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Cameron Nichols

Windows 7 Wins on Netbook PCs: Q&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows C... - 0 views

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  • With Windows 7, we’ve matched hardware improvements with some investments of our own. With Windows 7 we are on track to have a smaller OS footprint; an improved user interface that should allow for faster boot-up and shut-down times; improved power management for enhanced battery life; enhanced media capabilities; and increased reliability, stability and security. These engineering investments allow small notebook PCs to run any version of Windows 7, and allow customers complete flexibility to purchase a system which meets their needs. For OEMs that build lower-cost small notebook PCs, Windows 7 Starter will now be available in developed markets. For the most enhanced, full-functioning Windows experience on small notebook PCs, however, consumers will want to go with Windows 7 Home Premium, which lets you get the most out of your digital media and easily connect with other PCs.
Guillermo Santamaria

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  • Other performance improvements reduce the amount of disk I/O for reading from the registry and indexing files for search, and improve low-level kernel operations that could slow down access to the Start menu and Taskbar. Windows 7 also loads fewer services when you boot. This doesn’t just get you started more quickly; it means there are fewer services actively resident in memory just because you might need them. When you do something that requires a service, Windows 7 loads the service on demand and then unloads it once it’s no longer required—thus freeing up memory.
Cameron Nichols

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  • Google Chrome OS is a project by Google Inc. to develop a lightweight computer operating system devoted to using the World Wide Web.[1] Announced on July 7, 2009, it is based on Google's Chrome web browser and the Linux kernel. It will initially be targeted at netbooks,[2] and is set to be released during the second half of 2010.[3] It will run on systems with either x86 or ARM processors.[4] Google has stated that the Google Chrome OS project will be open source[5] by the end of 2009, and that it will use "a new windowing system",[6] as opposed to the X Window System, which is the standard for Linux.
Matthew Kuschan

MSFN Forums > Windows based on Unix? - 1 views

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  • My suggestion is, why would Microsoft not use the already stable Unix/Linux core, modify it to meet its needs (it is open-source), in response to Apple's MacOS X (much like it is boosting Hotmail storage in response to Google's GMail), and develop an operating system with all the benefits of Unix/Linux, and at the same time - the ease of use of Windows.
  • My suggestion is, why would Microsoft not use the already stable Unix/Linux core, modify it to meet its needs (it is open-source), in response to Apple's MacOS X (much like it is boosting Hotmail storage in response to Google's GMail), and develop an operating system with all the benefits of Unix/Linux, and at the same time - the ease of use of Windows.
Matthew Kuschan

Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      No longer do people focus on word of mouth but instead it seems as if people need to have something verified by technology. Instead of speaking to others, people find ways to communicate through technology and because of this people are more content keeping to themselves. It has become easier to find friends, date, and find ways to entertain yourself just through the use of technology. What more could people want? People are now able to rely solely on technology and no longer have to experience physical interaction in life.
  • We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      What do people think of the statement here about being pulled "away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority." Does this have anything to do with the idea of peer review??
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      This idea was discussed in class. Soon enough a screen will not be something that we look at but it will be something we live in. People are now visualizing everything more than ever before. Screens can provide people with pictures, text, and visual clips in order to get an idea or point across. We are becoming more and more a part of screens and eventually it seems as if we will just live within them rather than use them as a major part of our lives.
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  • We tend to think the tiger represents the animal kingdom, but in truth, a grasshopper is a truer statistical example of an animal. The handcrafted Hollywood film won’t go away, but if we want to see the future of motion pictures, we need to study the swarming food chain below — YouTube, indie films, TV serials and insect-scale lip-sync mashups — and not just the tiny apex of tigers.
  • The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      The use or oral communication is becoming outdated. Technology has provided so many new features to help people stay in contact with eachother. Using social networks allows people from all over the world to communicate and make new friends with the click of a button. For example, I'm able to communicate with my friend from Italy via facebook. Why would someone continue to use the way of oral communication when technology has made communicatiing so much easier?
  • A new distribution-and-display technology is nudging the book aside and catapulting images, and especially moving images, to the center of the culture. We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      People need to realize that as technology increases in the world the objects required to do the jobs as before are getting smaller. Now, no longer are video cameras required because it is getting to the point that phones are producing perfect videos recorded when needed. For a phone to do a job that a video camera could once do is amazing. Not only is it able to call, text, get email, take pictures, go on the internet, but also now it can take flawless videos. As time goes on, the technological objects that exist now will continue to decrease in size as people continue innovating the world that we live in today.
  • Even the greatest writers do their magic primarily by rearranging formerly used, commonly shared ones. What we do now with words, we’ll soon do with images.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Being physically able to see sometthing is more appealing to people, than reading a book. We are more dependent on seeing things, such as texting someone, or watching a movie over reading a book. We are able to relate more to real life when we can see it, seeing is believing. More and more screens are popping up everywhere to provide us with entertainment, or as a way to write a document for school. Soon everything will be made out of screens.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      Danielle? How is texting seeing something anymore than writing something on a piece of paper? Did I miss your point?
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      College students seem to take for granted how easy it may be to find a definition or a link to a certain problem that is needed for homework. It comes easy to use to copy and paste words and sometimes it may be easy to do the same with pictures. However, it seems that as more and more generations continue growing up with technology the more they will be able to do without a problem. Already college students may look at the older generations that did not grow up with technology and question how they did it. As time goes on, younger generations will question us as how did we function without all these great technological innovations in our time. Just as we take copy and paste for granted, they will take certain aspects for granted as well.
  • We tend to think the tiger represents the animal kingdom, but in truth, a grasshopper is a truer statistical example of an animal. The handcrafted Hollywood film won’t go away, but if we want to see the future of motion pictures, we need to study the swarming food chain below — YouTube, indie films, TV serials and insect-scale lip-sync mashups — and not just the tiny apex of tigers. The bottom is where the action is, and where screen literacy originates.
    • Caitlin Eisele
      Caitlin Eisele on 23 Sep 09
       
