A Microsoft preparou uma imagem de campanha para o seu site na Polónia, a partir da imagem usada nos Estados Unidos. No processo trocou a imagem duma pessoa de origem africana pela duma pessoa de raça branca, esquecendo fazer corresponder a côr da mão …
História original pode ser lida em http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/
Tinha que partilhar esta “anedota”. Há um tempo que andava à procura e finalmente encontrei.
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don’t have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, make certain that you contact each of our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of these options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any choices that you make.
Please don’t bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet.
However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population in my area that they like the features this house has. I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor’s house he constructed last year. We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularly the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can’t happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I’ve given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can’t handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon as possible if this is the case..
Li este artigo em http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/24-samsung-ssds-get-strung-together-for-supercomputer-fun/, onde mostram os resultados de juntar 24 discos SSD Samsung de 256GB cada num RAID de 6TB.
Aqui está o vídeo. Muito divertido e espectacular!
Se a Samsung queria publicidade, conseguiu.
Vale a pena experimentar. Aqui está o link para a página original: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Cake_in_a_Mug?oldid=59520.
Ingredientes:
Preparação:
Mistura-se tudo muito bem numa caneca grande. Mete-se no microondas durante 3 minutos e está pronto.
No mínimo dá para estar entretido um bocado. E mesmo que não corra bem, sempre dá para comer o que ficar.
Puxem pela imaginação!
Experimentei e ficou bom. Na receita original não falam no açúcar. Eu pus uma colher, se não, teria ficado pouco doce.
Encontrei este serviço http://www.deadmansswitch.net/ que me deixou, como os ingleses dizem, com “mixed feelings”.
Do sítio:
Why?
Shit happens. Sometimes, it happens to you. If it does happen, you might wish there was something you had told the people around you. How you feel, what you regret, where the money is stashed.
For this, you need a dead man’s switch.
Um sítio onde podemos registar as mensagens que gostávamos que certas pessoas recebessem em caso de … alguma coisa nos acontecer. Tudo aquilo que sempre quisemos dizer e nunca o fizemos por receio das consequências.
O serviço tenta contactar-nos com alguma regularidade, e nós devemos responder para confirmar que … nada nos aconteceu.
Tal como vejo isto, tanto dá para fazer uns descargos de consciência e ir para o lado mais sentimental como para fazer umas brincadeiras bem macabras. :-P
Também pode dar lugar a situações no mínimo comprometidas se nos esquecermos ou se vamos de viagem e não mantemos o contacto durante uns tempos. Nem quero pensar nisso.
O serviço não inspira muita confiança no que se refere a fiabilidade. Será que a Google vai implementar um serviço similar em breve? (permanentemente em Beta, claro).
Já lá vai um tempo que não crio novos artigos. O trabalho tem-me impedido dedicar mais tempo ao blog.
Encontrei um artigo sobre o uso dos primeiros emote-icons (ou smileys) usados habitualmente nos emails e conversas online. Tudo começou com um post de Scott Fahlman, a 19 de Setembro de 1982:
19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-(
Cá está o link: http://thedailywtf.com/
Algumas histórias são muito boas.
Um site engraçado. O teste é orientado para americanos, mas sempre tem a sua piada: http://www.flashbynight.com/test/.
Atenção que há tempo limite para cada pergunta. Divirtam-se.
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