climenole’s posterous

« L’idée est simple et met à profit la recherche d’images sur Google. Vous écrivez un texte et le faite interpréter par Google qui va substituer les mots par des images. Les images (issues de mots de plus de trois lettres) défilent sur le bureau à la manière d’un écran de veille et les fichiers (jpg) sont conservés dans le dossier de l’application »

Un des nombreux utilitaires de Volvox Soft, l'éditeur d'Alice Comptable. Les utilitaires de Volvox Soft sont developpés pour Windows mais les utilisateurs de Linux peuvent aussi les utiliser avec WINE... Je vais bientôt écrire un article sur les plus remarquables de ces utilitaires. À voir! :)

Benoît Descary écrit: «Twitter est l’un des réseaux sociaux qui progressent le plus rapidement en ce moment. Je reçois des dizaines de notifications par jour me prévenant que de nouveaux «followers» se sont ajoutés à mon réseau. Ce service est utile pour découvrir de nouvelles informations, mais aussi pour communiquer avec les membres de son réseau. L’échange d’information est souvent plus efficace sur Twitter que par courriel....»

Pour les débutants... mais pas seulement! Par exemple le script Greasemonkey pour ajouter Twitter dans les résultats de la recherche sur Google...

À voir. :)

« The Conference Board of Canada plagiarism and undue influence story - which with the Board's report and overdue apology to Curtis Cook will now go on hiatus until new reports are issued in the fall - has obviously attracted considerable interest. Looking back, while plagiarism is rare, it is the public airing of the copyright lobby policy laundering effort that is the far more important development.

This lengthy post seeks to unravel the effort further by demonstrating how there has been a clear strategy of deploying seemingly independent organizations to advance the same goals, claims, arguments, and recommendations. Over the past three years, this strategy has played out with multiple reports, each building on the next with a steady stream of self-citation. » ...

« In a bid to further promote Indian language computing in the country, the GIST (Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology) Group at C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) has released ISM V6 the latest product from their popular range of ISM software. ISM V6 is UNICODE compliant and supports Open Type fonts. Additionally it comprises of ISM Office, ISM Publisher and ISM Soft, which will cater to diverse user requirements from word processing, database applications, web based applications, publishing and even custom built software.

Besides English, ISM V6 supports 19 Indian languages...»

You are killing our creative industries. "Downloading costs billions," said the Sun. "MORE than 7 million Brits use illegal downloading sites that cost the economy billions of pounds, government advisers said today. Researchers found more than a million people using a download site in ONE day and estimated that in a year they would use £120bn worth of material."

That's about a tenth of our GDP. No wonder the Daily Mail was worried too: "The network had 1.3 million users sharing files online at midday on a weekday. If each of those downloaded just one file per day, this would amount to 4.73bn items being consumed for free every year." Now I am always suspicious of this industry, because they have produced a lot of dodgy figures over the years. I also doubt that every download is lost revenue since, for example, people who download more also buy more music. I'd like more details.

So where do these notions of so many billions in lost revenue come from? I found the original report.

«Like I said: as far as I'm concerned, everything from this industry is false, until proven otherwise. » B. Goldacre

A Ben Goldacre inquiry about some claims and the original source...

« Cela fait huit ans que ça dure. Lorsque les talibans subissent des assauts d'envergure, ils se dispersent dans la nature et cachent leurs armes, refusant le combat pour mieux préparer la guérilla. Un art dans lequel ils excellent, sur un terrain qu'ils connaissent par coeur. L'opération "Khanjar", d'une ampleur sans précédent échappera-t-elle à la règle ? »

There is nothing like science for giving that objective, white-coat flavoured legitimacy to your prejudices, so it must have been a great day for Telegraph readers when they came across the headline: "Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists."

Ah, scientists. "Women who drink alcohol, wear short skirts and are outgoing are more likely to be raped, claim scientists at the University of Leicester." Well there you go.

Oddly, though, the title of the press release for the same research was: "Promiscuous men more likely to rape." Normally we berate journalists for rewriting press releases. Had the Telegraph found some news?

I rang Sophia Shaw at the University of Leicester. She was surprised to have been presented as an expert scientist on the pages of the Daily Telegraph, as she is an MSc student, and this was her dissertation project. Also it was not finished ...

An other good article on 'Bad Science" from Ben Goldacre.

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 into the wild on June 30, prompting millions of downloads and a ton of mentions in tech press and blogs all over the world.

Considering all this attention, Firefox should have been a pretty hot search topic on Google that day. Right?

But no.

Not hot... and buggy too! :-(

«A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. The Y-axis is partly analytical and shows popularity (mostly through scraped numbers) or perceived popularity (in the future nominated by you). The other part of the grid is more curated and subjective. The X-axis has been plotted based on my personal opinion. You may agree or disagree with my placements and that's all good to me. After all, it is about taste. The matrix and plots do not represent a thorough analytical treatment, but rather a view of the trends that could be found in data sources allowing me to plot with some sense of relevance. »

The picture is to small in this post IMHO...

Comment faire avec Ubuntu.