On the latest Iwata Asks (where the president of Nintendo interviews his staff) there's a lot of interesting info about how Miyamoto came up with the sound effect for the propeller mario, why mario wears overalls, why use a mushroom as a powerup, why turtles as opponents and other interesting info.
the source code is available to all platforms, including xbox. Just the binaries that are not available to xbox, because the MS xbox sdk does not allows them to redistribute binaries.
I love xbmc. Anyone knows of a nice (and cheap) pc that could serve as a media center with xbmc, a la asus eee box, but with the ability to run hdtv content?
itÂs not good for people outside of the us because megaupload has a extremely low limit of concurrent connections per country. Brazil has 300. For the whole country. Out of the about 5 times i tried to use megaupload i couldnÂt download the file in all of them, so I gave up on them.
yes, but those desktop class pcs @ google are not used by people as desktops. So they are not turned off and are not used as desktop pcs, like the ones that the poster mention.
the iphone *needs* to access the site http://iphone-wu.apple.com/ with your imei in order to update the weather.app. After i blocked the url in my proxy server, the weather app would no longer update. What is weird is that it either is sending a wrong imei number, or it is a hashed value...
at the place where I work weve been using backup exec for a long time in all of our servers worldwide.. While thankfully Ive only had a few problems with backup exec, they were usually solved relatively well by Veritas. When symantec bought veritas I knew that wasnt a good sign. Luckily i didnt had to call them until this week... I wanted to upgrade a few licenses, so our local support had to forward me to US, for licensing support. I was then transfered to another tech support center in the US, and while everyone that I spoke with (about 6 persons) were very polite, NONE of them would send me to the right place. It felt like I was in a loop, always being asked the same questions, then the person would say, -oh, you need licensing support, hold a moment while i transfer you. If it was 1st of april that might have been mildly amusing, but cmon. I had to hang up and call the people that sold me the software to get the license thru other channels...
I already sent a mail to the senator that I voted in the last election, asking him to not support such stupid bill. You can find your senator's email address in this page: http://www.senado.gov.br/sf/senadores Hopefully more brazilians will do the same.
Eu já enviei um email ao senador que eu votei na última eleição, pedindo a ele para não apoiar este projeto de lei estúpido. Você pode encontrar o endereço de email do seu senador nesta página: http://www.senado.gov.br/sf/senadores Espero que outros brasileiros façam o mesmo.
Have you played brain age? This game also includes a few sudoku puzzles for you to try. You don't have to type numbers and move the joypad to play. You simply tap the stylus in a square to give it focus and write the number in it. The DS recognizes your handwritting. This is as close as it gets to a pen and paper sudoku puzzle.
I was part of the team that implemented the localized intranet content for my country... so I got to spend some time with the guy in charge of our internet/intranet websites. Hes a veteran that worked for over 25 years in the company, and he struggled a lot to get the higher management believe him that our companys website, a completely Flash based (bleh) usability nightmare needed to be updated. It was ugly. How was he able to change that? starting from inside. He joined forces with a developer to customize a CMS to build a intranet for our company. That made things easier to keep the intranet site more accessible to the users. After that he struggled once again to educate users what a intranet was and how it worked. He trained people from different areas so that they themselves could help update the intranet website.
The intranet was then installed as the default homepage for all users. That created awareness, and many people started requesting specific intranet websites to their department within the main intranet. Nowadays the internet site was made using the same tools that were used to create the intranet, but the main point is user awareness. Not only "IT people" contributed to the intranet, but regular users are encouraged to feed it as well. This made the internet/intranet website idea more accessible to the users, and that made it easier to completely upgrade our companys internet site as well.
Maybe you should ask this manager to help you update your intranet website. He might find it useful, and become a fan. or not. But making the website more accessible to regular users proved (at least in my case) that this was the easiest way to get people to really use our intranet website...
everytime i login, it asks for a pin number(which can't be typed in the keyboard, you have to pick the numbers in the screen keyboard with your mouse), a secret phrase and a random code from this card.
sure, it's really far from RSA, as my code doesn't change and anyone can easily just photocopy my card. but i thought that it was a creative solution to implement a two factor auth that even dummies would understand, while providing a lower cost to implement.
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arghhhh, cannot unsee!!
someone didn't get the joke
sure, hardwares cheap, but when you have over 30k* servers, a 1% saving on them might be worth their coders time.
* http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/13/facebook-now-has-30000-servers/
On the latest Iwata Asks (where the president of Nintendo interviews his staff) there's a lot of interesting info about how Miyamoto came up with the sound effect for the propeller mario, why mario wears overalls, why use a mushroom as a powerup, why turtles as opponents and other interesting info.
http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/nsmb/vol1_page1.jsp
BILLY MAYS HERE!!!
