iPhone 4S em Portugal a partir de 629 euros
Já é conhecido o preço do iPhone 4S em Portugal. A Apple vende-o desbloqueado a partir de 629 euros (versão 16GB).
RYNO: Moto eléctrica de uma roda
Tem um sistema de equilíbrio semelhante à Segway e promete competir com a Vespa e as scooters eléctricas.
DeLorean regressa ao futuro
Um novo modelo DeLorean vai sair da linha de montagem na Irlanda do Norte. Agora, eléctrico.
Veículos eléctricos livres de impostos em 2012
Os veículos exclusivamente eléctricos continuam isentos do imposto sobre veículos (ISV) em 2012.
STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH!
Vídeo legendado e transcrição do discurso de 2005 de Steve Jobs em Stanford.
DeLorean regressa ao futuro como carro eléctrico
Veículos eléctricos livres de impostos em 2012
Quantos dias já vivi?
Sabe quantos anos tem, e em que dia nasceu. Mas quantos dias já passaram desde que veio ao mundo? Agora pode conhecer quantos dias já viveu com a ajuda de um site japonês:
How many days have you lived till today? Site de Nakamura Masaaki.
How many days have you lived till today? Site de Nakamura Masaaki.
VÍDEO: Cometa colide contra o Sol
Um cometa colidiu contra o Sol, ou desintegrou-se à sua passagem, a 1 de Outubro. Momentos depois, uma violenta explosão solar foi registada por três satélites. Discute-se agora se a colisão causou a erupção, se foi mera coincidência.
O astrónomo Phil Plait explica o que aconteceu:
E um outro vídeo do embate cósmico:
O astrónomo Phil Plait explica o que aconteceu:
E um outro vídeo do embate cósmico:
Steve Jobs: Vídeo legendado e transcrição do discurso de Stanford
STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH! I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
FONTE: Stanford University
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
FONTE: Stanford University
BoingBoing homenageia Steve Jobs com template retro da Apple
O tablet mais barato do mundo
O governo indiano mostrou nesta quarta-feira o que ele está chamando de “o tablet mais barato do mundo”, destinado à nobre função de oferecer inclusão digital aos milhões de alunos e professores espalhados pelo país. Anunciado em Nova Déli, o Aakash – ou céu, em português – vem com uma tela de 7 polegadas, conta com duas portas USB, roda Android 2.2 e tem uma bateria com capacidade de modestas três horas de duração.
Além disso ele também tem câmeras para videochamada, processador de 366 MHz (e um processador separado para vídeo), 256 MB de RAM, 2 GB de memória interna e 2 GB em um cartão microSD e suporta conectividade WiFI (além de ter opções em 3G). Tudo isso por um precinho equivalente a R$ 65, garantido graças a uma série de deduções de impostos (e economia em termos de hardware também).
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Além disso ele também tem câmeras para videochamada, processador de 366 MHz (e um processador separado para vídeo), 256 MB de RAM, 2 GB de memória interna e 2 GB em um cartão microSD e suporta conectividade WiFI (além de ter opções em 3G). Tudo isso por um precinho equivalente a R$ 65, garantido graças a uma série de deduções de impostos (e economia em termos de hardware também).
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Morreu Steve Jobs
A Apple anunciou na quarta-feira que o seu fundador Steve Jobs morreu após uma longa batalha contra o cancro.
Em comunicado, a Apple anunciou a perda de «um visionário e um génio criativo», e declarou que o mundo perdeu «um extraordinário ser humano».
«O génio, paixão e energia do Steve estiveram na origem de inúmeras invenções que enriquecem e melhoram as nossas vidas», declarou a empresa.
Jobs, nascido em 1955, fundou e liderou a Apple até Agosto último, e fica associado a alguns dos mais populares e inovadores produtos informáticos da história, como o iPad, o iPhone e um dos primeiros computadores pessoais, o Apple II.
Filho de mãe norte-americana e pai sírio, Jobs foi dado para adopção e acolhido por um casal norte-americano de raízes arménias. Após um percurso académico irregular, Jobs abandonou a universidade e abraçou o seu próprio projecto empresarial, num percurso com altos e baixos em que chegou a ser afastado da Apple, mas que culminaria com a transformação da companhia tecnológica na maior empresa do mundo em termos de capitalização bolsista.
