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13:33:54 01/26/12
Lagerfeld Launches Economy Fashion Line - Online
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Lagerfeld Launches Economy Fashion Line - Online
For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me Paris-based fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld launches new low-cost fashion line for sale online with a show on the streets of the French capital. It's good news for women as he says the line does not compromise on the quality of design. Paris-based fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld on Wednesday launched a line of clothes he designed that will be retailed by an online fashion portal. Lagerfeld says it's a bid to bring affordable luxury to more people at a time of global economic crisis. The designer held a fashion show at the heart of the capital's 6th arrondissement, a neighborhood which over the years has turned into one of Paris' upmarket retail districts. [Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Designer, Paris]: "One can't just do the very expensive things that I am lucky enough to do in the best conditions. I love the idea, too, of doing things that cost very little and which everyone can afford that are still well designed." Lagerfeld says the show takes one's mind off the threat of economic meltdown. [Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Designer, Paris]: "What is strange is that economic crisis hasn't yet affected luxury items. The crisis is international, it's not regional. In any case, one shouldn't prevent women from buying new things, even if they don't have much money. But this is so cheap that it's a lot more affordable." The show drew an enthusiastic response from the crowd ... From: NTDTV Views: 75 7 ratings Time: 01:44 More in News & Politics
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22:09:29 01/25/12
AWD Colt Crossmember
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AWD Colt Crossmember
Audio by RojoDelChocolate If my car wasn't destined to be All Wheel Drive, then I wouldn't have needed to do any of this. For a FWD setup, I'd just mix and match engine mounts from different models and it's a bolt-on affair. But I can't. I've got a transfer case in the way and I had to work around it. I wanted one that closely resembled a factory part, and the factory part is roughly 1 7/8" stamped sheet metal in the shape of square tubing. Utilizing as much of the original crossmember as I could, and thanks to these chassis being sold in Japan and New Zealand, provisions are already on the chassis for an AWD crossmember, so it's not as difficult to fabricate as it could have been. I just can't get that crossmember in the United States... so I used as much of the OE crossmember as I could and then filled in the gaps. What I ended up with was the best thing I could envision. I had no idea where this project would take me and everybody does things a little differently. I haven't seen how EVERYbody does this part of the job... though I've seen a few different methods online. Some were very simple and effective, making really good use of weight. Some were difficult to install. Some other designs seemed intrusive and took up a lot of room in the engine bay. Room that I would want to use for other things; however, almost ALL of the configurations were lighter than what I just did. I think mine's the most serviceable. I found I can install and remove both pieces in any order ... From: Jafromobile Views: 2582 89 ratings Time: 17:30 More in Autos & Vehicles
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22:09:29 01/25/12
AWD Colt Crossmember
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AWD Colt Crossmember
Audio by RojoDelChocolate If my car wasn't destined to be All Wheel Drive, then I wouldn't have needed to do any of this. For a FWD setup, I'd just mix and match engine mounts from different models and it's a bolt-on affair. But I can't. I've got a transfer case in the way and I had to work around it. I wanted one that closely resembled a factory part, and the factory part is roughly 1 7/8" stamped sheet metal in the shape of square tubing. Utilizing as much of the original crossmember as I could, and thanks to these chassis being sold in Japan and New Zealand, provisions are already on the chassis for an AWD crossmember, so it's not as difficult to fabricate as it could have been. I just can't get that crossmember in the United States... so I used as much of the OE crossmember as I could and then filled in the gaps. What I ended up with was the best thing I could envision. I had no idea where this project would take me and everybody does things a little differently. I haven't seen how EVERYbody does this part of the job... though I've seen a few different methods online. Some were very simple and effective, making really good use of weight. Some were difficult to install. Some other designs seemed intrusive and took up a lot of room in the engine bay. Room that I would want to use for other things; however, almost ALL of the configurations were lighter than what I just did. I think mine's the most serviceable. I found I can install and remove both pieces in any order ... From: Jafromobile Views: 2582 89 ratings Time: 17:30 More in Autos & Vehicles
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23:00:00 01/15/12
Technology and the Human Body - Bionics
