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Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make
an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it
actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and
architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of
scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point
of the spectator or camera.
There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more
expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning
collection of Forced Perspective Photography and Pictures taken by
various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages.
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know how to shoot a photo then you can also change something fairly
simple to something creative or abstract or otherwise more artistic.
You don’t need any special skills for taking such shots. It all depends
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Tiny Seattle Apartment
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House Blog by Kent Griswold on 8/24/10
Chelsea brought this article and this fantastic little apartment to my
attention. I am guilty of not covering apartments very often but I love
the use of space in this one and you must see it.
The article written by The Seattle Times Rebecca Teagarden is titled
“Tiny apartment shows the value of a good fit” and talks about Steve
Sauer’s 182-square-foot Seattle condo which shows the value of a good
fit, from the soaking tub built into the entry floor to the “video
lounge” tucked beneath the “cafe area.” Sauer shopped Ikea for many of
his home’s furnishings, such as a little table, and used tabletops to
fashion cabinet fronts.
Photos by Benjamin Benschneider of the Seattle Times
Steve Sauer watches television in the video lounge, which has seating
for two. The horizontal band around the condo, accenting the
powder-blue walls, is coated with blackboard paint.
Saurer’s says, “What I really wanted was one place with exactly what I
needed and wanted. Quality is more important than quantity for me, and
extra space only a problem,” he has written, describing his nearby
too-big-for-him, one-bedroom condo.
Sauer relaxes in the cafe area of his 182-square-foot condo. "I was
worried as I filled in all the upper spaces that it would feel cramped,
but it didn't," he says. The window is at street level. The little
table is Ikea. It has a glass top that swivels open, providing storage.
“I wanted to compress my home to squirt me back out to the community,”
he says, taking inspiration from dwellings in Scandinavia and Japan,
places where space is dear. “That was one of the philosophical reasons.
I want to be able to shop daily, not store a lot and eat really well.”
Sauer checks his messages at the dining table, which includes a leaf to
expand for company. The undercounter refrigerator is Frigidaire, from
Lowe's.
When Sauer couldn’t find the things he needed, he designed them and
built them: The stainless-steel shower caddy, towel bar. For other
pieces, “Ikea came through again.” Lighting, cabinet pulls, and butcher
block for shelves, the table top and cabinet fronts. The rich flooring,
Brazilian walnut, was installed by Matt Messenger. A bureau from West
Elm fit to 1/8 of an inch, and so it was ordered.
Sauer designed the tiny condo for two. Just inside the door is the
bathroom to the left, and a soaking tub inserted into the floor and
covered with a 3form Chroma panel.
“My dream is to put 300 of these in a building and not have it be a
tenement.”
Read the Seattle Times article here.
One bike is tethered to the ceiling for storage. Steam heat comes from
the building's system. The ventilation chimney runs across Sauer's
ceiling, and was easy to pipe into. "It was passing through here
anyway."
The bathroom wall is covered in 1-inch tiles from Tiles for Less. Light
filters into the room through a 3form Chroma panel, shared with the
kitchen. The ceiling is tempered glass meant for a table top from Ikea.
The toilet is Philippe Stark for Duravit. Sauer designed and
manufactured the stainless-steel shower caddy and towel bar.
The video lounge is tucked beneath the cafe area and next to the dining
table. "All along the way this project's had good chi, so that's good,"
Sauer says. The bureau is from West Elm. "It fit to within 1/8 inch. It
was a nice find. I didn't want to build another piece of furniture."
The floor is Brazilian walnut.
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Mac developer Dmitry Chestnykh of recently came across a crack on The Pirate Bay for his journal keeping application and decided to use different tactics. Out of curiosity, he downloaded the crack to see how it worked, and he did not like what he found one bit, ... but it's not for the reasons you might think.
Reproduced below is a portion of the official complaint he has filed with the Pirate Bay, under the heading of "Notice of Ridiculous Activity" (keep in mind English isn't Dmitry's first language).
Dmitry: for your vigorous defense of Quality, TUAW salutes you.It has come to my attention that the torrent located at [URL] is ridiculous.
Not only it requires installing APE plugin, and generating keyfiles using some scary tool, it contains an [expletive] *WINDOWS* program to verify the validity of this release. The "How-to" section in the description is just incomprehensible, and won't be understood by anyone other than the writer of this description.
