Here is a URL to a great site with Project Mange,emt Terms in three languages. They are all basic terms but still very useful.
Here are some terms you are to learn:
English: Project Management, French: Gestion de Projects, Spanish: Gerencia de Proyectos
English: Planning, French: Planification, Spanish: Planeamiento
English: Activity, French: Tâche, Spanish: Actividade
And a lot more terms... Enjoy!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
'Ink And Paper' Technology
Since I've had my Kindle, I've been asked if I don't miss reading a book, holding it in my hands, flipping through actual paper pages. And I've honestly said no. My goal in reading books is not holding bound paper but reading the content. The only thing that I do miss from time to time is the way a paper book may fit into your hands.
I did, however, wonder why the Kindle feels so good? I love the contrast of the ink against the creamy white background. And here may be the answer. It's in the Ink!
E Ink is responsible for the Kindle display and their goal was to make the text on the Kindle look more like a real book and I'd say they've come pretty darn close! Here is more on "Ink and Paper Technology" an article from NPR.
I did, however, wonder why the Kindle feels so good? I love the contrast of the ink against the creamy white background. And here may be the answer. It's in the Ink!
E Ink is responsible for the Kindle display and their goal was to make the text on the Kindle look more like a real book and I'd say they've come pretty darn close! Here is more on "Ink and Paper Technology" an article from NPR.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Plagiarism-detection software settles centuries-old mystery?
How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play
Plagiarism-detection software was created with lazy, sneaky college students in mind - not the likes of William Shakespeare. Yet the software may have settled a centuries-old mystery over the authorship of an unattributed play from the late 1500s called The Reign of Edward III. Literature scholars have long debated whether the play was written by Shakespeare - some bits are incredibly Bard-like, but others don't resemble his style at all. The verdict, according to one expert: the play is likely a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd, another popular playwright of his time.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1883770,00.html
Plagiarism-detection software was created with lazy, sneaky college students in mind - not the likes of William Shakespeare. Yet the software may have settled a centuries-old mystery over the authorship of an unattributed play from the late 1500s called The Reign of Edward III. Literature scholars have long debated whether the play was written by Shakespeare - some bits are incredibly Bard-like, but others don't resemble his style at all. The verdict, according to one expert: the play is likely a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd, another popular playwright of his time.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1883770,00.html
Friday, September 11, 2009
Pigeons give the Internet Superhighway a whole new meaning...
Talk about old fashioned methods of communication. Today my husband faxed a document to another company and I realized I don't even remember the last time I needed to use the fax machine. It just seems like an old technology to use compared to my email and all the other things I can do via the Web.
Then I hear this incredible story about pigeons in South Africa who were able to transport information faster than the Internet. Yes, pigeons who were faster the the Internet Superhighway... What a laugh. What is going on in South Africa?
The race started by a frustrated South African business which decided to use a pigeon to demonstrate the slowness of their Internet connection. They needed to transfer 4 gigabytes of data from their business to another office which was just 50 miles away. So they had the little pigeon (Winston) fly to the destination. Guess who got their faster? Can you believe it was Winston?
At the same time that Winston took off the button on the computer was pushed to send the document throught the Net. The pigeon made it before the 4 gigabytes of data did. It took Winston over two hours to make the trek. By the time he was there only 4% of the computer data had made it's way to the other business.
I'm simply baffled by the irony of this whole thing. What is even more surprising is that South Africa, a relatively developed country, pays some of the highest fees for Internet connectivity. Unfortunately for them they also experience the lowest reliability. Maybe at this point it would be cheaper to invest in more pigeons???
Then I hear this incredible story about pigeons in South Africa who were able to transport information faster than the Internet. Yes, pigeons who were faster the the Internet Superhighway... What a laugh. What is going on in South Africa?
The race started by a frustrated South African business which decided to use a pigeon to demonstrate the slowness of their Internet connection. They needed to transfer 4 gigabytes of data from their business to another office which was just 50 miles away. So they had the little pigeon (Winston) fly to the destination. Guess who got their faster? Can you believe it was Winston?
At the same time that Winston took off the button on the computer was pushed to send the document throught the Net. The pigeon made it before the 4 gigabytes of data did. It took Winston over two hours to make the trek. By the time he was there only 4% of the computer data had made it's way to the other business.
I'm simply baffled by the irony of this whole thing. What is even more surprising is that South Africa, a relatively developed country, pays some of the highest fees for Internet connectivity. Unfortunately for them they also experience the lowest reliability. Maybe at this point it would be cheaper to invest in more pigeons???
Monday, August 17, 2009
Slate Magazine: Seeking
Seeking
How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.
