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Aug 27
2009

Wirless everything...now Wireless electricity demo by Eric Giler on TED.com

Posted by: gary.wong in Personal

gary.wong

I LOVE the idea of wireless electricity and the demo just amazing! The story about how this all start...priceless:

"A college professor got woke up in the middle of the night because his wife's cell phone out of battery..."  A story with an opening like that can't get any better, isn't it?

Aug 19
2009

DIE IE6, DIE.

Posted by: gary.wong in Personal

Tagged in: Windows , IE6 , BS!

gary.wong

Thank you Microsoft, THANK YOU for letting people know IE 6 should go away.  Gregg Keizer from Computer world wrote an article about Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 “Microsoft: 'Friends don't let friends use IE6’.  Many users did not realize IE 6 had been around on the internet for the past 8+ years, and it is the same old buggy internet browser with lots of problem.  Do a quick search on the Microsoft IE bugs list and I promise you can find pages and pages long of issues related to IE 6.

Aug 06
2009

Space is not that far away after all ...

Posted by: gary.wong in Personal

Tagged in: BS!

gary.wong

This is the video about James May from Top Gear U.K. takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane.  The video is about 10 minutes long, and it record two spaceman fly to the edge of space within 8 mins.

Aug 01
2009

Firefox Hits 1 Billion Downloads - OpenBookTutorials is happy!

Posted by: jerome.heuze in Personal

Tagged in: Untagged 

jerome.heuze

"Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has just hit a new milestone, reaching its 1 billionth user download. "

Source: JR Raphael, PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article/169446/firefox_hits_1_billion_downloads_so_whats_next.html

Jul 29
2009

Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education [TED]

Posted by: jerome.heuze in Personal

jerome.heuze

Abstract: Arthur Benjamin is proposing to change the curriculum for math education to be torwards statistics and probability instead of Calculus. 

Jul 24
2009

NASA using open source applications

Posted by: jerome.heuze in Personal

Tagged in: open source , NASA

jerome.heuze
Brief: 
NASA indicates several purposes for making its software open source:
  • To increase NASA software quality via community peer review.
  • To accelerate software development via community contributions.
  • To maximize the awareness and impact of NASA research.
  • To increase dissemination of NASA software in support of NASA's education mission.
This is a great news that Nasa will be using open source for their software used for shuttle systems and other AI used around the ship to assist their resident. If Nasa will be doing its own updates then the core of the application should become GPL or GNU so that other space agencies could re-use the same code. This way a global collaboration will be beneficial to all space programs thus reducing the cost of development.

This is a big step for Open Source and huge leap for the movement of freedom licensing! :)

Let's forward into the future - future Linux application will be running the latest space ships systems, navigation, shuttle systems, life support, etc. Imagine the interface looking like gnome!

NASA takes open source into space

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