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Principles for 21st century living

A list of principles for the 21st century, from Joi Ito

1. Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure.

2. You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them.

3. You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety.

4. You want to focus on the system instead of objects.

5. You want to have good compasses not maps.

6. You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.

7. It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience.

8. It’s the crowd instead of experts.

9. It’s a focus on learning instead of education.

via BoingBoing

一個人吃飯也不寂寞的碗

via bookofjoe

有一種很淒涼的感覺 如果一排人都這樣用餐的話

DemocracyNow Video about Aaron

via Lessig

How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz—And Us

Tomorrow is the funeral for Aaron Swartz, the programmer and sometime activist who killed himself last Friday, while facing federal trial. No one knows, or will ever really know, what caused Swartz to take his own life. But his suicide, in the face of possible bankruptcy and serious prison time, has created a moment of clarity. We can rightly judge a society by how it treats its eccentrics and deviant geniuses—and by that measure, we have utterly failed.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/everyone-interesting-is-a-felon.html#ixzz2I6HcO8YJ

制度只會欺負弱勢 古今中外皆如此！ 

The future of programming

via radar.oreilly.com

Programming is changing. The PC era is coming to an end, and software developers now work with an explosion of devices, job functions, and problems that need different approaches from the single machine era. In our age of exploding data, the ability to do some kind of programming is increasingly important to every job, and programming is no longer the sole preserve of an engineering priesthood.

Distributed computing

Device computing

Data computing

Democratized computing

Dangerous computing

via radar.oreilly.com

大才小用的世代

記得很久以前當電腦還叫386的時代 我們公司買了一台486 1G Memory 15inch CRT Monitor 要價15萬 用來做FPGA的Placement and Routing 的工作 那時的FPGA最大是10K Gates吧 做一趟Placement and Routing 的工作約要24小時 那可是一台很快的電腦 如果用386 512M 可能要作上3天才做得完 沒人會拿那樣的電腦來玩貪吃蛇之類的或是任何的 Game 基本上那個時代就是這樣 

現在時代進步啦 人手一隻iPhone 5 同樣 1G Clock Rate/1G Memory 5 inch Screen 960x1120 Resolution 當時只有1024x768 但是我們都拿來做什麼呢 ？玩憤怒鳥或是... 我不反對遊戲 或許你的壓力很大需要舒壓 總之這個時代就是這樣

記得很久以前當電腦還叫386的時代 一個電子工程師可以替一家公司帶來上千萬的營收 

現在公司能夠打平就不錯了

工廠產能效率在變 市場對能力的需求在變

同樣的能力過去是“寶”現在確是“棄之可惜” 

當然或許被小用的大材應該就不算大材了吧

面對媒體壟斷

其實我不太在乎媒體的問題 因為Internet才是我的Information source.我不需要Reporter or Editor. I get the Source. 當然啦 想當個懶人就不要怪別人餵你垃圾

另外我們該學會的是控制自己不被大眾媒體影響！學會解讀情境而不是聽信別人的解讀！

Apple's New Product iHub

Apple 根本沒這個產品！

Eyecontact

剛剛在讀一本有關Interactive Design的書時 忽然想到電腦螢幕 手機螢幕 電視 把人與人之間可能的眼神交會給拿掉了 我們只需要跟螢幕眼神交會就夠了 因為我門經由螢幕買東西 看部落格 聊天 逛Facebook 上班也是看螢幕阿 我想說得是這些Interactive Design只想讓你把眼睛放在螢幕上而不是放在其他的人身上！

數位時代的書店

我有一個想法 有一家沒有書的書店 進去後左邊是咖啡機 右邊的牆是一排一排的iPAD 你拿出你的手機放入iPAD的位置後就可以取出一部iPAD 然後書店就是一個很大的客廳般的有沙發 貴妃椅之類的 你可以在那邊選你要看的書 不過只有在這家店的Server上的書 你可以看而不是上到iTune

好了 問題是我該如何有收入 ? 哈哈哈!

PS.不是租書店!

Assembly: The New BUI

...

develop a new interaction language — a new BUI (Bodily User Interface) of sorts arises. Assembly, a research project by Emily Carr University student Lorea Sinclaire, explores different bodily gestures to interact with a mobile phone.

