Kali ini saya akan berbicara tentang judi. Tetapi judi yang saya maksud dalam tulisan ini adalah (hanyalah?) judi dengan menggunakan kartu remi, seperangkat kartu yang memiliki empat macam bentuk (♥), (♦) , (♠) , (♣). Seperti kita ketahui bersama, menurut agama saya judi adalah dosa. Aku agak kaget ketika mengetahui dan menyadari kalau ternyata matematika juga ikut-ikutan membuktikan kalau judi adalah dosa. Lalu bagaimana matematika bisa membuktikan kalau judi adalah dosa? Read more »
Word about the next Nokia Internet Tablet has been bouncing around for a while. The rumors had the N900 firmly trying to straddle the smartphone/MID fence, with a full Maemo 5 implementation under the hood. The N900 is now official, with the company planning to show it at Nokia World next week. It is basically a modernized Internet Tablet with full 3G telephony thrown in for good measure. This puts it firmly in the smartphone camp, too. Read more »
Ternyata World Wide Web seperti yang kita kenal sekarang sudah dikenal dan dipakai sejak tahun 1985 lalu. Tahukah anda, domain “.com” (baca dot com) yang pertama sekali diregister adalah Symbolics.com, pada tanggal 15 Maret 1985 oleh sebuah perusahaan manufaktur komputer.
Setelah 25 tahun, domain symbolics.com kini bertukar tangan, dan dibeli oleh perusahaan investasi, sedangkan perusahaan symbolics kini hadir diwebsite terbarunya yang sederhana http://www.symbolics-dks.com/. Read more »
Drake Bennett has an interesting and nuanced article in the Boston Globe Ideas section on money and happiness. To make a long story short, money can buy us some happiness, but only if we spend our money properly. Instead of buying things, we should buy memories:
A few researchers are looking again at whether happiness can be bought, and they are discovering that quite possibly it can – it’s just that some strategies are a lot better than others. Taking a friend to lunch, it turns out, makes us happier than buying a new outfit. Splurging on a vacation makes us happy in a way that splurging on a car may not.”Just because money doesn’t buy happiness doesn’t mean money cannot buy happiness,” says Elizabeth Dunn, a social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. “People just might be using it wrong.”
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