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TEDxSF - Berkeley Bionics - Merging Technology and the Human Body More than anything else, Eythor Bender is a team builder. You want to be on his team. And that's good news for bionics, a nascent industry that Eythor has championed and grown, taking bionic prosthetics from unconventional approaches to sustainable, approved products that merge man and machine, and enhance individuals' participation in their community. Today and as CEO of Berkeley Bionics -- developer and maker of wearable robots - Eythor is leading his company's charge to boost everyone's potential through personal bionics. This year, Berkeley Bionics is introducing two new exoskeletons to the market that augment mobility, strength and endurance: eLEGS powers wheelchair users up to get them standing and walking again; and HULCTM (Human Universal Load Carrier) enables users to carry up to 200 lbs. for hours and over all terrains, while reducing the likelihood of back-injuries. Eythor is a native of Iceland, with a Masters in Business and Economics from Germany, where he began his career with Hewlett Packard in medical diagnostics and computer imaging. He went on to join Nordic-European Ossur, which pioneered the field of commercial bionics. Eythor led Ossur's Americas division, taking it from a start-up to a world leader in the field of wearable, non-invasive technologies designed for amputees, injury prevention, rehabilitation and pain relief. He lives in San Francisco and most recently spoke at TED2011 in Long Beach, California. event video by: repertoireproductions.com Background information Bionics (also known as biomimicry, biomimetics, bio-inspiration, biognosis, and close to bionical creativity engineering) is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. The word bionic was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the technical term bion (pronounced bee-on) (from Ancient Greek: βίοĎ), meaning 'unit of life' and the suffix -ic, meaning 'like' or 'in the manner of', hence 'like life'. Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed as a portmanteau from biology + electronics. It was popularized by the 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, which were influenced by Steele's work, and feature humans given superhuman powers by electromechanical implants. The transfer of technology between lifeforms and manufactures is, according to proponents of bionic technology, desirable because evolutionary pressure typically forces living organisms, including fauna and flora, to become highly optimized and efficient. A classical example is the development of dirt- and water-repellent paint (coating) from the observation that the surface of the lotus flower plant is practically unsticky for anything (the lotus effect). The term "biomimetic" is preferred when reference is made to chemical reactions. In that domain, biomimetic chemistry refers to reactions that, in nature, involve biological macromolecules (for example, enzymes or nucleic acids) whose chemistry can be replicated using much smaller molecules in vitro. Examples of bionics in engineering include the hulls of boats imitating the thick skin of dolphins; sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating the echolocation of bats. In the field of computer science, the study of bionics has produced artificial neurons, artificial neural networks, and swarm intelligence. Evolutionary computation was also motivated by bionics ideas but it took the idea further by simulating evolution in silico and producing well-optimized solutions that had never appeared in nature. It is estimated by Julian Vincent, professor of biomimetics at the University of Bath's department of mechanical engineering (Biomimetics group), that "at present there is only a 12% overlap between biology and technology in terms of the mechanisms used". (Source Wikipedia)
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00:41:00 01/10/12
Day 1 Keynote - Bjarne Stroustrup: C++11 Style
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We know how to write bad code: litter our programs with casts, macros, pointers, naked new and deletes, and complicated control structures. Alternatively (or additionally), we could obscure every design decision in a mess of deeply nested abstractions using the latest object-oriented programming and generic programming tricks. Then, for good measure, we might complicate our algorithms with interesting special cases. Such code is incomprehensible, unmaintainable, usually inefficient, and not uncommon.
But how do we write good code? What principles, techniques, and idioms can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? In this presentation, I make an argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated resource management and error handling, and highly-structured algorithmic code. I illustrate my ideas and guidelines with a few idiomatic code examples.
I use C++11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, and user-defined literals. C++11 features are only just starting to appear in production compilers, so some of my suggestions are conjecture. Developing a "modern style," however, is essential if we don't want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.
This presentation reflects my thoughts on what "Modern C++" should mean in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight abstraction with direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable for infrastructure code.