Clearly, the "cracker" Minamoto did a lazy job and don't know how to crack software. It's an [expletive] SINGLE BOOLEAN SWITCH that validates the licence, it doesn't require any Application Enhancer tricks or whatever.
I demand that you don't remove this torrent, so that people can laugh at Minamoto and CORE skills. However, I also demand the better crack to be made, so that it doesn't cripple the user experience of my beautiful program.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
a news on sport
He could not feign forgiveness. For the Red Sox front office, these negotiations may never have been personal, but for Damon they were. Despite his carefree persona, he held tight to a grudge, and while Red Sox fans were preparing to let go, he was not. Now, those fans will scorn him all over again, as if he were an outfielder in his prime headed to the Yankees, instead of a designated hitter in his twilight sticking with the Tigers.
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Damon claimed that the decision to stay away from Boston was as difficult as the one to leave. In both instances, the Yankees were involved, though this time in a more tangential way. When the Tigers traveled to Yankee Stadium just last week, Damon was given a standing ovation, and he wondered how he would be treated if he were in a Red Sox uniform instead.Although Damon is beloved by his peers, who could not care less that he once left the Red Sox for a richer contract with the Yankees, he still seems concerned with how he is viewed by fans. He could not bear to jeopardize his relationship with a second major following.
By picking Tigers over Red Sox, Damon chose Yankees over Red Sox. If his allegiance were not clear five years ago, it is today.
Ergo, Johnny is ours. Does everyone agree?
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Hiv possible to be cured?
The finding could lead to new TRIM5a-based treatments that would knock out HIV in humans, said senior researcher Edward M. Campbell, PhD, of Loyola University Health System.
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Campbell and colleagues report their findings in an article featured on the cover of the Sept. 15, 2010 issue of the journal Virology, now available online.
In 2004, other researchers reported that TRIM5a protects rhesus monkeys from HIV. The TRIM5a protein first latches on to a HIV virus, then other TRIM5a proteins gang up and destroy the virus.
Humans also have TRIM5a, but while the human version of TRIM5a protects against some viruses, it does not protect against HIV.
Researchers hope to turn TRIM5a into an effective therapeutic agent. But first they need to identify the components in TRIM5a that enable the protein to destroy viruses. “Scientists have been trying to develop antiviral therapies for only about 75 years,” Campbell said. “Evolution has been playing this game for millions of years, and it has identified a point of intervention that we still know very little about.”
TRIM5a consists of nearly 500 amino acid subunits. Loyola researchers have identified six 6 individual amino acids, located in a previously little-studied region of the TRIM5a protein, that are critical in the ability of the protein to inhibit viral infection. When these amino acids were altered in human cells, TRIM5a lost its ability to block HIV-1 infection. (The research was done on cell cultures; no rhesus monkeys were used in the study.)
By continuing to narrow their search, researchers hope to identify an amino acid, or combination of amino acids, that enable TRIM5a to destroy HIV. Once these critical amino acids are identified, it might be possible to genetically engineer TRIM5a to make it more effective in humans. Moreover, a better understanding of the underlying mechanism of action might enable the development of drugs that mimic TRIM5a action, Campbell said.
In their research, scientists used Loyola’s wide-field “deconvolution” microscope to observe how the amino acids they identified altered the behavior of TRIM5a. They attached fluorescent proteins to TRIM5a to, in effect, make it glow. In current studies, researchers are fluorescently labeling individual HIV viruses and measuring the microscopic interactions between HIV and TRIM5a.
Monday, August 23, 2010
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“I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. […] The thing that makes newspapers so fundamentally fascinating—that serendipity—can be calculated now. We can actually produce it electronically.”Nick Carr, quoting the above,
I hope Google will also be able to tell me the best candidate to vote for in elections. I find that such a burden.But Carr doesn’t even mention the oddest part of the WSJ interview:
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[Schmidt] predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.I’ve been thinking about this since Saturday. Here’s my theory: the problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy. I think he’s a really weird dude. Recall, for example, this comment of Schmidt’s from 2009, regarding Google and privacy: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
The industry is filled with eccentric CEOs — billionaires who, say, wear a wardrobe that consists of nothing but identical black shirts and Levi’s 501 jeans, or , including swords, at their home. But Schmidt doesn’t seem eccentric (or at least not merely so). He seems creepy.
