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Les Girondins de Bordeaux affrontent mercredi les Grecs d'Olympiakos Le Pirée en
8èmes de finale retour de la Ligue des Champions. Les Bordelais, au bord de l'asphyxie en
mars en Ligue 1, sont à la recherche d'une grosse bouffée d'oxygène qui lui
tend les bras au regard de sa victoire 1-0 à l'aller, à condition toutefois de
retrouver assise, âme et jeu. Dans l'autre rencontre de la soirée, les Champions
d'Europe barcelonais reçoivent les Allemands de Stuttgart (1-1 à l'aller). Ces deux
matchs sont à suivre en direct et en intégralité sur RTL et RTL.fr dès
20h45.
A computing device for every teacher and student so they can access the Internet at school or at
home? That, along with an embrace of cloud computing, Creative Commons, and open-source
technologies is part of a new set of recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education.
Much of the NETP emphasizes "21st Century learning" as the path to transforming education:
"engaging and empowering learning experiences for all learners... and leveraging the power of
technology to provide personalized learning instead of a one-size-fits all curriculum." The plan
seeks to challenge the traditional model of the isolated teacher in a classroom, promoting the
idea of "always on" learning resources and online communities for both educators and students.
In addition to changes to the US education model, there are some bold technology recommendations
in the plan.
Adequate broadband and wireless access inside and outside of school
At least one Internet access device for every student and educator inside and outside of
school
R&D into the use of gaming, simulations, and virtual worlds for instruction and
assessment
Encouragement of cloud computing for school districts
Use of Creative Commons and Open Education licenses
Changes to FERPA (Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act) to open access to student data
Changes to CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act) to open access to the Internet and
rethink how filtering works in schools
Will Richardson, author of Weblogg-ed, responded: "I think
the NETP draft paints a compelling, much more relevant picture of learning than what is happening
in most K-12 classrooms today, and in that regard, it's a big step forward. But bringing the plan
to fruition, complete with broadband access and 1-1 computing for teachers and students will
require a budget and a political will that may not exist right now."
Vicki Davis, author of Cool Cat Teacher Blog is
similarly cautious. "It sounds great but implementation is important. I hope truly that they
bring the brightest minds together on this," not just politicians and vendors but "practicing
educators."
The draft of NETP has a 60-day comment
period. What do you think about the NETP? Is there enough willpower and money to make it
happen?
Discuss
US secretary of state says onus is on Israel to restart peace process as Israeli soliders clash
with Palestinians
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, todaydemonstrated a new-found steeliness towards
Israel by making it clear she was expecting it to back down in the row between the two countries
and offer concessions needed for a resumption of Middle East peace talks.
As rock-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in Jerusalem in protests dubbed "a day
of rage", Clinton sent a double-edged message to Israel.
She softened the tone of remarks coming from the Obama administration over the last few days by
talking about the deep bonds between the two countries. But she combined this by firmly placing
the onus on Israel to make concessions needed to get the Palestinians back into talks.
Clinton told reporters at the state department that the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin
Netanyahu, had to take action to show he was serious about a peace process. She said: "We are
engaged in very active consultations with the Israelis over steps that we think would demonstrate
the requisite commitment to the process. It's been a very important effort on their part as well
as ours. We know how hard this is. This is a very difficult, complex matter. But the Obama
administration is committed to a two-state solution."
The rift began last week when the US vice-president, Joe Biden, visited Israel in the hope of
getting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks under way. But Israel scuppered the talks with an
announcement that it planned to build 1,600 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, which the
Palestinians hope will one day be their capital. Hours before Clinton spoke Washington
demonstrated its anger with the Israeli leader by abruptly cancelling a visit to Israel planned
fortoday by the US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell. Clinton has privately set
out various demands for Israel, including the cancellation or freeze of planned Jewish homes in
East Jerusalem, a promise to engage in talks with the Palestinians on matters of substance, and
confidence-building measures such as the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the West Bank
and release of Palestinian prisoners.
The steady build-up of pressure on Netanyahu has left him in a bind. If he backs down he is in
danger of losing the support of the right in his coalition government. Responding to Clinton, his
words did not suggest a readiness to bow to US demands, at least in public. In a statement issued
by his office, he said: "With regard to commitments to peace, the government of Israel has proven
over the last year that it is committed to peace, both in words and actions."
He cited the removal of hundreds of roadblocks across the West Bank and a temporary freeze on
construction of settlements on the West Bank. Middle East analysts in Washington said the Obama
administration was not trying to engineer the collapse of the coalition but, if it happened,
would welcome a more moderate one that might emerge.
One of the underlying motives of the US resolve to get the peace process moving was offered today
by the top US military commander, General David Petraeus, the head of Centcom, which is
responsible for the Middle East and Asia. Petraeus told the Senate armed services committee
yesterday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a root cause of instability in the Middle
East and Asia and "foments anti-American sentiment due to a perception of US favouritism for
Israel".
The Israeli government has long objected to being linked to wider conflicts in such a way.
Petraeus said there had been insufficient progress towards a comprehensive Middle East peace deal
and this "presented distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests" elsewhere in the
Middle East and Asia.
Simmering Israeli-Palestinian tensions erupted into violencetoday with clashes in East Jerusalem
after Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, announced a "day of rage" following yesterday's
ceremonial reopening of a synagogue in the Old City.
The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement faced pressure from its own largely defunct
military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, demanding to be allowed to resume armed struggle
against Israel. It condemned "the ongoing violation of the al-Aqsa mosque".