Interactions such as buttoning a coat, sends a signal of your location while stroking your hemline will send out a call to a friend. My personal favorite, hugging yourself and swiping your outer arms, signals you need help.

Assembly just skims the possible gestural and bodily interactions a user may use to interface with their mobile devices but it does begin to imagine a world where body language becomes a novel way to communicate with our electronic objects.

http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/assembly-the-new-bui

for all K, log(K)< 30 ; (in computer world)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm

I like that!. That means log grow very very slow.

5 Disruptive Technologies Happening Now

我幾乎都是看電子書了 除了中日文的之外

這是好東西ㄚ 早就想弄一台來玩!!!

這台也是ㄚ (Personal Genomic Machine)

Ensambled Data Mining Technology 其實也沒那麼神奇!!

CCTV 監視系統 早就是老大哥就在我們身邊了!

5 Disruptive Technologies Happening Now

Carrier IQ: What it is, what it isn't, and what you need to know

Carrier IQ claims its software is installed on over 140 million devices with partners including Sprint, HTC and allegedly, Apple and Samsung. Nokia, RIM and Verizon Wireless have been alleged as partners, too, although each company denies such claims. Ostensibly, the software's meant to improve the customer experience, though in nearly every case, Carrier IQ users are unaware of the software's existence, as it runs hidden in the background and doesn't require authorized consent to function. From a permissions standpoint -- with respect to Android -- the software is capable of logging user keystrokes, recording telephone calls, storing text messages, tracking location and more. It is often difficult or impossible to disable.

via Engadget

這是個大問題 大問題!!!　不過也是機會

1.放空宏達電

2.控告宏達電侵犯隱私

哈哈哈哈哈

 

Gusho - A Reactive Dress that Responds to RF Radiation

Designed by  Laura Malinverni and Cora Belloto, GUSHO is an electro-mechanical dress that reacts to increasing levels of electromagnetic radiation.

http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/gusho-a-reactive-dress-that-responds-to-rf-radiation

 

專利法修正：APP和圖像 可申請專利

立法院昨（29）日三讀通過專利法修正草案，擴大設計專利保護範圍，智慧型手機使用界面、APP應用程式圖像等都可申請專利，另增訂醫藥品研究試驗免責及延長規定。

智慧財產局長王美花表示，專利法修正案在立法院歷經二年終於三讀通過，預計明年11月上路。有助文創、生技、綠能、精緻農業、觀光旅遊、醫療照護等六大新興產業發展。

這次修法將新式樣專利，更名為「設計專利」（Design），開放部分設計、衍生設計、成組設計、電腦圖像（Icons），以及使用者圖形化使用者介面（GUI）等，都可申請專利。

王美花表示，如智慧型手機的使用界面、開機畫面，及APP應用程式圖像等，未來都可申請設計專利，強化對國內企業與文創產業的設計保護。

全文網址: 專利法修正：APP和圖像 可申請專利 | 稅務法務 | 財經產業 | 聯合新聞網 http://udn.com/NEWS/FINANCE/FIN10/6750182.shtml#ixzz1fAWlJRWG
Power By udn.com

亂七八糟

我對Apple的預測 五年內

1.將有一款iphone 面臨全面回收 因為電池或觸控面板或是CPU

2.Apple 將面臨反托拉斯 Content 業者要求 iTune Store,iCloud與Apple分家

3.Apple 將生產更多款式的iMac,Notebook,Desktop and iPhone

4.Apple 將與更多Close System(Wall Garden Model)  公司合作 例如Facebook

5.Apple 將前進BioInformatics Software Development

6.Apple 前進電視市場招致嚴重失敗 雖沒有虧損但專一性的設計概念面臨挑戰

 

HDR use N900 (4)

Open Hardware Journal 2011/11

http://openhardware.org/journal/2011/11/ <---- Download page

開始騎腳踏車上班! 2012-10-12

我只有冬天才會騎車上班 比較不會熱!

