The Old New Thing

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Male perceptions of body image in Taiwan

May 2, 2007 May 2, 2007 05/2/07
Raymond Chen
A few years ago, researchers started with "muscle dysmorphia" and body-image perceptions in the United States and Europe and wondered whether the same problems afflict Taiwanese men. Listen for the results. But don't be confused by the chicken meat (肌肉). Sean Cole interviews Taiwanese pop star A-Mèi for her opinion. I ...

The old-fashioned theory on how processes exit

May 2, 2007 May 2, 2007 05/2/07
Raymond Chen
Life was simpler back in the old days. Back in the old days, processes were believed to be in control of their threads. You can see this in the "old fashioned" way of exiting a process, namely by exiting all the threads. This method works only if the process knows about all the threads running in it and can get each one to clean up when it's ...

Two web sites that read the fine print

May 1, 2007 May 1, 2007 05/1/07
Raymond Chen
On footnoted.org, Michelle Leder reads the fine print in all those SEC filings, focusing on the details that companies try to hide from vigilant eyes. For example, she dug into Carnival Corp's proxy statement and discovered "that Chairman and CEO Micky Arison rang up $343K on his use of the corporate jet last year and that COO Howard Frank ...

Microspeak: Operationalize

May 1, 2007 May 1, 2007 05/1/07
Raymond Chen
Here are a few citations for the word operationalize. A lot of work lies ahead to operationalize this plan. Provide security guidance and tools to help operationalize security for enterprise environments. I thought it meant "carry out" or "put into effect", and then I saw this sentence: Operationalize the demo (get computers configured, ...