Sometimes, explanations of Chinese characters remind me an IQ test. Lets look at ? for example. Here is it again, larger: ? According to one book, you should be able to see a human profile here, according to another, it is a body with stomach and leg walking. Do you see them yet? No? How …
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Unfollowed my 2nd tweep because none of their pages displayed properly in my Android browser. Some ppl just don't get this social thing # Alt? Eher zu sozial. In Social, geek is the king. RT @HolgerSchmidt: "Viele Führungskräfte sind zu alt für Social Media" http://ow.ly/1DaNP # Its wireless! How hard could it be?.. http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-04-24/ # …
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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. # Powered by Twitter Tools
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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 …
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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 …
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.
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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"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" …
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): …