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I painfully discovered the past two days that the Cannes Film Festival experience is as much a 'Film' experience as it is a 'French' one. So if you come here, prepare for taxi drivers who try to scam you charmingly, pickpockets who steal your wallet before you have time to buy a 'cafe' and train strikes which [...]
Ah, Friday, my favorite day for watching a few videos at work. I've been monitoring how many developers are watching all of the segments of the video series we've posted on the Take Five site. It is natural that not everyone will make it to the end, but I'm wondering if there is anything we could do better. First, [...]
Microsoft has recently made available Windows XP Service Pack 3 for download. The latest service pack can also be installed through Windows Update as well as through an available .iso image which can then be burned to CD or DVD. An overview of the service pack can be downloaded from here.
When The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good I've already discussed the benefits to Intel Graphics and HDMI Audio in a previous post, and complained about the HDCP repeater mode bug (still unresolved as of graphics driver release 15.9.2) which forces people to use gray-market software if they want to use Intel HDMI Audio to [...]
Cinco de Mayo (May 5, 2008) Sun launched their OpenSolaris 2008.05 distro of the OpenSolaris code. The venue for the launch was CommunityOne, a free one-day conference held on the Monday before JavaOne. Above is a snap of Rich Green who runs software at Sun, doing the launch. This is the second year [...]
Stay tuned about the upcoming workshop. We are expecting interesting discussions about Threading Building Blocks between the subject matter experts, the audience and you. The International Multicore Software Engineering Workshop is co-located with the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering in Leipzig, Germany on May 12th. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds in [...]
Welcome to the participating Students and Mentors! Adobe© and Intel© have come together to change the way creative professionals work, to optimize design productivity and allow creative genius to reign free. We finally see, based on your inputs and feedback, that film schools will enhance their curricula by using revolutionary technologies to express even most ambitious creative visions without [...]
Look out for my posts on the Reel Ideas Studio Competition of 3-5 mins documentaries on the Cannes Film Festival coming up next week! Talk to you then...
This is the second JavaOne I have attended, and Intel has been a big sponsor. This year, the VP of my division is giving the Intel keynote. Doug got sick on Monday of this week, and being in San Francisco, he got a lot of home remedies and Chinese herbs to fix him up. He made [...]
I'm wondering how many of you would be willing to put aside the paperback book that you are reading in the evening and instead pickup an electronic book such as the Amazon Kindle? In some respects we've had electronic books for a while now and these new dedicated electronic reading devices are merely taking us to the next level. In the past few [...]