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00:41:00 01/10/12
Day 1 Keynote - Bjarne Stroustrup: C++11 Style
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We know how to write bad code: litter our programs with casts, macros, pointers, naked new and deletes, and complicated control structures. Alternatively (or additionally), we could obscure every design decision in a mess of deeply nested abstractions using the latest object-oriented programming and generic programming tricks. Then, for good measure, we might complicate our algorithms with interesting special cases. Such code is incomprehensible, unmaintainable, usually inefficient, and not uncommon.
But how do we write good code? What principles, techniques, and idioms can we exploit to make it easier to produce quality code? In this presentation, I make an argument for type-rich interfaces, compact data structures, integrated resource management and error handling, and highly-structured algorithmic code. I illustrate my ideas and guidelines with a few idiomatic code examples.
I use C++11 freely. Examples include auto, general constant expressions, uniform initialization, type aliases, type safe threading, and user-defined literals. C++11 features are only just starting to appear in production compilers, so some of my suggestions are conjecture. Developing a "modern style," however, is essential if we don't want to maintain newly-written 1970s and 1980s style code in 2020.
This presentation reflects my thoughts on what "Modern C++" should mean in the 2010s: a language for programming based on light-weight abstraction with direct and efficient mapping to hardware, suitable for infrastructure code.
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17:25:21 12/03/11
Software Ideas Can't be Copyrighted
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"http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2011/12/01/software-ideas-cannot-be-copyright... Patents are designed to protect those who have invested their time, effort, and energy toward creating something unique that will serve humankind in some capacity. A good inventor should be rewarded for inventing good things, right? But like anything that relies on the legal system for prevailing justice, patents can be abused by the unscrupulous until someone takes action to put the brakes on the madness. As Eddie Ringle reports, a court adviser in the European Union has stated that software ideas can't be copyrighted. Will this have an effect that ripples across the pond to challenge outrageous patent claims in the United States? We shall see... You can watch the entire episode of TLDR here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGu5nIblCk http://www.lockergnome.com/subscribe/ https://profiles.google.com/chris.pirillo http://twitter.com/ChrisPirillo http://www.facebook.com/chrispirillo"
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17:30:23 11/25/11
Thank You - For the Occupation, For the Intensity, For Lettin' Me Be Myself Again
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It's like the old-timers always said: Don't quit before the miracle happens.
While the Arab Spring showed that people can still accomplish the impossible, Our political debate was frozen in corporate cynicism. Now everything has changed. For the United States, spring came in autumn. Who says miracles don't happen?
Like a Prayer
A few months ago I prayed for something. Granted, it wasn't the kind of prayer that's sanctioned by any ecclesiastical authority. And, okay, maybe it wasn't exactly a "prayer." I guess the technical term for it would be "blog post." But trust me, it was a prayer.
I'd been asked to write something for the Fourth of July, and I wrote we have to fight a new war, a " war of independence from corporate politics ." To be honest, those words felt Utopian even as I wrote them. Still, I never doubted them. The words were born out of the desperate sense that so many of us shared, a sense that our society is collapsing. And that it will keep on collapsing unless we change the way we think.
I wasn't arguing for any particular policy or platform. "The problem isn't just with politicians, or even the system," I said then. "The problem is dependence itself."
Oh, come on. How starry-eyed can you get? Stop depending on politicians? Declare psychic and political independence from celebrity-driven politics and media-made leaders? I'd always considered myself a realist, but this was almost embarrassingly idealistic.
Except for the fact that it happened.
Passionate Intensity
Like so many others, I had grieved and raged over the lack of commitment displayed by good people. Cynics, robber barons, and American warlords are hard at work degrading - and downgrading - this country. In a strange set of parallels, we were reenacting the stories of the Third World countries we'd invaded. Like them, we were becoming a nation where servile or fearful politicians served a cynical oligarchy while the people's way of life died all around them.
Some might call it karma - or simply "payback."
But whatever you call it, the forces of hate and greed were running wild. The "two-party" system seemed to offer nothing in response except a) posturing, b) surrender, and c) a politics of compromise that seemed to amount to little more than ... well, see "a)" and "b)", above. Good people were fighting for better policies, and I tried to play my part. But too many of us focused on the prose of politics and not its poetry.