Radioactive Seawater Impact Map (福島核災的輻射擴散預估)

We use a Lagrangian particles dispersal method to track where free floating material (fish larvae, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton...) present in the sea water near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station plant could have gone since the earthquake on March 11th. THIS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME CONCENTRATION. Since we do not know how much contaminated water and at what concentration was released into the ocean, it is impossible to estimate the extent and dilution of the plume. However, field monitoring by TEPCO and modelling by the Sirrocco group in University of Toulouse, France both show high concentration in the surrounding water (highest rate at 80 Bq/L and 24 Bq/L for respectively I-131 and C-137) . Assuming that a part of the passive biomass could have been contaminated in the area, we are trying to track where the radionuclides are spreading as it will eventually climb up the food chain.

http://www.asrltd.com/japan/plume.php

因為不知道流出來的濃度是多少 因此網頁上並不是濃度的分配!

數位有聲書 視障知識的泉源

台灣數位有聲書推展學會致力製作DAISY（Digital Accessible Information System）格式有聲書， DAISY格式的優點在於可讓使用者自行選擇章節也可加入書籤，更方便的是還可以調整播放速度。希望可以藉由這些有聲書幫助視障人士取得知識，並且也致力 於教導視障使用電腦的能力，希望能藉此讓視障人士在謀生上有更多的選擇。

根據著作權法第53條，台灣數位有聲書推展學會可以不用經過作者或出版社的同意自行製作專供視覺障礙者、學習障礙者、聽覺機能障礙者或其他視、聽覺認知有 障礙者使用的有聲書。李秀鳳說，現在會盡量跟出版社解釋著作權法第53條的立法精神，希望出版社無償提供書本電子檔，如此在有聲書的製作過程中會更簡便， 目前已經有遠流及商周等出版社配合。

via diyiat.blogspot.com

NVDA之使用概述 (台灣數位有聲書推展學會)

A Better Personal Health Record?

Not everyone is discouraged by Google Health's demise. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Dossia, a PHR provider that began as a nonprofit consortium of large employers, recently announced the launch of Dossia Health Manager, which will expand the company's current PHR platform with a range of new features.

Unlike Google Health and similar services, Dossia's system is linked to employer-sponsored health plans—its largest user is currently Walmart. Employers are interested in personal health records as a way to encourage healthy behavior—and thus cut down on the money they spend on insurance premiums. Dossia's system can track a subscriber's health status and tie that information to incentives or rewards. For instance, it could determine whether someone with high blood pressure is measuring and controlling their blood pressure and refilling their prescriptions. Dossia keeps employees' private information secure from employers by using security technology similar to the kind used by the financial industry.

via MIT Technology Review

New Studies Reveal Stunning Evidence That Cell Phone Radiation Damages DNA, Brain And Sperm

Prof. Seyhan's work confirms and strengthens the finding, that just four hours of exposure to RF-EMF disrupts the ability of human brain cells to repair damaged genes. Other new important work from Australia shows damage to human sperm. "We are deeply concerned about what this could mean for public health," noted Prof Seyhan.

"This work provides a warning signal to all of us. The evidence justifies precautionary measures to reduce the risks for everyone of us," says Prof. Wilhelm Mosgoeller from the Medical University of Vienna who has led European research teams, who found that RF-EMF induce DNA breaks. New studies carried out by scientists in Turkey, Russia and Israel, have investigated a variety of biological effects triggered by cell phones. Two years after false accusations against scientists who described DNA breaks, now the recent results finally show, that exposure induced DNA breaks are real.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/226230.php

PS.就是說無線電波會造成DNA損壞 精子損壞 腦細胞基因修復機制受損

PS.我在想弄一個無線電隔離咖啡屋 會不會有賣點? 就是用鐵網包起來 裡面無法接收任何無線電波 也沒有任何有線無線網路接頭

BigShot : The Camera for Education

Bigshot is an educational camera for kids and adults alike.
Learn the science. Build the camera. Capture your world.

http://www.bigshotcamera.org/

Sensor Data up for Grabs

Distributed wireless sensors are increasingly being used to monitor all sorts of things—from water quality in a river to the oven in your kitchen. A startup in the U.K. called Pachube wants to kick-start a revolution in new apps and services by providing ways for anyone to share and access all this sensor data.