Fonte: SOL
Em comunicado, a Apple anunciou a perda de «um visionário e um génio criativo», e declarou que o mundo perdeu «um extraordinário ser humano».
«O génio, paixão e energia do Steve estiveram na origem de inúmeras invenções que enriquecem e melhoram as nossas vidas», declarou a empresa.
Jobs, nascido em 1955, fundou e liderou a Apple até Agosto último, e fica associado a alguns dos mais populares e inovadores produtos informáticos da história, como o iPad, o iPhone e um dos primeiros computadores pessoais, o Apple II.
Filho de mãe norte-americana e pai sírio, Jobs foi dado para adopção e acolhido por um casal norte-americano de raízes arménias. Após um percurso académico irregular, Jobs abandonou a universidade e abraçou o seu próprio projecto empresarial, num percurso com altos e baixos em que chegou a ser afastado da Apple, mas que culminaria com a transformação da companhia tecnológica na maior empresa do mundo em termos de capitalização bolsista.
Fonte: SOL
Brasil: Os Avatares da Amazonia
Talvez o diretor de Avatar tivesse alguma razão quando, no ano passado, comparou a trama de seu filme com o conflito entre o governo brasileiro e do povo da Amazônia afetado pela construção da barragem de Belo Monte. A polêmica em torno deste trabalho, há cinco dias suspensos por ordem judicial, sublinha o crescente dilema entre desenvolvimento e respeito pela vida que o gigante sul-americano está enfrentando paralelamente ao seu crescimento economicamente invejável.
O juiz federal Carlos Eduardo Castro Martins decidiu a suspensão de obras em Belo Monte para proibir "qualquer alteração do rio Xingu". O juiz respondeu favoravelmente ao recurso judicial da Associação de Criadores e Exportadores de Peixes Ornamentais Altamira, cujos membros afirmam que o desvio do rio põe em perigo a sobrevivência de milhares de famílias de agricultores.
A decisão do juiz representa uma grande derrota para o Executivo de Dilma Rousseff. Mas não é o fim da guerra, porque a decisão é recorrível e é certo que o consórcio responsável pela obra, Norte Energia, vai lutar pela revogação. Em fevereiro deste ano um tribunal revogou uma suspensão anterior ordenada por um outro juiz que achou que a agência ambiental brasileira, IBAMA, violou 29 pontos da regulamentação sobre respeito ao meio ambiente.
Se o governo ganhar o caso, Belo Monte vai se tornar o terceiro maior produtor de eletricidade no mundo, atrás da usina chinesa de Três Gargantas e de Itaipu, entre Brasil e Paraguai. A represa, cuja concepção remonta aos anos setenta e foi recuperada sob o mandato de Lula da Silva, deverá estar operacional em 2015 e oferece uma capacidade máxima de 11.233 megawatts de geração, equivalente a 11% da capacidade instalada no país. A um custo de 10.600 mil milhões de dólares, os seus promotores consideram vital para assegurar o abastecimento de energia no norte do Brasil e melhorar a interligação de redes de abastecimento de todo o país, e para assegurar o desenvolvimento económico e social uma área de alto crescimento populacional, mas com níveis muito baixos de infra-estrutura básica e da educação. Os relatórios mais otimistas prevêem a criação de 40.000 empregos durante a construção.
Grupos ambientalistas e grupos indígenas estão contra e afirmam que o projeto irá causar sérios danos a dezenas de milhares de pessoas - alguns dizem 20.000, outros 40.000 - que as irá retirar dos seus territórios e deixar as suas casas e atividades como resultado de inundações superfícies no banco atual do Xingu. A causa das vítimas potenciais de Belo Monte ganhou ressonância particular quando, na primavera do ano passado, James Cameron visitou a área afetada para apoiar os índios. O diretor, apoiado pela atriz Sigourney Weaver e o cantor Sting, escreveu uma carta a Lula onde recordou a mensagem de seu filme Avatar, onde uma civilização nativa corre risco de extinção devido à exploração de um mineral raro.
