Saturday, January 12, 2013

The Calling | OutdoorPhotographer.com

The Calling | OutdoorPhotographer.com:

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" - Whole Earth Catalog

Whole Earth Catalog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
- Steve Jobs

NASA Photo of Lurar Eclipse

Touch Screens that Curve, Bend, and Even Touch Back

Touch Screens that Curve, Bend, and Even Touch Back | MIT Technology Review

PaperTab, an early prototype of a tablet computer flexible enough to roll up like a newspaper.

PopularitY of Programming Language, C#

PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language index - pyDatalog

C# Named Top Programming Language of 2012

It is interesting how people (and politicians :)
always find a way to read what they like from statistics.

In another rating or search popularity (based on Google's search data),
C# is #4 (at 10%) vs Java #1 (with 30%),
but the trend for C# is positive (+1.8%), so it is "most popular".
With this trend, it would take 30 years to reach Java!

C# is a good and popular prog. language,
but don't ever blindly trust statistics...

By the way, the language of the future is JavaScript :)
Why? Because some most prominent developers of C# and Java are now working on JavaScript and related web languages that compile to JavaScript (TypeScript, Dart...)

SmartWatch

Will 2013 be the year of the smartwatch? | Mobile - CNET News


The average price needs to come below $100,
and battery life to about a week.

A hand watch has a unique opportunity to re-charge on movement (kinetic)

While Bluetooh is usually spending much less power than WiFi,
having WiFi in a watch option would be a really nice feature.

As usual, if this can be done well, Apple will be the first to do it...
In a way they have already done this with iPod Nano + Watch Band