The latest issue of the MagPi has been released! The Dexter Industries BrickPi is square on the cover, bringing robotics to the Raspberry Pi!
Check out the latest edition here.
It is ideal for all levels of user and a great way to get your Raspberry Pi moving. Head over to page 4 for more information.
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Albener PessoaEstatisticas sobre o uso de Iphone para a discussao das impressoes digitais
Our most recent semi-annual Teen survey demonstrates that Apple remains the most popular tech brand amongst teens. As of Fall 2013, the iPhone represented nearly 55% all phones used by teens and the iPad family remained at close to 70% share of tablet ownership. We believe that while Samsung seemingly had some momentum with teens over the past year, Apple's brand and product quality has enabled it to remain the top choice for teen consumer electronics.When it comes to tablets, 56 percent of teens own one, up from 51 percent in April. 68 percent of those own an iPad (60% full-sized, 8% mini), which is the same percentage that owned an Apple tablet in the spring, though ownership has shifted slightly towards the mini (63% full-sized, 5% mini).
For those teens who expect to purchase a tablet in the next 6 months, 64% said they plan on buying an iPad, thus it appears that Apple should be able to maintain its tablet share. Given iPad segment ASP changes, it is apparent that the iPad Mini is growing in popularity; however, based on the purchase intent for teens, it appears that the full-sized iPad remains highly desired. We note that a design change in the near future could help demand and consequently ASPs.Though Samsung has attempted to portray the iPhone as a device for "uncool" parents, Munster's newest survey suggests that the iPhone continues to gain market share among teens while Android phones become less popular with the group.
    
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Brent Simmons on why he performance-tests Vesper with improbably huge datasets:
I’ve learned that I’m unlikely to over-estimate the amount of data people like to keep.
I learned the same thing when running Instapaper: it wasn’t uncommon for an account to have 10,000 unread items. The highest I ever saw that wasn’t an obvious bot was just above 50,000. Even though the interface wasn’t designed to make that very manageable, I always had to ensure that the technical design could handle it gracefully.
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Lasers não são novidade. De ficção científica para realidade e um Nobel da Física em 1960, hoje são encontrados em chaveiros e canetas, mas nunca saíram do imaginário popular. Todo garoto que cresceu vendo desenhos animados quer uma arma laser.
Mesmo para fins mais caretas, os lasers ainda são legais, dada sua capacidade de cortar e furar qualquer coisa. Como ferramentas de precisão, fazem cortes milimétricos em chapas de aço, mas também servem para fins construtivamente destrutivos, como descomissionamento de equipamentos nucleares.
Quanto é preciso sucatear material usado em usinas, reatores e armas nucleares, robôs não são úteis, leva-se muito tempo pra programar os cortes. Um sujeito com uma serra é mais eficiente. Então, que tal partir logo para uma arma elegante, para um tempo mais civilizado?
Foi o que a TWI fez. Transformaram um laser de 5 kW em um instrumento portátil (ok, manipulável), o operador é muito mais ágil e versátil que qualquer robô. Acompanhe:
Não sei você, mas eu acho que deve ser divertido pra caramba. Não resistiria a fazer “PEW PEW PEW” baixinho.
P.S.: note que quando ele corta a caixa de aço, o raio atravessa, ele corta as placas da frente e de trás ao mesmo tempo.
Fonte: PS.
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Albener PessoaDeve servir para alguma coisa
Albener Pessoa"USB Condoms" !
Albener PessoaMuito bom! (stolen from Firehose's feed)
Jean & Scott, episode 3
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(by Max Wittert, 2013)
When a new article is posted on the Internet, the first addition to the comments section is often an inconsequential, one-word statement: "First!"
The frequent "First!" cry of the Internet troll declares some strange pride in being the first to comment on an article. The commenter put little to no effort into the post; it added nothing to the conversation, and it was completely devoid of substance. The troll did secure the spot at the top of the thread, though, and every additional commenter will be forced to scroll past the pointless contribution.
