Este blog ya está por alcanzar la mayoría de edad, es una cosa de locos, pocos llegan a hacerse tan viejos. Algún día veremos actividad en http://jiff01.com/
Friday, February 22, 2013
Dan Rubenstein dice que Kobe es mejor que MJ
Thursday, February 21, 2013
V-Moda Crossfade LP2
Los cables son lo suficientemente largos para que los conecte al pod de las Z-5500 de Logitech mientras escribo esto, o a la nexus 7 que se está cargando en la mesa de noche mientras leo, y son suficientemente largos como para pensar en meterlos en una mochila o usar un artilugio para que no se enreden, están recubiertos de Kevlar (y nos recuerda aquel fracaso de los skullcandy full metal jacket mic3) y sí, los puedes usar como ese cable que usas para conectar tu teléfono, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Lector de e-books a tu equipo con entrada de auxiliar, de preferencia usa el común de dos en cada extremo, el que tiene el remoto tiene para un microfono.
Después de casi una semana puedo decirte que:
- No son muy cómodos/prácticos para andar en la calle (aunque si traes Mochila, el estuche ayuda)
- El cable es lo suficientemente largo para cualquier estatura
- Son cómodos, y si se ajustan a diversas formas de cabeza
- Aunque no es su fuerte, su aislamiento pasivo es significativo en las frecuencias más altas, si vas en un avión o pasa un trailer a frecuencias bajas, esos se siguen escuchando.
- No, no son el no va más para escuchar música, pero no están mal, y si los bajos son lo tuyo, pues helos aquí.
Chromebook Pixel
Para ser compus baratas las chromebook están bien, hay millones de personas que sólo entran a facebook, checan su correo es todo, para ellos una compu con software que se actualiza sin su intervención y sin nada que instalar está bien, ahí es donde las chromebook son un gran acierto, compus baratas (la de samsung cuesta 250 USD, apenas más que un smartphone con subsidio) con atom o chips ARM para gente de necesidades básicas, o que sea tu tercera compu, pero ¿esto?
Until now, Chromebooks hadn't been much more than glorified netbooks; underpowered curios best suited for technological novices.
Cuando la Surface Pro de Microsoft cuesta 1000 dolares y se produce en pequeñas cantidades, sabemos que Microsoft está balanceando darle un empujón a sus asociados y no robandoles negocios, seguro ellos pueden hacer diseños novedosos y a mejores precios (que aún sean atractivos para todos, las netbooks y las tablets han matado los margenes de todos menos apple) que Microsoft y ellos pueden volver al negocio del software y a ver como evolucionar; pero Google ¿qué carambas?, no, yo no me creo eso de que la touchscreen está para que los desarrolladores puedan tener la misma experiencia en tablets, teléfonos y compuutadores, pero, les aplaudiré dos cosas, la primea, ya estuvo bien de 1080p como "FULL HD" , es basura, y la segunda, que sepan ver que una touchscreen si tiene lugar en una computadora, aún si los mactards fieles al evangelio según Jobs dicen que no, que jamás.
Creo que Google está desesperado porque Chrome deje de ser una opción, barata, "desechable" (aunque ellos lo presentaron así) y quiere que los desarrolladores le pongan sus manitas encima, y que los otros fabricantes saquen las copiadoras, es decir, la Pixel se parece mucho a la Surface Pro, son dispositivos para señalar un camino, y así, sólo así, podemos entender los que Google quería decir con
" For What's next"
¿por qué demonios ya todos presentan y hacen vídeos como Crapple? arghh!!!
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Queda demostrado que Googl le copia a apple hasta en los "leaks"
¿se acuerdan que negaban la existencia de este desarrollo?
Slinky.me was right on the money
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Ubuntu for tablets
Los monitores subiran de resolución, y los teclados serán más ligeros, pero en tamaño, yo creo que están perfectos por un tiempo, lo que cambiará es tener tablet PC Tablet laptop por separado, un "teléfono" será nuestra PC y tendremos muchas interfaces...los smart watch son un paso patético en esa dirección, y el wearable computing es una de las opciones que tendremos (y un campo de trabajo que pare promisorio en el mediano plazo)
UPDATE
I liked a @youtube video youtu.be/v1uyQZNg2vE?a How It Feels [through Glass]
— Jorge F- ヒッフ (@JIFF01) February 20, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
We are not so smart
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Si ya leiste a Gladwell, no te molestes, el estilo es menos formal (se nota que es un blog) pero la información es la misma, los mismos experimentos, las mismas teorías, las mismas investigaciones, y, tendré que leer el blog, no encuentro la voz del autor, reporta sin "reportear"
Eso sí, si es tu primera incursión es un texto excelente (agregale una estrella si no has leído a Malcolm Gladwell )y el mismo estilo de post tiene como agradable consecuencia que cada capítulo es de lectura ágil
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Zinio: BUILD IT, Maximum PC | Mar-13
BUILD IT
An Affordable Linux Gaming Rig
THE MISSION The free Linux operating system has been around for ages, but its inherent complexity and limited support has always relegated its use to extreme enthusiasts, programmers, and other hardcore types. That might be changing, though, as a lot of loyal PC enthusiasts are less than pleased with Windows 8, and gaming juggernaut Valve has thrown its hat into the ring by launching a Linux version of Steam, its popular online content delivery service. Given the lackluster reception of Windows 8 and the renewed popularity of Linux, we decided to build a Linux gaming box to see for ourselves whether the OS, at this time, could be a reasonable alternative to Windows for gaming.
