Nov 30
Are You Having a blu-ray Christmas?
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Nov 30
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 76
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Navigating Through Change And Landing On Your Feet
If you’re facing (or anticipating) one change of several changes, these tips will help you navigate through transition and help you land on your feet: 1. Acknowledge what’s happening. Get real about your situation and eliminate denial. Identify what you can control and/or influence to gain perspective in devising a strategy for action. 2. Invite collaboration. Brainstorming is an excellent resource for pooling knowledge by gathering…
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Nov 30
Live Music – My Way
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The idea behind livemusicmyway.com is to bring the power of live music back to the consumer, and with the help of a community of online fans create unique, intimate live music events with a strong emphasis on what the consumer desires.
In their own words: “So the idea is, people pre-register online now to show there interest and guarantee there place in the community, then in early December we will email the people who pre-registered to see if they still want to be part of the community. If they choose to be part of the community then pay there £35 fee for the year and then they are taken through to the members area, where the fun begins.
When we have 1000 people signed up and payed up then we will start organising our first event, the community will decide on every aspect of this from where the event is held to how much to charge for tickets to which artists play. The idea is to start off small to build up our brand presence and increase event size slowly with the ultimate aim being to organise a music festival with every detail being decided upon by the community from the toilet facilities to the bands to the camping and even down to the on site caterers.”
Members are offered tickets to the events and merchandise at a discounted price before being put on sale to the general public. then at the end of the year 30% of the profit from the ticket sales, advertising and merchandise will be split amongst the community with a further 10% going to a charity decided upon by the community and the final 60% being put back into the company to grow the brand.
Nov 30
Robots to perform menial tasks by 2025, write for Engadget quite a bit sooner
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While robots have certainly been around for a spell doing things like sweeping your floors and conducting symphonies, up till now they haven’t been “human enough” to replace actual people. According to a new report from the National Intelligence Council, however, they should be up to the task by 2025. The report goes as far as saying that an influx of robo-workers could even “disrupt unskilled labor markets” and occupy jobs currently performed by migrant workers and hapless high school students. Additionally, the report asserts that new technologies could be used to augment human abilities as well, taking on jobs such as caring for the elderly. Unfortunately, the report had no word on the progress of synthetic saliva glands for the inevitable robo-waiter, so no need to fret — yet.
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Nov 30
If you have ever tried to play the guitar using drumsticks, you were probably drinking the same paint thinner as I was drinking, because it’s impossible*. Unless you are playing with Guitar Hero III. And you have a custom midi controller designed to play as it if you were drumming. And you kick ass playing drums. But then, you would probably be the crazy guy who recorded himself in this amazing video just to show that he can a) replace Animal in The Muppets and b) beat the crap out of you playing Guitar Hero III using sticks. [College Humor — Thanks Jon B.]
* Yeah, I know it’s not impossible. Actually, just a few days ago here in Williamsburg, Christy—from the weird and wonderful Christy & Emily, get their album—left me speechless with her amazing live—and real—guitar performance, which included a drumstick in a song.
Nov 30
Working Linux on iPhone
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In another hardware conquest for the Linux platform, it has been successfully ported to the iPhone. While the current version is not much more than a working, beta version, it does prove that a Linux iPhone is a viable proposition.
As Gizmodo points out in the headline of their article, this may be the start of an Android iPhone. Oh, the irony is fantastic.
For much more geeky details, take a look at the blog, and/or the video.
Nov 29
Okay, remember that bit about waiting for a wide release? Yeah, screw that noise. Firmware 4.7.0.75 for the BlackBerry Storm has drizzled out onto the interwebs, and initial reports from intrepid updaters seem to be generally positive. We can’t verify the authenticity of this sucker, but if you were counting down the minutes until RIM got around to patching up issues and killing some lag, 75 might be a good start. Good luck, friends.
[Thanks, Erik]
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BlackBerry Storm update leaks to the masses originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nov 29
Hey you, hot-shot movie cutter! Now that we’ve got your attention, have a look at this. Adobe‘s research laboratory has been toiling away with a sophisticated interactive video-object manipulation system, which gives video editors all sorts of creative windows with next to no rendering lag. An After Effects demonstration shows an editor selecting the outside of a cab and typing “taxi” — once the text is imprinted on the vehicle, it stays on the car as it moves up and down the street. We know, you’re totally scratching your head trying to envision what we just said, so why not just head past the break and give it a look?
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Nov 29
Here you have it. Linux running on the iPhone. Yes, it’s only the first port, but it’s the iPhone running the Linux OS, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port thanks to the reverser engineering of Apple’s hardware drivers by iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing. And while it is still limited and doen’t have support for many things, this work opens the door to a much more interesting thing than just a character-based terminal: Google’s Android running on the iPhone hardware.
Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but if Google does this—and most probably not even Google directly, but someone else using Android’s codebase—it would really make things interesting. I, for one, would love to see this happening, even while I personally think that Android is half-baked and most people will ignore it. For now.
At this time, the Linux port has the framebuffer driver (for video), the serial driver, serial over USB driver, and drivers for the interrupts, the clock, and miscellaneous hardware components. They don’t have most of the other things, like write support for the NAND memory, wireless networking, touchscreen drivers, sound, accelerometer, and, one big and, the baseband chip, which is what makes the iPhone communicate with the cellular networks.
But the fact is that it’s getting there and, knowing this, I’m sure several Google employees are scrambling to get the codebase for this port, and maybe help in the effort.
[Linux on iPhone via iPhone Dev Team—Thanks GloKidd]
Nov 29
Mary Lou Jepsen—the XO Laptop’s designer and OLPC’s CTO before defecting and founding Pixel Qi—has even grander ambitions for new laptop project than hitting a mythical $75 pricetag. Pixel Qi is working on a laptop will be able to run on a standard for 20 to 40 hours, no pixie dust required.
How? It’s all about the screen. Just just like she reinvented the LCD screen for the XO, making the project possible both costwise and practically (with the flip of a switch, the color LCD can switch to one that’s monochrome and highly reflective, making it easy to use outside and even more energy efficient) she’s trying to do it again with Pixel Qi’s latest. Their incredible efficiency is what will allow the laptops to possibly run for 20-40 hours.
Obviously, she wouldn’t spell out in detail what’s so magical about their screens yet. In an email to PC World, Jepsen simply says that:
“At Pixel Qi, we have a new series of inventions that go well beyond the OLPC screen that we are developing right now… We can enable an increase of 5-10X battery life between charges compared with a standard notebook. This means that rather than needing to recharge your batteries every few hours, you could run 20-40 hours of use on a one charge.”
However they work, we’ll be eager to check ’em out when they debut sometime in the second half of next year. [PC World via Engadget]
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