This is what Windows 8 on the desktop should have looked like - GSMArena Blog

This is what Windows 8 on the desktop should have looked like - GSMArena Blog

I sort of agree here. To me, the Metro desktop and setup looks fine, and the idea of integrating OSes for both devices seems like a good idea, but I think on desktop PCs, people should have the option to tune their experience- that is, more towards a desktop-like set up if they've got a more traditional set up, more towards the tablet style when they have touch interfaces.

Let's see if it can support multiple embeds and/or TED embeds on the same page

What strikes me about this is that it seems to bring a different kind of 3-D to the table than the stereoscopic or simple rendered kind.  The drawback, of course, is that you only have one person who can experience this at a time, but if you have somebody sitting in front of a computer screen(which tends to be one person watching the monitor, or playing a one-player video game), then it's not an issue.

What I'd be interested to see here is whether this video posts properly from blogger

Here's the thing I notice here: look how much time is spent distracting you from actually directly interacting with him.  You might have some nice little AI tricks regarding him noticing or taking interests with things you do, but you only get real interaction after having been narratively tunnelled into a certain conversation that has certain social expectations attached to it

But I do have to say it's a neat trick.  But is it going to seem all that neat as others develop this kind of interaction more extensively?

I have to wonder, is this just a problem when dealing with embeds?

Or does the blogwriter program just screw things up when it deals with embedded video?

Test for Telepresent Texan

Just trying to see how this works on my blog,  You know how it goes.  The same old story with all the fun and glory.  This could make it easier for me to just sit down and write more of these entries.  There’s a lot that’s interesting in the world.

An interesting article on the Anonymous Hack of HBGary

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

What strikes me about this story is that despite the prestige in the media about it, the means by which it were done were not especially exotic, and the vulnerabilities it exploited were not especially unknown. In fact, they were pretty basic!

If there's a comment to be made from my end of subject, it's a cognitive one. The thing about passwords is that the truly unpredictable ones, the ones that are all surprise information, which can't be guessed from the other side from other info, are also the most difficult to remember. Meaningful information is both memorable and recoverable by others by logic and detective work for the same reasons.

Click the Link, this sucker looks cosmic.

Montana Thunderstorm

Darth Vader's borderline? No, I don't think so.

What is Darth Vader's diagnosis?

What some folks miss is Anakin Skywalker never had a pure Jedi education. From the start, Chancellor Palpatine was teaching him, influencing him. People ask how he could all of a sudden turn Sith, but at the risk of being contradicted later by Lucas, I believe he was being taught the principles of the Sith, as he was being educated in the Code of the Jedi.

There are lines in either Episode Two, or Episode Three, where Palpatine goes something like "Remember what I taught you, those with power are loath to part with it.". That sounds to me like he was giving Anakin lessons about power and its uses, a rather Sith thing to be doing. Why can't the secret Sith give his pupil in politics shadow lessons in Sith doctrine ? He wouldn't have to announce it, saying, turn your Sith Textbook to page 108, he could simply give those lessons as pointers for dealing with political situations, or dealing with the real world, as a counterpoint to what the Jedi taught him. Rather than only having a few hours to teach him everything, Palpatine would have over ten years to instruct his pupil in Sith thought, if not actual force techniques.

There was always a parallel path. What Palpatine did over time was force Anakin into the belief that he had no other path to walk than to walk the path of Dark Side, and as he was tunnelled more into that, his behavior became increasingly outside the pale.

Anakin doesn't have to be mentally ill to react like he did. People underestimate the consequences of having a head full of bad ideas, of being under the bad influence of somebody who could be termed a psychopath, a remorseless manipulator.

'Sex and the City' movie may be too racy for one city - CNN.com

Define Irony.

An expert says that Sex and the City II (A movie I intend to somehow fail to see) will do for Abu Dhabi what Lord of the Rings did for New Zealand.

Exceeeeept:

Lord of the Rings was actually shot in New Zealand, which doubled for Middle Earth, whereas this movie is set in what's supposed to be Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, but actually is Morocco!

Curiously enough, Morocco's doubled for a great many dry, dusty Arab countries, especially with movies that deal in controversial issues.

One would think that Morocco should see the benefit of all their hard work at making their country a good location for movies, no?