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Una de las muchas cosas para las que nunca me da tiempo en mis cursos con estudiantes de bachillerato es recomendarles algunos (de los tantos) recursos a sus disposición, cuando yo estaba en su nivel educativo no tenía un ordenador a mi disposición (de hecho eso tuvo mucho que ver con mi elección de carrera) y la red no era lo que es hoy , no se si yo hubiera podido explotarlos, y es cierto que los nativos digitales a veces nos decepcionan por sus patrones de uso de la tecnología, pero nunca dejaremos de intentar.
Soy un gran fanático de las TED Talks y trato que todo aquel que haya sido mi alumno por más de un mes haya visto por lo menos una, una de las que más me gustan es la de este señor de la foto Stephen Wolfram que tiene una fascinante "Computing a theory of everything" en la que explica una herramienta fabulosa que para evitar entrar en detalles a veces describimos como el google de las matemáticas (hace poco más de un año hable de su versión de iOS) y que a mis alumnos tan amantes de su iPad o su blackberry les recomiendo en cuanto arranca nuestro curso.
Leyendo el blog de este hombre, ( Steve Jobs: A Few Memories )tan diferente en el escenario a lo que era el Jobso me entero de su relación y los aportes que tuvieron el uno con el otro a lo largo de su relación de casi un cuarto de siglo y pues aprecio un poco más el impacto que tuvo el fallecido líder de Apple.
I´m too young to be this old 31 man, I use to call Sir people this age when i started teaching 11 years ago. And here I am, I'm still the same clueless asshole that was so afraid of turning 30 and it pains me to admit it but I'm still the same jerk that has no idea what is it that he wants to do with his life.
I've read so much in the last year about my so called generation, you know, we are not part of he famous generation X,we don't have that nice of a moniker,if any people are happy calling us "Generation Y" and all that emerging adulthood stuff I read and all of those unfulfilled hopes we had at times made me feel really miserable but...You know what...and this came out of the blue....despite feeling so bad for my master's degree studies and the fact that I left UVM in the way I had to....I'm finally starting to feel comfortable in my own skin...it took forever...it was not enough having to deal with Rafael G at at a young age and working from the same point, I know I've been lucky and that in reality I haven't struggled at all, but know, when I see the lush lives of some I can finally tell that I owe nothing to life and life owes me nothing, perhaps and I agree with people, I've been cut off of opprtunities by people who deserved it way less than I did, but I regret nothing (now) and I'm grateful for what my choices are and have been.
I'm ready to finally become an adult...but hey...my generation (the males at least) suffer from this acutte Peter Pan Syndrome, so don't blame if you catch me playing FIFA 12 or Portal 2, this is what people my age do now in addition and not instead of something else.
Fuck Man, yesterday we were talking about you and the religion you founded, people were never rational about you after you returned to the company you built.
And now this, we will never be able to talk about you as a normal dude, you are history and to some a legend
por cierto, ya tenemos otra vez una fecha de esas para que mueran de envidia, tendremos audiencia con su santidad el doctor Campillos, a ver que genialidad se le ocurre ahora
Nowadays it has become for companies almost impossible to keep their launches in secrecy, the last time someone really pulled a surprise was Apple in 2007, nobody was ready for the iPhone reveal.
We knew that Amazon was about to reveal a small form factor tablet, but we were not sure it would be a kindle, an the rumors also point out that this is only the beginning, we are supposed to see 10 inchers in the next weeks.
The kindle lineup grew and we know have some remarkable items that are really interesting.
When my students (high schoolers in love with their blackberries) try my kindle (the now so called kindle keyboard) they always touch it, they are really used to that interaction, I have to explain to them that you navigate with the buttons to the side, but that is no longer the case, the new Kindle touch is a really remarkable achievement, a touchable screen with e-ink readability, I want someone to buy one so I can compare it to my Kindle Keyboard, but the only problem I have with it is the color, I like the graphite one so much more.
The kindle fire runs android (as we knew it would) and takes advantage of the store amazon had been prepping up to this point, and it was announced a few days before this launch that this is now a global store.
If we are to stay realistic , the Kindle fire is no iPad killer, it is a threat to the nook color and a nicely priced tablet that will be an interesting proposition.
