Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...
Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.
A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.
WebBuzz du 03/03/2017 : Timelapse enregistré en infra rouge-Infrared timelapse
Et pour finir la semaine, voici un timelapse un peu particulier. En effet ce dernier a été enregistré uniquement avec des prises de vue infra-rouge donnant au paysage un aspect extra-terrestre...
And to finish the week, here is a special timelapse. Indeed the latter was recorded only with infra-red shots giving the landscape an extraterrestrial aspect ...
WebBuzz du 31/03/2015: Après les timelapses voici les stormlapses-New technic of photo the stormlapse
Un nouveau style de photos vient d'apparaitre et il est très prisé des chasseurs d'orages. Il s'agit du stormlapses. Et comme vous pouvez les voir, le résultat est stupéfiant.
A new style photos just appear and it is popular with hunters storms. This is the stormlapses. And as you can see, the result is amazing.
WebBuzz du 20/10/2016: Projection lumineuse dynamique sur des surfaces non rigides-Dynamic projection mapping onto deforming non rigid surface
Voici une technologie qui permet de projeter une image lumiseuse sur des surfaces non rigides comme du tissus, du papier et d'en suivre les deformations. Pour cela, il faut imprimer sur la suface, une encre reagissant a la lumiere infra rouge et de filmer la surface et l'ordinateur calcule la deformation qu'il faut appliquer a l'image pour suivre la surface ...
Here is a technology that allows to project an image on lumiseuse non-rigid surfaces such as fabric, paper and track deformation. For this to be printed on the suface, an ink reacts to infrared light and the surface film and the computer calculates the deformation to be applied to the image to follow the surface ...
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Best SSDs For The Money: May 2011
Welcome to the second installment of our list of top SSDs at at any given price point. This month we see the announcement of several new drives from OCZ, availability of Crucial's m4 lineup (at expected prices), and the emergence of new SF-2200 options.
May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered
2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.
“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”
That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.
WebBuzz du 11/02/2015: Un avion frôle 2 parachutistes-A plane nearly touches 2 skydivers
Le meilleur moyen de découvrir les sensations de la chute libre est le saut en parachute en tandem. C'est ce que propose Forest Pullman: lui et sa parternaire de saut l'ont échappé belle. L'avion qui les a emmenés à 4000m les a frolés lors de leur saut. Fort heureusement personne ne fut blessé mais tous les 2 ont eu leur lot de sensations très fortes
The best way to experience the thrill of freefall skydiving is in tandem. This is what Forest offers Pullman him and his jump parternaire have a narrow escape. The plane that took them to 4000m has grazed them when they jump. Fortunately nobody was hurt but all the 2 had their share of strong sensations










