The main idea of “Inception”: if you run a VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM, everything will be very slow
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Map of undersea cables
If you ever want to know how the world’s undersea cables are routed, check out this map.
Hey look at my homescreens!
So I signed up to the brand spankin’ new homescreen.me from the guys behind Smoking Apples and you can see how I arranged the home screens on my iOS devices. The site draws inspiration from firstand20.com but it’s for everyone (who has an invitation).
You can upload a single shot of each of your iPhone, iPhone 4, and iPad home screens but no more. I suppose one reason the iPhone 4 gets its own entry because of its higher resolution display but other than that, I’m not sure why it does. I hope the older iPhones don’t get all upset and cry about it because Preshit and Milind are playing favorites to the new kid.
I expect a gallery is on the way to make it easier to browse through people’s home screens. Somehow I see this developing into something like Flickr for, well, home screens. Would be better if we can submit them directly instead of having to switch to the computer and upload from there, but for a start, it’s neat.
Speaking of which, someone should come up with a collective name for these iOS devices.
Han Solo was supposed to die in ROTJ
“We had an outline and George changed everything in it,” Kurtz said. “Instead of bittersweet and poignant he wanted a euphoric ending with everybody happy. The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”
The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.
Welcome to the new decade: Java is a restricted platform, Google is evil, Apple is a monopoly and Microsoft are the underdogs
@phil_nash
Movie Times
Simple web app to find movie theaters and schedules near your area based on data from Google Movies. Unfortunately Indonesia isn’t supported yet, the data’s simply not available on Google. Singapore is though.
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
These are hilarious. If only they can be applied to online articles, we need these for the web.
Google pulls apps too
Just as some people are up in arms about Apple pulling Camera+ from the App Store, the Cupertino company isn’t the only one with that prerogative. Google recently pulled EasyRoot from the Android Market because Verizon complained it allows Verizon Droid phones’ owners to circumvent Verizon’s hotspot policy even though it’s not a function of the app.
Rooting an Android phone is the same as jailbreaking an iOS device. It lets you access and enable functions not made available by the vendor. In Verizon’s case, rooting the Droids will let the owners share their phones’ internet connections via wifi freely, something that Verizon charges money for, despite the feature being standard on Android 2.2.
Just like Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market has policies. Any app that violates those policies or receives complaints from significant enough parties will be removed.
A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
More of not what we believe in. (via Boing Boing)
A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
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