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Everything here was shot with a Nikon D7000 that my sister's ex- loaned to me and a friend for a weekend. Most of the shots are actually with a 50mm lens, except of course when we're obviously using a wide-angle (11-16 mm) lens. The morning shot we had to shoot twice because some stupid termite or something parked itself right on the lens for half of the shot, but it worked out well because there wasn't any fog rolling around in the first one, plus we redid the angle to catch the planes taxiing for SJC.

A Day in the Life of Mt. Hamilton

Also this one from the VLT in Chile - stunning stuff!! http://youtu.be/wFpeM3fxJoQ

You mean like this? People won't mind, it's in the public domain.

Am I the only one who searched for Homeworld intro when I read this?

I think the huge valuation isn't about what LinkedIn represents today, it's a gamble on what LinkedIn could mean in the future. Amassing a huge network of corporate data across myriad industries and you do for salespeople what internet did for porn. If it permeates the culture like Facebook has done, it could become the way everyone gets hired in the future. http://youtu.be/9n-eNpoHgS8

A lot of people are talking bubble on this one. We have seen it time and again. While LinkedIn may be somewhat overvalued at $9 billion, the true bubble out there right now is Groupon. I have had hands on experience with Groupon reps, and behind that "too cool for school" facade there is a lot of pressure by Groupon to have businesses overstate the value of what is being offered, just so Groupon can hit the 55 percent discount mark. People are going to catch on, the market for online deal sites is already fracturing at an alarming rate, as is evident by the YADDS phenomenon. It will be really interesting to see what the Zynga IPO does, because it is not a household name for many and therefore might offer some sort of yardstick by which to measure Groupon and Twitter when they eventually go public. On a side note, winning at Chess with Friends makes me happy. Losing at Chess with Friends makes me depressed. http://youtu.be/9n-eNpoHgS8

In Windows Vista and 7 at least there is a visual indicator for a long press that aids in discoverability. When you touch the screen, a progress bar starts circling your finger. I've found people discover the long press on their own, since they wait to see what happens when the circle completes. It's hard to describe, so here's a link showing it. In the video the delay between when the screen is touched and when the progress bar stars is a little longer than the default.

By the way, YouTube URLs can be shortened easily, without using an untrusted shortener...

http://youtu.be/KagkNFYJvuY

And Google does own the domain.

Looks like www.gcdc.net has been Slashdotted, here are a few links that might be interesting: (they actually use 5.9 GHz communications, 802.11p specifically for use in intelligent transportation systems) Movie from the preparations to the challenge, lots of nerds and tech: http://youtu.be/lmRifLzw8iA Winning team technical paper: http://www.mrt.kit.edu/annieway/downloads/gcdc11_team_description.pdf Runner up technical paper: http://www.hh.se/download/18.7a4c72f812fdb65798d80003243/IDE1120KLTechReportTeamPaper.pdf

I hope so as well.

However, after the leaked? teaser of the N9?, maybe it will never be a official version for n900.

I'm well aware of what the concept of a right is. I'm also aware of the fact that it's an idea that's totally fictional.

http://youtu.be/hWiBt-pqp0E?t=4m19s

I'll never understand how a place so full of atheists are so willing to cling to other meaningless fictions. Rights work as a fiction so long as governments actually care about them. Whether you have them or they're being "infringed" it's all the same when government goons have locked you up or shot you in the head.

(6) capture sound and video, great fun making game videos!

shameless self promotion -- sadly youtube compression kills the retro pixelation :(

While I agree with you about the relative value of the laptop and a life, I don't think the ethical calculation is necessarily as simple as weighing those two factors. I'd be quite willing to exonerate the people who retrieved the laptop of any *duty* to risk their lives for a hunk of plastic, but I'm not quite ready to condemn them for choosing to do so.

The world is full of so many huge injustices that it hardly seems worth bothering with petty ones like this. Even the guy who lost the laptop wasn't going to bother to fill out a complaint. These are the little affronts to our sense of right and wrong that are so commonplace and measly we can't really rouse ourselves to do anything about them, even when they happen to us. And in isolation this decision may be the sensible one.