Meanwhile, too many politicians got lazy quoting Bill Clinton's hack line: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It can be, of course. But before our eyes, the "good" became the enemy of the "perfect" and the mediocre became the enemy of the good. Then the cynical became the enemy of the mediocre, and democracy began to die.
Meanwhile the other side gained its momentum with every passing month, fueled by a pseudo-populist movement ginned up by corporate-funded political hacks. A nation that had rejected the politics of greed and oligarchy at the ballot box was even more suffocated by it than before. No wonder so many people were uninspired, discouraged, despondent. Some people quoted William Butler Yeats:
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
The good people who did burn with passionate intensity were in danger of turning the torch on themselves. " The game is over," wrote Chris Hedges . "We lost. The corporate state will continue its inexorable advance until two-thirds of the nation is locked into a desperate, permanent underclass."
As boom times came back to Wall Street, depression - emotional as well as economic - entombed the majority. But the suffering of the majority turned invisible inside the Beltway, as politicians debated deficits in a broken economy. It was like debating water conservation while the house burned down.
The Condition of Everything
Miles of commentary have been written about the Occupy movement. As the occupations gained steam, people criticized them for their lack of specific policy demands. But they were right not to issue specific demands. They were declaring independence from a frame of mind, a set of assumptions that led to passive acceptance of an unacceptable system.
And they had passionate intensity.
I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again: When OccupyDC marched down K Street, in the early days of the movement, a young security guard asked an older one what they were protesting. "I'm not sure," said the older man. "But I think they're objecting to ..." He circled his hands to indicate the environment around him. ".... the condition of everything. "
By objecting to the condition of everything, the Occupiers changed the political dialog in this country. By rejecting leaders and insisting on self-governance through General Assemblies, they taught us by example how to escape emotional dependence. Like William Butler Yeats, they understood that you can't distinguish the dancer from the dance.
One of the movement's most articulate and forceful advocates is Chris Hedges.
Recalling Democracy
The Wisconsin uprising had been going on for months, even in the dark days of July. The miracle of Wisconsin is that it's still going on. People there occupied their capitol to protest laws designed to break the middle class, laws written by corporate America's "ALEC" division. Then they mounted recall efforts against recently elected GOP State Senators, reducing their majority and draining resources from their coffers.
Now Gov. Walker is facing a recall. The struggle in Wisconsin isn't about "Democrats" against "Republicans." It's about resisting politicians that are wholly-owned subsidiaries of corporate America.
The people of Wisconsin showed the country how to resist. Now they're showing us how to persist.
And just this month, Ohio voters rejected an ALEC-inspired initiative to strip that state's workers of rights. Maine voters rejected a move to overturn election-day registration, another attempt to restrict the ability of lower-income citizens to vote. And Mississippi rejected a definition of prenatal rights so extreme that many anti-abortion advocates were disturbed by its implications for the rights, health, and safety of women.
Like I was saying: Miracles.
Radical Innocence
But elections aren't the point. They can be a reflection of the change we need, but they're not the change itself. The real changes are personal. "When I remake a song," said Yeats, "it is myself that I remake." The Rolling Stones said "It's the singer, not the song."
We misunderstood our own power. We were being distracted and manipulated by fear and anger. Our minds, our souls, were being manipulated by what the Native American poet and activist John Trudell calls "the mining of the essence." One of the reasons we were powerless is that we believed we were powerless. That's even true economically. "All money is a matter of belief," said Adam Smith.
We needed to push our fear and anger away to see the obvious truths all around us: The corporations rule our political process. That our democracy is dying. That Wall Street is filled with people who broke moral (and sometimes actual) laws and forced the rest of the country to pay the price. We had to see with fresh eyes.
"All hatred driven hence," wrote Yeats, "the soul recovers radical innocence."
Our political process has become too cynical. Even reasonable and very moderate ideas favored by a majority of Republican voters, as well as others - a breakup of five or six too-big-to-fail banks, a public option health plan that's only available to one American in twenty - were declared impossible.
We needed an infusion of radical innocence, the innocence of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. We sometimes think of innocence as something childlike and weak. But innocence has great power. Innocence changes the world.
We needed that radical innocence,and we got it. What we do with it now is up to us.
