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Ladislav
6-Jul-2010
[5067x3]
{7303}{7418}And this is the year 2015?|- October 21, 2015. (subtitles)
{6676}{6746}We're descending toward|Hill Valley, California...
{6762}{6801}{y:i}...at 4:29 p.m...
{6803}{6885}{y:i}...on Wednesday, October 21, 2015.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#Future_date_hoax
Reichart
6-Jul-2010
[5070]
Good, we have 5 more years to make hover boards :)
Izkata
6-Jul-2010
[5071]
They do exist - just not yet anywhere near the movie's standards 
 ;)
Pekr
7-Jul-2010
[5072]
Genesi is ready with their Efika MX Smartbook ... I think the design 
is rather nice, I like the keyboard. Reminds me of ZX Spectrum 48K 
:-)  (press image to enlarge it)


http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=1755+2020297306215527660
Graham
7-Jul-2010
[5073]
$249 for smart client
Pekr
7-Jul-2010
[5074]
What do you mean by "smart client"? Efika is not only a terminal. 
It can have full OS you can install. It is just that they use something 
like VNC/Citrix aproach, to get you SW you don't have installed physically 
on the machine itself ...
Graham
7-Jul-2010
[5075x2]
That's what they call it.  Their name.
I was thinking that it sounds expensive .. but perhaps it is not.
Pekr
7-Jul-2010
[5077]
Well, many ppl will ask for AmigaOs/MorphOS option. But all they 
get is various Linuxes ... hmm, maybe AROS, who knows ...
Graham
7-Jul-2010
[5078x3]
I presume they call it client because it is supposed to run google 
apps ...with a years subscription
https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/details/5
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/3896841/Guilty-of-5-3m-technology-fraud
NickA
12-Jul-2010
[5081]
I've been waiting to see this trend pick up speed, for years now 
(looks a lot like Scratch): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/technology/12google.html?scp=1&sq=googleapp inventor&st=cse
AdrianS
12-Jul-2010
[5082]
Looks like everyone needs their own systems programming language 
- this one, from Mozilla, is called Rust. Seems to have some interesting 
features. 

http://wiki.github.com/graydon/rust/language-faq
Dockimbel
15-Jul-2010
[5083x2]
Epic fail: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/france-launches-multi-lingual-tourist-website-it-goes-down-and-stays-down/
(can't find the Humour group anymore)
Maxim
15-Jul-2010
[5085x2]
strange is a private group.
but yeah... this is very good press   especially since its a tourist 
site   :-)
Dockimbel
15-Jul-2010
[5087]
Max: btw, the site development costed 800k€ to french administration 
;-)
Maxim
15-Jul-2010
[5088]
so there where 5 programers, one sysadmin, and 25 management in the 
group?   ;-)
Dockimbel
15-Jul-2010
[5089]
well, probably :-P
Henrik
15-Jul-2010
[5090]
DocKimbel, if only the IT problems were that small for the Danish 
government...
Gabriele
16-Jul-2010
[5091]
Doc: it was much worse in Italy. costed like 2x that, when they opened 
it it was basically empty, and then they realized it was the most 
useless thing.
Pekr
20-Jul-2010
[5092]
Jolicloud  - netbook UI based on Ubuntu + HTML 5 .... nice looking 
design ....


http://digitizor.com/2010/07/17/jolicloud-1-0-brings-a-new-html5-interface/
BrianH
20-Jul-2010
[5093]
I looked at that, including a demo. The interface doesn't have an 
obvious way to switch between running applications or tell which 
applications are running. And it *does* have multiple running applications. 
It looks semi-pretty (with the exception of the WinXP Luna colors) 
but not very usable.
Maxim
20-Jul-2010
[5094x2]
wow a nice XP skin for the ipad, running web applications.... 

yes I'm being ironic  ;-)
it even has loads of "spy on my friends" apps  yay!     not!  :-0
BrianH
20-Jul-2010
[5096]
for the ipad
 - it's not very touch-friendly either; better use a mouse.
BrianH
21-Jul-2010
[5097]
Now this is cool: http://www.flipboard.com/

http://scobleizer.com/2010/07/20/exclusive-first-look-at-revolutionary-social-news-ipad-app-flipboard/
Henrik
21-Jul-2010
[5098]
Yes, now I see why geeks hate the iPad. They didn't think of this 
app. :-)
Pekr
23-Jul-2010
[5099]
Finally something usefull for typing on touch based devices :-) http://www.blindtype.com/
Graham
23-Jul-2010
[5100x2]
whatabout us touch typists??
I see Tan Le's mind mapping interface is going to make typing redundant 
soon ...
Gabriele
23-Jul-2010
[5102x2]
it does not seem powerful enough to replacy typing... but, it would 
be interesting to have that device on while you type / user the mouse 
and let the computer "learn" and see how much it can predict. if 
you also process what's coming from the camera and microphone maybe 
we can get something useful. probably needs much faster computers 
to do all that though.
*replace
Graham
23-Jul-2010
[5104x2]
Hard to say from such a short demo, but it's very impressive ...
Likely you'd do something similar to speech recognition and select 
words off the screen using the interface
Maxim
23-Jul-2010
[5106]
well here they know where you typed... so they are mapping different 
info than phonemes.  the apparent random letters aren't random at 
all.
Henrik
26-Jul-2010
[5107]
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26

Hacking your device to make it do what you want is now legal.
Maxim
26-Jul-2010
[5108]
this is great news indeed... it may even provide some level of prior-art 
for the anti-trust case against Apple's iOS4.. (I wish!).
Pekr
27-Jul-2010
[5109x3]
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/fraunhofer-fit-touch-free-gesture-control-for-multiple-users-vi/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/interpads-10-inch-tegra-2-toting-android-tablet-may-make-german/
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/26/2344203/OpenGL-41-Specification-Announced
Mchean
27-Jul-2010
[5112]
blindtype sort of like swype?
AdrianS
27-Jul-2010
[5113x2]
looks like it's even more forgiving of how you "type"
and in BlindType it seems you do individual character presses
Graham
30-Jul-2010
[5115x2]
There's a local guy here named Barnaby Jack who showed on Black Hat 
how to remote break in to a cash dispensing machine ... overwrite 
the OS, and to start dispensing out cash!
Seems they allow remote login to change graphics, get reports etc, 
and this is a poorly protected vector