CHOOSING THE HARDWARE
OUR LINUX MACHINE was built with a low target price of $650 because we wanted this project to be semi-easy to duplicate by anyone. With this in mind, we started with Intel’s Ivy Bridge Core i3-3220 processor, as it comes at a reasonable cost, gives us a great upgrade path, and its low TDP of 55W means we won’t need a massive CPU cooler or PSU. Our Asus P8Z77-V LE motherboard is also affordable while offering both SLI and CrossFire support, as well as two USB 3.0 ports. Power is provided by a CX430 Corsair power supply from the company’s low-cost Builder series. Given our modest build-out, we figured anything bigger than 430W would be overkill.
GPU duties are handled by a Gigabyte GTX 650 video card, which at $120 performs better than a Radeon HD 7750 and should be sufficient for our Linux adventure. The system requirements of the available games are very low, so a more powerful GPU would be wasted. As our budget didn’t allow for an SSD, we went with a 500GB, 7,200rpm WD Caviar Blue. We scored 8GB of G.Skill Ripjaws RAM because it was dirt cheap at just $45. Holding all the gear is a Corsair Carbide case, which is just $60 but has USB 3.0 front panel ports, cable routing, and tool-less drive bays.
With the hardware in hand, it’s time to build the machine. If you need any guidance putting it together, check out this stepby- step guide from a previous build: http://bit.ly/wNwJyQ.
Now, let’s turn your new box into a Linux gaming rig.
1 2 DOWNLOAD YOUR DISTRO
WE CHOSE the Ubuntu flavor of Linux for this project because it’s considered the easiest to use for beginners. To get started, we headed to the website (www.ubuntu.com) and downloaded our preferred flavor (image A). We chose version 12.04 LTS because it will be supported for five years rather than the latest 12.10 version, which will be only be supported for two years. After the download was complete, we prepared to burn the ISO image to a blank CD-R.
2 BURN THE ISO TO DISC
WE HAD TO find suitable software for burning the ISO to CD-R (at 695MB, the distro fits on one disc) since Windows 7 doesn’t natively allow burning ISO files like Windows 8 does. After searching, we settled on the free and easy-to-use Active@ ISO Burner. Go to www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm for the download, then run it. Browse to the ISO, select your optical drive, and hit the Burn button (image B). When it’s done, pop the disc into the optical drive of your new guinea rig, and prepare to install Linux.
3 INSTALL THE OS
THE BIGGEST DECISION you’ll have to make when installing Linux involves drive partitioning (a partition is a chunk of a storage device that appears to the OS as a separate volume). If you’re multibooting, install Linux to a separate partition, but if you’re like us and just want to run it off one storage device, you can ignore partition options (image C). After you’ve finished (or skipped) partitioning your hard drive, the OS will begin to install. It took about 30 minutes on our 7,200rpm drive, but it will take about 10-15 minutes on an SSD (we tested it just for fun).
4 UPDATE THE OS
JUST LIKE WITH Windows, the first thing you’ll want to do after you’ve installed Ubuntu is update the operating system. To do so, you will need to grab the latest updates from the Update Manager. Do this by clicking the power button in the right-hand corner of the screen and then clicking Update Manager to see a list of the latest updates; click Install Updates (image D). Unlike with Windows, which can take days to get up to date if you’re not using a Service Pack, the update process for Ubuntu took about 15 minutes. After that and a single reboot, we were up to date.
5 INSTALL VIDEO/SOUND DRIVESR
THE LAST THING you’ll need to do before installing Steam is to install the latest video drivers and other non-open-source or proprietary drivers, such as those for your motherboard. To install these drivers you’ll simply click the green video-card icon in the right-hand corner of the screen, which pops up a window that displays the proprietary drivers for your computer (image E). One of the cooler features of Ubuntu Linux is that it finds all the available drivers for your system, so you don’t have to visit the manufacturers’ website to download them. After you’ve finished downloading the drivers, you’ll need to restart your system, and then you’ll be completely set up and ready to tackle some games with Valve’s Steam client.
