Whonix
"Whonix is an anonymous general purpose operating system based on Virtual Box, Debian GNU/Linux and Tor. By Whonix design, IP and DNS leaks are impossible. Not even malware with root rights can find out the user's real IP/location. This is because Whonix consists of two (virtual) machines. One machine solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway, which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other machine, which we call Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only connections through Tor are possible."
Las nuevas tomas falsas de "Star Trek: La Nueva generación" Blu Ray
Mucho más divertidas que las que solían circular antes.
Las aventuras del Doctor Who Marioneta
"…Hello! I'm Alisa, an animator living in Brooklyn. I love puppets and Doctor Who, so I made the Doctor Puppet and started a Tumblr blog about him. A few months ago I decided to go a step further and create a Doctor Who stop motion Christmas special in my free time. I wrote the script and made the snowman puppet weeks the BBC announced that the official Christmas special would be called "The Snowmen." I promise that no real TARDIS was used during production…"
"Aliens: Colonial Marines"
El juego de "Alien" que forma parte oficial de la cronología del universo de las películas.
"…Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around LV-426. Players lead a group of highly trained United States Colonial Marines as they board the deserted craft to uncover the fate of the crew. They will have to fight to survive unspeakable horrors and their own anxieties as they chase down the truth behind a galaxy-spanning deception that places humanity at the mercy of the most murderous and deadly species in the universe. Aliens: Colonial Marines features authentic environments, such as the surface of LV-426 and Hadley's Hope, weapons inspired by the film series and is designed to provide an exhilarating and engaging new chapter in the Aliens universe…"
(para Jorge "Hudson" Mochón :)
"…Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around LV-426. Players lead a group of highly trained United States Colonial Marines as they board the deserted craft to uncover the fate of the crew. They will have to fight to survive unspeakable horrors and their own anxieties as they chase down the truth behind a galaxy-spanning deception that places humanity at the mercy of the most murderous and deadly species in the universe. Aliens: Colonial Marines features authentic environments, such as the surface of LV-426 and Hadley's Hope, weapons inspired by the film series and is designed to provide an exhilarating and engaging new chapter in the Aliens universe…"
(para Jorge "Hudson" Mochón :)
El análisis de "Prometheus" más tenso
Uno tiene la sensación de que, en cualquier momento, el tipo de la barba va a saltar y degollar a alguien con una sierra de leñador.
"Space:1899" (sí, en la segunda temporada sobreactuaban tanto que encaja)
(aunque hay que reconocer que, cuando éramos críos, nos parecía más marchosa)
Dredd
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks
He visto la reciente película del Juez Dredd. Me daba aprensión verla porque el tono de los trailers y avances que había pescado la pintaban como que el tono era serio y realista, cosa que, a la vista del del cómic original, parecía un disparate.
El tema es que, aunque el tono no case, sí funciona, a base de ser, simplemente, seco e incluso sobrio, y sin el humor equivocado típico.
La cosa es más o menos el bautismo de fuego de la Juez Anderson.
El tema es que, aunque el tono no case, sí funciona, a base de ser, simplemente, seco e incluso sobrio, y sin el humor equivocado típico.
La cosa es más o menos el bautismo de fuego de la Juez Anderson.
El saltamontes de Space X
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SciTech
Pruebas de despegue y aterrizaje vertical de una primera fase de cohete.
One small hop for SpaceX, a giant leap towards rocket reusability
One small hop for SpaceX, a giant leap towards rocket reusability
Agujeros negros y el muro de fuego tras el horizonte de sucesos
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SciTech
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: How a new black hole paradox has set the physics world ablaze.
"…Conventionally, physicists have assumed that if the black hole is large enough, Alice won’t notice anything unusual as she crosses the horizon. In this scenario, colorfully dubbed “No Drama,” the gravitational forces won’t become extreme until she approaches a point inside the black hole called the singularity. There, the gravitational pull will be so much stronger on her feet than on her head that Alice will be “spaghettified.”
Now a new hypothesis is giving poor Alice even more drama than she bargained for. If this alternative is correct, as the unsuspecting Alice crosses the event horizon, she will encounter a massive wall of fire that will incinerate her on the spot. As unfair as this seems for Alice, the scenario would also mean that at least one of three cherished notions in theoretical physics must be wrong.
When Alice’s fiery fate was proposed this summer, it set off heated debates among physicists, many of whom were highly skeptical. “My initial reaction was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding,’” admitted Raphael Bousso, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. He thought a forceful counterargument would quickly emerge and put the matter to rest. Instead, after a flurry of papers debating the subject, he and his colleagues realized that this had the makings of a mighty fine paradox…"
"…Conventionally, physicists have assumed that if the black hole is large enough, Alice won’t notice anything unusual as she crosses the horizon. In this scenario, colorfully dubbed “No Drama,” the gravitational forces won’t become extreme until she approaches a point inside the black hole called the singularity. There, the gravitational pull will be so much stronger on her feet than on her head that Alice will be “spaghettified.”
Now a new hypothesis is giving poor Alice even more drama than she bargained for. If this alternative is correct, as the unsuspecting Alice crosses the event horizon, she will encounter a massive wall of fire that will incinerate her on the spot. As unfair as this seems for Alice, the scenario would also mean that at least one of three cherished notions in theoretical physics must be wrong.
When Alice’s fiery fate was proposed this summer, it set off heated debates among physicists, many of whom were highly skeptical. “My initial reaction was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding,’” admitted Raphael Bousso, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. He thought a forceful counterargument would quickly emerge and put the matter to rest. Instead, after a flurry of papers debating the subject, he and his colleagues realized that this had the makings of a mighty fine paradox…"
Moralidad inversa
Peter Watts y un estudio sueco sobre las convicciones morales y su maleabilidad mediante simples juegos malabares del lenguaje.
Deep Convictions, Shallow Roots.
"…Here’s the tricky bit: after a respondent had checked off the numbered boxes, the researchers surreptitiously swapped out that part of the form with a lookalike that reversed the questions (so that morally deplorable became morally honorable, for example). People who hated the harboring of illegals were now on record as loving it, and vice-versa. The questionnaire was then returned to the hapless subject, who was asked to write a brief argument supporting their position.
Fully a third of those who’d registered the most extreme positions — 1 or 9 on the scale — didn’t even notice that their opinions had just magically changed 180°. Not only that, but they went on to construct arguments supporting the exact opposite of what they’d just claimed to strongly believe, effectively enough to convince a blind panel of judges as to their sincerity. And that was only the extremists; if you included those with more moderate leanings a full 69% of the respondents whole-heartedly accepted the turnabout without missing a beat1.
Really? It’s that easy?…"
Deep Convictions, Shallow Roots.
"…Here’s the tricky bit: after a respondent had checked off the numbered boxes, the researchers surreptitiously swapped out that part of the form with a lookalike that reversed the questions (so that morally deplorable became morally honorable, for example). People who hated the harboring of illegals were now on record as loving it, and vice-versa. The questionnaire was then returned to the hapless subject, who was asked to write a brief argument supporting their position.
Fully a third of those who’d registered the most extreme positions — 1 or 9 on the scale — didn’t even notice that their opinions had just magically changed 180°. Not only that, but they went on to construct arguments supporting the exact opposite of what they’d just claimed to strongly believe, effectively enough to convince a blind panel of judges as to their sincerity. And that was only the extremists; if you included those with more moderate leanings a full 69% of the respondents whole-heartedly accepted the turnabout without missing a beat1.
Really? It’s that easy?…"
Monitor de Philips PANORAMICO 21:9
…Para principios de 2013. Serán 2560 x 1080 pixeles. Forma parte de una gama pensada para ser capaz de mostrar dos pantallas de ordenador lado a lado en una sola.
En juegos tipo "first person shooter" deben ser la monda.
El monitor Philips Crystal clear con multivista apunta a 2013
En juegos tipo "first person shooter" deben ser la monda.
El monitor Philips Crystal clear con multivista apunta a 2013
Shade 3D for Unity ya está descargable
Shade 3D for Unity es una versión del veterano programa Shade 3D, con ciertas limitaciones respecto a la edición normal y que exporta sólo en FBX. Ya se puede descargar gratuitamente, desde Shade 3D for Unity.
Guy Kawasaki
Fue el inventor del concepto de "evangelista de Apple", y es un gurú de la práctica de la promoción.
ReadWrite Mix: Guy Kawasaki Talks Apple, Google & The Book Business
ReadWrite Mix: Guy Kawasaki Talks Apple, Google & The Book Business
"Web Served": la guía de Ars Technica sobre cómo montarse un servidor
1.- How to set up a safe and secure Web server.
Learn a lot by doing it yourself instead of going with a hosting company.
2.- Web served, part 2: Securing things with SSL/TLS.
Ars continues our adventures in Web serving by adding encryption to the mix.
3.- Web served, part 3: Bolting on PHP with PHP-FPM.
After setting up server and security, we get to deliver some active content.
4.- Web Served, part 4: Get your database on.
We've got a Web server and PHP, but where do we keep our stuff?
5.- Web Served, part 5: A blog of your own
Downloading, installing, configuring, and securing WordPress.
Learn a lot by doing it yourself instead of going with a hosting company.
2.- Web served, part 2: Securing things with SSL/TLS.
Ars continues our adventures in Web serving by adding encryption to the mix.
3.- Web served, part 3: Bolting on PHP with PHP-FPM.
After setting up server and security, we get to deliver some active content.
4.- Web Served, part 4: Get your database on.
We've got a Web server and PHP, but where do we keep our stuff?
5.- Web Served, part 5: A blog of your own
Downloading, installing, configuring, and securing WordPress.
Gafas 3D y gafas
Pregunta_ ¿alguno de vosotros usa gafas? ¿Qué hacéis cuando vais a ver una película en 3D?
Lista de salas españolas que proyectarán "El Hobbit" en 48 fotogramas por segundo (HFR)
Más detalles sobre qué salas concretas aquí.