The 11-person firm, started in 2007, has developed sensor gateway that collects data feeds in many different formats and converts them into commonly used standards in real time. Pachube (pronounced "patchbay") processes six million points of data per day, and recently built its own cloud-based storage platform to handle a growing amount of data.

via MIT Technology Review

Automatically generate regular expressions with Txt2re

Txt2re

via BoingBoing

OSHW(Open Source HardWare) Logo Announced

If you agree with the definition you can now go ahead and use the logo on your creations! Some creative individuals at this Open Hardware Summit forum have made it easy for you with logos of varying sizes, colors, and fill – perfect for application on any background. Here you will also find vector-based versions and even an Eagle parts library for inclusion on your next board’s silkscreen!

via Hack A Day

Remote Health Detection of Elderly Person

It is a device that put on top of the stool in bathroom. It monitor the duration and how elderly use the stool , based on the data the machine will send out warning message if the data are not normal.

沒有Hotfile 電腦何用ㄚ(Hotfile Goes To War Against Copyright Infringers)

Hotfile, one of the rising stars on the file-hosting scene, appears to be taking a tougher stance on copyright infringement. Perhaps with an eye on the litigation recently instigated by the MPAA, this week Hotfile has been deleting premium accounts – along with all their files – en masse. Furthermore, Hotfile are reportedly not paying out the money these accounts have earned in the site’s rewards program.

http://torrentfreak.com/hotfile-goes-to-war-against-copyright-infringers-110219/

Hotfile 是一個很多人上傳資料分享的網站 裡面有很多免費的好東西 最近三四天前都被拿下架了 ㄚㄚㄚㄚㄚ

Portable Rainbow Machine

via crunchgear

The Internet Just Ran Out of Numbers

On February 3, it finally happened: the clock ran out on the Internet as we know it. That was the day that the stash of Internet protocol addresses that are used to identify and locate computers connected to the Internet—the telephone numbers of the online world—was exhausted.

...

via MIT Technology Review

IPV4的地址號碼終於用光了!

3C

吃完年夜飯後 坐在回家的計程車上看見忠孝東路與金山高架橋間的一間賣場上有3C兩個字 心裡頭問自己3C 是哪3個C 應該是Computer , Communication ㄟ 另外一個C 是誰ㄚ 居然想不起來 而出現在腦海的另外一個3C , Command/Communication/Control 那好像是軍事上的用語吧 不會是Car , Carbon , Cargo 更不會是 Cat , CNN,Casio,Canon,..喔喔喔Camera ? 好像沒那麼狹隘 Casset,CD ? 現在已經是MP3時代 沒人看過Casset了 到底是C甚麼? Chip , Cortex-A8 , Cypress , Cyber wolrd ? 亂七八糟 !終於在快到家前想到 應該是Consumer吧 真是個無意義的字ㄚ難怪想都想不起來!

A4 vs A5 vs B5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216 <--- Check B-Size here

Reading is Creating

還是在PC上用的PDF Annotator看PDF才有閱讀的感覺阿

R.I.P. Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924-2010

via Make 紀念 Mandelbrot 發現 Fractal

當初學AI -> System Dynamics -> Non-Linear System -> Fuzzy,Chaos,Fractal ....

約會沒話說嗎?話題提示機

via Make

How Globalization Is Bad for the World Economy

Evolutionary theory predicts that globalization should increase the risk of recession and slow recovery rates, a phenomenon borne out by real data, say econophysicists.

via MIT Technology Review

Cake Decorating Robot

via botjunkie

有些事還是交給人作比較好 畢竟機械事不會即興創作 (當然啦 很多公司管理制度也不准人即興創作)

Ultra high resolution photos of famous paintings

via BoingBoing

10 Famous Painting <---

The Future of the Book.