Israeli forces tightened a blockade on the Old City, particularly the mosque compound. Israel's
Ynet website reported 49 Palestinians injured in confrontations with Israeli border guards and
police. Palestinian sources said more than 90 people were injured and some 70 arrested.
Jonathan Freedland, page 27 Leader comment, page 30
I’m here at the last keynote of SXSW, where Spotify CEO Daniel
Ek is being interviewed by Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk. Ek will likely be revealing some
new announcements about Spotify during this interview. I’ll be live blogging my notes
below.
Van Buskirk kicked off the keynote by asking how many people in the audience had used Spotify,
leading a significant portion of the audience to raise their hands. This was surprising, because
Spotify is only widely available in Europe (you need a beta invite to use it in the US). Ek then
took some time to walk the audience through the streaming music service if they haven’t
used it before (see our extensive past
coverage if you need a refresher).
Q: What drove the initial decision to make this an application as opposed to something in the
browser?
A: There are a few things that applications are better for. In our case, we think that
applications are better for swift music playback. What we see is that people tend to spend a lot
of time on Spotify because it’s so swift. They tend to replace their media player with
Spotify, because they notice no difference between playing a song locally (some have even
remarked that it’s faster than playing it through iTunes).
Q: Let’s talk about the licensing realities. Spotify is available in Europe. How will the
model work in America?
A:There could be slight changes. A year and a half since launch more than 7 users, only in six
countries. What we’re working on is the next gen of Spotify. We’ll never be content
to just have an app. There are a lot of things we want to fix in Spotify. We tend not to take the
‘release early, often’ approach. What we’ve been working on for last 6-8 months
is next gen of Spotify. How to make it more connected. Easier sharing and management of music.
We’ve realized people spend a lot of time on Spotify and they tend to manage their music
with Spotify.
Q: Which platforms/devices are most exciting?
A: Three years ago if you wanted to develop for mobile, had to support 3-5 major mobile
os’s. Long lead times. That shut out all this innovation. More recently, application devs
can get the application on phones. We look a lot at bundling with devices. Mostly not for revenue
possibility but more for pre-installs. With exception of the iPhone today, most of the other
handset manufacturers lack a good media player. Historically hard to get music to other phones if
you had in iTunes.
Q: Let’s talk about the business side of bundling. If someone is paying for cell phone
bill, they can check off something to get Spotify, seems like easier decision. How has that been
going in Europe?
A: We have two mobile operators working with us many more to come. If you go into any Telius
store in Sweden, you can go in and pick out a smart phone that comes preinstalled with Spotify.
3-6 months included. Incredible takeup with that. One of the key things Spotify is pushing is
that people listen/share to more music than ever, more diverse artists. People will still buy
music they love, but vast majority of music they just want access.
Q: We’ve heard services like Spotify people say “oh no we’re not going to buy
music any more”. The idea of geting people to play a monthly fee, that seems promising. Why
would someone buy something?
A: I think we’re going that route. But we find that music I really love, I tend to want to
buy it. Not necessarily a plastic disk, but a special edition for an artist I really like,
I’m more than happy to pay $100 for a box set with a t-shirt in it, liner notes. Another
person may be willing to pay for a live edition with extended tracks. Or pay for a live concert
experience. The reality of the music industry today is that there isn’t one biz model.
It’s about figuring out how to use downloads, streaming, promotion, ticketing, all these
things. I don’t think streaming music is stream.. with Spotify people label us
‘free’ music. But people pay, either with time (adverts, which are targeting), or
actually paying for the service.
Q: Are you going to start filtering ads by mood (e.g. if you listen to down tempo music).
A: We want to figure out a lot of things based on how people listen to music. Can figure out
mood, brand preferences. We see that from CTRs, if you listen to same music and are from the same
place who tends to like a certain brand, there’s a high likihood you will too. Ad model is
getting better every month. But this for me is not about free vs paid music, it’s about a
model where there’s a free music element and a paid one.
A: Tech savviness at labels is increasing, now more people that love music and know the digital
space are working with labels and artists.
Q: How do indy artists get music on Spotify? On ITunes you can submit paperwork. You’re
different in that approach.
A: The way to get on Spotify today is we have a bunch of aggregators we work with. Main reason
we’ve wanted to work with aggregators is that they tend to understand format/structure. We
get quality control, picture, bio, etc.
Q: Are we done with DRM?
A: If you look at Spotify, it has DRM associated with it. We want to make it so that there
isn’t really any announcement what’s DRM or not, we can protect and give users
flexibility you want.
Q: Let’s talk about Spotify of the future. How do we get to point of ‘music like
water’.
A: I see that’s sort of where we’re heading. The music industry needs that happen. I
think music and tech are aligned for the first time. We’ve had a lot of proprietary
standards, trying to figure out how to get music on a BlackBerry phone vs. getting it on iPhone
vs set top box, radically different. We need to open platforms.
Q: With regard to Twitter/FB. Are you thinking of integrating sharing functionality into
Spotify?
A: We’re looking at integrating some social aspects. I think genres are non-sane. What
classifies rock, or neo-pop, etc. Spotify is quickly approaching 10 mil tracks. How do you manage
that? Search is one solution, but isn’t optimal way of discovering new content. We
won’t be another social network. We never believed in being our own social network,
we’re working with existing social networks.
