Neowin

This is a continuation of my previous post about consciousness. (aka sentience)

To start off on a different note, time travel. Many scientific theories allow for the possibility of time travel, perhaps being the fourth dimension of space. Personally, I've never accepted the...

Sometimes, I use unusual techniques to diagnose and repair problems on my PC. I've considered writing about how I discovered the solution as the information may be useful to others or myself in the future (as I may forget). This is common in a corporate environment, where tech support will add to a knowledge base of diagnostics and solutions in the...

There are several fields of science. Chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, more than I can name. It's fun to imagine how things work, or how large the universe is, or how life came into being. But for me, nothing comes close to intriguing me like consciousness does, which would fall under the scope of neuroscience. Specifically, conscious...

Sort of, not really.

About six months ago, I started playing with sorting algorithms. What I was looking for was a stable sorting algorithm that didn't require O(n) space while retaining performance. To do this, I literally took a deck of playing cards, shuffled them, and toyed with different ways of sorting the deck.

I eventually stumbled upon one...

I've been playing games for as long as I can remember. I was about 5 years old when Super Nintendo was released, and I can recall some of the first games we had for that system: Super Mario World, WWF Super WrestleMania, TMNT Turtles in Time, Krustys Super Fun House. Excluding WWF, I feel like these games were original, and they had to be in order to be...

Beginning with Windows 8, Microsoft is hoping to bridge the gap between personal computers and portable devices. That means with it, all the issues we have with smart phones and tablets will be brought into the world of desktops and laptops.

Desktop users have enjoyed a certain freedom on their PCs for a long time. On the other hand, mobile operating...

About five months ago, I bought a used laptop, a Dell XPS M1530. It was the best deal I could find, especially considering it had a brand new 500GB hard drive, a spare battery, and a carrying case. It ran great besides that it could get pretty hot. Then about a month ago, it started having issues that it sometimes wouldn't power on properly, whether it...

In the world of cryptography, an institution organizes a competition to find the best cryptographic algorithm to become the new standard, one currently active being the NIST hash function competition. They previously did this for...

My obsession with sorting algorithms hasn't ended yet. I've implemented a number of sorting algorithms in the past couple of months, the latest being a stable quick sort. It comes in two flavors, a stable quick sort using O(n) space, and another that's in-place but much slower. I also implemented an in-place merge sort which is stable. All...

There are a lot of people that will tell you that government is too powerful. While I think that's true for today's world, some people take it too far and want to dismantle government down to the bare essentials.

It got me thinking, what if we were to shrink government and reduce it's power? Well, then corporations would have all the...