The Blog for the TechtalkRadio Show
Adobe this morning outlined the offerings in the companies new Creative Suite 4. For Web Designers, graphics designers and multimedia producers; each suite offers something for everybody. A Master suite is available which combines the design, web and production suites.
For more infomation, check out the article at http://www.techtalkradio.com/articles/adobecs4launch.html
After our radio show, we received a call from Rudy. He wanted to know about ANSI…
The American National Standards Institute is an organization that promotes standards. One of them was the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character set (letters, numbers, and symbols) that computers use. One major draw back to ASCII was you could only have 256 different characters.
Unicode allows for up to 65,536 different characters. In the past, Unicode was not compatible with all operating systems. If you are using a current operating system, I expect you should not be concerned about choosing Unicode.
A reminder that “free speech” does not have a universal definition…
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The sentencing Justice said to him: “The rights of freedom of speech and expression are qualified and… do not entitle you to insult Justice Ang in the way that you have done.”
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We’ve all been told we should “think before we speak”…and that applies to any, and all types of, communication. The rules are not the same all over the world.
(It’s one of the reasons I have a blog hosted in a country where it is very difficult for it to be removed from the internet.)
Introduction to Computer Science
Programming Methodology CS106A
Programming Abstractions CS106B
Programming Paradigms CS107
Artificial Intelligence
Introduction to Robotics CS223A
Natural Language Processing CS224N
Machine Learning CS229
Linear Systems and Optimization
The Fourier Transform and its Applications EE261
Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems EE263
Convex Optimization I EE364A
Convex Optimization II EE364B
Artist Ben Walker has created a couple of pieces about services we use to communicate.
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The first one I noticed is the song “You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter”:
You’re no one if you’re not on Twitter
And if you aren’t there already you’ve missed it
If you haven’t been bookmarked, retweeted and blogged
You might as well not have existed
In the old days it was all about achievements
Collecting all your trophies in a shrine
Then everybody came across the internet
And suddenly you had to be online
A home page was all you really needed
To seem like a success but not a geek
As long as you updated semi-annually
And checked your email once or twice a week
You’re no one if you’re not on Twitter…
Technology was moving rather quickly
And the next thing you needed was a blog
With intimate and detailed press releases
And now and then a photo of your dog
More recently the students brought us Facebook
And everybody has a hundred friends
The parties in the photos look amazing
They’re not so great but everyone pretends
You’re no one if you’re not on Twitter…
Now you need to publish every movement
And every single thought to cross your mind
I’m told the Twitterverse is full of rubbish
But most of us are actually quite refined
We validate each other’s insecurities
And brag about the gadgets that we’ve bought
We laugh out loud at every hint of jolliness
And try to self-promote without being caught
You’re no one if you’re not on Twitter…
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And, check out “The 12seconds Song”:
In twelve seconds you can tell them what you think about the world
You can show them all the toys you like to play with
You can premiere a witty animation of a dragon on a bike
You can keep in touch with people that you kinda really like
(But you wouldn’t ever want to spend the day with)