Q: With your playlists people have read/write access, can delete entire thing, what are you doing
about that?
A: Looking from tech angle. We support version updates. One way to solve that is that you can
step back in history and go back. What we don’t have is user privilege on playlists. We
think Twitter/FB will figure out those privileges, and will use them.
A: I think the total rev matters more than actual conversion rate. But we do want to make sure
there are a number people are paying for Spotify and that will grow. We’re making a lot of
progress. We’re in six countries, now well in excess of 320,000 paid subscribers. Last time
we mentioned a fig. it was 260,000. 100 million playlists. 7 million users. People spend a lot of
time on playlists. 30% of all playlists are albums (albums stored in collection). People say
album is dead. I don’t agree. I think there’s a lot to develop there.
Q: Let’s talk about P2P element.
A: It was a key decision, and one reason we’re a native app. Helps offload bandwidth. P2P
actually helps Spotify and users, it will take tracks on your friends and coworkers on same local
network and stream to them so it’s faster. CrunchBase InformationSpotifyInformation provided by CrunchBase
For years, we've written about how Indonesia has been hoarding bird flu samples and refusing
to share them with researchers, because they're afraid that someone will come in and patent the
cure, based on the samples they provide, and that will make it much costlier to Indonesia to get
the vaccine. Of course, the end result instead might be no vaccine at all... It looks like we may
be facing a similar issue with Ug99, a fungus that is aggressively killing wheat crops in Africa
and the Middle East -- potentially having a massive impact on global food supplies. FormerAC alerts us to an article about the
fight against Ug99, where it's noted that Pakistan won't share some
important samples with the rest of the world, again out of fear that some big company will
patent what they find: As the breeders keep tinkering, South Asia is bracing for impact. The
CDL recently tried to get its hands on a suspicious P. graminis sample from Pakistan that is said
to knock out Sr31. But the country is reluctant to share: "Some countries regard isolates of their
pathogens as part of their genetic heritage," CDL director Marty Carson says. "I guess there's a
fear that we'll patent something off of it." Well, given Monsanto's history of patenting disease
resistant crops -- and then over-aggressively attacking anyone who uses such crops (even
accidentally), it would seem like a rather legitimate fear. Perhaps, rather than brushing this fear
off, the USDA's Cereal Disease Laboratory (CDL) should work to do something to fix things?
It's already hard to get an abortion in Utah. Now a new bill opens the door to prosecuting women
who 'intentionally' miscarry
Last week, Utah governor Gary Herbert signed
into law Utah HB 462, known ignominiously as "the miscarriage bill". It was a reworked
version of the original bill, introduced by Republican State Representative Carl D Wimmer,
adjusted to address criticisms that the initial language "could have got women sent away for
lifelong prison terms for falling down stairs or staying in an abusive relationship". The revised
version "designates the 'intentional or knowing' miscarriage as criminal homicide" and
"stipulates that a woman can be charged with homicide for 'the death of her unborn child', unless
the death qualifies as legal abortion".
Thus are the women of Utah left with a new law that criminalises illegal abortion in a state that
increasingly discourages legal abortions.
Utah already requires parental notification and consent for minors seeking abortions, mandates a
24-hour waiting period to terminate a pregnancy, subjects women seeking abortions to
state-directed counselling which overtly discourages abortion, and allows public funding for
terminations only in cases of rape, incest, fetal abnormality, or threat to the women's life or
physical health. (Don't think you can get away with claiming your psychological health is at
risk, ladies! Everyone knows that women would just lie about that to get an abortion because
there's nothing conceivably traumatising about being forced to carry a pregnancy you don't want
to term.)
As of 2005, according to the Guttmacher
Institute, 93% of Utah counties had no abortion provider, leaving 25% of women in the state
to travel at least 50 miles, and 8% to travel more than 100 miles, to get an abortion. There were
six abortion providers in the whole of the state in 2005, and currently the state has only one licensed abortion clinic.
Utah has become, like many other states, a frontline in the war against legal abortion. Yes,
Roe is still in place, but anti-abortion activists are battling to render it an impotent
and largely symbolic statute, hollowed out by state legislation that chips away at abortion
rights with "partial-birth abortion bans" and "parental consent laws" and mandatory (ostensible)
disincentives like "look at your foetus on an ultrasound".
The Democrats, and the leftwing activists who try to use the spectre of a world without
Roe to coerce progressive feminists into line during every election, tend to regard
legal abortion like an on-off switch, but it doesn't work that way. Legal abortion is only worth
as much as the number of women who have reasonable and affordable and unencumbered access to it,
and that number is dwindling: the National Abortion Federation reports that 88% of
counties in the US have no identifiable abortion provider – a figure that
rises to 97% in non-metropolitan areas.
That's not merely an inconvenience – between travel expenses and time off
work, especially when a 24-hour waiting period necessitates at least two days of one's time, the
cost of securing an abortion can become an undue burden. It can put legal abortion out of a
woman's reach.
That's what state legislatures like Utah's are hoping. And because even the most publicly
mendacious anti-choice activists know that even criminalising abortion doesn't
stop women from getting them, they know that merely restricting access to legal abortion
isn't enough – a woman who doesn't want to be pregnant will find a way to not
be pregnant.
