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For ye have the interlace always with you ...
program or be programed (chapter three free, sxsw)
The stunning Republican gains in the US elections appear to have doomed efforts to pass a "net neutrality" bill that would require Internet service providers to treat all Web traffic equally. President Barack Obama, Democrats in Congress and Silicon Valley have backed net neutrality but it has met with opposition from telecom and cable companies and many Republicans who see it as unnecessary government regulation.
The danger of computers: an expert who only knows how to plug numbers into a spreadsheet that someone else wrote. You can get the gist in a few minutes, but the entire 9 minutes is so incredibly painful to this engineer.
Fucking clocks, how do they work?
Apple AppStore infringing VLC media player license
While I'm bashing vendors, Microsoft IE6 is a canonical example of "hoisted by his own petard."
Ha, ha.
VLC for Apple mobile platforms
Tricks of the trade: lossy compression aims to remove the stuff that's least perceptible.
Note: The article makes an over simplification. The primary channel is "luma" which is derived from R,G and B. G is a big contributor to luma. By the way, the human visual system works amazingly well considering how much it sucks. Lossy compression is about taking advantage of the suckitude.
And I started a digital video company that wasn't YouTube.
AT&T Adding Smartphones as End of IPhone Hold Looms
book 'em danno!