A suspensão da obra da barragem de Belo Monte coincidiu com greves e manifestações contra Evo Morales, em protesto contra a construção de uma estrada de 300 quilômetros que interessa tanto ao Brasil como à Bolívia. A via, em 80% financiada pelo Brasil, faz parte de um corredor entre o Atlântico e o Pacífico para facilitar o comércio entre o gigante da América do Sul e a China, o seu melhor cliente. As obras foram suspensas após a revolta popular, e Brasília aguarda uma solução para o conflito. Esta é outra guerra, mas o desafio é o mesmo.
Originalmente publicado no jornal espanhol (catalão) La Vanguardia, traduzido para Português
O juiz federal Carlos Eduardo Castro Martins decidiu a suspensão de obras em Belo Monte para proibir "qualquer alteração do rio Xingu". O juiz respondeu favoravelmente ao recurso judicial da Associação de Criadores e Exportadores de Peixes Ornamentais Altamira, cujos membros afirmam que o desvio do rio põe em perigo a sobrevivência de milhares de famílias de agricultores.
A decisão do juiz representa uma grande derrota para o Executivo de Dilma Rousseff. Mas não é o fim da guerra, porque a decisão é recorrível e é certo que o consórcio responsável pela obra, Norte Energia, vai lutar pela revogação. Em fevereiro deste ano um tribunal revogou uma suspensão anterior ordenada por um outro juiz que achou que a agência ambiental brasileira, IBAMA, violou 29 pontos da regulamentação sobre respeito ao meio ambiente.
Se o governo ganhar o caso, Belo Monte vai se tornar o terceiro maior produtor de eletricidade no mundo, atrás da usina chinesa de Três Gargantas e de Itaipu, entre Brasil e Paraguai. A represa, cuja concepção remonta aos anos setenta e foi recuperada sob o mandato de Lula da Silva, deverá estar operacional em 2015 e oferece uma capacidade máxima de 11.233 megawatts de geração, equivalente a 11% da capacidade instalada no país. A um custo de 10.600 mil milhões de dólares, os seus promotores consideram vital para assegurar o abastecimento de energia no norte do Brasil e melhorar a interligação de redes de abastecimento de todo o país, e para assegurar o desenvolvimento económico e social uma área de alto crescimento populacional, mas com níveis muito baixos de infra-estrutura básica e da educação. Os relatórios mais otimistas prevêem a criação de 40.000 empregos durante a construção.
Grupos ambientalistas e grupos indígenas estão contra e afirmam que o projeto irá causar sérios danos a dezenas de milhares de pessoas - alguns dizem 20.000, outros 40.000 - que as irá retirar dos seus territórios e deixar as suas casas e atividades como resultado de inundações superfícies no banco atual do Xingu. A causa das vítimas potenciais de Belo Monte ganhou ressonância particular quando, na primavera do ano passado, James Cameron visitou a área afetada para apoiar os índios. O diretor, apoiado pela atriz Sigourney Weaver e o cantor Sting, escreveu uma carta a Lula onde recordou a mensagem de seu filme Avatar, onde uma civilização nativa corre risco de extinção devido à exploração de um mineral raro.
A suspensão da obra da barragem de Belo Monte coincidiu com greves e manifestações contra Evo Morales, em protesto contra a construção de uma estrada de 300 quilômetros que interessa tanto ao Brasil como à Bolívia. A via, em 80% financiada pelo Brasil, faz parte de um corredor entre o Atlântico e o Pacífico para facilitar o comércio entre o gigante da América do Sul e a China, o seu melhor cliente. As obras foram suspensas após a revolta popular, e Brasília aguarda uma solução para o conflito. Esta é outra guerra, mas o desafio é o mesmo.
Originalmente publicado no jornal espanhol (catalão) La Vanguardia, traduzido para Português
Lista: As piores colisões aéreas
Se imaginar a queda de um avião já afasta muitas pessoas dos ares, pense numa colisão a alta velocidade entre duas aeronaves. A boa notícia é que são eventos tão raros que a lista de todos as colisões aéreas relevantes dificilmente preencheria uma folha A4:
Índia, 1996, 349 mortos - Um Ilyushin Il-76 da Kazakhstan Airlines (Cazaquistão) colidiu com um Boeing 747 da Saudi Arabian Airlines (Arábia Saudita) sobre Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, Índia. Os dois aviões estavam prestes a aterrar em Nova Deli quando chocaram nos céus. Uma investigação responsabilizou o piloto cazaque, que estava a uma altitude inferior à indicada pela torre de controlo e ignorou repetidos alertas de colisão iminente.
