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| Authored by: Bas Burger on Wednesday, February 13 2013 @ 09:31 AM EST |
I want to react on 2 things that bug me, 1 newsitem here and one on the
Register.
First here, It irritates me that almost nobody sees what all this charity by
billionaires really is:
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22568502/zuckerberg-brin-among-top-u-s-do
nors-charity
In reality it's the billionaires version of keeping up with the joneses, it's
all about status and sticking the eyes out of other billionaires.
Something even more insidious is that they try to reimage the world in their
view of it, we middle class people all know what tacky and egocentric taste rich
people have in this world.
The second item is about "George Orwell TV, aka Brasil TV":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/13/intel_tv/
Within one generation of that product it will be placed inside the screen
instead of having a separate camera opening.
It saddens me that the younger generation of scientist have none whatsoever
sense of what they are doing to other people, no sense of resposibility toward
others, they are only interested in getting their pet projects into the world.
One can make laws to try to protect us, but remember the words of one of the
worst US presidents.
"The constitution is ONLY a piece of paper"
That's all...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 13 2013 @ 01:04 PM EST |
Full story here :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21449890
Interesting read.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 13 2013 @ 01:32 PM EST |
"You need to leave now. There is traffic. It takes 13 minutes to get
there and there is seven minutes of traffic and you need to leave
now."
I think there's a typo in the article, it should be
Google Nag
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 13 2013 @ 06:18 PM EST |
http://my.opera.com/ha
avard/blog/2013/02/13/webkit
With this, Opera will be the first
major browser to switch to a completely new rendering
engine....
I'm not sure if they are really the first.
At
any rate, Webkit just took one more step to become the next buggy browser engine
everyone has to accommodate (this will probably impact on web standards
development significantly, for better and worst).
Now that we've lost
one of the most standard compliant web engines (known to be more standard
compliant than the rest of the popular choices), developers weep:
http://robertnyman.com/2013/02/13/the-webkit-culture-web-rendering-e
ngine-diversity/
http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php%3fpost/2013/
02/13/Strange-day-for-the-Open-Web
http:/
/robert.ocallahan.org/2013/02/and-then-there-were-three.html
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 13 2013 @ 08:03 PM EST |
Chromebook is patented? Sigh, not that I'm really all that surprised,
considering the mess we are in (at this point having a patent is probably better
than not having one for a company like Google), but it's still not encouraging
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 13 2013 @ 09:18 PM EST |
SJVN has an interesting observation:
At a rough guess,
I'd say the iPad has about a thousand times as many users as the Linux
desktop.
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