A CORUÑA: Cinesa Marineda City; Cinesa Cancelas (Santiago de Compostela)
ÁLAVA: Yelmo Boulevard
ALBACETE: Yelmo Vialia-Albacete
ALICANTE: Cinebox Plaza del Mar
ASTURIAS: Cinesa Parque Principado
BARCELONA: Cinemes Full HD del Centro Comercial Splau! (Cornellà de Llobregat), Cinesa Diagonal, Cinesa Diagonal Mar, Cinesa La Maquinista, Cinesa Heron City Bcn; Cinesa Sant Cugat (San Cugat del Vallés), Cinesa Mataró Parc (Mataró), Cinesa Parc Vallès (Terrasa); Multicines Sucre (Vic); Ocine Granollers – El Nord (Granollers);
CÁCERES: Multicines Cáceres
CÁDIZ: Yelmo Cines Area Sur (Jerez de la Frontera); Cinesa Los Barrios
CASTELLÓN: Multicines Sucre (Villarreal)
CÓRDOBA: CineSur El Tablero
GIRONA: Ocine Girona
GRANADA: Kinépolis Granada
GUIPÚZCOA: Ocine La Bretxa (San Sebastián)
LEÓN: Cines Van Gogh
MADRID: Cinesa Proyecciones, Cinesa La Gavia, Cinesa Méndez Álvaro, Cinesa Manoteras, Cinesa Príncipe Pío; Cines Dreams Palacio de Hielo; Cinesa Nassica (Getafe); Cinesa Heron City (Las Rozas); Cinesa Xanadú (Arroyomolinos); Cinesa Loranca (Fuenlabrada); Cinesa Equinoccio (Majadahonda); Kinépolis Madrid (Pozuelo de Alarcón); Yelmo Tres Aguas, Yelmo IslaAzul, Yelmo Plenilunio; Cinesa La Moraleja (Alcobendas), Ábaco Alcobendas (Alcobendas), Cinebox Plaza Norte (San Sebastián de los Reyes);
MÁLAGA: Cinesa La Cañada (Marbella); Yelmo Cines Plaza Mayor, Yelmo Vialia Málaga
MURCIA: Neocine Thader, Neocine El Tiro, Neocine Mandarache (Cartagena), Espacio Mediterráneo (Cartagena), Neocine Dos Mares (San Javier); Cinesa Nueva Condomina (Churra Cabeza de Torres)
SALAMANCA: Cines Van Dyck y Cines Van Dyck Tormes
SANTANDER: Cinesa Bahía Santander
SEVILLA: CineSur Nervión Plaza
TARRAGONA: Ocine Gavarres
VALENCIA: Cinesa Bonaire; Kinépolis Valencia; Cines Punt Alzira; ABC El Saler, Ocine Aqua
VALLADOLID: Cinesa Zaratán
VIZCAYA: Cinesa Artea (Leioa), Cinesa Max Ocio (Barakaldo), Cinesa Zubiarte (Bilbao); Yelmo Megapark (Barakaldo)
ZAMORA: Multicines Zamora
ZARAGOZA: Cinesa Augusta, Cinesa Grancasa, Cinesa Puerto Venecia; Yelmo Plaza Imperial
A CORUÑA: Cinesa Marineda City; Cinesa Cancelas (Santiago de Compostela)
ÁLAVA: Yelmo Boulevard
ALBACETE: Yelmo Vialia-Albacete
ALICANTE: Cinebox Plaza del Mar
ASTURIAS: Cinesa Parque Principado
BARCELONA: Cinemes Full HD del Centro Comercial Splau! (Cornellà de Llobregat), Cinesa Diagonal, Cinesa Diagonal Mar, Cinesa La Maquinista, Cinesa Heron City Bcn; Cinesa Sant Cugat (San Cugat del Vallés), Cinesa Mataró Parc (Mataró), Cinesa Parc Vallès (Terrasa); Multicines Sucre (Vic); Ocine Granollers – El Nord (Granollers);
CÁCERES: Multicines Cáceres
CÁDIZ: Yelmo Cines Area Sur (Jerez de la Frontera); Cinesa Los Barrios
CASTELLÓN: Multicines Sucre (Villarreal)
CÓRDOBA: CineSur El Tablero
GIRONA: Ocine Girona
GRANADA: Kinépolis Granada
GUIPÚZCOA: Ocine La Bretxa (San Sebastián)
LEÓN: Cines Van Gogh
MADRID: Cinesa Proyecciones, Cinesa La Gavia, Cinesa Méndez Álvaro, Cinesa Manoteras, Cinesa Príncipe Pío; Cines Dreams Palacio de Hielo; Cinesa Nassica (Getafe); Cinesa Heron City (Las Rozas); Cinesa Xanadú (Arroyomolinos); Cinesa Loranca (Fuenlabrada); Cinesa Equinoccio (Majadahonda); Kinépolis Madrid (Pozuelo de Alarcón); Yelmo Tres Aguas, Yelmo IslaAzul, Yelmo Plenilunio; Cinesa La Moraleja (Alcobendas), Ábaco Alcobendas (Alcobendas), Cinebox Plaza Norte (San Sebastián de los Reyes);
MÁLAGA: Cinesa La Cañada (Marbella); Yelmo Cines Plaza Mayor, Yelmo Vialia Málaga
MURCIA: Neocine Thader, Neocine El Tiro, Neocine Mandarache (Cartagena), Espacio Mediterráneo (Cartagena), Neocine Dos Mares (San Javier); Cinesa Nueva Condomina (Churra Cabeza de Torres)
SALAMANCA: Cines Van Dyck y Cines Van Dyck Tormes
SANTANDER: Cinesa Bahía Santander
SEVILLA: CineSur Nervión Plaza
TARRAGONA: Ocine Gavarres
VALENCIA: Cinesa Bonaire; Kinépolis Valencia; Cines Punt Alzira; ABC El Saler, Ocine Aqua
VALLADOLID: Cinesa Zaratán
VIZCAYA: Cinesa Artea (Leioa), Cinesa Max Ocio (Barakaldo), Cinesa Zubiarte (Bilbao); Yelmo Megapark (Barakaldo)
ZAMORA: Multicines Zamora
ZARAGOZA: Cinesa Augusta, Cinesa Grancasa, Cinesa Puerto Venecia; Yelmo Plaza Imperial
…Y la web sobre Cine HFR
www.48fpsmovies.com
"…Letteri emphasizes the significant benefits high frame rates bestow upon stereoscopic 3D movies:
I think it’s beneficial with stereo. One of the artifacts of stereo — for example, if you look at something that’s out of focus, maybe an over the shoulder shot, this is where stereo differs from the real world. In the real world, wherever your eye focuses that object snaps to focus. So if you’re looking at a big screen and your eye wanders to something that is out of focus, your eye expects it to go into focus. It can’t. So you’re sitting there focusing on an out of focus object. That’s one of the things that causes your brain [to fritz]. The same thing also happens temporally. If you’ve got an object moving across the screen in the real world your eye wants to be able to track that and your eye wants to see it in focus. But because you’ve already photographed that with this motion blur, your eye cannot focus on something in space that’s blurry. Again, in the real world you never see that. It’s one of those other things that in 3-D your brain says something’s not right here. Well, if you go to high frame right, it is in focus. Your eye can focus on these fast moving objects or even slow moving ones and the detail’s always there. So your brain can make sense of it…"
"…Letteri emphasizes the significant benefits high frame rates bestow upon stereoscopic 3D movies:
I think it’s beneficial with stereo. One of the artifacts of stereo — for example, if you look at something that’s out of focus, maybe an over the shoulder shot, this is where stereo differs from the real world. In the real world, wherever your eye focuses that object snaps to focus. So if you’re looking at a big screen and your eye wanders to something that is out of focus, your eye expects it to go into focus. It can’t. So you’re sitting there focusing on an out of focus object. That’s one of the things that causes your brain [to fritz]. The same thing also happens temporally. If you’ve got an object moving across the screen in the real world your eye wants to be able to track that and your eye wants to see it in focus. But because you’ve already photographed that with this motion blur, your eye cannot focus on something in space that’s blurry. Again, in the real world you never see that. It’s one of those other things that in 3-D your brain says something’s not right here. Well, if you go to high frame right, it is in focus. Your eye can focus on these fast moving objects or even slow moving ones and the detail’s always there. So your brain can make sense of it…"
Joe Hisaishi: "Nausicaä del Valle del viento"
Fragmentos de cuatro temas de la BSO.
(de Rosa. Gracias)
(de Rosa. Gracias)
La lista negra de 2012 (propuestas que no llegaron a convertirse en películas)
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CineTV
The Black List 2012
(gracias a Gozer la Gozeriana, la lista incluye un intento de hacer película de la antigua serie "El ecualizador")
(gracias a Gozer la Gozeriana, la lista incluye un intento de hacer película de la antigua serie "El ecualizador")
Cría cuervos
Son muy listos, y muy graciosos.
Corvids: The Birds Who Think Like Humans
"…Someday I will come up with a good reason why I am friends with the neighborhood crows. For now, I can say that it started when I looked up from my office window to see this big flock of crows hanging out on the roof of an apartment building nearby. I had heard that these creatures, part of a larger family of birds called corvids, were among the smartest animals in the world. If they were that intelligent, I wanted to meet them. How could I get those awesome animals to come visit me? I decided to find out.
Six months later, I have made friends with about seven crows and two small, brightly-colored corvids called scrub jays — one of whom eats out of my hand. Like many scientists who study these animals, I've become convinced that these creatures are not only smart, but also have a theory of mind…"
Corvids: The Birds Who Think Like Humans
"…Someday I will come up with a good reason why I am friends with the neighborhood crows. For now, I can say that it started when I looked up from my office window to see this big flock of crows hanging out on the roof of an apartment building nearby. I had heard that these creatures, part of a larger family of birds called corvids, were among the smartest animals in the world. If they were that intelligent, I wanted to meet them. How could I get those awesome animals to come visit me? I decided to find out.
Six months later, I have made friends with about seven crows and two small, brightly-colored corvids called scrub jays — one of whom eats out of my hand. Like many scientists who study these animals, I've become convinced that these creatures are not only smart, but also have a theory of mind…"
"Vida de Pi", y el trabajo de un montador de cine
'Life of Pi' editor Tim Squyres on the pains of creating CG tigers and shooting in 3D
"…What about 48 FPS, the new medium Peter Jackson’s experimenting with on The Hobbit?
What some people are saying is that it looks too real. You see guys in costumes instead of elves and dwarves. Film benefits from a certain level of abstraction. 3D is a way of taking away abstraction, and it’s unclear whether audiences will warm to that or not. Americans are among the slowest to adopt 3D, actually. The Chinese don’t want to see anything else. There’s a cynicism about 3D which is partly the result of films where 3D was done poorly, and that 3D has been done on action movies. And studios shot themselves in the foot by raising prices on 3D. A lot of people will choose not to spend the extra money, which is a shame when we put so much effort into it, and they just see it in 2D.
Plus, a fair number of people don’t see 3D properly. Their optical system isn’t receptive to the 3D you might see in theatres. So, a significant percent of the population it won’t work for, and there’s another drawback. You’re asking your eyes to do things they weren’t evolved to do. Whether 3D remains a niche or takes over entirely, I don’t know. It’s going to be hard to convince people to go to 3D systems at home because people don’t want to wear glasses, understandably, and it’s really hard to do 3D without glasses. Yet, most of what you watch on TV might not benefit from it…"
"…What about 48 FPS, the new medium Peter Jackson’s experimenting with on The Hobbit?
What some people are saying is that it looks too real. You see guys in costumes instead of elves and dwarves. Film benefits from a certain level of abstraction. 3D is a way of taking away abstraction, and it’s unclear whether audiences will warm to that or not. Americans are among the slowest to adopt 3D, actually. The Chinese don’t want to see anything else. There’s a cynicism about 3D which is partly the result of films where 3D was done poorly, and that 3D has been done on action movies. And studios shot themselves in the foot by raising prices on 3D. A lot of people will choose not to spend the extra money, which is a shame when we put so much effort into it, and they just see it in 2D.
Plus, a fair number of people don’t see 3D properly. Their optical system isn’t receptive to the 3D you might see in theatres. So, a significant percent of the population it won’t work for, and there’s another drawback. You’re asking your eyes to do things they weren’t evolved to do. Whether 3D remains a niche or takes over entirely, I don’t know. It’s going to be hard to convince people to go to 3D systems at home because people don’t want to wear glasses, understandably, and it’s really hard to do 3D without glasses. Yet, most of what you watch on TV might not benefit from it…"
Resucitan la Vectrex para iPad
¿Os acordáis de la Vectrex, la consola de videojuegos con pantalla vectorial?
How iOS emulation is reviving an arcane, arcade-inspired retro console: Vectrex Regeneration brings Asteroids-style vector graphics back home again.
How iOS emulation is reviving an arcane, arcade-inspired retro console: Vectrex Regeneration brings Asteroids-style vector graphics back home again.
El mejor horóscopo
El horóscopo según… Miguel Noguera
"…Virgo: Yo qué sé, veo astros nuevos, la cosa está turbia, hay como un puntito verde a la derecha que no sé qué es… Me han pasado una operativa nueva y aún no me la he mirado, pero creo que a partir de ahora todo lo de Virgo se lleva desde la sección de Las Siete Diferencias. Corre a ver…"
Y, ya que estamos…
Diario íntimo de Luis XVI
"…14 de enero, 1772
Madame la Delfina parece inquieta. Se queja de que, tras casi dos años de matrimonio, apenas la haya tocado. Yo le digo que las cosas de palacio van despacio. Ella me llama maricón. Ah, la bonheur des jeunes amoureux! Anoche sugirió que, a falta de mejores recursos amatorios, le proporcionara placer oral, así que le regalé un frasco de licor del polo.
El viejo Jean Pierre lee mucho más desde que le amputaron la pierna. Siente predilección por lo que él llama autores “ilustrados” y grita por los pasillos que los Borbones moriremos ahogados en nuestra propia sangre. A veces tiene unas cosas…"
"…Virgo: Yo qué sé, veo astros nuevos, la cosa está turbia, hay como un puntito verde a la derecha que no sé qué es… Me han pasado una operativa nueva y aún no me la he mirado, pero creo que a partir de ahora todo lo de Virgo se lleva desde la sección de Las Siete Diferencias. Corre a ver…"
Y, ya que estamos…
Diario íntimo de Luis XVI
"…14 de enero, 1772
Madame la Delfina parece inquieta. Se queja de que, tras casi dos años de matrimonio, apenas la haya tocado. Yo le digo que las cosas de palacio van despacio. Ella me llama maricón. Ah, la bonheur des jeunes amoureux! Anoche sugirió que, a falta de mejores recursos amatorios, le proporcionara placer oral, así que le regalé un frasco de licor del polo.
El viejo Jean Pierre lee mucho más desde que le amputaron la pierna. Siente predilección por lo que él llama autores “ilustrados” y grita por los pasillos que los Borbones moriremos ahogados en nuestra propia sangre. A veces tiene unas cosas…"
La ciencia de la película "Armageddon"
Perdonad, que me entra la risa histérica.
The Astronomy of Armageddon
"…Bad:
In the opening sequence, we see an asteroid headed for Earth, and are told that this was the Dinosaur Killer 65 million years ago. The narrator says that it exploded with the force of "10,000 nuclear weapons".
Good:
10,000? Where did that number come from? If we assume the asteroid that impacted was 10 kilometers across (a typical number used for the impactor) and moving at 11 kilometers per second (which is actually a minimum speed; it almost has to be traveling faster than that) the impact should release something like 80,000,000 megatons of energy. Hello. Even if we assume a 100 megaton bomb, which is comfortably larger than any nuclear ever detonated, that's eight hundred thousand nuclear weapons! And remember, I rounded down a lot. If the velocity is higher, that number increases. [Note added January 14, 2002: I found a press release about the dinosaur killer impact impact that said the energy released was 10,000 times the world's nuclear arsenal, which is in fair agreement with my calculation above, and shows again that the movie was way off.]
I find this funny: the writers want to make the numbers sound dramatic, but they actually severely underestimate the energy involved. However, this is not too surprising given the mathematics displayed throughout the rest of the flick…"
The Astronomy of Armageddon
"…Bad:
In the opening sequence, we see an asteroid headed for Earth, and are told that this was the Dinosaur Killer 65 million years ago. The narrator says that it exploded with the force of "10,000 nuclear weapons".
