Jun
07
Posted on 07-06-2008
Filed Under (Computers) by admin on 07-06-2008

Today’s top joysticks are a breed apart. Comparing a modern joystick with its primitive ancestors is like matching a BMW750iL with an 1896 de Dion-Bouton. The BMW is much more comfortable and significantly more powerful. Also it has a great many more buttons to press.

Any game, like any job, is made easier and more enjoyable if you have the right tools. Consider this: you don’t see Shane Warne walking out to bowl with a rugby ball in his hand, Cristiano Ronaldo doesn’t play soccer in sandals, Vladimir Kramnik wouldn’t dream of taking on Lazaro Bruzon without a full complement of pawns, bishops and knights.

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Jun
05
Posted on 05-06-2008
Filed Under (Technology) by admin on 05-06-2008

Inside an innocuous looking aircraft is a whole labyrinth of technical wizardry. This article tells you about that.

When most of us think of an aircraft we think of the outside of the plane that has the wings, the windshield, the engines, and propellers. On the inside of a plane most of us think of the cockpit and the main cabin, but all of these places are made up of many different parts.

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Apr
07
Posted on 07-04-2008
Filed Under (Technology) by admin on 07-04-2008

One of the things getting lost in the Web 2.0 shuffle is common courtesy. While this was a problem in the Web 1.0 world as well, collaboration tools such as instant messaging make it as easy to irritate a co-worker as to inform him. This article discusses how manners have gone out the window with all the distractions of multi-tasking.

In my previous life covering the financial services industry, I often worked with multi-tasking owners of independent ATM companies. Many of them took a hands-on role in the running of their business, which entailed lots of phone calls and e-mails to check on the status of money levels in machines, number of service calls and other issues.

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Apr
04
Posted on 04-04-2008
Filed Under (Computers and Technology) by admin on 04-04-2008

If you are faced with the need for PC registry repair and have never had such issues prior, this article will help you with some direction to get the problems resolved.

Several years ago I was experiencing slow, freezing, and crashing computer problems. My first thought was that I could resolve the issue with a virus and spyware scan and fix. I purchased the latest McAfee online version of software. There were a couple of problems detected, which I quickly cleaned off. Still, my computer performance issues remained.

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Apr
02
Posted on 02-04-2008
Filed Under (Science) by admin on 02-04-2008

There are serious problems with psychological tests conducted in a laboratory.

Psychological laboratory tests suffer from a series of common philosophical, methodological, and design problems.

A. Philosophical and Design Aspects

  • Ethical – Experiments involve the patient and others. To achieve results, the subjects have to be ignorant of the reasons for the experiments and their aims. Sometimes even the very performance of an experiment has to remain a secret (double blind experiments). Some experiments may involve unpleasant or even traumatic experiences. This is ethically unacceptable.
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