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Personally I almost never use the word “Hacker”. Why’s that? Well, I don’t like how people use it nowadays. Newspapers, magazines, TV, even Internet use to name “hacker” to every person who breaks into a bank account, steals information, gets into an e-mail account, corrupts a program and, in general, any kind of criminal acts related to computing.

Personally I think being a “hacker” involves much more than that. People with some computing knowledge know that when you find a real hacker you will not want to loose the contact. Being a real hacker involves to know a lot of useful things about almost everything. You can ask them something about literature and they will know about the topic, you can ask them about politics and they will know, about administration, psychology and, really, almost every topic you can think of.

How do they obtain the information ? Well, it’s a simple question but the answer can be very complex.

Reading (also real books obviously), blogging, watching, listening and with almost every activity they do. After that the information is analyzed, is associated, linked and stored very very carefully for being able to find it in the future, when ? when they need it and just when they need it. Real hackers will never tell you all the stuff they know, will never presume their knowledge, even they will not tell you if you are wrong until you ask for their opinion. You must never underestimate a hacker, that is a terrible mistake and you must know that the way they think is extremely fast. Maybe you’re thinking that you will surprise them but trust me, they already thought in that situation.

All that information can only be acquired sacrificing part of their life. Usually the social part.

They know the power they have and they know exactly the things they can do. Even so… they know that they will never know everything.

El día de ayer decidí llamar por teléfono a una empresa para contratar su servicio de Internet de banda ancha. Como era de esperarse inmediatamente me atendieron y me comenzaron a proporcionar los datos para realizar la transferencia electrónica a lo cual respondí que primero me interesaba que me resolvieran unas dudas técnicas que tenía referente a su servicio.
Debido a que eran dudas técnicas me transfirieron al area de soporte técnico para que me pudieran ayudar. Una vez ahí la plática transcurrió más o menos como sigue:

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Have you ever had a Nokia mobile device ? Amazing isn’t it ?? I mean the speakers, the reception, the battery, compatibility, functionality, hardware, etc. Nowadays I think the only thing they lack of is a good Operating System and it’s strange because years ago Symbian was one the best rated Operating Systems. Probably it still is one of the best OS but not for the latest devices and the tendency of them.
What we know is, since the iPhone, all other cell phone manufacturers have created their devices as touch screen oriented. But if you remember the next touch screen device appeared just some week after the iPhone. Obviously other manufacturers already had the technology on their hands before iPhone appeared. Now we are in the middle of a battle between touch screen devices and, for people directly involved in technology, their mobile device must be a touch screen.
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Creo que Apple debe ser más agradecido con sus usuarios, después de todo, muchos de ellos son diseñadores que se forman utilizando productos de Adobe y sueñan con trabajar en una computadora de Apple.El hecho de cerrar las puertas en el iPhone/iPad a la plataforma Flash hace que definitivamente sea reconsiderado el hecho de adquirir uno de sus dispositivos y aunque los dispositivos son buenos, definitivamente no son los únicos en el mercado y otras marcas que colaboran con Adobe Systems Inc. dentro del Open Screen Project saben lo que significa el permitir contenido Flash dentro de sus dispositivos, conocen la cantidad de contenido que existe con esta tecnología y el beneficio que trae para ellos.

Hello people.
I just want to tell you about a conference and lab I will be giving in a few weeks.
The first one is a Lab I will be giving at an event called Workshop camp in Mexico City.
I will show how to create an application and make it available as a web application, desktop application and as a mobile application.Also I will talk about some Flash Platform features that are coming in AIR, Flash Collaboration Services and Flash Player.There will be many other labs about other technologies and platforms: iPhone development, Silverlight, Flex, Ruby, CSS and more.
Date: Sunday, October 25th, 2009.Time: 1st set => 10:00 – 13:00, 2nd set => 14:00 – 17:00 (I’ll be in this one)Place: Ked, Mexico CityMore info & website: http://barcamp.org/WorkshopCampMexico

The second event is named Campus Party Mexico and I’ll be giving a conference about development options in Flash Platform.
I will talk about the programming languages related to flash platform products. The available SDKs, programming IDEs, runtimes and much more.The conference I will give is part of a great event where many technology enthusiast will share experiences and knowledge for 5 days. Tim Berners will give the opening and the main conference. I strongly recommend to attend to this event.
Date: November 12th – 16th, 2009.Place: Expo Bancomer, Mexico City.More Info & Website: http://www.campus-party.com.mx/

Well, this is all for now. See you soon.