WHAT IS A HACKER?

The Pirate Bay ... download your sneakers within 20 years.

"We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years."

http://thepiratebay.se/blog

Talk about high resolution (4K) - four times the quality of 1080p on youtube, ain't that an awesome world :_)

Source: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/07/whats-bigger-than-1080p-4k-video-comes.html

To illustrate the power of 4K, please check out the videos in this playlist; each one was created by a filmmaker with access to a 4K camera. (Be warned: watching videos in 4K, even on YouTube, will require ultra-fast high-speed broadband connections).

Because 4K represents the highest quality of video available, there are a few limitations that you should be aware of. First off, video cameras that shoot in 4K aren’t cheap, and projectors that show videos in 4K are typically the size of a small refrigerator. And, as we mentioned, watching these videos on YouTube will require super-fast broadband.

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and that's why, i'd say Youtube rocks. How many would have thought about it, a few years aback. Few! i'd say. That's just breath taking, ah! I wish ... youtube be useful for people in the years to come. Wish you luck, people of youtube. Everybody would love you for forcing the technology savvy companies to built more awesome machines (powerful i meant). So that we could watch those awesome videos.

[ VIDEO ] GOOGLE AUTO-DRIVING CAR

What is Chromium?

via chromium.org

"Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code."

Chromium is a browser and Chromium OS is the operating system being build by open source community.

Cyrius comment on Reddit regarding the difference between Microsoft sites and Google sites

Cyrius 

The biggest difference I've noticed between Microsoft sites and Google sites is that Microsoft seems to want their users to spend as much time as possible on their pages.
Google by contrast seems to want the opposite. Get the user's search results and then send them on their way.

To possibly refine the thought: both Microsoft and Google want people to spend time on their sites. Microsoft tries to get people to spend time on their site by giving them reasons to not leave. Google tries to get people to spend time on their site by giving them reasons to come back.

Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ej32l/we_are_the_hotmail_development_team_lets_talk/c18gp4r

Battle of the Video Chat Applications: Google Chat vs. Skype vs. iChat

NOW THIS IS GAMING!

JOLICLOUD - THE BROWSER FRIENDLY OS

source: lifehacker

Jolicloud is a free download, and can install on most netbooks, or on other systems as a separate partition. Refer to our previous post for Windows-based installation tips, or read up on how to install Jolicloud as a separate partition.

Ultra-Thin HDTV With Ultra-Cool Remote Added: January 29, 2010 The Samsung 9000 is an ultra-thin, LCD HDTV that supports 3-D using active shutter glasses. It also has a full color touchscreen remote.

DO YOU NOW WHAT FILE SYTEM GOOGLE USES?

The Google File System    

[pbs.org][TWITTER SAVED BY GOOGLE]

[ stephenwolfram.com | wolframalpha.com ] [ youtube ][ Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine ] [ youtube.com ] [ COMPUTE ALL DATA AVAILABLE ] [ 1.45 HR ]

[ About the video ]

There's been great anticipation around Stephen Wolfram's ambitious project to create a comprehensive "computational knowledge engine."

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University will host a sneak preview of the Wolfram|Alpha system, and a discussion of its underlying technology and implications. Participants will include Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram and Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain.

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, the author of A New Kind of Science, and now the creator of Wolfram|Alpha. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research.

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/scrapbook/page1/

[ AUDIO ][ TECH TALK ][ STEVE BALMER ON APPLE ]

[ TEXT OF THE SPEECH ]

Linux. It's all about Linux. We've been competing with Linux for a number of years. I want to describe our value proposition. We are a high-volume player. We do not, like Apple, believe in low volume, very high prices. Apple's a great company, does a fine job, but their model says high margin, high quality, high price, that's kinda how they come to market.

We say we want big market share, but with big market share you take the lower price.