Good:
10,000? Where did that number come from? If we assume the asteroid that impacted was 10 kilometers across (a typical number used for the impactor) and moving at 11 kilometers per second (which is actually a minimum speed; it almost has to be traveling faster than that) the impact should release something like 80,000,000 megatons of energy. Hello. Even if we assume a 100 megaton bomb, which is comfortably larger than any nuclear ever detonated, that's eight hundred thousand nuclear weapons! And remember, I rounded down a lot. If the velocity is higher, that number increases. [Note added January 14, 2002: I found a press release about the dinosaur killer impact impact that said the energy released was 10,000 times the world's nuclear arsenal, which is in fair agreement with my calculation above, and shows again that the movie was way off.]
I find this funny: the writers want to make the numbers sound dramatic, but they actually severely underestimate the energy involved. However, this is not too surprising given the mathematics displayed throughout the rest of the flick…"
Una mejor justificación para las dietas "cavernícolas"
Es decir, dejarse de rollos tipo "esto es lo que comíamos antes de inventar la agricultura, nuestros cuerpos están 'diseñados' para bla bla bla" y tal como punto de partida, e ir directamente a los estudios de nutrición y metabolismo para saber qué problemas producen los alimentos basados en el trigo y otros granos.
Why you should probably stop eating wheat
Por otro lado, precaución: hay que mirar qué críticas recibe esta tesis.
Why you should probably stop eating wheat
Por otro lado, precaución: hay que mirar qué críticas recibe esta tesis.
"Bioshock Infinite" y la discriminación de la época
Interview: Ken Levine on American history, racism in BioShock Infinite: “I’ve always believed that gamers were underestimated.”
"…I realized, in BioShock, that we didn’t have any minority characters. Well, we had a lot of Jewish, Eastern European Jewish characters, which probably comes from my background. Whether it’s Ryan or Tenenbaum. And that game was suffused with the immigrant experience to some degree. But we didn’t have African-American characters. We didn’t have Chinese characters. It’s very important to us that we diversify. Not because… I’m not like, “Oh, we have to have diversity because it was unrepresentative of reality, and I want to be representative of reality.” I wanted to be representative of reality, but that reality was a particular reality to a level that most people don’t even understand. Most people don’t know how Catholics were viewed in this country, or how the Irish were viewed in this country. They were viewed as… I use this term obviously not from myself, but at the time they were viewed as subhuman by some people. When we had our first Catholic president in 1960, many people thought he was going to be an operative of the Pope. He had to publicly proclaim that he wasn’t. We’re fortunate to grow up in a time where a lot of that is behind us. But this game wouldn’t be honest if we didn’t have that…"
"…I realized, in BioShock, that we didn’t have any minority characters. Well, we had a lot of Jewish, Eastern European Jewish characters, which probably comes from my background. Whether it’s Ryan or Tenenbaum. And that game was suffused with the immigrant experience to some degree. But we didn’t have African-American characters. We didn’t have Chinese characters. It’s very important to us that we diversify. Not because… I’m not like, “Oh, we have to have diversity because it was unrepresentative of reality, and I want to be representative of reality.” I wanted to be representative of reality, but that reality was a particular reality to a level that most people don’t even understand. Most people don’t know how Catholics were viewed in this country, or how the Irish were viewed in this country. They were viewed as… I use this term obviously not from myself, but at the time they were viewed as subhuman by some people. When we had our first Catholic president in 1960, many people thought he was going to be an operative of the Pope. He had to publicly proclaim that he wasn’t. We’re fortunate to grow up in a time where a lot of that is behind us. But this game wouldn’t be honest if we didn’t have that…"
Peter Watts y la combustión espontánea
¿Vampiros biológicamente realistas? A otra cosa, mariposa.
Overthinking Apocalypse
"…There was more, of course. Prof. Piotr Dembowski of the University of Maryland, talking about how difficult it had been to crack the GRM. Someone else from Simon Fraser, reporting that something like Firebrand (“it’s always hard to tell when dealing with encrypted genes”) was showing up in some microbe — Bacteroides thetasomethingorother — that lived exclusively in the human gut (“Small mercies, actually. If it was viable in, say, E. coli, everything from puppies to pigeons would be pooping fire and brimstone by now, heh heh.”) The obligatory hastily-called press conference at which a GreenHex spokesman attested to the absurdity of the latest allegations (“These algae were designed for the warm, wet, methane-rich conditions of our anaerobic reactors, not the human digestive system!”), and that even if Firebrand had got out it couldn’t possibly have persisted in the wild for anywhere near the year-and-a-half since GreenHex had phased out their lagoon operations and gone 100% closed-loop. Which was briefly reassuring, until some statistician from the University of fucking Buzzkill showed up to witter on about the myth of the perfect failsafe, and how any industry scaling up fast enough to replace fossil fuels in less than two decades would probably be dealing with a couple dozen accidents a day even if it hadn’t built its entire operation on a product that self-replicated…"
Peter, siempre tan encantadoramente ominoso…
Overthinking Apocalypse
"…There was more, of course. Prof. Piotr Dembowski of the University of Maryland, talking about how difficult it had been to crack the GRM. Someone else from Simon Fraser, reporting that something like Firebrand (“it’s always hard to tell when dealing with encrypted genes”) was showing up in some microbe — Bacteroides thetasomethingorother — that lived exclusively in the human gut (“Small mercies, actually. If it was viable in, say, E. coli, everything from puppies to pigeons would be pooping fire and brimstone by now, heh heh.”) The obligatory hastily-called press conference at which a GreenHex spokesman attested to the absurdity of the latest allegations (“These algae were designed for the warm, wet, methane-rich conditions of our anaerobic reactors, not the human digestive system!”), and that even if Firebrand had got out it couldn’t possibly have persisted in the wild for anywhere near the year-and-a-half since GreenHex had phased out their lagoon operations and gone 100% closed-loop. Which was briefly reassuring, until some statistician from the University of fucking Buzzkill showed up to witter on about the myth of the perfect failsafe, and how any industry scaling up fast enough to replace fossil fuels in less than two decades would probably be dealing with a couple dozen accidents a day even if it hadn’t built its entire operation on a product that self-replicated…"
Peter, siempre tan encantadoramente ominoso…
Y tras la pista de "Pacific Rim", homenajes a "Mazinger Z"
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ComicBooks,
PoliSocEconCult
…El padre del género de los robots gigantes tripulados. Eso, y el cafre del hermano de Go Nagai.
Rise of the giant robots: how one Japanese cartoon spawned a genre. Why everything from ‘Voltron’ to ‘Evangelion’ owes a lot to artist Go Nagai and 'Mazinger Z'
Las cartas al director son cantos a nuestras infancias :) (me sale la lagrimita tonta, oysss)
Rise of the giant robots: how one Japanese cartoon spawned a genre. Why everything from ‘Voltron’ to ‘Evangelion’ owes a lot to artist Go Nagai and 'Mazinger Z'
Las cartas al director son cantos a nuestras infancias :) (me sale la lagrimita tonta, oysss)
"Pacific Rim", más BRAAAM, más, Tomás
Es Del Toro, pero de alguna manera no me emociona la cosa. Veremos.
Creo que ya sé qué pasa: cuando veo a los dos pilotos haciendo movimientos sincronizados me recuerdan a los videojuegos de monedas japoneses de baile o de combate en parejas. Es difícil tomárselo en serio.
(¿GLaDOS? ¿Qué haces dentro de ese robot?)
Creo que ya sé qué pasa: cuando veo a los dos pilotos haciendo movimientos sincronizados me recuerdan a los videojuegos de monedas japoneses de baile o de combate en parejas. Es difícil tomárselo en serio.
(¿GLaDOS? ¿Qué haces dentro de ese robot?)
Esto era Jon Stewart tras los atentados de las torres gemelas
Independientemente de cualquier cosa, uno mataría por tener presentadores televisivos así en este país.
Evolución del diseño de producción para las películas de la Marvel
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CiFi,
CineTV,
ComicBooks,
Ilustración
En io9.com lo repasan en más de un centenar de imágenes.
The History of the Marvel Movie Universe, in Concept Art
The History of the Marvel Movie Universe, in Concept Art
Epic Rap Battles of History 2
La primera temporada estuvo bien, y ahora en la segunda vuelven, más largos y sofisticados: ¡Epic Rap battles of History!
…Y sus "making of".
…Y sus "making of".
"After Earth" con Will y Jaden Smith
Dirige M. Night Shyamalan.
"…One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance…"
"…One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance…"
Diseño de avión de pasaje interesante del MIT
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SciTech
MIT's "Double-Bubble" Airliner Gets a Closer Look
Fuselaje aerosustentante de doble anchura, un poquito más lento en crucero para optimizar el consumo de acuerdo a su aerodinámica, y motores aspirando del flujo de aire ceñido a la parte superior del fuselaje. Podría reducir el consumo a la mitad o menos.
Fuselaje aerosustentante de doble anchura, un poquito más lento en crucero para optimizar el consumo de acuerdo a su aerodinámica, y motores aspirando del flujo de aire ceñido a la parte superior del fuselaje. Podría reducir el consumo a la mitad o menos.
Simulación de oleaje para "Assassin's creed III"
Artículo y vídeoentrevista sobre la simulación del mar para un juego que incluye mucho navegar y batallar en galeones.
Assassin’s Creed III: The tech behind (or beneath) the action
"…As the ocean is used so widely, it needed to be able to easily scaled from flat calm to a complete storm. To provide sensible artist controls, the team mimicked and matched the Beaufort scale. This established wind and storm chart according to the National Weather Service starts at 0 – Calm – “where smoke rises vertically” to say level 6 – Strong breeze, wind 22-27 knots : “Larger waves forming – Whitecaps everywhere” to 12: which is a full Hurricane, winds over 63 knots, waves “16+ m (52+ ft)” and “violent destruction”, and this is exactly how the Ubisoft team built ACIII wave system. Level designers could dial in the weather and all the wave heights, form, spray and destruction would follow. Wave scale height and choppiness are fully artist-controllable. The only major break from reality is that the wind direction did not directly drive the waves, since the wind direction needed to be controlled for game design…"
Assassin’s Creed III: The tech behind (or beneath) the action
"…As the ocean is used so widely, it needed to be able to easily scaled from flat calm to a complete storm. To provide sensible artist controls, the team mimicked and matched the Beaufort scale. This established wind and storm chart according to the National Weather Service starts at 0 – Calm – “where smoke rises vertically” to say level 6 – Strong breeze, wind 22-27 knots : “Larger waves forming – Whitecaps everywhere” to 12: which is a full Hurricane, winds over 63 knots, waves “16+ m (52+ ft)” and “violent destruction”, and this is exactly how the Ubisoft team built ACIII wave system. Level designers could dial in the weather and all the wave heights, form, spray and destruction would follow. Wave scale height and choppiness are fully artist-controllable. The only major break from reality is that the wind direction did not directly drive the waves, since the wind direction needed to be controlled for game design…"
El TED y las pseudociencias
TED organizers help sniff out bad science for TEDx:
New guidelines help local events identify pseudoscience then keep it off stage.
"…The organization behind the TED talks took what might have been an embarrassing bit of publicity and turned it into an opportunity to define what constitutes decent scientific information. Although TED is most famous for organizing two sets of talks each year, it has branched out into licensing local affiliates that host smaller events. Many of these pick up on the main program's themes of tracking developments in science, technology, and medicine.
Unfortunately, the TEDx events don't always have access to the same competencies TED proper does. This has sporadically resulted in problems with speakers too far outside the mainstream. Take a case in Valencia, Spain for example, where things like crystal therapy and homeopathy ended up being promoted by speakers. That, in turn, led to a Reddit thread highlighting the problem.
Rather than pretending it never happened, TED's editorial staff got together and put down some guidelines for TEDx organizers…"
New guidelines help local events identify pseudoscience then keep it off stage.
"…The organization behind the TED talks took what might have been an embarrassing bit of publicity and turned it into an opportunity to define what constitutes decent scientific information. Although TED is most famous for organizing two sets of talks each year, it has branched out into licensing local affiliates that host smaller events. Many of these pick up on the main program's themes of tracking developments in science, technology, and medicine.
Unfortunately, the TEDx events don't always have access to the same competencies TED proper does. This has sporadically resulted in problems with speakers too far outside the mainstream. Take a case in Valencia, Spain for example, where things like crystal therapy and homeopathy ended up being promoted by speakers. That, in turn, led to a Reddit thread highlighting the problem.
Rather than pretending it never happened, TED's editorial staff got together and put down some guidelines for TEDx organizers…"
Si no te gustan las mujeres pirata cuarentonas con nanos, que te den
Author Scott Lynch responds to a critic of the character Zamira Drakasha, a black woman pirate in his fantasy book Red Seas Under Red Skies, the second novel of the Gentleman Bastard series
Y, encima, el cretino ese no sabía de la de mujeres pirata que ha habido en la historia, incluida una que puso en jaque a todo el santo imperio chino… y venció, muriendo de vieja en su cama y forrada de pasta tras lograr que amnistiasen a todos los suyos porque la alternativa era peor para China.