, regarding a talk Schmidt gave in March in Abu Dhabi:
In one of the sharper exchanges of the afternoon, a questioner challenged Schmidt with the fact that Google is collecting a staggering amount of information about who we are, what we’re thinking, and even where we are. “All this information that you have about us: where does it go? Who has access to that?” (Google servers and Google employees, under careful rules, Schmidt said.) “Does that scare everyone in this room?” The questioner asked, to applause. “Would you prefer someone else?” Schmidt shot back – to laughter and even greater applause. “Is there a government that you would prefer to be in charge of this?”That’s a glib answer, but at least our government answers to its citizens through elections. Schmidt answers to Google shareholders. And who’s to say the government won’t have access, by way of subpoenas, to the information Google — and any other cloud service providers — store about us? Maybe the question isn’t who should hold this information, but rather should anyone hold this information.
More and more, I get the feeling that if there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, that it’s a rift between Schmidt and Larry/Sergey — if not personally, then at least culturally within the company. On the one side, the Larry/Sergey Google that makes amazing cool things — the search engine, Gmail, Android. On the other, the Schmidt Google that, in its efforts to serve ads as efficiently as possible, no longer seems concerned with the traditional Western concept of personal privacy.
A lot of people seem surprised by Google’s alliance with Verizon on mobile network neutrality. That stance doesn’t fit with my view of the Larry/Sergey Google. But it fits my idea of the Schmidt Google like a glove.
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Portal on the booklist
Alongside Gilgamesh, Aristotle's Politics, John Donne's poetry, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the Tao Te Ching, freshmen at Wabash will also encounter a video game called Portal. If you're curious to know how it happened, read on.
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Last spring Wabash faculty approved a new all-college course and charged a small committee to design it over the following summer and fall semester. I was elected to the committee as a representative of the Humanities.
We titled the new course "Enduring Questions," and we agreed on this description:
Enduring Questions is a required freshman seminar offered during the spring semester. It is devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives and fostering a sense of community. Each section of the course includes a small group (approximately 15) of students who consider together classic and contemporary works from multiple disciplines. In so doing, students confront what it means to be human and how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and our world.Our charge from the faculty made it clear that we should apply a broad definition to "readings," and I believe my special purpose on the committee was to help identify films, music, art, and other 'non-textual' sources to challenge our students to think hard about the questions raised in the course.
The daily activity of the course most often involves discussion, and students complete multiple writing assignments for the course. As such, assessment of student performance emphasizes written and oral expression of ideas.
Students may not withdraw from the course. All students must pass the course to graduate from Wabash.
And so, as you might expect, a little light went off in my head. What about a game? Why not? Which one? Will they bite on this? Who knows? Let's try.
My very first thought was Portal. Accessible, smart, cross-platform, relatively short, full of big ideas worth exploring. I played it again to be sure my impressions still held. No problem there. If anything, I admire the game more now than when it first appeared. A beautiful design.
I recalled reading Daniel Johnson's recent essay on the game and its strong connections to Erving Goffman's seminal Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. One of the central questions of our new course, "Who am I?" is the focus of Goffman's study. He contends we strive to control how we're perceived by others, and he uses the metaphor of an actor performing on a stage to illustrate his ideas. Johnson describes it this way:
…we're acting out a role that requires constant management…of the interaction. The front stage is the grounds of the performance. The backstage is a place we rarely ever want to reveal to others, it contains the truth of our obstruction and to reveal it would be to defraud our identity in front of the audience - it simply spoils the illusion of where we're placing ourself in the interaction.This tension between backstage machination and onstage performance is precisely what Portal depicts so perfectly - and, no small detail, so interactively. Goffman would have found a perfect test subject in GLaDOS. Bingo! Assign students Goffman's Presentation of Self and follow it up with a collective playthrough of Portal.
I pitched the idea to my colleagues on the committee (decidedly not a collection of gamers), and they agreed to try Portal and read selections from Goffman's book. After plowing through some installation issues ("What does this Steam do? Will it expose me to viruses?"), we enjoyed the first meaningful discussion about a video game I've ever had with a group of colleagues across disciplines. They got it. They made the connections, and they enjoyed the game. Most importantly, they saw how Portal could provoke thoughtful reflection and vigorous conversation on questions germain to the course.
And so we're playing Portal at Wabash College.
