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Comment Re:Ignoring a potential talent pool (Score 1) 570

by buffoverflow on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:36PM (#16644163) Attached to: Hiring (Superstar) Programmers

Go ahead and flame down the Republican, but the first word in your post is "Agreed". You are agreeing to the concept of all of the "Superstar illegal alien programmers". Could you explain to me where all of these tax dollars are in regards to "Illegal Aliens". By definition, they're not paying taxes. If they are, great.. But I'm afraid those few that may be ponying-up via forged credentials are sucking more out of the economy then they give back.

The Largest Digital Photo 176

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 30, 2006 @03:03AM from the brushstrokes dept.

Gigapixel writes to point us to what is claimed to be the largest digital photo on the Net, at 8.6 Gigapixel. It is a composite photo of the "Parete Gaudenziana," a fresco painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari, dated 1513. This fresco is in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in the convent of Varallo Sesia, diocese of Novara and Province of Vercelli, Italy. The site uses Flash to let you explore the fresco over a zoom range of more than 180 to 1. The photo is made up of 1145 images, each 12.2 Mpixel and 16 bits per color channel. Read on for more technical specs of the photo.

Veeker Makes Video Instant Messaging a Reality 70

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 25, 2006 @02:32PM from the too-much-time-on-the-phone dept.

Stitch_Surfs writes to tell us that the new video instant messaging tool "Veeker" went live today. Able to be embedded in any website, Veeker allows you to share mobile video with your friends. From the article: "In a nutshell, Veeker is instant video messaging. The most basic use case is to shoot 60 seconds of video from your mobile phone and upload this video to Veeker in the form of an MMS. Within about 60 seconds your video is on the Veeker portal where, depending upon whether you sent it to one of three addresses is visible only by you (me@veeker.com) visible to you and your contacts (v@veeker.com) or made available for viewing by anyone who visits Veeker and is inclined to check you out (world@veeker.com)."

Metaverse the Next Big Thing? 288

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 24, 2006 @05:29AM from the gentlemen-start-your-pocketbooks dept.

CrashPanic writes to tell us TCS Daily has an article entitled "The Next Big Thing" which is about Multiverse. It does a good job of making the case for the evolution to a 3D web through the lens of the past history of Netscape. From the article: "Forces are coalescing that will produce a shift comparable at least to the spread of broadband. This change will have enormous financial, cultural and political repercussions, and the most interesting aspect of the coming transformation is that it will not be some new and unexpected thing. Rather, the Web for many will become the cliched 3D virtual reality that has been so overused as a literary and cinematic devise that most of us have forgotten how compelling that vision was when it first appeared."

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