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New Cool Way to View the World: Giant Globe OLED Display Geo-Cosmos
23
Jun
From: Huffington Post
If you've ever wanted to view the world as it's seen from space, now is your chance. The first spherical large-scale OLED screen in the world was unveiled at Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation this week. The breathtaking 6-meter globe is comprised of 10,362 OLED panels, each measuring in at 96 x 96 millimeters, that work together to project the movement of the Earth and sky as captured through a meteorological satellite with devastatingly beautiful images.
The new OLED panels, a creation of Mitsubishi Electric and an upgrade to the previous LEDs, feature a resolution of more than 10 million pixels, activated when the surface of the organic material is electrified.
60 feet below, on the ground floor, a series of touchscreen computers, dubbed Geo-Scope, allow visitors to interact with specific areas of the globe and track events like the natural disasters and large scale weather movements. Back at home, Geo-Palette, an interactive mapping tool, encourages users to create their own maps based on a series of statistical data on everything from race and language to climate and economy.
Mitsubishi Electric built the globe using their existing Diamond Vision OLED technology, and gifted it to mark the 10th anniversary of the museum.
Java Modifiers
22
Jun
Java Modifier Summary
| Modifier | Used on | Meaning |
| abstract | class
interface method |
Contains unimplemented methods and cannot be instantiated.
All interfaces are abstract. Optional in declarations No body, only signature. The enclosing class is abstract |
| final | class
method field variable |
Cannot be subclassed
Cannot be overridden and dynamically looked up Cannot change its value. static final fields are compile-time constants. Cannot change its value. |
| native | method | Platform-dependent. No body, only signature |
| none(package) | class
interface member |
Accessible only in its package
Accessible only in its package Accessible only in its package |
| private | member | Accessible only in its class(which defins it). |
| protected | member | Accessible only within its package and its subclasses Read the rest of this entry » |
Top 200 Greatest Classical Music Works of All Time!!!
18
Jun
1. Mass In B Minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
2. Der Ring des Nibelungen – Richard Wagner
3. Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral" – Ludwig Van Beethoven
4. Symphony No. 5 in C minor – Ludwig Van Beethoven
5. St Matthew's Passion – Johann Sebastian Bach
6. Tristan und Isolde – Richard Wagner
7. Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8. String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor – Ludwig Van Beethoven
9. Messiah – George Frideric Handel
10. Rite of Spring – Igor Stravinsky
11. Symphony No. 3 in E flat major "Eroica" – Ludwig Van Beethoven
12. Symphony No. 6 in B minor "Pathetique" – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
13. Otello – Giuseppe Verdi
14. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor "Appassionata" – Ludwig Van Beethoven Read the rest of this entry »
Sir Ken Robinson:Do schools kill creativity?
17
Jun
This is a pretty good talk by Sir Ken Robinson about the effect that the current education paradigm has on the creativity of attendees.
This is not the way I’d imagined Bill Gates… A rare and remarkable interview with the world’s second richest man
14
Jun
From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2001697/Microsofts-Bill-Gates-A-rare-remarkable-interview-worlds-second-richest-man.html#
Rocking gently in his chair, he begins to sing: 'I wanna be a billionaire so freakin' bad. Buy all the things I never had. I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine. Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen…'
'It will be a minuscule portion of my wealth. It will mean they (his children) have to find their own way. They will be given an unbelievable education… But they will have to pick a job they like and go to work,' said Bill Gates
Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars’s hit Billionaire reached No 3 on both sides of the Atlantic last year. The irony of the lyrics isn’t lost on either of us. They are, Gates chuckles, regularly used by his three children to poke fun at him.
At 55, he has graced the cover of Forbes magazine many times. As the co-founder, with Paul Allen, of Microsoft, he grew a 1975 back-room start-up into a software behemoth worth, at its peak, $400 billion. Oprah Winfrey is a close friend; the pair meet regularly and she has discussed signing his ‘Giving Pledge’ to donate the bulk of her $2.7 billion estate to charity.
And the Queen? Well, she gave him an honorary knighthood back in 2005.
‘The Billionaire song is what my kids tease me with,’ he says. ‘They sing it to me. It’s funny.’
They have apparently also introduced him to the ‘joys’ of Lady Gaga, ‘but the 12-year-old is always worried about the nine-year-old listening to songs with bad words. So he’s like, “No! Skip that one!” So I only know some Lady Gaga songs.’
It’s probably just as well his children have a well-developed sense of humour. Read the rest of this entry »
Quote of the day: June 11, 2011
11
Jun
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. -Albert Einstein.