Ucrânia, 1979, 178 mortos - Dois Tupolev Tu-134 da Aeroflot colidem sobre a Ucrânia soviética depois do controlador aéreo ter dado sinal de colisão iminente. Um dos pilotos não terá ouvido o aviso, mas o técnico pensou ter recebido uma resposta afirmativa - na verdade, tinha ouvido um som proveniente de um terceiro avião. Dezassete jogadores de futebol do Pakhtakor de Tashkent (Uzbequistão) morreram no acidente.
Croácia, 1976, 176 mortos - Erro do controlador aéreo provoca colisão entre um Trident 3B da British Airways que ligava Londres a Istambul e um DC-9 da Inex-Adria que transportava turistas alemães de Split para Colónia. Os aviões caíram nas proximidades de Vrbovec, arredores de Zagreb, na então república jugoslava da Croácia.
Japão, 1971, 162 mortos - Um avião da Força Aérea Japonesa choca com um Boeing 727 da ANA perto de Shizukuishi.
Líbia, 1992, 159 mortos - MiG-23 embate com um avião das linhas áreas líbias quando ambos estavam prestes a aterrar em Tripoli.
Brasil, 2006, 154 mortos - Um jacto privativo Embraer Legacy embate num Boeing 737 da GOL. O avião brasileiro despenha-se na selva, 200 km a leste de Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, e nenhum ocupante sobrevive ao desastre. A aeronave mais pequena conseguiu aterrar em segurança na base militar de Brigadeiro Velloso. Diversos inquéritos dividiram a culpa entre a tripulação do Legacy e o controlo aéreo brasileiro.
EM TERRA: Espanha, 1977, 583 mortos - Este seria o mais terrível e mortífero caso de colisão aérea, não tivesse ocorrido em pista. Dois Boeing 747, um da KLM holandesa e o outro da PanAm, colidiram no aeroporto Los Rodeos (actual Tenerife Norte, Canárias) devido a erro dos pilotos, do controlo aéreo e ao intenso nevoeiro que se fazia sentir no momento do acidente. A playmate e modelo pin-up Eve Meyer foi uma das vítimas mortais.
Fonte: Wikipédia
Índia, 1996, 349 mortos - Um Ilyushin Il-76 da Kazakhstan Airlines (Cazaquistão) colidiu com um Boeing 747 da Saudi Arabian Airlines (Arábia Saudita) sobre Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, Índia. Os dois aviões estavam prestes a aterrar em Nova Deli quando chocaram nos céus. Uma investigação responsabilizou o piloto cazaque, que estava a uma altitude inferior à indicada pela torre de controlo e ignorou repetidos alertas de colisão iminente.
Ucrânia, 1979, 178 mortos - Dois Tupolev Tu-134 da Aeroflot colidem sobre a Ucrânia soviética depois do controlador aéreo ter dado sinal de colisão iminente. Um dos pilotos não terá ouvido o aviso, mas o técnico pensou ter recebido uma resposta afirmativa - na verdade, tinha ouvido um som proveniente de um terceiro avião. Dezassete jogadores de futebol do Pakhtakor de Tashkent (Uzbequistão) morreram no acidente.
Croácia, 1976, 176 mortos - Erro do controlador aéreo provoca colisão entre um Trident 3B da British Airways que ligava Londres a Istambul e um DC-9 da Inex-Adria que transportava turistas alemães de Split para Colónia. Os aviões caíram nas proximidades de Vrbovec, arredores de Zagreb, na então república jugoslava da Croácia.
Japão, 1971, 162 mortos - Um avião da Força Aérea Japonesa choca com um Boeing 727 da ANA perto de Shizukuishi.
Líbia, 1992, 159 mortos - MiG-23 embate com um avião das linhas áreas líbias quando ambos estavam prestes a aterrar em Tripoli.