TOO BAD I'M DEAD, OTHERWISE SHE WOULD BE WELCOME TO WORK WITH ME!
and here is something just to bypass /. caps filtering. I guess she didn't posted here much either.
it actually started a rumor. I received it a few days ago in my mailbox in a huge chain letter. being distributed in brazilian portuguese.
so does a jailbroken iphone + mobile terminal
the source code is available to all platforms, including xbox.
Just the binaries that are not available to xbox, because the MS xbox sdk does not allows them to redistribute binaries.
I love xbmc. Anyone knows of a nice (and cheap) pc that could serve as a media center with xbmc, a la asus eee box, but with the ability to run hdtv content?
itÂs not good for people outside of the us because megaupload has a extremely low limit of concurrent connections per country. Brazil has 300. For the whole country. Out of the about 5 times i tried to use megaupload i couldnÂt download the file in all of them, so I gave up on them.
yes, but those desktop class pcs @ google are not used by people as desktops. So they are not turned off and are not used as desktop pcs, like the ones that the poster mention.
the iphone *needs* to access the site http://iphone-wu.apple.com/ with your imei in order to update the weather.app. After i blocked the url in my proxy server, the weather app would no longer update.
What is weird is that it either is sending a wrong imei number, or it is a hashed value...
quoted from engadget:
9 -fuel-cell-car-goes-for-land-speed-record/
The car itself will be cooled through "ice bath cooling" because the front is sealed in order to keep the drag coefficient as low as possible
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/11/ford-fusion-99
at the place where I work weve been using backup exec for a long time in all of our servers worldwide.. While thankfully Ive only had a few problems with backup exec, they were usually solved relatively well by Veritas. When symantec bought veritas I knew that wasnt a good sign. Luckily i didnt had to call them until this week...
I wanted to upgrade a few licenses, so our local support had to forward me to US, for licensing support. I was then transfered to another tech support center in the US, and while everyone that I spoke with (about 6 persons) were very polite, NONE of them would send me to the right place. It felt like I was in a loop, always being asked the same questions, then the person would say, -oh, you need licensing support, hold a moment while i transfer you. If it was 1st of april that might have been mildly amusing, but cmon. I had to hang up and call the people that sold me the software to get the license thru other channels...
I already sent a mail to the senator that I voted in the last election, asking him to not support such stupid bill.
You can find your senator's email address in this page: http://www.senado.gov.br/sf/senadores
Hopefully more brazilians will do the same.
Eu já enviei um email ao senador que eu votei na última eleição, pedindo a ele para não apoiar este projeto de lei estúpido.
Você pode encontrar o endereço de email do seu senador nesta página: http://www.senado.gov.br/sf/senadores
Espero que outros brasileiros façam o mesmo.
This is on frontpage because zonk saw the link to it on digg.com today. :/
m es_of_All_Time_2
http://digg.com/gaming_news/The_20_Worst_Video_Ga
They already updated it on xbox?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nP43M5ov118
Dragon's Lair 3D != Dragon's Lair
Have you played brain age? This game also includes a few sudoku puzzles for you to try.
You don't have to type numbers and move the joypad to play. You simply tap the stylus in a square to give it focus and write the number in it. The DS recognizes your handwritting. This is as close as it gets to a pen and paper sudoku puzzle.
I was part of the team that implemented the localized intranet content for my country... so I got to spend some time with the guy in charge of our internet/intranet websites. Hes a veteran that worked for over 25 years in the company, and he struggled a lot to get the higher management believe him that our companys website, a completely Flash based (bleh) usability nightmare needed to be updated. It was ugly.
How was he able to change that? starting from inside. He joined forces with a developer to customize a CMS to build a intranet for our company. That made things easier to keep the intranet site more accessible to the users.
After that he struggled once again to educate users what a intranet was and how it worked. He trained people from different areas so that they themselves could help update the intranet website.
The intranet was then installed as the default homepage for all users. That created awareness, and many people started requesting specific intranet websites to their department within the main intranet.
Nowadays the internet site was made using the same tools that were used to create the intranet, but the main point is user awareness. Not only "IT people" contributed to the intranet, but regular users are encouraged to feed it as well. This made the internet/intranet website idea more accessible to the users, and that made it easier to completely upgrade our companys internet site as well.
Maybe you should ask this manager to help you update your intranet website. He might find it useful, and become a fan. or not. But making the website more accessible to regular users proved (at least in my case) that this was the easiest way to get people to really use our intranet website...
except that in this case, the car isn't dirt cheap, and you have to buy new seat-belts every year.
here's one of numerous slashdot articles about google mentioning it >>
Other interesting things include a Linux port of Google Earth
sure, it's really far from RSA, as my code doesn't change and anyone can easily just photocopy my card. but i thought that it was a creative solution to implement a two factor auth that even dummies would understand, while providing a lower cost to implement.
check it out!!!
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/mousedown/