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[Tech News] Interesting technology

Pekr
7-Oct-2009
[4327]
nVidia should be bought by Amiga Inc. :-)
Henrik
7-Oct-2009
[4328]
I think nVidia would have to be reduced to a couple of office chairs 
and coffee machines, then, before they could afford it.
Maxim
7-Oct-2009
[4329]
actually, if amiga bought nvidia... then its sure, nvidia would stop 
making any chips, they would offshore their R&D to china, as a gfx 
driver company for BeOS (read as: a software no one wants and no 
one buys, even for free) and would continue acting as though, everything 
is going "as-planned".   ;-)
Pekr
7-Oct-2009
[4330]
Some future might-be prototypes of "mouse" from Microsoft. The article 
is in Czech, videos are in EN:

http://www.zive.cz/bleskovky/video-microsoft-vyviji-podivuhodne-multidotekove-mysi/sc-4-a-149125/default.aspx
Maxim
7-Oct-2009
[4331]
here is an example of nvidia's road to self-extermination:


http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/09/15/nvidia-gt300-yeilds-under-2/
Reichart
9-Oct-2009
[4332]
The twits figured out a way to get paid -


http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-already-selling-access-to-its-firehose-of-data-2009-10
Henrik
13-Oct-2009
[4333]
http://10gui.com/


A new approach to managing windows. Interesting, although I don't 
agree with it.
Oldes
13-Oct-2009
[4334]
I don't like the window sliding... it would tire eyes very quickly.
Henrik
13-Oct-2009
[4335]
Yes, I think you would get disoriented quickly. It looks like it 
can be too easy to trip up over the gestures for manipulating the 
windows. The only good idea is the linear lineup of the windows, 
but that can be done in other ways.
Izkata
13-Oct-2009
[4336]
Looks like a rebuild of tiled window managers - less precise, due 
to mouse movements, but more options (like zooming/scaling/etc) available 
without extra programs
Maxim
13-Oct-2009
[4337x2]
the main feature is the use of TWO hands... one drags, the other 
resize... that is really nice... grab a window with one hand... slide 
the ui with the other...
it reminded me of the amiga a bit...  definitely some inspiration 
or like-minded thinking.
Brock
16-Oct-2009
[4339]
I don't mind the concept of 10/GUI.  Looks very interesting.  Whether 
it would be easy to pickup and apply would be another thing.  However, 
a neat concept none-the-less.
Rod
18-Oct-2009
[4340]
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/17/verizon-launches-direct-attack-against-the-iphone-with-ads-for-the-motorola-droid/
another phone aimed at tackling the iPhone, Verizon plus Android 
combo.
Henrik
22-Oct-2009
[4341]
Never really was into e-book readers, but the Kindle is coming to 
Denmark soon. Here's a list of features:

- No Danish books allowed
- No webbrowser
- No Danish news papers allowed
- No blogging tool
- About 100 dollars higher price than in the US

Sounds like a winner to me. :-)
Pekr
22-Oct-2009
[4342]
:-)
amacleod
22-Oct-2009
[4343]
THese Ebooks are cost more than a full blown laptop...I don't get 
it...


I like the format (light weight, touch screen etc..) but the price 
and fucntion make them impractical..
Maxim
22-Oct-2009
[4344x2]
the "information control" is the worst part of it.
which is the worst part of the digital world in general.
amacleod
22-Oct-2009
[4346x2]
Anybody making an open source E-Ink pad?
They are usually low powered (slow CPU)...not x86 compatible anyway..
Gabriele
23-Oct-2009
[4348]
the shame is that the only alternative is paper books, which are 
more expensive in  the long run (especially if you consider the shipping 
part)
Graham
23-Oct-2009
[4349]
No islamic cartoons either I guess.
Pekr
27-Oct-2009
[4350x2]
Lucid Hydra 200 - HW allowing load balancing between GPUs, even if 
there are 2 or more cards from different vendors in one system?

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3646
hmm, even OSes as Haiku get Qt4 - the power of open-source?
TomBon
28-Oct-2009
[4352]
100 cores,  55 w

http://www.tilera.com/products/TILE-Gx.php
Maxim
28-Oct-2009
[4353x2]
about above cpu... this figure is impressive, if true:  • Up to 200 
Tbps of on-chip mesh interconnect
with 100 cores running very small apps in parralel... I can finally 
see something built to run elixir  :-)
TomBon
28-Oct-2009
[4355]
yes, was thinking the same. It could also be a elegant sales offer 
to intel :-))
Maxim
28-Oct-2009
[4356]
that is what I want to port rebol on.  I am sure Carl would like 
rebol on that  :-)
TomBon
28-Oct-2009
[4357]
yes, or erlang. hopefully task! will arrive soon...
Robert
28-Oct-2009
[4358]
Well, I haven't found an instruction set description anywhere. So 
chances are high that it's Vaporware.
Maxim
28-Oct-2009
[4359]
because they use "partners" the way I see it is that you have to 
sign an agreement in order to receive the dev SDK/API.
Robert
28-Oct-2009
[4360x2]
I have developed such things 10 years ago with runtime reconfigurable 
deadlock free communication network (we called it worm-routing). 
And getting C compiled down to such a thing is not easy because every 
CPU needs a good access to memory. Either local (than how to exchange 
data?), global (how to do locking) etc.
Beside a bunch of other problems coming up. But maybe they have really 
made it in which case we should see a bunch of announcements in a 
short time.
Maxim
28-Oct-2009
[4362]
Up to 200 Tbps of on-chip mesh interconnect    that sounds like enough 
to make it pretty fluid to me  :-)
Pekr
30-Oct-2009
[4363]
hehe :-) http://www.slashgear.com/nvidia-ion-le-directx-10-hack-suggests-purposefully-crippled-features-2962210/
Pekr
3-Nov-2009
[4364]
Could this be a good news?


Type designers and Web designers have reached a consensus on a format 
specification for embedding fonts on the Web. Mozilla is already 
including support for the font format in Firefox 3.6, and wide adoption 
could come sooner than many expected.


http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/11/web-open-font-format-backed-by-mozilla-type-foundries.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
BrianH
3-Nov-2009
[4365]
If it gets added to HTML5, that would be great. And some year IE 
might support it :)
Kaj
4-Nov-2009
[4366]
Sooner than you think.
 One of the two designer groups is from MS
Pekr
7-Nov-2009
[4367]
Microsoft and some new UI concept ideas - http://www.istartedsomething.com/20091106/microsoft-college-tour-09/
Henrik
8-Nov-2009
[4368]
http://openofficemouse.com/

You have got to be kidding...
Geomol
8-Nov-2009
[4369x2]
:-D
Get one .. no, get two!
BrianH
8-Nov-2009
[4371]
the OOMouse, the first multi-button application mouse
Those who forget the 1990s are doomed to repeat them.
amacleod
8-Nov-2009
[4372x2]
Its this very thinking that makes OO less than a desirable application(s)...
Everytime I've used it it seems bloated, bogged down and slow..
AdrianS
10-Nov-2009
[4374x2]
new Google Go language - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/
intended to be a systems programming language
Pekr
11-Nov-2009
[4376]
Another new Mobile OS - this time from Samsung. The OS is called 
Bada - http://www.osnews.com/story/22476/Is_There_Room_for_a_New_Mobile_OS_