Brasil, 2006, 154 mortos - Um jacto privativo Embraer Legacy embate num Boeing 737 da GOL. O avião brasileiro despenha-se na selva, 200 km a leste de Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, e nenhum ocupante sobrevive ao desastre. A aeronave mais pequena conseguiu aterrar em segurança na base militar de Brigadeiro Velloso. Diversos inquéritos dividiram a culpa entre a tripulação do Legacy e o controlo aéreo brasileiro.
EM TERRA: Espanha, 1977, 583 mortos - Este seria o mais terrível e mortífero caso de colisão aérea, não tivesse ocorrido em pista. Dois Boeing 747, um da KLM holandesa e o outro da PanAm, colidiram no aeroporto Los Rodeos (actual Tenerife Norte, Canárias) devido a erro dos pilotos, do controlo aéreo e ao intenso nevoeiro que se fazia sentir no momento do acidente. A playmate e modelo pin-up Eve Meyer foi uma das vítimas mortais.
Fonte: Wikipédia
Apple: O iPhone 5... é afinal o iPhone 4S
Inteligência artificial, um novo sistema operativo, um chip igual ao do iPad 2 e iCloud. Estas são as novidades que chegam com o iPhone 4S, uma versão melhorada do actual telemóvel (celular) topo de gama da Apple, que adiou a apresentação do tão esperado iPhone 5.
O iPhone 4S, que de aspecto é igual ao iPhone4, terá um chip A5 com duplo núcleo, o mesmo do iPad 2, e melhor recepção de sinal, qualidade do som e velocidade de downloads.
O novo smartphone da linha iPhone foi apresentado na Califórnia pelo vice-presidente de marketing da Apple, Phil Schiller, num evento dirigido por Tim Cook, actual CEO da empresa, que substituiu Steve Jobs em Agosto. Jobs encontra-se gravemente doente com cancro no pâncreas.
Entre as novidades do iPhone 4S está uma câmara fotográfica e vídeo de 8 megapixels, maior sensibilidade à luz e captura de imagens mais rápida, capaz de realizar reconhecimento de rosto. Os vídeos serão gravados em resolução Full HD (1080p de definição). A câmara do 4S tem um estabilizador de imagem e um redutor de ruído.
Outro avanço do 4S é a maior autonomia da bateria, capaz de suportar 8 horas de conversação, 10 horas de vídeo e 40 de música.
Reconhecimento de voz
Mas talvez a maior novidade seja o Siri, uma antiga app de reconhecimento de voz que a Apple comprou e integra agora no software do iPhone 4S. Agora, o utilizador pode perguntar, por exemplo, qual o estado do tempo, iniciando com a sua voz uma app de meteorologia. Também será possível inserir uma nota na agenda, programar o despertador do iPhone, 'googlar' um restaurante, enviar uma mensagem de texto sms e realizar uma chamada telefónica.
Espera-se que o Siri - que é apresentado como um verdadeiro sistema de inteligência virtual e como um assistente privado no iPhone 4S - seja pelo menos um pouco melhor que outras apps de reconhecimento de voz como Dragon Dictation e Dragon Search, actualmente disponíveis para iPad e iPhone, que geram erros frequentes (digamos que é necessário ter uma pronúncia e dicção mais que perfeitas para que o Dragon entenda a mais simples das palavras. ah, e gritar bem alto).
O novo iPhone 4S estará disponível em branco e preto, com 16, 32 ou 64 GB. Chegará primeiro aos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Austrália, Reino Unido, Alemanha e Japão já a 14 de Outubro. Até final do ano, o iPhone 4S estará disponível em 70 países.
iPhone 5 adiado, Apple faz outros anúncios
Quem seguiu a apresentação do iPhone 4S no Mashable, Wired ou CNET não deixou de reparar na desilusão dos jornalistas, que aguardavam a apresentação do iPhone 5. No entanto, a Apple a versão final do sistema operacional iOS 5, que será integrado no próximo telemóvel (celular) da empresa norte-americana. O novo sistema operativo conta com mais de 200 novos recursos, incluindo a capacidade de actualização de software via nuvem (cloud), sem a necessidade de sincronizar iPad, iPhone e iPod com um computador. Os donos dos iPhone 4 e 3GS, iPad 1 e 2 e iPod Touch poderão actualizar o software para o iOS 5 gratuitamente.
