Dr. John v. Kampen -

Link: http://youtu.be/WK2LpUoqX6A -- click here to see enlarged

Thanks Marian for the head-up! Enjoy a good weekend,

John

Linux KDE 4.8 - Threat or Challenge?

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 9:57:36 AM

KDE is a Linux desktop environment that rather unexpectedly has stepped forward as a suitable alternative for the desktop experiments and developments from Ubuntu's Unity, Gnome 3 shell and (Linux Mint) Cinnamon. Its most recent version, KDE 4.8, for bigger laptops and office PC's as well as its spectacular Plasma Active II interface for smart-phones and its tablets (!) and netbooks offer in a twofold solution all options a user would want to style his/her personal desktop, or go for a nice semi-prefixed alternative on a smart-phone. The latter precisely making the difference. Then the other rivals for the favor of the user offer more or less preset, fixed screen-layouts that only with difficulty can somewhat be changed. These work for mobiles and desktop-PC's alike. Their argument being, that hardly anybody seems to change the 'look and feel' out of the box. Well, here people may think quite differently. What seems nice as a user-interface for tiny touch-screens or remote controlled HDTV-units with Internet connection may not so much be welcomed on a flexible (modular) power-computer with keyboard and large displays, or worse so: prove to be unproductive in that environment. From my personal experience this is the case with Unity and Gnome 3 shell on a regular PC and modern laptop. Reason to extensively test the KDE 4.8 offering. I got some amazing insights...

Is the Ice Age returning? See this...

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:53:59 AM

ice age, cold, pole shift, Winter 2012 ...

url movie: http://youtu.be/jFuhpUwxuYs

No comment to that. Wonderful images indeed. Even here in my office in Andalucia it's too cold to write. So, back to the fire place... See you later!

John

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Canon making Art by Sound

Thursday, February 2, 2012 8:27:57 PM

paint, color, sound, innovation ...

Url movie: http://youtu.be/DFcQI68njaQ

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Why governments "should burn in Hell"...

Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:32:56 AM

corruption, governing, influence, money ...

Url movie: http://youtu.be/hB2Ft3t7ceg -- More on Godfrey Bloom here

Proud words, but nevertheless the 'myth' is true. Indeed, too much is "believed", too little known, as the current global crisis so clearly demonstrates. It's all about money, not the benefit of people. Asked WHAT money factually is and HOW 'the economy' works, even experts agree that they in fact do not know... It is scary, that so many people continue to believe in the absurd, like CO² and global warming, shortage of energy, water, food, where it clearly and visibly only is to 'steal' money to finance wars, worthless and ugly windmills and keep an 'elite-cartel' at peace that finances the 'thieves'.

John

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Brain encoded: what you see is what I get...

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:32:11 AM

brain, scan, brain encoding, brain research ...

Url movie: http://youtu.be/nsjDnYxJ0bo

Url movie: http://youtu.be/KMA23JJ1M1o -- Use the Pause button to see the 3 subject cases (horizontal rows)! The left top picture is what was presented to the test subjects. Below it the brain ENcoding (not DEcoding).

Extended explanation is here. Additional material about voice imaging to support people who (no longer) can speak is here. This research could be significant for our digitized future...
Who told: "I see you in my dreams...?"

John

PS. See comments for additional movie and explanations

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Europe's e-Petition Project - or How to commit suicide?

Sunday, January 29, 2012 10:13:59 AM

politics, e-petition, revolution, democracy ...

With greatest surprise, even astonishment, I noticed that from April 1 (aka 'April Fools Day') an "e-Petition Project" will become in effect to make Europe more 'democratic'. Any group of 1 million people can set (its own?) laws, is claimed. Democracy per proxy server, perhaps. A joke, for sure. But if this were true, than we finally had the once in a lifetime opportunity to send all junk-politicians and their eurocratic friends home at once, liquidate most of the bureaucracy, abolish the €uro and rapidly revitalize our economies! Only 1 million out of 300 million 'terrorized and enslaved' EU citizens would be needed to get this painless 'swift I-revolution' done.
Am I against 'Europe'? No! Not at all...
This parable only serves to expose a danger-factor for real representative democracy: the Vox Populi, or the voice of the people. What's worse today: the voice of an 'elite' or the voice of 'the people'? If we merged both, if the one started listening to the other wouldn't we find a fair balance of opinions with room for sound arguments pro and contra issues, getting productive, acceptable compromises? The EU is far away from this, being dominated by Germany only. True: current governments comprise many incompetent liars which ruined the standing of the very concept of democracy. It's time this 'elite' starts to oust them within their own ranks to prevent more violence, stone-throwing, shootings and worse, as we can see from Greece and the USA these days. The Davos 2012 meeting, that was held from 25 to 29 January, already showed the dislike of many expert-visitors to listen to various ministers (from EU governments). Their speeches were hardly visited, being of "but minimal interest" or "plain bullshit afterall": is that from the Vox Populi?! What to expect when this EU e-Petition project becomes a reality? If a political system wants to commit suicide, this appears to me the 'best' way. Each of us will need education and the necessary expertise to separate valuable contributions from the many garbage around. It needs creative leadership to implement ideas as well. I have my doubts that all of this is sufficiently available for the years to come! To shape your own opinion, see this: