Monday, April 30, 2012

Calif. Man Sues BMW For Persistent Erection « CBS Detroit

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/04/30/calif-man-sues-bmw-for-persistent-erection/

Collapse of Moore’s Law ‘in about 10 years’ - SlashGear

http://www.slashgear.com/collapse-of-moores-law-in-about-10-years-30225268/

Java Inventor: 'Google Totally Slimed Sun' (ORCL, GOOG)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/04/30/businessinsiderjava-inventor-google.DTL

Gamasutra - News - UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169485/UK_ISPs_ordered_to_block_The_Pirate_Bay.php

Microsoft secures Windows 8 tablet ebook future - SlashGear

http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-secures-windows-8-tablet-ebook-future-30225279/

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Fwd: [svlug-announce] SVLUG May 2nd Meeting: Panel of Speakers on Comparitive Operating Systems


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "mark weisler"
Date: Apr 29, 2012 9:47 AM
Subject: [svlug-announce] SVLUG May 2nd Meeting: Panel of Speakers on Comparitive Operating Systems
To: <svlug-announce@lists.svlug.org>

WHEN:

  Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 
  7:00pm-9:00pm

MAIN PRESENTATION

 TOPIC: Comparing Current Open Source Unix Systems
  Snacks and beverages at this meeting will be provided by ValueHost.

 PRESENTED BY:
   A Distinguished Panel of  Speakers

 TOPIC SUMMARY:
   The panel will discuss the main current open source Unix systems including Linux, BSD, illumos, SmartOS, Plan 9, 
   and possibly others. Attendees will learn more about the energy and ideas behind these operating systems 
   as well as their future direction.

 ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:   
   Our panel includes Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing representing Linux; Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at IxSystems, Inc. 
   for FreeBSD; Bryan Cantrill will be talking about the successor to OpenSolaris, illumos, and Joyent's own distro, SmartOS; 
   Charles Forsyth, Technical Director and Co-Founder at Vita Nuova for Plan 9; and possibly others. 
   Check out our flyer (340 KB PDF).

   Rick Moen, long-time volunteer to SVLUG and veteran system administrator, will be our moderator.

 LOCATION:

   Symantec
   VCAFE Facility
   350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
   Mountain View, CA 94043

   Directions on how to get there are listed at:

   http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.php

   We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
   If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
   webmaster at svlug.org

 POST-MEETING GATHERING:

  If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
  restaurant/diner after the meeting:  Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi, Too,
  939 West El Camino Real between Shoreline and Castro, Mountain View.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Instagram used Twitter to make Facebook pay more (rumor) | ZDNet

Some real numbers include, like $300m in cash.

http://m.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/instagram-used-twitter-to-make-facebook-pay-more-rumor/12190

Creators have to be able to see what they are doing.

Amazing real time programming tools in JavaScript that let you see the results of code changes immediately.   This is an incredible breakthrough.

Something that I hope one day can be in the Amorphous OS I wish to build.


Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Guiding Principal


Ideas are very important to me. Bringing ideas to the world are one of the most important thing for people do.
and I think that great ideas in the form of great art, stories, inventions,
scientific theories these thing take on lives of their own which give meaning to our lives as people.


So, I think a lot about how people create ideas and how ideas grow and in particular, what sorts of tools create a healthy environment for ideas to grow.


I've spent a lot of time over the years making creative tools, using creative tools, thinking about this a lot and here's something I've come to believe,
creators need an immediate connection to what they create.


When you making something you need to see the effect of that immediately.


Creators need an immediate connection to what they are creating.


Creators have to be able to see what they are doing.



Friday, April 06, 2012

Re: Microsoft still handing out checks for Windows Phone apps - CSMonitor.com

From RM:

Quoting JM:
> Interesting. I wonder how much is that everyone is tired of M$ market
> dominance?
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0406/Microsoft-still-handing-out-checks-for-Windows-Phone-apps
They've subsidised Windows preloads for decades, using co-op marketing
subsidies without which most PC models would lose money. That's a key
part of how they control the OEMs.

Microsoft still handing out checks for Windows Phone apps - CSMonitor.com

Interesting. I wonder how much is that everyone is tired of M$ market dominance?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0406/Microsoft-still-handing-out-checks-for-Windows-Phone-apps