By Emily Yoffe
How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.
By Emily Yoffe
Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about. Nina Shen Rastogi confessed in Double X, "My boyfriend has threatened to break up with me if I keep whipping out my iPhone to look up random facts about celebrities when we're out to dinner." We reach the point that we wonder about our sanity. Virginia Heffernan in the New York Times said she became so obsessed with Twitter posts about the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest that she spent days "refreshing my search like a drugged monkey."
We actually resemble nothing so much as those legendary lab rats that endlessly pressed a lever to give themselves a little electrical jolt to the brain. While we tap, tap away at our search engines, it appears we are stimulating the same system in our brains that scientists accidentally discovered more than 50 years ago when probing rat skulls.
To read the rest of the article, see: http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/pagenum/all/#p2
We actually resemble nothing so much as those legendary lab rats that endlessly pressed a lever to give themselves a little electrical jolt to the brain. While we tap, tap away at our search engines, it appears we are stimulating the same system in our brains that scientists accidentally discovered more than 50 years ago when probing rat skulls.To read the rest of the article, see: http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/pagenum/all/#p2
Monday, August 10, 2009
MIT Technology Review: A Deeper Look at Iranian Filtering
Thursday, August 06, 2009
A researcher finds telltale signs that the Iranian government has become more efficient at filtering.
Looking into Iran's portion of the Internet is not an easy task.
But the network security firm Arbor Networks recently released traffic data for both internal and external-facing Internet service providers in the country. This data shows that the country continues to filter Internet traffic and that its ISPs can filter larger quantities of data than before.
Arbor Networks uses data gathered from distributed network sensors to monitor the data going to Iran from the global Internet.
In a post on Sunday, the firm showed that the overall trend for the first three weeks of July was an increasing amount of traffic headed into Iran. The country has a single national provider that handles Internet traffic, but a handful of internal providers. The picture painted by the data is of an ISP that is becoming increasingly skilled in filtering, says Craig Labovitz, chief scientist for Arbor Networks.
"It was speculated early on that they lacked capacity," Labovitz says. "It wasn't that traffic was being filtered, it was that it was being dropped because they lacked capacity. Now, it looks like they are navigating 5 gig of traffic again, and I don't think they have turned off filtering."
For more see: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/unsafebits/23946/
A researcher finds telltale signs that the Iranian government has become more efficient at filtering.
Looking into Iran's portion of the Internet is not an easy task.
But the network security firm Arbor Networks recently released traffic data for both internal and external-facing Internet service providers in the country. This data shows that the country continues to filter Internet traffic and that its ISPs can filter larger quantities of data than before.
Arbor Networks uses data gathered from distributed network sensors to monitor the data going to Iran from the global Internet.
In a post on Sunday, the firm showed that the overall trend for the first three weeks of July was an increasing amount of traffic headed into Iran. The country has a single national provider that handles Internet traffic, but a handful of internal providers. The picture painted by the data is of an ISP that is becoming increasingly skilled in filtering, says Craig Labovitz, chief scientist for Arbor Networks.
"It was speculated early on that they lacked capacity," Labovitz says. "It wasn't that traffic was being filtered, it was that it was being dropped because they lacked capacity. Now, it looks like they are navigating 5 gig of traffic again, and I don't think they have turned off filtering."
For more see: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/unsafebits/23946/
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Launching Your Career?
As Special Report by BusinessWeek and Technology is still HOT!
The Best Places to Launch a Career
To lure and keep young talent when cash is tight, companies of all stripes are appealing to Gen Yers' ambitions for speedy advancement—and their desire to do good while doing well
by Lindsey Gerdes
As career choices go, the hotel business isn't one that will put new college grads on the path to riches. With few exceptions, new employees can expect an annual salary of less than $40,000, a figure that has barely budged in recent years. So when Marriott International (MAR) visited the University of Delaware campus on a recruiting trip, it didn't wave a big wad of cash in front of Claire Pignataro. It didn't have to. It had already hooked her with something she considered far more valuable: a chance to help run a hotel.
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The Best Places to Launch a Career
To lure and keep young talent when cash is tight, companies of all stripes are appealing to Gen Yers' ambitions for speedy advancement—and their desire to do good while doing well
by Lindsey Gerdes
As career choices go, the hotel business isn't one that will put new college grads on the path to riches. With few exceptions, new employees can expect an annual salary of less than $40,000, a figure that has barely budged in recent years. So when Marriott International (MAR) visited the University of Delaware campus on a recruiting trip, it didn't wave a big wad of cash in front of Claire Pignataro. It didn't have to. It had already hooked her with something she considered far more valuable: a chance to help run a hotel.
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