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[Tech News] Interesting technology

Pavel
8-Apr-2011
[5862]
easy to read description at www.grandzebu.net together with other 
barcode symbologies
GrahamC
8-Apr-2011
[5863]
A datamatrix can hold 2K per bar code .. so we would have to create 
a matrix of datamatrices to store the data we need on a page
NormanDep
9-Apr-2011
[5864x2]
I simply wont die ;-) New look modern inside..All Amarican build....http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Store.aspx
http://www.commodoreusa.net/
Maxim
9-Apr-2011
[5866x3]
funny how I am starting to like the guys at comodore usa !  :-o


when I read through the forum on their "fan" site, the guy in charge 
is quite level headed, knows the scene and actually embodies more 
of the spirit that went into the first commodore & amiga.   just 
do it.
he is getting bashed all the time and he replies with a good attitude. 
 I think he just was lucky (had the opportunity and will) about being 
able to license both commodore and amiga from the two different license 
owners at the same time.


If he can give me a better linux experience at a reasonable price 
I might just go and get one.   and yes... having a C64 cased PC *is* 
geeky cool.
the only problem is that they are not using any decent video cards 
in their machines, so that sucks big time.   sorry, but all of the 
intel cards are extremely sucky.   they don't even compare to 4-5 
year old mobile cards from ati and nvidia.
ddharing
9-Apr-2011
[5869x5]
This new C64 caught my attention from a Yahoo! Finance article: http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt
Let's see if they can actually ship a new machine.
I'm an old Commodore user. My first computer was a VIC-20. Learned 
BASIC on the VIC. Fun times.
It appears that the VIC Pro and VIC Slim are available for purchase 
now. -- http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Store.aspx
They ship with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with the Commodore OS 1.0 to be mailed 
later. I can only imagine how much later.
GrahamC
9-Apr-2011
[5874x3]
Maybe RT could get Rebol pre-loaded on it ??
Or Red :)
I can just imagine taking this thing to the hospital outpatients 
to do my clinics :)
Henrik
15-Apr-2011
[5877]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhNXHCQGsM

An open source camera based object tracking system.
Pekr
15-Apr-2011
[5878x3]
Hmm, Czech Republic. However - I wonder how does it differ to OpenCV 
library, which has quite extensive functionality?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-yR5ozxw4E
There's even a book about it, it seems there is also C, C++, Python 
binding, etc.
Pekr
19-Apr-2011
[5881]
New toys to play with - Tabula, new FPGA king?


http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/19/tabula-scores-108-million-to-bring-cheap-programmable-chips-to/
Geomol
19-Apr-2011
[5882]
So in the near future, we can buy microwave ovens, fridges, tv's 
etc. that isn't completely ready for market, but need upgrade afterwards, 
like with games today. That'll be fun! :-)
Henrik
19-Apr-2011
[5883]
Many TVs today are the same. Many TV or DVD player "repairs" are 
really software upgrades.
Geomol
19-Apr-2011
[5884]
Yes, and this tendency seem to spread to all electronic equipment.

If just we had resource economy ... ;)
Henrik
19-Apr-2011
[5885]
if we had resource economy, we probably would have better things 
to do than stare at TVs. :-)
Maxim
19-Apr-2011
[5886x2]
maby not... the stuff on TV would be much better  ;-D
and everyone would have a 60 inch OLED screen  :-D
onetom
19-Apr-2011
[5888]
which would still dissipate a lot of heat, so ppl might not want 
it just because it's bigger
Maxim
19-Apr-2011
[5889]
I dont' mind the heat... it'll heat the house in one of the 9 months 
I need to   ;-)


bah, they can always get a smaller OLED screen... its still prohibitively 
expensive.
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/cat-oledmonitors/
GrahamC
22-Apr-2011
[5890x2]
Looks like Amazon EC2 have had an outage lasting 30 hours + :(
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20110422/tc_nf/78265
Gregg
22-Apr-2011
[5892]
Wow. Recent ACM and IEEE issues have had a number of articles on 
just how fast we've moved to the cloud, and that it will only accelerate. 
They also discuss technical issues that need to be addressed, but 
I don't think any of them have said "the big cloud providers could 
go down for 30 hours."
Kaj
22-Apr-2011
[5893]
A few weeks ago I couldn't upload to S3 for a number of days. I was 
gearing up to sort out some unknown new-version incompatibility when 
it just started working again
GrahamC
22-Apr-2011
[5894x4]
Even though my instances and EBS volumes were in the affected zone, 
I'm not aware of any down time for  me
Kaj, what were you using to try and upload?
Amazon are blaming some network issue .. EC2 didn't actually go down, 
but the EBS did.  There was some type of cascading failure possibly 
as some type of replication went out of control and used up all available 
storage.
Anyway the post mortem will be interesting .. and hopefully Amazon 
will have a more durable product as a result.
Kaj
23-Apr-2011
[5898]
I was using S3Sync, which is written in Ruby and more or less abandoned, 
so I was suspecting an incompatible protocol change, but I couldn't 
find anything
onetom
23-Apr-2011
[5899x2]
Last year at the startup weekend in Singapore I was showing Rebol 
to a couple of Amazon guys. They were amazed... I was proposing I 
would create a Rebol commandline tool set for them if they could 
get some donation, but nothing really happened... yet :)
I can imagine very well that complexity issues were also noticably 
delaying this latest downtime resolution...
Kaj
23-Apr-2011
[5901x2]
Yes, I have been thinking the same. Amazon is very good at keeping 
their web services simple, but over time, complexity adds up anyway
By the way, S3Sync is abandoned because the guy was fed up with the 
Ruby language implementation. He wants to do a new version in Java, 
which is useless to me
onetom
23-Apr-2011
[5903]
:) useless guy..
Kaj
23-Apr-2011
[5904]
Ruby is one of the cleaner languages out there, so that's telling
Henrik
23-Apr-2011
[5905]
maybe it's a money issue?
BrianH
23-Apr-2011
[5906x2]
Kaj, the Ruby language itself is pretty clean. The *implementations* 
of the language mostly suck, and there are some problems with the 
underlying semantics that made some of the implementation problems 
inevitable. The language was designed to look pretty. However, they 
are working on making the implementation better - that's why there 
are so many implementations - and there have been some efforts to 
clean up the semantics too. It's slow going though, and they are 
slowed down in their efforts by having most of the implementations 
not run on Windows very well or at all, which cuts down on the developer 
pool drastically. It is not uncommon to have projects written in 
Ruby be converted to other languages when they get useful. Java is 
a pretty common target for these conversions - this is one of the 
reasons JRuby is relatively popular.
I have friends who program in Ruby for a living, and every one of 
them has independently asked that I redo the language from scratch, 
similar to Red or REBOL.
onetom
23-Apr-2011
[5908x2]
BrianH: ur friends asked u to redo what language from scratch?
(i was using ruby for living too, just this current project let's 
me use rebol -- so far..)
BrianH
23-Apr-2011
[5910]
Ruby. I've been asked at least 6 times, by people who didn't know 
I've been asked before, but knew about my work on REBOL. One friend 
even made sure I learned Ruby just so I could tell him about the 
semantic issues of it, and possible workarounds.
onetom
23-Apr-2011
[5911]
btw, im seeing windows guys switching to linux or mac because of 
ruby and it's higer and higer in demand, so the developer pool is 
expanding pretty well (which i can tell u as a core member of the 
singapore ruby brigade ;)