Thus is their current strategy is to make legal abortion as inaccessible as possible and
criminalise everything else. An abortion performed by someone other than a doctor is
ergo illegal. An abortion performed on a minor without parental consent, or on an adult without
state-mandated counselling and a 24-hour waiting period, is ergo illegal. An abortion late in the
pregnancy is ergo illegal. Inducing a miscarriage is ergo illegal. Terminating a pregnancy by any
other method than the one which has been most ruthlessly restricted – via
piecemeal legislation and the defunding of clinics and
the unfettered terrorising of abortion providers – is illegal.
In Utah, women still have a technical legal right to abortion, but very little means to exercise
that right.
And now, in pursuit of ensuring that women's right to abortion is as limited as possible, the
state has opened the door to prosecuting women who miscarry after having a drink of caffeinated
coffee or a beer or a cigarette, or take a vigorous walk, or miss a prenatal care appointment, or
shoot up heroin, or go to spinning class, or any one of a number of things that pregnant women do
every day, good and bad, during pregnancies that come to term, if there's someone who will
testify she did it to miscarry; she was trying to miscarry; she told me.
In pursuit of ensuring that women's right to abortion is as limited, the state has conferred
personhood on foetuses, and reduced women to incubators. And watch out if the machinery breaks.
The architects of this legislation insist it was not designed to punish women, but to protect the
unborn. Somehow I don't find that comforting, coming from the same lot who won't properly fund
childhood education or support universal healthcare. Or any other legislation that would make a
material difference in the lives of the born.
Am Dienstag, den 23.02.2010, 22:16 +0100 schrieb Andre Klapper: No feedback which means that the
schedule for 2.31/3.0 at http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ is FINAL now. (However with
regard to the uncertainties still left, future adjustments might be required in the worst case.)
andre
Praticien de la BD expérimentale, Greg Shaw signe un habile imagier du thriller, où
tout est dessiné dès la couverture. Un exercice de style absolument épatant.
C'est un habitué du genre : Greg Shaw relève à nouveau le défi de la BD
à contrainte. Dans Travelling Square District, tout est dessiné dès la
couverture ! La suite ? De long travelling sur des détails qui paraissaient anodins au
premier regard, et qui prennent tout leur sens à la lueur de ces zooms. Dans ce
Fenêtre sur cour (...) - Albums
/ 03, 2010
"Johnson in October interrupted a private conversation among jail staff and 'interjected his own
opinions,' telling them all gays should be annihilated, according to a sheriff's report. 'They
made it out to be that I was a bigot. I was fired 'cause I hurt someone else's feelings,' Johnson
said Monday. He said that his free speech rights were violated but that he will not appeal.
Johnson said he made his comments to some clerks. The names of the witnesses who filed the
complaints were obscured in the sheriff's department report."
As for Johnson's other beliefs?
"In a sworn statement, Johnson denied saying he supported slavery while noting that 'slavery is a
fact in the Bible.' Johnson also offered an opinion about the origin of dinosaurs...
...'I believe that all dinosaurs were born of Satanic angel who has sex with woman and the animal
kingdom that created ungodly reptilian creatures none of these were on the Ark,' he said in the
sworn statement."
Johnson, who is not looking to get his job back, also said in the sworn statement that he
believes all gays should be put to death.
AUTO-PORTRAIT Pour cet ultime épisode
clôturant le feuilleton de “vos photos d’identité nationale”,
c’est Agnès Petit-Gille (réalisatrice de la série) qui se prête au
jeu du vidéomaton pour nous délivrer son sentiment à
l’issue de ces portraits d’identité au naturel. Depuis début janvier, nos correspondants de la région de Perpignan
nous ont proposé une série de vidéomatons sur le thème de...
l’identité nationale. C’est direct, intelligent et joliment
réalisé, Merci à eux.Nous n’avons pas
beaucoup aimé l’idée d’un débat sur l’identité
nationale. Comme beaucoup nous avons craint qu’il ne remue la vase du nationalisme et de
l’exclusion ; le ministère del’identité
nationalen’était-il pas aussi celui de
l’immigration ?
Nous avons lu le discours de notre président à la Chapelle en Vercors le 12
novembre et nous y avons trouvé des relents des gouvernements revanchards qui ont
succédé au Front Populaire. Les 35 heures auraient porté atteinte à
l’identité nationale ( pas moins !) comme les 15 jours de congés
payés avaient précipité, en 1936, la France dans la paresse et la
débauche ! Ces gouvernements «Â de remise en
ordre » avaient ouvert la voie au pétainisme collaborateur que notre
président s’évertue à oublier quand il dit que la France n’a pas
eu de tentation totalitaire, à part au moment de la Terreur. Un trait de plume sur cinq
ans de dictature, d’exclusion,de relégation dans les camps de transit, de
déportations.
Diable ! Les Français auraient-ils dans la tête les mêmes
symptômes paranoïaques que ceux qui nous gouvernent ?
Travaillant depuis quelques années sur l’identité catalane dans la France du
21 ème siècle, nous avons repris notre caméra et prolongé nos
interrogations.
Nous avons été provisoirement rassurés.
Les premières personnes que nous avons interrogées se sentent appartenir à
une communauté dont la valeur essentielle semble être la tolérance
d’autant plus assumée que les valeurs démocratiques et républicaines
sont profondément ancrées en elles. Et là dessus il n’y a pas
débat !
Qu’est-ce qui a développé ces valeurs ? La famille,
l’école.
Un gouvernement a-t-il son mot à dire ? Le débat est là.
Sans animosité les personnes interrogées rappellent au Président de la
République que leur préoccupation principale n’est pas la perte
supposée d’une identité nationale mais le nombre de chômeurs et la
misère.