Y, encima, el cretino ese no sabía de la de mujeres pirata que ha habido en la historia, incluida una que puso en jaque a todo el santo imperio chino… y venció, muriendo de vieja en su cama y forrada de pasta tras lograr que amnistiasen a todos los suyos porque la alternativa era peor para China.
Malware para drones
En las Olimpiadas para Drones de San Francisco (basada en un modelo de zángano cuatrirrotor originalmente teledirigido para el que la comunidad de entusiastas ha hackeado un kit de programación), lo más espectacular fue cómo un participante infectó inalámbricamente y puso bajo su control a los drones de sus competidores, pasando a infectar a los demás minicópteros.
Flying malware: the Virus Copter
"…virus-copter
Infect other AR drones with this program.
Deploying code to AR drones is annoying. This program makes it more interesting to deploy software onto AR drones when it works at all.
payload
The payload virus.tar includes:
node cross-compiled for the ARM chips running on the drones
felixge's ar-drone module
some iwconfig/iwlist wrappers in lib/iw.js
open wireless networks in nodes.json (gathered by the deployment computer)
limitations
iwlist ath0 scan doesn't seem to work on the AR drones, but this information is possibly available through other endpoints
license
MIT…"
"Oblivion", la nueva del director de "Tron: Legacy", con Tom Cruise
"…Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.
Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack's mission is nearly complete.
Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands…"
Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack's mission is nearly complete.
Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands…"
La psicología y sociología de los ascensores
"…You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds…"
The Ups and Downs of Making Elevators Go
"…The challenges she deals with depend on the place. At a hotel in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, she has to make sure that the elevators can clear a building quickly enough to get most people out five times a day for prayer.
In Japan, riders immediately want to know which car will serve them—indicated by a light and the sound of a gong—even if the elevator won't arrive for 30 seconds. That way, people can line up in front of the correct elevator…"
The Ups and Downs of Making Elevators Go
"…The challenges she deals with depend on the place. At a hotel in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, she has to make sure that the elevators can clear a building quickly enough to get most people out five times a day for prayer.
In Japan, riders immediately want to know which car will serve them—indicated by a light and the sound of a gong—even if the elevator won't arrive for 30 seconds. That way, people can line up in front of the correct elevator…"
ST:Into Darkness, Pacific Rim, MI:5, etc.
Varias películas en producción o a punto de estrenarse.
Christopher Nolan reveals why Man of Steel is a whole new Superman!
Christopher Nolan reveals why Man of Steel is a whole new Superman!
Creo que hay alguna lección profunda bajo todo esto, pero por más que lo intento…
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Fistro
Es mi nuevo gurú.
La Iniciativa Ojo de Halcón
Por la paridad en las paridas posísticas del mundo superheroil (¿existe esa palabra?): thehawkeyeinitiative.tumblr.com
INTRODUCING: THE HAWKEYE INITIATIVE
INTRODUCING: THE HAWKEYE INITIATIVE
"Ecequiel vio la rueda…"
¿Quién se acuerda de "Investigación OVNI" ("Project Ufo")?
(de mi primo Jose María, compañero de aventuras televisivas desde nanos)
(de mi primo Jose María, compañero de aventuras televisivas desde nanos)
Curso de electrónica de uno de los creadores de Arduino
Arduino es una plataforma de software y hardware abierto superpopular entre los manitas de la electrónica. Aquí, uno de sus creadores da un primer curso de iniciación a la electrónica.
Empieza la campaña publicitaria de "Pacific Rim" de Guillermo del Toro
Robots gigantes tripulados contra monstruos kaiju estilo Godzilla.
The Yes Men: cómo ser activista y disfrutarlo
…Tomando mucho el pelo a los poderes establecidos.
THE YES MEN KICKSTART A REVOLT
The culture jamming collective talks Occupy, social media, and their Action Switchboard
"…The Action Switchboard sounds like the next step for the Yes Men: "Here are the things we've learned, and here is how you can use it." Is that a fair assessment?
I think so. It has the capacity to really take off. There have been quite a few projects that we've done recently that took off for themselves. All we have to do is give a few pats on the back and a little bit of advice here and there, but not much. Those things take off. Recently, some students at Middlebury College created a fake official welcoming committee for the Dalai Lama, and announced on behalf of the university that it was going to divest in anything related to war. We helped them a bit. They emailed us to ask how [the idea] seemed, and we gave them little pieces of advice about the press release. They had some legal questions. They wanted to know if they would be in big trouble, and we said no. So, they went and did it. It was a tremendous success. It got a ton of press. The university reacted in a really stupid way, and it all worked out. It got a lot of attention for the idea that universities can or should divest…"
THE YES MEN KICKSTART A REVOLT
The culture jamming collective talks Occupy, social media, and their Action Switchboard
"…The Action Switchboard sounds like the next step for the Yes Men: "Here are the things we've learned, and here is how you can use it." Is that a fair assessment?
I think so. It has the capacity to really take off. There have been quite a few projects that we've done recently that took off for themselves. All we have to do is give a few pats on the back and a little bit of advice here and there, but not much. Those things take off. Recently, some students at Middlebury College created a fake official welcoming committee for the Dalai Lama, and announced on behalf of the university that it was going to divest in anything related to war. We helped them a bit. They emailed us to ask how [the idea] seemed, and we gave them little pieces of advice about the press release. They had some legal questions. They wanted to know if they would be in big trouble, and we said no. So, they went and did it. It was a tremendous success. It got a ton of press. The university reacted in a really stupid way, and it all worked out. It got a lot of attention for the idea that universities can or should divest…"
Los modelos a escala de la Enterprise-D para Star Trek:TNG
Galaxy class model. Incluye las ideas tras su diseño, fotos de la construcción del modelo, cómo se la filmaba, y así hasta la transición al 3D y su canto del cisne en los planos finales de "Star Trek: Enterprise".
Stewart y McKellen volverán en "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
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…Basada en la aventura en que Kitty Pryde es "poseida" por su yo de un futuro de campos de concentración y exterminio de mutantes dominado por los Centinelas. Dirigirá Bryan Singer (el de las dos primeras películas) y el resto de los actores serán los de "X-Men: First Class" (con el Fassbender haciendo de Magneto de joven).
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen Officially Cast in X-Men: Days of Future Past
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen Officially Cast in X-Men: Days of Future Past
"Mad about the boy", un LARP diferente
My so-called larp: learning to love in a world without men
Surviving a weekend of quadruple-crosses, motherhood, and emotional world building
"…The scenario is from Mad About the Boy, an all-female Nordic larp or live-action role-playing game. Generally speaking, larps move the events of role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons or Vampire: The Masquerade from the tabletop to campgrounds or hotels, with varying amounts of realism. In America, it’s stereotyped as a kind of joke: ask someone about larping, and they’ll describe costumed trolls and wizards knocking each other around with foam weapons (called boffers) or chanting spells in costume. Nordic larp, however, is more like being in a play. Developed in Norway, Denmark, and other Scandinavian countries, it’s focused on immersion and character development, dispensing with many of the gamelike elements of larping in favor of something reminiscent of theater improv. Its players are thrown into character for hours to days, and while there’s no script, they’re given scenarios that are meant to be taken seriously — from living out World War II as a civilian to experiencing the rise of AIDS in New York in the ‘80s. Now, with Mad About the Boy, it’s in the US for the first time…"
Surviving a weekend of quadruple-crosses, motherhood, and emotional world building
"…The scenario is from Mad About the Boy, an all-female Nordic larp or live-action role-playing game. Generally speaking, larps move the events of role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons or Vampire: The Masquerade from the tabletop to campgrounds or hotels, with varying amounts of realism. In America, it’s stereotyped as a kind of joke: ask someone about larping, and they’ll describe costumed trolls and wizards knocking each other around with foam weapons (called boffers) or chanting spells in costume. Nordic larp, however, is more like being in a play. Developed in Norway, Denmark, and other Scandinavian countries, it’s focused on immersion and character development, dispensing with many of the gamelike elements of larping in favor of something reminiscent of theater improv. Its players are thrown into character for hours to days, and while there’s no script, they’re given scenarios that are meant to be taken seriously — from living out World War II as a civilian to experiencing the rise of AIDS in New York in the ‘80s. Now, with Mad About the Boy, it’s in the US for the first time…"
Un motor de curvatura de Alcubierre plausible y lograble
Y una manera de probar la teoría.
How NASA might build its very first warp drive
"…My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along," he recalled. "I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible." White had adjusted the shape of Alcubierre's ring which surrounded the spheroid from something that was a flat halo to something that was thicker and curvier.
He presented the results of his Alcubierre Drive rethink a year later at the 100 Year Starship conference in Atlanta where he highlighted his new optimization approaches — a new design that could significantly reduce the amount of exotic matter required. And in fact, White says that the warp drive could be powered by a mass that's even less than that of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
That's a significant change in calculations to say the least. The reduction in mass from a Jupiter-sized planet to an object that weighs a mere 1,600 pounds has completely reset White's sense of plausibility — and NASA's…"
(de Víctor, grrr, su warp-fu es mejor que mi warp-fu)
How NASA might build its very first warp drive
"…My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along," he recalled. "I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible." White had adjusted the shape of Alcubierre's ring which surrounded the spheroid from something that was a flat halo to something that was thicker and curvier.
He presented the results of his Alcubierre Drive rethink a year later at the 100 Year Starship conference in Atlanta where he highlighted his new optimization approaches — a new design that could significantly reduce the amount of exotic matter required. And in fact, White says that the warp drive could be powered by a mass that's even less than that of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
That's a significant change in calculations to say the least. The reduction in mass from a Jupiter-sized planet to an object that weighs a mere 1,600 pounds has completely reset White's sense of plausibility — and NASA's…"
(de Víctor, grrr, su warp-fu es mejor que mi warp-fu)
"El Hobbit" en postproducción
Nuevo videoblog: VFX, previz y postviz, sonido, música… faltando apenas unas semanas para el estreno.
7 minutos de Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo
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Anim,
CiFi,
PoliSocEconCult
Acabará siendo el Gundam de nuestra generación. Es decir, nos enterrará a todos :D
Aquí en calidad:
Y aquí con subtítulos en castellano, pero con la imagen bastante castigada:
Me pregunto cómo irá económicamente a Gainax después del divorcio con Anno y el tema de los derechos.
Por cierto: la música durante el combate juraría que era un tema de "El misterio de la piedra azul" recauchutado con coros y otros aderezos.
(De Sof, piloto del Evaengendron-01)
Aquí en calidad:
Y aquí con subtítulos en castellano, pero con la imagen bastante castigada:
Me pregunto cómo irá económicamente a Gainax después del divorcio con Anno y el tema de los derechos.
Por cierto: la música durante el combate juraría que era un tema de "El misterio de la piedra azul" recauchutado con coros y otros aderezos.
(De Sof, piloto del Evaengendron-01)
Los efectos visuales de "Skyfall"
Aquí, en FXguide.com, demostrando lo que todavía distingue una de acción de 007 del resto: gente jugándosela encima de un tren en marcha, a pesar de todas las precauciones del mundo.
La remasterización a FullHD de "Star Trek: La Nueva generación", 25 años después
Entrevistas al personal técnico de la CBS implicado en el proyecto:
Parte 1, Parte 2, Parte 3, Parte 4 y Parte 5.
Incluyen el despiece de los elementos visuales de un rayo phaser o los de un crucero klingon.
Entrevistas a los ejecutivos de CBS sobre el proyecto y su rendimiento económico (y la posibilidad de remasterizar "Star Trek: Espacio Profundo Nueve".
Parte 1, Parte 2 y Parte 3.
(hablando de remasterizaciones para alta definición, estoy oyendo hablar muy bien de la que se ha hecho para "Espacio:1999")
Parte 1, Parte 2, Parte 3, Parte 4 y Parte 5.
Incluyen el despiece de los elementos visuales de un rayo phaser o los de un crucero klingon.
Entrevistas a los ejecutivos de CBS sobre el proyecto y su rendimiento económico (y la posibilidad de remasterizar "Star Trek: Espacio Profundo Nueve".
Parte 1, Parte 2 y Parte 3.
(hablando de remasterizaciones para alta definición, estoy oyendo hablar muy bien de la que se ha hecho para "Espacio:1999")
Otro vídeo de Infectious Designer, El autor de "Half Life Origins"
Killzone Intercept (el autor no permite su incrustación)
Killzone Intercept occurs during the events of Killzone 3 as the ISA evacuate Helghan. A small scout squad is called upon to stall a large group of approaching Helghasts that plan to cut off the ISA convoy from reaching the extraction point. Outnumbered, the squad takes on the task with hopes of getting everyone off the planet alive.
Director's note:
"This is another film project that was 2yrs in the making and only possible with unbelievable amounts of work and support from friends and family. It amazes me what can happen when a group of talented people are passionate about a project. On previous projects, we have never had any form of support from the actual game creators. Luckily, Guerrilla Games was kind enough to give feedback and recognition for a fan film project fueled by our love for the games. Other developers should take notes. Now, enjoy the film!"
