Technology opinions and digital photography
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Rien de grave – Short movie
What is nice with short movies is that there is no time for sleeping it out. Dramatisation has to be intense. “Rien de grave” with Jean Dujardin fits the definition. Since it is in French, you will have to understand this language, though. YouTube link
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Vertigo for goats
In our never-ending series about vertigo and where people don’t want to go (and go anyway), here is a case of where people cannot go without tools and where goats will go anyway.
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Reliability of lead-free soldering
For those of you who asked for more details about the reliability of lead-free soldering (see the end of my previous titled “Manufacturing of electronic boards“, I have found an interesting and useful analysis from Numonyx (now Micron Semiconductors). Lead-free and leaded package soldering compatibility – Backward and forward compatibility This white paper explores the…
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Server maintenance
Over the next two days, the web site may see some perturbation. We are changing the server in order to avoid a possible risk of disk failure and to bring some needed additional performance. We will try our best to ensure that this will be as invisible as possible, buy I apologize in advance for…
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Manufacturing color crayons
In our series of videos about how things are manufactured, here comes a colorful one: Crayons.
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Computer games before marketing
Many years ago, computer video games was already requiring advertising, but there was only a skeleton of marketing. Advertising costs were probably much lower than what today’s blockbusters budgets reach: A mere list of prices.
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Traffic lights for color-blind people
Color-blind people have all kinds of difficulties in the world we live in. One proposal has been made to ease their difficulties in a current situation and without any significant negative impact on the rest of the people. Who could oppose that? But why isn’t it around us already?
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Perspective on global warming
I like to see it summarized in a wider scope on the following graph: What do you not see? Via: ScienceBlogs.
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Manufacturing playing cards
Chinese workers making decks of cards. They are quick! However, I wonder how long they can sustain such a rhythm. YouTube link
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