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[Tech News] Interesting technology

Graham
30-Jul-2010
[5119]
He actually bought a cash machine off the internet .. .so he could 
examine it.  When the delivery guy came to deliver it, he asked Jack 
why on earth he was buying a cash machine for his home.  Jack replied 
that he wanted to avoid paying bank fees!
Andreas
4-Aug-2010
[5120]
Google axes Wave: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
Graham
4-Aug-2010
[5121x4]
Not surprising ...
But as I recall you could still run your own servers if you wanted 
to continue using it
The thing I liked the most was "spelly"
Wave was just too geeky for most users
Henrik
4-Aug-2010
[5125]
yes, the UI was too hard, even if the concept is "brilliant".
BudzinskiC
5-Aug-2010
[5126]
I don't think the UI was hard at all. My parents were able to use 
it without any problems (and they can't even rename a folder on their 
PCs), my sister had no trouble (and she's not much better than my 
parents with computers) and a friend of mine who is reeeeallly bad 
with computers (like, worst case scenario) figured everything out 
pretty much on her own (and she doesn't understand a word of english). 
I think the much bigger issues here were that people always tried 
to compare it to vastly different things (Skype, Facebook, Twitter, 
etc.) which made them completely oblivious to it's potential. It 
was also maybe hard to see the potential because third party adoption 
was really low. I think there are two reasons for the low adoption. 
For one, there was no real incentive for a developer to write an 
extension for Google because there were no real solutions to easily 
make money with Wave (an app store could have helped here, which 
Google planned to do at one point but never did). The other is something 
I don't understand at all, the API documentation. It's horrible. 
You have to look up everything in the source code because the docs 
tell you next to nothing. This hasn't improved at all over time and 
it's a shame because writing an extension for Wave is actually very, 
very easy and it allows you to do stuff that just wasn't possible 
before Wave unless yo spend a 100 times more time on it to get all 
the necessary behind the scenes stuff working.
Robert
5-Aug-2010
[5127]
I think I didn't get the concept... looked to fragmented to me.
Reichart
5-Aug-2010
[5128]
Christoph, and I will suggest that what would have made it "magical" 
were simply a form of skin, but a little deeper in the form of a 
template.


This way, as an example, you could select a template for your "group" 
called "Soccer moms", and it would show you a calendar, a bunch of 
"starter threads", and a scratchpad, for example.
The engine was all there for this.


You could tweak your templates, and share them with others, which 
could be rated.
BudzinskiC
6-Aug-2010
[5129]
Well at least there are individuals and companies already saying 
that they will continue developing Wave so it isn't dead, it's only 
Google that gave up on it. One company completely integrated Wave 
into Outlook for example. I always thought it would be much nicer 
to have Wave running in a native application.
Graham
6-Aug-2010
[5130]
It was open source ... so you could host your own servers
Henrik
6-Aug-2010
[5131]
http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4c48ab9e7f8b9ab179ad0100/chart-of-the-day-msft-operating-income-q2-2010.gif

Isn't red usually bad?
Oldes
6-Aug-2010
[5132]
And so it's in this chart as well I guess.
Graham
11-Aug-2010
[5133]
http://www.savegooglewave.com/#save-wave
AdrianS
11-Aug-2010
[5134]
seems to be down
Andreas
13-Aug-2010
[5135]
http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2010/08/opensolaris-is-now-officially-dead-rip/
Graham
13-Aug-2010
[5136x3]
leaked memo .. so unofficially dead!
makes you wonder if mysql is next ...
I wonder if this would have happened if Google had used oracle as 
their primary database engine
Graham
14-Aug-2010
[5139]
Looks like the ability to sue Google was one of the things Sun was 
selling to Oracle http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/the_shit_finally_hits_the
Henrik
14-Aug-2010
[5140]
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/30824

John Carmack still has the touch. Demo of Rage on an iPhone 4.
Pekr
25-Aug-2010
[5141]
Firefox beta 4, introduces tab Panorama - http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/designing-tab-candy/
Sunanda
27-Aug-2010
[5142]
REBOL makes it to the obscure language of the month list:

   http://www.devtopics.com/rebol-obscure-programming-language-of-the-month/
Henrik
27-Aug-2010
[5143]
pretty accurate summary
Ladislav
27-Aug-2010
[5144]
the summary is just a copy of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REBOL
Henrik
27-Aug-2010
[5145]
well, that explains why it's so good :-)
Demitri
28-Aug-2010
[5146]
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9181918/Windows_DLL_exploits_boom_hackers_post_attacks_for_40_plus_apps
Pekr
1-Sep-2010
[5147]
Some news about upcoming WebOS 2.0 release (now owned by HP) - http://www.precentral.net/webos-20-details-stacks-exhibition-just-type
Maxim
2-Sep-2010
[5148]
remote facebook logout, this is cool.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20015482-245.html?tag=river
Henrik
2-Sep-2010
[5149]
you can log out of facebook now?
Maxim
2-Sep-2010
[5150x2]
you can logout a session running on another machine... remotely.


for example, you can lock out an iphone app which was logged on to 
your facebook account.
bassically, it de-activates the session key.  so that a new login 
process is required.  since you may have several sessions opened 
at any time, this is very nice, and should be available for ALL on-line 
sites.
Graham
2-Sep-2010
[5152]
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsoft-windows-phone-7-is-most-thoroughly-tested-mobile-platform-ever-released/9590?tag=mantle_skin;content


You'd think zdnet would grammar/spell check their blogs

Yesterday Microsoft’s new mobile platform Windows Phone 7 hit the 
RTM milestone, and in the official announcement Microsoft was keen 
to stress how mush tested had gone into this new platform.
Sunanda
2-Sep-2010
[5153]
Mush.....may be a US journalistic meme:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mush_from_the_Wimp
Izkata
2-Sep-2010
[5154x2]
...Huh, I skipped right over "mush" and saw that "tested" should 
be "testing"
Interesting link
Pekr
9-Sep-2010
[5156]
Nice :-) http://www.osnews.com/story/23784/ARM_Unveils_Cortex-A15_Up_to_2_5Ghz_Quad-core
Mchean
9-Sep-2010
[5157]
http://www.osnews.com/story/23785/Apple_Caves_Drops_Ban_on_iOS_Third-party_Development_Tools
Pekr
10-Sep-2010
[5158]
Dunno why it is being considered a breaking news, but OSNews.com 
seems to be happy about Broadcom open-sourcing their drivers :-)


http://www.osnews.com/story/23786/BREAKING_BROADCOM_OPEN_SOURCES_WIRELESS_DRIVERS
Henrik
16-Sep-2010
[5159]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqip_0Vjec

Those quadrocopters are getting crazier by the week.
Pekr
16-Sep-2010
[5160]
scary :-)
Maxim
16-Sep-2010
[5161x2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI&feature=related
two highlights of that "dog" are when it recuperates (in real time) 
when pushed sideways... the other is at the end... when it starts 
running and JUMPS over a 3 ft wide obstacle... look at how precisely 
its hind-legs land just beyond the obstacle... waiting for the proper 
balance to occur...

now THAT is downright scary
Henrik
16-Sep-2010
[5163]
Maxim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
AdrianS
16-Sep-2010
[5164x2]
Maxim, that's the old video - there's a new, improved robot now
wow Henrik - that one is so advanced!
Sunanda
16-Sep-2010
[5166]
Earlier prototype (unweaponised):
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntR12VcbeqE
Maxim
16-Sep-2010
[5167x2]
henrik, hahaha
weaponized "bigdog"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptyV1cpE14o&feature=related