Killzone Intercept occurs during the events of Killzone 3 as the ISA evacuate Helghan. A small scout squad is called upon to stall a large group of approaching Helghasts that plan to cut off the ISA convoy from reaching the extraction point. Outnumbered, the squad takes on the task with hopes of getting everyone off the planet alive.
Director's note:
"This is another film project that was 2yrs in the making and only possible with unbelievable amounts of work and support from friends and family. It amazes me what can happen when a group of talented people are passionate about a project. On previous projects, we have never had any form of support from the actual game creators. Luckily, Guerrilla Games was kind enough to give feedback and recognition for a fan film project fueled by our love for the games. Other developers should take notes. Now, enjoy the film!"
Starbuckeando
Katee Sackhoff está que no para.
Katee Sackhoff Talks ACTING OUTLAWS with Tricia Helfer, RIDDICK and Why It’s Rated R, the All-Female EXPENDABLES Movie, and More
Katee Sackhoff Talks ACTING OUTLAWS with Tricia Helfer, RIDDICK and Why It’s Rated R, the All-Female EXPENDABLES Movie, and More
"Africa for Norway", o La vuelta a la tortilla
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Fistro,
Humor,
Música,
PoliSocEconCult
Fino sentido de la ironía.
"…You too can donate your radiator and spread some warmth!
www.africafornorway.com
Imagine if every person in Africa saw the "Africa for Norway" video and this was the only information they ever got about Norway. What would they think about Norway?
If we say Africa, what do you think about? Hunger, poverty, crime or AIDS? No wonder, because in fundraising campaigns and media that's mainly what you hear about.
The pictures we usually see in fundraisers are of poor African children. Hunger and poverty is ugly, and it calls for action. But while these images can engage people in the short term, we are concerned that many people simply give up because it seems like nothing is getting better. Africa should not just be something that people either give to, or give up on.
The truth is that there are many positive developments in African countries, and we want these to become known. We need to change the simplistic explanations of problems in Africa. We need to educate ourselves on the complex issues and get more focus on how western countries have a negative impact on Africa's development. If we want to address the problems the world is facing we need to do it based on knowledge and respect.
The video is made by The Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund (www.saih.no). With the cooperation of Operation Day's Work (www.od.no). With funding from The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and The Norwegian Children and Youth Council (LNU). Music by Wathiq Hoosain. Lyrics by Bretton Woods (www.developingcountry.org). Video by Ikind Productions (www.ikindmedia.com)"
"…You too can donate your radiator and spread some warmth!
www.africafornorway.com
Imagine if every person in Africa saw the "Africa for Norway" video and this was the only information they ever got about Norway. What would they think about Norway?
If we say Africa, what do you think about? Hunger, poverty, crime or AIDS? No wonder, because in fundraising campaigns and media that's mainly what you hear about.
The pictures we usually see in fundraisers are of poor African children. Hunger and poverty is ugly, and it calls for action. But while these images can engage people in the short term, we are concerned that many people simply give up because it seems like nothing is getting better. Africa should not just be something that people either give to, or give up on.
The truth is that there are many positive developments in African countries, and we want these to become known. We need to change the simplistic explanations of problems in Africa. We need to educate ourselves on the complex issues and get more focus on how western countries have a negative impact on Africa's development. If we want to address the problems the world is facing we need to do it based on knowledge and respect.
The video is made by The Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund (www.saih.no). With the cooperation of Operation Day's Work (www.od.no). With funding from The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and The Norwegian Children and Youth Council (LNU). Music by Wathiq Hoosain. Lyrics by Bretton Woods (www.developingcountry.org). Video by Ikind Productions (www.ikindmedia.com)"
El origen de "El Cristal Oscuro"
The Secret Origins of The Dark Crystal
"…I pointed out to Jim once the similarity in the endings of The Dark Crystal and The Muppet Movie. The roof falls away and the puppets are bathed in a blast of light from heaven, which seems to solve all their problems. I asked him if it was a personal symbol of something, like the Christian paraclete or the beginning of Genesis "Let there be light." He said he had never connected the two scenes in his mind, but he found strange echoes of things were always turning up in his work. Another time I pointed out to him that both The Muppet Movie and The Dark Crystal have torture scenes in them, one done for comedy (with Kermit and Mel Brooks) and the other darker and more disturbing. I asked if he wasn't a little bit into torture for some reason. He said "I hate torture. It's so upsetting just to think about it. I think I must have been tortured in a previous life…"
"…I pointed out to Jim once the similarity in the endings of The Dark Crystal and The Muppet Movie. The roof falls away and the puppets are bathed in a blast of light from heaven, which seems to solve all their problems. I asked him if it was a personal symbol of something, like the Christian paraclete or the beginning of Genesis "Let there be light." He said he had never connected the two scenes in his mind, but he found strange echoes of things were always turning up in his work. Another time I pointed out to him that both The Muppet Movie and The Dark Crystal have torture scenes in them, one done for comedy (with Kermit and Mel Brooks) and the other darker and more disturbing. I asked if he wasn't a little bit into torture for some reason. He said "I hate torture. It's so upsetting just to think about it. I think I must have been tortured in a previous life…"
La Raspberry Pi
El ordenador Arm en tarjetita de 35 euros y capaz de reproducir vídeo FullHD.
Conoce a la placa que quiere revolucionar tu mundo digital: Raspberry Pi a fondo (I)
Con la Raspberry Pi el límite lo pones tú: aprende qué puedes hacer (II)
La Raspberry Pi no está sola: rivales y futuro (y III)
Hay RiscOS y todo para ella (el OS del Acorn Archimedes, el primer ordenador personal RISC de la historia, para el que nació la arquitectura Arm).
Conoce a la placa que quiere revolucionar tu mundo digital: Raspberry Pi a fondo (I)
Con la Raspberry Pi el límite lo pones tú: aprende qué puedes hacer (II)
La Raspberry Pi no está sola: rivales y futuro (y III)
Hay RiscOS y todo para ella (el OS del Acorn Archimedes, el primer ordenador personal RISC de la historia, para el que nació la arquitectura Arm).
Más sobre la nueva traducción al inglés de "Stalker" de los hermanos Strugatsky
Y recordar que el ritmo de la novela no tiene nada que ver con la película que filmó Tarkovsky (y sí mucho con el videojuego "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.").
A New Translation of The One Russian Science Fiction Novel You Absolutely Must Read
A New Translation of The One Russian Science Fiction Novel You Absolutely Must Read
Así es la vida en Elm Street
…Y en demás poblaciones con problemas de gente violenta, inmortal y gromenal.
THE SLEEPOVER from Chris Cullari on Vimeo.
Piquetes informativos
Ya, pero, ¿habrán detenciones?
(lo más gracioso es ese tontolhaba que, a mitad de bronca, se percata de que ha ponerse la capucha si quiere pasar desapercibido. Bienvenidos a la era del Youtube)
(lo más gracioso es ese tontolhaba que, a mitad de bronca, se percata de que ha ponerse la capucha si quiere pasar desapercibido. Bienvenidos a la era del Youtube)
¿Os acordáis de cuando el cambio al sistema de formulación química de la IUPAC?
Así se nombra a la proteina de la titina en ese sistema. Es la la proteina más grande conocida, y te tiras tres horas y media diciendo su fórmula química.
¿Servirá contra el insomnio?
A 3-and-a-half-hour video of the world’s longest word being read aloud
¿Servirá contra el insomnio?
A 3-and-a-half-hour video of the world’s longest word being read aloud
Tantas maneras idiotas de morirse
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Anim,
Humor,
Música,
PoliSocEconCult
…En una canción pegadiza de la compañía del metro de Australia.
Primer trailer y minisodio del especial de Navidad de "Doctor Who"
…Con la nueva acompañante.
Y minisodio preparatorio. Vuelve Madame Vastra, la aventurera mujer reptil y Jenny, ¿su más que fiel acompañanta? Y Strax declara la guerra a la Luna.
Y minisodio preparatorio. Vuelve Madame Vastra, la aventurera mujer reptil y Jenny, ¿su más que fiel acompañanta? Y Strax declara la guerra a la Luna.
"Ingress": juego de realidad aumentada y RP en vivo para Android
Google's 'Ingress' augmented reality game puts Android users into a battle against worldwide mind control
"…This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake, and you must choose a side.
A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think. We must control it or it will control us.
"The Enlightened" seek to embrace the power that this energy may bestow upon us.
"The Resistance" struggle to defend, and protect what's left of our humanity.
Install Ingress and transform your world…"
"…This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake, and you must choose a side.
A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think. We must control it or it will control us.
"The Enlightened" seek to embrace the power that this energy may bestow upon us.
"The Resistance" struggle to defend, and protect what's left of our humanity.
Install Ingress and transform your world…"
La isla abandonada de Hashima
…Que aparece en "Skyfall" (y juraría que también en "Ghost in the Shell").
Watch this: the chilling history behind the abandoned island in 'Skyfall'
"…In 2002, Swedish filmmaker Thomas Nordanstad visited the island with a Japanese man named Dotokou, who grew up on Hashima. The occasion marked the first time that Dotokou had been on the island as an adult, and his experience is nothing short of harrowing. Throughout his visit, the former Hashima resident excavated memories from his childhood, gazing at the decorations his mother hung on their apartment walls, and paying homage to a deceased friend with whom he grew up. Nordanstad documented the trip in a film called Hashima, Japan, 2002…"
Watch this: the chilling history behind the abandoned island in 'Skyfall'
"…In 2002, Swedish filmmaker Thomas Nordanstad visited the island with a Japanese man named Dotokou, who grew up on Hashima. The occasion marked the first time that Dotokou had been on the island as an adult, and his experience is nothing short of harrowing. Throughout his visit, the former Hashima resident excavated memories from his childhood, gazing at the decorations his mother hung on their apartment walls, and paying homage to a deceased friend with whom he grew up. Nordanstad documented the trip in a film called Hashima, Japan, 2002…"
El mes que viene avanzarán 9 minutos de "Star Trek Into Darkness" en algunas salas IMAX
…Estadounidenses, claro.
"WORLD PREMIERE EXTENDED PREVIEW OF J. J. ABRAMS' "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" TO DEBUT IN IMAX 3D ON DECEMBER 14th
THE FIRST 9-MINUTES FROM THE ANTICIPATED SEQUEL WILL BE RELEASED EXCLUSIVELY IN DIGITAL IMAX 3D THEATRES WORLDWIDE
HOLLYWOOD, CA (November 14, 2012) – Paramount Pictures will release the first 9 minutes from J.J. Abrams' eagerly-awaited "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" exclusively in IMAX 3D months prior to the film's official release in May 2013. This first-look at the movie will play in approximately 500 digital IMAX 3D theatres beginning December 14th.
"STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS," the sequel to Abrams' 2009 hit film that redefined the Star Trek universe for a new generation, marks the first time exclusive footage has played in IMAX 3D and only the third time a first-look will be released in IMAX.
"Our longtime partners J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and the Bad Robot team have really hit it out of the park – the footage is absolutely incredible," said Greg Foster, Chairman and President, IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "Their use of the IMAX® Camera and canvas is sure to impress current and future Star Trek fans alike, and we're thrilled to once again work with our friends at Paramount Pictures to offer this extended ‘first look' at this highly anticipated summer blockbuster."
To further the IMAX experience, "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" used IMAX cameras to capture several sequences. Exclusively in IMAX theaters, sequences filmed with the extremely high-resolution cameras will expand to fill more of the screen with unprecedented crispness and clarity, putting moviegoers right into the explosive action and vast scope of the film.
"STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" is written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and directed by J.J. Abrams. Abrams is producing with Bryan Burk through Bad Robot Productions, along with Lindelof, Kurtzman and Orci."
"WORLD PREMIERE EXTENDED PREVIEW OF J. J. ABRAMS' "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" TO DEBUT IN IMAX 3D ON DECEMBER 14th
THE FIRST 9-MINUTES FROM THE ANTICIPATED SEQUEL WILL BE RELEASED EXCLUSIVELY IN DIGITAL IMAX 3D THEATRES WORLDWIDE
HOLLYWOOD, CA (November 14, 2012) – Paramount Pictures will release the first 9 minutes from J.J. Abrams' eagerly-awaited "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" exclusively in IMAX 3D months prior to the film's official release in May 2013. This first-look at the movie will play in approximately 500 digital IMAX 3D theatres beginning December 14th.
"STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS," the sequel to Abrams' 2009 hit film that redefined the Star Trek universe for a new generation, marks the first time exclusive footage has played in IMAX 3D and only the third time a first-look will be released in IMAX.
"Our longtime partners J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and the Bad Robot team have really hit it out of the park – the footage is absolutely incredible," said Greg Foster, Chairman and President, IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "Their use of the IMAX® Camera and canvas is sure to impress current and future Star Trek fans alike, and we're thrilled to once again work with our friends at Paramount Pictures to offer this extended ‘first look' at this highly anticipated summer blockbuster."
