My next bed
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
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.…
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…
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/
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…