Research Paper on the technical details of ePaper… NextGen Research has published an extensive paper on this technology. This table of content will give you the scope of the paper; you may need to take further steps to acquire the full paper. Take note and enjoy…
NextGen Research :: e-Book Readers and Electronic Paper
Digital Content and Display Technologies Kindle New Markets…
Source: www.nextgenresearch.com
ePaper is catching on as a result of the Amazon Kindle… ePaper, a screen technology, displays a page on a screen with minimum power requirements. My Kindle will run for 2-3 days of frequent use without needing a recharge. Amazing… What do you think?
Kindle’s Success Encourages E-Paper – PC World
Adoption of digital paper is expected to increase rapidly, research reports…
Source: www.pcworld.com
More on the health care debate… What will happen next in health care? Who knows? But something needs to be done. All the fear messages delivered by the right will not be sufficient in stopping the process. And, all of you out there who fear ‘s…ocialized’ medicine, have you really taken a good look at the health care systems in France & Germany? My daughter lives in Germany and cannot say enough good things about it.
More perspective on health care from the ‘hippy’ generation… I thought this was great! How our perspective changes over the years. What do you think?
Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson… If he were alive today, he would turn 101 today. This is the French photographer who was famous for his spontaneous photos of people where they were and, especially, catching in the ‘Decisive Moment’ when the subject, light and point of view was just right. And all of this with just a 35mm camera!
SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
This resource represents a portion of SFMOMA’s collection. Information about the artworks presented here is subject to revision. Please contact us at collections@sfmoma.org to verify information. If you are planning to visit SFMOMA, please note that not all artworks are on view at all times…
Source: www.sfmoma.org
Shades of Future Past… Years ago, Metropolitan Wi-Fi networks were all the range. They would cover large areas of our cities and allow Internet access to those living in the area. This has fizzled in the face of the newer ’3G’ networks now in use by most cellular phone companies. But one of these Metro Wi-Fi networks is still going: Google’s. The article below gives more detail…
Google’s Wi-Fi Network Still Alive and Kicking – Gearlog
One metropolitan Wi-Fi infrastructure continues to thrive: the one installed in Mountain View, Calif., the home of Google…
Source: www.gearlog.com
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
Bonus Thought for the Day…
”Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.”
— George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters, although, of his nearly 89 years, he spent only 39 in the U.S. Santayana is remembered in large part for his aphorisms, many of which are so common as to have become clichéd.
In his temperament, judgments and prejudices, many of which do not sit well with present-day fashions, Santayana was very much the Castilian Platonist, cold, aristocratic and elitist, a curious blend of Mediterranean conservative (similar to Paul Valéry) and cultivated Anglo-Saxon, aloof and ironically detached. Russell Kirk discussed Santayana in his The Conservative Mind from Edmund Burke to T. S. Eliot. Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Santayana observed American culture and character from a foreigner’s point of view. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson, he wrote philosophy in a literary way.
[Biographical information is from the Wikipedia article on George Santayana that can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana ]
"Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here."
— Joe McNally, Photographer and Author
Bonus Photographer’s Thought for the Day…
”It’s about your eye in the camera as the light hits just right. It’s about the slight turn of your subject’s face that speaks the truth. It’s about holding your breath as you shoot. It’s about the nerves, the joy, and the terror of wondering if you got it. And then dancing about, punching holes in the air when you know you did. It’s about… the Moment It Clicks.”
— Joe McNally, from his book: The Moment It Clicks
Joe McNally is an American photographer who has been taking pictures for the National Geographic Society since 1987. One of McNally’s largest projects, "Faces of Ground Zero," was a response to the September 11, 2001, tragedy at New York’s World Trade Center. Some of his National Geographic magazine assignments are "The Future of Flying," "Power of Light," and "What It Takes to Build the Unbeatable Body: Pushing the Limit."
He has received the Alfred Eisenstadt Award for magazine photography and has been honored by Pictures of the Year International, World Press Photo, and the Art Directors Club. He has also been recognized by the magazines Photo District News, American Photo, Applied Arts magazine, Communication Arts, and Graphis.
[Biographical information is from the Wikipedia article on Joe McNally that can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McNally ]