Could I have chosen a game to stand by itself, with no accompanying text assignment? Maybe. I thought about Bioshock. I thought about Planescape: Torment. In the end, I chose Portal because I thought it would make a good start. A good first impression. A lead-off hitter, if you will.
Deploying a game for an entire cohort to play at the same time requires more problem-solving than you might expect. We ultimately decided that hardware, installation, and licensing issues were complex enough to dissuade us from teaching Portal in all sections of the course this year; so I and a group of eager colleagues will play the game in our sections to work out the kinks. I don't want our first college-wide experience with a game to be plagued with problems.
I also need time to help acclimate some of my colleagues to "reading" a modern game. They're less resistant than you might think, but they need more than my speechifying. They need sound pedagogy. They need to taste it for themselves. We'll get there. I'll let you know how it goes.
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- "Everyone looks better after you've tipped back a pint or two, and now we may know why. It turns out that alcohol dulls our ability to recognize cockeyed, asymmetrical faces, according to researche...A Look at Burger King's Latest Whopper Bar in NYC and Their New Pizza Burgers
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VIEW SLIDESHOW: A Look at Burger King's Latest Whopper Bar in NYC and
Their New Pizza Burgers
After Burger King's successful debut of their modernized
Whopper-centric restaurant concept Whopper Bar last March at Universal
CityWalk in Orlando, they've since opened Whopper Bars in South Beach,
Memphis, Spain, Venezuela, Singapore, and their latest, largest,
two-story flagship location in New York City by Times Square.
Like the other Whopper Bars, the New York City location features
create-your-own Whoppers with over 20 topping choices, a special
Whopper Menu not available at regular Burger Kings, and a more stylish,
roomy environment to eat in. But unlike the other Whopper Bars, there's
this:
The New York Pizza Burger ($12.99), a 9-and-a-half-inch wide burger
made with four Whopper patties topped with pepperoni, mozzarella
cheese, marinara sauce, and Tuscan pesto sauce. It'll be available
exclusively at the New York City Whopper Bar starting in September to
fulfill that longtime desire for a giant burger that sort of tastes
like a pizza.
As Adam is the resident pizza and burger fiend (and just reviewed a
pizza burger, I'll let him review the burger:
I was absolutely starved when Robyn walked into the office with the
Pizza Burger. I hadn't eaten all day. As you know, "Hunger is the best
sauce in the world." So I dove into that thing, nearly knocking down
the gaggle of officemates who had come over to gawk at it. (Yes, it's
looks funny. Like a giant burger wearing a flower costume, each lobe a
petal of beefreakiness.)
Anyway, I housed that thing. But even in my rush to gullet-cram, I was
surprised that it actually managed to convey both burgerness and
pizzaness in a single bite. Of course, when you've got the
assertiveness of that liquid smoke BK flavor mixed with plenty of pizza
shaky spices, it's not too hard to light up the "burger" and "pizza"
areas of the brain at once.
It was interesting as a novelty, which is what BK probably introduced
it for (I mean, look at all the bloggage it's gotten), but I much
prefer the standard Whopper if given a choice among BK menu items.
I can't top Adam's review, so I'll just say...it tastes like a
pizza-flavored Whopper.
During my press visit to the Whopper Bar I also tried the Meat Beast
Whopper ($5.54) topped with bacon, pepperoni, mayo, lettuce, tomato,
onions, American cheese, and ketchup, making its debut in New York
City; the 7-ounce BK Black and Bleu Steakhouse XT ($6.30) topped with
blue cheese and blackened Cajun sauce; and the California Whopper
($5.54) topped with guacamole, crispy bacon, and Swiss cheese. Out of
all of these, the California Whopper is the most popular so far at this
location.
Whopper Bar is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and will soon
serve beer. Aside from Whoppers they also serve chicken sandwiches,
desserts, and breakfast sandwiches from 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
For more photos, check out the slideshow.
Whopper Bar
561 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 (b/n 40th and 41st; map)
212-997-5122; bk.com
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A bike lane video game on N. Williams
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Someone has stenciled several video game symbols in the N. Williams
bike lane.
- See the rest of them below -
(Photos © J. Maus)
A cherished local tradition of adding character and personality to our
bike lanes has taken a new twist. Someone has painted symbols from
Nintendo's Mario Kart video game in the bike lanes on N. Williams Ave.
The painted symbols begin south of N Tillamook Avenue with a set of
speed-boosting arrows (see above) and the symbols continue to about N.
