History & Culture
epub |eng | | Author:Paolo Tasca, Tomaso Aste, Loriana Pelizzon & Nicolas Perony

For example, consider security. By the very nature of the open source process, potential security holes can be directly accessed and modified if need be to incorporate technical advances in ...
( Category: Computer Science October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Campbell-Kelly, Martin & Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz

SCIENTIFIC WORKSTATIONS AND THE CLIENT-SERVER COMPUTER MODEL By the early 1990s, the mainframe and minicomputer businesses of companies such as IBM and DEC were feeling the effects of a rise ...
( Category: History & Culture October 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-17 | Author:Staiger, Dominic [Staiger, Dominic]

PbD will enable cloud providers to consider privacy issues at the design stage of their service. Thus, by including privacy measures into the software and hardware systems from the beginning, ...
( Category: History & Culture September 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Nathan Schneider [Schneider, Nathan]

The availability and lack of venture capital in the United States. When a startup is still just an idea or a minimal prototype, venture capitalists can inject large sums of ...
( Category: Sociology September 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bikramaditya Singhal, Gautam Dhameja & Priyansu Sekhar Panda

Step-2: There is a new node, say, a seventh node that just showed up and is trying to join the existing Bitcoin network, but does not have any connection yet. ...
( Category: Computer Science September 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Brian Kelly

Chapter 8 Building the Nautiluscoin Economy The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper. —Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, 1995 Currencies have evolved over the past five millennia from ...
( Category: Economics September 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-04 | Author:Manul Laphroaig

Cool. We can just add a check here. Perhaps something like this? Now just replace our ret instruction with the check. ret in x86 is simply this: where our code ...
( Category: History & Culture September 5,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2018-02-14 | Author:Jansson, Felix [Jansson, Felix]

One popular example of a DApp using this system on Ethereum is called Crypto-Kitties. Exploding in popularity in 2017, Crypto-Kitties is a sort of collectible game where the virtual tokens ...
( Category: Mathematics September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-07 | Author:Antony Lewis [Lewis, Antony]

QR codes are not magic. They are just text, encoded in a visual way that makes it easy for QR code scanners to read the code and convert it back ...
( Category: Economics September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:David Auerbach

April 1974: The Minneapa fanzine’s parody of D&D’s system of approximate quantifications The drollest example I know of Gygax’s omnivorous yet haphazard rage for classification and quantification is the “Harlot ...
( Category: Programming August 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Paul E. Ceruzzi [Ceruzzi, Paul]

Figure 5.1 Patent for the microprocessor. The Personal Computer Second only to the airplane, the microprocessor was the greatest invention of the twentieth century. Like all other great inventions, it ...
( Category: History & Culture August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David L. Stearns

Antitrust and Dual Membership As the organization expanded internationally, it also expanded domestically, though not entirely by choice. Throughout the early 1970s, NBI was embroiled in an antitrust lawsuit brought ...
( Category: Computer Science August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Arthur

Chapter Five Smartphones Mobiles and Microsoft Pieter Knook started working at Microsoft in October 1990. Previously he had been running a small business in the UK offering local area networking ...
( Category: History & Culture August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:Aaron Greenspan [Greenspan, Aaron]

Finally, I would note that Aaron's concerns and requests, are not aimed at altering Harvard's investment policy, or dictating the composition of the faculty, or other issues of grand scale ...
( Category: History & Culture August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-17 | Author:Kevin Allison

Taking the RISK! A Q&A with Dan Savage What do you like or dislike about telling stories onstage, as opposed to on the page? You interact with the audience when ...
( Category: Humor August 10,2018 )