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Comment Stagecast and Alice (Score 2, Informative) 799

I know two programming environments, designed specially for children. One is Stagecast Creator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecast_Creator, which is created in Apple, and was known as Cocoa before Apple reused the name for the Cocoa API. The other is Alice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software), created in Carnegie Mellon, by a group led by the late Randy Pausch (you might have seen "The last lecture" by Randy Pausch).
Stagecast creator is a programming tutorial, disguised as a 2D game designer, and Alice is a programming tutorial disguised as 3D scene creator. I, being a keen NES gamer, tend to like Stagecast better.

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Submission + - RIAA roll

VeryLargeNumber writes: We all know what a RickRoll is. Recently, exploiting the fact that many celebrities passed away, in their typical tactless manner, 4chan users launched a RIProll attack, spreading the hoax that 80s pop star Rick Astley has died. Despite the fact that Rick Astley is actually alive and feels well, the rumor of his death got massively replicated on twitter.

This is where I come. Since I browse from Finland, most of the links I clicked were leading to "This video is not available in your country" message, and I could not get the joke. The RIProll turned into RIAAroll.

I think this becomes a cultural issue. Do I have the right to be properly rickrolled, what do you think?

Comment overwritten once CAN be recovered (Score 2, Informative) 780

> I'd like to see you recover something that has been overwritten once.

You can't do it at home, but professional data recovery service can. Usually you can guess the previous data by precisely measuring the magnetic levels. The old values will influence the resulting intensity. Roughly (I'm not expert!) works like this:

was -- now -- result
0 -- 1 -- 0.9
1 -- 0 -- 0.1
1 -- 1 -- 1.1
0 -- 0 -- 0

That is why you should have MULTIPLE overwrites with RANDOM data.

Comment draw users away (Score 1) 475

"will this draw viewers away to other video sites?"

You mean if other sites provide the same content for free, will I stay on youtube just because it is... pretty?

On contrary, if every second movie I click on leads me to a "not available in your country" text, I will eventually get bored and go to other site even if youtube provides the same content for free.

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