Espérons que personne n’arrivera à détourner leur regard vers des
boucs émissaires.
Nous continuerons nos photos d’identité...nationale jusqu’à la
clôture du débat.
Agnès et Christophe Petit-Gilles (Eau Gazeuse)
VOS PHOTOS
D’IDENTITÉ NATIONALE #11 FRANÇAIS, UN ÉTAT D’ESPRIT
Nos correspondants de la région de Perpignan nous proposent une série de
vidéomatons sur le thème de... l’identité nationale. C’est direct,
intelligent et joliment réalisé, Merci à eux. Voir
le premier article en entier Eau Gazeuse
VOS PHOTOS
D’IDENTITÉ NATIONALE #09L’EXPÉRIENCE HUMANITAIRE
Nos correspondants de la région de Perpignan nous proposent une série de
vidéomatons sur le thème de... l’identité nationale. C’est direct,
intelligent et joliment réalisé, Merci à eux. Voir
le premier article en entier Eau Gazeuse
Publié le 2 février 2010
VOS PHOTOS
D’IDENTITÉ NATIONALE #08Une française tout simplement
Nos correspondants de la région de Perpignan nous proposent une série de
vidéomatons sur le thème de... l’identité nationale. C’est direct,
intelligent et joliment réalisé, Merci à eux. Voir
le premier article en entier Eau Gazeuse
Publié le 21 janvier 2010
VOS PHOTOS
D’IDENTITÉ NATIONALE #07UN MEXICAIN
Nos correspondants de la région de Perpignan nous proposent une série de
vidéomatons sur le thème de... l’identité nationale. C’est direct,
intelligent et joliment réalisé, Merci à eux. Voir
le premier article en entier Eau Gazeuse
Publié le 13 janvier 2010
VOS PHOTOS
D’IDENTITÉ NATIONALE #06UN CANADIEN
Nos correspondants de la région de Perpignan nous proposent une série de
vidéomatons sur le thème de... l’identité nationale. C’est direct,
intelligent et joliment réalisé, Merci à eux. Voir
le premier article en entier Eau Gazeuse
VOS PHOTOS
D’IDENTITÉ NATIONALE #04UNE PICARDE
Nos correspondants de la région de Perpignan nous proposent une série de
vidéomatons sur le thème de... l’identité nationale. C’est direct,
intelligent et joliment réalisé, Merci à eux. Voir
le premier article en entier Eau Gazeuse
Autant commencer par asséner une vérité
qui n’est en rien une nouveauté et ne surprendra personne. Nous sommes tous
différents, avec nos cultures, nos valeurs, nos attentes et si on peut avoir un semblant
d’uniformité au niveau local, la diversité de notre monde nous revient en
pleine figure dès lors que, et c’est le cas de plus en plus de personne, on
évolue dans un monde globalisé.
De la même manière une idée, une tendance, un concept véhiculent
également une partie de la culture de ceux qui l’ont créé. Que
l’on parle de choses aussi diverses que le jazz, la gastronomie, la démocratie, le
basketball….ils ont traversé les frontières emprunts des valeurs de leurs
créateurs et ont, avec le temps, réussi à s’implanter en se teintant
de couleur locale, en se laissant revisiter par les locaux pour devenir acceptable au regard de
leur identité.
Une des caractéristiques de l’entreprise 2.0 est d’être fortement
empreinte de pensée positive, quelque chose qui nous est relativement étranger et
dont, même si on essaie de nous sensibiliser l’occasion pendant nos
études, on ne prend la mesure qu’en aller se frotter à des cultures
différentes, notamment nord-américaine.
Sans rentrer dans les détails disons qu’une culture qui promeut certaines valeurs,
où l’on pense toujours qu’on pourra améliorer les choses demain, que
partant de là tout doit être vu comme une opportunité, où le travail
et la réussite professionnelle sont vus comme des moyens de s’épanouir
personnellement porte en elle certains gênes qui ne sont pas neutres. Cela
génère notamment une capacité à explorer la nouveauté,
à s’engager avec les autres, qui devient intéressante lorsqu’on explore
n’importe champ inconnu, et plus encore par rapport aux sujets qui sont les notres.
Je vous renvoie à cet
article qui exprime la chose plus clairement et dont je cite toutefois un extrait :
Successful people act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes
a reality. Successful people often find themselves in situations where risk and uncertainty is
hanging over them and if they were to take on a negative mindset then failure would rear its ugly
head. Instead high achievers embrace risk and uncertainty in difficult situations and keep a
positive outlook. Nine times out of 10 usually end up with the results that they had in mind all
along.
Positive attitude is extremely important, as it encourages individuals to approach each day, and
each problem, with a bright outlook. In a team environment, a positive attitude encourages a team
to work together with individual styles and personalities. Positive attitude is not only about
choosing to have a good outlook through good times and bad, but also about learning to love what
you do. I have observed that outstanding business people are successful because they deeply love
their work.
Quant à wikipedia, on y apprend que :
Pour le Positive Psychology Center, les vertus et forces morales mises en avant
sont : amour et travail, courage, compassion, résilience,
créativité, curiosité, integrité, connaissance de soi,
modération, contrôle de soi, sagesse/
Les valeurs collectives et idéaux sociaux sont : justice,
responsibilité, civisme, parentalité, soutien, éthique professionnelle,
leadership, esprit d’équipe au travail, projet et tolérance..
