Maps and Microsoft Earth, with base mapping taken from aerial photography and the augmented by information on local services, places of interest (POI), etc… The service is the result of a partnership between KTH (operator of the Korean portal - Paran) and Geopis (a local mapping provider). At its launch the geographic coverage of the service is limited to m
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:05pm CET
Sidewinder got a bit of a facelift, and a couple nice features to boot: After numerous suggestions (complaints!) the ground is now displaced throughout the level The middle area has been totally reworked New tunnels to the middle area, older ones are now gone New advanced spawn area, granted to the team holding 4/5 flags Miscellaneous clipping and perf issues
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 4:00pm CET
The Asus P526 Deluxe concentrates all the benefits of a PDA in a format very end. The mobile fashion design looks like a conventional phone. Yet, it has all the features of a smartphone. Equipped with the operating system Windows Mobile 6 and a TI OMAP processor 200 MHz, it will be for you a true handheld. It also proposes a GPS to help you in your travels, the Deluxe edition is provided with the software Destinator mapping.
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:08pm CET
Marco Bratz hat in Aalen sein Studium der Informatik absolviert. Schon während des Studiums hat er sich auf die Implementierung von mobilen Diensten spezialisiert und bei doubleSlash seine Diplomarbeit zum Thema “Entwicklung einer mobilen Lokalisationsplattform für Marketing und IT-Services” geschrieben. Im Titel der Abschlussarbeit wird gezielt das Marketing und die IT angesprochen. Warum stellen Sie diese Abteilungen in den Mittelpunkt Ihrer Arbeit? doubleSlash hat eine starke Kompetenz in
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 11:30am CET
Meanspeed Music Summary song title=”Here, There and Everywhere” composer=John Lennon and Paul McCartney performer=The Beatles beats calibrated=1,584 time elapsed=1276.0111 seconds average beat length=0.726 seconds mean speed/average tempo=82.7 beats per minute album=’Revolver’ Date of release=April, 1966 Most Interesting rhyme=’everyhwere’ with ‘care’ with ‘everywhere’ with ’share’ with ‘There’ “I want her everywhere/and if she’s beside me I know I need never care/But to love her is to [...]
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 9:45am CET
links for 2008-03-25 Written by hp on March 29, 2008 – 9:05 am - Socialight Hat tip to Dr. Thomas Ho. This is a pretty cool map integrated social networking application Read more » Posted in Tech | No Comments »
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 9:35am CET
Absolutely awesome: A zoomable, draggable Web map of Hong Kong in Sim-City-like 3D pixel art style! The level of detail and accuracy is amazing: The hotel I stayed at the last time, the Polytechnical University where LBS 2007 took place - all there! (I’m still looking for that Vodka bar in Lan Kwai Fong, though.)
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 7:06am CET
As many Published & Profitable friends and members know, I’m a great fan of mind mapping. I use mind mapping to schedule my days, create my blog and newsletter editorial calendars, plan my teleseminars and webinars, and to analyze the structure of best-selling nonfiction books. In addition, I create personalized mind maps for each of my clients and prospects, during our online coaching calls, and send them to participants after the calls. Now, there’s an easy way to get started If you bee
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 3:30am CET
เมื่อวันที่ 27-28 มีนาคม 2551 กรมทรัพยากรทางทะเลและชายฝั่ง จัด Mind Mapping Workshop # 1,334 ให้กับข้าราชการจากส่วนกลางและพื้นที่จำนวน 50 คน
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 2:15am CET
Energy mapping When mapping the energy of an organisation, linear time should not contain your enquiries. The problem or blockage within the organisation may be manifested in the past; it may be echoing back from the future. To remove the blockage investigate both previous and future generations; the history and potential of the organisation. What is restricting growth, both economic and spiritual? What is limiting the success of this company, or this corporation? Intuition Trust your unconsc
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:26am CET
“I’ve wanted a tool that can visualize the audio structure of music”- Anita Lillie says. That’s it!
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:58pm CET
“It’s another installment of Entropist, a sci-fi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called - a bit lamely - We Tell Stories. The basic idea is that six authors will tell six stories over a period of six weeks. More interesting, however, is the fact that story #1, “The 21 Steps” by Charles Cumming, was told using Google Maps. So combine this same strategy with today’s urban sci-fi, add a
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:49pm CET
Google Charts API Update—Sparklines and maps! March 28, 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment The latest version of the Google Charts API released 18 March 2008 includes thematic maps and our old Tufte favorite, sparklines! Hopefully, I'll have a chance to play around with them this weekend(!) and put together a more substantial post then.
