Video for 'Cheap And Cheerful', directed by Sophie Muller. It's the second single to come from the bands forthcoming third album, out March 2008.
www.thekills.tv
www.myspace.com/thekills
Google Tech Talks
December, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
Shawn Frayne, a 28 year old inventor based in Mountain View, will talk about his wind belt. This is a power generation device, that is low cost and consists of a membrane that resonates like a guitar string, with a pair of magnets that oscillate between coils.
There was a story recently in Popular Mechanics - watch the video at:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.
html?series=37
Speaker: Shawn Frayne
Shawn is the inventor of the core wind generator technology on which Humdinger is founded. Previous to his involvement with Humdinger, Shawn successfully matured two technologies, in the fields of "green" packaging and water disinfection, from concepts into developed products in pre-production. He established a strong intellectual property base surrounding those technologies and in early 2006 sold substantial rights to a Fortune 500 company. He is presently involved with refining the manufacturing processes of those products in facilities that have been built overseas.
He is also part of an on-going effort established four years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop low-cost technologies by which entrepreneurs in Haiti can transform agricultural wastes into saleable cooking fuel.
Shawn has six pending U.S. patents. He has his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
*READ BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION*
-Software and Getting Started Guide-
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* MTmini Software (Touchlib) and Updates: http://ssandler.wordpress.com/MTmini
-MTmini Help and Discussion-
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* MTmini Hardware Help: http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/1731/
* MTmini Software Help: http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/1825/
-What's a MTmini?-
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Don't have a Multitouch Table yet? Have one, but need something smaller for testing? Building a small portable multitouch pad will allow you to test software and experiment on a smaller scale while building your full table or when away from your multitouch screen. Have fun and make a MTmini! This uses Front Diffused Illumination, with normal ambient light (infrared not required or needed) and a normal off-the-shelf webcam (IR filter can still be in place).
-How's it Work?-
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For this to work, all you need is a room with (at least) some light. The results will be best when the room lighting is even (no bright lights shinning from one direction onto the multitouch pad).
When you place you fingers on the surface, shadows are created where your fingers are. The webcam sees these shadows and sends the image to the tracking software which tracks the shadows as they move on the surface.
It's important to try different lighting setups and to configure the software in order to get the best results.
-Want to Build a Multitouch Pad with Projection?-
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*DIY Multitouch Community: http://www.NUIGroup.com
Thanks to:
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-David Wallen
-Christian Moore
-Laurence Muller
-NUIgroup Community
*NUIGroup.com For all your multitouch needs*
http://www.nuigroup.com/forum
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AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap live with Bon Scott
If you're havin' trouble with your high school head
He's givin' you the blues
You wanna graduate but not in 'is bed
Here's what you gotta do -
Pick up the phone
I'm always home
Call me any time
Just ring
36 24 36 hey
I lead a life of crime
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Dirty Deeds and they're Done Dirt Cheap
You got problems in your life of love
You got a broken heart
He's double dealin' with your best friend
That's when the teardrops start -
Pick up the phone
I'm here alone
Or make a social call
Come right in
Forget about him
We'll have ourselves a ball
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Dirty Deeds and they're Done Dirt Cheap
If you got a lady and you want her gone
But you ain't got the guts
She keeps naggin' at you night and day
Enough to drive you nuts -
Pick up the phone
Leave her alone
It's time you made a stand
For a fee
I'm happy to be
Your back door man
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Dirty Deeds and they're Done Dirt Cheap
Concrete shoes
cyanide
TNT
Done Dirt Cheap
Neckties
contracts
high voltage
Done Dirt Cheap
Google Tech Talks
June, 11 2008
ABSTRACT
Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java.
A million actors, 3x faster than Erlang.
The message passing (MP) paradigm is often seen as a superior alternative to the typical mix of idioms in concurrent (shared-memory, locks) and distributed programming (CORBA/RMI). MP eliminates worries endemic to the shared-memory mindset: lock ordering, failure-coupling, low-level data races and memory models. It simplifies synchronization between data and control planes (no lost signals or updates), and unifies APIs for local and remote process interaction.
Curiously however, there are no efficient frameworks for intra-process message-passing, except for Erlang. This talk describes a Java framework called "Kilim" to fix this state of affairs. Kilim provides:
1. Extremely lightweight user-level threads (actors) with automatic stack management, obtained via CPS transformation.
2. A simple type system that ensures actor isolation by controlling pointer aliasing in messages at compile time, and by ensuring linear ownership of mutable message objects. This permits safe, zero-copy communication.
3. A compact run-time library containing typed mailboxes (with optional flow control), user-definable scheduling and python style generators.
Kilim is portable; one of our explicit goals was to not require changes to the Java language syntax or to the JVM.
Kilim scales comfortably to handle hundreds of thousands of actors and messages on modest hardware. It is fast as well -- task-switching is 1000x faster than Java threads and 60x faster than other lightweight tasking frameworks, and message-passing is 3x faster than Erlang (currently the gold standard for concurrency-oriented programming).
Speaker: Sriram Srinivasan
Sriram Srinivasan has 19 years of experience delivering a variety of systems spanning wireless sensors, messaging systems, middleware (he was a principal engineer of the Weblogic Application server) and large-scale applications such as cargo planning systems and network management systems.
He is currently on leave from industry, pursuing a PhD at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in mixing programming languages, concurrenct & distributed systems and modal logics.
Janis and Big Brother and the Holding Company recording Summertime for their Columbia album Cheap Thrills. The album was released in late 1968 and sold over one million copies that year. Shortly after the release of Cheap Thrills, Janis left the band to persue a solo career in music.
Another great performance by The Zoo with Arnel's powerful voice, anybody who hears will be stunned and drop their jaws! Awesome!!!
Check out their album here:
http://www.titikpilipino.com/album/?albumid=1388