Je ne peux m’empêcher de penser que non seulement les logiques comportementales
portées par l’entreprise 2.0 se retrouvent ici dans une certaine mesure mais,
surtout, que tout ce qui touche au déploiement, à l’adoption diront certains,
repose souvent et essentiellement sur ce type de ressort.
Je ne peux pas, non plus, m’empêcher de constater que, pour dire les choses
abruptement, et bien chez nous ça n’est pas l’inverse mais presque. Pas mieux,
pas pire, mais différent. Stricte séparation entre vie personnelle et
professionnelle, le travail vu comme une contrainte et pas une source
d’épanouissement, une grande méfiance par rapport à l’entreprise
et toute tentative d’”avaler” l’individu et de trop l’enfermer dans
le groupe… Je force un peu le trait mais on en est pas loin…
Une fois ce constat fait, quelles conclusion en tirer ?
Inutile de disserter la capacité d’un certain nombre de pays à inventer ce
concept. Après tout il est là, maintenant la seule question est de
l’implémenter d’une manière intelligente (c’est à dire ne
pas “socialiser” pour le plaisir mais travailler la performance au travers de la
socialisation).
Par contre c’est au niveau méthodologique qu’il nous faut être
inventifs. Ou tout au moins lucides.
L’essentiel des “best practices” nous parvenant d’outre atlantique ont
une caractéristique : avec de la passion, en mettant ses tripes sur la table, en y
croyant, on finit par convaincre et entrainer les autres dans une dynamique collective.
Transposez le message tel quel ici et vous vous rendrez compte que construire un projet sur des
valeurs et notions telles que la passion, l’évangélisation,
l’adoption…cela ne passe pas aussi facilement. La notion même
d’adoption
peut laisser pantois au pays de Descartes de par son coté justement peu rationnel. Et on comprend pourquoi la notion
d’évangéliste ne trouve pas sa place dans nos entreprises, le mot ne faisant
pas partie du champ lexical de l’entreprise.
Cela ne veut pas dire que cela ne marche pas, cela veut dire que quelque chose de plus rationnel
et en phase avec le public à qui on s’adresse est à mettre en place. En
démarrant sur l’intérêt plus que sur la passion, sur
l’enrichissement du travail individuel avant de projeter des logiques collectives, bref en
prenant en compte qu’on a affaire à une population qui analyse, discute,
débat, contredit et argumente par nature devant toute proposition, peu importe
l’autorité dont elle émane.
Remarquez que ça n’est pas une spécificité locale. J’ai
l’exemple d’une discussion se passant dans une grande entreprise que je
nommerai….X. Des personnes en charge de
l’”évangélistation” partagent leurs bonnes pratiques. Des nord
américains d’un coté, des sud européens de l’autre. D’un
coté de l’envie, de la passion, de la conviction, une recherche forte de
l’appartenance et du collectif. De l’autre : focus sur les tâches personnelles
et prise du compte de la volonté de maitriser son engagement “social” chez les
collaborateurs. La meilleure méthode ? Match nul. Simplement chacun a un
“public” qui réagit à des stimuli différents (et la preuve
s’il en est que la culture nationale primera toujours sur la culture d’entreprise).
Alors oui, toutes ces choses fonctionneront dans des pays comme les nôtres où
l’on aime analyser et disséquer tout ce que l’entreprise nous propose pour
décider is on va jouer le jeu ou non. Ca sera plus analytique que “fun”, plus
rationnel que créatif, mais cela passera. Après tout le pays qui a donné
naissance à Descartes et inspiré les rationalistes du 17e siècle ne peut se
renier.
This morning got off to a roaring start, as a fast-filling thread plopped onto maemo.orgseemed to have it from an authoritative source that there will not be a version of MeeGo
to run on Nokia’s N900. The fear, uncertainty and doubt spread like wildfire,
naturally igniting the ideal 140-character vehicle for misunderstandings, Twitter.
It became obvious to me that the root problem was a misunderstanding by a Cnet Asia blogger that
in was picked up by speed-readers and blown up into a noisy tornado of nonsense.
I’ll break this down for those interested.
Headlines as weapons
The title of the article was Nokia N900 not
upgradeable to MeeGo, which sure seems definitive. One could assume the writer
had done his homework.
The offending quote
But then we start reading and realize the writer was tripped up by semantics of the quote, which
by the way was unattributed. The wording was “Maemo on Nokia N900 is not
upgradeable to MeeGo. The first MeeGo device is targeted to be released during the second half of
2010. However, applications written for Moblin or Maemo Qt APIs will run on MeeGo.”
The first sentence is key. To the speed-reader it appears to say the N900
will not be upgradeable to MeeGo. But what it actually indicates is that the
Maemo operating system itself will not be directly upgradeable to MeeGo on the
device. Take “on Nokia N900″ out of the sentence and it becomes very
clear.
The safe assumption here is that any version of MeeGo designed for the N900 would need to be
installed fresh, overwriting the original Maemo OS and very likely every user setting as
well. Odds are that means backups won’t work and applications will have to be
reinstalled (Qt apps should work on either OS).
N900 is a natural tool for Nokia to drive MeeGo support for our designs and for the ARM CPU
architecture in general. We want to have baseline HW that is powerful, easily available for
anyone and form-factor stuff so that one HW works for most platform and application development
needs.
That said, please do not take this yet as a commitment to fully productise MeeGo on N900.