The Samsung Galaxy Gear says "First!" in hardware form. Samsung has beaten Google and Apple as the first major manufacturer to market, but much like the Internet commenter, it has sacrificed substance for the sake of timing. The Galaxy Gear is a product (with some impressive internals, no less) that has such limited use and such crippling compatibility requirements that it is currently the equivalent of hardware spam. While the Gear won't even come close to serving the needs of the vast majority of people, we're going to be talking about smartwatches a lot in the coming months, so if nothing else, the Gear provides a great starting point.
You smell like you're related to my last mate, so we should have sex. That sentiment appears to apply to female fruit flies. Let's say you're a fly, and you've mated once. You're given the choice of the same partner or a completely new one. What do you do? If you're a male, you go for the new partner; if you're a female, you stick with the familiar one.
Now, what happens when you swap out the familiar mate and substitute one of its siblings? You get roughly the same result: males go for the novel partner, while females prefer the familiar one (although it's a weak preference). How does this work? The researchers did the same tests with flies that carried a mutation that blocked their ability to sense odors. The preferences went away entirely—for both sexes.
If it messes you up, it probably does some good things, too. This study is a bit of a two-for-one, but both messages provide a bit of perspective on why humans seem to be incapable of listening to warnings. In the first set of experiments, the researchers focused on the warning labels on cigarettes and artificial flavorings. If you show people ads with warning information and immediately ask them if they want to purchase the product, they'll buy less than controls would. But if you wait a couple of weeks to ask, they'll actually buy more of it.
Albener PessoaPerfeito (via Firehose)
WHAT’S GOIN’ ON!
Everyone else can go home
OMFG
omg lol
best cosplay of all time
I love that the cheekbones are drawn on her face.
warning: my policy for this blog is to repost this every time it pops up on my dash
can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that every troll cosplayer in this picture is a terezi
OH MY GOD YES
Albener PessoaVery cool! (Stolen from Firehose's feed)
image via Rizzoli International Publications
Codex Seraphinianus is a surreal encyclopedia that documents an imaginary world populated by fanciful flora and fauna. The book is the work of Italian artist Luigi Serafini, who created its fantastic illustrations and filled its pages with handwritten text in a mysterious invented language. Codex Seraphinianus was originally published in 1981 and has been reprinted several times—the latest edition will be available on October 29, 2013. For more on Serafini and his mysterious book, check out this Dangerous Minds post.
photo via Dangerous Minds
photo via Dangerous Minds
via Dangerous Minds
Congratulations, cat owner! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Carefully remove cat parts from shipping container.
2. Insert rank armatures through wallison grommets and attach to torso even moreso.
3. Attach talio inglesias to ‘tocks and rotate counter-upwise.
4. Gently twist cranial command module onto shoulder blades until you hear a harp glissando.
You’re done! If your cat looks like the photo below, you did it wrong.
More of Japan’s most retweeted cat pics.
Albener PessoaWTF??!!! (stolen from Firehose's feed)
Dinosaur erotica is a real thing. Repeat: There are modern stories about women being taken and ravished by pterodactyls and triceratops. The Cut did God’s work and tracked down two popular dino-rotica authors, Alara Branwen and Christie Sims, for an interview.
In the talk, twentysomething college students Branwen and Sims (not their real names, because would you write dino porn under your real name?) reveal that together, they make more than their friends who are engineers and accountants combined. They’ve written about 200 short, erotic stories, most of them about dinosaurs or monsters of some sort, and Branwen, for one, got into the business because she realized that she could make more money writing stories about “dragons having their way with busty maidens” than she could as a supermarket clerk. Fair enough, really. Someone’s got to do it.
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Albener PessoaOs jornais de fake-news brasileiros tambem estao tendo que suar a camisa para inventar coisas mais absurdas que a realidade (Stolen from Firehose's feed)
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart have made repeated and determined attempts to identify people using the Tor anonymity service, but the fundamental security remains intact, as top-secret documents published on Friday revealed.
The classified memos and training manuals—which were leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and reported by The Guardian, show that the NSA and the UK-based Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) are able to bypass Tor protections, but only against select targets and often with considerable effort. Indeed, one presentation slide grudgingly hailed Tor as "the king of high-secure, low-latency Internet anonymity." Another, titled "Tor Stinks," lamented: "We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time."
An article published separately by The Washington Post also based on documents provided by Snowden concurred.