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:40pm CET
Verizon Wireless and Loopt Announce Relationship to Deliver Social Mapping Service to Mobile Phones Blog by storybox.mobi Blogging in Loopt, PR Newswire, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, mobile mapping, mobile maps, mobile news, mobile social network, mobile social tools, mobile technology, social-mapping Verizon Wireless Customers Can Easily Navigate Their Mobile Lifestyles with Loopt Location-Based Services BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 28 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireles
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:38pm CET
In my NISO presentation I made a rather imperfect metaphorical point, which is that there is too much darkness (in the sense of "too little access to information") on this map. 1 billion of us have incredible (and some would claim overwhelming, or "too much") information access, and 5 billion of us do not. [IMG [NASA Earth at Night]] Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio - Earth at Night 2001
[visibleearth.nasa.gov] illuminat
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 9:49pm CET
Wifi is something that should be ubiquitous so that our digital lifestyle may not be limited to being online at home or at work. It should include, bars, restaurants and city squares. In some cities wifi is easy to find but in others that’s not the case. The lazy way to do wifi mapping could be with the geo loc software on the n95, a flickr account and free wifi. Everytime you find free wifi, get the GPS co-ordinates, include them in the exif and upload them to twitter. Once that’s done get th
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 9:11pm CET
Call of Duty 4 DLC Map Pack Hands-On If you're tired of Middle Eastern villages and Russian forests, take heart: Infinity Ward has some shiny new battlefields on the way soon. By Brad Shoemaker, GameSpot Posted Mar 12, 2008 5:39 pm PT Last year was exceptionally strong for first-person shooters. Yet despite being one of the latest genre releases in the year, Call of Duty 4 towered over its competition. There are so many shooters released these days that it's hard to stick with an onlin
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 8:02pm CET
Filed under: Safety, Tech, Driving "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that." That type of belligerence might be coming to your car under the guise of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Many cars can already be had with the necessary hardware like GPS navigation systems that help a vehicle determine its position, and stability control that can already fire individual brakes to effect course corrections. Is the next step writing the software to interconnect those sys
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:33pm CET
“In a move to provide better data to its users, YouTube formally announced late Wednesday that it had added a free feature that will show video creators when and where viewers are watching their videos. A movie studio might run several versions of a trailer on YouTube to see what is catching on where, and if a humorous spot is catching fire in Texas, might start running that trailer as a TV ad in the state. A political campaign could test spots of a candidate discussing the environment or the
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:21pm CET
Google announced today that it has expanded its coverage of 6 cities in Street View, and has added 13 additional cities including: Albuquerque, NM Anchorage, AK Austin, TX Cleveland, OH Fairbanks, AK Little Rock, AR Madison, WI Nashville, TN Rockford, IL Richmond, VA Spokane, WA St. Petersburg, FL Tampa, FL Yosemite National Park, CA These cities map well (no pun) to Forbes’ recently released list of top U.S. cities for businesses and careers. Along with this launch, Google has
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 5:24pm CET
Come si prepara la finanziera Marzo 28th, 2008 Si dà il nome di «finanziera» ad un insieme di fegatini, grecili, ovette, matricole, creste e fagiuoli di pollo ai quali si aggiungono − secondo i casi e secondo la spesa che si vuol fare − animelle, funghi freschi o secchi, polpettine di carne, tartufi, ecc. Vediamo, quindi, come debbono essere praparati i vari elementi. Fegatini. Dopo averli liberati dal fiele e aver tolto via con con un leggero taglio anche quelle parti che, essendo state in c
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:35pm CET
Snowboarding GPS foo After last year’s snowboarding GPS fun, I decided once again to carry a GPS for this year’s trip to St Anton, so I could keep a record of where we boarded. Using Rob’s, now slightly battered, Garmin Etrex Legend C, I set the GPS to record our location every 2 seconds and put it in my jacket pocket for the day. At the end of each day, I downloaded our traces from the GPS onto my laptop using GPSBabel, then at the end of the trip, loaded them all into Google Earth and mun
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:34pm CET
Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard is coming to the Nintendo DS on June 17, and the sequel builds upon the original cult classic with more areas to explore, new character classes, more fiendish FOEs, and an improved mapping system. Storyline: In the Grand Duchy of High Lagaard, it is said that the Duke is descended from inhabitants of a castle in the sky. When an unforeseen crisis befalls the nation, it is decreed that the first explorer to retrieve the Grail of Kings from that mythical floa
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:01pm CET
