Oh whow this is really nice… The iPhone uses its front-facing camera to track the head of the viewer. Since it knows where the head of the viewer is it can actually simulate a 3D display as can be seen in the video below… is that a cool piece of software or what?
Helaas. Elf jaar te laat maar liever laat dan nooit zullen we maar denken. Een website als deze had nooit nodig hoeven zijn maar nu die er toch is… Ik doe dit niet vaak maar ik zou graag willen oproepen om dit prachtige initiatief van Microsoft® van harte te steunen. Microsoft® wil graag het marktaandeel van IE6 naar minder dan 1% terug brengen. Op de website IE6 countdown geven ze onomwonden toe hoe slecht IE6 eigenlijk is… Webdevelopers wisten dat al 10 jaar geleden. Een stukje zelfreflectie-gebeuren naar de webdeveloper toe… 10 jaar te laat.
Maar goed: steun dit initiatief! Sterker nog: laten we de lat nog net iets hoger leggen. Streef naar een Microsoft®-vrij internet! Op technologisch inferieure producten zit niemand te wachten. Dus als je toch van IE6 wilt afstappen: overweeg eens een echte browser! Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera of één van de andere gratis webbrowsers… Ook een raadzaam advies om op te volgen als je een nieuwere versie van IE gebruikt. Dumpen die handel!
Bedankt Microsoft®! En voortaan met je smerige poten van open standaarden afblijven. Schorem!
The words ‘hacking’ and ‘hacker’ are used in many context nowadays. I like this definition on Wikipedia:
In home computing, a hacker is a person who heavily modifies the software or hardware of their own computer system. It includes building, rebuilding, modifying, and creating software (software cracking, demo scene) or electronic hardware (hardware hacking, modding), either to make it better, faster, to give it added features or to make it do something it was never intended to do.
Now we all know people who actually ‘hack’ equipment (in the definition given above) but there are also people who treat their body as a piece of equipment. They actually operate on themselves and make bionic modifications to their body. They are called ‘biohackers‘ and they are performing ‘transhumanism‘. How fascinating. Here’s a quote
She does her own surgery, with a scalpel and a spotter to catch her if she passes out, and an anatomy book to give her some confidence she isn’t going to slice through a vein or the very nerves she’s trying to enhance.
from this article. Read and think about the concept of regarding your body as a device you can tweak… fascinating… Now let your imagination run wild… What would you like to add to your body if you could? Drop a comment if you have a really cool idea. I would like a device that automatically records everything I hear or see with a recording time of around 1 hour. So 1 hour after the recording I can still back it up to some external device using bluetooth… or maybe a USB connector that I implanted behind my ear. So much cool stuff you could do…
Oh wow. You really have to see this for yourself. Is this a cool app or what? Unfortunately I don’t come across much Spanish still from a technological point of view… this is really cool. Download it for free from the AppStore.
How about this? A Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun. There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star but it says nothing about individuals. Now she demands a fee from anyone who uses the Sun. So basically you are all screwed… except me… since I’m the legal owner of the universe, home to our galaxy and thus of the Sun. So she has to pay me a way bigger fee for storing the Sun in my universe.
Oops, if this is true this may be a killing blow to all of you MicroSoft fanboys out there. According to Computer World a tech-worker on the oilrig crashing windows systems may be part of the problem that eventually let to the spilling of oil. And we’re not talking a little Dr.Watson, an occasional “general exception”… we’re talking about a full-blown BSOD (blue screen of death). Well maybe we learn a little lesson here. Never use a computer system for critical mission computing that can’t even keep itself alive for longer than half an hour… If this doesn’t teach us then maybe this will… one day…
This is Google’s motto “Don’t be evil” however more and more it seems to be applicable to you and not to Google. The latest news is that the Street-view vehicles are also registering WLAN’s and MAC addresses while mapping your neighbourhood. Big issue in Germany (here’s a German article from newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’) where this was discovered.
Now the most appalling and worrying is that Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn’t worry about privacy unless they have something to hide. Right. “Don’t be evil” also includes to not collect data that could facilitate any evil.
Whahahaha… it had to happen one day. A problem with an anti-virus update marks a false positive and puts the file in quarantine. The OS can’t load the file anymore and… oops… reboots… and…. reboots…. and… reboots… This is actually a great feature. Rebooting windows is like 80% of normal usage and it is now fully automated.
Fixing it can be a bit hard… since the computer is rebooting all the time. McAfee could create a bootable windows CD that restores the missing file from the system but.. hey wait.. no they can’t do that. You can’t distribute a proprietary OS like windows for free… Maybe they can create a Linux boot CD to restore the windows file… Something to contemplate: using Linux to revive a windows machine.
Now take a look at this: Mike Davey built a Turing Machine. And what a beauty it is… What? Don’t know what a Turing machine is? And you don’t know who Alan Turing is? Well no one special: he just happened to kickstart automated computing by formalizing algorithms , computability and programmable machines as we know it today. That’s all. Jeez what’s wrong with you?
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Here are some more videos of different programs the Turing Machine is executing.
Oh nice… on march 30 the first particle collision will be performed with the Large Hadron Collider. According to some it will also be the last collision… since the LHC might destroy the kittensplanetgalaxyuniverse.
So for all twats out there: here’s a countdown to doomsday:
Je krabbelt de huidige datum bovenaan een pagina waarop je wat aantekeningen van een meeting maakt en dan besef je ineens dat vandaag een palindroom dag is. Jaaa vrienden… 1 februari 2010 wordt in de lage landen geschreven als 01-02-2010 en dat is van links naar rechts gelezen hetzelfde als van rechts naar links oftewel: een palindroom.
Je hebt er niets aan… het blijft een rotdag… maar toch…
Oh My Funny Goodness… take a look at this. As a huge PacMan fan I love everything that has the friendly yellow round gobbler on it… but to be honest… this is a “little” over the top. Still… it’s cool…
More pictures can be found at Zu Zu Top. What? You want to play PacMan now? Here you go!
Plak een plakbandje op het glas waarop je met de permanent marker het waterniveau kunt aanstrepen. Doe het glas ongeveer half vol water. Gooi er een paar ijsblokjes bij zodat ze in het water drijven. Zet nu een streepje bij het niveau van de vloeistof in het glas. Laat nu de boel lekker smelten. Als het ijs gesmolten is zet dan opnieuw een streepje bij het vloeistof niveau in het glas. Valt u iets op? Het niveau is gelijk gebleven! Drijvend ijs dat smelt doet het waterpeil niet veranderen. Daar de noordpool één grote ijsklomp is zal het smelten van de noordpool dus geen verandering van het waterpeil tot gevolg hebben. Kortom u wordt keihard voorgelogen.. maar het is voor de goede zaak.
Onder het ijs op de zuidpool zit land. Als de zuidpool smelt heeft dat wel gevolgen voor het waterniveau.
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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -- Abraham H. Maslow 2011/05/20