Archives for December 2011
об энергетике
13 December 2011 | Art, Geography | No Comments
красиво, по-моему.
система мира
12 December 2011 | History, Science | No Comments
и еще оцифровки для тех, кто будет перечитывать “Барочный цикл”:
Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection of Newton’s manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months we will be adding further works until the majority of our Newton Papers are available on this site
его записные книжки, расчеты и, кончено, “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica”.
сад камней
11 December 2011 | Science | No Comments
в конце концов, не с людьм, так с минералами поговорим:
Bruce Dorminey — SILICON SEEMS TO BE THE MOST POPULAR NON-CARBON BASED CANDIDATE [FOR LIFE TO BE BASED ON], ARE THERE OTHERS THAT ALSO MIGHT BE FEASIBLE?
Max Bernstein — It’s hard to imagine anything that would be more likely that silicon because there is nothing closer to carbon than silicon in terms of its chemistry. It’s in the right place on the periodic table, just below carbon. On the face of it, [silicon-based life] doesn’t seem too absurd since silicon, like carbon, forms four bonds. CH4 is methane and SiH4 is silane. They are analogous molecules so the basic idea is that perhaps silicon could form an entire parallel chemistry, and even life. But there are tons of problems with this idea. We don’t see a complex stable chemistry [solely] of silicon and hydrogen, as we see with carbon and hydrogen. We use hydrocarbon chains in our lipids (molecules that make up membranes), but the analogous silane chains would not be stable. Whereas carbon-oxygen bonds can be made and unmade — this goes on in our bodies all the time — this is not true for silicon. This would severely limit silicon’s life-like chemistry. Maybe you could have something silicon-based that’s sort of alive, but only in the sense that it passes on information.
мне нравится такое определение жизни.
Sunday I’m in love
11 December 2011 | Art, Culturology, Humour | 1 Comment
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[1] — карандаши, впрочем, тоже замечательные.
пятилетку в три года
10 December 2011 | Google, Hardware | 1 Comment
Onstage at LeWeb in Paris this afternoon, Google’s Executive Chairman [Eric Schmidt] told the audience that, “By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.”
проверенно временем
10 December 2011 | Culturology, Humour | 1 Comment
услышит тя в день печали
10 December 2011 | Music | No Comments
хоровые концерты Дмитрия Степановича Бортнянского в 5 часов утра — это, знаете, очень.
доверимся
9 December 2011 | Culturology, Internet | No Comments
The invention provides an evaluation system for reliably evaluating large amounts of content. The evaluation system is managed by a primary authority that designates one or more contributing authorities by delegating to each a specific quantity of authority. Each contributing authority may in turn designate and delegate authority to one or more additional contributing authorities, subject to the restriction that the total quantity of authority delegated does not exceed the quantity of authority the contributing authority was itself delegated. Each contributing authority, and optionally the primary authority itself, may evaluate one or more portions of content by associating a rating with each evaluated portion of content. A composite rating for a particular portion of content may then be determined based upon the ratings associated with the portion of content. Preferably, the ratings are combined in a manner that affords a higher priority to the ratings provided by contributing authorities to which a greater quantity of authority was delegated.
“social, local, mobile”
8 December 2011 | Apple, Google, Software, The Great Game | 2 Comments
лунатики продолжают зажигать:
“Android is ahead of the iPhone now,” Schmidt declared to an audience of techies and aspiring entrepreneurs at the LeWeb conference here.
He made his statement to a room bursting at the seams with iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and the audience met his words with a moment of silence that implied some skepticism.
а дальше еще лучше:
“Whether you like Android or not, you will support that platform, and maybe you’ll even deliver it first.”
ну да, мечтать не вредно, как говорится. или это не мечты? Марко Армент абсолютно справедливо интересуется:
Is that a prediction or a threat?
Is he implying that Android is widely disliked, and it doesn’t matter to him?
именно, Шмидт вообще фантастический, ага[1]. но на самом деле все проще, мне кажется:
Android is indeed a success in the market. But one big weakness compared with iOS was very visible at the conference: becoming the top priority for programmers. Note-taking specialist Evernote today announced a new app called Hello for keeping track of people–for iPhone only so far. And when news reader Flipboard announced its expansion from the iPad to the iPhone, Chief Executive Mike McCue refused to even say whether the company was working on an Android version.
“We’ve been focused on iPhone,” McCue said. And about Android, he said only, “We’ll see.”
во-первых, он недостаточно выгоден разработчикам, а во-вторых, его и в самом деле не любят — Джон Грубер, например, очень четко подметил разницу:
I think maybe the biggest reason iOS has such strong developer support is that developers like iOS. They use and prefer iPhones and iPads personally, they like Cocoa, and they like the App Store.
однако, если оставить ультиматумы разработчикам в стороне, то и кроме этого там полно интересного — вот, скажем:
One of the recurring Android criticisms is the idea that it’s an iOS knockoff–an idea that incensed late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Schmidt wouldn’t comment on whether Android copied iOS features, but he did offer his stock refrain about the issue: “Android was founded before the iPhone was.”
ага-ага, мы помним, мы знаем.
или вот, о кардинально меняющихся целях:
“All the interesting new applications are going to be some combination of social, mobile, and local,” Schmidt said.
точно, пойдем или направо, или налево, или вверх, или вниз.
и не паяцы ли?
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[1] — У Марко дальше прекрасное:
Why does Google let Eric Schmidt speak publicly? Has it ever turned out well?
не всем дано снимать кино
8 December 2011 | Cinematograph | No Comments
насколько же все-таки Альмодовар одновременно и избыточен, и так бессильно пуст.