Coalition forces military and police deaths for seven years of the US. military presence in Iraq.
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This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) It play (mixing) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There are quite a few parameters that may drastically change resulting sound - I (Rudy Andrut) just chose parameteres that imo felt best.
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It may be the start of a new trend, software that automatically upgrades itself silently in the background without ever bothering users. Google has been doing it successfully with its Chrome web browser, and soon Mozilla will jump on the bandwagon with Firefox.
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Cities where pedestrians happily walk to their destinations instead of driving everywhere are our dream, but what if walking means taking your life into your hands? This is a look at handful of cities around the world, and how often their pedestrians are killed while attempting to traverse them.
via awesome.good.isCodeCity is an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems are visualized as interactive, navigable 3D cities. The classes are represented as buildings in the city, while the packages are depicted as the districts in which the buildings reside. The visible properties of the city artifacts depict a set of chosen software metrics, as in the polymetric views of CodeCrawler.
CodeCity comes as a self-contained, ready-to-run application. It is available for Mac OS X and Windows. It also added a CodeCity image-only for other operating systems such as Linux (you need to install VisualWorks on your system before running CodeCity)Great visualization tool for understanding code issues.Developer: Richard Wettel License: CodeCity is developed in VisualWorks Smalltalk under an academic non-commercial license and its use is therefore limited to non-commercial. Download here: http://www.inf.usi.ch/phd/wettel/codecity-download.htmlHere is a preview with a CodeCity visualization of JDK (Java Development Kit) v1.5:
For retailers, shopping is the art of persuasion. Though there are many factors that influence how and what consumers buy. However, a great deal is decided by visual cues, the strongest and most persuasive being color. When marketing new products it is crucial to consider that consumers place visual appearance and color above other factors such as sound, smell and texture. To learn more about color psychology and how it influences purchases, see kissmetrics.com latest infographic.
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Finally someone (Jason Nafziger) made a flow chart of Cat’s in the Cradle.
Cat’s in the Cradle was Harry Chapin’s only #1 song, released in 1974 from the album Verities & Balderdash and topping the charts that December. The lyrics are based on a poem written by his wife, Sandy, about the relationship between her first husband and his father. For some reason, this song is often attributed to Cat Stevens, who by all official accounts has never actually performed it, although I imagine he has sung along to it on the radio like the rest of us. via rockcharts.wordpress.com