GPS Handheld Mapping Devices - What Is The Difference March 28th, 2008 So many companies that offered GPS handheld mapping devices are operated today. Some of them are just among those many outstanding GPS handheld mapping providers such as Magellan, Garmin, Lowrance, and much more. For those who are interested to acquire some knowledge about some of those GPS handheld mapping devices that are widely used by many nowadays, try to look at some of the information below about a coup
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 3:09pm CET
I’ve shared a number of tools that as a writer I’ve found helpful. Here’s another one that I discovered recently. I wish I could tell you how, but I can’t remember. I think I stumbled upon it following a link from some site talking about alternative software for the pocketbook challenged. Anywho, this particular software is called FreeMind. It is FREE, good news for those of us who find more lint in our wallet than purchase powering paper. Here’s how it’s described on it’s wiki page: FreeM
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
A coworker of mine recently asked me how he could get a printout of his files and folders. I replied “why are you asking me? I don’t freaking know” (In my defense, I have been out of Zoloft for a week) So as an apology, I did some research and found a program that will print out his crappy files and folders. The program is called JR Directory Printer and let’s you choose the directory and then sends the map of the folder/drive you specify to a notepad file from which you can then print. I beli
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:10pm CET
Verizon Wireless will begin offering Loopt’s social-mapping service beginning next month on 20 Get It Now compatible phones. Similar to Helio’s Buddy Beacon, Verizon subscribers will be able to use the location-based services features on their phones to let …
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:59pm CET
Inspired by Angelo Pesce’s comment here, I decided this morning I’d have a go at generating a Normal Map from a live video input, using a CIFilter patch. The code is surprisingly simple. /////////////////////////// //// FUNCTIONS //// /////////////////////////// /* Function to calculate the luminosity of a pixel */ float luminosity(vec4 color) { vec4 lumcoeff = vec4(0.299,0.587,0.114,0.0); return dot(color, lumcoeff); } /* Creates Normal Map for use in Displacement Map / Height Map GLSL shade
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:57pm CET
Table of contents for How to Use Adobe Flash : Moving Photoshop Layers to Flash CS3How to Use Adobe Flash : Moving Photoshop Layers to Flash CS3 Learning to use the adobe flash is a child’s play….just follow these few steps and you are well on your way to becoming an expert at using the flash effectively…go ahead and enjoy yourself. See…..its that simple…..you can watch this video a couple of times and practice on the technique to get perfect on it….all you need is some concentration and de
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:16pm CET
This is a guest article from Miki Saxon of Leadership Turn Phil and David offer great info here at Slacker Manager, but to make the most of it you may need to change your MAP (mindset, attitude,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:03pm CET
The weather affects how long it takes to travel from one place to the next, but I’m not aware of any mapping application that incorporates this fact. From what I can tell from a brief overview, the standard mapping applications seem to rely on relatively static estimations of expected speed limits and traffic for a given road. This seems a bit slow and out-of-date for the modern mobile world. How about an application that uses geo-tagged weather data to estimate driving conditions for a giv
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 12:16pm CET
Here is the new hotness device in Korea, a super detailed 3D maps GPS from Thinkware with its new iNAVI K2. Thinkware iNAVI K2 features with 4.8″ screen with 800×480 screen, 8GB memory, 256MB of RAM, and also integrated with a geomagnetic 3-axis sensor which able to detect north pole and can calculate the heading of your vehicle. This GPS iNAVI K2 will be available with price tag about 549,000 KRW (about $561). (more…)
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 11:04am CET
Hey, When I try to play my new map which ive just added too I get the following error when I try to launch the server... Warning: [OTBM loader] This map needs and updated items OBT file. FATAL: Failed to create an object. Code: 18298 Could someone please tell me how to fix this problem? I have had it once before and fixed it by removing some items, but this time I have placed too many items and objects since last trying out the map and really dont want to have to remove them al
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:16am CET
Roald Forsberg sent me this link: Study Finds Wide Range of Rare Mutations Linked to Schizophrenia. It is a summary of the paper Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia Walsh et al. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1155174. I haven’t read the paper yet, but I should. According to the GenomeWeb link, the study shows that schizophrenia associates with an enhancement of rare mutations. This is interesting, since the association mapping appro
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:08am CET
If you can remember the movie The Blair Witch Project, this was before everyone use cell phones and of course way before anyone heard of portable GPS mapping systems. Can you imagine how Hollywood would have suffered if the portable GPS Mapping systems had been invented years earlier. Think about the countless scripts that the mainstream acceptance of the portable GPS mapping systems has probably caused to be rejected. Today, could really three college students still get lost in the woods
