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| 31 |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service has its eye on a digital future, if it can get through its present financial straits.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 32 | Nike is going back to the future. The sneaker maker on Thursday said it has created a limited-edition shoe based on a glowing pair that appeared in the popular 1989 movie "Back to the Future II." The 2011 Nike Mag is designed to be an exact replica of the fictional sneaker, including a glowing Nike name on the strap. But unlike the movie version, these shoes won't lace themselves.
Nike will release 1,500 pairs of the 2011 Nike Mag sneaker for auction on eBay and donate all proceeds to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's disease research. Fox famously played Marty McFly in the "Back to the Future" time-travel trilogy, where he wore the shoes during a visit to the year 2015.
"It hasn't gone unnoted by us that there is something special about that shoe and, of course, the movie," said famed Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield, who helped design the original shoe and worked on the latest version.
Limited-edition shoes can draw as much, if not more, mania as a new movie or comic book release. Fans obsessively track the latest news and are willing to camp out all night or spending hundreds or more for a single pair online.
Nike's collector sneaker has been long awaited by shoe collectors and movie fans, who have been urging the company to make them ever since the movie was released. There were roughly eight or ten pairs used in the movie, some of which are in Nike's possession and a few that collectors somehow got their hands on.
Owning them, or even seeing a pair of them, has become a singular pursuit for some fans. There was even an online campaign a few years ago called "McFly 2015, Make it Happen" that gathered thousands of signatures to convince Nike to bring the McFly... newsfactor.com » | | 33 | (Reuters) - Investors drove Research In Motion's stock down 20 percent on Friday as dismal quarterly results raised prospects that the BlackBerry maker will be sold, broken up, or at least placed under new leadership.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 34 | Microsoft выпустила ролик, в котором показала, как, по ее мнению, изменится продуктивность людей при использовании разных гаджетов. В целом интересно, но посмотрев видео я отметил другое. Люди стали какими-то более одинокими, погруженными в свои гаджеты и виртуальную жизнь.
habrahabr.ru » | | 35 | TORONTO (Reuters) - A months-long delay in Research in Motion's new BlackBerrys and a dreary quarterly report sent RIM shares tumbling again on Friday and pushed some analysts to sound the death knell for the mobile device that once defined the industry.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 36 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While the Internet poker world salivates at the prospect of its business coming back to life thanks to an Obama administration ruling, a future president could reverse that decision and send the industry back to drawing board if it is not codified into law.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 37 | | | 38 | Хабы: JAVA Сегодня я расскажу про дизайн тривиального concurrent-класса в Java. Может быть, это будет удобнее, чем абстрактно объяснять разные концепции из JMM и concurrent-кода.
Все продвинутые парни знают, что такое Future<V> — это обещание предоставить результат типа V. Future'ы удобны, чтобы предоставлять результат асинхронных задач. Например, ExecutorService возвращает Future для описания результата задачи, которая когда-нибудь выполнится в thread pool'е.
Частенько в написании хардкорного concurrent-кода требуется такой примитив, как SettableFuture<V>, который будет выполнять все функции Future<V>, но в который можно будет также выставить значение из другого потока. Эдакий асинхронный mailbox.
За свою недолгую жизнь я видел несколько вариантов реализации такого SettableFuture, рассмотрим некоторые из них, и на заботливо разложенные в них грабли. Большинство примеров реально существовали, некоторые из них были домыслены ради плавности изложения. Чтобы вам не было сильно скучно, попробуйте не читать объяснение после каждого примера, а найти грабли самостоятельно. Для уменьшения простыни мы реализуем только методы set() и get(). Все персонажи вымышлены, хотя пост и основан на реальных событиях.
Achtung: пост-простыня под катом.
Читать дальше → habrahabr.ru » | | 39 | The next installment in the multibillion-dollar Call of Duty franchise has a two-pronged strategy: explore past Cold War covert relations and gaze into the geopolitical crystal ball at how a future Cold War might play out.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II, due Nov. 13 (PS3, Xbox 360, PCs; not yet rated) continues the story of Special Forces operator Alex Mason, who helped thwart Soviet plans to attack the USA in the late '60s in 2010's Black Ops.
But the new game takes players to the future in the shoes of Mason's son, David Mason, who in the year 2025 is assigned to protect the president. That takes Black Ops into territory trod to date only by the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, which sets its action in the near future.
Whichever setting, since 2007's Modern Warfare, each Call of Duty release has sold more than 11 million copies, and the franchise has set sales records each of the past three years. Modern Warfare 3 sold $1 billion in just 16 days.
"No one is going to be able to call this Black Ops 1.5," says Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg. "There's a lot of new ideas. We are taking some risks."
The teaser trailer, shown Tuesday night on TNT during the NBA playoffs, offered a glimpse of what Mason and the female president find themselves facing -- worse trouble than that ever faced by 24's Jack Bauer -- including a full-fledged battle that lays waste to Los Angeles.
Cities including Washington and New York, plus some in China, are under attack, too, says developer Treyarch chief Mark Lamia, who offered an early look to USA TODAY last week at the studio in Santa Monica.
Game villain Raul Menendez hacks into the military's fleet of unmanned attack drones and turns them on the USA and its... newsfactor.com » | | 40 | A handful of people have seen the car of the near-future, and it looks suspiciously like a lunar land rover. Or a plane. Or a driverless vehicle. Take your choice.
At auto shows and tech conferences around the globe, prototypes of whiz-bang cars offer a visual narrative into what to expect on the nation's streets a decade from now. Some already are in production; others will be shortly, carmakers say. But in technology laboratories and engineering facilities worldwide, the imaginings don't stop there.
Think 15 to 20 years out.
By 2030, city streets will teem with small, driverless cars whose wireless capabilities direct traffic flow smoothly, rendering traffic lights unnecessary, car designers and automotive visionaries say. The cars themselves will be made of collapsible, lightweight material, allowing them to be tucked into the tiniest parking crevices.
Cloud computing will enable riders to work or play games during their commutes while listening to their favorite music as chosen by the car, says Kevin Dallas, general manager of Microsoft Windows Embedded. The software giant is working with Ford, BMW and others to make vehicles more connected.
For years, we've heard predictions about the cars of the future and seen them depicted in pop culture from the writings of Jules Verne to TV's The Jetsons. But advances in wireless communications and battery technology have made what once was a far-off idea a near-reality, says Mark Boyadjis, senior analyst at market researcher IHS Automotive, an industry consulting firm.
Changes in transportation infrastructure and policy, coupled with technology advances, could make this all possible in the not-too-distant future, say auto executives, analysts and scientists.
Within 20 years, not as many people will own cars. In fact, they will share them, Boyadjis predicts.
The future took a step closer to reality this year when Nevada became the first place anywhere to issue license plates... newsfactor.com » |
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