Month: March 2017

Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology

The English novelist Angela Carter is best known for her 1979 book “The Bloody Chamber,” which is a kind of updating of the classic European fairy tales. This does not mean that Carter’s Little Red Riding Hood chews gum or rides a motorcycle but that the strange things in those tales-the werewolves and snow maidens, the cobwebbed caves and liquefying mirrors-are made to live again by means of a prose informed by psychoanalysis and cinema and Symbolist poetry.

Zontroy Code Generator

In this article, Zontroy Code Generator is explained and sample codes are provided. Zontroy Code Generator is a program to generate source code in any programming language based on database.

Big data-structure bench-marking in managed code (VB,C++,C#) – Part 1

In this article I tried to show a real benchmark based on presser test method, for a Big Data collection deals on C++, C#, and VB .Net. Let’s imagine you are working as a software engineer in a company that deals with a big data collection and you have to come up with the best platform, language and also data structure to give a good competition advantage to your company`s business.

Synology RT2600ac

Synology’s RT2600ac is an advanced wireless router that offers many advantages vs. Apple’s stale AirPort product, while still providing a user-friendly iOS app for configuration and management. A long list of features includes a built-in VPN server, dual WAN support with failover and load balancing, content filtering and bandwidth controls, traffic reporting , a print server, “smart” coordination of 2.4 and 5GHz bands, multiple security features, NAS/cloud services with attached storage, Time Machine support, a DLNA/UPnP media server, and some potent hardware , with USB 3 and USB 2 ports, on top of multiple Gigabit networking ports and an SD card slot, and even support for 3G/4G cellular dongles.

City offers spring break activities 6 hours from now

Is the city offering any programs or activities for kids to do during spring break? Can you also tell me about upcoming events happening this spring? Yes. The Victoria Public Library is having a variety of fun, free programs during spring break week, March 14-17, to keep your children busy.

New lead in the search for life

This illustration provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows an artist’s conception of what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about their diameters, masses and distances from the host star. The planets circle tightly around a dim dwarf star called Trappist-1, barely the size of Jupiter.

Why Zelle is more than just a Venmo clone

When a product’s name becomes a verb, it’s safe to say it’s caught on. The popularity of “Venmoing” pizza or beer money goes one step further and offers proof that mobile peer-to-peer payments have changed the way Americans interact with money.

Washington’s “Cross-Pollination” of Business Blossoming

Construction cranes define the Seattle-area skyline, where luxury apartments squeeze between offices of major tech corporations, as part of a recent growth explosion that has attracted newcomers from around the world and helped transform Washington state. The boom, which extends beyond the urban economic hub to out-state areas as well, has in part over the years readjusted the way state and local leaders consider higher education, infrastructure and innovation.

Engineering Practices for Agricultural Production and Water …

With contributions from international experts from India, Russia, China, Serbia, and USA, this book presents a selection of chapters on some of these emerging practices, focusing on soil and water conservation and management; agricultural processing engineering; water quality and management; emerging agricultural crops; renewable energy use in agriculture; and applications of nanotechnology in agriculture. Soil and Water Conservation and Management.

Zelda On Switch Appears To Run Smooth Undocked

The Nintendo Switch is an interesting console in the sense that gamers can play games at home while the console is docked, or on the go while the console is undocked where it’s kind of like a tablet. However it seems that in terms of gaming performance, there’s a difference when it is docked and where it is undocked.

Prevention of PTSD following trauma

A 2013 review compared the efficacy, effectiveness, and adverse effects of interventions aimed at preventing PTSD in adults. 13 studies on efficacy included diverse populations including victims of sexual assault, accidents, terrorist attacks and others.

Cosmic ray mystery: Largest everdata sample sheds no light on origin

Scientists are none the wiser on the origin of cosmic rays despite trawling through seven years of observational data from NASA’s Fermi Large Area Telescope. A study published in Physical Review Letters details efforts of scientists to examine the “largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events since the beginning of its operation.”

JB Hi-Fi may replace cleaners with robots

JB Hi-Fi is considering replacing some of its cleaning contractors with robots in a bid to automate and save costs, according to one of the company’s non-executive directors, Wai Tang.In a roundtable discussion ahead of International Women’s Day, Ms Tang said disruption and volatility in the sector had led to many changes. Meet Method-2, the manned robot A South Korean giant robot has taken its first baby steps while shaking the ground beneath its weight.

