My so called life*

The BBC’s director-general announced plans this week to embrace Napster-style file sharing to make its archives free for licence payers.

Picture a small, corporate meeting room, somewhere in the north of England. In it are the secret rulers of Britain’s broadcasting establishment.

They are the great and the good of the BBC, and they are thrashing out the next Royal Charter: the Queen’s own job spec for the BBC, setting out its goals and responsibilities for a decade, starting in 2006.

But planning for 2016 in today’s media world is proving to be an impossible task. Why, notes one of the great and the good, what about this Napster business? With people copying music and television and film and distributing them among themselves for free, the whole business model on which commercial broadcasting depends could be undermined by 2016. It could…
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(Publicado por Wired)

Lam Vi Quoc negotiates his scooter through Ho Chi Minh City’s relentless stream of pedal traffic and hangs a right down a crowded alley. He climbs the steep wooden stairs of the tiny house he shares with nine family members, passing by his mother, who is stooped on the floor of the second level preparing lunch. He ascends another set of even steeper steps to the third level and settles on a stool at a small desk, pushing aside the rolled-up mat he sleeps on with one of his brothers. To the smell of a chicken roasting on a grill in the alley and the clang of the next-door neighbor’s metalworking operation, Lam turns on his Pentium 4 PC, and soon the screen displays Lecture 2 of Laboratory in Software Engineering, a course taught each semester on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Here,” he says, pointing at the screen. “This is where I got the idea to use decoupling as a way of integrating two programs.”
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http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C1942/

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C1942/

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C1942/

Q: How can you tell an extroverted computer geek from an introverted computer geek?

A: The introverted computer geek will look at his shoes while he talks to you. The extroverted computer geek will look at YOUR shoes while he talks to you.

Quiero uno :D:D:D

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(Cortesía de Pandragoq)

(Publicado por VerTele)

Laurent Maïus, concursante en La isla de la tentación en Francia, presenta una demanda contra TF1 y la productora Glem por estafa. Les acusa de “manipulación mentirosa en el montaje” que le ha llevado a romper con su novia y de “obligaciones desorbitadas”

TF1 y Glem han sido acusados de “haber ejercido una enorme presión psicológica para que el concursante participe en la emisión y de haber manipulado las imágenes para hacer ver que él le había puesto los “cuernos” a su novia, razón por la cual ella le ha dejado”. Aurelie, su pareja, le ha abandonado y según el abogado del concursante “su participación en el concurso le ha dejado “profunda herida psíquica”.
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http://proinnova.hispalinux.es/notas-prensa/nota-023.html

Es mi personaje del Star Wars Galaxies. Una Zabrak que habita en la galaxia de Radiant, hoy por hoy en la capital de Naboo, Theed 😀

Curioso libro que me acabo de terminar de leer. De la misma editorial de Happiness (el mejor libro que he leído este año) y con un cierto regusto a Paul Auster. Me ha gustado.

Fragmentos escogidos al azar, pero no mucho:

-Eso es porque has ido a la universidad- dijo Brendan-. Los jodidos estúpidos como yo lo llamamos envidia.
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