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Apple Adds A Ton Of HD Content. Including Movies I Would Actually Buy. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
sofarsoShawn, Derrick, andrei_c and Roberto Bonini liked this
This is hardly a good deal. Blu-ray prices dropped under $20 this year, and iTunes HD is very, very far from blu-ray in terms of picture quality.
- andrei_c
Suspect in officer's slaying shot by police - Seattle Times - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html...
"A man sought in connection with the shooting of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton has been shot by police in Tukwila, according to a law enforcement source."
- andrei_c
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"An adviser there said he was interested in criminal justice." well, I imagine how it could be soon on same list as flying heavy passenger jet...
- A.T.
Is Apple removing updated iPhone apps from the recently released lists? - http://cramzy.com/news.php
Who knows, it could be a good thing. Finally, crapp developers will have no motivation to release updates with machine gun speed and maybe start developing something useful.
- andrei_c
Favorite sci-fi space ship names...
Victor Ganata, Tsali, The Native of FF, Roberto Bonini and 10 other people liked this
Heart of Gold from HHGTTG is a good name, but I always pictured it shaped like a running shoe, rather than a sphere.
- Andy Bakun
Just about every name in Iain M. Bank's Culture Novels. I'll BRB with some samples.
- Anika
Millennium Falcon, obviously. It's such a sports-car sounding name.
- Rob H.
I'm browsing Larry Niven and Known Space on wikipedia right now, and there are some really good ones there. The Long Shot and The Lying Bastard.
- Andy Bakun
Here's some for inspiration: http://conservationreport.file... Although admittedly, these aren't very individually interesting. Lexx is a pretty good name.
- Andy Bakun
The Halo series has some good ones as well; UNSC Pillar of Autumn, UNSC In Amber Clad, Truth and Reconciliation, Shadow of Intent and so on.
- Rob H.
Damn, those are good. Truth and Reconciliation reminds me of the weapon named Reason in Snow Crash ("I'm sure they'll listen to Reason").
- Andy Bakun
Okay, here's a few ship names: Size Isn't Everything, Hand Me That Gun And Ask Me Again, Youthful Indiscretion, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Just Read The Instructions, Problem Child, I Blame My Mother, I Blame Your Mother...there's a lot more.
- Anika
You almost can't go wrong. Serenity, Star Destroyer, USS Enterprise, Starship Bistromath...
- Vezquex: God of FF
Ah, the Bistromath. Damn, I should have thought of that one.
- Andy Bakun
i always wanted to see the Bistromath realised on screen. probly never happen, now.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Is the Hand Me that Gun And Ask Me Again referred to as just The Hand Me or The Ask Me Again?
- Andy Bakun
Those Banks names are pretty funny. Is there some reason they're like that (those aren't humor books, right)?
- Rob H.
I always liked the way The Defiant implied serious kickassitude.
- Andy Bakun
I always loved the Star Destroyer names on the XWing games http://www.theforce.net/swtc...
- WorldofHiglet
I don't know. I think the Culture novels are pretty funny. There's an underlying satirical look at wealth's role in society. The droid/human relationship is humorous, as the droids seem to be the Voice of Conscious/Mom. And considering the heavy violence, in which most of the ships are introduced to you, it's nice to have a moment of levity.
- Anika
Also keep in mind that some of the ships are sentient beings and play heavy roles in the stories.
- Anika
I liked "Nostalgia for Infinity" from Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds). In the epilogue for Galactic North, he admits that his ship names have been inspired by the culture novels and other sources.
- Matt Mastracci
Ah, yes...Reynolds did have some great ship names. I totally assumed he was inspired by Banks. We named our daughter after a character in Revelation Space.
- Anika
Anika, that's awesome. :) Just pulled the book to confirm: he actually said that "he bows to noone in his admiration of Ian M Banks", but "his ship names were a direct pinch from M. John Harrison's The Centauri Device, not the Culture".
- Matt Mastracci
Nice. I've never read any of John Harrison's work. If I had read that in the book, I would have searched it out. I have a bad habit of not reading the author blurbs.
- Anika
I couldn't stop reading after that book ended, so I plowed right through the epilogue hoping to hear that he's planning on continuing the series, picking up some interesting tidbits. It's hard to reach the end of a deep series like that.