Cook Ave. There are several bananas...
A mushroom (which a reader tells me is worth an extra life in the game
allows you to store a speed boost)...
And a star (which gives you invincibility)...
While this sort of vandalism is obviously illegal, I don't think anyone
is looking to crack down on it. Reader Steve R. wrote us to share this
sentiment about the symbols:
"I'm sure this is very illegal. As I pedal home from work, though, I
find it engaging and humorous. Would motorists similarly decorate their
lanes? I suspect not - this good-natured vandalism is a sign that
bikers take pride in their bike lanes and the biking community we've
created. Well, that is my impression anyway."
Have you seen the symbols? What's your impression? I find them to be
great conversation starters with my fellow Williams commuters.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Is it legal to eat your cat?
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Slate Magazine by Brian Palmer on 8/12/10
When police in Western New York pulled over Gary Korkuc for blowing off
a stop sign on Sunday, they found a live cat in his trunk, covered in
cooking oil, peppers, and salt. Korkuc told authorities that his pet
feline was "possessive, greedy, and wasteful" and that he intended to
cook and eat it. Korkuc has been charged with animal cruelty. Is there
a legal way to cook and eat a cat?
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Cat - Cruelty to animals - Police - Gary Korkuc - Cooking
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choi + shine architects: the land of giants
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land of giants via Designboom - Weblog on 8/11/10
'the land of giants' by choi + shine architects
all images courtesy choi + shine architects
american firm choi + shine architects recently received the 2010 boston
society of architects
award for unbuilt architecture for their project 'the land of giants',
which they originally
designed for the icelandic high voltage electrical pylon competition
back in 2008.
making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed pylon
design, the architects
created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable.
these iconic pylon-figures
will become monuments in the landscape.
the pylon-figures can be configured to respond to their environment
with appropriate gestures.
as the carried electrical lines ascend a hill, the pylon-figures change
posture, imitating a climbing
person. over long spans, the pylon-figure stretches to gain increased
height, crouches for
increased strength or strains under the weight of the wires.
the pylon-figures can also be arranged to create a sense of place
through deliberate expression.
subtle alterations in the hands and head combined with repositioning of
the main body parts in
the x, y and z-axis, allow for a rich variety of expressions. the
pylon-figures can be placed in pairs,
walking in the same direction or opposite directions, glancing at each
other as they pass by
or kneeling respectively, head bowed at a town.
the various configurations of the pylons
despite the large number of possible forms, each pylon-figure is made
from the same major
assembled parts (torso, fore arm, upper leg, hand etc.) and uses a
library of pre-assembled
joints between these parts to create the pylon-figures’ appearance.
this design allows for many
variations in form and height while the pylon-figures’ cost is kept low
through identical production,
simple assembly and construction.
sketch of the pylon design
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Monday, August 16, 2010
OpenSolaris R.I.P.: The Day is Finally Here.
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Finally Here. via The Blog of Ben Rockwood on 8/13/10
This is a real thing. This is not hype or idle rambling. OpenSolaris
is, as of Friday the 13th of August, 2010, dead. Read the full skinny
in the leaked internal email to Solaris Engineering.
Here is the short version: OpenSolaris is dead. No more
real-time/nightly code pushes. OpenSolaris 2010.05 will not happen, nor
will any in the future. Solaris 11 Express will be the new "developer"
release which will be available through OTN. Solaris will remain open
source, but code will only be released after the product ships, not
before.
Now, lets go bit by bit.
Today we are announcing a set of decisions regarding the path to
Solaris 11, and answering key pending questions on open source, open
development, software and binary licenses, and how developers and early
adopters will be able to use Solaris 11 technology before its release
in 2011.
So, Solaris 11 is the new hotness and the "community" is reduced
to "early adopters".
Solaris must stand alone as a best-of-breed technology for Oracle’s
enterprise customers. We want all of them to think “If this has to
work, then it runs on Solaris.†That’s the Solaris brand. That is
where our scalability to more than a few sockets of CPU and gigabytes
of DRAM matters.
This goes on for a while, but the message is clear. Solaris needs to
not simply be another UNIX OS... it needs to be, as it was in the 90's,
the enterprise platform of choice.