6 INSTALL STEAM
INSTALLING STEAM is fairly simple. Download the client from Valve’s website (www.valvesoftware.com) and then double-click it to run the installer, which takes you to Ubuntu’s Software Center. This Software Center shows you any newly installed software, and it’s where we’ll install Steam (image F). Once it’s installed, you can run the client. But first, you might want to check out other open-source games that are listed in the Software Center, which is a mini app store providing a few games and other small applications for Linux users.
7 SET UP STEAM
AFTER INSTALLING Steam, you will need to log into your account and authenticate your computer via email. You can start installing games on your Ubuntu 12.04 machine (image G) after your first log-in. As of this writing, there were 41 games available, and just like in Windows, each of them (aside from TF2, of course) costs money. You will also be able to download any of your previously purchased games that are Linux-compatible (Team Fortress 2, for example). Although 41 games isn’t very many, Valve has been adding new titles at a steady clip. The company added 15 of the 41 titles in its Linux library in just the first month of the new Steam client’s existence.
LIVING LA VIDA LINUX
OVERALL, WE WERE impressed with the experience we had using Linux for Internet browsing, word processing, and playing games. The OS ran surprisingly well on our modest rig. It booted quickly, shut down in a heartbeat, and handled multitasking without any problems. When it comes to gaming, our feeling is that it handles the games we play just fine, but the test bed of 41 offered by Steam at this time is too small a sample—we want more! We know Steam is not the only supplier of games, but we’re still talking about a relatively small gaming universe on Linux. As an example, Steam offers more than 6,000 titles on the Windows platform, so clearly no hardcore gamer can survive on Linux alone. Also, there are zero triple-A titles on Steam for Linux at this time—that right there is a deal-killer for us, at least in the long run. In testing, we sampled Team Fortress 2, Trine 2, and Waveform, and they all ran with ease at 1920x1200 on our budget box, with all settings maxed. We were greatly impressed by just how smoothly the games hummed along.
Just because we can’t survive on Linux alone doesn’t mean we didn’t like experimenting with it on the side, however. Building the Linux gaming box was a fun experience, and we’d recommend any enthusiast take it for a test drive. Besides, both Linux and Steam are free, so trying either one won’t cost you a dime.
WHERE ARE THE BENCHMARKS?
We know your eyes are scanning the pages looking for some hard numbers, but sadly, we don’t have any benchmarks this time around. We wish we did, but Linux isn’t very well supported by software developers who make benchmarking tools. We can tell you that to our eyes, all the games we tested played well on our GTX 650 at 1080p, running at least 30fps at all times. We were never lacking for GPU horsepower, in other words.
We wanted to try out the Phoronix Test Suite benchmarks, but Ubuntu warned us off installing it with a "bad quality" message. Another possible benchmark is x264, but it’s designed to test a machine’s CPU rather than its GPU, so it wouldn’t paint a complete picture of this system’s capabilities. Being a gaming machine, most people—ourselves included—are more interested in GPU performance and specific frame rates for games, but again, these numbers are hard to come by. None of the games on Steam have built-in benchmarks, and Fraps is Windows-only at this time, along with 3DMark, Catzilla, and all of the other games and programs we typically use. This situation might change now that Valve is pushing the gate open, but until it does, we’ll stick with an old favorite—EyeballMark.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Zinio: Room service, PC Gamer (US Edition) | Mar-1...
Room service
Somewhere in Bellevue, Washington the Valve Corporation is working on a gaming PC that Gabe Newell describes as “living room-friendly.” So it’s safe to assume that, in addition to being compact, quiet, and easy to hook up to a TV, it’ll be based on standardized components inside a sealed case that does everything but detonate upon opening to prevent you from messing with the hardware.
I can’t say I’m not looking forward to one. I can easily imagine something that gives me easy access to my PC games in the living room vastly extending the amount of time I spend slumped on the couch. On the other hand, I know that the most effective and dependable way to make something easier to use and “living room-friendly” is to remove choices. I think of PC gamers as people who do things the way we feel like doing them. We’re people who like to mess with things: we customize, tweak, break, reconfigure, and perfect. It’s a platform for our imagination and expression as much as for our entertainment—even if we’re just expressing our choice of videocard.
All in all, I can live with the standardized hardware, but not without mods and my choice of controllers. The more flexibility and choice the mysterious “Steam Box” can offer me, the more likely I’ll cotton to it.
What about you? What would convince you to pony up for a living room rig from Valve? Let me know at logan@pcgamer.com.
LOGAN DECKER
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
BRINGING YOU THE SCOOPS THIS MONTH...
Played an unhealthy amount of CS:GO. Dreamt of a future where FPSes were popular eSports.
Was declared a saint in Crusader Kings 2, and spent the holidays acting all smug about it.
Hunted through Far Cry 3’s menus to find and kill its cruelest antagonist: constant tutorial pop-ups.
Our efforts to delay Gunpoint continue: this month we made Tom play BioShock Infinite.
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