- Matt Mastracci
Good list, WorldofHiglet. Accuser, Thunderflare, Inflexible and Death's Head.
- Andy Bakun
That ship-size comparison reminded me of another I really liked: Agamemnon from Babylon 5. Greek heros make good ship names.
- Matt Mastracci
Nostromo.
- andrei_c
Reynold's Revelation Space naming convention used by the Ultras, transhuman spacefarers: Nostalgia For Infinity , Gnostic Ascension
- Ken Chen
Matt, those books are good. I'm currently re-reading Ilium, soon to be followed by Olympos, but It think after I'm done with Simmons I'll revisit the Revelation Space world.
- Anika
Ilium and Olympos were such a good read (read them recently after a re-read of the Hyperion Cantos). Loved the Mahnmut and Orphu storyline. I'm just about to start my first read-through of Culture tonight.
- Matt Mastracci
Serenity and Millenium Falcon are my favorites. Of course, I don't watch a lot of sci-fi with space ships (I watch more of the supernatural sci-fi).
- Curtiss Grymala
Anika++ Ian Banks. My favorite was "Very Little Gravitas Indeed"
- mikepk
or maybe "Xenophobe"
- mikepk
I really like the Culture names here. Maybe I should read the series. The Halo names are great too.
- Andrew C
It's a really fun series to read, Andrew.
- Anika
Highly recommend Banks. My recommendation is usually to start with "Consider Phlebas", I think it's his first culture book and in my opinion, it's the most 'space operatic' of them. I think it's a good intro to the Culture.
- mikepk
Anika, have you ever read Bank's non sci-fi stuff?
- mikepk
Meteorite strikes, creates 50-foot crater in Latvian countryside - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
β-Кот Шредингера and A.T. liked this
Free PDF Books Search Engine - http://www.toodoc.com/
via @silpol
- andrei_c
Windows 7: 77 Windows 7 Tips - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...
Some seriously good productivity tips.
- andrei_c
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Forget About Typing, Babelshot Translates Text Using Your iPhone’s Camera : App Advice - http://appadvice.com/appnn...
Andrés David Aparicio, Michael Zamora, Christopher Harley and 8 other people liked this
FD: i'm creator of Babelshot
- andrei_c
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Can't say anything about the implementation since I haven't tried it, but very good idea, congrats.
- Onur Babacan
Check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- andrei_c
Congratulations on the release Andrei! It's looking good :)
- sebastian☆rocket brother
It's wonderful application.
- Amin Sabeti
CSS pop quiz [expert]: How many class selectors would you need in a rule in order to override this rule: #foo { color: blue; }?
Mark Trapp and andrei_c liked this
If I'm not mistaken, it should be just one: #foo. All modern browsers use the last declaration of a css selector.
- Mark Trapp
Ah, I meant if you had a rule like .c1 .c2 ... .cN { color: red; } (and the appropriate markup to match), how many of those class selectors (ie: .c1, .c2) would it take before the element turned red?
- Matt Mastracci
Off to bed, so I'll hand this one to @shiftb. :) The answer is that you can't override an ID selector with any number of class selectors, no matter how many you use (http://www.w3.org/TR...) - that is, unless you use !important on the other rule.
- Matt Mastracci
Ah, hm. I'm stumped: I'd either say you'd need the same number to exactly match the original declaration, an id selector, or !important, but this sounds like a trick question... ah, and looks like I was right :-P
- Mark Trapp
And I misread your clarification, but yes, I concur. You can't override an id selector with a class selector without !important.
- Mark Trapp
@Matt in theory yes. But in practice, client probably computes specificity using some constant multiplier and if it's not too big number (it rarely is), you may be able to trick computation logic into overflowing by using enough classes.
- andrei_c
OK, I tested it. In Safari, you only need 257 classes to override single-ID selector.
- andrei_c
Awesome, andrei. I figured that some of the browsers might implement it using a less-than-infinite counter internally. I'd love to see a use case for a stylesheet that uses 257 class selectors, however. ;)
- Matt Mastracci
Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997) *2-/5 - http://wahn.posterous.com/lost-hi...
Out of curiosity, do you like any David Lynch movies or would you give most of them a similar rating?
- Rebeca
Rebeca, I think Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet are good. Not masterpieces, but pretty darn good movies.
