Put me down as on the Avatar train. Saw it last night in Real3D and it was fantastic. There was even more depth to the metaphoric levels then there was to the screen. Seeing it in IMAX 3D over Christmas.
Seeing it in IMAX 3D tomorrow. I've read no full reviews and I'm going in with low expectations on all fronts except the technical one which is the ONLY reason why I'm going to begin with. Well, that, and the fact that friends of mine did all of the legwork getting tickets and whatnot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
if kevin is on the train all of a sudden ... I'm curious.
- karl dotter
Akiva, I think you'll like it for more than just the special effects. I liked the plot and acting as well.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
It's partially on purpose. The lower my expectations, the more likely I am to be surprised and impressed by the film.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I saw IMAX 3d on friday and it was awesome. I'd love to see it again sometime soon but I'm not sure when we can sneak out.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
can anyone convince me further?, this is what I've been told from the amazing nate beaty: "if you love mega-cgi, hamfisted, 3-Dee, thinly-veiled native american allegory, cardboard-character driven ecodrama and purple glitterskinned 12-foot amazon catwomen who connect their ponytails to fly giant poly-eyed fantasy birdbeasts, then fall in love with 'murican soldiers with "curiously active brains" in a $500m bluescreen hollywood earth++."
- karl dotter
hey, I was just trying to help lower your expectations. the fx are fantastic but I'm spoiled by Pixar in expecting an amazing story to connect to also.
- nate beaty
from iPhone
I just wish it was this good in Chrome's Omnibox....
- Nathan Snyder
Can anyone point me to publications/papers/research on Google Suggest? Naively, it seems to be like - "SELECT query,count FROM query_logs WHERE query LIKE 'user_query%' ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 10".
- Space Cowboy
if it makes everyone happy its googlish.
- Mert K.
@Cowboy: I don't know of any public papers, but I'm guessing there's a lot of offline processing to extract common queries and phrases. I seriously doubt it could be this fast coming out of a SQL database :)
- Joel Webber
"This win means that Californians will be the first in the nation to decide whether they believe marijuana ought be taxed and regulated for all adults over 21, much the same way alcohol is. ... Support for marijuana legalization is at an all-time high, with polls ranging from 44 to 52 percent national support. In California, where marijuana has been legalized for medical use since 1996, 56 percent support legalization."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I didn't get many of the ceremony, unfortunately, because I was part of the wedding party so will need to rely on the pro ones. But I did get some nice video including some video of my brother's first dance that I'm not sure he'd be happy if I posted on the Internet (although he did fine, you could tell he was concentrating on not stepping on Cassie's toes).
- Robert Scoble
Have the live broadcast was great, even though it went over -capacity. Luckily those who were viewing it kept everyone in the loop :)
- WorldofHiglet
And the screenshots posted helped us all to join in the ceremony
- WorldofHiglet
From the top: 1. Alex picks up his Tux on Friday. 2. Alex and Cassie at rehearsal dinner saying thanks. 3. my brother Ben fooling around with me. 4. Milan and Hannah Scoble check out the fishtank at breakfast before wedding. 5. My dad standing around while pictures are taken. 6. Milan Scoble, 2-years-old, unsure of what to do now that he's in a tux. 7. Alex and Cassie get pictures...
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- Robert Scoble
Yeah, thanks for joining in. I didn't even realize there was a live feed until after the wedding when I snuck a look at my iPhone and saw people talking about it.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks, Dawn...Cassie got me that shirt during a visit to Wisconsin in the summer and kept it a secret until last week. I love it.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Wait. Your fiance was at your bachelor party which was a bowling party?
- Chrimmus Tad
from Android
Don't worry, Tad...she wasn't at the real bachelor party. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
- Alex Scoble
Boy oh boy where to start... FxCam, Dolphin Browser, PicSay, Devil Huntress
- Adrian
Second tier (for me): Wireless Tether for Root, Linda File Manager, Astro File Manager and Qik
- Adrian
Third tier: Speed Test, Benchmark, Overclock Widget, Advanced Task Manager
- Adrian
Damn Adrian, I thought I cracked out *my* phone. I need to get a new memory card so I can use apps2sd again. I am suffering through internal memory. :/
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I'm still using the 1gig chip that came with the phone. Apps2SD works fine with it. #lowbudgetbaby
- Adrian
I partitioned the chip so it's 350megs for apps, the rest for storage. It's just enough for a couple of days worth of relentless shooting with the camera and keeping maybe 4 or 5 albums on it for listening. I think of it more as a "CD-changer" than mp3 player. Call me a wackadoodle! :D
- Adrian
You're a wackadoodle peanut butterhead!
