Descripción: Google Tech Talks
November 9, 2006
ABSTRACT
This is not your father's fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion; hello inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IEC), an old idea that's been made new. While th...
Duración: 32:37 Min
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
August 30, 2006
Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He's been studying networking since 1969. He still hopes that someday something will start to make sense...
Duración: 21:14 Min
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October, 3 2007
ABSTRACT
To bring the whole of humanity up to the living standards of the developed world requires a new source of energy that is clean, inexhaustible and much cheaper than any existing source -- fossil, nuclear, solar or wind. Fusion with hydrogen-boron fuel, which allows direct conversion of fusion energy to electricity, can be that source. It could cut ...
Duración: 04:05 Min
Descripción: Google TechTalks
July 26, 2006
Luis von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2005. Previously, Luis obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Duke University in 2000. He is the recipient of a Microsoft Research Fellowship.
ABSTRACT
Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to c...
Duración: 51:31 Min
Descripción: How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not ...
Duración: 49:03 Min
Descripción: Often referred to as one of the best films ever made, this holiday classic is available for everyone to enjoy again and again.
Plot: George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of a loan and the machinations of the evil millionair...
Duración: 10:24 Min
Descripción: A video showing how I created my custom LED angel eye rings. People has been asking me to make it for them, but sorry, I don't have time. I thought it would be helpful to put a video together. In this video, I also show how I did my reflective tape upgrade to the ring to make it brighter and stand out better. This simple little trick traps the otherwise lost light that would have escaped into t...
Duración: 09:42 Min
Descripción: Segment 1: Vali Nasr discusses his new book, "The Shia Revival" and the current struggles taking place within Islam in the Middle East.
Segment 2: Senator Byron Dorgan talks about his book on outsourcing, "Take This Job and Ship It".
Duración: 56:40 Min
Descripción: Google TechTalks
March 29, 2006
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures.
ABSTRACT
On Wednesday, March 29th,...
Duración: 08:42 Min
Descripción: *ONLY A SHORT SEGMENT IN THE BEGINNING HAS ENGLISH SUBTITLES, THE REST IS SPOKEN ENGLISH*
SANTA'S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China's toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages, and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment.
Low labour costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of ou...
Duración: 32:43 Min
Descripción: A friend of me sent me this song, I've heard it before, but I hadn't thought to make a video out of it. It's absolutely hilarious! Weird Al rocks anyway, so to add the Smiley Face™ (;D) makes it so much better! Please feel free to check out my website and e-mail me (or comment on this video) with your song ideas. So long as it doesn't cuss, talk about drugs or sex, I'll consider it. Thanks a bunch...
Duración: 04:27 Min
Descripción: How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not ...
Duración: 48:55 Min
Descripción: Google TechTalks
April 26, 2006
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
ABSTRACT
Django is one of the premier web frameworks for Python, and is often compared to Ruby-on-Rails. Jacob is one of the lead developers on Django.
Duración: 14:14 Min
Descripción: Live in concert
Duración: 04:42 Min
Descripción: Google TechTalks
March 1, 2006
Philip Rosedale and Cory Ondrejka
ABSTRACT
Linden Lab is the producer of Second Life, an online world with a growing population of subscribers (or "residents"); currently, the community has well over 140,000 residents from 91 countries. By providing residents with robust building and scripting tools, Linden Lab enables them to create a vast array of in-world ...
Duración: 58:49 Min
Descripción: Peak oil is upon us. The energy crisis is looming. Tim Hudson presents Crude Awakening: Peak Oil & The End of Cheap Energy: Part 1 - What it is, How and When it Will Happen.
"We think the Peak Oil point has three sides." On one side is the energy, on the second side is the environment, and on the third side is the economics. "Everybody positions themselves kind of in this three dimensional...
Duración: 42:04 Min
Descripción: Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC)
Google Tech Talks
September 8th, 2006
Presenter:
Goranka Bjedov
Duración: 04:37 Min
Descripción: A naive, cheerful, albeit somewhat reclusive writer, Ji Eun is swindled out of everything she owns -- not by strangers, but her best friends! Stranded in another country, she is determined to get home, only to find that all which is precious to her has been sold. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she has to "sell her soul." A story about love and heartbreak, sadness and self-preservation....
Duración: 59:51 Min
Descripción: This is a cheap way to pick on people on PvE server to get them to flag. Charm a pet around area where they are, and make it act like a normal mob. They attack it and become flagged. GG
Duración: 02:52 Min
Descripción: This is a music video I made about Zelda: the Wind Waker, set to Enya's Orinoco Flow. The song fits fantastically with the visuals, so this was a blast to make! Enjoy!
Duración: 03:42 Min