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Ooooo Tempting! - Piaw Na

This old post (http://www.mobileread.com/forums...) summarizes most of the limitations. Unfortunately not a lot has changed since. - Vlado Handziski

Are you looking for something like df$Iron[df$Supplement=="something"] ? - Vlado Handziski

The gouraud shaded one looks definitely better to me. The slight displacement of the highlighting even makes the "snow" cover look more realistic. - Vlado Handziski

Looks like theres a difference of a few million years due to the shading. The flat-shaded one looks like a young, untamed island whereas the gouraud one looks like a nice, quiet place to build an island home. - Mark Trapp

New job? Grats! What a great fit! And boy do I have some Thunderbird and Firefox RFEs for you... - Stephen Mack

Awesome! - Steve and 3 other people

"At the most basic level, it involves a fundamental change in the underlying business model. Both the medical profession and the energy utilities currently work on the assumption that if they hear nothing from us, they can ignore us for the next year. Now they’ll be hearing from us every few seconds. It’s not just the volume of data that is available, but the question of how to react to it. That new granularity will show deviations from the straight line, whether it’s raised blood pressure or turning on the hosepipe to water the petunias. What should a supplier do about it?" - Vlado Handziski

"For the past few months I’ve been consulting with This Week in Tech (TWiT) helping build a new TWiT.tv website. Last week Colleen Kelly—who’s done an amazing job building out TWiT’s studio, live & mobile streaming infrastructure, and IT systems—decided she’s moving on from TWiT and accepting a position with Google. One thing led to another, and Leo Laporte and TWiT CEO Lisa Kentzell made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: I’m joining TWiT as their VP of Engineering." - Ken Sheppardson from Bookmarklet

cool - rose-angela

Matt, can you please put a word in - that we need the ability to "star" results on the Google scholar SERPs too! Please. - Space Cowboy

Yes, that would be awesome. Plus a capability to download a .bib file including the bibtex from all of the starred papers, etc. - Vlado Handziski

The weather had been warm and I had been hoping for snowmelt to feed waterfalls, so I headed up the Feather River Canyon last weekend. The waterfalls did not disappoint. I saw lots of wildflowers too. - Amit Patel

Nice photos. Do you often use the "vivid" color mode? I have the same camera just the EU version, but my outdoor photos using "vivid" always have too much red in them. - Vlado Handziski

Yes, I use “vivid” and -1/3 exposure, and then adjust it in Picasa. - Amit Patel

I fell for it :) - Vlado Handziski

Me 2 :( - alfred westerveld

My wife could not get me out of there the last time we visited London. - Vlado Handziski

Last December I was giving lectures at a school in Monastir, Tunisia, and they took us to the fortress where this was filmed. Looks really nice. Here are some photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/vlado... - Vlado Handziski

"Dubbed Recognizr, the app essentially works like this: the user points the camera at a person across the room. Face recognition software creates a 3-D model of the person's mug and sends it across a server where it's matched with an identity in the database. A cloud server conducts the facial recognition since and sends back the subject's name as well as links to any social networking sites the person has provided access to." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

@Nicolas: You just have to find makeup that causes extreme glare to camera CCDs but is invisible to the human eye. I think the people who make radar detectors and license plate obfuscation have some material like this (so that their license plates don't show up on police cameras). - Amit Patel

This was long overdue. Finally some reason coming out of the ruling coalition. - Vlado Handziski

I don't understand why they think that standardizing on integer counters will in any way help with the problem of the semantics of the represented value. For example, why do they think that Kelvin/100 is suitable standard unit for all potential use cases of the API. The only benefit that I see is in simplifying intermediate data processing code like averaging, etc. that can safely operate even without full knowledge of the semantics of the sensed value. - Vlado Handziski

"The Intel® Energy Checker SDK API exposes metrics of "useful work" done by an application through easy software instrumentation. For example, the amount of useful work done by a payroll application is different from the amount of useful work performed by a video serving application, a database application, or a mail server application. All too often, activity is measured by how busy a server is while running an application rather than by how much work that application completes. The Intel® Energy Checker SDK provides a way for the software developer to determine what measures of "useful work" are important for that application and expose those metrics through a simple API." - Vlado Handziski