- Admiral Anika
Hmm.. You've got me thinking. I'm getting my partitioning software right now. XD
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Hey I just had a serious case of dejavu... and now I'm thinking, did you (Tad) ask this or similar question early last year? I could of sworn...
- Adrian
Adrian, do you know where you can find proper settings for Overclock Widget for G1's ? I don't want to turn it up too high and burn something out.
- Matthew DeVries
528 min and max. That's what I run it at 24-7 no problems ever. The cpu is rated for that. Huge dif. Easy enough to turn down when you want to save a bit o juice, but that's not much of a concern for me.
- Adrian
from Android
I'm running an aftermarket Seido battery, I'm not worried about battery life :)
- Matthew DeVries
WOOT! Then by all means turn that bad boy up to 11.
- Adrian
from Android
It's still running like metric shit. I'm running the latest Cyanogen, Apps2SD (1GB ex3 partition), and still it takes 5 seconds to change orientation, 40 seconds to open my music player.
- Matthew DeVries
I couldn't find apps2sd on the Market. Is there a way to put apps on the sd without jailbreaking your phone? I don't want to end up with a brick for a whole year.
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
Nope, gotta route it, put a custom mod on it, format your SD in a computer to have 2 linux partitions (One for apps, one for the Linux version of Swapfiles), then put on the Apps2sd APK file, and then it should move them automatically over to the SD card (though my phone still shows 40MB of "stuff" on the internal memory.
- Matthew DeVries
LAME. Guess I'll start removing apps I don't use much. *pout*
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
Mathew, run benchmark and post your results. Tad, not as far as I know. There's no reason to fear the root if you can follow a how-to guide.
- Adrian
from Android
Any of you guys use Layar? It's a neat idea, but I don't see any practical usage for it...
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
Layar is cool but I haven't walked around with it. I've used it to check what's nearby.
- Rodfather
Is there a way to restore the phone from jailbroken status?
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
Tad, yes there is. Xda-dev has a tutorial in the sticky section.
- Adrian
from Android
Shazam. It's like magic, every timeI use it I feel like a kid.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
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- Matthew DeVries
Without a doubt, Portland Transit (bus tracking and trip planning for TriMet). I use it constantly.
- Eph Zero
I love the fact that we had an after party and and after after party. Not quite Tracy Jordan/30 Rock style, but pretty good for a guy who's normally to bed by 9:30. :)
Hah. Our after party was us having a little dinner and then going to sleep.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I saw the pix on Dotcom's and Griz's facebook pages. You really had a good time.
- Bryan R. Adams
I love it, Alex. There are only so many opportunities to have the people you love in the same place. I think I'd rather celebrate with my friends than try to have a 'traditional' wedding night with all of the cultural expectations that entails after what must be an exhausting day. I'll probably do what Akiva did, though.
- joey
Pulleeze.. people.. I'm with Joey and Alex. Party with family and friends.
- Santa CW™
We spent the better part of the week leading up to the wedding with family and friends. The wedding and wedding night were all about *us*.
- Bren -- Still Believes
from iPhone
Yeah, unfortunately because the fact that most of our family was from out of town and this was a winter wedding, we didn't have that luxury. The honeymoon will be all about us.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
If one or both of you are virgins, then what Johnny said. If you've already well-debugged each other's code, and interfaced with all the addons the API affords, then what joeybean said.
- Matthew DeVries
I was, of course, being facetious with my first comment. I'm really glad you guys got to enjoy your family and friends, and the wedding went off well!
