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and Rossi's own demo for October is still supposed to happen

Amazon announces crazy Kindle prices and their $199 tablet

it bugs me that they forked Android (based on a version prior to 
2.2) - that's a second strike. The first was that they bought Touchco, 
a very promising tech company which had one of the best and cheapest 
touchscreen implementations ($10/sq ft), good for both stylus and 
fingers. This should have been technology for the masses, not restricted 
to Amazon. Oh well, I guess it's still for the masses if they sell 
enough tablets with that tech, at some point. Forking Android though, 
screw them. With their user base, they have the potential to upset 
the Android cart.

No worse than MS buying some technology for Windows ...

Presumably it can be licensed

Amazon is cool but they seem to have the MS mentality of ignoring 
standards... "embrace and extend" i guess...

If they can lower the barrier to entry ... then I'm all for this.

The problem with Amazon is it's "Amazon store developer agreement" 
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/04/igda-updates-warning-to-amazon-appstore-developers-its-not-a-misunderstanding.php

Yet another mobile OS coming? http://www.osnews.com/comments/25196
... I don't understand Samsung, as they have Bada. Also wondering, 
if HTC buys WebOS ....

If SpaceX can do what they show in this video, it looks promising:

http://www.spacex.com/assets/video/spacex-rtls-green.mp4

Looks cool. I'm wondering, why spacecrafts always have a smooth surface. 
Pinguins are known to have very little resistance, when they move 
through water, and they don't have a smooth surface because they 
used to have feathers. Sharks have a rough surface, I guess this 
also mean less resistance, when they move through water. A golf ball 
fly longer with all its little bulges, than if it had a smooth surface. 
Yet spacecrafts have smooth surfaces.

*penguins*

About shark skin and swimsuits:

http://www.curiocity.ca/everyday-science/sports/item/1001-sharks-in-the-pool.html

It probably depends on how much is gained by improving airflow around 
the rocket body in relation to reducing its mass.

And RIM has slashed $200 off their playbook line ...

Elon Musk needs really to learn how to be a public speaker. His talk 
is hard to follow.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-dark-side-of-apple-one-mans-monologue-of-misery-20110930-1l0hg.html

The Woz apparently cried on seeing this presentation

The Woz apparently cried on seeing this show

Are our tech toys causing others to work in hell?

A golf ball fly longer with all its little bulges


Other way around, it has dimples, and a sharks skin is sort of like 
plates, and work the same way.

Yeah, I realized, the correct word is "dimples". "Bulges" and "dimples" 
are not too familar words to me.

In danish, it's the same word, "buler", even if they go in or out 
of the surface. Sometimes the word "fordybninger" is used, and those 
only go into the surface.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css-shaders.html

iPhone 5 - ha ha ha :-)

India $46 tablet released http://news.yahoo.com/india-launch-45-tablet-computer-211428621.html

Price hoped to drop to $10

Android 2.2 and 256Mb ram.  REBOL not preloaded

http://www.techspot.com/news/45748-unreal-engine-3-comes-to-adobe-flash-11.html

or better this link: http://www.unrealengine.com/insiderblog/unreal_engine_3_comes_to_flash

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Wow, he almost held out to the last minute

Farewell, Steve.

It's very impressive how he turned around Apple and how all the dots 
connected. The difference is, that he knew it upfront and we see 
it afterwards. That's what makes a great entrepreneur.

He was a very impressive entrepeneur .. but was he an inventor like 
Carl?

IMHO he was a far better inventor than Bill G.
Both were very good entrepreneur at there time.

I'm sad, even if I didn't really know him.

I'm not sure if it covers "entrepreneur" or "inventor", if he had 
stuff that he thought up, built by others from his instructions, 
but he did a lot of that, as he knew a lot about industrial design, 
even before the first Macintosh was built. There are a number of 
things on their products that are directly attributable to him.

GrahamC: Carl might be a good inventor, but what is it good for, 
if he is not able to realise his visions?

Yes, Steve was not really an inventor as he evented pretty nothing.

But he was the visionar who see what invention could be a progress 
for people way of life.

And he has also a good sense of design to make inventions "love-able" 
by people.

Ultimately I guess one measures people by how they influenced the 
world

Leadership and invention must be mutually exclusive qualities :(

Oh, that was suddently. I hope, he had fun most of the time.

what is it good for, if he is not able to realise his visions?


Good inventions can inspire others for other good stuff. So yes, 
it's good for something!

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/275890,vale-steve-jobs-worlds-greatest-failure.aspx

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0328230/Dennis-Ritchie-Creator-of-C-Programming-Language-Passed-Away?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2685


neutrinos were not travelling faster than light speed ... the experiment 
did not account for the GPS satellites being in a different referencec 
frame.  They calculated to account for this and found the missing 
32 nanoseconds

As I understand it, the GPS satellite that does the timing is moving 
much faster than the earth and is in a different reference frame. 
 In the experiment, the neutrino source is moving towards the satellite 
and so the neutrinos appear sto be travelling a shorter distance 
in the GPS's frame of reference.

They also moved an atomic watch from CERN to Gran Sasso to verify 
the other (GPS) timing. So more investigation is needed. But it's 
an interesting study, how complicated 'simple' timing of events is.

Has anyone tried this:

http://stereopsis.com/flux/


It is supposed to change the color temperature of the display throughout 
the day, so that the display becomes warmer as it becomes night. 
Research apparently shows that you sleep better, if you are not looking 
at cold lights at night time.

RIM finally announced QNX OS for their smartphones too. Their platform 
inlcudes Cascades UI, which should be easy abstraction for developers 
to do some nice stuff:

http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/10/cascades-blackberry/