Saint Malo
For the first time on my blog I'll report on my frequent business travel. Unfortunately (or not?) this is also supposed to be one of the last travel I'll do within Pharos project and, perhaps, it will be the end of a long series started three years ago... God, time really flies: if I think about everything I've been through in the last 3 years...
Anyway, the goal of this post it's not to evoke easy sentimentalism, but to show to all of you some picture of the wonderful place where I have been this week: Saint Malo. I have to say, Brittanny is really an amazing region!
Thin clients for remote gaming?
On the train again, and again 3G connection to feed my Web addiction ( all together, all hail to 3G... come on!!)
Anyway, I found the following post on Ars Technica:
AMD's next-gen GPU powers Crysis on an iPhone
Besides all the considerations about the power of nowadays' GPU, what hit me was the following passage:
...the game (Crysis) is rendered like normal on the server machine, where frames from it are grabbed by the OTOY server-side software. Next, these frames are compressed and sent out over the network to the client, which decompresses them using a very small chunk of code (about 780K, hence the iPhone demo) and displays them in a window. User input is sent back to the server over UDP because it's tolerant of packet loss, so you don't add to latency by resending dropped packets...
Siam messi bene…
Non sono un grande esperto di economia, ma questo non mi sembra per nulla buono...
Bot trimestrali, nuovo minimo E il risparmiatore perde lo 0,08% - economia - Repubblica.it.
The new iPod Nano… astonishingly cool
On the train, 3G connection kicking in, and I finally found some time to have a look to yesterday's big news from Apple.
Event though I was actually expecting something more (a new iPod Touch, perhaps?), I must say that the new Nano is really, really cool.
I'll give it a thought... and it's not that expensive (in $) after all..
Non toccatemi Report!!
La notizia mi era inizialmente sfuggita, salvo poi ripresentarsi grazie al tam tam e al passaparola della rete
Gabanelli, Fazio, Dandini e l'incerto futuro di Raitre - Corriere della Sera.
In questo articolo per il Corriere, quasi per caso, Aldo Grasso scrive:
Non è un mistero che una trasmissione come quella di Milena Gabanelli (Report, N.D.R.) sia a rischio. Non solo per compatibilità con la nuova dirigenza ma anche perché il dg Masi le ha tolto lo scudo dell'assistenza legale nonostante non abbia mai perso una causa...
Nice Javascript Frameworks
I'm working quite a lot in Javascript lately, and I spent quite some time using the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). That is a nice piece of client-side software, and I think I'll publish a couple of tutorials sooner or later.
While playing around, I found out two really awesome frameworks built (by Eric Abouaf) on top of YUI:
- InputEx: a framework to build fields and forms programmatically
- WireIt: a Web wirable interfaces dataflow application, visual programming languages, graphical modeling, graph editors, etc. etc.
They look promising, and I think I'm going to spend some times on those... I'll let you know
New Porcupine Tree album?
Non sapevo che fosse in programma un nuovo loro album, ma non posso che esserne felice. Il primo singolo (Time Flies) e il rispettivo video sono molto belli! Il testo della canzone, come da tradizione, è davvero carino
But after a while
you realize time flies
And the best thing that you can do
is take whatever comes to you
'Cuz time flies
Del video, invece, mi piace tantissimo l'uso del time-lapse in background per rappresentare lo scorrere veloce del tempo...
Non vedo l'ora di sentire il resto dell'album!!
The Failure of the GPL
Un interessante articolo di David Chisnall riguardo la GPL e il suo (in)successo nell'industria del software. Oltre che sfatare il falso mito di "Google paladino di Linux", l'articolo riporta questo interessante passaggio:
With web services and web applications becoming increasingly common, you don't even need to try very hard. You can incorporate as much GPL'd code as you want into your proprietary web app or service, and no one can get at the code because you never distribute the binary—you just let people use it.
Mi domando quale sia la posizione della FSF e dei "GPListi" al riguardo...
via InformIT: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1390172