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

在這個Concept Video中我看見一個有趣的東西就是Book to Book Link. 目前似乎沒有這樣的東西 ... 應該是個賣點 作的好的話 賣給Amazon 哈哈哈 我又在作春秋大夢喔喔喔

上個數位學習要用幾個螢幕ㄚ

MIT OpenCoursware 有一些基礎課程還不錯 之前上了有關Python的ComputerScience 現在在上Biology 因為Biology不是我的Native Language 因此我需要字典機翻譯 還有一些專有名詞會用到Wiki 另外因為這門課的Video 拍的不好很多Slide 都看不清楚 因此需要看書(PDF file) 所以最左邊是字典機 中間是小筆電專看Video 最右邊是14inch LCD筆電 專看Wiki PDF . 不過只是因為Biology需要的Refernce太多而我都不懂 才需要那台14inch 不然一般的e-Learning課程是不需要的

PS.8.9inch 用小筆電看數位學習的好處是 坐著躺著到處都可以看 有Keypad 我覺得比iPad方便

Ｗorld's fastest processor 5.2GHz (from IBM)

via Engadget 

所謂5G是多快 你知道嗎?  這樣比喻看你能不能了解　當你打開台燈時　由開啟到你看到光線之間　這顆CPU約可以作5件事(Clock Tick 5次) 因為光得速度約是30萬公里/秒　因此由台燈到你的眼睛約30cm 來說　約要跑1ns (1GHz) 因此5GH = 0.2ns 1ns/0.2ns = 5

腦袋情境轉換(2)

9月1日開始一個新的舊案子 就是舊的Project 換新的MCU因此整個系統要Redesign 如果是一顆MCU也就算了 是由14顆 轉成7顆 看來似乎變簡單的但是加了一堆功能 所以根本是一樣麻煩

第一個麻煩是我腦袋的情境轉換 雖然知道要做甚麼該從哪邊開始 但是卻遲遲下不了手 因為才剛開個Source Code就改錯東西 看來腦袋的情境轉換還需要一點時間 老闆雖急但是我亂改一通也沒用

第二個麻煩是名稱 因為MCU整併後 一堆程式中的變數 Function Name都要跟著改 這樣以後才好Debug

第三個麻煩是MCU 腳位的定義

第四個麻煩就是新功能整合

總之先不急著動手 讓腦袋適應適應新情境再說吧 說不定會有好的Idea

腦袋情境轉換(1)

Filter Could Make LCDs More Efficient

The best LCDs today only emit about 8 percent of the light produced by their backlights. This means that they drain batteries in portable electronics and ramp up electricity bills in homes (the California Energy Commission estimates that televisions consume 10 percent of the electricity in homes).

Normally, LCDs use several layers of optical devices to colorize, polarize, and shutter light from a backlight, and inefficiencies emerge at every step. Now researchers at the University of Michigan have made an optical film that promises to boost the overall efficiency of LCDs by more than 400 percent--so that 36 percent of light makes it through. The new optical film was developed by researchers led by L. Jay Guo, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the university. The film colors and polarizes the light that passes through an LCD more efficiently than conventional components can.

via MIT Technology Review

PS.原來LCD背光只有8%被我們看到 大部分都被率掉了 讓我蠻驚訝的 雖然我不知道應該是多少 但是我一直覺得應該有個30%.

2001 Space Odyssey Promotional Photos

via pineapples101 -> more pircures

累ㄚ 2010/8/2 公視 怪醫豪斯第六季

via 公視

累ㄚ又要開始看豪斯了

關於電子書

最近(買)了很多電子書 關於程式方面 化學的 生物化學的 因此很想來買一台閱讀機 可是東看西看 都無法滿足我的需求 原因不是大小或是價格 主要的原因是檔案格式 我手邊的電子書格式主要是PDF但是也有CHM 也有FLV也有AVI MP4....這樣一來除了PC/Mac外就沒別的機器可以滿足我的需求了 閱讀機還是先擺一邊吧!

Incredible finger painting on an iPad

via Make

我不會用Incredible來形容這件事 不過不是說不厲害 只是當Apple II出來的時候就有這樣的故事 Mac PC 之後也都有 因為人的手是十分精巧的 由1萬年前的洞窟噴畫到今天的iPad finger painting 都是一樣的故事

LuminAR robot finally shows us what pico projectors were meant for (video)

via Engadget

真是超棒的Idea 可行性100% 實用性100% 原來Pico-Projector要加上Robot才是好東西ㄚ