      Motion pictures wont always be shown the way they are today. Previous generations would watch movies in their car while parked in a large open field with other viewer goers. Today we sit in a big indoor theater in which we can also view them in 3-D. If you wonder how future generations will watch movies you need to look at our current technology such as Youtube and our TV series.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Yes screen play has become very popular among our entertainment today. But we can not forget the ideas the led us to this point in age. We must remember that there were stepping stones to every evolving creation. Hollywood is still a huge force in the making of movies, but other projects are beginning to spring up. These new programs maybe become more popular in a few years, but they will never erase what has been laid in stone before it.
  • Digital technology gives the professional a new language as well. An image stored on a memory disc instead of celluloid film has a plasticity that allows it to be manipulated as if the picture were words rather than a photo
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      This definitely shows how everyone in the world has advanced since the time when films were put on celluloid. Also, you can fit more of a movie onto a disc and are also able to rearrange the way it is to make it simpler to use and also to make sure that it flows. Putting info on a disc also means that it is now in a digital form, and that you can save the finished product onto the internet so you will always have it no matter what happens. Also by putting it on a disc, you are able to add other features like special effects, and also add the special features on DVD's.
  • Digital technology gives the professional a new language as well. An image stored on a memory disc instead of celluloid film has a plasticity that allows it to be manipulated as if the picture were words rather than a photo.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Digital technology makes moviemaking much easier than using filmstrips. An editor can simply copy and paste certain scenes where they want, rather than having to reshoot a scene. Another positive of digital technology is that it can save much more moviemaking progress than on a film strip. An editor can add special effects to their movie using this technology on computers, rather than just using what is shot in the film. Making movies can be as simple as writing an essay.
  • As moving images become easier to create, easier to store, easier to annotate and easier to combine into complex narratives, they also become easier to be remanipulated by the audience. This gives images a liquidity similar to words. Fluid images­ made up of bits flow rapidly onto new screens and can be put to almost any use. Flexible images migrate into new media and seep into the old. Like alphabetic bits, they can be squeezed into links or stretched to fit search engines, indexes and databases. They invite the same satisfying participation in both creation and consumption that the world of text doe
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Moving images has made life for people much easier. Instead of having to mail an important document or picture, it can be simply attached to an e-mail. Images as well as documents and important information can be put up on web sites as well. All of these images can be manipulated and changed to suite a person's wants or needs. For example, if you are using facebook, a person can tag themselves in a photo and then "photoshop" different designs and words onto the actual picture. Moving images have certainly changed the way the world shares information.
  • The recent live-action feature movie “Speed Racer,” while not a box-office hit, took this style of filmmaking even further. The spectacle of an alternative suburbia was created by borrowing from a database of existing visual items and assembling them into background, midground and foreground. Pink flowers came from one photo source, a bicycle from another archive, a generic house roof from yet another. Computers do the hard work of keeping these pieces, no matter how tiny and partial they are, in correct perspective and alignment, even as they move. The result is a film assembled from a million individual existing images.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      Being able to do this will make films and other movies a lot easier to make. The directors and film crews will not be needed as much since most of the work will now be done on a computer since now you are able to import and photoshop images. Also, graphic designers will become into demand more since the film crews will not be needed but they will have to draw the objects instead of filming them.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      Steven I think that you still need a director even in a digital movie. There has to be someone who has the overall vision of the movie.
  • t is a formidable task, but in the past decade computers have gotten much better at recognizing objects in a picture than most people realize. Researchers have started training computers to recognize a human face. Specialized software can rapidly inspect a photograph’s pixels searching for the signature of a face: circular eyeballs within a larger oval, shadows that verify it is spherical. Once an algorithm has identified a face, the computer could do many things with this knowledge: search for the same face elsewhere, find similar-looking faces or substitute a happier version.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Computers have the ability to recognize human beings in a picture or a motion picture. This becomes very helpful for certain things such as traffic violations, robberies, computer hacking, etc. We can also use this technology to change the appearance of somebody, whether it be for illegal purposes or for just plain fun. If a computer can recognize a human face, this helps a great deal in law enforcement. This will make it much easier to identify a person, simply by looking at different characteristics of the suspects face.
  • It is a formidable task, but in the past decade computers have gotten much better at recognizing objects in a picture than most people realize. Researchers have started training computers to recognize a human face. Specialized software can rapidly inspect a photograph’s pixels searching for the signature of a face: circular eyeballs within a larger oval, shadows that verify it is spherical. Once an algorithm has identified a face, the computer could do many things with this knowledge: search for the same face elsewhere, find similar-looking faces or substitute a happier version.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      With this type of technology it can be used to find or track criminals. Also, they are working on cameras that work together and can track people throughout several cameras. Also, since the cameras are able to recognize facial features and determine the person and can let people know who is were. If a face is in a movie and they happen to have an unhappy face you are now able to subsitute it with a happier one or change it to suit the needs of the movie.
  • Academic research has produced a few interesting prototypes of video summaries but nothing that works for entire movies. Some popular Web sites with huge selections of movies (like porn sites) have devised a way for users to scan through the content of full movies quickly in a few seconds. When a user clicks the title frame of a movie, the window skips from one key frame to the next, making a rapid slide show, like a flip book of the movie. The abbreviated slide show visually summarizes a few-hour film in a few seconds. Expert software can be used to identify the key frames in a film in order to maximize the effectiveness of the summary.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Being allowed to scan through an entire movie in seconds makes watching short films as well as long films much easier. If I want to skip to a certain scene or just watch only certain parts of a film, it is as simple as jumping to that section of the movie. This also makes teaching much easier. Since classes do not go on forever and a teacher would like to show a clip from a movie for teaching purposes, they can do this in an easy manner.
  • way for users to scan through the content of full movies quickly in a few seconds. When a user clicks
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      This makes life very easy becasue if you do not want to watch the entire movie, and just a section of it you can just go to the scene selection page on a DVD and peruse the items or press the skip button. The other thing that comes in handy is that on YouTube you do not have to watch the entire video to get to the part that you want to watch but you can start it from a certain part and it downloads from that part. Also when watching a movie online, one can get a brief slide show of the movie to find out if you want to watch the movie.
  • In the West, we became people of the book.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 23 Sep 09
       
