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…
fevereiro, 2008
25
fev 08
RMS steps down as Emacs maintainer
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.
25
fev 08
Chip offers 5Gbps short-range wireless
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.
22
fev 08
360° Video
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/
16
fev 08
Sicko
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.