We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administrator
community for Solaris. Delivery of binary releases, delivery of APIs in
source or binary form, delivery of open source code, delivery of
technical documentation, and engineering of upstream contributions to
common industry technologies (such as Apache, Perl, OFED, and many,
many others) will be part of that activity. But we will also make
specific decisions about why and when we do those things, following two
core principles: (1) We can’t do everything. The limiting factor is
our engineering bandwidth measured in people and time. So we have to
ensure our top priority is driving delivery of the #1 Enterprise
Operating System, Solaris 11, to grow our systems business; and (2) We
want the adoption of our technology and intellectual property to
accelerate our overall goals, yet not permit competitors to derive
business advantage (or FUD) from our innovations before we do.
This, really, isn't so bad. But again, no community, just end-users. A
return to focus isn't a bad thing.
We will continue to use the CDDL license statement in nearly all
Solaris source code files. We will not remove the CDDL from any files
in Solaris to which it already applies, and new source code files that
are created will follow the current policy regarding applying the CDDL
(simply, that usr/src files will have the CDDL, and the very small
minority of files in usr/closed might not have it).
Ok, so existing code will not be closed. So, no drastic change.
We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source-
licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris
operating system. In this manner, new technology innovations will show
up in our releases before anywhere else. We will no longer distribute
source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in
real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis.
So here is the killer... what I've been afraid of. No more nightly
code. The upshot is that the code will still be available following
releases to assist with DTracing, debugging, etc, but you won't get
real-time updates. The biggest downside is that you can't see bug-fixes
as they are put-back, and obviously anyone developing on Solaris is
always playing catch up. It says "full release", so I can't expect that
code will ship with each Express release. Maybe it will, I hope so.
It goes on to say that "technology partners" (such as Intel) will have
full source access via OTN.
We will encourage and listen to any and all license requests for
Solaris technology, either in part or in whole. All such requests will
be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but we believe there are many
complementary areas where new partnership opportunities exist to expand
use of our IP.
This is a sticky place. Code is shipped CDDL post-release, however they
want to establish partnership opportunities. Clearly they are trying to
ensure any businesses which rely upon Nevada will not escape from the
partner programs and thus revenue opportunities for Oracle.
We will deliver technical design information, in the form of
documentation, design documents, and source code descriptions, through
our OTN presence for Solaris. We will no longer post advance technical
descriptions of every single ARC case by default, indicating what
technical innovations might be present in future Solaris releases. We
can at any time make a specific decision to post advance technical
information for any project, when it serves a particular useful need to
do so.
Flush... there goes ARC. So the external view into Solaris development
is now closing. We now only see what they wish us to see.
We will have a Solaris 11 binary distribution, called Solaris 11
Express, that will have a free developer RTU license, and an optional
support plan. Solaris 11 Express will debut by the end of this calendar
year, and we will issue updates to it, leading to the full release of
Solaris 11 in 2011.
So, back to the old days.
All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology
will be focused on Solaris 11. We will not release any other binary
distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris binaries,
or an OpenSolaris 2010.05 or later distribution. We will determine a
simple, cost-effective means of getting enterprise users of prior
OpenSolaris binary releases to migrate to S11 Express.
There is the axe on OpenSolaris, present and future. The distro isn't
coming. No nightly. No BFU's.
We will have a Solaris 11 Platinum Customer Program, including direct
engineering involvement and feedback, for customers using our Solaris
11 technology. We will be asking all of you to participate in this
endeavor, bringing with us the benefit of previous Sun Platinum
programs, while utilizing the much larger megaphone that is available
to us now as a combined company.
And here we see again, its "back to the future" . Pay to play.
The Verdict
Frankly, I'm not surprised by any of this. Saddened, certainly, but not
shocked. The sleigh ride is officially over.
As far as the community and governance is concerned, the OGB played
right into Oracle hand. It might as well have been engineered this way.
On Monday, the 16th, the OGB will disband and default on the charter.
Great work guys! Thanks for truly representing the needs and desires of
Ora...I mean, the community.
As a governance, OpenSolaris has been a non-stop, end to end failure.
Hands down. At every turn, it failed.
As an open source project, it was luke warm at best.
What I will miss is having full access to Solaris Engineering. What's
happening, where we're going. That was amazing. An all access pass. I
will truly miss that.
The plus side is, that for all the ups-and-downs, the code is out
there. They can't take that back. And we have reasonable assurances
that it will stay out there following "full releases". That's not
ideal, but its something. Something very valuable.
