The multi-media bed, with a enormous screen where you can watch movies, access the internet, use a computer, play video game, listen to music…
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It’s not a big deal since it’s not the first time this happens, but it’s good to recall what hapenned:
Dan Nicolaescu started the thread in 2007/06/04:
Do you still plan to turn over Emacs maintenance to someone else? Have you made a decision on who is going to be the new Emacs maintainer(s)?
RMS replied:
I would still like to do so. I have not made a plan.
A long thread goes by the next 7 months until RMS decides:
Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them.
Welcome Stefan and Yidong, my best wishes.
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A new wireless technology has been developed that should serve as an extremely fast replacement for technologies such as Bluetooth and ultra-wideband (UWB), says Australian research group NICTA. Nicknamed GiFi, the process would use a chip (not pictured) that transmits at an extremely high 60GHz frequency versus the 5GHz used for the fastest forms of Wi-Fi. The sheer density of the signal would allow a chip to send as much as five gigabits per second. While the spectrum would limit the device to the same 33-foot range as Bluetooth or UWB, it could theoretically transfer an HD movie to a cellphone in seconds, the researchers claim.
The technology could also be used for beaming full HD video in real-time and could be used by notebooks and other computers to wirelessly connect virtually all the expansion needed for a docking station, including a secondary display and storage. Mixing and signal filtering would keep the signal strong versus the longer-ranged but slower and more drop-prone Wi-Fi option of today.
NICTA does not expect a production-grade chip to leave the development stage until early 2009 but notes that any future chip would likely cost about $10 or less to build. This and a small design would allow cellphones and other small devices to add the technology without significantly drive up the price, according to the company. The change opens the possibility of a successor to UWB and its related technology Wireless USB, which matches the same range but roughly the same 480Mbps peak speed of its wired equivalent.
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My friend Camilo Telles did his master thesis on this exact subject, he projected this camera entirely in wood and cheap web cameras, he also wrote a software to integrate all the images in one single, it’s not his work, but it’s similar and very interesting.
Reference: http://adn.blam.be/papervision/
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Better late, then never. In my vacations I watched Sicko, Michael Moore’s movie about heath care in the United States. He shows a number of situations where it simply doesn’t work.
People that has a private plan and got rejected when a serious decease like cancer appeared, or even people that were pretty well, but had their lungs burned because they wanted to save lives after the 09/11 accident.
A comparison is made to a different health care system applied in countries like, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Cuba. The idea is simple, everybody pays taxes and this includes health care, the same for everyone, if you are healthy you pay for those who aren’t.
In the private model, the idea is to reject more people to make more revenue, this kill people, in the public plan the idea is to make people more healthy to make more revenue, this save people.
It’s a complicated move for a country that has a private model, but it’s statistically proved that works better then the private model, people are healthier, has a better quality of life and live longer.
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Everyone that worked for an internet service provider has a funny story to tell, I have a few too, normally they are related to situations in the call center, but this is about the maid.
We had a fm radio station as a client, among other things we broadcasted online their shows, since it was a long time ago, we had to use a combination of a sound board and a sound system, it was always in the correct station and on all day long.
One day a new maid came, she started cleaning the place happily and felt so comfortable with the tremendous silence and no one around. Everything was ok but when she found the radio it was about to get wonderful, she had an idea:
- I can use some music!
As she was a fervent religious, she loved Christian songs, she changes the station right away to her favorite, turn the volume up and continue to work more then happily.
Few minutes later our phone rings, it was someone from the radio office asking why the hell was their site playing Christian Songs?!
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If you look major book sellers for Linux Kernel books, you will be disappointed, there aren’t many titles available, I remember a long time ago, when Alessandro Rubini wrote his first book about Linux Device Drivers, I think it was the first big hit, then shortly it became obsolete, as Linux runs fast.
Accordingly to Amazon the most popular Linux Kernel book nowadays is Linux Kernel Development written by Robert Love, in it’s second edition focused in version 2.6.
I was deeply involved in other subjects, reading piles of books when it came out few years ago. Right now in my vacations I had the opportunity to start reading it, you know, writing kernel code makes me relax, and I must say, Robert has talent, it’s very well written, clear and a not so simple subject becomes accessible, I recommend.
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Some author did this research and here is the result:
Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=245
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Some guy started studying the Linux Kernel, gently Linus rejected all of his patches, he obviously got frustrated and asked him a question:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever
> patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled
> people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant,
> patches?
> I do try to learn from the feedback I get, and I like to think that my
> patches are gradually getting a bit better, but if I’m more of a bother
> than a help I might as well stop.
Linus saw the frustration of the poor boy and replied with a motivational message:
To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel - not just on an intellectual level (”I understand that the GPL means that I have the right to change my kernel”), but on a more practical level (”Hey, I did that small change”).
And whether it ends up being the right thing or not, that’s how everybody starts out. It’s simply not possible to “get into” the kernel without starting out small, and making mistakes. So I very much encourage it, even if I often don’t have the time to actually worry about small patches, and I try to get suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hother developers like Rusty to try to acts as quality control and a “gathering place”.
Btw, this is why even “trivial patches” really do take time - they often have trivial mistakes in them, and it’s not just because there are more inexperienced people doing them - most of _my_ mistakes tend to be at the truly idiotic level, just because it “looked obvious”, and then there’s something that I miss.
So at one level I absolutely _hate_ trivial patches: they take time and effort to merge, and individually the patch itself is often not really obviously “worth it”. But at the same time, I think the trivial patches are among the most important ones - exactly because they are the “entry” patches for every new developer. I just try really hard to find somebody else to worry about them 
(It’s not a thankful job, btw, exactly because it _looks_ so trivial. It’s easy to point to 99 patches that are absolutely obvious, and complain about the fact that they haven’t been merged. But they take time to merge exactly because of that one patch that _did_ look obvious, but wasn’t. And actually, it’s usually not 99:1, it’s usually more like 10:1 or something).
So please don’t stop. Yes, those trivial patches _are_ a bother. Damn, they are _horrible_. But at the same time, the devil is in the detail, and they are needed in the long run. Both the patches themselves, and the people that grew up on them.
Linus
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People know that I am not a fan of most of the current social networks, they are normally a waste of time, BUT, I think social networks have a powerful value when used with intelligence, I think you can extract very valuable content from people, you just need to solve the problem of trash/spam, as you don’t want to display stupid/offtopic information. Today I saw an interesting social network, aNobii, it’s focused in books, I always wanted a web platform to keep track of the books I read, to see what others are saying, get recommendations and also set the privacy I am comfortable with, I added a few books just to test, when I get back from my vacations I’ll try to add more.
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