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Software textbooks
27
Jun
Resources for production and teaching materials in public education can be
reduced, that is proven in 38 faculties there called “Community” in 13 states, covering a universe of 76,000 students in 13 states.
The cases analyzed and quoted in the Washington Post, is the Maryland and six other Viginia, where prices of textbooks rose 82% between 2003 and 2013, that there is three times the inflation rate and so it is a real increase price.
The OpenStax software, an organization and non-profit free software introduced open-source textbooks with peer review, it is estimated that saved more than $ 66 million to about 700,000 students, more than half of these last year.
Although some students who frequent these community colleges in a maximum of four years, programs focused in two years, are reaching the dream of going to college, not only in paid schools, but others can take courses with a high level, in less time, where the teaching material is essential.
Photography´s revolution
21
Jun
The photography revolution Photography is one of the most powerful ways
to emphasize the importance of a detail, making the ordinary extraordinary, tell a story, to surprise, educate, documents or events faces, communicate emotions and the emotions of those who inspired them. It is worth a thousand words, in the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson: “Pictures can reach eternity through the moment.”
There are pictures that are eternal as memorable as the famous kiss in black and white between the nurse and sailor Alfred Eisenstaedt, or as the horrors of war told in memorable photo on Nick Ut of napalm girl became a Vietnam War symbol or the picture in 1966 Thomas Hoepker made of Muhammed Ali, one of the most famous images of all time, a photo can be eternal.
Instagram took millions of anonymity, Brazil represents 7.25% of the 400 million people who use the application number reached in September last year.
The Brazil, Japan and Indonesia are the places where more people lower the app, and this makes the market keep an eye on, especially now with the proximity of the Olympics.
What few know is that Brazil is the creation of Instagram, the São Paulo Mike Krieger helped KIevin Systrom, now CEO of Instagram to create it when both were students at Stanford University in October 2010.
Instagram means the entry of anonymous everyday in the world of photography as a plate of food or a vase of flowers.
Asus shows Zenfone 3
31
May
The fair Computex technology will begin this week in Taiwan, but before you start
Asus has already shown its new smartphone Zenfone 3 with a designates with Gorilla Glass 4 guard in front and aluminium box in background, and a 6 GB memory, much higher than the 2 GB iPhone.
The Zenfone 3 is more ergonomic with a 5.5 inch screen, Full HD resolution, digital sensor to unlock the Snapdragon 625 processor, 4 GB of RAM and battery 3000 mAh. It is more powerful than the Intel line of its previous products.
It has two other versions, Deluxe 5.7 inch, Snapdragon 820, Qualcomm and also higher resolution cameras 23 MP and 8 MP while the Zenfone Ultra has the screen as a differential: it has 6.8 inch screen, a Snapdragon processor 652 more efficient, coupled with 4 GB of RAM and a battery of 4,600 mAh. .
Will comment on other news at the start of Computex, which starts the day in Taiwan, are expected news on Smartphones, laptops and ultrabooks.
The Brazilians game: Jequi´s Dream
26
Apr
Three Brazilians resident in one of the driest areas and the poorest in Brazil, 
a boy named Jequi, direct reference to the North Mine Valley and south of Bahia, runs through the semi-arid region the demand for water in a landscape of cacti and sawed.
The story serves as a backdrop to the game, was developed by newly graduated students of PUC Minas, the authors are Eric Grasso, Alessandra Faria and Ramon Coelho, the mining team Tower Up Studios.
Sponsored by Microsoft, the competition evaluates various games, and the national stage of the competition takes place this year in Belo Horizonte as the result of a partnership between the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Minas Gerais.
The prize of US $ 50,000, to be delivered to the innovative work of the entire planet, and this is the 14th. edition of the international tournament promoted by Microsof.
The number of games involving solely war and use of firearms is immense, and concern for education and the future of young people not only Brazilians, but of the entire planet, as the games are successful around the world, except rare Arab countries where they are prohibited, but there is no longer a parallel game.