Oriental Patron’s US$435m fund with Magsun aims to nurture Internet giants in China

Hong Kong-listed Oriental Patron Financial Group has teamed up with mainland China’s private equity group Magsun Capital to launch a 3 billion yuan fund with ambitions to create internet-based corporate behemoths in the Chinese market. The fund is aiming to invest in industries such as nursing services for the ageing population, home improvements, education, medical services, e-commerce and finance.

China’s online boycott puts Lotte in cross hairs amid THAAD row

China’s e-commerce platforms are spearheading an anti-Lotte campaign amid Sino-Korean tensions over US-backed THAAD system Lotte, the Japanese-Korean conglomerate with businesses from confectionery to malls, has found itself in the cross hairs of China’s nationalist mobs last week as online shoppers and internet trolls launched a boycott of the brand for allowing a US missile defence system to be placed on a plot of Lotte land in South Korea. Responding to the coordinated boycott, some brick-and-mortar retailers and online shopping platforms have removed everything under the Lotte brand – from cosmetics to candies – from their physical and digital shelves.

Why Raspberry Pi is the future of computing devices

On the strength of it new $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W, it’s hard not to look at the Pi and see the technology industry’s next wave. One of the most useful things about the smartphone is how many different technologies and tools it has consolidated into a single device that fits in your pocket.

Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know. Ask for a suggestion of what computer to get, and I’ll almost certainly either tell you the MacBook Pro, or to wait, because Apple is about to update its hardware finally.

Origin Asset Management LLP Has $341,000 Stake in Cavium Inc

Origin Asset Management LLP continued to hold its position in Cavium Inc during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The institutional investor owned 5,466 shares of the semiconductor provider’s stock at the end of the fourth quarter.

Scientists stunned by discovery high in the Eartha s atmosphere

A major new study has come to a surprising conclusion about what the sun’s fierce solar storms are doing to our atmosphere. Researchers in Denmark have just made a big discovery high up in the atmosphere above us: a sign that solar storms are wreaking havoc, stripping out massive quantities of electrons, even though scientists had long believed solar storms cause an excess of electrons.

God’s Waiting on You

Elias Howe was working nonstop on his new invention, the sewing machine, but no matter what he tried, the stitches turned out sloppy. He was so focused on the problem that one night he dreamed he had been kidnapped by a group of tribesmen and given twenty-four hours to finish his invention! When his time was up in the dream, Elias still was unsuccessful.

PM Automotive Group Replaces Spreadsheets With RAM’s Specialist Software

PM Automotive Group, a leading automotive retailer consisting of 12 franchises, has selected Real Asset Management’s software to improve the fixed asset accounting processes across its numerous sites. It decided that due to the accelerated growth of the company, it would benefit from implementing a specialist solution to replace the spreadsheet system that it had in place previously.

Fillon Resists Pressure to Leave French Presidential Race

Francois Fillon is fighting to stay in the French presidential race by appealing to his base as his support among party leaders slips away. During a rally Sunday in Paris, the French conservative candidate told thousands of cheering supporters near the Eiffel Tower that potential charges of embezzlement against him were “unfair.”

It’s a Man’s World

An Indian who was among the international tech world’s most high profile executives was sacked from Uber for not disclosing a sexual harassment claim made at his previous job. Amit Singhal had just joined Uber after 15 prolific years in Google and has said in a statement, that he had left of his own free will.

Life-saving cooperation

The bottom line is that when someone calls an emergency service number for an ambulance, he may not reach the emergency personnel who are closest to the victim. Israel is a world leader in emergency medical aid.

Telstra invests in SD-WAN vendor

Telstra has established what it has described as a strategic partnership with US SD-WAN company VeloCloud Networks, with the telco’s VC arm, Telstra Ventures, participating in its latest funding round. “We expect SDN will continue to transform enterprise networking around the world and VeloCloud SD-WAN can help companies achieve more agile and responsive networks as well as reduce costs,” Telstra Ventures managing director, Mark Sherman, said in a statement.