jason mars

what an honor…

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/google-phd-fellowships-go-international.html

“Barbara Bush, the 28-year-old daughter of President George W. Bush, told Fox News on Sunday that she was “glad” the Democrats’ health care reform package passed, and declared that “health care should be a right for everyone.”

It’s a position that suggests she would be willing to go much farther in reforming health care than the law passed earlier this year.

“What do you think of Obama health care reform?” Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked.

“That is a good question. Obviously, the health care reform bill was highly debated by a lot of people and I guess, I’m glad that, you know, a bill was passed,” replied Bush.” -rawstory

gata love it!

The same commandos who launched a nighttime assault on aid ships bound for Gaza will also try and stop the Irish aid ship Rachel Corrie.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear late Thursday that the ship will not be allowed into Gaza but will be boarded and brought to an Israeli port.

Israeli navy sources told the Jerusalem Post that the operation would be carried out by commandos from Flotilla 13 –several of whom took part in their earlier engagement at sea that left nine aid workers dead, including one American citizen, who was shot four times in the head.

The plan is to board the Rachel Corrie, the newspaper says. -irishcentral

After the killing of the 9 aid workers delivering food to the needy, this is just going to far.

“Nothing sucks more than being on stage in front of a bunch of techies and having your demo crash on you twice. Actually, the only way that sucks more is if you’re Adobe and it’s Flash that’s crashing on a mobile device, forcing folks to wonder if Steve Jobs was right about the stability of Flash.” -zdnet

how does this happen like really, did they not prepare or were they over confident. theres no excuse for this.

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i hope this is now fixed, but i fear that it’s not.

“Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.

Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.” -apple

steve jobs releases and official statement on apple vs flash. omg, this is soo juicy! go steve!

“Palm Inc. a pioneer in the smart phone business that couldn’t quite make the comeback it needed, has agreed to be bought out by Hewlett-Packard Co. for about $1.4 billion in cash.

The two Silicon Valley companies announced Wednesday that the deal will see HP pay $5.70 for every Palm common share and certain preferred shares. Palm had closed trading Wednesday at $4.63 but traded as high as $18.09 in the past 52 weeks.” -msnbc

i wonder what hp has up its sleeve?

“Chambers also made comments suggesting that Apple’s closed system was restrictive to developers — an allegation that caught the ire of Apple.

“Someone has it backwards — it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary,” Apple’s Miller said in the statement.

While Apple’s stance should come as no surprise, the fact that it offered comment on the matter is unique for the notoriously secretive company. When Apple introduced iPhone OS 4 earlier this month, company co-founder Steve Jobs was asked if there were any plans to add support for Adobe Flash. Jobs simply responded, ‘No.’” -appleinsider

i’m sorry, but i am in total agreement with apple on this one. i’m in total support of html5 and other open standards.

i fear that these people represent a large portion of americans.

“Scientists are showing off some of the 123 new species they’ve found in the remote forests of Borneo, three years after the three nations that own pieces of the island agreed to safeguard 85,000 square miles (220,000 square kilometers) in the “Heart of Borneo.”

The species, including a flying frog that changes color and a slug that shoots “love darts,” are detailed in a report from the global conservation group WWF, celebrating Earth Day as well as the success of the Heart of Borneo preservation effort. The leaders of Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia signed onto a pledge in 2007 that called for species protection as well as sustainable development of the rainforest region.

The Heart of Borneo boasts scores of animal species, hundreds of bird species and thousands of types of plants that are found nowhere else in the world. A century and a half ago, evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin called the island “one great luxuriant hothouse made by nature for herself.” -msnbc

why does this kind of stuff always get me excited. discovering new species is just to similar to discovering aliens exist.

-doghousediaries

i wonder what happened to wave, i guess ill find out this summer.

apple lays the smackdown on adobe…

“Apple’s concern about losing control over its platform reared its head in another, related area on Thursday: its revision of the iPhone Software Developer Kit guidelines to ban all applications developed using systems not approved by Apple.

This move has generally been reported as a poke in the eye of Adobe, which has announced that one feature of its CS5 suite of products will include the ability for Flash developers to compile iPhone versions of their Flash apps.

And yeah, it is that. Apple’s distaste for Flash is real, and as Jobs reiterated Thursday via a one-word answer to a question on the topic, Apple has “no” plans to let it on the iPhone.

Apple doesn’t want Flash-created apps on the App Store for a simple reason: It reduces the iPhone to a lowest-common denominator platform, and at that point Apple loses all control over the iPhone OS experience.” -pcworld

i actually find myself siding with steve jobs on this one. i mean, if the man sees himself as an artistic architect of electronic experiences you cant fault him for wanting elegance and purity in his platform.

“In the end, you have to try it for yourself. The world is full of people who formed fierce opinions about the iPad not only before they’d used one but before they knew anything for sure about it. But this gizmo is something new. And if you think you can come to any conclusions about it by thinking of it as either a giant iPhone or a netbook with the keyboard chopped off, you’re wrong.” -pcworld

never be too quick to judge.

i am posting this post using my iPad wordpress app. very nice!

“Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.” – googleblog

they got me, for like 20 mins i was in shock, until i realized what day today is…

“….Now it’s being reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected its application for a trademark on the name Nexus One.

The name “Nexus One” was ruled too close to Portland, Oregon based Integra Telecom’s own registered trademark for its Nexus fixed bandwidth integrated voice and internet T1 product…..” – readwriteweb.com

man! google has had a tough year with name orginiality: the “go” programming language, fail: there is an older language named “go,” google “buzz,” fail: yahoo has a service named “buzz” too, google’s “nexus one,” well you see the trend…

wish my research lab looked like this, $90 million