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How does he do it?

DonanFear says...

That was lame... He switches the tiles when he cuts the video. Count the tiles at 0:55 and you'll notice he has half a row more than before the cut. Same thing at 2:35 but now he has half a row less. After the shuffling he ends up with 9 rows that fit perfectly in the frame.

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Nokia Lied to Us!!!

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Printer hack LetsU print reams of stuff after toner "dies"

DonanFear says...

Neat trick. It seems the printer uses some kind of optical sensor to check the toner level.
Too bad most printers use an electronic chip in the cartridge that counts how much you've printed and just stop working after x number of pages or x mg of toner/ink, obviously the printer refuses to print anything if you just tape over the connectors on those.

The best advice for anyone looking for a new printer: find an old printer with replaceable print heads (for ink) or drum (laser). Printer technology hasn't advanced much in the last 10-15 years. Just make sure there are drivers available for it.

@Morganth: It's not that the printers have inadequate cooling and need the ink for cooling. Most inkjet printers work by heating tiny ink-filled tubes (there's usually over 100 in the print head), instantly vaporizing the ink, forming a bubble that shoots a tiny drop of ink out of the tube and then pulls more ink into the tube from the other side. If there's no ink to vaporize the tube could overheat or more probably whatever ink is left dries up and clogs up the print head. If you put a heatsink on the heating elements the printer just wouldn't work.

CINEMA 4D Soft Body Dynamics

DonanFear says...

Not realtime.
Cinema 4D used to have an absolutely terrible physics engine (last time I tried to use it was in version 8.5 I think), even basic objects got stuck together or glitched through the floor. Good to see it's a little less crappy now.

>> ^gwiz665:

Realtime?

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We are IE - Comparing Every Version of Internet Explorer

DonanFear says...

>> ^Skeeve:

Very interesting.
I'm surprised that IE 9, which can only run on Microsoft's newest OS, only made it to 95/100 on Acid Test 3, while on my computer (running Vista) Chrome gets to 100/100 flawlessly. Why would they release a "brand new" browser that couldn't keep up with an existing and competing one?


They did this on purpose. They didn't implement features that aren't finalized and might change in the future to avoid ending up with another IE6 situation where sites/apps made for IE6 don't work in newer browsers because they don't interpret the code the same way the old browser does. In theory a page made for IE9 should work fine in IE11 or Chrome 17 as long as the new browser supports the standard and the features supported by IE9 don't change.

Google uses a different approach and releases new versions supporting all the latest stuff very frequently. The problem with this is that a site that tested fine with for example Chrome 9 will not necessarily work properly in future versions because parts of the standard aren't set in stone and might change.

Hacker Takes Over Screens at Times Square

DonanFear says...

If you know anything about video technology or even own an iPhone you know this is totally fake.
For starters how do you get a video signal out of the headphone jack on the iPhone?
The rest is even more impossible (impossibler?).
How does he create a radio signal strong enough to override the data stream in a shielded digital cable without affecting anything else. That's like detonating a nuclear bomb to light your cigarette without blowing up the entire city or even lighting anyone elses cigarette, multiplied by how many parallel data wires the monitor uses. HDMI uses 4 shielded differential pairs.
The specs and resolution of the monitor(s) being hacked are unknown but it still manages to scale and rotate the image to fit perfectly and even splits it up and sends unique images to different monitors in the multi-monitor setup. With a paperclip-antenna.

Upvote for the video editing. He even got the reflections right and the multi-monitor shot has intentionally bad bezel compensation.

History of CO2

DonanFear says...

DonanFear's 1st rule of graphs: If your axis doesn't start at 0 then you're probably full of shit.
Not that CO2 isn't increasing, because it is, but exaggerating like that makes you look desperate. The music doesn't help.

continuum fingerboard - awesome musical instrument

continuum fingerboard - awesome musical instrument



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