I am quite confident that we will end up having a really good developer distro for
N900 already but committing to stabilise a consumer-grade MeeGo 1.0 (first half this
year) for N900 is another story. That is a product business decision beyond my scope. Also, we do
not yet know about MeeGo 1 release content. I am not yet sure if I would be personally ready to
let my Maemo5 go for the first MeeGo release in my daily N900 use. Let’s see
Conclusion
So the plan is to create a developer distribution of MeeGo for the N900. At a
minimum this makes sense given that the N900 is the reference platform. Note that as
of this writing there is no released official statement on a commercial build for the N900, one
way or another.
Ultimately I blame blogger Damian Koh for
not doing his homework before posting so irresponsibly. It looks like he was so
eager to get this juicy quote onto the internet he didn’t actually consider what it
meant. And I have to confess to getting testy on Twitter when attempts
to clarify were met with resistance. No excuse for that, and no excuse for the
original sin.
There’s already enough uncertainty swarming around the N900, Maemo and MeeGo…
let’s all avoid feeding it, okay?
  Le phénomène étonne toujours, il est pourtant
moins rare qu’on le croit : certains livres étrangers, et pas seulement des textes
de fiction, sont meilleurs une fois traduits en français. Comme si le tamis du passage
d’une langue dans une autre avait eu une bienheureuse fonction épuratrice.
C’est le cas de cette curiosité, à plus d’un titre, qu’est Le
Temps passe (Time passes, traduit de l’anglais par Charles Mauron, 100 pages,
12 euros, Le Bruit du temps) de Virginia Woolf. Ne vous étonnez pas de ne pas le
connaître, il était inconnu, du moins comme tel. Il s’agit en fait d’un
chapitre de l’un de ses chefs d’oeuvre, La promenade au phare (ou Vers
le phrare, c’est selon), quelques dizaines de
feuillets distraits de l’ensemble par l’auteur qui les destinait à
la revue parisienne Commerce, laquelle lui avait commandée une
nouvelle pour son numéro X de janvier 1927. Il s’intercalait au centre
du roman entre “La fenêtre” et “Le phare”.
L’auteur, à qui on l’avait demandé alors qu’elle écrivait
son roman en mai 1926, soit au lendemain de Mrs Dalloway, l’avait donc
conçu dans l’immédiat comme une short story en dépit de sa
destination finale. On y voit le personnage de Mrs McNab revisiter, après dix
années de désagrégation, la maison
abandonnée dont elle fut autrefois la gardienne.
  Fargue, Larbaud et Valéry, le trio à la tête de la
revue, avaient eu du nez. Car à cette époque, Virginia Woolf était inconnue
en France. Rien n’y avait encore paru sous sa signature. Charles Mauron,
l’ambassadeur à Paris du groupe de Bloomsbury, s’en fit le héraut et
traducteur avisé. On peut juger de son travail à l’aune du travail de temps
puisque l’éditeur Antoine Jaccottet a eu l’heureuse idée de proposer
une édition parfaitement bilingue, avec le texte en regard. Pour cette version
“autonome”, l’auteur avait évacué la plupart des personnages afin
de mieux en faire ressortir un seul, et surtout, de se consacrer à
l’évocation des sensations. On y retrouve toute la riche palette lexicale et
émotionnelle qui la singularisent dans le paysage littéraire de son temps, avec une
intelligence d’une acuité remarquable et une sensibilité sans pareille : les
sons annonciateurs de l’été et la vraie nature de la nuit, le soyeux
d’un plis d’un châle, l’hésitation où l’aube tremble
quand cesse la nuit, le crissement d’un insecte, le bruissement de
l’herbe coupée, le vaste soupir des vagues se brisant en mesure autour des
îles, la ronde nostalgique des anciens habitants, le cuivre d’un garde-cendres, la
qualité du silence les soirs d’été sous la tonnelle… Une
émeute de détails qui n’ont de relief que par le génie avec lequel
Virginia les agença pour ressusciter un petit monde disparu, Atlantide à la mesure
d’un jardin anglais.
   Son ami Roger Fry, qui eut à examiner ce premier
jet en anglais et en français, était d’avis qu’elle
n’était pas à son meilleur lorsqu’elle se consacrait à
décrire, en appuyant trop sur la plume, le monde inanimé des objets, mais
qu’elle redevenait elle-même dès qu’il s’agissait d’incarner
les sensations à travers un personnage. Et surtout
:”J’ai trouvé à plusieurs reprises que c’était mieux
dans la traduction, parce qu’en traduction tout est légèrement
atténué, moins accusé”. Ce que Mrs Woolf approuva. Tant et si
bien qu’en corrigeant les épreuves de son roman, elle intégra les corrections
nées de la traduction en français et s’employa à
dépoétiser son chapitre. De fait, à l’arrivée, il
est moins abstrait et moins dense.
  Tout cela est parfaitement exposé par James M.
Haule. Sa subtile postface nous entraîne non pas dans l’atelier, ni dans
le laboratoire, ni même dans la cuisine mais dans le débarras de la cuisine de
l’écrivain et c’est passionnant.
At CeBIT 2010, Tridelity Display Solutions GmbH presented their new autostereoscopic 3D displays.
At the booth Next Level 3D, both a 24 inch and a 57 inch screen could be seen. The award-winning,
innovative technology of Tridelity offers a high-quality, 3D experience without glasses.
