You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.
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Google Image Labeler
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Cable Ready -merkki auttaa digisovittimen valinnassa
Kaapelitelevisioliitto auttaa kuluttajia oikeanlaisen digisovittimen valinnassa. Kaapeli-tv-verkossa testatut ja testin läpäisseet laitemallit saavat Cable Ready -tunnuksen. […] Ensimmäiset seitsemän testattua digisovitinmallia ovat myynnissä ja lisää on tulossa syksyn aikana.
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Kuluttajille korvausta viestintäpalvelun viivästyessä
Viestintäpalvelun käyttäjä voi jatkossa saada korvausta, jos palvelu viivästyy tai on virheellinen. […] Lakiin tulee säännös myös viestintäpalvelun oikeudettomasta käytöstä. Säännöksellä määritellään kuluttajan vastuu esimerkiksi matkapuhelimen varkaus- tai modeemikaappaustapauksissa.
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How to Crash Internet Explorer
Ever wish you could make your friends and family switch away from Internet Explorer? Perhaps the ability to make it spontaneously crash (and I mean totally crash) just by sending them a link might sway them…
Modern Life Is Rubbish via Juha
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WavPack: Lossless Audio Compression
“WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. […] The compression ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%.”
They say it compresses better than FLAC at the highest levels.
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PlayStation 3 tackles world ills
“The spare processing power of Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer’s.”
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PHP's number_format() with
PHP’s
number_format()can’t take a as a separator, which is bad when you want the separator to be whitespace inside HTML, since using a normal blank (a ” “) breaks the number when it happens to be laid out between to lines.Svein Tjonndal has written the following little function which essentially does a
number_formatwith as the thousands separator:function numberfix($number) { $number = number_format($number,0,","," "); return str_replace(" ", " ", $number); }