According to Justin James, the big nail in AI's coffin as a business objective was a lack of demand. He says that the one exception to this rule is video games.

Textbook barons Houghton Mifflin have of late proclaimed 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know. But if you're going to learn obscure words and concepts, it may as well be terms you're actually likely to use. Thus, we present 75 Words Every Science Fiction Fan Should Know!

It’s difficult to build a solution if you don’t know the requirements (in spite of the fact that many teams still try to do it today). The “elicitation” step is where the requirements are first gathered from the client. Many techniques are available for gathering requirements. Each has value in certain circumstances, and in many ...

Word tables have a million handy uses, from organizing tabular data to building an attractive page layout. Unfortunately, they don’t always act in predictable ways, and users have to waste time puzzling over dialog box options and toolbar choices. The following list of pointers isn’t intended to provide any sort of in-depth look at how ...

CPAN comes with an MP3::Tag module, which provides ready-made tools to read and extract metadata from MP3 files, making it a simple matter to identify the title, artist, and genre of a particular MP3 track. Here is some example code showing how you can use the module to create a categorizing application.

Because computer speakers take up desk space, it might be helpful to share speakers between computers, rather than having two sets of speakers for two computers that are right next to each other. Learn what equipment you need in order to share a set of speakers between two computers and how to set it up.

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I had been contemplating and researching it for about a year, but I finally made the fateful decision to join the High-Definition, TiVo revolution in television. I purchased a 37 inch LCD this past weekend and I’ll be getting the HD receiver setup from my cable company tomorrow. In addition to the HD, my cable ...

Dirty power can cripple your mission-critical servers and appliances. Learn how and why you should deploy a power conditioner before you become a victim of dirty power.

Dave's feeling better after trekking to a lower altitude and taking a baby wipe bath. He relates the humbling visit inside Pangboche Monastery, where he and Mike sampled Chang-—a mysteriously potent drink.