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Perhaps he would have gotten away with it had he not erased the bash history. Outside of that, there's probably a lot of data/operations moving about, and would be tough to spot, because I get the impression that he was up to stuff for a while and no one was the wiser.

summary: HD media, graphics acceleration from GPUs, codecs: H.264, AAC and MPEG4, IIS Media services [free] helps to steram media (like the demo link from the article above), more UI controls, deep linking with maintenance of back/foward buttons in the browser, better text rendering and font support (i wonder what new font types), more networking API stuff for WCF...

and then on the tools side, they made improvements to blend: intellisense, prototyping designers, 'behaviors', and imports from photoshop & illustrator

i believe this is a good idea on a phone, but not on a computer screen. the problem is really that if you do this, then when someone is logging in with someone else with them - then they are out of options. it's easier to watch characters appear one at a time than it is to watch someone's hands on a keyboard.

for example, i have a media center setup in my living room. sometimes people are over, or my housemate is down with me, and i need to sign into netflix so we can watch movies online -- or I'm shopping with someone and now I need to sign into newegg or amazon...

I like the idea of the compromise with Jakob Nielsen's idea -- which is to have a button on the page that says like "hold down to reveal password", or "press to reveal password". i'm going to experiment between 'hold down to reveal' and 'press to reveal' next time i make a login page -- i like hold down, but maybe there's a problem with that i'm not realizing yet.

for example, i have a media center setup in my living room. sometimes people are over, or my housemate is down with me, and i need to sign into netflix so we can watch movies online -- or I'm shopping with someone and now I need to sign into newegg or amazon...

I like the idea of the compromise with Jakob Nielsen's idea -- which is to have a button on the page that says like "hold down to reveal password", or "press to reveal password". i'm going to experiment between 'hold down to reveal' and 'press to reveal' next time i make a login page -- i like hold down, but maybe there's a problem with that i'm not realizing yet.

  print 'hell'
  sleep 1500ms
  print 'o'
  for i=0->2
    sleep 500ms  
    cursorleft = cursorleft-1
    print o
  sleep 700ms
  print ' world'

If you are using amphetamines please see this article by Jonah Lehrer, editor of Seed Magazine: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/04/cognitive_enhancement...

I keep checking out 37signals products because people make a fuss about it, so it's working, except I can't see what anyone sees in them.

my problem with the excerpt is that it is not that meaningful. no one has ever been able to prevent technology from advancing, they've tried many times before, for whatever reasons - and i believe that if we can have a singularity, and if we survive, then we will.

Once I thought they had lost my data. Turns out if you change your password and log back in with your old password, you get some weird old data from I don't know when -- this resulted in my recreating about 75% of VitaList on a Friday, and then realized I had not lost my data and stopped. I'm keeping that code around, just in case they start charging for the API or something... :).

edit: one more thing, i find the view by context feature really handy - my contexts are "home" "work" "errands" - and being able to quickly group by that (or by project) is nice.

if you really want to give a finger to the academia though, just publish it - and include a long essay on all the various ways the academic institutions hindered your progress, how bureaucratic they are, and how little they actually care about advancing knowledge. further, publish it on a blog instead of an academic journal, ask for peer review, and don't mention your university once anywhere on the blog. that'll show 'em, those punks.

fugazi (as i remember it): if you had to get paid to say it, you probably had nothing important to say.

on the other hand..when someone has something important to say, the mind is just looking for any way to get it out there, and above the noise.

i believe that when something is really eating at you, something about society, something about the world, a perspective, an idea -- when things cannot be summarized into a snippet or tweet, or a single blog post, which is to say, when they are truly meaningful - then there's relief once you know it made it to the audience.

all that effort put into the book, or whatever, was working towards that release....this is why some people don't get what makes great art - the creative world seems 'flimsy', lacks orientation, weird -- but the good stuff usually very much has a direction - just an atypical one, that breaks the conventions. there is a drive in these people....and it's not money, it's an idea, and they are its slaves.

huck finn has been described as something inside of twain - huck finn needed to get out. everytime twain talked to his black friends, everytime twain read the newspaper, everytime twain reflected on those trips abroad, huck finn scratched on the inside, trying to get out. yah, the book made money, but i'm sure there was a real high inside of twain when he knew it had been read, when he knew that finn got his say, when the book was being discussed.

perhaps someday an idea will rise up in your mind, not a business idea, not something that can get you some more pillows for your sofas, but a meaningful idea, an idea that affects your core, an idea that you feel needs to be shared, and then you won't wonder anymore why some people write things like an "authors reward is to be read."

like i mentioned earlier, those kind of ideas take a lot of work to share, you don't just write a blog post -- truly meaningful ideas, ideas outside the current social mindsets, have to build up their language, their perspectives, their new contexts, over chapter, over time and to bring others with them, they have to do it well. until they finish that hard work, the idea is festering inside, trying to get out.

there's nothing new here - no new research - it's just an editorial. don't drink too much soda - duh. i was hoping they figured could narrow down what moderate means.