Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...
The Perils of Cloud Computing
What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?
I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.
WebBuzz du 21/01/2014: La boucle vidéo avec une caméra est hypnotisante-The camera feedback loop is mesmerizing
Tous ceux qui ont joué avec une caméra vidéo connaissent ce phénomène. Mais le résultat change d'un appareil à un autre. Dans tous les cas, on peut s'amuser pendant des heures jusqu'à être hypnotisé par l'écran.
Everyone who has played with a video camera familiar with this phenomenon. But the result changes from one device to another. In any case, we can have fun for hours to be hypnotized by the screen.
WebBuzz du 13/02/2014
Les logiciels libres sont souvent critiqués car ils n'offrent rien de concret. Voici un petit exemple de ce que l'on peut faire en détournant une imprimante 3D et l'utilisation des logiciels open source. Si l'aventure vous tente, voici la notice de montage.
Free software is often criticized because they do not offer anything concrete. Here is a small example of what can be done by diverting a 3D printer and use of open source software. If you're feeling adventurous, here are the installation instructions.
Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.
A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.
WebBuzz du 01/03/2017: Robotique Le dernier né de Boston Dynamics-Boston Dynamics shows its last creation in robotics
Malgré ces echecs, Boston Dynamics continue ses recherches et voici le dernier né qui avait été présenté lors du dernier salon. Voici quelques aspects de ces capacités en terme de franchissement, de déplacement et d'évitement.
Despite these failures, Boston Dynamics continues its research and here is the latest born that had been presented at the last show. Here are some aspects of these capabilities in terms of crossing, displacement and avoidance.
WebBuzz du 03/03/2017 : Timelapse enregistré en infra rouge-Infrared timelapse
Et pour finir la semaine, voici un timelapse un peu particulier. En effet ce dernier a été enregistré uniquement avec des prises de vue infra-rouge donnant au paysage un aspect extra-terrestre...
And to finish the week, here is a special timelapse. Indeed the latter was recorded only with infra-red shots giving the landscape an extraterrestrial aspect ...
The 990FX Chipset Arrives: AMD And SLI Rise Again
AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.
WebBuzz du 19/03/2015: Manteau disco pour chien-Disco dog goat
Voici un projet qui va donner un air de disco à votre petit chien. Il s'agit d'un manteau pour petit chien constituer de plusieurs leds de couleurs et contrable avec votre smart phone. Il existe déjà plusieurs type d'animations et lorsque le manteau n'est plus en communication avec votre smart phone, le manteau indique alors "chien perdu", ce qui peut être utile...
Here is a project that will give a disco look to your little dog. This is for a small dog coat be more leds colors and contrable with your smart phone. There are already several types of entertainment and when the coat is no longer communicating with your smart phone, coat then shows "lost dog", which can be useful ...
WebBuzz du 08/09/2017: Comment piloter son chariot élévateur comme un chef-Unreal skill of Fork Truck Driver
A force de conduire toute l'année leur chariot élévateur, ce conduiteur connait parfaitement son engin. Au point qu'il est capable de laisser tomber dans une bouteille, une piece de monnaie qu'il a préalablement ramassé avec son chariot.
By driving their forklift all year long, this driver knows his gear perfectly. To the point that he is able to drop in a bottle, a coin that he has previously picked up with his cart.