There are other national games competing, Brazil won last year with the game made the USP “Clothes for Me” tool for making tailored clothing.
Machado de Assis and the Brazil roclamation of the Republic
29
Mar
In an attempt to unravel the Brazilian soul Darcy Ribeiro wrote
“The Brazilian people”, and we can also quote (back to him) Sérgio Buarque de Holanda with his Roots of Brazil, could even enumerate other as the recent Martim da Cunha Vasques Dust Glory : one (unexpected) history of Brazilian literature.It is always deeper understand the “soul” of a people peering into their literature, not by chance Marx enjoyed reading Honoré de Balzac and Lenin Leon Tolstoi, among others of course, and not to be alone on the left, Roosevelt (that said read everything) I liked to read Walter Scott in addition to historical anthologies and Greek classics.
“The Brazilian people”, and we can also quote (back to him) Sérgio Buarque de Holanda with his Roots of Brazil, could even enumerate other as the recent Martim da Cunha Vasques Dust Glory : one (unexpected) history of Brazilian literature.It is always deeper understand the “soul” of a people peering into their literature, not by chance Marx enjoyed reading Honoré de Balzac and Lenin Leon Tolstoi, among others of course, and not to be alone on the left, Roosevelt (that said read everything) I liked to read Walter Scott in addition to historical anthologies and Greek classics.
Machado de Assis (1839-1908) lived in the late period of the monarchy, Darcy Ribeiro was based on ethnic roots of the colonial period (1530 – 1815), but the historical evidence that says the philosopher Paul Ricoeur, the “I was there” is more fundamental than historiography.
We have already pointed the royalists and republicans elements of Esau and Jacob, and the political quietism in the work Memorial Aires.
Now we want to discover what is called apparent duplications in Quincas Borba, pseudo philosopher, the madness of the “ontology of abandonment” defined by Marta Senna in The Look oblique wizard, work also analyzed by Martim Vasques da Cunha.
But is the period of the proclamation (which is an edict not a popular will) of the Republic who is portrayed in Brás Cubas Epitaph, which breaks with romanticism even strong authors at the time as Flaubert and Zola, to picture a river of January with indifference, pessimism and irony, breaking with the linearity of both romantic literature as preceded the “modernism” to adopting a realistic tone.
Not coincidentally, the work began to be written from March to December 1880 in the Journal, and was later published as a book in 1881.
The work portrays slavery, social classes, scientism and positivism of the time, coming to create even a new philosophy, then developed in Quincas Borba (1891) already after the “proclamation” of the Republic (1889), Quincas Borba It came later in 1891 with a certain “philosophy” and then still Dom Casmurro (1899).
In english, K. David Jackson published “Machado de Assis: literary life”.
Networking media fight for privacity
15
Mar
Apple expects the outcome of the fight against the US government that
wants to release software that keeps sensitive data of this company, Apple is a private company that keeps your software and private content, to say something about the “privacy”.
I believe it will take, then the feature that Apple introduced in February to a court to unblocking one phone to the FBI of the December 2015 shooting of authors in the Californian city of San Bernardino (left there 14 dead and 22 wounded) still follow the American justice system and we do not know where it will stop.
For the company’s bitten apple, the repercussions would cause “significant damage to civil liberties, society and national security” as news of the Guardian.
Also according to the British tabloid the next few weeks the Whatsapp plans to expand its coding systems so that also your voice messages are encrypted, as well as messages in groups, also Facebook will launch tools soon as Snapchat and Google work in this direction .
According to experts in Silicon Valley’s leading companies on the issue of privacy at the time that Apple locks the legal battle with the United States Department of Justice, other companies will in the vacuum of this battle.
Even the British newspaper reports that the projects of these companies indicate that the industry is willing to publicly support Apple with concrete actions against the demands of the US government, then the fight will open.