As for me... Illumos will now carry the torch, and I'll participate in
that with all the more gusto. This blog existed prior to OpenSolaris
and it will continue to be a Solaris blog after. Solaris is the best
platform on earth, it continues to be, in any given form.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
1975: The First Digital Camera
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via ISO50 Blog - The Blog of Scott Hansen (Tycho / ISO50) by Scott on
8/11/10
I’ve had these images laying around for ages and stumbled across them
again tonight. This is a prototype digital camera Kodak produced way
back in 1975. The “toaster-sized” system relied on a cassette tape for
recording data. The digitized images took 23 seconds to record to tape
which then had to be played back using a specialized system (shown in
the second photo — note the name of the Motorola computer,
“EXORciser”). This is one of those times where I’m tempted to say “look
how far we’ve come in such a short time!”. But damn, 1975? I wasn’t
even born. I never would have guessed they had this sort of tech back
then.
I’m really not sure I’d be doing the things I do now if I was coming up
back in those days. Either computers have made me lazy, or I’m just
inherently lazy, but I honestly can’t imagine dealing with
23-second-per-image write times and cassette tapes.
Check out this piece about the process of creating the prototype by one
of the original team members, Steve Sasson: “Plugged In – We Had No
Idea“
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George Lucas officially announces Star Wars on Blu-ray in 2011
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Lawler on 8/14/10
As rumored, all six Star Wars movies will be released together on
Blu-ray in 2011 for the 35th anniversary of the release of A New Hope.
George Lucas personally announced the set on stage at the Celebration V
event, and showed off a deleted scene from Return of the Jedi that will
be included (embedded after the break.) While the "highest picture and
audio quality" and extensive special features are promised, what won't
make it to Blu-ray are the original versions of the movies; Lucas told
the New York Times that only the special editions will be included,
since restoring the original versions in high enough quality would cost
too much. No word on price, release date or any plans to release the
films individually, but if you can stand living in a world where Greedo
shot first then this will certainly be on next year's shopping list.
[Thanks, @thunsaker]
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Do you enjoy playing Roulette? I do. It's a fun game and can produce
great wins - if played well. Bankroll management is important though.
Last week, Derren Brown appeared live on UK television in the final
episode in the Derren Brown's The Events series. There was a great deal
of Internet hype generated before the showing - but know I'm not sure
why. Derren Brown intended to take down a casino by predicting the
course of a roulette wheel and winning a lucky viewer £175,000. But he
didn't do it. That's right: he didn't win the money for a viewer. He
didn't predict the number correctly - although he came close. The ball
stopped one number away on the roulette wheel from the number he
predicted to win
http://fobtgaming.blogspot.com/
One challenge that every competitive gamer faces is how to demonstrate
their skills and talents in order to network with other more established
and experienced gamers. Players want to meet the best players and want
to get their attention. In short, new players want to get known
Visit www.gamingmontage.com for more info
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
one way to quit a job: curse out your customer and escape out the emergency ...
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your customer and escape out the emergency slide via Ask a Manager by
Ask a Manager on 8/9/10
A Jet Blue flight attendant just lived out everyone's fantasy way of
quitting a job.
From the New York Times:
A JetBlue flight attendant, apparently upset with an uncooperative
passenger on a just-landed flight, on Monday unleashed a
profanity-laden tirade on the public address system, pulled the
emergency-exit chute, slid off the plane and fled Kennedy International
Airport, a law enforcement official said...One passenger got out of his
seat to fetch his belongings from the overhead compartment before the
crew had given permission. Mr. Slater instructed the man to remain
seated. The passenger defied him. Mr. Slater approached and reached the
passenger just as he pulled down his luggage, which struck Mr. Slater
in the head.Mr. Slater asked for an apology. The passenger instead
cursed at him. Mr. Slater got on the plane’s public address system and
cursed out all aboard. Then he activated the inflatable evacuation
slide at service exit R1; launched himself off the plane, an Embraer
190; ran to the employee parking lot; and left the airport in a car he
had parked there.I can't stop living this out in my mind. The
evacuation slide is such a good touch.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
This is kaboom
http://www.ics-amman.edu.jo/index.php/member/893/
http://www.eurabo.be/member/2122/
http://www.mcsonline.org/index.php/member/911/
http://www.parentswithattitude.com/index.php/forums/member/7138/
http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/member/6544/
http://www.beforeidieiwantto.org/newsite/index.php?/member/316/
Saturday, August 7, 2010
I found some great places to join
Friday, August 6, 2010
Social networking forums
http://putyourfaithinaction.org/forums/member/12663/
http://sc2gg.com/forum/index.php?s=1c2974af6b0afced3187b54765e43c7e&showuser=6750
http://www.rakftzforum.com/member.php?9361-goodreview25
http://www.soccervista.com/forum/member.php/10242-goodreview25
Thursday, August 5, 2010
These sites are cool
http://www.podproducer.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2099
http://www.mysolutionspot.com/goodreview25/
http://www.buglabs.net/users/goodreview25
http://forums.eyeos.org/index.php?action=profile;u=16359
http://forums.rootsmagic.com/index.php?/user/52350-goodreview25/
http://www.la-canada-flintridge-online-community.com/member.php?u=559
http://www.pastapadre.com/forum/member.php?u=4624
http://lubbock.skirt.com/goodreview25
http://www.dinaitour.com/forum/profile.php?id=8334
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.