- Bren -- Still Believes
from iPhone
IMO, there is no wrong way to do it as long as you're still married at the end of the night ;)
- joey
I don't mean to be crude but... Now that you are married, Alex, you will come to know there are few times when it's a lay down misere... Know those times well and take full advantage :P
- Johnny Worthington
In order for you to be crude, Johnny, I'd have to know what you meant hehe
- Alex Scoble
from IM
"A Misere bid usually indicates an extremely poor hand, hence the name. An Open or Lay Down Misere, is a 500 bid where the player is so sure of losing every trick that they undertake to do so with their cards placed face-up on the table. Consequently, 'Lay Down Misere' is Australian gambling slang for a "dead cert"; a predicted easy victory."
- Johnny Worthington
Is that a bridge thing, Johnny?
- Alex Scoble
from IM
As someone who grew up on the music of The Jacksons, this makes me sad. But I also can't stop thinking of The Tin Man crying in The Wiz going "A tee, a tee..."
- Derrick
omg, bwahahaa. for some reason when i look at jermaine's head i think of that australian phrase "throw it on the barbie!"
- cherylcoward
cheryl, that's a disgrace to shrimp everywhere. Not just in Australia.
- Derrick
I would like to take this opportunity to say: Congratulations Alex, here's to a long and prosperous life together with your beautiful wife. Wishing you all the best!
A lifetime of happiness to you both. Congratulations!
- Steve
WHOOOOOOO!!!! CONGRATULATIONS! I LOVE WEDDINGS
- sofarsoShawn
Congrats to the both of you................love and kisses from LI NY
- VAL D. Zone
*buys bag of rice to throw at monitor*
- Steven Perez
It's too bad this cannot be embedded in a FF page somehow -- we could all watch the activities (and even better than being there) discuss in real time here. I guess though watching in separate window and discussing here is just about as good.
- Brian Sullivan
What's it called when a group sends someone to an event, to spy? Not in an enemy way like a true spy, but just to be there and send signals to the outside world. Maybe that's a spy. Or a plant! Is that what it's called? Maybe we should have sent a plant.
- Rochelle
Yeah, a mole! That's better. Do we have a mole on the inside?!
- Rochelle
Have a great wedding Cassie and Alex. And Alex, get off FF already, you don't wanna be late for this one! ;-)
- Rene Wirtz
Now the question is, will Alex pull out his phone and update FriendFeed like that guy in the YouTube video last week pulled out his phone to update his Facebook status during the middle of the wedding?
- Rochelle
Yeah, I need to start getting ready in a few minutes...my family is coming to my room at 2:30 and then we do pictures
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Hey they're putting on table clothes right now... this is really cool!
- SAM
Congrats... :) I'm going to bed now :( I thought to watch it. But, damn sleepy now.. Somebody please wake me up! I'm from IST :P
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
I just logged on 10 minutes ago. I don't think it's an overload issue.
- Call me Bronco
Got Vista/Firefox working fine; also have the Modify Headers plug-in forwarding for 12.13.14.15 by default if that helps anyone, in case there's an international thing going on.
- Mark H
Haha. We're putting the wedding cam on our huge HDTV with music on in the background. What kind of music should we play?
- Rochelle
Woot Got in, after about 2-3 dozen refreshes, just like old school FF fun.
- Jimminy Fuller
I bowed out since we are gaming in a bit, so hopefully other people can get in now. Someone grab me a screen shot of the two of them up there for me later? :D
- aden
Real nice setup Alex and Cassie have here. Bridesmaids are in purple. Groomsmen are in black. Except for Robert - he's wearing Twitter blue. [/just kidding]
- Steven Perez
from IM
awww this is so sweet. I'm so happy for them.
- Call me Bronco
@kfury the meme of being a fucking idiot and asking random people on skype "how much do you make" and then getting shocked when the person is offended?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
That would be a great place to party when Friendfeed will shut down :)
- Jérôme Flipo
Very cool! What kind of LED lights are you using? We have old rope lighting that we are planning to change out for color changing LED rope lighting in in several rooms, but we have a bunch or research before we begin that project. Any tips from your experience?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Also, are the color changes tied to any data or just rotating on a cycle?
- Kevin Fox
We're using Color Kinetics: http://www.colorkinetics.com/. Beti actually ordered these, and I haven't investigated them deeply. There are two types of controls, one which is a dial on the wall that changes color, modes, and frequency of change. The other is an ethernet/RS-232 solution. We don't have the advanced one right now, but we may upgrade to it sometime after I look into it. I'm not sure how much work needs to be done to time the lights to something like Sonos.