- andrei_c
Blue Velvet seemed better to me too, but I wouldn't be as sure about Mulholland Drive. What movies do you consider masterpieces?
- Rebeca
Masterpieces? I still don't know what it is. But somehow I think any Terrence Malick's movie qualifies. Days of Heaven is my personal fav.
- andrei_c
Giant Ribbon Discovered at the Edge of the Solar System - http://science.nasa.gov/headlin...
Radiocarbon dating liked this
"NASA's IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the heliosphere and the results have taken researchers by surprise. The maps are bisected by a bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin."
- andrei_c
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Wash. liquor store expansions a sign of hard times - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html...
"Staring down a massive budget deficit, the state Legislature has uncorked one of the country's most aggressive attempts to capitalize on liquor sales."
- andrei_c
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Why is my house so bloody hot?
Christopher Harley, mjc, Steven Perez and 3 other people liked this
:(
- Derrick
We're in a heat wave too.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Seattle's going into another heat wave next few days :(
- andrei_c
Now it's too cold :(
- joey
Less than 2 months later! I think you might be perfect for San Diego, Joey.
- Christopher Harley
I usually have a few weeks to acclimate to Seattle's rain and cold but it hit us quickly this year. And our heat was a record, too. We're just not prepared for deviations in temperature up here. San Diego sounds lovely :)
- joey
I had friends over for MNF on Monday and they were surprised I had the heat on already. I told them that I was a WIMP. capital letters.
- Liana Shanes
In the past week, I've stopped receiving updates from Amazon. I tried a manual refresh. When I tried to remove and re-add Amazon, I get the 'oops, there was a problem' message.
Kamilah Gill, Mike Chelen, Stylish Eve and 8 other people liked this
Same here, Amazon fetch is broken. I stupidly deleted Amazon service, now I cannot add it back again.
- andrei_c
It looks like the Amazon feed hasn't been working since Aug 17th. Does anyone know if this is a FF or Amazon problem?
- Greg GuitarBuster
Still broken.
- Greg GuitarBuster
I reported the bug using the link at the top of the page (doh). I received a quick reply from Ana that the Amazon feed changed and FF is working on a fix.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Is everyone else still experiencing this also?
- Myrrh C.
Edit: Three weeks ago, I stopped receiving ....
- Greg GuitarBuster
Just added to Amazon wishlist and the new items are not appearing when I manually refresh the feed here in FriendFeed.
- Scott of Two Countries
I got a note from Ana a couple of weeks ago that Amazon had changed their interface or API or whatever they use and FF was trying to sync back up with them. I also stupidly deleted my account, but it hadn't been updating anyway. I tried again today (9/14) and no luck.
- Mark Edwards
Any update?
- andrei_c
still not working for me
- masstrovato
Oops, didn't see that this had been bumped. I posted another question but I'll watch both threads.
- joey
Permanent vegetative state or brain dead? Anyone want to call time of death?
- Greg GuitarBuster
Still seeing this myself, yeah.
- Stephen Mack
Is there an update? http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- joey
Oct 15, 2009: Still not working. I noticed this after the custom themes were unveiled, for the longest time I assumed my custom theme was to blame. Guilt > Doubt > Curiosity > Annoyance > Procrastination > Pet Peeve > more Procrastination. I finally emailed FriendFeed yesterday, and got a reply from Ana that same day. It seems like they understand what the problem is, but her email wasn't very reassuring beyond that, as she apologetically stated that this is [still] going to take awhile to fix.
- OraMac
OraMac, thank you for the update.
- Greg GuitarBuster
NASA - If current trend continues, sunspots could completely vanish around the year 2015. - http://science.nasa.gov/headlin...
Helen Sventitsky and Alex Scoble liked this
I'm guessing this would be a very bad thing?
- Alex Scoble
Alex, not really - this already happened in 17th century.
- andrei_c
What is a sunspot and why do we care?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Nicholas - http://tinyurl.com/yjzu9sv
- CW™
NASA - Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High - http://science.nasa.gov/headlin...
NASA spacecraft are measuring record-high levels of cosmic rays -- a side-effect of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.
- andrei_c
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Film Director Roman Polanski Arrested On ’70s Rape Charges - http://www.inquisitr.com/39589...
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andrei_c liked this
Good.
- Internet's Tad
Sad. And this time he probably won't get away with it.