Can we commit ourselves to moving forward, to persevering against all odds? The future's unwritten. But we know what's happening right now. The political dialog has shifted in a way that seemed impossible a few months ago. I don't know how you feel about that, but I know how I feel.
I feel thankful. So thankful, in fact, that I'm gonna let Sam & Dave tell you all about it. Take it away, fellas:
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23:57:19 11/23/11
GoingNative 4: Jim Springfield on ATL, GoingNative Conference - Register Today!
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We've not covered ATL before on Channel 9 and with all the talk going on these days about [the elephant in the room], we figured it would be useful to spend some time with ATL creator Jim Springfield to get a historical perspective (as well as a technical one) on Active Template Library.
ATL is a C++ template library for building lean and fast COM objects for Windows. ATL is designed to maximize performance while removing some of the complexity of COM-based Windows application development. If you've built ActiveX controls then you've used ATL. Of course, ATL isn't just for ActiveX objects...
Thanks to Niner C64 for the suggestion to ask Jim historical questions in addition to the expected technical ones. C64 also asked us to spend some time on WTL . So we did.
The Windows Template Library was created (and is still maintained) by Nenad Stefanovic , whose name I horribly mangled in the show's constructor. My apologies, Nenad! WTL is built on top of ATL, extending the power and relative simplicity of ATL to more of Win32's componentry. Lots of native Windows applications are written in WTL (including some of Windows itself, IE, Chrome, etc).
Niner Ion also asked some specific ATL questions. We get to those, too.
Thank you for spending time with us, Jim!
Table of Contents (click time code links to navigate player accordingly)
[00:00] GoingNative(); // Thank you for challenging us and speaking your minds ! Thanks Herb Sutter, Jim Springfield, PFYB, KM-KY, Warren, Garfield, C64, Glen, and Tomas (who's trying to make his own C++ lib-only implementation for Metro component authoring—way to go. Best to just do rather than just say ! Good luck, Tomas!).
[06:34] Charles interviews Jim Springfield (whiteboarding included)
[51:18] ~GoingNative();// Announcing and talking about GoingNative 2012 . Please join us in Redmond! See below for details:
Announcing GoingNative 2012 – A Modern C++ Conference
Here at Microsoft, we're very excited about the surge of industry interest in C++ and we want to support that. We know developers are hungry for information about modern C++ (C++11). The goal of GoingNative is to help provide current information to as many people as possible and to share technical insights and knowledge from C++ luminaries from across the industry. It's a C++ party and you're invited. Please join us.
Register Now!
Event Details:
GoingNative 2012 is a 48-hour technical event for those who push the boundaries of general purpose computing by exploiting the true capabilities of the underlying machine: native developers. Distinguished speakers include the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ Standards Committee Chair , Herb Sutter, C++ template guru and big compute master , Andrei Alexandrescu, and more!
Feb 2-3, 2012
Microsoft Corporate Campus
Redmond, WA, USA
The entire event will be streamed live on Channel 9 and all sessions will show up for on-demand use in 24 hours or less. That said, you do want to be here. It's going to be a lot fun and we are going to take care of you.
We really want to hear from you , so please tweet feedback to @C9GoingNative (follow us!) and send your requests, ideas, complaints, praises, hate mail, and love letters to C9GoingNative [at] hotmail [dot] com . We will read and respond to all messages! That's how we roll, brothers and sisters. And if you're a Facebook user, please join our C9::GoingNative Facebook group .
Go native!
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23:57:19 11/23/11
GoingNative 4: Jim Springfield on ATL, GoingNative Conference - Register Today!
[LESS INFO] 42 VIEWS | ADDED 23:57:19 11/23/11
We've not covered ATL before on Channel 9 and with all the talk going on these days about [the elephant in the room], we figured it would be useful to spend some time with ATL creator Jim Springfield to get a historical perspective (as well as a technical one) on Active Template Library.
ATL is a C++ template library for building lean and fast COM objects for Windows. ATL is designed to maximize performance while removing some of the complexity of COM-based Windows application development. If you've built ActiveX controls then you've used ATL. Of course, ATL isn't just for ActiveX objects...
