Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Shanghai IDF 2008: Assistance needs assistance

    Intel has several Developer forums per year in the world. In Spring 2008, they went to Shanghai in order to reveal the future of computers, mobile data and processors. Oddly enough, I also was in Shanghai at the same time. I observed not the forum itself, but people going to the Forum (located in the…

  • Pilosity and Co.

    Pilosity and Co.

    For all those respecting the choice of growing a beard or a moustache, there is a reference web site: Moustache and Beard Quarterly.

  • Revver.com closed?

    Revver.com, the American video sharing web site, seems to have closed its doors on the Internet. We knew that they had some financial difficulties, but we had learned that Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace, founder of LiveUniverse, had just bought the site out. There is still to see if Brad Greenspan will re-launch the site,…

  • 12616 objectifs pour un appareil photo

    Alors que vous avez certainement l’habitude de voir votre appareil photo avec un seul objectif (et je ne parle pas de l’interchangeabilité d’un reflex), des chercheurs à Stanford ont développé un appareil avec 12616 objectifs. ils sont exploités simultanément pour percevoir la distance du sujet et ainsi obtenir un modèle 3D du sujet photographié. C’est…

  • Face illusion

    Face illusion

  • DRAM nightmares

    Actually, this is DRAM manufacturers that have these nightmares. While prices have been regularlyfalling down for months (consumers love it), the financial results of most of the manufacturers are falling through the floor. It has been quite long in the making, but we can expect that there will be some consolidation when some manufacturer close…

  • Kenya safari video

    Source: http://www.coreybehnke.com/.

  • Canon EOS 5D Mk II as Fool’s day joke?

    Canon EOS 5D Mk II as Fool’s day joke?

    Out of Canon, nobody seems to really have a clue about what will be the successor to the Canon EOS 5D. Most people assume that it will be named either Canon EOS 5D Mk II (the most probable possibility according to several sources), Canon EOS 6D or even Canon EOS 7D. However, this does not…

  • Email to convert documents

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