      Back in the day the book was everything. People had to go to the library or read news papers to find out any information. With the invention of the internet all that changed, and everyone looked to the computer. Life changed completely.
  • There were more than 10 billion views of video on YouTube in September. The most popular videos were watched as many times as any blockbuster movie.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 23 Sep 09
       
      Internet movies are getting so popular because they are being watched just as much as blockbuster movies. The fact that they are so easy to access makes them a great place to watch and gain viewers. Many people have gotten famous on youtube and other sites like it.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      So tell me Matthew...would you stop going to the movie theater and watch your movies at home?
  • With the new screen fluency enabled by digital technology, however, a movie scene is something more flexible: it is like a writer’s paragraph, constantly being revised. Scenes are not captured (as in a photo) but built up incrementally. Layers of visual and audio refinement are added over a crude outline of the motion, the mix constantly in flux, always changeable.
  • To date most fan responses appear in text form, on sites like the Internet Movie Database. But increasingly fans respond to video with video.
  • With full-blown visuality, I should be able to annotate any object, frame or scene in a motion picture with any other object, frame or motion-picture clip.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 24 Sep 09
       
      Technology is at the point where if u can think of an idea there is a good chance you can do it. Especially when it comes to movies and film. All the action shots and crazy images are portrayed as if really happening when in reality it is just technology at it's best. Pixar is making movies now that are completely computerized. They literally have to power to do anything with these movies
  • On Google SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse, you can find insanely detailed three-dimensional virtual models of most major building structures of the world.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 24 Sep 09
       
      Google is become the new leader in internet and cyber-space technology. With there new operating system coming out, Google has microsoft terrified. There seems to be no end to this Google power strip. I can not wait to see what they come up with next.
Casey Reilly

