Submission + - Is it time for NoSQL 2.0? 1
Submission + - Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal (telegraph.co.uk)
Submission + - Best language for experimental GUI demo projects 1
My research/tinkering will be along two main lines:
1) Devising entirely new graphical user interface elements, mostly in 2-D, though often in a true or simulated 3-D space. I am working on ways to visualize, navigate, and manipulate very, VERY large data-sets of academic research information.
2) Computer based education software, though of a type never seen before. This will combine some of the GUI elements invented in (1) as well as displaying standard HTML or HTML5 content via a browser engine.
My requirements are:
A) A decent IDE ecosystem.
B) A decent set of libraries, but ones that don't lock me in to a particular mind-set like Swing does in Java. (Boxes in boxes in boxes, Oh My!)
C) An ability to easily draw what I want, where I want and make any surface of that 3-D object become a source for capturing events.
D) Ease of cross-platform use. (So others can easily look at my examples and run with them.)
E) No impediments to open-source licensing my code or for others to go commercial with it either (as I have seen when I looked into Qt).
So, should I just stick with Java and start looking outside the box for GUI toolkits? Or is there something else out there I should be looking at?"
Submission + - Adobe employee speaks out on bloatware (blogspot.com)
Submission + - Samsung Spins Off Its Display Business (ibtimes.com)
Submission + - Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs (net-security.org)
Submission + - Carbohydrate-Based Synthesis to Replace Petroleum Derived Hydrocarbons?
we will become less dependent on fossil fuels and will become more dependent on fuels made from the sugars and chemicals found in plants.
Nothing too new there, i.e., the idea of biofuels eventually taking over from petroleum distillates. However, Saddler contends further that:
Similar to an oil refinery that processes crude oil to make thousands of supplementary products like plastics, dyes, paints, etc., the biorefinery would use leftover agricultural and forest material to make many of the same products, but from a sustainable and renewable resource.
I remember my organic chem instructor back in '81 telling us that eventually the textbooks would have to be rewritten. There would be no presumption of fractional distillation of thousands of basic compounds from petroleum, and the teaching emphasis would shift to synthesis from simple hydrocarbons. He noted that we'd all miss 'the good, ole days' when synthetic fibers, plastics, etc. were cheap...or even an economically viable option. I can live without rayon, but, dang, I'm gonna miss polyvinyl chloride!
Submission + - Google Seeks to Plant Antenna Farm in Iowa (datacenterknowledge.com)
Submission + - Test-tube burger to be made this year
Submission + - What would REAL space combat look like? 13
Submission + - UK Government Demands Info On All Calls, Emails and Tweets (techweekeurope.co.uk) 1
Submission + - Sopa-II : H.R. 1981 "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act" (businessinsider.com) 7
Business Insider version: http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-and-internet-advocates-wheres-your-hr-1981-outrage-2012-2
David Seaman's Youtube videocast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBVqm2W56c8"