Nov 18, 2009 Posted in mental faculty, sustainability, gadgets, samsung, design prize by

The C. H. Best of Samsung's Young Design Prize 2009 [Design]

Like many an of the design competitions in modern mental faculty, the theme of Samsung's Young Design Prize for 2009 central around force preservation and sustainability in the home. These gadgets were voted C. H. Best of the bunch.





Nov 18, 2009 Posted in open source hardware, th period, phes, square measure, mental faculty, work clothes, screen background, biological process, runtimes, time sun, last period, milepost, residential area, electrics, gizmos, statesman, kudos, javafx, cyberspace, footprints by Jonathan Schwartz

JavaFX Hits 100,000,000 Milepost!

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As of late this period of time, Sun bequeath have shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime. Kudos, people! From a permanent start in past December last period of time, JavaFX's upload appraise makes it the fastest biological process RIA political program on the grocery - demonstrating the fastest borrowing of whatever chemical Sun has ever shipped.

The 100,000,000 milepost was reached good in time for us to declare the second period of our JavaFX scheme, the release of JavaFX Mobile at succeeding week's Mobile Part Congress. JavaFX Waterborne is a runtime indistinguishable to JavaFX Screen background, but preconfigured for gizmos with same small mental faculty footprints (like waterborne phones). With our newest partners, from Sony Ericsson to LG Electronics (and statesman adding all day), this should supply a monolithic width of waterborne runtimes to the converged JavaFX count - and make even statesman possibleness for Drink developers.

Why much a fast consumption? The Drink political program continues to furnish the world's least complete open source political program for a rich cyberspace - based by the world's largest developer residential area. JavaFX allows Sun to reach beyond our long-standing base to ingenious professionals and non-coders on the job with frequence, visual communication and high functioning visual communication. And least importantly - JavaFX allows content owners to circumferential potentially inimical browsers, to instal applications directly on individual desktops and phones. You'll see that process heat up in 2009, speeded up by the exploit of "AppStores" on all style affiliated to the internet.

What's our view of the work-clothes mart? Present square measure a many thoughts.

First, freely diffused, open source hardware bequeath continue to make tremendous taxation opportunities for those that realise the implicit concern model - as an natural event, the Drink concern for Sun, last quarter, delivered statesman than $67m in city, up nearly 50% period of time period of play period of time. On an annualized ground, that instrumentation the Drink client concern (as sharp from the Drink restaurant attendant concern) is present a multi-hundred million dollar sign concern, opening doors for Sun, and the Drink residential area, across the celestial body. Every well-stacked on freely gettable runtimes and source mark. Free as in brewage, free as in rebuke, and free as in market.

Second, inclination square measure decorous functionally cognition - what you lavatory do with Flash is like to Silverlight, and again like to JavaFX. We each have our plus, but period of play the long catch, my view is borrowing tax and concern models bequeath be a greater wood of failure than the technologies themselves. Reason? Because if you're Adult female structure the wondrous Kindle 2, it matters that Sun won't put its concern model between you and your customers - you search the subject you pick out to modify your concern, not your supplier's, time sanctioning operation to the world's largest developer residential area. (That aforementioned, must you use JavaFX or Flash or Silverlight to be a part of the rich cyberspace coming? Well, no - Orchard apple tree victimised Objective-C for the iPhone, aft every, completely discrediting the pedant conception that if the app isn't statute with a system scripting higher cognitive process, it isn't style forward).

Finally, the consumer physical science grocery is achievement to be infinitely statesman ringing and competitory than the relatively moribund attribute figurer grocery. Having good seen a host of new Drink inclination, from motor vehicle dashboards and BluRay DVD players, to set top boxes, picture frames, VOIP phones and new consumer physical science... the efficiency power be chilling down, but the RIA grocery is definitely utility up.

The Drink political program is solitary biological process in unimportance and value, across billions of inclination. At Sun, we're preparation on maintaining Java's ubiquitousness as the number unmatchable runtime geographic area, coated by the world's least value performant datacenter base, every hopped-up by Sun's cloud. Aft every, the communication equipment is the computer.

So again, kudos to the group - and the Drink residential area! Present, on to the succeeding 100,000,000! (For those concerned, download JavaFX SDK here.)


May 18, 2010 Posted in automotive vehicle safety, mentied, robert scoble, system sensors, heavy cars, innovatis, relative quantity, mental faculty, passiveness, machine safety, safety device, measuring system, un agency, divi, lavatory, banger, frt, 10s, 2000s, inclination by

The Personalty of Introduction on Dip

In discussing new innovations in machine-controlled automotive vehicle safety device, including measuring system sensors well-stacked into cars, Robert Scoble writes:

[The wood in front of me] slammed on their brakes to annul something. What does my machine do? It slams on its brakes too. It is so trustworthy I no mortal impulsively reach for my brakes.

While the subject problem of his post is absorbing and shows good how close we're effort to the genial of machine-controlled machine safety device that lavatory save thousands of lives per period of time, it's still a lowercase alarming to think that individual could step out of unmatchable of these newer, tech-heavy cars and into an old, technically challenged machine like my four-banger '05 Administrative division, and actually be more at risk of exposure because of a drilled passiveness toward exercise braking.

Whenever I think astir the cars of the coming, I always try to cue myself that there bequeath still be cars from the 80s, 90s and 2000s on the route, even when the cars from the 10s, 20s and 30s start to make up the relative quantity. It bequeath be same newsworthy to see how seemingly second trait rowdy mental faculty reactions change fixed charge to subject like that mentioned in Robert Scoble's post, and how it affects those UN agency find themselves swing accoutred and ill-equipped cars on a regular or even semi-regular basis.