Well, along comes Linux, and they say, "we have no price," which of course, we know for IP and other reasons, of course they have a price. But they say "we have no price." The problem you have with these so-called free alternatives is there's also not the incentive to a lot of the hard work to build out the ecosystem to support the hardware vendors that is required.

So a model like ours, which is high volume and high value but low priced but not free. You could say are you guys in the middle ground or are you where you want to be? And I say we're exactly where we want to be.

[ LOL @ AOL , Time Warner buys Google's $1 billion stake in AOL for $283 million. Plus Sprint acquires Virgin Mobile USA and IBM buys SPSS (July 28). ] [ online.wsj.com ]

[ DIGITAL DAILY ] [ Microsoft and Yahoo: Big deal ... 7/29/2009 After months of negotiation and speculation, Microsoft and Yahoo finally ink a search advertising deal. Plus, the Palm Pre doesn't do much to help Sprint's earnings. (July 29). ] [ online.wsj.com/video-center ]

[ bestechvideos.com | youtube.com ][ Fun with Light: Strong Photon-Photon Interactions and Meta-Materials ]

Who uploaded the video?
http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks

Where this page you saw this video? Hold on, Hold on telling you, Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euc0XZt1VEA

bestechvideos.com source page :
http://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/07/19/fun-with-light-quantum-computing-a-physicist-s-perspective-on-recent-developments

What's the video about?

Fun with Light: Strong Photon-Photon Interactions and Meta-Materials

Presented by Jung-Tsung Shen

The lightsaber is a supercool gadget that all of us would like to get one. It exhibits many novel light phenomena, notably the light blades of two lightsabers could interact with each other. Unfortunately it takes an enormous amount of energy to achieve that. One of the main difficulties of making a lightsaber is that photons normally do not interact with each other.

In the first part of the talk, I will describe how to make photons interact with each other, which enables the capability of using photons to control photons. This capability has many potential applications in quantum communication and information processing, and other novel optoelectronics devices. Moreover, the configuration is well-suited for on-chip all solid-state implementations.

In the second part of the talk, I will briefly explain what metamaterials are, and some novel optical tricks they can play, such as Harry Potter's invisibility cloak and super lens. In particular, I will discuss the mechanisms and properties of a special class of metamaterials -- metamaterials with ultra-high refractive index. Such artificial structures will be useful in many applications such as subwavelength lithography and imaging, broadband slow-light, and sensitive interferometer.

(* The talk is for general audience with no background in these fields. *)

Dr. Jung-Tsung Shen is currently a research associate at Stanford University, working on photon transport in nano-photonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and thermal and energy transport in nano-structures. He obtained his PhD degree in physics in 2003 from MIT. He was also a graduate scholar at Bell Labs from year 1998 -2001. He will be an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis in September this year.

ted.com - Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth - Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.

[ You ] Try PhotoSynth technology right Now Or See the embedded PhotoSynth Technology in the blog see below: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=6372fe3d-0798-47b7-afaa-141e5837d605

This is PhotoSynth - High Resolution of Picture + Every Picture is connceted Giving you the feel of 3D





http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx

http://photosynth.net/explore.aspx

livelabs.com/photosynth/

WSJ.COM - Pink Slip Thursday at Cisco . Cisco sacks hundreds. Plus, Google engineering directory leaves for VMware and Microsoft to open stores near Apple Stores

Fun geeky talk about the companies, CEO's and Cisco.

INTERNET IS DEAD - DO YOU AGREE - Columnist and portfolio manager James Altucher explains to Simon Constable why Google, Facebook and other internet plays are dead from an investment standpoint. Plus what stocks are hot in the rest of the economy.

Internet advantages, internet uses cannot be ignored. History of internet shows that the growth comes naturally to internet but you've to agree with James Altucher that you don't feel excited on Internet anymore.

You know that you use internet as utility and nothing else. No big companies has shown any potential. People go to a website perform a service and run away. What's the growth potential not 1000% at least as in the times of ' .com ' boom