- andrei_c
The victim doesn't want this rehashed, but he RAN. If he's permitted to get away with it, what message would that send?
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Russian billionaire to buy New Jersey Nets - http://www.inquisitr.com/39017...
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Rodfather liked this
I wonder when they'll start buying small countries.
- andrei_c
In Soviet Russia you catch nets!
- Alex Kapranoff
I created separate FF stream for the app I've developed. It is a universal translator of printed text. Snap the text using iPhone camera and get immediate translation into 48 languages - http://friendfeed.com/babelsh...
Rebeca liked this
Finished porting Tesseract OCR to iPhone. It works pretty well for English, provided type is big enough for far-sighted camera to handle.
Alex Kapranoff liked this
hi andrei great job . can you please share your project with me . I am trying to impliment the same but after 20 days of work . am stuck at a point . It will be great if you can share your project or just the objective c wrapper you have used . thanks in advance.
- sachin_skay
a quick help will be appreciated.
- sachin_skay
Hi andrei. Recently, I've tried to write my own recognising algorithm, but in the end it happened not to work really well. So I'm looking for an open source projects to try them out or find missteps in my. May be It would be possible for you to share your tesseract modification for an IPhone? Any help would be appreciated:))
- Andrew Danielyan
Andrew, I only slightly changed Tesseract code - fixed 2 or 3 GCC standard violations that caused build errors, and commented out main(), command line parsing and console output code which you don't need in iPhone app. The rest pretty much built once you added all needed files into xcode project. However, Tesseract by itself WON'T WORK well with photos because 90% of quality of recognition lies in image preparation. You need to add image processing layer to your app, because Tesseract does not have any.
- andrei_c
BTW, I'm writing a blog article describing all the problems that come up when you try to OCR mobile photos and ways to solve them. I'll try to finish it this month, with samples and resource pointers.
- andrei_c
Thanks a lot for reply:) I'll try to follow your advice and build tesseract again. Also, will be waiting for your blog!)
- Andrew Danielyan
Richard Thomson to Richard's feed, E-Mail For Help, Tech Questiion, The Apple Room, All Things Apple
oh my god itunes 9 is really crashy
Roberto Bonini, andrei_c and Joshua Schnell liked this
I've noticed the same thing.
- ej.dystic
I've had three crashes in as many days of (active) usage. Worst iTunes quality I've ever experienced.
- Niklas Morberg
iTunes sucks in general
- Grant Gochnauer
I have not seen crashes yet, but it is ugly slow. iTunes 8 was way faster.
- andrei_c
I've had trouble browseing the store. Always locks up and crashes. Was the same with 8.1 in the beginning tho.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Прошла неделя, как я зарепортил последний баг в frf — и впервые за год не получил ни ответа, ни фикса в течение суток. So, friendfeed.com is effectively frozen.
Dmitry Khrustalev, Roman Zolotarev, Peter Fedin and Mr Chapel liked this
Спросить их явно?
- Konstantin Boyandin
Да все понятно с FF. Кончился. Починить Amazon тоже уже месяц как никто не собирается.
- andrei_c
О, ответили!!!
- Alex Kapranoff
from iPhone
I just learned from accidental tweet that one of my neighbors is collecting guns. Not exactly the knowledge I missed or wanted to be shared.
Arrow of time -> A physicist claims to have solved one of the more persistent problems in physics: why time flows in only one direction. - http://arstechnica.com/science...
Iván Abrego, J. Abdul-Qahhar, chaz2b and 6 other people liked this
"..all the laws of physics are time agnostic. You can run time forward or backwards, and it makes no difference at all. Literally, as far as physics is concerned, there is no reason why we experience time in the direction we do. The exception to this rule is entropy, which always increases in a closed system. Entropy is based on irreversible physical processes, where running time backwards doesn't get you back to where you started, despite the fact that there are no physical laws that allow this to occur. So, although we observe experimentally that entropy always increases, there are no known irreversible processes that can drive entropy. Maccone has taken a slightly different view of this problem by looking at correlations... The upshot is that entropy-decreasing events can occur, but can never be observed from within the system. You can extend this to the universe, which may well be a closed system: we are within it and, even though events that reduce the entire entropy of the universe are possible, we can never observe such things. ."