"The Intel® Energy Checker SDK API exposes metrics of "useful work" done by an application through easy software instrumentation. For example, the amount of useful work done by a payroll application is different from the amount of useful work performed by a video serving application, a database application, or a mail server application. All too often, activity is measured by how busy a... more... - Vlado Handziski

OK, the strategy is now clear: acquire all former Googlers' startups. :-) - Piaw Na

There's no adoption of wave yet, that's the problem. - Piaw Na

Longing For The South... - Vlado Handziski

Nice discussion on the similarities and differences of four-dimensional space (x,y,z,w) and a complex plane (x+i*y, z+i*w) - Vlado Handziski

'''We shouldn't be asking, "Can you complete the task?" but rather "Are you motivated to do it in the first place?"''' - Vlado Handziski

We have to spend much more effort to educate people on how to properly use the technologies that are becoming an indispensable part of their lives. Crazy human dynamics like this can be really dangerous in other contexts. - Vlado Handziski

'''We shouldn't be asking, "Can you complete the task?" but rather "Are you motivated to do it in the first place?"''' Clay Shirky: Doing work, or Doing Work? | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM - cacm.acm.org - In a keynote delivered to this year's ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) , author and academic Clay Shirky captured this question in a distinction between work and Work.... - Vlado Handziski

We have to spend much more effort to educate people on how to properly use the technologies that are becoming an indispensable part of their lives. Crazy human dynamics like this can be really dangerous in other contexts. Data Underload #8 – Unsolicited - FlowingData - A few months back, the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) opened up a brand spanking new forum where people could discuss how they used the group's traffic data. They created an email list to tell everyone about the new forum. The problem is that PeMS used a single address to email everyone. So when someone "replied all," he would in turn email every single person on the list. What... - Vlado Handziski

Nice discussion on the similarities and differences of four-dimensional space (x,y,z,w) and a complex plane (x+i*y, z+i*w) Skew lines - 0xDE - You've probably seen images of the Hopf fibration, a nice decomposition of 3-dimensional space (or more accurately the 3-sphere) into nested tori, and of the tori into Villarceau circles, so that every point of the space belongs to one of the circles (including the z axis, which can be interpreted as a circle through the single point at infinity) and every two circles are linked. Here's a very... - Vlado Handziski

"AllRGB sets an unusual challenge: create a 4096×4096 image such that every possible RGB value is present once and only once. Most of the images look like the gray soup you'd imagine, but a few actually depict a real scene surprisingly well, and some are interesting as abstract art" - Vlado Handziski

The sad thing is that a program like this is almost impossible to do in Europe. With the current level of friction between many EU Governments and Google, this is probably not the best time to even try. - Vlado Handziski

The sad thing is that a program like this is almost impossible to do in Europe. With the current level of friction between many EU Governments and Google, this is probably not the best time to even try. Think big with a gig - European Public Policy Blog - Google today made an exciting announcement of its attention to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in the United States. While we have no similar plans for Europe, we think this is the... - Vlado Handziski

"AllRGB sets an unusual challenge: create a 4096×4096 image such that every possible RGB value is present once and only once. Most of the images look like the gray soup you'd imagine, but a few actually depict a real scene surprisingly well, and some are interesting as abstract art" AllRGB - Ned Batchelder's blog - AllRGB sets an unusual challenge: create a 4096×4096 image such that every possible RGB value is present once and only once. Most of the images look like the gray soup you'd imagine, but a few actually depict a real scene surprisingly well, and some are interesting as abstract art: Eric Burnett wrote about his allRGB Mandelbrot, which uses Hilbert curve techniques, as does Aldo Cortesi's por... - Vlado Handziski

The buzz has arrived! - Vlado Handziski

I suspected you two were up to something :) http://friendfeed.com/kfury... - Vlado Handziski