Video: documentary on Showbiz animatronic band
July 4, 2008 8:44pm
Disney's 10 rules of theme-park design
June 21, 2008 7:12pm
#5 (I understand Mr. Sklar was with Disney when these company lines were invented, and even involved in coming up with them.)
I rather doubt Walt had a top 10 list for designing his park. It would be more like a list of 1000 anyway. This sounds like something Disney marketing came up with. Or maybe an Imagineer wrote it, so it would look like he was working. Sorry, the new Disney has me a little cynical.
Tilt: documentary about the valiant effort to save pinball by merging it with video games
June 21, 2008 7:07pm
Those Pinball 2000 games sucked compared to real pinball. They did nothing to enhance the gameplay, they downgraded the gameplay in the name of fancy new graphics - sound like any movies you know of?
The physical aspect IS the fun of pinball. They should have capitalized on that. I think pinball has a big advantage over video games, because home console technology has exceeded arcade game technology, but pinball is one thing the average person will never have in their homes. When I go in a mini-arcade or bar, I look to the pinball games for entertainment, not the video games. Video games I can play at home.
Disney's 10 rules of theme-park design
June 21, 2008 6:06am
Marty Sklar is a hack, reciting the company line. Noone creative remains at Disney. They are all efficiency experts.
Earth from Mars -- photo
June 9, 2008 3:07pm
Why is it NASA can't even figure out how to properly make a website? Using this crud instead of a simple link:
javascript:openNASAWindow('http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/selene/index_e.html')
Emotionally charged photo of woman being evicted from private property in Brazilian Amazon
June 7, 2008 7:16am
Wealthy landowners should not have to put up with a human being infestation, any more that you would tolerate a roach infestation in your own home. It is the wealthy who suffer when lawbreakers like this woman are glorified. Respect capitalism.
The above was full of shit, in case you liked it.
Paramount silencing portions of Indiana Jones in theaters?
May 28, 2008 5:08pm
Lucas already has the winning formula for keeping people from pirating his movies - make sure they suck ass.
Former RIAA CEO is the Huffington Post's new political director
May 26, 2008 4:18am
HuffPo & BoingBoing are 2 of my 5 read-every-day links. HuffPo may be biased and employ douches, but they have a fantastic format and they filter for entertaining and smart stories.
Microsoft tries to put a ceiling on ultra-low-cost PC power
May 12, 2008 12:44pm
I don't see anything wrong with this.
And Linux may be free, but its hell to use.
Weekend Mayhem: Come Play Team Fortress 2 With Boing Boing!
May 4, 2008 3:49pm
I haven't been able to find the server the last few days.. any idea why?
Weekend Mayhem: Come Play Team Fortress 2 With Boing Boing!
May 2, 2008 3:04pm
Sweet. Note everyone, sort by server name, then its easy to find under B.
HOWTO keep your laptop from being searched at the border (it's hard)
May 1, 2008 8:14pm
#38 posted by realyst: Why not use something like Truecrypt's 'plausible deniability' mode?
Another vote for TrueCrypt here, a fantastic program. The plausible deniability concept is pure genius. They want a password? Give them a password. They want to see your files? Let them go to town.
How sad though, that the price of freedom is our integrity. Just remember, a promise made under duress is not binding.
NYTimes.com hand-codes its HTML
May 1, 2008 4:43am
"to dismiss DW offhand (nowadays) is silly...back when it did produce some really crappy code. DW8.x started to fix a lot of those issues and DW9.x is getting even better."
Wow, it's only 10% crappy code now? Sign me up!
Seriously people, WYSIWYG tools - even if one did exist that made good code - are SLOWER than hand coding in the long run. This is because an experienced coder creates self-documenting code designed for easy maintenance. From the names of variables/classes/id's to a flexible structure that can easily be modified to fit potential design changes, hand coding is superior for all but the simplest projects. And even for those, I would only recommend WYSIWYG for people who will not be doing this for a living, like my grandma.
Ever tried to make manual modifications to something generated by a WYSIWYG? Try it someday, you will wish you were never born.
Obviously Mac vs PC is a retarded point to bring into this discussion.
NYTimes.com hand-codes its HTML
April 30, 2008 3:47am
Umm how is this different than any other major website? Is there ANY major site that doesn't hand-code their html? If any of them got caught using Frontpage or Dreamweaver I think they would be laughed out of town. This is like saying Valve wrote Half-Life from scratch, instead of using GameMaker.
Ghost resort in Disney World
April 24, 2008 12:11pm
I believe this was a casualty of 9/11, when the tourism dropped so did the need for all those rooms.
RED Scarlet 3K camcorder, James Cameron on the future of digital cinema, and trying to grok all these pixels
April 16, 2008 7:13am
"Many people don't realize that this is exactly what causes a lot of old newsreels and silent footage to have that speeded up look: it was filmed at 16 fps. The equipment used to show it now usually can't do 16, so it plays at 24 fps,"
48fps is evenly divisible by 16fps, so those old newsreels would again be viewable at normal speed, without the jerkiness caused by a 16fps->24fps conversion.
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