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Labyrinth The Hypertext Book of Sand Menu Skip to content About Borges Books Photo « Older posts Who’s Winning the Fight for the Best In-Car Technology By Anton Aylward | July 23, 2017 - 7:57 am | May 18, 2019 Automotive Leave a comment https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-whos-winning-the-fight-for-the-best-in-/f-972a8fed76%2Fnbcnews.com I think this is the media mouthing off again. “Winning“? Gimme a break! Chrysler invented, patented and licensed, the lock up torque converter. Who won that “war”? Subaru have a brake-clutch interlock that lets you brake to a stop at the stop lights then take your foot off the… Continue reading → The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to (Actually) Learn to Write By Anton Aylward | November 2, 2016 - 10:53 am | January 16, 2017 Books , Fiction , Non-Fiction , Writing Leave a comment http://marketmeditations.com/benjamin-franklin-learn-to-write Well, that’s interesting. I’m not sure I’ve ever learned that way. I learned to program in C by taking a core dump of the UNIX kernel and reconstructing what the source code must have been with only the header files. Yes I know about “The White Books”, but lets… Continue reading → Tagged Bourne (film series) , Brian Kernighan , C (programming language) , Central Intelligence Agency , Eric Van Lustbader , The Bourne Identity (2002 film) , Writing How to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs By Anton Aylward | September 13, 2016 - 11:22 am | January 16, 2017 Economics , Life , Society Leave a comment http://www.strategy-business.com/blog/How-to-Bring-Back-Manufacturing-Jobs In many ways this isn’t just about manufacturing, though the numbers are clear there. Elsewhere there is a shortage in “cybersecurity”, which, when you look at it, isn’t so much about ‘security, per se but basic IT systems and network management. It doesn’t take a CISSP or CISA to… Continue reading → Tagged (ISC)² , Canada , Donald Trump , Justin Trudeau , Lowest common denominator Do Algorithms Discriminate? By Anton Aylward | June 28, 2016 - 9:32 am | June 28, 2016 Life , technics Leave a comment http://cio.ittoolbox.com/groups/general/tech-news/do-algorithms-discriminate-5766423 Personally I think this is unfair. It fails to differentiate between what I might term loaded or even pre-loaded algorithms and pure algorithms Consider, if you will a Fibonacci sequence generator. Such a sequence is defined by the formula F(n) = F(n−1) + F(n−2) Normally the seed values are… Continue reading → Tagged Chaos theory , Fibonacci number , Golden ratio , Golden spiral Why switch to Windows 10 or a Mac when you can use Linux instead? By Anton Aylward | February 3, 2016 - 12:05 pm | February 9, 2016 Computers , technics Leave a comment http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-switch-to-windows-10-or-a-mac-when-you-can-use-linux-mint-17-3-instead/ This guy is obsessive about Mint! There’s a plethora of minor things in that article which show up his limited experience with Linux. Many of the complaints about Windows and the MAC are about what, to put it in a short form, involve “dumping’ users. Every Windows upgrade has… Continue reading → Tagged Computers , Linux Death to Bullet Points – maybe By Anton Aylward | June 3, 2015 - 11:10 am | February 9, 2016 Philosophy , Writing Leave a comment I think this is an oversimplification or over-generalization: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/original-thinking/death-to-bullet-points-67774 Well written prose is more engaging. It all depends on context. Are you blogging or giving a presentation? One of my complaints about many of my teachers at school was that they taught in an unstructured manner. History was the worst…. Continue reading → What’s Wrong with the Internet? By Anton Aylward | February 27, 2015 - 11:53 am | May 13, 2015 Civilization , Economics , Religion , Society Leave a comment http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00311 I hate and despise articles like this for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, I hate people making money out of fear-mongering, be it racist in nature (“the immigrants are crowding us out!”), religious in nature (“the heretics, schismatics, infidels, pagans, Christians, Jews, Islams or whatever are crowing… Continue reading → This is not the IoT you want. By Anton Aylward | November 15, 2014 - 10:00 am | May 13, 2015 Life , Society Leave a comment http://www.cnet.com/products/quirky-outlink/ If I plug in an IDE drive or a SATA drive or a USB drive or device my mobo or system recognises what it is. The connection protocol tell the mobo or system. My digital camera uses exif to convey a vast amount of contextual information and imprint it… Continue reading → Tagged Internet of Things , IoT Self serving .. By Anton Aylward | September 30, 2014 - 8:05 am | February 9, 2016 Economics , History , Life , Society Leave a comment This http://www.eweek.com/security/fbi-chief-criticizes-apple-google-smartphone-data-encryption.html and this http://www.eweek.com/security/bitcoin-poses-danger-to-british-economy-warns-bank-of-england.html both seem very self serving, protectionist and supporting 19th century models of life against change. The FBI never really recovered from the death of Edgar Hoover, though I’m sure they still have all his files ...