The Concept Art Behind Cloud Atlas' Neo-Seoul

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• The Concept Art Behind Cloud Atlas' Neo-Seoul
• Galaxy Nexus 10 Display Beats iPad Retina: Android Is The New Standard
• SecureBoot In Ubuntu 12.10
• Linux Mint Katya Reaches End Of Life
• If You Play Diablo 3 In Linux Again, You Will Likely Be Banned Again, Blizzard
• Ubuntu 13.04 May Come Packed With An SDK

The Concept Art Behind Cloud Atlas' Neo-Seoul Posted: 28 Oct 2012 08:35 AM PDT Conceptual designer/ artist, George Hull, the man behind most of the concept work for 'Cloud Atlas' has been talking about his work on the film, especially the city of Neo-Seoul which evolved from Skype chats with the film's makers, Lana and Andy Wachowski. In an interview with io9, he recalls being contacted by the Wachowski's in 2010 when they needed some concept art to sell the script. The conceptual artist's job starts when the film's director needs to have certain elements of the script visualised, firstly because most directors are not experienced, proficient artists, as a visual tool to help bring in financing and to give the other creatives, Production Designers, Set Decorators etc, a heads up on what is needed. For films set in the future, other worlds and all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures, aliens and robots, a conceptual artist is essential. George just had time to draw up Neo-Seoul, the futuristic dystopian twin city of Seoul which sits next to the sunken ruins of the original city, before going off to work on another film. When that gig was up he was back with Cloud Atlas which was by now, up and financed, partly thanks to his stunning artwork. George's influences as a kid were Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' films, and it certainly shows in the amazing artwork for Cloud Atlas, and his other work, from starting out with the Wachowski's on the 2 Matrix sequels to the likes of The Island, V For Vendetta, Terminator Salvation, The Amazing Spider-Man and Iron Man 2. George enjoyed working with the Wachowski's so much he's onboard with them on their next sci-fi epic 'Jupiter Ascending' and he assures io9 that he's having the most fun of his career. To read the full story where George talks about working on Cloud Atlas with lots of his concept art for the film, head over to io9 for a visual feast. Tags:  Cloud Atlas Concept Art Films Source:  The Verge Sub Site:  Sc-Fi News Type:  News People:  George Hull Lana Wachowski Andy Wachowski

Galaxy Nexus 10 Display Beats iPad Retina: Android Is The New Standard Posted: 28 Oct 2012 02:13 AM PDT There were quite a leaks of upcoming Nexus devices, unlike Nexus Q or surprising launch of $249 Chromebook Google seems to be not worried about keeping it a secret.

SecureBoot In Ubuntu 12.10 Posted: 28 Oct 2012 10:01 PM PDT Ubuntu 12.10 is the first distro that supports the Secure Boot architecture by default. Canonical developers have spent a huge amount of time making sure that Ubuntu runs fine and without problems in all hardware. Steve Langasek, an Ubuntu developer has put forward a nice account in his blog, regarding how they are making Secure Boot supported.

Linux Mint Katya Reaches End Of Life Posted: 28 Oct 2012 09:55 PM PDT The Linux Mint Team has announced the end of life of Linux Mint 11 "Katya". This means users using this OS will not be able to get any security updates and the system will be open to venerabilities. Users still using Linux Mint 11 are highly advised to upgrade their system to Linux Mint Maya.

If You Play Diablo 3 In Linux Again, You Will Likely Be Banned Again, Blizzard Posted: 28 Oct 2012 09:51 PM PDT Remember back a few months ago, when users playing Diablo using Wine were banned right away and were not given compensation. Blizzard addressed the issue saying that the users were cheating. Here is a different story now.

Ubuntu 13.04 May Come Packed With An SDK Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:48 PM PDT Canonical has some great plans for the next Ubuntu 13.04 release. Apart from targeting it to mobile devices and making it suitable for tablets and netbooks, Ubuntu developers are planning to make programming apps for Ubuntu easier. The good outcome of such thoughts is that Ubuntu 13.04 may ship an SDK along with usual apps.

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My Thoughts On Running Ubuntu And Kubuntu On Google Nexus 7

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• My Thoughts On Running Ubuntu And Kubuntu On Google Nexus 7
• New DMCA Terms Allow Rooting Of Phones Not Tablets
• Google Android Event For 29th October Cancelled
• Nexus 4 Quick Start Guide Available On LG Website

My Thoughts On Running Ubuntu And Kubuntu On Google Nexus 7 Posted: 27 Oct 2012 03:48 AM PDT I was actually surprised to find that KDE was more responsive, fast usable compared to Ubuntu Unity. Since you can customize the size of panel, fonts and application buttons and borders you can use KDE on this tablet just with your finger. No mouse or keyboard is needed. So, I found the desktop KDE to be more usable than Unity.