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the U.S. via GigaOM by Kevin C. Tofel on 8/2/10
Sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, the
devices have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record. New
smartphone subscribers choosing Google phones accounted for 27 percent
of U.S. smartphone sales, the Nielsen Company will announce this
morning, nudging past the 23 percent share held by Apple. But Android
isn’t just a U.S. phenomenon: Canalys today estimates that Android
handset sales grew 886 percent worldwide from the year ago quarter.
It’s easier to show stellar growth in the beginning of a product cycle,
but Android is nearly two years old. One could make the valid argument
that Android really began to mature over the past year with Android
2.1, so from that standpoint, Google’s platform is still an infant when
compared to iOS4, BlackBerry and other mobile operating systems. But
the uptake of Android among handset-makers is another factor in such
growth. Motorola’s Mobile Device division has swung from losses to
profits on the back of Android, for example. And HTC — once primarily a
Windows Mobile phone maker — embraced Android even as Microsoft’s
mobile platform is undergoing a major facelift. The result? HTC
revenues were up 66 percent in June from a year ago.
As hot a seller as Google Android phones are right now, its user base
isn’t the most satisfied with their device. When surveying current
Android device owners, Nielson found that 71 percent would buy an
Android phone again. That sounds like a high loyalty rating, but it
falls noticeably short when asking iPhone owners about their next
handset — 89 percent are happy with iOS4 and plan to buy a future Apple
handset.
Both the Android and iOS4 platforms still trail the 33 percent U.S.
share held by Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices, but for many,
BlackBerry needs an overhaul. One half of the current BlackBerry owners
surveyed don’t want another RIM device when it comes time to upgrade,
but instead are looking at replacements running either Google’s or
Apple’s mobile platform. Even with the top market share spot in the
U.S., RIM share has been trending down because the current devices are
seen as inferior when it comes to browsing or offering apps. That
should change tomorrow as RIM is holding a press event where it is
widely expected the company will debut its new BlackBerry 6 operating
system and potentially new devices, such as a tablet.
Given that the U.S. currently has the largest smartphone user base —
Canalys estimates 14.7 million smartphones were purchased in the U.S.
last quarter — it’s easy to overlook the current king of smartphone
sales globally: Nokia. In the second quarter of 2010, the Finnish
phone-maker sold 23.8 million handsets. Nokia saw a 41 percent growth
rate over the prior year’s second quarter sales, which sounds positive,
but when compared to Android’s 886 percent gain, Nokia’s growth pales
in comparison. The overall smartphone market is growing, which is
lifting sales of nearly all. But some — like Android — are clearly
growing far faster than others.
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China to build ginormous buses that cars can drive under (video)
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that cars can drive under (video) via Engadget by Richard Lai on 8/2/10
Seriously, this is the future that China's envisioning: huge friggin'
buses engulfing smaller cars on the road. Despite the silly picture and
the eccentric "3D Express Coach" branding, this cunning project by
Shenzhen Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment actually makes sense. The
idea is to make use of the space between regular-size cars and bridges,
thus saving construction costs as well as minimizing congestion impact
by allowing cars to drive underneath these jumbo buses. Fancy hitching
a ride? You better start planning your move to Beijing's Mentougou
district, which is where Huashi will commence building its first 186km
of track at year's end. For now, enjoy the Chinese demo video after the
break (translation text at source link).
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