The iPad was the cheapest option for a tablet with that size (people don't realize that sometimes) and the Kindle fire is in a different league, some like the 7 inchers better and with the price of the fire now someone with a real grasp of the business can finally present an option to the ipad, so let us hope that Google and amazon can make this really appealing.
I just want to know what happened to the DX Will we see it ever again? and I believe the only reason the kindle keyboard still exist is to deplete their stock without discounts and to avoid price protection complaints for the jerks (like me) that had just bought one.
Dear Customers,
There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp.
These are high-end products – the best Kindles we’ve ever made. Kindle and Kindle Touch have the most-advanced E Ink display technology available, and the 3G Kindle Touch adds free 3G wireless – no monthly fees and no annual contracts. Kindle Fire brings everything we’ve been working on at Amazon for 15 years together into a single, fully-integrated experience for customers – instant access to Amazon’s massive selection of digital content, a vibrant color IPS touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle, a 14.6 ounce design that’s easy to hold with one hand, a state-of-the-art dual core processor, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, and an ultra-fast mobile browser – Amazon Silk – available exclusively on Kindle Fire.
We are building premium products and offering them at non-premium prices.
Thank you for being a customer,
Jeff Bezos Founder & CEO
p.s. – Kindle Fire has a radical new web browser called Amazon Silk. When you use Silk – without thinking about it or doing anything explicit – you’re calling on the raw computational horsepower of Amazon EC2 to accelerate your web browsing. If you're curious, watch this short video to learn more about how it works.
Lo más interesante del kindle fire además del precio (bastante bueno si no hay que pagar fletes e impuestos) es su tecnología para el navegador SILK que nos recuerda los intentos de America online y Opera para hacer que la navegación sea más luida, más fácil y con un menor traslado de datos de y hacia las terminales, en este caso haciendo uso del Amazon Elastic compute cloud (a lo que en un ataque les ha dado por llamar EMC2)
Acá está un paseo por Silk, el cloud powered browser de Amazon
I was so happy when my starwars: The complete sagafinally got here, but alas, the stupid jerks sons of bitches in fox screwed us all once again.
My software of choice for watching bluray movies on my PC (intel core i7 2600 with a geforce GTX470 and 8 gigs of RAM) is cyberlink's PowerDVD (I was happy with version 10) and it just so happens that version 8 (came with the bluray drive but no real 5.1 sound) and 9 (came with the soundcard but no bluray playback)
are not useful either, I was willing to take the plunge and pay the outrageous price (even with the so called discount) they're asking for version 11, so I downloaded the trial and all I got was a Red screen telling me to update my software, I did, now I'm running version 10.0.3306.54 and no luck, Starwars bluray disc 1-6 wont play on my PC, I was so desperate that I even dabbled on the idea of using windvd again (it was my darling on those good days of yore when DVDs were the non plus ultra) but I was not willing to pay for it without knowing if it would play, I scourged the net and found out that people were able to watch them with version 9 but artifacts were present, it is a sad day when we realize cyberlink can not figure this out but other have.
I decided to give TotalMedia Theatre 5 a shot and downloaded the demo, installed it (ugly piece of sotware that requires a restart and enables a connection TM SERVER to the net) and it can play the discs (artifacts included) but only if you allow even more problems in your pc, avira detects the file PCK/Themida they use whenever you start the playback eleven when they say it might be innocuous, and this software is even pricier, so, for the moment fox has screwed us and you need a standalone player in order to watch the movies, I believe they pulled a similar shit on the X-Men: First Class bluray release as well.
I did pay for this movies but the jerks at fox are forcing me to rip them and I will have to share them, I guess they will be OK with this since the release of star wars broke records for the format and they are just Ok with making paying customer's lives hell
Some jerk over youtube had already done something like this, use unconscious bodys as weapons in Deus Ex: Human revolution, now it appears this is an officially sanctioned way to play the game, a fifth pillar if you will
Una de las muchas cosas para las que nunca me da tiempo en mis cursos con estudiantes de bachillerato es recomendarles algunos (de los tantos) recursos a sus disposición, cuando yo estaba en su nivel educativo no tenía un ordenador a mi disposición (de hecho eso tuvo mucho que ver con mi elección de carrera) y la red no era lo que es hoy , no se si yo hubiera podido explotarlos, y es cierto que los nativos digitales a veces nos decepcionan por sus patrones de uso de la tecnología, pero nunca dejaremos de intentar.
