- Image of the day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denmes/4528735661/sizes/l/ #
- 3 kg of food are enough to propel a man into distance of 110 km in 6 hours. #
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This Week in Twitter
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This Week in Twitter
- Is it me or banner ads became much more personalized in the last weeks? Scary it works not only across sites but also country boundaries. #
- Who has once stuffed a sleeping bag into its compression bag may not complain about any usability issues in software ever. #
- Finger or stylus? Both! RT @sizeof: New Computer Interface Goes Beyond Just Touch http://ff.im/-iWZj6 #
- Google Wave is hacked and transporting wave of SPAM via address books since Friday. #
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- Impressive lifehack: http://ninite.com/ #
- Working in VS2010 for the first time, often find myself looking for a fullscreen button. May be it is this thick dark-blue frame… #
- Does Windows Phone Emulator have a measurable influence on sales of multitouch monitors and Windows 7? #
- RT @XaocCPS: Adobe will ship a critical patch April 13 to fix multiple high-risk security holes in Reader & Acrobat. #
- Silverlight expansion continues — support for set-top boxes and multicast Smooth Streaming announced. #NAB2010 #
- A valid point in case http://www.helpburner.com/blog/crossing-the-chasm-is-a-bad-thing-for-your-start-up/ #
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Making money
APPL: making money by being evil.
GOOG: making money by not being evil.
MSFT: making money by making platforms to make money.
ADBE: making money by making software to make beauty.
Open Source: not professional software developers.
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Colors of digits
0 is white
1 is black
2 is yellowish, paper-colored
3 and 8 are green
4 is orange
5 is red
6 and 9 are pink
7 is blue
Do digits also have colors for you?
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This Week in Twitter
- “Even though I appear to have no soul, sometimes my soul does hurt. Roman, 2nd grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
- “When unhappy in love, one doesn’t die. One just stops to live. Georgy, 3rd grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
- “And I… I die a little in every second. Pasha, 1st grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
- “Don’t be afraid, my Lord, I’m with You! Andrei, 1st grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
- DB Railnavigator für Android ist einfach geil. Auch wenn man keinen Zug fahren möchte. Lokalisierte ÖPNV Haltestellen mit Abfahrtszeiten. #
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H.264 or VC-1?
Alex Zambelli has provided a simple rule of thumb in his Media Processing Workflow slidedeck:
–H.264 decoding is typically more CPU intensive than VC-1 decoding for the same resolution and frame rate
–In Silverlight 3: H.264 decoding requires about 15–25% more CPU time than VC-1 decoding with similar content properties
Good rule of thumb (for now):
–For HD video, use VC-1 to reach largest audience
–For SD video and smaller, use H.264 if quality gains are noticeable
This “(for now)” part is supposedly a hint that SL5 will/should/could feature GPU video acceleration. Now that would be really cool. With cross-platform video playback being one of the biggest (if not the biggest) forces to win Silverlight installation base, I wonder why this feature hasn’t got it into SL4 scope…
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