By means of displays developed and produced in Germany the company, which is based in St. Georgen
in the Black Forest, is the first display producer to present high quality 3D content without the
need of special glasses. "The displays stand out due to a high image quality and a great depth
impression", says Michael Russo, CEO of Tridelity. "We are able to achieve the displaying of
objects up to one metre in front of and behind the screen surface, and thus a realistic and clearly
perceivable 3D displaying of contents."
The key for the outstanding quality of Tridelity displays is the so-called Multi-View technology by
means of which five slightly shifted views of the relevant scene are displayed at the same time. As
a result, a 3D perception of fresh, clear images and consistent colours in an almost continuous
area of 120° are achieved. "This allows for a 3D impression at every location in front
of the screen, and for several moving passers-by. Moreover, this technology also offers a
sufficiently high resolution for a high-quality displaying of content", explains Technical CEO of
the company.
The main application field of the displays is the so-called Digital Signage area. Due to a
glasses-free 3D experience the eye catcher potential of the displays is five times higher than that
of regular displays. "The reactions of visitors is overwhelming", says Russo. "A short side glance
is enough to attract the attention of the viewer. The majority of the passers-by stop to enjoy the
3D experience and get to know more about our technology".
A further application is the field of media and entertainment. The recent phenomenal success of the
3D movie Avatar demonstrates the increasing significance of 3D images in media. Tridelity is
perfectly prepared for this trend: "We are able to show all 3D movies on our autostereoscopic 3D
displays", says Marco Lopes, CEO Software Development.
Russo is convinced of the success of the autostereoscopic displays produced by his company: "The
very difficult year 2009 was the first in which we were able to achieve a positive result". He
considers the company to be in an excellent position in a very promising market: "Due to many
analyses and our experience we can only come to one conclusion: 3D is the next big thing!"
J’avoues avoir un peu de mal à poster des billets
régulièrement en ce moment. Cela s’explique en partie par une petite baisse
de motivation pour le faire mais aussi la reprise des cours qui sont un peu plus nombreux que
prévus.
Un autre projet qui va me prendre beaucoup de temps est l’Utt Arena. Mais qu’est ce que l’Utt Arena me
diriez-vous ? Il s’agit d’une LAN Party ou, pour faire plus
«Â marketing », un tournoi de jeux vidéo. Ce
n’est pas la première fois que je m’investis dans ce projet car j’en
avais été président en 2007 et 2008. Depuis, j’ai essentiellement
aidé occasionnellement. Pour l’édition 2010, je me suis proposé avec
l’aide d’un ami et d’un «Â nouveau » pour
mettre en place et gérer la partie réseau de cette LAN.
Une LAN est un événement d’envergure dans lequel les joueurs ramènent
chacun leur ordinateur. Le principal problème provient de ce fait. Il serait possible de
croire que les joueurs ont des machines «Â de course » avec
une installation (Windows, forcément) propre. La réalité est tout autre.
Nous retrouvons les «Â versions » les plus exotiques de
Windows remplies jusqu’aux oreilles de malware et d’applications non recommandables.
Lors des précédentes éditions, nous avons choisi la simplicité par
manque de moyens matériels et humains. Tous les joueurs étaient disposés sur
un même LAN (au sens IP du terme) avec un DHCP pour leur allouer des adresses IP
automatiquement. L’inconvénient est que tous les ordinateurs pouvaient communiquer
sans restriction. Dans de telles conditions, les partages de films interdits aux mineurs et la
prolifération des malwares en tous genre sont optimaux.
De plus, il était quasiment impossible d’avoir une visibilité quelconque sur
les différents flux échangés ainsi qu’une évaluation de la
latence. Ah la latence, parlons-en. Les participants à une LAN ne jurent que par elle. Au
dessus de 10 ms affichées par le jeu Counter-Strike, le réseau est
considéré trop lent. Bien que des astuces soient possibles au niveau des serveurs
de jeu afin d’optimiser l’affichage de cette latence, l’optimisation du
réseau est primordiale.
Cette année, nous avons réussi à mettre la main sur une batterie
d’équipements de sécurité robustes. Nous aurons à notre
disposition 4 firewalls Cisco ASA 5510 ainsi que quelques routeurs Cisco 2800 Series.
L’ajout d’intermédiaires de communication au niveau IP induira
inéluctablement une latence supplémentaire. Cela nous permettra cependant de
pouvoir réellement maitriser notre réseau et de bénéficier des
fonctionnalités de QoS du Modular Policy Framework Cisco. Nous espérons
sincèrement que cet ajout de latence sera minime au regard des avantages fournis par les
fonctionnalités de ces équipements.
Ce billet est le premier d’une série de billets ayant pour objectif de
détailler le processus de mise en place de cette architecture ainsi que des
différents outils (open source, bien sur) d’évaluation des performances
réseau. Elle sera clôturée par un retour d’expérience suite
à l’événement qui aura lieu du 16 au 18 Avril. En attendant, je
retourne éplucher les différentes documentations des ASA.
Après chaque Grand Prix, James Allison, directeur technique de Renault, fait le point sur la
course de son équipe. Il s'exprime sur les belles performances de Bahreïn, les causes
de l'abandon de Vitaly Petrov et le retard pris dans l'hiver à cause de la mise à
jour de la soufflerie. James, quel regard portez-vous sur la performance de Renault F1 à
Bahreïn ? D’un point de vue général, je suis déçu de rentrer
à la maison les mains vides, parce que ce n’est pas une juste récompense pour
tous les efforts (...)
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