Sound-play is another sort of word-play used in creating product names.
Coincidentally I was reading Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct" book today where he relates an amuzing anecdote:
George Bernard Shaw led a vigorous campaign to reform the English alphabet, a system so illogical, he said, that it could spell …
A propos de notre débat récent sur l'acquis-versus-inné dans le domaine d'intelligence, voici les information et les sources que j'avais mentionnées.
L'un des points forts dans ce domaine est l'étude des jumeaux identiques monozygotes. Comme ils ont des gènes 100% identiques, et comme il arrive qu'ils soient parfois séparés après …
How to install, monitor and repair Software RAID on Debian GNU/Linux.
A care is to be taken when installing Software RAID 1 on Debian/woody onto the boot partition. One of the best recent guides is written by Marcus Schoppen and is …
A simple (and sometimes very efficient) way to speed up your Python programs is via the Psyco module. But beware, Psyco only runs on 32-bit OSes.
Basic Psyco usage is very simple: just do:
import psyco
and later:
psyco.bind(my_slow_function)
for each function/class you want to speed up …
Ants are fast. Really fast. Who is the ant champion of speed? And what would it take for a human to move the same way?
Odontomachus bauri. The fastest movement ever measured in the animal world. Mandible closure time from open wide to fully closed in 0.0003-0.001 sec …