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Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke: "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."


I used to love Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too.


Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, May 7 1840.

When he was a little boy he never played out in the streets of Votkinsk like the other little children of Votkinsk, because when Tchaikovsky was one month old, his parents moved to St. Petersburg.

— Victor Borge


As Victor said, his parents were very upset when they came home and found him in front of a roaring fire, because they did not have a fireplace.


Put up in a place

where it is easy to see

the cryptic admonishment

T.T.T

                                                     ¨ 
When you feel how depressingly

slowly you climb

it's well to remember that

Things Take Time

-- Piet Hein


If you don't like a parade, run in the opposite direction to fast-forward it.


It's electron based.


> only one -- poison -- is an example of an actual product you can buy (nobody's selling home drowning kits)

They're also not selling magnet ingestion kits


you can directly edit the dollar amount in the field to the right of the slider, and it will bubble-up to the total.


It says under the table "locations based on projections of delayed data" I would guess that they look at where a flight plan is going from and to and interpolate in between.


I think you're right -- it doesn't match FlightAware's FAA data at at all (at least when comparing in downtown Chicago). FlightAware had many more flights, including non-commercial and cargo.


Thinkgeek sells a 4x4x4 version for $80: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/techies/d71d/


Doesn’t look programmable, though? That would make it next to worthless for me, unless it’s possible to hack it easily (not that I would be able to do that).


i have this one http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/rainbow-cube-kit-rgb-4x4x4-...

I've put it together but haven't had the time to test it out. It also requires one of these: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/rainbowduino-led-driver-pla...

So it is most definitely programmable, It was a bitch to solder together though.


Swiveling cameras are not a new idea, Sony picture books had one at least ten years ago: http://www.transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=381&#...


He mentions in the video that he filed a patent for it not so long ago.

I suppose there might prove to be a few problems there that may ultimately end up delaying its release, or worse, killing it altogether.


Filing a patent != having a patent. The Sony device is clearly prior art. I had one of those Sony's, BTW.

I can't believe anyone would compare this device favorably vs. an iPad. That's willful ignorance, I guess.


I will happily compare it favorably vs the iPad for two simple reasons. 1. Better screen for what I'll be using it for and 2. more open and thus easier to make it work the way I want a tablet to work.

Will it outsell the iPad? No. To want this device more than an iPad? Very much so.


Chrome comes with the element inspector built in which replicates a lot of the functionality of Firebug.


A lot, but not enough. In place editing of HTML, CSS and cookie manipulation are almost non-existent, especially compared to the way firebug allows it.


The element inspector is handy, but personally I would also need JavaScript step through debugging like Firebug provides.


Have you actually tried WebKit's developer tools lately?

It has a great DOM inspector (allows editing), network/script/rendering timeline, step-through debugger, profiler, cookie and local database inspector, and Chrome even has a heap analysis tool (see which objects are allocated).

It's far better than Firebug, at least for JavaScript developers, IMO.


Chrome has step through debugging. Check the 'Scripts' tab of the inspector


The element inspector comes somewhat close, but you can't add css attributes to selectors, only modify existing ones, which really makes the thing useless when doing front end dev


Are you sure? I think you can edit the text of stylesheets, and add new style properties on individual elements too.


Editing the text of stylesheets: no.

Editing style rules applied to elements: yes, you can do this. Select an element in the inspector, and you can click to edit its style rules.


unless you're seeing something I'm not seeing, you can only modify existing attributes. If you could show me though, an upvote will be in your future :-)


Though not as useful as firebug you are able to add a 'style="<custom css>"' attribute to an element by hovering over and clicking the '?=""' that appears.


I recommend the Asus VW266H 25.5" 1920x1200 and about 300 dollars. Plenty of space for code.


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