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{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

Good, we have 5 more years to make hover boards :)

They do exist - just not yet anywhere near the movie's standards 
 ;)

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

$249 for smart client

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 ...

That's what they call it.  Their name.

I was thinking that it sounds expensive .. but perhaps it is not.

Well, many ppl will ask for AmigaOs/MorphOS option. But all they 
get is various Linuxes ... hmm, maybe AROS, who knows ...

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

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

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

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)

strange is a private group.

but yeah... this is very good press   especially since its a tourist 
site   :-)

Max: btw, the site development costed 800k€ to french administration 
;-)

so there where 5 programers, one sysadmin, and 25 management in the 
group?   ;-)

well, probably :-P

DocKimbel, if only the IT problems were that small for the Danish 
government...

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.

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/

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.

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

for the ipad
 - it's not very touch-friendly either; better use a mouse.

Now this is cool: http://www.flipboard.com/

http://scobleizer.com/2010/07/20/exclusive-first-look-at-revolutionary-social-news-ipad-app-flipboard/

Yes, now I see why geeks hate the iPad. They didn't think of this 
app. :-)

Finally something usefull for typing on touch based devices :-) http://www.blindtype.com/

whatabout us touch typists??

I see Tan Le's mind mapping interface is going to make typing redundant 
soon ...

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

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

well here they know where you typed... so they are mapping different 
info than phonemes.  the apparent random letters aren't random at 
all.

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26

Hacking your device to make it do what you want is now legal.

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!).

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

blindtype sort of like swype?

looks like it's even more forgiving of how you "type"

and in BlindType it seems you do individual character presses

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