E com esta nova plataforma, chega o iCloud, um pacote pacote de serviços na nuvem que vai possibilitar o armazenamento de dados em servidores remotos da Apple, que podem ser recuperados a qualquer momento com o auxílio de um dispositivo, móvel ou não, que esteja conectado à internet. O serviço também inclui a possibilidade de comprar, ou alugar, filmes e músicas que podem ser reproduzidos em tempo real, sem a necessidade de utilizar um disco para armazená-los.
FONTE: TVI24
O iPhone 4S, que de aspecto é igual ao iPhone4, terá um chip A5 com duplo núcleo, o mesmo do iPad 2, e melhor recepção de sinal, qualidade do som e velocidade de downloads.
O novo smartphone da linha iPhone foi apresentado na Califórnia pelo vice-presidente de marketing da Apple, Phil Schiller, num evento dirigido por Tim Cook, actual CEO da empresa, que substituiu Steve Jobs em Agosto. Jobs encontra-se gravemente doente com cancro no pâncreas.
Entre as novidades do iPhone 4S está uma câmara fotográfica e vídeo de 8 megapixels, maior sensibilidade à luz e captura de imagens mais rápida, capaz de realizar reconhecimento de rosto. Os vídeos serão gravados em resolução Full HD (1080p de definição). A câmara do 4S tem um estabilizador de imagem e um redutor de ruído.
Outro avanço do 4S é a maior autonomia da bateria, capaz de suportar 8 horas de conversação, 10 horas de vídeo e 40 de música.
Reconhecimento de voz
Mas talvez a maior novidade seja o Siri, uma antiga app de reconhecimento de voz que a Apple comprou e integra agora no software do iPhone 4S. Agora, o utilizador pode perguntar, por exemplo, qual o estado do tempo, iniciando com a sua voz uma app de meteorologia. Também será possível inserir uma nota na agenda, programar o despertador do iPhone, 'googlar' um restaurante, enviar uma mensagem de texto sms e realizar uma chamada telefónica.
Espera-se que o Siri - que é apresentado como um verdadeiro sistema de inteligência virtual e como um assistente privado no iPhone 4S - seja pelo menos um pouco melhor que outras apps de reconhecimento de voz como Dragon Dictation e Dragon Search, actualmente disponíveis para iPad e iPhone, que geram erros frequentes (digamos que é necessário ter uma pronúncia e dicção mais que perfeitas para que o Dragon entenda a mais simples das palavras. ah, e gritar bem alto).
O novo iPhone 4S estará disponível em branco e preto, com 16, 32 ou 64 GB. Chegará primeiro aos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Austrália, Reino Unido, Alemanha e Japão já a 14 de Outubro. Até final do ano, o iPhone 4S estará disponível em 70 países.
iPhone 5 adiado, Apple faz outros anúncios
Quem seguiu a apresentação do iPhone 4S no Mashable, Wired ou CNET não deixou de reparar na desilusão dos jornalistas, que aguardavam a apresentação do iPhone 5. No entanto, a Apple a versão final do sistema operacional iOS 5, que será integrado no próximo telemóvel (celular) da empresa norte-americana. O novo sistema operativo conta com mais de 200 novos recursos, incluindo a capacidade de actualização de software via nuvem (cloud), sem a necessidade de sincronizar iPad, iPhone e iPod com um computador. Os donos dos iPhone 4 e 3GS, iPad 1 e 2 e iPod Touch poderão actualizar o software para o iOS 5 gratuitamente.
E com esta nova plataforma, chega o iCloud, um pacote pacote de serviços na nuvem que vai possibilitar o armazenamento de dados em servidores remotos da Apple, que podem ser recuperados a qualquer momento com o auxílio de um dispositivo, móvel ou não, que esteja conectado à internet. O serviço também inclui a possibilidade de comprar, ou alugar, filmes e músicas que podem ser reproduzidos em tempo real, sem a necessidade de utilizar um disco para armazená-los.
FONTE: TVI24