To further the IMAX experience, "STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" used IMAX cameras to capture several sequences. Exclusively in IMAX theaters, sequences filmed with the extremely high-resolution cameras will expand to fill more of the screen with unprecedented crispness and clarity, putting moviegoers right into the explosive action and vast scope of the film.
"STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" is written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and directed by J.J. Abrams. Abrams is producing with Bryan Burk through Bad Robot Productions, along with Lindelof, Kurtzman and Orci."
Explicación del Saturno 5 simplificada
…MUY simplificada, en xkcd.com.
Y, para terminar de (des)motivarte… youwillnotgotospacetoday.tumblr.com
Y, para terminar de (des)motivarte… youwillnotgotospacetoday.tumblr.com
Trailer de "The Europa Report"
"…The film centers around a team of astronauts headed out to explore one of Jupiter's moons. It appears to be composed almost entirely out of footage from stationary cameras positioned around the ship. We love the shot from the "nose camera" filming the crew straight down the barrel of the ship. It's all very 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not too much to go on plot-wise, but we do know that Sharlto Copley is a main crew member aboard this vessel. Can't wait to see what's really going happening on or around that moon…"
La última animación para "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn"
Final Fantasy 14 'End of an Era' cinematic paves the way for A Realm Reborn
"…Final Fantasy 14's servers shut down today in preparation for the game's relaunch as A Realm Reborn, and Square Enix has released a special cinematic to mark the temporary farewell…"
"…Final Fantasy 14's servers shut down today in preparation for the game's relaunch as A Realm Reborn, and Square Enix has released a special cinematic to mark the temporary farewell…"
Atari Flashback
Para celebrar el 40 aniversario de la consola de videojuegos de Atari, van a sacar una consola con el aspecto del modelo original, mandos inalámbricos y 75 juegos incluidos.
Atari Flashback 4 channels 2600 nostalgia with a 75 game bundle
Atari Flashback 4 channels 2600 nostalgia with a 75 game bundle
Los VFX de "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome"
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome en CGsociety.org
Truco majo para contraseñas
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MacPC
Al menos en Macs: utilizar la tecla Opción (Alt) mientras las tecleas. A ver quién descifra algo como "µ œ €® ∂øπ€® œ †ø".
Lo ideal sería saber si la cosa tiene alguna correspondencia en PC. Si no, lo veo reducido a cosas que tengan que ver exclusivamente con Macs.
Lo ideal sería saber si la cosa tiene alguna correspondencia en PC. Si no, lo veo reducido a cosas que tengan que ver exclusivamente con Macs.
Primer Trailer de "World War Z"
La novela original jugaba a ser una colección de "testimonios" de personas de toda clase de nacionalidades, clases económicas y profesiones tras esta guerra mundial imaginaria contra una plaga zombificadora. Veremos qué tal la adaptación.
"Farscape", reeditada en DVD y Blu Ray
Una de las mejores series de ciencia-ficción-fantasía, reeditada como Crom manda. A ver si circula.
Estrategias para terminar de escribir esa novela
Es el NaNoWriMo (el Mes de Escritura de Novelas Nacional) en EE.UU., así que empiezan a circular de nuevo los consejos para animar a la gente a escribir.
Strategies to Make Sure You Actually Finish That Novel
(y atención a la mierdavalancha)
Strategies to Make Sure You Actually Finish That Novel
(y atención a la mierdavalancha)
Primer póster de la adaptación de "Neuromante" dirigida por Vincenzo "Cube, Splice" Natali
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CiFi,
CineTV,
Libros,
PoliSocEconCult
The first Neuromancer poster is just pure cyberpunk awesome (tampoco es para tanto)
Motores rotativos de detonación, ¿el futuro de los motores de turbina?
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SciTech
The US Navy wants great (rotating, detonating) balls of fire!
Looks to replace its gas turbine engines with rotating detonation versions.
"…Gas turbines operate on the Brayton cycle, which consists of three steps. First, a compressor raises the pressure of the incoming air. Then, fuel is injected and mixes with the air, then burns, heating everything up. Since the system is open—rather than in a closed cylinder—this process occurs at a nearly constant pressure. Finally, this hot pressurized gas expands through a nozzle to generate thrust, either for propulsion or to push a turbine and generate electricity.
The main limitation to performance is the combustion step. Like nearly every other type of burning experienced in day-to-day life, it is a deflagration, where the flame propagates at a subsonic speed.
A detonation is a flame where the reacting gases release so much energy so quickly that the burning mixture moves faster than the speed of sound, driving a shock wave…"
Looks to replace its gas turbine engines with rotating detonation versions.
"…Gas turbines operate on the Brayton cycle, which consists of three steps. First, a compressor raises the pressure of the incoming air. Then, fuel is injected and mixes with the air, then burns, heating everything up. Since the system is open—rather than in a closed cylinder—this process occurs at a nearly constant pressure. Finally, this hot pressurized gas expands through a nozzle to generate thrust, either for propulsion or to push a turbine and generate electricity.
The main limitation to performance is the combustion step. Like nearly every other type of burning experienced in day-to-day life, it is a deflagration, where the flame propagates at a subsonic speed.
A detonation is a flame where the reacting gases release so much energy so quickly that the burning mixture moves faster than the speed of sound, driving a shock wave…"
"Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome" empezará este viernes
La webserie con decorados totalmente virtuales escapa del limbo.
Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood & Chrome will launch this Friday, online!
Una vez más:
Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood & Chrome will launch this Friday, online!
Una vez más:
Primero fueron los gladiadores sexys de "Espartaco: Sangre y Arena", y ahora es el sexy Leonardo Da Vinci
Los de la productora Starz están como una chota… sexy.
First Trailer for Da Vinci’s Demons — apparently, Leonardo’s demons were in his pants
"…Starring Tom Riley ("Monroe," I Want Candy), as the title character, "Da Vinci's Demons" is a historical fantasy, following the ‘untold' story of the world's greatest genius during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. Brilliant and passionate, the twenty-five year old Leonardo Da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it…"
First Trailer for Da Vinci’s Demons — apparently, Leonardo’s demons were in his pants
"…Starring Tom Riley ("Monroe," I Want Candy), as the title character, "Da Vinci's Demons" is a historical fantasy, following the ‘untold' story of the world's greatest genius during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. Brilliant and passionate, the twenty-five year old Leonardo Da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it…"
PC (13): ruido de ventiladores solucionado
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MacPC
Quien estaba provocando el ruido era el ventilador colocado en la parte inferior de la caja: demasiados obstáculos, probablemente: rejilla, más filtro de aire, más estar casi pegado al suelo.
El resultado es ESPECTACULAR: no se oye nada de nada de nada. El zumbido de mi Mac Pro, que es levísimo, domina por completo la habitación si uno se empeña en escucharlo. Tienen razón: si no fuera por los leds encendidos, pensaría que el PC está apagado.
Aún haré una prueba de ese ventilador con un resistor interpuesto, pero en la práctica su uso dependerá de las temperaturas que produzca la tarjeta gráfica, y seguramente saldría más a cuenta colocarlo en alguna de las rejillas superiores en vez de la inferior (he leído de casos parecidos, y la superior suele ser más silenciosa).
Hablando de la gráfica: parece que no hay disponibilidad en ninguna tienda de internet española e incluso en alternate.es. El problema es que la Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II Top es, por así decirlo, una gráfica overclockeada de fábrica con garantía: fabricantes como Asus miran qué GPUs les llegan con la tolerancia requerida y las destinan a esto, lo que significa que dependen de que les lleguen unidades así, y nVidia creo que aún no ha llegado a los suministros de chips que debería en esta generación de técnica de fabricación.
Esta tarjeta es de sólo 2 GB de memoria. Tienen un modelo de 4 GB, pero sin el overclocking y no está claro que con la misma refrigeración. En las pruebas, la que quiero es la más silenciosa.
Coger sólo 2 GB es un cierto riesgo en términos de tamaño de pantalla y cantidad y tamaño de texturas a la vez. Creo que hasta 27" (la mía es de 24") no hay muchos juegos que den problemas si no te metes a hacer modding de texturas superdensas, pero de algunos se habla. Hacer SLI no solucionaría el tema: sólo me proporcionaría más fotogramas por segundo.
Uno se siente tentado de ir a por el modelo más lento pero de 4 GB, pero los razonamientos de la gente es que, cuando los 4 GB de memoria sean típicamente necesarios, los de potencia de cálculo ya habrán superado lo que estas GPUs son capaces de hacer, y merecerá más la pena cambiar tarjeta.
En fin. Mientras tanto… ¡baile de Snoopy de la felicidad!
Sobre el tema del conmutador USB, empiezo a pensar que es más práctico tener dos teclados y ratones, a pesar del espacio que ocupan. El conmutador seguirá siendo necesario para compartir la caja de audio USB (aunque otra posibilidad es utilizar un conmutador de fuentes/destinos de audio mecánico. Creo que tengo uno por algún lado).
No sé. Veremos, más tarde.
El resultado es ESPECTACULAR: no se oye nada de nada de nada. El zumbido de mi Mac Pro, que es levísimo, domina por completo la habitación si uno se empeña en escucharlo. Tienen razón: si no fuera por los leds encendidos, pensaría que el PC está apagado.
Aún haré una prueba de ese ventilador con un resistor interpuesto, pero en la práctica su uso dependerá de las temperaturas que produzca la tarjeta gráfica, y seguramente saldría más a cuenta colocarlo en alguna de las rejillas superiores en vez de la inferior (he leído de casos parecidos, y la superior suele ser más silenciosa).
Hablando de la gráfica: parece que no hay disponibilidad en ninguna tienda de internet española e incluso en alternate.es. El problema es que la Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II Top es, por así decirlo, una gráfica overclockeada de fábrica con garantía: fabricantes como Asus miran qué GPUs les llegan con la tolerancia requerida y las destinan a esto, lo que significa que dependen de que les lleguen unidades así, y nVidia creo que aún no ha llegado a los suministros de chips que debería en esta generación de técnica de fabricación.
Esta tarjeta es de sólo 2 GB de memoria. Tienen un modelo de 4 GB, pero sin el overclocking y no está claro que con la misma refrigeración. En las pruebas, la que quiero es la más silenciosa.
Coger sólo 2 GB es un cierto riesgo en términos de tamaño de pantalla y cantidad y tamaño de texturas a la vez. Creo que hasta 27" (la mía es de 24") no hay muchos juegos que den problemas si no te metes a hacer modding de texturas superdensas, pero de algunos se habla. Hacer SLI no solucionaría el tema: sólo me proporcionaría más fotogramas por segundo.
Uno se siente tentado de ir a por el modelo más lento pero de 4 GB, pero los razonamientos de la gente es que, cuando los 4 GB de memoria sean típicamente necesarios, los de potencia de cálculo ya habrán superado lo que estas GPUs son capaces de hacer, y merecerá más la pena cambiar tarjeta.
En fin. Mientras tanto… ¡baile de Snoopy de la felicidad!
Sobre el tema del conmutador USB, empiezo a pensar que es más práctico tener dos teclados y ratones, a pesar del espacio que ocupan. El conmutador seguirá siendo necesario para compartir la caja de audio USB (aunque otra posibilidad es utilizar un conmutador de fuentes/destinos de audio mecánico. Creo que tengo uno por algún lado).
No sé. Veremos, más tarde.
Space: 1970, el blog de la ciencia-ficción de cuando éramos unos locos bajitos
Las series, películas, juguetes y revistas de ciencia-ficción de los 70 a los 80.
space1970.blogspot.com
space1970.blogspot.com
PC (12): Conmutador USB
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MacPC
El que pesqué es de Conceptronic y lo llaman 2-Port Sharing Switch USB. En vez de compartir un único dispositivo USB entre el Mac y el PC, lo que estoy haciendo es compartir el conjunto de puertos USB de uno de mis monitores, incluyendo un concentrador USB que cuelga de uno de ellos. Funciona bien, aunque da un poco de miedo ver cómo, tras pulsar el botón, parpadean las luces hasta que, pasados unos tres o cuatro segundos, conmuta entre ordenadores.
(el puerto para dispositivos USB está en la trasera, y es del tipo rectangular fino normal)
(el puerto para dispositivos USB está en la trasera, y es del tipo rectangular fino normal)
Los cinco capitanes, en Star Trek London
Star Trek London Recap: The Five Captains
"…Avery Brooks spoke little about Star Trek and instead focused his answers on family, fatherhood and how his work has affected those personal roles for him. Scott Bakula was possibly the most easy going of all the captains; his talk felt like an intimate conversation in a bar despite the thousands of people around us. This was a direct contrast to William Shatner’s, whose classical training and unique personality shone out from the stage. His answers were long, divergent and always told a great story. Sir Patrick Stewart, the only local of the group, was eager to talk about his home country and past experiences while Kate Mulgrew was possibly the most welcoming of all, full of life and happy to discuss any topic — she even brought fans up on stage with her and made it clear how much she loved being among the people in the room. All five talks were fascinating and all five captains seemed genuinely happy to be on the stage, which was deeply refreshing to see. There were so many great moments across the five discussions that I wish it were possible to simply transcribe each of them here. Instead, I have condensed each down to some of my favorite moments that I can share with you…"
“Hi, we’re from Earth, I hope you love us as much as we love you. Please stop shooting at us.”
