Arquivo para a ‘Tecnology’ Categoria
Internet Explorer will end
18
Mar
In 1990 was born the WWW (World Wide Web), soon after, in 1994, the Mosaic the first to incorporate text and images on the
same page made by students of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and only later was born proprietary software (paid ) done by Microsoft Explorer.
The following year in October 1994, an article in Wired magazine pointed to the emergence of the browser as the responsible for making the online world in a “vast universe,” is written in the online magazine “You can come at any time and start wander without internet addresses or keyboard commands. ”
The explorer born of a version of Mosaic made by Spyglass company, which licensed its technology but not the source code, that is, is free but not open-source.
The first was paid browser Netscape Navigator, the main product of Netscape Communications Corporation and only in 1995 that he released a graphic version, called Netscape Gold, the browser then dominated in terms of usage share, but had no great survival in 2002 had almost disappeared.
Facing major problems with the market the Explorer continued releasing versions, often with problems, including legal problems had accused of market monopolization attempts, which for this reason had to incorporate some features of the Java language that was open source.
His debut on August 16, 1995, a reworked version of Spyglass Mosaic it is said that the team was 6 people in early development, six months later came the Windows NT, and versions have not stopped, recently reached Explorer version 9.
Windows 9 was launched in beta with full support for CSS 3 and other properties, but the company has already announced the end of this versioning
The MWC happens in Spain
04
Mar
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) hosts releases and announcements from the world of mobile devices, and beyond the usual release smatphones, the highlight of the fair were the smart watches, held in Barcelona, the day 02-05 March.
Other wearable devices such as smart bracelets and virtual reality goggles are some product categories vying for attention next to traditional phones.
Were presented new models of LG brands, Samsung, Sony, Huawei, with the Galaxy S6 Samsung, which promises new design, one of the biggest rumors of the event.
The fair was held at the Fira Gran Via known flag, with the presence beyond the companies in the sector, analysts and the press.
Gradually the other big news, go into the daily lives of people, there is still technophobes who do not cease to demonize the devices, but while using them.
UN and technology for Peace
02
Mar
Recent UN report, as FierceGovernmentIT site, reinforces the idea that technology can help a lot in
peacekeeping missions, in areas such as situational awareness, implement mandates and protection, according to the Expert Panel on Technology and Innovation for Maintenance UN peace.
The report (see page) between the various recommendations of the use of technology in the areas and topics, an important aspect highlighted are certain principles that the UN has in the acquisition and use of technology.
But the focus of the panel is that you should be using widely available the technology available, but not proprietary technologies that can be relatively easy to maintain, give priority to mobility in relation to the maneuverability of assets and mobile information technology platforms are among the main recommendations ..
Some highlights of the report are protected vehicle mines, unmanned aerial vehicles, and smartphone innovations, and cites the UNMAS application.
Landmines, which maim so many people even in regions that already enjoy peace, use the type of ERW Security that can help peacekeeping missions and face the threat of landmines, explosive relics of war and improvised explosive devices, one can use the platform in multiple languages.
But the panel notes that the UN also have to deal with issues such as limited bandwidth, lack of interoperable systems, and cybersecurity
In the long run, the report says that the UN needs to create a culture of innovation.
Everyday scenes in 4D
24
Feb
Professor of Computer Science Noah Snavely, from Cornell University and his student Kevin Matzen have added a fourth dimension
of time to your system called Scene Chronology, and have collected millions of images from photo sharing sites on the Internet and views from popular sites taken from several different angles created from 3-D models combined, and the Cornell News site.
The models that have been developed to Times Square, the shopping district Akhibahara in Tokyo and 5Pointz a graffiti exhibition area in Queens, then a viewer can navigate within a virtual 3-D space while using a slider to move forward and backward in time and viewing reality in various positions.
The software works with flat surfaces in the image: signs, walls, façades or panels theater and then treats as “patches” which are stitched together to create the overall scene, the 3D effect, so it is made from a flat stage and need not be shot in 3D original, facilitating the shooting and the size of the files.