Yet I think this steady drip-drip-drip of petty indignities takes its toll on us. Indignation no longer pricks us to action because we've allowed it to become a constant, niggling, unsatisfiable itch. Our problems may be nothing compared to the murdered people being piled up like cordwood in places like Syria and Libya, but habitual acceptance of those little injustices doesn't sharpen our sense of outrage at the great injustices. Far from it. I think we' re more likely to look on a great injustice as just one more unfortunate thing we can't do anything about.

So, once in a while somebody has to stand up and do something that looks a little ridiculous from the standpoint of any utilitarian calculus of value, because our confidence our ability to do anything in the face of injustice is rotting away in that interminable stream of almost-but-not-quite-inconsequential grievances. Every so often (as in the scene from the movie), somebody has to stand up and say, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

In a room without enough A/C, this is how you deal with it.

...or instead of hacking the case and spending a few dollars on a fan because wifi on a cheap router conks out when overheating, spending more money on a better router is the other solution.

Most people are not going to disable javascript because they can't comprehend it or its too much of a nuisance. NoScript is great though when you set it to ignore bookmarks and can just hit "allow all this page". What bothers me most about this crap is the dialogue box used to interfere with closing the tab, also allowing the tab to reappear with session restore if you kill the whole window. The average n00bs have to be falling for this like dominoes. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_s3wM0-7Zzhg/TZ9zJ7IKr3I/AAAAAAAAASY/SYcC0tJPJZ0/Browser%20exploit%20rage%2002.png Subscribing to Sophos Labs' YouTube channel has been rewarding: http://youtu.be/9Xna558F_m8

watch the video of the press conference.
this was a KNOWN vulnerability see @about 1:15 http://youtu.be/LeNR_HHhIGI

epic failure.
how do you prevent it? how about patch your shit.

http://youtu.be/kAG39jKi0lI

People need to realize nearly all creative companies has the same option of workshops, garages, tools, and allow personal use... and also exposes the fruits of their labor to the outside world.

Or not...

http://youtu.be/IqK2r5bPFTM

How it happens...

They see your phone was in the vicinity of a homicide. They question you and knowing you are innocent you blurt out that you were not on that street last Monday night. Now they have phone records showing you were there and you lied to police about your where-abouts. All they need now is some scrappy motivation claim and they have enough evidence to take you to trial. You don't think that can happen? Ask any one of the thousands of people that have been wrongly convicted that spend years in jail.

I highly suggest you watch this video.
http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc

How can there be a symmetrical docking without Hyoryu?

To read summaries like this you get the sense there isn't any value to intellectual property at all. If content producers know that anything they produce is "up for grabs", what incentive do they have to keep producing?

Pardoxically, it's perfectly possible to earn money by giving things away for free.

For example, TV and radio stations have been giving away entertainment and news for free for half a century, and earned their revenue from advertising.

The printed Metro newspaper is given away for free in a number of European cities, and, once again, earn their money from advertising.

The last decade, a lot of musicians have started giving away their music for free, and instead earn their revenue from concerts and merchandising. The free music acts as advertising.

Online game publishers have started giving away the game itself for free, and instead earn money from selling virtual items within the game, for example, Everquest 2 Extended and Lord of the Rings Online.

This guy has some interesting ideas about how filesharing can be a much more cost-effective way to earn money from TV content than sending it over traditional networks. (YouTube).

Red Hat, Ubuntu, Truecrypt and many other software products are given away for free, and the producers earn their revenue on support and customisation.

It's not clear that copyright is needed in order for creators and distributors to earn money. It may be needed in some areas, but we have to ask ourselves if it's worth the cost. Every time someone abstains from a digital product because it's illegal to copy it, the utility he/she would have gained from it is lost for society.

Also, let's not forget that even the Pirate Party does not advocate a complete abolishment of copyright. They only want private, non-commercial use to be free. The creator will still have a monopoly on commercial copying and distribution.

Here here! It must be rough for RIM to have their CEO in the same category as this scientology asshat.

Resistance is Futile: Surrender now. You will service us. You will pay the Windows Tax. Our Arm Will Reach You. Resistance is Futile. We will add your technological distinctiveness to our own and dumb it down to the lowest cheapest junk tek. Resistance is Futile.
http://youtu.be/mVg5VxPdK80

http://youtu.be/A3oIiH7BLmg

Dawkins actually is a nice guy despite the animosity he arouses His critics however...