"…Avery Brooks spoke little about Star Trek and instead focused his answers on family, fatherhood and how his work has affected those personal roles for him. Scott Bakula was possibly the most easy going of all the captains; his talk felt like an intimate conversation in a bar despite the thousands of people around us. This was a direct contrast to William Shatner’s, whose classical training and unique personality shone out from the stage. His answers were long, divergent and always told a great story. Sir Patrick Stewart, the only local of the group, was eager to talk about his home country and past experiences while Kate Mulgrew was possibly the most welcoming of all, full of life and happy to discuss any topic — she even brought fans up on stage with her and made it clear how much she loved being among the people in the room. All five talks were fascinating and all five captains seemed genuinely happy to be on the stage, which was deeply refreshing to see. There were so many great moments across the five discussions that I wish it were possible to simply transcribe each of them here. Instead, I have condensed each down to some of my favorite moments that I can share with you…"
“Hi, we’re from Earth, I hope you love us as much as we love you. Please stop shooting at us.”
La antigua revista Omni, en internet
Omni era una revista que conjugaba ciencia-ficción y ciencia con un cierto toque Wired. Creo que llegó a publicarse en español. Han puesto casi todos sus números en Archive.org.
OMNI Magazine Collection
(Y este es el índice entero de la revista)
OMNI Magazine Collection
(Y este es el índice entero de la revista)
Historia de la Lomografía
Lomo, el resurgir de la cámara que vino del frío
"…Lo paradójico del asunto es que la Lomografía debe sus peculiares características a una serie de defectos graves de óptica surgidos de lo que podemos definir como una mala imitación. Nos remontamos de nuevo en el tiempo, esta vez hasta 1982. El general ruso Igor Petrowitsch Kornitzky, mano derecha del entonces Ministro de Industria, enseña una pequeña cámara japonesa a su colega y Director de la fábrica de ópticas Lomo, Michail Panfilowitsch.
La cámara era una Minox Cosina CX-1. Sorprendidos por su calidad, ambos personajes deciden hacer ingeniería inversa y fabricar un dispositivo similar para dotar de una cámara compacta decente a los hijos de la madre Rusia. En otras palabras, la copiaron vilmente. Así nace la LC-A que años más tarde encontraron de saldo nuestros lomógrafos favoritos.…"
"…Lo paradójico del asunto es que la Lomografía debe sus peculiares características a una serie de defectos graves de óptica surgidos de lo que podemos definir como una mala imitación. Nos remontamos de nuevo en el tiempo, esta vez hasta 1982. El general ruso Igor Petrowitsch Kornitzky, mano derecha del entonces Ministro de Industria, enseña una pequeña cámara japonesa a su colega y Director de la fábrica de ópticas Lomo, Michail Panfilowitsch.
La cámara era una Minox Cosina CX-1. Sorprendidos por su calidad, ambos personajes deciden hacer ingeniería inversa y fabricar un dispositivo similar para dotar de una cámara compacta decente a los hijos de la madre Rusia. En otras palabras, la copiaron vilmente. Así nace la LC-A que años más tarde encontraron de saldo nuestros lomógrafos favoritos.…"
Pequeña gran dosis de sentido de la maravilla marciana, de la mano de Louis Vuitton
En ItsArtMag.com (estos fistros ya no dejan incrustar sus pelis).
¿Qué nombre de dominio me pongo?
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MacPC
Quiero comprar un dominio y un alojamiento, fundamentalmente para cuentas de correo y pequeñas tonterías. Hay un miniplan especial de Minerva Hosting de 29 € al año al que le tengo echado el ojo (contrato de dominio aparte).
No sé qué nombre de dominio pescar: si mis apellidos, o "escifi" (como mi cuenta en Youtube), o alguna cosa rareta como "watapoco" (uno de los animalitos domésticos de los seres pequeñitos de "La pequeña Memole") o "goromiau" (los gatos, en la misma serie).
La idea es tener las cuentas de correo serias ahí, y para chorradas y demás las que ya tengo en Gmail. Mover todo lo que tengo dependiente de ONO a las mismas, y así poder plantearme migrar de ISP, que ONO va de mal en peor (a ver si la fibra de Telefónica llega ya a mi calle)
No sé qué nombre de dominio pescar: si mis apellidos, o "escifi" (como mi cuenta en Youtube), o alguna cosa rareta como "watapoco" (uno de los animalitos domésticos de los seres pequeñitos de "La pequeña Memole") o "goromiau" (los gatos, en la misma serie).
La idea es tener las cuentas de correo serias ahí, y para chorradas y demás las que ya tengo en Gmail. Mover todo lo que tengo dependiente de ONO a las mismas, y así poder plantearme migrar de ISP, que ONO va de mal en peor (a ver si la fibra de Telefónica llega ya a mi calle)
Desplazamiento vertical continuo frente a paginación
Interesante.
Scrolling vs. Pagination
"…With scrolling, I feel like I have too much control. I constantly have to “measure” how far to scroll and make the proper precise movement. My eyes have to track the content as it moves. It’s exhausting because of the concentration it requires compared with just pressing a button and having the right thing happen…"
Scrolling vs. Pagination
"…With scrolling, I feel like I have too much control. I constantly have to “measure” how far to scroll and make the proper precise movement. My eyes have to track the content as it moves. It’s exhausting because of the concentration it requires compared with just pressing a button and having the right thing happen…"
PC (11): especial ventilación
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MacPC
Como no estoy haciendo puente de Todos los santos (jueves festivo, pero viernes al curro), aún no he deshecho y rehecho la mesa y los cables para integrar el PC en mi tinglado.
Así que, de momento, un comentario sobre la ventilación de la caja. Para experimentar, decidí comprar un par de ventiladores extra de 120 mm., unos Silverstone SST-AP121. Estos los escogí por un detalle muy interesante revelado en este análisis de ventiladores en Anandtech: son los únicos de su estudio que, en la columna de aire que producen, la velocidad del mismo es idéntica en su centro que en su perímetro.
Mirad este vídeo: el AP121 es el último.
Al parecer, hay muchos ventiladores que lo único que hacen es dispersar el aire que proyectan por todas partes menos a lo largo de su eje. Es decir, que si apuntan a algún sitio (a la placa, de normal), la presión de aire principal llega a todas partes menos ese sitio, paradójicamente.
Estos Silverstone son casi los únicos que se portan como uno esperaría. Aparte, son muy silenciosos.
Y aquí es donde tengo el problema: el PC está haciendo más ruido del que esperaba, y he de analizar quién es el culpable y qué hacer al respecto. Desde luego, suena más fuerte que mi Mac, aunque éste está bajo la mesa alineado horizontalmente con ella, a mis pies. El Mac tiene unos cuantos ventiladores de 140 mm., pero el sonido es casi inapreciable.
El PC, hasta que no lo "esconda" bajo la mesa, no podré valorar exactamente cuán impertinente es su ruido. Aparte de un zumbido de base, lo que más me está preocupando es un tonillo agudo de esos que va y viene con que muevas la cabeza unos centímetros.
En fin. Elementos a considerar: la caja vino con dos ventiladores de 140 mm., que me da que son los posibles culpables. Estos están regulados por un selector de voltaje escondido tras la tapa, y puedo ponerlos al mínimo, aunque a correvuela no parece mejorar mucho la situación.
Luego están los dos ventiladores del disipador de Noctua, de 120 y 140 mm. Sonaban fuertes, francamente, así que les puse los cables resistores accesorios que venían en su paquete y han parecido bajar de volumen. Noctua contempla la posibilidad de retirar uno de ellos y dedicarlo a otras tareas en la caja. Es tentador, porque el aire que escapa de la caja es gélido, así que de momento está muy bien refrigerada, pero he de esperar a ver cómo influye la GPU cuando me llegue, y a probar alguno de los niveles de "overclocking para tontos" más inofensivos.
Y ahora los Silverstone. Uno lo puse en la base de la caja, aspirando aire del suelo (hay un filtro externo para retirar la mugre acumulada cada tanto tiempo). El otro lo puse en la parrilla frontal, apuntando a la placa, bajando el original de la caja a la posición inferior de la misma parrilla.
En teoría, debería poder controlar la velocidad de los Silverstone desde la propia placa, a donde los he conectado. Pero me está dando la impresión de que la placa no está entendiendo la regulación por voltaje (conectores de 3 pines) en sus conexiones de 4 pines, porque por más que ajusto no noto variación de velocidad. Y no veo ningún selector de control de ventiladores de pulso a voltaje en la BIOS/UEFI (voy a enviar un mensajete a Gigabyte a ver qué me cuentan).
En todo caso, estoy con la sensación de que no es cosa de los Silverstone sino de los originales de la caja. Así que, mientras lo averiguo, voy a investigar alternativas. En entrada de aire igual basta con otro Silverstone. Es en la salida de aire de la caja donde no sé si se puede utilizar cualquier otro ventilador o si se necesita uno pensado específicamente para expulsar aire fuera. Aparte, no sé si es interesante ponerlo de 120 mm. (más variedad de modelos silenciosos) o de 140 mm. como el original (más volumen de aire desplazado a menos rpm., pero aun así en general menos silenciosos… al parecer. No está tan claro).
Algunos de estos ventiladores me vinieron con "tornillos" alternativos de algo parecido a caucho, para aislar la caja de sus vibraciones. No los puse porque aún no me aclaro cómo se colocan (el moldeado es pintoresco, y probablemente necesitaría cortarlos con un cútex tras su colocación, porque si no tropezarían con los filtros de aire extraíbles), pero quiero ver si reducen el zumbido.
Así que, de momento, un comentario sobre la ventilación de la caja. Para experimentar, decidí comprar un par de ventiladores extra de 120 mm., unos Silverstone SST-AP121. Estos los escogí por un detalle muy interesante revelado en este análisis de ventiladores en Anandtech: son los únicos de su estudio que, en la columna de aire que producen, la velocidad del mismo es idéntica en su centro que en su perímetro.
Mirad este vídeo: el AP121 es el último.
Al parecer, hay muchos ventiladores que lo único que hacen es dispersar el aire que proyectan por todas partes menos a lo largo de su eje. Es decir, que si apuntan a algún sitio (a la placa, de normal), la presión de aire principal llega a todas partes menos ese sitio, paradójicamente.
Estos Silverstone son casi los únicos que se portan como uno esperaría. Aparte, son muy silenciosos.
Y aquí es donde tengo el problema: el PC está haciendo más ruido del que esperaba, y he de analizar quién es el culpable y qué hacer al respecto. Desde luego, suena más fuerte que mi Mac, aunque éste está bajo la mesa alineado horizontalmente con ella, a mis pies. El Mac tiene unos cuantos ventiladores de 140 mm., pero el sonido es casi inapreciable.
El PC, hasta que no lo "esconda" bajo la mesa, no podré valorar exactamente cuán impertinente es su ruido. Aparte de un zumbido de base, lo que más me está preocupando es un tonillo agudo de esos que va y viene con que muevas la cabeza unos centímetros.
En fin. Elementos a considerar: la caja vino con dos ventiladores de 140 mm., que me da que son los posibles culpables. Estos están regulados por un selector de voltaje escondido tras la tapa, y puedo ponerlos al mínimo, aunque a correvuela no parece mejorar mucho la situación.
Luego están los dos ventiladores del disipador de Noctua, de 120 y 140 mm. Sonaban fuertes, francamente, así que les puse los cables resistores accesorios que venían en su paquete y han parecido bajar de volumen. Noctua contempla la posibilidad de retirar uno de ellos y dedicarlo a otras tareas en la caja. Es tentador, porque el aire que escapa de la caja es gélido, así que de momento está muy bien refrigerada, pero he de esperar a ver cómo influye la GPU cuando me llegue, y a probar alguno de los niveles de "overclocking para tontos" más inofensivos.
Y ahora los Silverstone. Uno lo puse en la base de la caja, aspirando aire del suelo (hay un filtro externo para retirar la mugre acumulada cada tanto tiempo). El otro lo puse en la parrilla frontal, apuntando a la placa, bajando el original de la caja a la posición inferior de la misma parrilla.
En teoría, debería poder controlar la velocidad de los Silverstone desde la propia placa, a donde los he conectado. Pero me está dando la impresión de que la placa no está entendiendo la regulación por voltaje (conectores de 3 pines) en sus conexiones de 4 pines, porque por más que ajusto no noto variación de velocidad. Y no veo ningún selector de control de ventiladores de pulso a voltaje en la BIOS/UEFI (voy a enviar un mensajete a Gigabyte a ver qué me cuentan).
En todo caso, estoy con la sensación de que no es cosa de los Silverstone sino de los originales de la caja. Así que, mientras lo averiguo, voy a investigar alternativas. En entrada de aire igual basta con otro Silverstone. Es en la salida de aire de la caja donde no sé si se puede utilizar cualquier otro ventilador o si se necesita uno pensado específicamente para expulsar aire fuera. Aparte, no sé si es interesante ponerlo de 120 mm. (más variedad de modelos silenciosos) o de 140 mm. como el original (más volumen de aire desplazado a menos rpm., pero aun así en general menos silenciosos… al parecer. No está tan claro).