- james reilly
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I think Godel wrote a paper which constructs a model consistent with general relativity where time is cyclical; Einstein was amused but rejected it because of causality arguments (during their days together at the Institute for Advanced Studies ;-).
- Adriano
I've read it about 1.8 times and can't grok this. Usually, if there's no scary formulas, I can formulate some idea as to what the article wants to say, but with this one I draw a blank. I think that his example with his wife and in-house entropy might be completely ridiculous, though.
- Goran Zec
I haven't read entire paper (only article and abstract) but it sounds like a lot of a stretch for anthropic principle, - more questions raised than answered.
- andrei_c
Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid - http://science.slashdot.org/story...
Anthony Citrano, Tudor Bosman, Victor Kamutzki and 13 other people liked this
Isn't that like saying oxygen makes air temporarily breathable?
- Louis Gray
hee.
- Jenna Bilotta
duh
- Remo
no more bars, no more tech conferences...
- Avi Joseph
So it *is* true!! Ha!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from iPhone
Happens to women too, see Dirty Dancing. "I carried a watermelon."
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from iPhone
"This leads to speculation that men use up so much of their brain function or 'cognitive resources' trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks." -- Less likely they are using their brains to try to impress and more likely they are losing brain function because they are fantasying about them.
- Cristo
I am not so sure about "temporarily" part.
- andrei_c
andrei_c: +1
- Nikos Anagnostou
Haha. +2 for Andrei. And, as Zulema noted, I've seen it happen to women too, but to make it official we have to do this right and do our own experiment. Who's the most handsome guy in friendfeed?
- Rebeca
I liked this just for the title.
- motownmutt
Seattle's Discovery Park closed after third cougar sighting in a week - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html...
At least it's not snow leopards.
- andrei_c
The best reason to get an Android phone, IMHO: Google Sky Map. Useful augmented-reality-lite app that tells you what stars your phone is pointed at.
andrei_c liked this
Apparently the bright planet outside my window is Jupiter. I had no idea it was so visible in the sky.
- Matt Mastracci
The iPhone has Starmap, which utilizes the 3GS's magnetometer: http://www.star-map.fr/
- Mark Trapp
Starmap looks way nicer than Google Sky Map. But then again, Google's Sky Map is free. :)
- Matt Mastracci
iPhone has SkyGazer - very detailed sky maps. It does not use built-in compass, but anyone using the software should be able to point North after looking at night sky for about 2 seconds :)
- andrei_c
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review - http://arstechnica.com/apple...
стозевно и лайкай liked this
Worth reading. Go straight to page 5 for more technical overview.
- andrei_c
It's in the genes: Sarah, at 14 months, has her father's Diet Coke addiction. #parentingfail
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Carmen, Marc Dong, Ladybug Heather and 31 other people liked this
Josh Haley will be pleased.
- Akiva Moskovitz
She's gonna be BZZT BZZT BZZT later.
- Derrick
DUDE!
- CW™
Louis, oh you are such a bad, bad parent!! A baby, and you've got her addicted already! dang! :P
- Susan Beebe
this is how I got started!
- Holly Rae, FFer
messing up the child!
- ugurarcan
diet coke ftw!
- metalerik
fail indeed.
- andrei_c
It's only a fail if the can is actually open which I'm guessing it isn't. That or Sarah is the world's neatest baby. :D
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Pea, I can neither confirm nor deny that to be the case.
- Louis Gray
hee. :-x duly noted.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
from my tests using photoshop and my php skills, it appears the can is empty and has been cleaned prior to giving it to sarah
- Allen Stern
Allen is wrong.
- Louis Gray
^____________^
- Josh Haley
Caffeine doesn't cause children to get wired and spaz like adults, it cause paradoxical focus through the same mechanism as Ritalin. Well, it does wire their brain up, but specifically the focusy part of the brain, which in children is underdeveloped.
- Matthew DeVries
The increased heart rate would be what I would worry about the most. Little hearts aren't as durable as more mature ones.
- Josh Haley
Louis you have to cure this it's horrendous for their bowels. Paramedics use this stuff in the UK to clean blood of the roads. Nothing else can do it. Save Sarah today.
- Thomas Power
Actually, once the foramen ovale closes, baby hearts are the best you can get, nearly impossible to fatigue.
- Matthew DeVries
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