The 3-D model is then created from the global scene at a particular moment in time, the computer joins the slices that are taken from each solid in the right time and reconstructs the image for each time more simple and functional way.
The researchers who presented the model at the fair in Zurich Computer Vision, said: “when we reflect on the time of image collections, each observation has something to say,” they received the award for Best Book in the area last year.
They figure that may also change the way we think about photography, they said, and some day all photo you thought about doing, may have been made by someone.
Won the critics in Oscar 2015
23
Feb
“Birdman or (The unexpected result of ignorance)” and “Boyhood: From infancy to youth” was one of the highest rated for the top prize, best picture and took over three awards. The signs were divided into “Birdman” who won the awards for unions and “Boyhood” took the Bafta. They ran out “imitation game” and “American Sniper” movies that had better send tickets, but not so much critical acclaim.
Birdman took best picture and best director, for Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu,
The other winner was “The Grand Hotel Budapest”, which took four statuettes too, but in technical categories: best costume, best hair and makeup, best production design and best soundtrack.
Already “Boyhood: From infancy to youth” ended up being the big loser of the 87 Oscar. As in six categories, was left with only the category of best supporting actress.
The documentary “The salt of the earth” directed by renowned German director Win Wnders and the Brazilian Juliano Salgado, on the Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado Juliana’s father, was nominated for Oscar in 2015, but the winner was Citizen Four “about the leak of secrets USA by Edward Snowden.
Snubbed in the best animation, the director Phil Lord decided to “build a” Lego figurine Oscar (photo), the film ran for only statuette for best original song and don’t take.
Greek tragedy, the choir and networks
19
Feb
The tragedy in the sense of classical antiquity has a different meaning than we use on a daily basis, meaning something serious with many deaths and pains which diverts an event to the downside, but for tragikós Greeks was when he did something great, according to Aristotle was “an imitative representation of a serious action, concrete, in a magnitude, represented, and not narrated by actors in elegant language, using a different style for each party, and that through compassion and horror causes releasing trigger such emotions. “
For the Greeks of the particular tragedy of goals, and the work of art should always cause Katarsis, greek catharsis, that is the purgation of the emotions of the audience, and the Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht created the idea of the distance, which is not cause catharsis but the reflection preventing elements of “emotions” and other theoretical Theatre Rosenfeld says about it: “The teaching order requires the elimination of the illusion, the magical impact of bourgeois theater” (Rosenfeld), that is nothing but eliminate subjectivity.
Criticism of networks is always this, that cause illusion and virtuality would be something far from the real universe in this way would cause “real illusions.”
Illusionists of all kinds of magical politics, propaganda techniques used to try to cause illusion, and although this has something theater and can be virtual, the illusion does not consist in the fact that the used medium, radio, TV and the cinema and various forms of art were used for this, the essence of illusion is deceiving to “shut up” the crowd, so much tragedy as any other genre of art and “communication” can be misleading.
The essential, who drew attention to this, curiously was Nietzsche, is that the choir is not excluded, blamed Euripides by this exclusion, it is written in “The Birth of Tragedy or Hellenism and pessimism.”
Networks are a possible way to choir outside the manipulation of the masses and the media
Birdman and Greek tragedy
16
Feb
I have been watching the movies, and the big screen does not lose its charms, I saw something
different than what was seen in interactive small screen, in part classical tragedy and partly something new, if tragedy is the ending of something sad, Birdman impressive.
I saw in the dialogue in which the daughter Lesley (Naomi Watts) with his father Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), references to new media, questioning the father who does not know the influence of videos, blogs and facebook in public opinion, had realized is course, but the tone seemed more dramatic and a reinterpretation of their meanings.
The meaning is deeper if we understand the concern about the critical Tabitha Dickinson (Lindsay Duncan) who writes in the New York Times and the unexpected success of a Riggan’s video on Youtube.
But in the end the tragedy also features a new, should normally end with a sad ending, and is and is not, as the film manages this? surprise that is in the air.
After all this, the fact Birdman also be a reference to major superheroes like Batman productions (which itself did Michael Keaton), Superman and other extra-mans, the film shows a tragedy of very human issues: greed , vanities, contests, anger, betrayal, etc.
