Following are axioms that have been made by professionals in the field from time to time about computers and information technology. Look up each one for more details.
Law Subject
Amara's law Technology in general
Amdahl's law System and network speed
Brook's law Software projects
Clarke's laws Prediction
Cole's law Essential elements
Freedman's law Programming
Kerckhoffs' law Cryptopraphy
Metcalfe's law Network value
Moore's law Transistor capacity
Nacchio's law IP gateways
Shannon's law Channel speed
Thackara's laws Product design
Wirth's law Software bloat
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- Science of better fuel cells
- Get realSo we are going to have 1-ton work trucks with a battery.PleaseYou are an idiot, please shut up.Misleading. Not produce, STOREThis article is misleading.If you can produce excess solar energy during the day, you can use some for electrolysis to create hydrogen, which may be easier to store, and...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails
- Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Politician wants Twitter banned from use by....wait for it -- politicians!
- I'd rather see them ban lobbyists...If there is anything that affects the quality of their service to the public, it's not Twitter. It's lobbyists. I say let them use Twitter all the time and ban lobbyists instead.Twitter abuseNot trying to put politicians and football players in the same category, but...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online
- Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Selling customer information leads to prosecution
- What's the big deal?Isn't this how everyone does it? My boss would routinely buy millions of data records from companies to conduct email campaigns.Ah, but in Great BritainThey have made it TOTALLY illegal to sell data records. You cannot do stuff like this period over there, and I applaud...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Hydrothermal 1.13 (Mac)
- The goal of Hydrothermal is to build a space colony while protecting it from invaders. You must also keep your citizens happy and balance the budget. You control every aspect of the game, including taxes, funding, laws, zoning, military, and more. Hydrothermal features over 55 unique buildings and an awesome...
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags
- Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Keep your genes to yourself after this weekend
- Keep your genes to yourself...There is enough discrimination in this world, we don't need to add genetic discrimination to the list. I realize it's appealing because of all the "good" some people believe it might do, but I think the harm that can be done far outways any benefits....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Tumble Jumble for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- Tumble Jumble for iPhone contains over 60 levels you are challenged to defy the laws of physics, build around the obstacles, avoid laser, dangerous critters, and beat fellow Tumblers to the top times in the worldwide online leaderboard. The features include powerful physics engine, designed exclusively for iPhone, stylish high...
- Software downloads 2009-11-14
- I'm in a nanny state state of mind
- Business can help ...if employees who smoke during the workday are not allowed "smoking breaks" to do so. Alternatively, if non-smoking employees demanded equal breaks with smokers, business might get the drift.Some businesses do helpThere are businesses that offer smoking cessation programs on their own dime, knowing the money they'll...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Google hit again with Street View privacy concerns - in Switzerland
- It is NOT up to Google to insure your privacy in public places. These are places it is perfectly legal to be in and take pictures of, then publish the pictures. Just because the pictures are taken automatically, does not suddenly make them illegal. If you want to restrict the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings
- As long as...it's not a 3 strike policy... i'm relativaly ok with this particular thing...Just a notice and notice system, sometimes users dont know if they are doing something illegal. Furthermore, can they proof without anny doubt that there's a copyright infrigement?no they cannotWith such a large criminal records, the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple
- Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!
- i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- GaitSym 2.0.0 (Mac)
- GaitSym is a forward dynamic modelling program. What that means is that you specify the forces and the program uses Newton's Laws to calculate the movements. You can download it from here including a range of human and non-human 2D and 3D models to get you started. It uses the...
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- GaitSym for Windows 2.0 (Windows)
- GaitSym is a forward dynamic modelling program. What that means is that you specify the forces and the program uses Newton's Laws to calculate the movements. You can download it from here including a range of human and non-human 2D and 3D models to get you started. It uses the...
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- Rising sea levels and rising levels of anxiety
- You can't negotiate with the laws of physics. by Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Health reform now in Senate hands
- RE: Health reform now in Senate handsThis bill mandates individuals to purchase health care. If they refuse, they get fined or go to jail. Blatantly unconstitutional... when will America say "enough is enough" with these idiots in Washington defecating all over the Constitution? The problem with...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files
- ACTA: The Bigger Picturehttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/Not likely to happenWhy? Because the internet companies are not going to shut off paying customers just because they are accused of sharing files 'illegally'.... they will either tell the companies to file a lawsuit against the people in question or give them some REAL evidence that...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- 60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war
- Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
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