Political problems in tech, friction discussion, New Bowing 787, Apple awarded design patten ridiculous, MPAA wants inside your home, Steam for Linux and more news plus calls from listeners.
Code School, a for-profit endeavor, provides fun classes to learn to program. There are some free classes to see if you like it. Try the git class and see why I love git!
Triumph of the stat geeks. Barack Obama wasn’t the only victor in Tuesday’s presidential election. It was also a big win for the polling analysts who precisely predicted the outcome weeks or months in advance. KUSP’s Robert Pollie talks to two of them, Sam Wang [Wong] of the Princeton Election Consortium and Drew Linzer of Votamatic. How math nerds are putting political pundits to shame, 7th avenue project tomorrow at noon [here on KUSP].
“From the very start there were warning signs. After signing up, you were invited to take part in nightly conference calls. The calls were more of the slick marketing speech type than helpful training sessions. There was a lot of “rah-rahs” and lofty talk about how this would change the ballgame."
“It sounds like the theoretical impossibility of perpetual motion, but engineers at the University of Michigan have created a pacemaker that is powered by the beating of your heart
“The free games that have been included with the various versions of Windows over the years occupy a unique position in the video game landscape. No one would include them on a list of the best or most influential games of all time, and it
“Six years ago, a satire site wrote a story about how the copyright industry wanted more money if you invited friends to watch a movie in your living room. This notion has now been patented in new technology: automated headcounts coming to a living room near you, to enable new forms of restrictions. Apparently, the copyright industry takes six years to catch up with the very worst satire of it.”
“After receiving over 60,000 beta applications since last week, Valve has begun sending out the first wave of invites for the Steam for Linux beta today.”
Have you ever had the impression that heavy items of furniture start to take root
United Airlines flew into the aviation history books yesterday, becoming the first U.S. carrier to fly paying passengers on Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner.
The flight
Nov 9, 2012, http://www.google.com and http://www.google.com.hk were blocked in China.
Embattled photovoltaic solar power manufacturer Amonix announced on Tuesday that it has broken the solar module efficiency record, becoming the first manufacturer to convert more than a third of incoming light energy into electricity
The beluga
James Paterson’s new project is so cool! Animation, programing, drawing, use of Git, open source development of digital art. Sweet! #js #danm – I have to remember to make this my Geek Bit this week.