- Cristo
I want one that ties to my brain according to my mood
- Jesse Stay
Rachel, also I think you like hidden doors, right? I don't think I've taken a photo of our finished hidden door, but I'll try to upload one soon.
- Cristo
Cristo. The doors look awesome. And I love the use of light through them. It really gives the space a beautiful and fun feel!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Rachel and Kevin: I agree with you that the special lighting effects really do add a lot to a room. It makes it magical and otherworldly. I bought the lights from one of the largest distributors, Wiedamark, of the Color Kinetics products and they were very helpful. Their website is: http://www.wiedamark.com/colorki... -- they can help determine which product is best for your...
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- Beti Cung
Pro tip: if you spend any non-trivial amount of time dealing with (home or rack-mounted) computer hardware, spend $10 and buy yourself a good, comfortable Phillips #2 screwdriver with a magnetic tip. (Not one of those all-in-one screwdrivers with replaceable bits)
- Tudor Bosman
Kevin: light coming out of the tip? I'm intrigued.
- Tudor Bosman
(Yeah, I know. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.)
- Tudor Bosman
Are you regretting building your own ZFS box now?
- Benjamin Golub
No, I'm regretting not researching the hard drives more :) But the case is awesome, and replacing drives in it is trivial, so the only hassle is the return.
- Tudor Bosman
Which drives did you get? Which drives do you want? What did you find that changed your mind?
- Kevin Fox
Now, rather than from a hard drive, imagine PS loading from an audio cassette tape - a whole truck load of them. You wouldn't need an animated GIF, you'd just need a GIF.
- Micah Wittman
Go get a cup of coffee while it's loading. Fly to Columbia for a cup.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Adobe Reader also does that. One of the reasons why I use Foxit Reader for PDF's.
- Vishy
Vishy: Try Adobe Reader 9. They fixed that issue, it doesn't load all its crap on launch any more. Now it loads it on demand instead. Adobe Reader 8 did the slow load you're talking about.
- Otto
I think.. and i'm not sure here.. but I don't think it's supposed to be loading still after 3 days. Should I Force Quit? :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from IM
we moved to the hood we did cos the HOA had been dissolved by a lawsuit and no one wanted to resurrect it. if it had still existed we would have looked elsewhere for a house. the only thing semi-related left here is a pretty active crime watch group.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
This is the first hood we've lived in with an HOA, and I can assure you, it will be the last. I am considering running for the board when elections are in January, just to make life miserable for the other board members. Just not sure I want to expend that much energy being vindictive.
- Joey Gibson
nah Joey its not worth it...........don't let them rent space in your head
- VAL D. Zone
I was just having this discussion with some friends of mine who were still sold on rosey-posey lie that HOAs sell themselves on. Not to say that there aren't "good" (read: not totally evil) ones out there, I would just rather not take the chance.
- Chieze Okoye
In an obvious attempt to appeal to a younger, hipper, more fashion-forward demographic, Lucasfilm has collaborated with New Era to release a series of Star Wars-inspired 59Fifty baseball caps. The geekdom includes 20 variations–everything from the classic Star Wars logo to Yoda to the ridiculous Chewbacca version. They went on sale yesterday, and range in price from $80.00-$100.00. Head over to New Era Japan to pick one up, and to ensure you’ll never get laid again. Unless you do, in which case you’ve found your soul mate.
- Derrick
*fabulous* although, i'd probably only give the time of day to guys wearing the logo or han frozen caps. the others are too over the top for me.
- Katie
FYI: if you and I are friendly on FriendFeed, and you have some inexpensive stuff on a public Amazon wishlist, you might want to check to make sure it's current.
You should make sure your shipping address is correct, too. Just sayin'
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
not to presume too much, but i dunno if i have anything reasonably priced on mine. i haven't looked at it lately, but i can say it's current.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
i am glad you defined inexpensive, because i was going to ask...
- edythe
He's CHEAP AS DIRT ADEN.... he doesn't deserve you. I, on the on the other hand, am broke. Same result, but my heart is in the right place. ;)
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
WOW. I just got a silent 3 Christmas. Thank you, Sugar Papa ha3rvey!
- Spidra Webster