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:45am CET
AAG Meetings – Visualization of Abstracts March 27th, 2008 Since the annual AAG meeting is coming up in Boston soon I present you this map (from alpoma.net via scimaps.org). Will Oscar Larson ever stop sending out email announcements for this event already!? This map is a visualization derived from more than 22,000 abstracts submitted to the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers during a ten-year period from 1993 to 2002. The methodology is centered around the represen
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:12am CET
The World According to Newspapers (Cartograms) March 27th, 2008 (From onlinejournalismblog.com via Aly’s More than this blog) The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them. (Flash version, more stills) The World in 2007 According to the New York Times, New York These maps allow you to grasp several media trends at a glance. First, traditional newspapers are
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:47am CET
Karen Kliegman wants her students at Searingtown School, in Albertson, New York, to view themselves as docents — knowledgeable guides who can lead their class along the route of a famous seventeenth-century explorer. And she has found the technology to make this possible.She assigns each of her fourth-grade students an explorer to research — Columbus, Magellan, Ponce de Leon, or one of their questing contemporaries. After gathering facts, students locate images of the explorer or draw their own
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 12:28am CET
I been trying to solve this one for a while. when i run the mod the splash screen comes up and everything, but after the nvidia intro the screen just goes blank. i checked the log file andfound the following error ModAuthor: GUI2K4.UT2K4GUIController OpenMenu [aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu] () () Warning: Failed to load 'Class aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu': Failed to find object 'Class aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu' ScriptLog: Could not DLO menu 'aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu' ScriptLog: Coul
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 11:58pm CET
VSTEP announces that the much anticipated and long awaited official Ship Simulator 2008 add-on: New Horizons is now available for download at www.shipsim.com The New Horizons add-on for Ship Simulator 2008 is a new addition to the acclaimed Ship Simulator series, which has already generated such a huge and loyal following. The large community of Ship Sim fans will now be able to hook up online, as well as enjoy the new sailing area of Padstow, Cornwall (UK). New vessels will also enhance the ex
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 11:40pm CET
In the third and fourth screenshots, I’ve swapped the Blending Mode of the mesh. I like the ethereal look of these. The downside is, it’s much more difficult to discern the 3-dimensional form of the mesh. I may try adding some kind of fog-like effect, so that the mesh colour or alpha changes with the z-coordinate of each fragment. This may help things look more 3D (and is something I’ve been meaning to try, anyway).
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 10:58pm CET
It's a reasonably safe bet that all Entity Framework (EF) and LINQ to SQL projects start with an existing database as the persistence store. The ADO.NET Team initially planned to support generating the underlying database schema from domain objects created in the EDM Designer's UI. This goal for v1 was abandoned early in EF's history, although the EDM Wizard retains the option to start with an Empty Model template. Unless appropriate stored procedures (sprocs) already exist for populating Enti
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 9:19pm CET
This is a great application from Martijn - it’s a style editor for Mapnik - one of the renderers used to render Openstreetmap data. It goes a long way to helping differentiate the map from the data, as I discussed in this post “a manifesto?“. OpenStreetMap’s power is the data. It also shows the flexibility of mapnik, and the Freedom in being able to have the map you want.
[tile.openstreetmap.nl] Have a go by selecting some of the predefined styles.
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 8:41pm CET
Nitpickers, April 2 - 27 Mar 27th, 2008 by vanessa | 0
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 7:43pm CET
Weakening economy got you down? Does the slowing job market have you rethinking your career path? This morning CNN Money launched a cool gallery via Fortune Small Business called, “100 Best Places to Live and Launch”, a list of the 100 best cities, including Bellevue, Washington, Georgetown, Texas, Buford, Georgia, Marina del Rey, California and Bethesda, Maryland where entrepreneurs can not only find the best mix of new business and pleasure, but also find a great place to live through integra
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 7:18pm CET
I am working on an outbound implementation. The company that is very dependent on its current geographical map drawing software when routing freight. Being that OTM’s mapping functionality is weak, I wanted to see if anyone was aware of OTM users that are integrating an external mapping software with OTM. I'm thinking that something like this would help in verifying that the routes built by the OTM Bulk Plans are geographically feasible. For example, a transportation planner might want to verify
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