trusted computing
Wow, not only is trusted computing – an animated short a beautifully crafted and beautifully designed short film…
...it also is one good message…
for more information on the subject, visit AgainstTCPA.com
PSP in stereo!
Geez, this is something quite clever… when you divide a widescreen up, you get 2 quite usable pieces of screen, to be able to make it a stereoviewer… and so they did!
clicking the PSP brings you to asahi.com(japanese)
Suns new ad-campaign
This banner (attached to a plane) was flying over Dell HQ:
Sun’s Bold New Ad Campaign (/.)
Sun plane buzzes Dell HQ (The Inquirer)
Sun has a plane flying over Corp Dell (forumthread at Anandtech)
Before we forget, it’s all about Sun’s new server line-up: (I’d want one)
And they offer Dell-customers a trade-up, haha, it starts to make sense!
50% better performance than Dell
a test of the SunFire X2100 (Anandtech)
interview with Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and inventor of these hot boxes :-)
How-To: Embed a wifi detector...
Check out Fabienne’s latest How-to on Engadget:
How-To: Embed a wifi detector into a backpack strap
“Wouldn’t it be cool to integrate wifi sniffing into your bag and not have yet another device on your keychain?”
” Creativity is the key with this hack! If you have basic soldering and sewing skills, you can finish this mod easily in an afternoon.”
Somehow it’s all about needle & threads these days :-) This might be worth a shot once I have a bag for my ibook
things to do with an ipod sock (2)
Well… we continue this weekends things to do with an ipod sock-extravaganza
This time, we embroider a skull-logo on an ipod sock!
clicking the picture brings you to the how-to
How to embroider a skull on an ipod sock
UPDATE
Sweet! it’s on:
boingboing.net
&
MAKE:blog :D:D:D
UPDATE
and… hackaday.com itself! yay! :-)
UPDATE
and… ars technica’s Friday morning Apple links
things to do with an ipod sock
DIY iPod sock puppet
MAKE:Blog:DIY iPod sock puppet
I’ve got my own ideas on what to do with an ipod sock, more on that later :-)
candy killer
Some very nice and twisted illustrations to browse:
I have this thing with skulls, bones, hearts etcetera lately… I promise, in the end it’ll all come together and seem logical, I promise ;-)
This is getting funnier everyday...
...or how I stopped worrying and started loving the downfall of MS
Do they really really think they can still play an arrogant game by making ludicrous hardware-requirements for their OS nobody is waiting for?...
Just a little bit on how high on crack they actually are…
“If you have 128MB that’s good, if you have 256MB that’s better, but I expect that video card memory will go up a lot when Longhorn is released.” (yes… that’s videomemory they’re talking about)
ding dong?
SGI’s IRIX had vectorized icons in the mid-nineties, do you really think they did that on 256MB videocards? Think again…
“no current TFT monitor out there is going to support high definition playback in Vista.”
“It’s up to you [the users] to say, ‘Where’s my HDCP?’”
(do I hear someone snicker?)
Well, this kind of behaviour figures in a way that Steve Ballmer wants to f**kin’ kill Google instead of being confident enough just competing with them and MS is trying to hire Eric S. Raymond... I’d say they lost it… for good… and I couldn’t care less… :-)
So, bottom-line? ignore Vista! it’s MS’s Edsel.
For instance, on winsupersite.com they don’t get too enthusiastic about Vista Beta 1 when compared to Tiger... Now I’m sure they tried to be as hyped up about it as they could, but they probably simply couldn’t… :-)
If you want everything Vista promises to be, already this Christmas instead of next year’s (if they even make it on time)... I’d suggest you go out and get yourself a dual-G5, which all of a sudden, with these kind of hardware-requirements for Vista, becomes a viable investment again even though Intel-Macs are coming this way.
By the way, don’t get me wrong here, I love new hardware (I sell it everyday), but what better way to celebrate your new hardware than some software that takes full advantage of it? Vista most definitely isn’t that software, so forget it, MS lost it, period smile
NerdTV
I was looking forward to watch the first episode of NerdTV by Robert X Cringely (whose columns I enjoy sometimes… not all, some of them :-))
Anyways, this first episode is simply great, when I saw it was an hour-long interview I thought ‘Oh my, it must be very interesting if I sit this one out’ but I saw it in one time (and I watch movies in say ten 10-minute chunks)...
This first interview is with Andy Hertzfeld
To get an idea just how (all)right Andy Hertzfeld is, here’s a short soundbite from the interview…
What can I say? Highly recommended!
Khronos projector
This has kept me thinking for days… I don’t know exactly why, but somehow it seems so cool to me as new means of user interaction:
An interactive art installation that allows people to visualize movie content in an entirely new way. By actually touching and deforming the screen, the user can send portions of the image forward or backward in time.
Khronos projector at Siggraph 2005
The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.
Khronos Projector (watch those videos!)
via: Siggraph Best-Of 2005 (hackaday,com)