Thanks to Niner C64 for the suggestion to ask Jim historical questions in addition to the expected technical ones. C64 also asked us to spend some time on WTL . So we did.
The Windows Template Library was created (and is still maintained) by Nenad Stefanovic , whose name I horribly mangled in the show's constructor. My apologies, Nenad! WTL is built on top of ATL, extending the power and relative simplicity of ATL to more of Win32's componentry. Lots of native Windows applications are written in WTL (including some of Windows itself, IE, Chrome, etc).
Niner Ion also asked some specific ATL questions. We get to those, too.
Thank you for spending time with us, Jim!
Table of Contents (click time code links to navigate player accordingly)
[00:00] GoingNative(); // Thank you for challenging us and speaking your minds ! Thanks Herb Sutter, Jim Springfield, PFYB, KM-KY, Warren, Garfield, C64, Glen, and Tomas (who's trying to make his own C++ lib-only implementation for Metro component authoring—way to go. Best to just do rather than just say ! Good luck, Tomas!).
[06:34] Charles interviews Jim Springfield (whiteboarding included)
[51:18] ~GoingNative();// Announcing and talking about GoingNative 2012 . Please join us in Redmond! See below for details:
Announcing GoingNative 2012 – A Modern C++ Conference
Here at Microsoft, we're very excited about the surge of industry interest in C++ and we want to support that. We know developers are hungry for information about modern C++ (C++11). The goal of GoingNative is to help provide current information to as many people as possible and to share technical insights and knowledge from C++ luminaries from across the industry. It's a C++ party and you're invited. Please join us.
Register Now!
Event Details:
GoingNative 2012 is a 48-hour technical event for those who push the boundaries of general purpose computing by exploiting the true capabilities of the underlying machine: native developers. Distinguished speakers include the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ Standards Committee Chair , Herb Sutter, C++ template guru and big compute master , Andrei Alexandrescu, and more!
Feb 2-3, 2012
Microsoft Corporate Campus
Redmond, WA, USA
The entire event will be streamed live on Channel 9 and all sessions will show up for on-demand use in 24 hours or less. That said, you do want to be here. It's going to be a lot fun and we are going to take care of you.
We really want to hear from you , so please tweet feedback to @C9GoingNative (follow us!) and send your requests, ideas, complaints, praises, hate mail, and love letters to C9GoingNative [at] hotmail [dot] com . We will read and respond to all messages! That's how we roll, brothers and sisters. And if you're a Facebook user, please join our C9::GoingNative Facebook group .
Go native!
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23:32:33 11/03/11
The Wind River Network Acceleration Platform is Good to Go!
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The Wind River Network Acceleration Platform is Good to Go!
At this year's IDF, Eric Mantion (Twitter.com was able to catch up with Steve Konish, from Wind River, to take about their new Network Acceleration Platform (j.mp The intention is, through this software product (deliverable on a USB drive as shown in the video), an otherwise normal Intel%reg Xeon%reg processor-based system can suddenly become a packet-handling powerhouse! This is key to the success of Communications Infrastructure Equipment (CIE) makers because, as shown in this picture: www.windriver.com So, that means, as the growth of the bandwidth needed out paces the revenues earned per user on average, CIE manufacturers need to develop a more cost-effective way to make they products that no longer require very hard to design and costly to produce ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits). While ASICs had been used for years to get a very specific result, their costs, development cycles, and inflexibilities are become a liability to many already strained service providers. The need to develop systems quicker, easier, and more cheaply will not only help everyone up and down the supply chain, but will also have the added bonus that a single hardware configurations can now potentially serve many different functions in the network, depending on the software that is loaded onto that intelligent system. Let us know what you think of this technology by leaving comments below! Do you like the idea of the networks upon which you rely become more efficient & flexible? What ... From: channelintel Views: 295 5 ratings Time: 01:52 More in Science & Technology
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07:00:56 10/12/11
Shower Bench Design Options
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A shower bench can elevate the design of your bathroom, particularly in a steam shower, where it may be desirable to sit and relax for some time. We have some ideas with how to include a shower bench in both a large or a small shower stall. If you have a bathtub as well as a shower, try to place the shower next to the tub and then extend the tub deck into the enclosure of the shower to create a bench. This will make the tub and shower feel more integrated. One detail to pay close attention to is to ensure that the tiled shower bench inside the shower has a slight slope to prevent water from pooling on the surface. If you have a smaller shower stall, a flip-up teak bench may be a good idea. These are … Continue reading →
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22:00:00 10/10/11
6 killer apps - that promote wealth, stability and innovation
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Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity, TEDGlobal, filmed July 2011
Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable.