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    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      As new technology comes in, old technology,well gets old I suppose. For example, with everyone accessing e-mail at home, work, and even on cell phones, layoffs are affecting US Post Offices because of the decline in "snail mail." The same is seen in this article about the change in movie standards. Now short flicks you can watch on your iPod or cell are becoming the "in" thing
  • The overthrow of the book would have happened long ago but for the great user asymmetry inherent in all media. It is easier to read a book than to write one; easier to listen to a song than to compose one; easier to attend a play than to produce one. But movies in particular suffer from this user asymmetry. The intensely collaborative work needed to coddle chemically treated film and paste together its strips into movies meant that it was vastly easier to watch a movie than to make one. A Hollywood blockbuster can take a million person-hours to produce and only two hours to consume. But now, cheap and universal tools of creation (megapixel phone cameras, Photoshop, iMovie) are quickly reducing the effort needed to create moving images. To the utter bafflement of the experts who confidently claimed that viewers would never rise from their reclining passivity, tens of millions of people have in recent years spent uncountable hours making movies of their own design. Having a ready and reachable audience of potential millions helps, as does the choice of multiple modes in which to create. Because of new consumer gadgets, community training, peer encouragement and fiendishly clever software, the ease of making video now approaches the ease of writing.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      it is hard not to be children of the screen in these times. With the power of movie makers at our exposal and with youtube making the distibution of it easy anyone can make a movie that is just as popular than a blockbuster hit. This kind of power is almost hard to resist for most people and making them part of the world surounded by screens, by being in them. Also for the people who watch them are becoming children of the screen.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      I couldn't even imagine a world without paperbooks. I am aware of Kindles and eReaders, but a few slim paperbacks are much more appealing than a cumbersome computer book. Sure it would save money, but so does library. Also, what happens when you are right on the last chapter of a mystery book and the battery dies on that Kindle? Real books don't die.
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  • An emerging set of cheap tools is now making it easy to create digital video. There were more than 10 billion views of video on YouTube in September. The most popular videos were watched as many times as any blockbuster movie. Many are mashups of existing video material. Most vernacular video makers start with the tools of Movie Maker or iMovie, or with Web-based video editing software like Jumpcut. They take soundtracks found online, or recorded in their bedrooms, cut and reorder scenes, enter text and then layer in a new story or novel point of view. Remixing commercials is rampant. A typical creation might artfully combine the audio of a Budweiser “Wassup” commercial with visuals from “The Simpsons” (or the Teletubbies or “Lord of the Rings”). Recutting movie trailers allows unknown auteurs to turn a comedy into a horror flick, or vice versa.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      The use of free or small priced, easy-to-use editing software turns anyone into a moviemaker. In high school, I got paid to make little slideshows for family events. When people asked what I used, assuming it was something technologically hard to understand, they were stunned to find it was the simple Windows Movie Maker. Then with the advent of YouTube and other video sharing websites, everyone could sign up for a "director's" account just to add more videos.
  • The collective intelligence of humans can also be used to make a film more accessible. Avid fans dissect popular movies scene by scene. With maniacal attention to detail, movie enthusiasts will extract bits of dialogue, catalog breaks in continuity, tag appearances of actors and track a thousand other traits. To date most fan responses appear in text form, on sites like the Internet Movie Database. But increasingly fans respond to video with video. The Web site Seesmic encourages “video conversations” by enabling users to reply to one video clip with their own video clip. The site organizes the sprawling threads of these visual chats so that they can be read like a paragraph of dialogue.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      The Internet truly is a an online "community" and just like in the real world people love to break down tv shows and movies. Websites with message boards and forums allow you to critique and praise scenes, lines, and actors. However, new technology can allow you to post the specific movie and even comment on a particular time or scene. Also, you can post your commentary as your own video.
  • When technology shifts, it bends the culture. Once, long ago, culture revolved around the spoken word. The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      today it seems almost primitive to write someone a letter, and tell someone something in person when you could just email, txt or call them. thats the world we live in today, oral skills and the ability to speak well which is one of the best abilities a singular person could have are being deminished. there once was a time when an entire nation could be rallied by the voice of a person.
  • In fact, the habits of the mashup are borrowed from textual literacy. You cut and paste words on a page. You quote verbatim from an expert. You paraphrase a lovely expression. You add a layer of detail found elsewhere. You borrow the structure from one work to use as your own. You move frames around as if they were phrases.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      It is almost like we have been trained our whole lives to be children of the screen. with movie editing and construction so much like textual literacy it is easy for someone to make the transaction. you can be an amazing writter and once you are able to get the proper software you can be a movie maker in no time and making youtube hits.
  • For directors who speak this new cinematographic language, even the most photo-realistic scenes are tweaked, remade and written over frame by frame. Filmmaking is thus liberated from the stranglehold of photography. Gone is the frustrating method of trying to capture reality with one or two takes of expensive film and then creating your fantasy from whatever you get.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      even for photographers the screen and movie advance is invading their teritory. most pictures today are already being digitaly touched up and layerd to be better, but why and try get a single perfact picture when you can fitso much more into a movie and capture so much more images. Today not many people only want a singular image that can go so far even with interpratation, they want an entire sequence of events that tell stories in themselves.
Joanna Zietara

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  • consists of persistent application tabs, which will always be available to the user and are fully customizable. Apps can also be run in a "panel" that is a persistent light-weight window, which sits on top of the browser designed for apps like instant messengers.
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