This entry is now always on top. There are newer entries below it.
This thing should tell you your name.
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Эта шняга все время весит сверху, хотя это и не самая новая запись. Она должна сказать вам ваше имя.
( How it works? | Как оно работает? )
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Oh, yeah, cause I don't like traffic...
So, in the future there will be flying cars. Say they all use vertical take-off and landing.
Problem: how do we organize flying cars traffic?
Restriction: using of our current grid approach is hereby vetoed by me. The whole point of flying cars is to get from point A to point B by going in a straight line. No merging onto a high-speed "flyway" please. Straight lines only (or at least mostly straight lines).
I could think of two global solutions:
First is to fully robotize flying cars -- when you board you tell it your destination. The car sends its origin, destination, and abilities to some central server. The central server keeps track of all cars currently in the air and calculates an optimal trajectory for the new car. Writing that software would be fun.
Advantages: none or very few accidents, no need to drive anything, high efficiency
Disadvantages: all cars will need to subscribe to a common protocol, single point of failure, changing of destination might be complicated, no way to "just drive around looking at stuff"
Second is to develop a set of rules for the drivers of flying cars, and have an FMV registration like we do now.
Writing those rules would also be fun :D
Advantages: robustness in car construction, allowance for free driving
Disadvantages: 3 dimensions are likely to makes those rules complicated. High speeds and high altitudes will make accidents catastrophic, and there will be many.
Likely the end result will be a combination of the two, maybe with one altitude level devoted solely to computerized traffic system, and another level -- for manually controlled cars.
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First, pictures and videos from all around
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On a rare sunny day (i.e. without anything falling from the sky) we went to a
( Buddhist pagoder )
And on another night we went to a Chinese game show -- a bunch of Americans from Nanjing university regularly participate in this. Lexi got to help one of the participants too :)
( Game show, or, making fun of laowai )
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Anyone would be willing to pick me up at the airport at 11 PM on Wednesday?
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...you probably haven't known. In no particular order.
0. There is no sky. This mystical fog you see on pictures of China is in fact air pollution.
1. All beds are hard. Universally everywhere.
2. All toilets have two buttons. One flushes half the water; it's a water conservation effort.
3. There is no toilet paper in public bathrooms
4. KFC is the most popular western fast food (McDonalds, BK are present too)
5. Haagen-Dazs is very big, it's like a super-expensive dessert restaurant
6. Streets have a separate part for bicycles/scooters, and a sidewalk sometimes. Noone cares.
7. There are people whose job is to control traffic on the major intersections.
8. Youtube is blocked country-wide. Access to Facebook is kinda sporadic.
9. People spit a lot. It's not considered impolite.
10. Local cuisine is based around a dumpling, noodle soup and rice dishes. You only get chopsticks and a small spoon for the soup.
update:
11. There are no driers. People dry clothing by hanging it around on clotheslines.
12. There are sometimes solar panels on the roofs of the buildings.
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Hulu, Castle on ABC, and House on Fox are only available to US residents.
GAH.
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| Male | Female | Total |
| Felicia Day | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Jewel Staite | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Abstained | 0 | 1 | 1 |
All comments unscreened.
I expected girls to vote more for Felicia Day (cause she's slimmer) and guys more for Jewel Staite (cause it doesn't really matter :D) :)
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In our discussion we have discovered an interesting discrepancy. So, here's a poll!
Who's prettier: Kaylee Frye(Jewel Staite during Firefly) or Penny(Felicia Day)? :D
( Pictures under cut )
In your answer please post your gender, if I don't know it. Yes, girls need to respond too :D All answers are screened.
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Felicia Day, Jed Whedon, and the Knights of Good present "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?":
I've watched all 2.7 seasons of The Guild in the last three days. First two seasons were really good. Third one is slightly less appealing so far :)
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Seriously, what can you do after this? This should have been a series finale or something.
Amelie
Whisper of the Heart
Fight Club
Run Lola Run
Sin City
Love Actually
House Season 6 Episode 1
Pulp Fiction
The Prestige
Hairspray
( personal )
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I'll be outside of the country between October 20th and November 18th :P
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Meet the Pyro:
(unofficial, but by far the best of TF2 machinima so far. Almost on par with official videos, and funny if you saw previous "Meet the Team" clips :) )
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Programmer's day (256th day of the year, Sept. 12th or 13th) is now an official professional holiday in Russia :D
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How to make inline-block and vertical-align work in IE7:
element {
vertical-align: middle;
display: inline-block;
zoom: 1;
*display: inline;
}
Full investigation:
http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/02/20/cross-browser-inline-block/
(also makes it work for IE6 and Firefox 2)
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Yandex Street View:
Посмотреть на Яндекс.Картах
Chief Russian search engine beats Google to the punch. Also, pictures seem to be of higher resolution. I can read license plates and street signs.
via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dolboeb
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I made a pretty big update to public webform for laptop price predictor:
http://ebay.xirax.net
And I am looking into expanding it into some other category -- today I've coded up automatic attribute extraction given eBay category. Previously all attribute names (and for webform, values) were hardcoded.
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