Video of the explosion and ensuing steam cloud: http://youtu.be/DHfR_wybvw0

Kate Bush did also a song about Pi, which is far better:
http://youtu.be/N-nIRHe-4HM

Sorry did not find a better version, and voice is a little muted, so look at the lyrics here:
http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/kate_bush/pi/

Have a good day :9

>>>Turn it up to 11

DEFCON goes from 5 (all clear) to 1 (nuclear extinction). Cmon. Haven't you ever watched Stargate or those old Cold war movies? ;-)

That may have been a Spinal Tap reference. http://youtu.be/UeOXsA8sp_E

If this exhibition is really going to be about "the art of videogames," I hope the curators don't give short shrift to the art on the outside of the game cabinets.

I would also like them to take notice of the retail box art and the catchy music as well. To this end, I nominate MegaMan.

1. 0. The game was very popular and spawned many sequels, cartoons, and tons of merchandise.
2. 1. The simplistic art has withstood the test of time (and palette swapping).
3. 2. The in game music was great, as well as the tribute songs it spawned.
4. 3. The box art is on a totally different level of "art" that can only be described as "special"

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Dear Slashdot: Ordered lists (<ol> tag) now have no numbers. Why?

Eh, nowadays people just type what they want in the Google Search bar, remember the Facebook login debacle?

On the other hand, URLs are going back to the AOL keyword origins anyway, look at this domains: http://nyti.ms/, http://flic.kr/, http://youtu.be/ . Yes, they're real. And yes, I hate them.

Here's a youtube video of the drone meeting several of these criteria. http://youtu.be/a8ZbtZqH6Io

Not a napkin, but Texas Hold-em http://youtu.be/4_G9awnDCmg

I'd go for:
Pod Racer sound (@ 0:35)
or
Tron Lightcycle sound
or
Sounds that say the name of your car

I'd go for:
Pod Racer sound (@ 0:35)
or
Tron Lightcycle sound
or
Sounds that say the name of your car

I'd go for:
Pod Racer sound (@ 0:35)
or
Tron Lightcycle sound
or
Sounds that say the name of your car

About the iPhone, I got that from here http://youtu.be/1ONXVE7QBCY @ 2:42
So i was wrong. But can you assure me it doesn't phone home while off?

About the iPhone, I got that from here http://youtu.be/1ONXVE7QBCY @ 2:42
As for other phones, yes but at least they can be turned of, either way my complain isn't about the iPhone, it's about employers tracking employees outside office hours.

...BUT IT'S WRONG!

Then let me introduce you to Touhou Project http://youtu.be/mpuo2rWVskw

I dare you.

Indeed, watch this rant
http://youtu.be/mj5IV23g-fE

I understand his stance on not giving anything to the studios for nothing but this part:

"I get so angry about all this because you're undercut by all the amateurs - the amateurs [are ]who make it though for the professional because when you act professional- these people are so used to getting it for nothing... and for mooching... and for being able to pass off his bullshit"

This is just... I can't find the expression, but he is simply angry that he has got competency, the amateurs aren't doing any favor to him undercutting him but he isn't doing any favor to the amateurs overshadowing them with his long reputation. The amateurs are just adjusting their prices to reflect that there are people there well entrenched in the industry who undercuts *them*.

Complaining about the free creations of others is just egoist. ...butthurt, is that the expression? English is not my native language.

But do they really have to shred all the books just to scan them?

No. A book scanning machine is capable of scanning a book non-destructively. My unsubstantiated guess is that they are less harmful to the book than your average reader.

You can build one if you'd like. Instructable The automated page turners on the commercial models are awesome. Youtube video

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter

Ok that was embarassing, corrected list:

Ok here are mine

• Magnet
• Love is War
• Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
• Luka Luka Night Fever
• World ai mine
• Meltdown
• Romeo and Cinderella
• Dear Cocoa Girls
• Melt
• Koisuru VOC@LOID
• Palette World Breakdown
• Last night, Good night
• Black Rock Shooter