After all, the link between the Fenix symbol (in Greek mythology, a bird that rises from the ashes dead), a reading of “Ash Wednesday” is possible in a non-theological version, so “you can change your life” (the book), would say Peter Sloterdijck.
World Forum and technologies
11
Feb
In addition to economic discussions, the
serious political and social problems that many parts of the world cross, also the technologies has its place, the forum pointed technologies that are on the rise: Wireless cars, molecular nutrition, use of sensors that communicate with “things“ around us (ubiquity), sensors to monitor the health all the time that can be included in the body and some others.
One of the technologies that can greatly help humanity, we are facing a water crisis in many places, one tecnbologia to desalinate water at low cost was discussed and could be a highly sustainable way out, because the sea level is rising, they will reduce the energy consumption by 50% or even more.
Electric cars arrived, the problem is even autonomy of supply, but cars Wireless and greater autonomy are already being designed, the idea is to supply moving from an electromagnetic field installed on the roads, as the problem are long trips, there are already such tests in Seoul, South Korea.
Modern techniques could wipe out malnutrition in millions of people worldwide, using natural proteins essential to human, biotechnology promises to take power at the molecular level, however, fundamentalists may object as always.
Scientists working for many years to put “organic“ circuits inside the human body, they could produce medicines in the right dose within the body, acting so located around the diseased cell.
The technology is there to help the man, but a lot of backward mentality lingers.
Liquid consciousness of a modernity that has always liquid.
09
Feb
For Bauman, as it was to the Enlightenment, the solid modern design would be the world control project for the reason pair make the world the best of worlds, ?? through the rational planning and technical (and it condemns today’s technology!).
Thus the state, through a solid project: provide the criteria for assessing the reality of the contemporary day dividing the population into beings as if they were useful plants to be encouraged and carefully cultivated and weeds to be removed or torn ??. (Bauman 1999, p.29 in Brazilian edition)
Bauman conceives of modernity as solid state and scientific control plan, valuing thus social and political institutions.
Also works with another category that is ambivalence, or disposal, everything should be known and categorized to then be controlled, so all that remained double, confused and ?? on the fence should be eliminated, but sometimes this ambivalence is present in Kant in overcoming subject and object, and its use in the categorical imperative.
After identifying real consequences of modernity, the concentration of capital and the manipulation of consumption, he sees it just the fact that the state is experiencing a wasting, ie, there is a strong tendency to the elimination of the nation state.
Misses of state sovereignty, which has to give up its control to favor the new world order.
Finally see it that this new state that arises would be a dependent machine of production processes, when it was not?
This condition leads to what the author calls the new world disorder, and when it was not, what about the two wars where Lyotard saw postmodernity? Shallow culture.
In Bauman there is no paradigm shift fund, only reworks Enlightenment concepts such as national identity, parties, national history and modernization.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and Ambivalence. 1st ed. N.Y. Ithaca:., 1991.
Pirate Bay returned to the Web
02
Feb
After numerous lawsuits and arrests, a former director of the Pirate Bay have disabled your blog, now he is in the air again since yesterday, changed the logo pirate ship by the Phoenix.
One of the founders of the site, Peter Sunde, said that the file download via torrent platform was overcome and full of advertisements that did not belong to the domain, and then said the best thing to do was the same decree the end.
Peter Sunde that is no longer part of the team, said the new online community will bring more surprises and should be more efficient than the previous site.
To celebrate the “rebirth” of the site, the pirate ship logo was replaced by the drawing of a phoenix, a legendary bird of Greek mythology, who died when he returned after some time from its own ashes.
Around the air was scheduled for early February, but stepped forward, to the delight of users, the site’s domain remains the same and also all original collection of links.
According to the site Torrent Freak, who conducted research on the servers of The Pirate Bay, the number of lost files seems to have been minimal.
Share is a right, like lending a book or a disc, but holders of content business enterprises do not agree with it, and play hard to make the internet also a business territory, but one day this right will be recognized.
