OOP criticism and OOP problems
The emperor has no clothes!
Reality Check 101
Snake OOil

http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/oopbad.htm

Repasando esta semanita las posibilidades de inversión en nanotecnología, me he topado con que hace un año salió un índice específico para el sector nanotech. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5ENNZ&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= http://www.ml.com/media/42322.pdf

Excerpt from Wired News: Developed by James Patten and Ben Recht, the Audiopad is projected on a special table equipped with radio sensors that track the position and movement of half a dozen plastic discs, or "pucks." Most of the pucks control a series of preprogrammed tracks -- the rhythm, the bass line, the melody and other samples. http://www.wired.com/news/mediaplayer/0,2108,59779-59779-audio_pad1_qt_hi,00.html

Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. We compiled some especially memorable articles and threads in the timeline below. For example, read Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of what became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds' post about his "pet project". You can find more in-depth information about the archive here. We would like to thank the following archive donors: Jürgen Christoffel, Bruce Jones, Kent Landfield, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman. Enjoy your trip back to the golden age of Usenet. http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

Excerpt: TCPA stands for Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. For the technology we will speak from TCP (The trusted computing platform). This plans that every computer will have a TPM (Trusted Platform Module), also known as Fritz-Chip, built-in. At later development stages, these functions will be directly included into CPUs, graphiccards, harddisks, soundcards, bios and so on. This will secure that the computer is in a TCPA-conform state and that he checks that it's always in this state. This means: On the first level comes the hardware, on the second comes TCPA and then comes the user. The complete communication works with a 2048 bit strong encryption, so it's also secure enough to make it impossible to decrypt this in realtime for a longer time. This secures that the TCPA can prevent any unwanted software and hardware. The long term result will be that it will be impossible to use hardware and software that's not approved by the TCPA. Presumably there will be high costs to get this certification and that these would be too much for little and mid-range companies. Therefore open-source and freeware would be condemned to die, because without such a certification the software will simply not work. In the long term only the big companies would survive and could control the market as they would like.
Some could think that it should be possible to get around this security. But probably they would be proved they're wrong. Until now there're no such hardware-implemented security systems and actual security systems have to work offline. This would be changed with TCP. The rights and licenses would be central managed by the TCPA (USA?). And as soon a violation is noticed, they will get notified. Read the chapter "The bills" to get an overview about the possible resulting consequences.

More information:
http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html
http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html

Maybe we could start our own initiative: The European Open Computing Platform User Community

Leí este artículo hace ya unos años, a alguno de vosotros ya os lo pase en su día. Pero puesto que es mi primer post, y no sabía qué poner y el asunto sobre el que trata sigue de actualidad, aquí os pongo en enlace. Recuerdo que es de los artículos que más me han dado que pensar en mucho tiempo sobre cuestiones tecnológicas, más aun si como yo habéis barajado la idea de invertir en nanotecnología.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

Un saludo a todos,