Algunos de estos ventiladores me vinieron con "tornillos" alternativos de algo parecido a caucho, para aislar la caja de sus vibraciones. No los puse porque aún no me aclaro cómo se colocan (el moldeado es pintoresco, y probablemente necesitaría cortarlos con un cútex tras su colocación, porque si no tropezarían con los filtros de aire extraíbles), pero quiero ver si reducen el zumbido.
"Wizards vs. Aliens", el último invento de Russell T. Davies…
…Veterano de las series juveniles ciencia-ficcioneras y fantásticas de los 80-90, de las escabrosas del 2000, y resucitador de "Doctor Who".
Kim Dotcom nos presenta al sucesor de Megaupload: Mega
Kim Dotcom introduces Mega to the world: Another way of sharing
"…Before, we operated only a handful of storage nodes located in expensive premium data centers. Now, thanks to encryption, we can connect a large number of hosting partners around the world without worrying about privacy breaches," it says. "Our servers will be closer to our customers. This will result in faster data transfers…"
"…Before, we operated only a handful of storage nodes located in expensive premium data centers. Now, thanks to encryption, we can connect a large number of hosting partners around the world without worrying about privacy breaches," it says. "Our servers will be closer to our customers. This will result in faster data transfers…"
ARTICULAZO EN ARS TECHNICA: Cómo funcionaba la sala de control de la NASA en las misiones Apolo
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SciTech
Con motivo de la restauración de la sala, Ars Technica se marca un par de artículos explicándola… consola a consola.
Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained:
Your handy reference to each station in the Apollo Mission Control room.
Going boldly: Behind the scenes at NASA's hallowed Mission Control Center
Apollo vet Sy Liebergot shows Ars how NASA got men safely to the moon and back.
Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained:
Your handy reference to each station in the Apollo Mission Control room.
Going boldly: Behind the scenes at NASA's hallowed Mission Control Center
Apollo vet Sy Liebergot shows Ars how NASA got men safely to the moon and back.
Cómo funciona Google Now
Google Now: behind the predictive future of search: How Google learned to un-fragment itself and create the next big thing
"…With Android 4.2, launching alongside the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 on November 13th, Google has updated the feature with new information cards in new categories. And yet, the amount of engineering effort that makes Google Now possible is out of proportion to what it does — it's a massive, cross-company effort for what seems like a relatively small product. That difference is a clue. Google Now isn't important for what it does, well, "now," but the building blocks are there for a radically different kind of platform in the future.
We sat down with the teams responsible for some of the technology that went into Google Now to find out what makes it tick today and discover some hints about what it could be in the future…"
"…With Android 4.2, launching alongside the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 on November 13th, Google has updated the feature with new information cards in new categories. And yet, the amount of engineering effort that makes Google Now possible is out of proportion to what it does — it's a massive, cross-company effort for what seems like a relatively small product. That difference is a clue. Google Now isn't important for what it does, well, "now," but the building blocks are there for a radically different kind of platform in the future.
We sat down with the teams responsible for some of the technology that went into Google Now to find out what makes it tick today and discover some hints about what it could be in the future…"
La isla de "La llamada de Cthulhu" tiene una fácil explicación…
Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific (PDF)
"…We contend that all of the credible phenomena which Johansen described may be explained as being the observable consequences of a localized bubble of spacetime curvature. Many of his most incomprehensible statements (involving the geometry of the architecture, and variability of the location of the horizon) can therefore be said to have a unified underlying cause.
We propose a simplified example of such a geometry, and show using numerical computation that Johansen’s descriptions were, for the most part, not simply the ravings of a lunatic. Rather, they are the nontechnical observations of an intelligent man who did not understand how to describe what he was seeing. Conversely, it seems to us improbable that Johansen should have unwittingly given such a precise description of the consequences of spacetime curvature, if the details of this story were merely the dregs of some half remembered fever dream.
We calculate the type of matter which would be required to generate such exotic spacetime curvature. Unfortunately, we determine that the required matter is quite unphysical, and possess a nature which is entirely alien to all of the experiences of human science. Indeed, any civilization with mastery over such matter would be able to construct warp drives, cloaking devices, and other exotic geometries required to conveniently travel through the cosmos…"
"…We contend that all of the credible phenomena which Johansen described may be explained as being the observable consequences of a localized bubble of spacetime curvature. Many of his most incomprehensible statements (involving the geometry of the architecture, and variability of the location of the horizon) can therefore be said to have a unified underlying cause.
We propose a simplified example of such a geometry, and show using numerical computation that Johansen’s descriptions were, for the most part, not simply the ravings of a lunatic. Rather, they are the nontechnical observations of an intelligent man who did not understand how to describe what he was seeing. Conversely, it seems to us improbable that Johansen should have unwittingly given such a precise description of the consequences of spacetime curvature, if the details of this story were merely the dregs of some half remembered fever dream.
We calculate the type of matter which would be required to generate such exotic spacetime curvature. Unfortunately, we determine that the required matter is quite unphysical, and possess a nature which is entirely alien to all of the experiences of human science. Indeed, any civilization with mastery over such matter would be able to construct warp drives, cloaking devices, and other exotic geometries required to conveniently travel through the cosmos…"
Disney ha comprado Lucasfilm
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Anim,
CiFi,
CineTV,
En dos palabras…,
Juegos,
MacPC,
PoliSocEconCult,
VFX
…Y anuncia una nueva película de "La guerra de las galaxias" para 2014.
No, no es broma.
Updated: Walt Disney buys LucasFilm, promises Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015:
Disney now owns all of your childhood memories.
"On Tuesday afternoon, the Walt Disney Company announced in a press release shortly before its investor call that it would acquire 100 percent of LucasFilm LTD for $4.05 billion, in cash and stock. In the press release, Disney also said it would invest in a new film, Star Wars Episode 7, which would be released in 2015, "with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future…"
"…Disney's acquisition includes all the ventures of LucasFilm LTD, including the special effects powerhouse Industrial Light and Magic, as well as LucasArts and Skywalker Sound. "The present intent is for LucasFilm employees to remain in their current locations."
(de Vicente, que dio el OMG de alarma)
No, no es broma.
Updated: Walt Disney buys LucasFilm, promises Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015:
Disney now owns all of your childhood memories.
"On Tuesday afternoon, the Walt Disney Company announced in a press release shortly before its investor call that it would acquire 100 percent of LucasFilm LTD for $4.05 billion, in cash and stock. In the press release, Disney also said it would invest in a new film, Star Wars Episode 7, which would be released in 2015, "with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future…"
"…Disney's acquisition includes all the ventures of LucasFilm LTD, including the special effects powerhouse Industrial Light and Magic, as well as LucasArts and Skywalker Sound. "The present intent is for LucasFilm employees to remain in their current locations."
(de Vicente, que dio el OMG de alarma)
Si los antárticos pueden, los del CERN también
Otro FanFilm hecho por científicos (bueno, estudiantes aspirantes a científicos), esta vez en el LHC.
www.decayfilm.com
www.decayfilm.com
Mentes-colmena y colmenas mentales
Una conferencia que Peter Watts va a presentar dentro de unos días.
When Mirror Neurons Go Bad
"…Mirror neurons think outside the skull by definition. They’re a kind of monkey-see-monkey-do circuit: they fire both when you do something, and when you see someone else doing the same thing. I drink a beer, certain mirrors fire. I watch you drink a beer; the same neurons fire, even though I’m not moving. It’s been suggested that mirror neurons are essential to developing a theory of mind, to empathy, to consciousness itself — Ramachandran’s all over them in that last context.
But sometimes mirror neurons go bad. Normally they just fire quietly to themselves when they see someone else doing something. In victims of echopraxia, however, those signals run right down the motor nerve to the muscles and force the body to follow suit. Echopraxiacs are compelled to mimic actions they see others performing…"
When Mirror Neurons Go Bad
"…Mirror neurons think outside the skull by definition. They’re a kind of monkey-see-monkey-do circuit: they fire both when you do something, and when you see someone else doing the same thing. I drink a beer, certain mirrors fire. I watch you drink a beer; the same neurons fire, even though I’m not moving. It’s been suggested that mirror neurons are essential to developing a theory of mind, to empathy, to consciousness itself — Ramachandran’s all over them in that last context.
But sometimes mirror neurons go bad. Normally they just fire quietly to themselves when they see someone else doing something. In victims of echopraxia, however, those signals run right down the motor nerve to the muscles and force the body to follow suit. Echopraxiacs are compelled to mimic actions they see others performing…"
PC (10)
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MacPC
Interesante: he puesto los resistores a los ventiladores del disipador, y ha bajado la temperatura del procesador unos tres grados más. Había leído por ahí cosas sobre que una velocidad de aire excesiva podía, en la práctica, ser menos eficiente a la hora de retirar el calor.
Coming home
TNG Exposed en la Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, 28 de April de 2012. Reunión de los actores de ST:TNG. Y un momento especial:
El encuentro al completo, a partir de aquí (en cuanto la peña calienta motores, se nota ese algo especial entre ellos de que siempre han hablado. Y que están como una cabra).
El encuentro al completo, a partir de aquí (en cuanto la peña calienta motores, se nota ese algo especial entre ellos de que siempre han hablado. Y que están como una cabra).
PC (9)
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MacPC
Agónico descubrimiento: si quieres formatear un disco duro o un SSD en GPT (GUID Partition Table), adecuada para arranques EFI/UEFI y más robusta que el sistema basado en MBR (Master Boot Record), has de desconectar cualquier otro disco con sistema de arranque basado en GPT, o el cabrito del disco de instalación de Windows 7 omitirá la partición auxiliar donde mete las funciones de arranque y demás detallitos.
He estado todo el fin de semana dando cabezazos contra la pared por culpa de haber estado utilizando un disquito duro como sistema auxiliar conectado a la vez, haciéndome cruces y pensando si es que el instalador con SP1 integrado que me había tostado tenía problemas frente al original sin SP1 que en su momento compré.
Esto con Mac no te pasa ni en broma, francamente, donde yo puedo ir triscando por el monte instalando particiones y sistemas hasta en las judías verdes. Me pregunto si habrá mejorado la cosa un ápice en los instaladores de Windows 8.
Actualicé la BIOS/UEFI a la última revisión, y no he vuelto a tener nieve en la pantalla. Y ahora, por escribir eso, seguro que me pasa :D Crucemos dedos.
El aire que sale de la caja del PC me está helando las rodillas. Buena señal.
Curiosidad: la diferencia entre la instalación con Win7 más actualización a SP1 y Win7 con SP1 integrado en el instalador es como de la noche al día: en el caso del segundo, hace que los arranques desde el sistema instalado en el SSD sean casi instantáneos, no así en el caso del segundo, por más que lo actualices.
He estado todo el fin de semana dando cabezazos contra la pared por culpa de haber estado utilizando un disquito duro como sistema auxiliar conectado a la vez, haciéndome cruces y pensando si es que el instalador con SP1 integrado que me había tostado tenía problemas frente al original sin SP1 que en su momento compré.
Esto con Mac no te pasa ni en broma, francamente, donde yo puedo ir triscando por el monte instalando particiones y sistemas hasta en las judías verdes. Me pregunto si habrá mejorado la cosa un ápice en los instaladores de Windows 8.
Actualicé la BIOS/UEFI a la última revisión, y no he vuelto a tener nieve en la pantalla. Y ahora, por escribir eso, seguro que me pasa :D Crucemos dedos.
El aire que sale de la caja del PC me está helando las rodillas. Buena señal.
Curiosidad: la diferencia entre la instalación con Win7 más actualización a SP1 y Win7 con SP1 integrado en el instalador es como de la noche al día: en el caso del segundo, hace que los arranques desde el sistema instalado en el SSD sean casi instantáneos, no así en el caso del segundo, por más que lo actualices.
The Origin of Creatures
Veo en los títulos de crédito el uso de una cámara con control de movimiento, así que seguramente los decorados son en parte maquetas.
"…The Origin of Creatures is based on one of the most well-known tales about collaboration, the Tower of Babel. This tale is transformed and twisted and is set in an imaginary future, after the world is hit by a catastrophe. Among the remains of a devastated city lives that what is left of humanity. Human bodies are divided into separated parts of the body and are fused to special beings. Together, these creatures form a colony, they can only survive when collaborating. In the rubble of destroyed buildings they are trying to build a nest as large and as high as possible, so that the colony's queen gets enough sunlight to reproduce, but due to miscommunication this mission is doomed to fail…"
"…The Origin of Creatures is based on one of the most well-known tales about collaboration, the Tower of Babel. This tale is transformed and twisted and is set in an imaginary future, after the world is hit by a catastrophe. Among the remains of a devastated city lives that what is left of humanity. Human bodies are divided into separated parts of the body and are fused to special beings. Together, these creatures form a colony, they can only survive when collaborating. In the rubble of destroyed buildings they are trying to build a nest as large and as high as possible, so that the colony's queen gets enough sunlight to reproduce, but due to miscommunication this mission is doomed to fail…"
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