New DMCA Terms Allow Rooting Of Phones Not Tablets Posted: 27 Oct 2012 02:44 PM PDT The Digital Millennium Copyright Act will continue to exempt smartphones from the rules of rooting and Jail breaking. However, there is some bad news for tablets; they are not being considered for exemption

Google Android Event For 29th October Cancelled Posted: 27 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT The event was scheduled for Monday 29th October in New York, where several product launches from google were expected. The reason cited for this change is poor weather condition in the area.

Nexus 4 Quick Start Guide Available On LG Website Posted: 27 Oct 2012 06:40 AM PDT We now have the Nexus 4 Quick Start Guide, directly from LG.

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Modern Linux desktops like Ubuntu's Unity and the GNOME Shell have placed a requirement on OpenGL

An anonymous reader writes"Modern Linux desktops like Ubuntu's Unity and the GNOME Shell have placed a requirement on OpenGL 2.0+ support for handling their compositing window managers and desktop effects. Wayland's Weston also needs OpenGL ES 2.0 support. Now with modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu 12.10, rather than falling back to a 2D unaccelerated desktop if you don't have a sufficient GPU or graphics driver, users are being forced to run LLVMpipe as a CPU-based software rasterizer. LLVMpipe works fine if you are on a new PC with a fast x86-64 CPU, but the OpenGL-based Linux desktops are causing growing pains for ARM hardware, virtual machines, servers, multi-seat computers, and of course all older hardware.LLVMpipe is a Mesa Gallium3D driver that uses LLVM for run-time code generation as an attempt at accelerating graphics faster on the CPU. So much for Linux being good for old computers?"The KMS based graphics stack is already effectively unusable on AGP systems (if you have SMP + AGP, there are race conditions somewhere leading to really hard crashes that appeared a couple of years ago and dozens of years old open bugs with no resolution other than "use PCI mode" which cuts bus bandwidth by 4 or 8 times, and still doesn't work with SMP), but for those with older PCIe/IGP systems you could always runs Window Maker, Sawfish, Enlightenment, Open Box, or one of many other window managers without a compositor. Of course then you lose compositing, and there aren't any usable external compositors for some reason. The flipside to this is that moving to OpenGL as the primary interface to the GPU means one fewer driver that has to be written, and will probably lead to an overall improved experience for those with supported hardware given the limited resources Free Software drivers authors have.

Breaking Tech's Code

Wall Street Journal, August 17

In New York City, new introductory programming courses that lead to immediate job opportunities - even for candidates with no previous experience - are helping to fill the local shortage of engineers and fuel the city's technology boom. General Assembly, Codecademy and the Hatchery have designed introductory programming courses for computer science novices hopeful of changing careers to the tech sector. For the New York tech sector, the classes are a way to help fill the local shortage of engineers while the city works on longer-term solutions to build a talent pipeline for new tech start-ups. As experts point out, if New York is going to have a sustainable tech sector, it is has to be able to produce more homegrown tech talent.

These programming classes could lead to the democratization of coding. The classes offered by private educators draw everyone from Wall Street veterans to bartenders with an entrepreneurial streak. The classes aim to teach anyone and everyone to code. However, completing a class is not the equivalent of getting a computer-science degree. And graduates of classes tailored to the nonprogrammer -- which range anywhere from a single evening to four months in duration -- are unlikely to land a coveted job at a large employer like Google or Facebook. Obviously, you have to have a lot of experience and education to go to those top companies, but there are a lot of regular start-ups all over New York.

The classes are attracting tech-savvy people in transition. These are typically people who lack work experience in the tech sector and who have an undergraduate degree in a non-technical discipline, but are nonetheless familiar with computers. Still, hiring people with only months of training can be risky even for start-ups. The Hatchery, which offers beginner coding classes, is testing out an unusual model: employers hire the firm as needed for projects, while students are paid on a temporary basis for their assistance. People taking these classes hope they will make them more attractive job candidates. Skeptics of beginners' abilities should note that students in a Hatchery class won a recent hackathon, or product-building competition, in a battle against full-time developers.

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Regular Expression

A Regular Expression contains one or more of the following:

• A character set. These are the characters retaining their literal meaning. The simplest type of Regular Expression consists only of a character set, with no metacharacters.
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  An anchor. These designate (anchor) the position in the line of text that the RE is to match. For example, ^, and $ are anchors.
• Modifiers. These expand or narrow (modify) the range of text the RE is to match. Modifiers include the asterisk, brackets, and the backslash.

The main uses for Regular Expressions (REs) are text searches and string manipulation. An RE matches a single character or a set of characters -- a string or a part of a string.

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