Why you should listen to him:Â
Niall Ferguson teaches history and business administration at Harvard and is a senior research fellow at several other universities, including Oxford. His books chronicle a wide range of political and socio-economic events; he has written about everything from German politics during the era of inflation to a financial history of the world. Heâs now working on a biography of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Ferguson is a prolific and often controversial commentator on contemporary politics and economics. He frequently writes, reviews, and hosts for the British and American press. His latest book and TV series, Civilization: The West and the Rest, aims to help 21st-century audiences understand the past and the present. In it, he asks how, since the 1500s, Western nations have surpassed their Eastern counterparts and came to dominate the world (his answer: thanks to six âkiller appsâ: science, medicine, protestant work ethic, competition, property rights, consumer society). And he wonders whether that domination is now threatened by the rise of Asia. His theories have drawn criticism and prompted discussions, which he says was his intent. âItâs designed to be slightly annoying, so that you talk about it,â he told The Observer.
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16:36:15 09/19/11
Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
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Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
www.ted.com Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com From: TEDtalksDirector Views: 42898 769 ratings Time: 20:20 More in News & Politics
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22:51:55 09/06/11
$25 Incubator Shows Good Design Can Save Lives Affordably
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Stanford's d.school co-founder George Kembel delivers an update on former student projects, including an inexpensive incubator and a solar powered lamp. The Embrace incubator, a low-cost infant warmer, will save an estimated 100,000 lives and improve the quality of life for 800,000 children in the next 3 years.
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_creativity_innovation
Sparking a Culture of Creativity and Innovation
Co-founder and director of the Stanford d.school, George Kembel explains how empathy, innovation, and unconventional continued learning can lead to sustained success for a business or company.
New ideas and new ways of looking may provide the answers to challenges to U.S. competitiveness in business, education, government, and health care. In this week, our guests will reveal how they have created cultures of creativity that foster innovation. We'll define "design thinking" and learn about collaborations that extend knowledge across disparate fields and add value to society, products and services. We will discover how creativity can be taught and learned, and how to inspire creative confidence in ourselves and others. - Chautauqua Institution
George Kembel is a co-founder and currently the executive director of the Stanford d. school, also known as the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. He has led the conceptualization, design, and development of new products and technologies for over ten years in both research and industry environments.
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18:36:44 09/02/11
Brasilia and Other Examples of 'Bird Sh*t Architecture'
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Jan Gehl, architect, urban planner, and author of Cities for People, discusses what he calls "bird shit architecture," a trend in urban planning that originated in the 1950's and persists to the present day. This type of architecture, he explains, is designed to look good from a plane, but not practical for the actual residents of a city.
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/02/Jan_Gehl_Cities_for_People
An important paradigm change happened around 1960. City planning, as a concept, took off on a huge scale in response to the challenge of fast-growing cities. At the same time, traffic planning took over the planning at eye level to address the rapid influx of cars. In the rough and tumble of all this, caring for the people who use cities was completely left behind.
By 1961, people like Jane Jacobs raised her voice about this new situation in her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. But, not much happened for three or four decades. The idea of "Cities for People" became an overlooked and forgotten dimension.
This is the story told by Jan Gehl in his new book. He describes why looking after people is crucial for the quality of cities in the 21st century, how it can be accomplished and how it is actually done by now in more and more projects in more and more cities. The transformations carried out in such cities as Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, Amman and New York will serve as examples of this new people-oriented direction in planning. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Jan Gehl is a trained architect and Professor of Urban Design in The School of Architecture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Gehl has been awarded the "Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to Town Planning" by The International Union of Architects as well as an honorary doctors degree from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