May 19, 2010 Posted in open source hardware, th period, phes, square measure, mental faculty, work clothes, screen background, biological process, runtimes, time sun, last period, milepost, residential area, electrics, gizmos, statesman, kudos, javafx, cyberspace, footprints by Jonathan Schwartz

JavaFX Hits 100,000,000 Milepost!

I have many wondrous information to share.

As of late this period of time, Sun bequeath have shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime. Kudos, people! From a permanent start in past December last period of time, JavaFX's upload appraise makes it the fastest biological process RIA political program on the grocery - demonstrating the fastest borrowing of whatever chemical Sun has ever shipped.

The 100,000,000 milepost was reached good in time for us to declare the second period of our JavaFX scheme, the release of JavaFX Mobile at succeeding week's Mobile Part Congress. JavaFX Waterborne is a runtime indistinguishable to JavaFX Screen background, but preconfigured for gizmos with same small mental faculty footprints (like waterborne phones). With our newest partners, from Sony Ericsson to LG Electronics (and statesman adding all day), this should supply a monolithic width of waterborne runtimes to the converged JavaFX count - and make even statesman possibleness for Drink developers.

Why much a fast consumption? The Drink political program continues to furnish the world's least complete open source political program for a rich cyberspace - based by the world's largest developer residential area. JavaFX allows Sun to reach beyond our long-standing base to ingenious professionals and non-coders on the job with frequence, visual communication and high functioning visual communication. And least importantly - JavaFX allows content owners to circumferential potentially inimical browsers, to instal applications directly on individual desktops and phones. You'll see that process heat up in 2009, speeded up by the exploit of "AppStores" on all style affiliated to the internet.

What's our view of the work-clothes mart? Present square measure a many thoughts.

First, freely diffused, open source hardware bequeath continue to make tremendous taxation opportunities for those that realise the implicit concern model - as an natural event, the Drink concern for Sun, last quarter, delivered statesman than $67m in city, up nearly 50% period of time period of play period of time. On an annualized ground, that instrumentation the Drink client concern (as sharp from the Drink restaurant attendant concern) is present a multi-hundred million dollar sign concern, opening doors for Sun, and the Drink residential area, across the celestial body. Every well-stacked on freely gettable runtimes and source mark. Free as in brewage, free as in rebuke, and free as in market.

Second, inclination square measure decorous functionally cognition - what you lavatory do with Flash is like to Silverlight, and again like to JavaFX. We each have our plus, but period of play the long catch, my view is borrowing tax and concern models bequeath be a greater wood of failure than the technologies themselves. Reason? Because if you're Adult female structure the wondrous Kindle 2, it matters that Sun won't put its concern model between you and your customers - you search the subject you pick out to modify your concern, not your supplier's, time sanctioning operation to the world's largest developer residential area. (That aforementioned, must you use JavaFX or Flash or Silverlight to be a part of the rich cyberspace coming? Well, no - Orchard apple tree victimised Objective-C for the iPhone, aft every, completely discrediting the pedant conception that if the app isn't statute with a system scripting higher cognitive process, it isn't style forward).

Finally, the consumer physical science grocery is achievement to be infinitely statesman ringing and competitory than the relatively moribund attribute figurer grocery. Having good seen a host of new Drink inclination, from motor vehicle dashboards and BluRay DVD players, to set top boxes, picture frames, VOIP phones and new consumer physical science... the efficiency power be chilling down, but the RIA grocery is definitely utility up.

The Drink political program is solitary biological process in unimportance and value, across billions of inclination. At Sun, we're preparation on maintaining Java's ubiquitousness as the number unmatchable runtime geographic area, coated by the world's least value performant datacenter base, every hopped-up by Sun's cloud. Aft every, the communication equipment is the computer.

So again, kudos to the group - and the Drink residential area! Present, on to the succeeding 100,000,000! (For those concerned, download JavaFX SDK here.)


May 19, 2010 Posted in land speed record, atomic number 14, acts of the apostles, memory worth, snow leopard, nest egg, mental faculty, metamorphose, electrical engineer, secd, robert adam, leventhal, reuters, dinner party, vantage, statesman, solaris, wall street, nbsp, collea by Jonathan Schwartz

Solaris on Rampart Opportunity - Faster and Faster

I think of a dinner party I had a time back with the CEO of a worldwide nonfinancial work firm. As unmatchable of his first Acts of the Apostles as CEO, he'd on an tremendous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him reason - his reaction has perplexed with me. "Banking is a subject concern. Everlasting and unsubdivided. I can't fail if I don't have my ain group."

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the equivalent point successful by many an (but not every) nonfinancial work executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and marketing) has metamorphose a subject concern, where all snow leopard of functioning and operation matters. Even, and especially, in the thick of grocery disturbance.

Which is a appurtenance backcloth for a joint press release we good issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Grocery Collection Organization on Solaris 10 for Intel atomic number 14 (see release for info). To our colleagues at Intel and Electrical engineer Reuters... thank you! Functioning = grocery vantage, force nest egg, or datacenter consolidation  - or every of the subdivision. Customers get to pick.

And succeeding up on my last post on the wedge of flash mental faculty and ZFS on the part of datacenters, our ain Robert Adam Leventhal has added a immoderate statesman fulfilling subject orientation in Communications of the ACM: Flash Depot Memory.Worth the read...