Archives for January 2012
censor box
20 January 2012 | Art | No Comments
и еще немного пятничной неопределенности: Кениче Хошин и его картины.
via.
дисперсия
20 January 2012 | Google, Software | 3 Comments
The truth is that Ice Cream Sandwich — which I believe is the first truly significant improvement to Android since it debuted — is effectively a preview of next year’s Android for the mass market.
все, что гвоорят о Google и Android сегодня — все начинается и заканчивается ровно одним и тем же: фрагментацией.
повсеместно
20 January 2012 | Software | 1 Comment
сбылась мечта идиота:
To celebrate its 20th birthday, we have ported Vim to the iOS.
iPhone-версия смотрится особенно чудесно. но, тем не менее, я все больше сомневаюсь, что когда-нибудь еще приобрету “обычный компьютер”[1].
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[1] — пока не без ограничений, впрочем:
Vim on iOS behaves much like other unix versions, but some restrictions apply:
- Vim is running in a sandbox. You can only edit files within the $HOME directory. Other files are accessible read-only.
- Unfortunately, Vim cannot start (nor ship with) any external binary. This is a limitation of the iOS SDK, and cannot be worked around.
что делать зимой
20 January 2012 | Apple, Science | No Comments
в iTunes U , кстати, навалом бесплатных университетских курсов:
Once you download the app, you can select courses that combine audio/video lectures with supporting materials: books and articles (sometimes free, sometimes not), transcripts of lectures, exercises, slideshows, useful software and beyond. Some courses preloaded in the free app include:
American Revolution – Joanne Freeman, Yale
Colonial and Revolutionary America – Jack Rakove, Stanford
Core Concepts in Chemistry – Stephen L. Craig, Duke
iPad and iPhone App Development – Paul Hegarty, Stanford
я вот слушаю про звезды. или, например, еще, — прилагается к “Барочному циклу”.
wintermute
20 January 2012 | Photo | No Comments
I love juxtapositions. I like paradoxes and surreal situations. I love to create them for my artistic activity, as well as my daily routine. But I use handmade smoke bombs because I need a lot of smoke in a few seconds to fight with weathering, not because it’s necessary to surprise a possible audience.
samizdat, take two
20 January 2012 | Apple, Software | 1 Comment
что до остальных событий, то представленная вчера программа iBooks Author замечательна без меры — здесь небольшой walkthrough (и еще один, и кое-что об используемом формате), а тут — важное уточнение:
The real story here today shouldn’t be that Apple has ‘audaciously’ claimed ownership of the books make with iBooks Author but that they have created an avenue for non-commercial distribution that would exclude them entirely. That is actually unprecedented.
If I create a textbook using iBooks Author and then decide to made it freely available to the world (a la Khan Academy) I can do that without any restriction. Simple click ‘Export’ within iBook Author and the resulting file can be distributed by any means I choose and then loaded in iBooks. The mind boggles at what things may come out of this.
All Apple is doing with this restriction is saying that if you directly profit from this free tool and platform that we have created, then we deserve our cut. Which seems entirely fair to me.
чем не альтернатива былому?
the SOPA blackout, you say?
20 January 2012 | Censorship, Copyright, Internet | 2 Comments
как все уже знают, домен MegaUpload.com закрыт ФБР, а основатели сервиса и несколько сотрудников арестованы:
Seven individuals and two corporations have been charged in the United States with running an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works through Megaupload.com and other related sites.
со своей стороны могу только процитировать сопряженное заявление Пиратской партии Швеции:
This demonstrates with all desirable clarity that the copyright industry is a real threat against democratic societies. They will stop at nothing in their struggle against entering the future.
именно.
i’m just a boy named ‘su’
19 January 2012 | HOWTO, Software | No Comments
для того, чтобы команда sudo перестала спрашивать каждый раз пароль, надо[1] с помощью sudo visudo отредактировать файл /etc/sudoers, где удалить комментарий (#) в строке:
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
после чего добавить себя в группу wheel:
sudo dscl . append /Groups/wheel GroupMembership ВАШЕ-ИМЯ-ПОЛЬЗОВАТЕЛЯ
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[1] — писать для этого дела скрипт мне откровенно лень.
на домашнем поле
19 January 2012 | Amazon, Google, Software, The Great Game | No Comments
и еще о фрагментации — теперь с другой стороны[1]:
Amazon’s cloud search will compete with Google’s site search– but from what we hear, it ups the ante significantly. Google’s site search is a revolutionary tool that allows companies to skip the time and expense of building their own search by plugging in a site crawler and a search box.
Amazon’s cloud search is different. It allows startups to pass their data through it and get any results they want.
мне интересно, что еще покажет Amazon? и против кого?
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[1] — ну да, ну да.
марсианские хроники
19 January 2012 | Art | No Comments
если бы будущее могло говорить.