Category: Science & Geeks
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29.99€ for broadband
This is exactly why I am quite happy to live in France: We have a reasonably priced broadband offering. Most 20Mbps ADSL services are price around 29.99€ per month. I thought about this when I saw that in the US, CableVision was offering 100Mbps at 99$ per month (and AT&T offers 18Mbps for 80$ per…
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Stop-motion pig and wolf
This is so nice: A Stop-motion video that is very well done, funny. YouTube link
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PDF-to-Word for free (online tool)
You wanted to get the contents of this PDF file in a usable form. say! a Word document. Here comes PDF-to-Word, touted as “The Most Accurate PDF-to-Word Converter”, which may be quite right. It’s online, it’s free, it’s only 3 steps away: The converted document will arrive directly in your email box. Keen eyes like…
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Big Earth
True Marble™ is a true color, photo-realistic, high resolution, 3 terabyte image of the earth. All data is provided at a base 15 meter resolution. Even if this was not shot in a single time (sattelite imagery is a bit more complex than Gigapan panoramas), this is really stupendous. But even more, you can download…
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Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism
An advanced civilisation if there was one, Aztecs lived in Central America from IXth Century to XVth Century (when their decline was essentially precipitated by their encounter with the Spanish conquistadores). Many facets of this civilisation stay unknown principally because they were wiped out wy the first European colonizers. But one aspect stayed deep in…
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JPEG compression abuse
You know it: JPEG image format allows to compress a photo picture without too much loss. But there is some loss. For real. You want an evidence? Open an image, save it in JPEG; Start over 600 times. The image deterioration will cumulate: Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.
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Black hole destroying a star
After billions of years of simulated galactic video, here is the simulation of a balck hole while it swallows a full star. Huge jets, huge amounts of matter removed from sight. via videosift.com
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Billion years, million years
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Top commentators
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