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MIT Professor Dan Nocera: Presentation on Global Energy Consumption and a Possible Solution
Lucid and easy to understand lecture on global energy consumption, and our future. MIT Professor Dan Nocera has integrated data from multiple disciplines to a single cohesive presentation. Useful statistics on the various sources and consumers of energy. Watch this, it’s worth it:
Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy from PopTech on Vimeo.
Summary
Leverage the energy density in water, to solve the world’s energy problems. MIT teams have artificially created photosynthesis.
Is this a viable solution?
Google executives convicted in Italy, because of uploaded content!
According to an article on the BBC site, Google bosses convicted in Italy, three Google executives were convicted because they “allowed” someone to upload a video of an autistic kid being bullied.
From the article:
The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online.
Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations.
The UK’s former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said the case gave privacy laws a “bad name”.
The three employees, Peter Fleischer, David Drummond and George De Los Reyes, received suspended six-month sentences, while a fourth defendant, product manager Arvind Desikan, was acquitted.
David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google and one of those convicted, said he was “outraged” by the decision.
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Google Buzz: Turn off the Buzz
A few days ago Google buzz launched. This included automatically starting up Google buzz in your Gmail account, and automatically setting your followers.
While nice of Google (and scary), automatically assuming Gmail users would want Google buzz to share who you are following with your followers — was a poor assumption. › Continue reading
iPad Makes Appearance at the Grammy Awards
For those of you who missed it (I didn’t see most of the Grammy Awards either), here is a video of the iPad making its television debut in the hands of Stephen Colbert:
iPad, iPhone, Apple — and Flash. A Sad Story.
Anyone who regularly reads this blog (sorry) can see how optimistic I am that the iPhone will eventually support flash. Today I read news that entirely dashes those hopes.
I just hopped over to MacRumors.com (I love that site) and saw this, Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall Meeting on Google, Adobe, Next iPhone, 2010 Macs and More.
In the article MacRumors reports:
Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not its because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
That is, what I consider to be, the final nail in the coffin. Steve Jobs has shown his hand with regards to Flash.
A few weeks ago, news hit the internet of a clever developer who had implemented his own HTML/Javascript version of Flash — and it worked on the iPhone. You can see this at the demos of Gordon – An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG.
What does all this mean? Flash won’t be allowed on Apple’s most cherished devices.
If Steve Jobs is experiencing headaches because of Flash and there is an alternative, why wouldn’t he pursue it? HTML flash handle Flash like effects in an open format, a format in which Apple can control and mitigate the reach of Adobe into its own products.
It has been over a year since Adobe was able to demo Flash running on the iPhone. Why hasn’t it made it on the iPhone? Well Steve Jobs and Apple both believe the future is in the canvases of HTML 5. Video can be properly (and easily) embedded, sound included, animation effects that surpass today’s AJAX packages, and many other facets that make HTML 5 a candidate to replace Flash.
This doesn’t make me happy. I’ve come to love Flash as it has evolved.
Apple will use all forces it can to stop Adobe from growing their Flash install base. While Apple has control over a large platform, the iPhone/iPad, they will force developers to adapt to the new technologies such as HTML 5.
Apple has zero intention on ever letting Flash hit the iPhone, iPad, or even any computer if they could do that. I don’t foresee them stopping Flash from their full fledged computers, that would be suicide.
Say goodbye to the romantic notion of Flash on your Apple device.
On the Apple iPad: Problems I See
For the first time in years I think Apple has missed the target. There are so many problems that I see, right now, with the iPad. › Continue reading
Apple Announces the iPad
It’s finally here. No more rumors / guessing. Apple has finally announced the iPad.
This afternoon Steve Jobs announced the upcoming launch of the iPad at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. › Continue reading
Apple: iTunes won’t transfer HD tv show to my iPhone 3GS
First of all, I’m on tech support with Apple and couldn’t say better things about their tech support staff. They are intelligent, helpful, polite — and very easy to understand and work with.
Just today, before going to the gym (you can tell I haven’t done this in a while) — I went to sync season 3 of Heroes (very good show) to my iPhone to entertain me while on the treadmill. It doesn’t work. › Continue reading
Nexus One Pricing Leak, Release Date Confirmed
As seen at Gizmodo on the blog posting, Leaked Nexus One Documents: $530 Unlocked, $180 with T-Mobile — prices have been leaked for the Nexus One. Talk about a difference from earlier rumors of $99 for Google users. › Continue reading
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