Epson announced the new PowerLite Z8000WUNL professional 3LCD projector, which is now shipping to pro AV dealers and installers. Epson’s Z8000WUNL is based on 3LCD display technology and offers 1920×1080 Full HD resolution.
The Z8000WUNL comes with dual 330W lamps providing 6,000 lumens color light output and 6,000 lumens white light output. It offers 5000:1 contrast ratio, 1.0-1.61 optical zoom ratio, and 16 million color reproduction. The Full HD projector has HDMI, DVI-D, D-Sub, S-video, Composite video inputs and a Ethernet LAN port and RS-232C serial connector.
The Epson PowerLite Pro Z8000WUNL is priced at $20,499.
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Medis Technologies introduces the 24/7 Xtreme Fuel Cell Portable Power Solution for mobile devices, which is probably the world’s first personal, portable, fuel cell power system for always-ready, instant power without outlets or traditional batteries.
The Medis Extreme is based on the Medis Direct Liquid Fuel Cell Technology offering instant power to portable devices without batteries or pre-charging. The Fuel Cell charger works with mobile phone as well as other portable devices such as iPhone, Blackberry, iPod, using the included standard USB, Mini USB, Micro USB, Palm Treo, and Nokia tips.
You can get the Medis 24/7 Xtreme Portable Fuel Cell Charger from T-Mobile for $24.99.
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Mamiya will releases its DM22 and DM28 digital DSLR cameras in November with a price tag of $9,995 and $14,990 respectively. The DM22 features a 48×36mm 22 Megapixel image sensor and an ISO range of 25-400 while the DM28 gets a 44×33mm 28 Megapixel sensor and offers an ISO range of 50-800.
Both cameras come with the sharp Mamiya 80mm f/2.8 D Series lens, focal plane shutter, and are fully compatible with any Mamiya AF focal plane series lens. The captured RAW file is the Mosaic format, HDR-type, with 16 bits/channel and a dynamic range of 12 f/stops. These cameras have a CF card slot.
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Richard Stallman makes a good bogeyman for the proprietary software people because he’s not politically correct. He shoots from the lip, as they say, considering contradiction a hobgoblin for little minds.
But did he really fisk himself in arguing against the Oracle-Sun deal?
Ed Burnette certainly thinks so.
I am not so certain. Rather than bandy words, let’s talk about meaning.
The original deal between Sun and mySQL anticipated that mySQL would continue to progress as a direct GPL competitor to Oracle. (Has it really been over 20 years since Michael Douglas’ star turn as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street? Apparently so.)
That’s important because the enterprise-class database systems available under open source, like PostgreSQL, are only available under licenses other than the GPL. Licenses Stallman does not endorse.
What’s clear from reading articles by the deal’s advocates, including our own Matt Asay, is that this is no longer in the cards under Oracle. “The reality is that mySQL and Oracle compete in two different database markets,” he writes.
Fair enough. But let’s assume for a moment you have an idea that could turn into the next Twitter, the next Facebook. It’s a small idea, but these things grow fast if they’re good. Everyone rushes to the rail. You can get flooded with traffic.
So how do you scale? One common way is to switch from your mySQL database to a “big boy” database — Oracle. This is hugely expensive.
So you can either be constrained from the start or face the prospect of getting Oracle licenses before launch. Not an exciting prospect. Daunting enough that it could keep people from trying.
It’s called a barrier to entry and it exists in every business. Except the Web. Online you can still start from nothing, with nothing, and make something enormous in a very short time.
Stallman’s fear is those days end with the Oracle-Sun deal. He feels mySQL got suckered into getting bought with big promises, then Gordon Gecko swooped in and cut them off at the knees.
Is he wrong?
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The Metasploit Project has found a way to go commercial without turning its design team into suits, as it was acquired by Rapid7.
Details on the deal were not released, but Rapid7 did go through a $7 million venture financing round last year with Bain Capital.
Metasploit, which is a penetration testing project, will become part of Rapid7’s NexPose security suite.
In reaction to this deal the usual suspects made the usual noises, worried that Metasploit may go closed source or take its eye off the ball, but to founder HD Moore it’s all good.
He revealed in a blog post called Metasploit Rising that he’s been working on the project as a hobby for six years, but he will now have a full-time job as Chief Security Officer for Rapid7. The Metasploit developer who goes by the nom de keyboard Egypt will also go on salary at Rapid7. (Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it.)
Projects get commercial arms all the time, with lead developers often becoming executives like Dries Buytaert at Drupal or Matt Mullenweg at WordPress. This is generally received with much rejoicing among community members. It means software will get regular updates and they can obtain professional help when their questions go beyond what the community can answer.
This deal seems like just another way of doing the same thing, only the founders get to stay at their keyboards, in development, without having to become salesmen or magazine cover boys. The concern is whether the commercial sponsor/owner has the same love of the code and the community that the founders did.
I can’t answer that for certain, but that’s the way toward profit. If a community has value, and that of Metasploit certainly does, then Rapid7 would be foolish to do anything but support it.
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