D5 – All Things Digital 5

Owned by Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. D5 2007, the latest exectuive conference, features 3 days of no-holds-barred conversations with tech’s thought leaders:

• Eric Schmidt: Google CEO
• Steve Ballmer: Microsoft CEO
• George Lucas: Lucasfilm Chairman
• Steve Case: America Online (AOL) CEO
• John Chambers: Cisco CEO
• …
• especially the historic discussion between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates

That’s what they said years ago:

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different, it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard (Bill Gates, 1984)

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth–and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago (Steve Jobs, 1996)

You must be excited to hear what the two titans of tech shared today 😀 so go ahead and check out the full coverage here; and don’t forget to watch other online full videos. That’s pretty cool for a Vesak Day 🙂

Crash

Well said Graham:

It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

But it’s not just in L.A, it’s everywhere; and everyone of us must miss that touch so much.

Some interesting Japanese facts

I spent this afternoon surfing through some WordPress-powered websites and found some fun facts about Japanese. Let’s sum them up in a non-particular order list 🙂

• Japanese are crazy in love with their mobile phones, that’s for sure 😀

• 43% of wives produce audible bottom burps within their first year of marriage ❗ (Survey done by Fount of Trivia – Japanese TV Program, translated and published by What Japan Thinks)

• Aya Kamiki is very cute 😛 and she plays Rock too, a positive sign for J-Rock, still could be improved 😉

Metro – The World's Thinnest Notebook

With attempt to boost the notebook sales by improving visual design, Metro – the prototype laptop designed by Intel and Ziba Design (Portlan) was introduced few days ago. Metro could be consider as the world’s thinnest notebook which is less than 0.7 inches thick and weights only 2.25 pounds (about 1 kg) 🙂 – far more thinner and lighter than those laptops currently offered by Sony and Apple. Here’s the first look:

Let’s take a closer look at its design and configurations.

Cannes Film Festival 2007

Cannes, liên hoan phim danh tiếng nhất nhì hành tinh đang bước vào ngày cuối. Liên hoan lần thứ 60 này, một lần nữa, chứng kiến sự quy tụ đông đảo của hàng loạt các ngôi sao sáng giá trên màn ảnh và các đạo diễn lừng danh. Nếu như năm ngoái, “Cành cọ vàng” (Palme d’Or – The Golden Palm) danh giá thuộc về phim “The Wind that shakes the barley” của đạo diễn Ken Loach thì năm nay, ứng cử viên cho chức vô địch có thể điểm qua gồm: Death Proof (đd Quentin Tarantino), My Blueberry Nights (đd Vương Gia Vệ), Zodiac (đd David Fincher), Breath (đd Kim Ki Duk). Cannes cũng là dịp ra mắt của vài bộ phim “khủng” khác như: A Might Heart (đd Micheal Winterbottom), Ocean 13 (đd Steven Soderbergh) 🙂
(Trong poster chính thức của liên hoan phim lần này có thể nhận ra vài gương mặt quen thuộc của: Penélope Cruz, Vương Gia Vệ, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson 😀 )

Phim Death Proof đã có dịp đề cập khi giới thiệu về Grindhouse (2007), giờ sẽ có đôi dòng về các phim My Blueberry Nights, Ocean’s 13, A Mighty Heart, và Zodiac

Pirates of the Caribbean, it ends today

Following Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, this time, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) allied with Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) must sail off the edge of the map to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his mind-bending trap in Davy Jones’ locker. Navigating through treachery, betrayal and wild waters, they must forge their way to exotic Singapore and confront the cunning Chinese Pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat). What’s else? Our enemies are united; they vow to destroy us. (said Barbossa) 😈

And it ends today, 23th of May, in Singapore 🙂 calling all motion-pictures fan go out for it; join the last decisive battle; regain the spirit of Pirates of the Round table; and then admire the Calypso – goddess of the sea – in the grandest epic climate fighting at world’s end.

Desperate Housewives, some thoughts

Time flies, really. It’s almost 8 months since Desperate Housewives (DHW) Season 3 first started; and it ends today, with season finale episode 23 – Getting Married Today. DHW is one of the best TV shows ever made ❗ hats off, hands down, and no more argues 🙂 Sharing almost the same tag lines with The Sopranos which are: re-define your family, re-define your friendships, and re-define your social relationships; DHW, however, has its own unique way to make you say “WoW!”. Every episode closes brilliantly, leaving you with a question of what might come next, wondering how the dirty laundry comes to clean 😈

StarCraft II – Hell, it's about time

It’s true just like you’re right here reading this post ❗ On 19th May 2007, Blizzard Entertainment surprisingly unveiled StarCraft II – the sequel to its award-winning game StarCraft, featuring the epic battle between the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg, now in a new dimensions. So the rumor is true, 10 years of waiting and praying is finally over :d StarCraft is back, the best Real-Time Strategy game of all times is back, the glory day is back ❗

With new units and functionality for each race, upgrades to several familiar units, and a powerful 3D engine that supports explosive fast-paced combat between massive armies, StarCraft II will be the ultimate competitive RTS game. I just can’t believe it, never expect this moment to come, but Hell, it’s about time 8)

Hồ Chí Minh – Chân dung một con người

Ở Paris có bức tường “Những người làm nên thế kỷ 20” (Ils ont fait le XX Siecle) có nụ cười Bác Hồ ở đây, giữa những trí tuệ, những tâm hồn lớn ở thời đại chúng ta. Trong một thế giới vẫn còn nhiều bạo ngược và lẫn lộn, đã có một cuộc đời Hồ Chí Minh, một con người Hồ Chí Minh.

Người ta có thể gọi Bác bằng nhiều cách khác nhau: 1 vị lãnh tụ, 1 người cộng sản chân chính, 1 tâm hồn và trí tuệ lớn lao, 1 con người của những quyết định lịch sử; nhưng trên hết thảy, Hồ Chí Minh là 1 người con yêu nước vĩ đại đã cống hiến cả cuộc đời mình cho sự nghiệp đấu tranh giải phóng dân tộc.

Ngày 19 tháng 5 năm 1890, cậu bé Nguyễn Sinh Cung cất tiếng khóc chào đời tại quê ngoại làng Chùa, Nam Đàn, Nghệ An. 500 năm trước, chúng ta có người anh hùng dân tộc Nguyễn Trãi. 500 năm sau, theo đúng lời sấm của Trạng Trình Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm: “Đụn Sơn phân giải, Bò Đái thất thanh, Nam Đàn sinh thánh”, chúng ta có Hồ Chí Minh.

First Apple Retailer in Vietnam

The first Apple Store, which is a subsidiary of Vietnam’s largest company, FPT, is opened in Ho Chi Minh City 😀 Yeah yeah, that’s the way to go, Apple. I’ve been waiting for it in ages. Just like Saigon Eclipse, Saigon Love Story, now we have one Saigon Apple Store Here are some photos taken by Danh Nguyen (TUAW reader) – small and beautiful Apple stylish showroom indeed.

I’ll be there, soon. No more worry about carrying an iMac back home 🙂