Today is “Pi” day!
(Picture courtesy Wikimedia)
Today (2010-03-14) Pi Day. As ardent geeks, let us celebrate the enigmatic number representing the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle = 22/7 or 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445………………………….!
Today is also Albert Einstein’s birthday! What a great coincidence!
It is said that the true “randomness” of pi’s digits is yet to be proven.
Facts about PI (from Joy of Pi)
- Geometry: Half the circumference of a circle with a radius of 1 is exactly pi
- Record for calculation: 2.7 trillion digits (by Fabrice Bellard, December 2009)
- Record for memorization: 67,890 digits (by Chao Lu, 2005)
- How random? There are no occurences of the sequence 123456 in the first million digits of pi
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New Talkinator
Talkinator is a service that provides free, no-signup, no registration group discussion rooms. You can add chat to your web site in seconds!
Just read their “Privacy Policy”!
The Privacy Policy here is simply: THERE IS NONE. Talkinator/ManyBrain doesn’t ask, require or even want your personal information – however, rooms are only as private as you keep them. No messages are encrypted and its theoretically possible for someone to guess the name of your talkinator room.
In addition – DO NOT give anyone your personal information in talkinator room. Its completely insecure. Anything you type in a talkinator room could be seen by anyone (including, but not limited to, freaks, weirdos, internet crazies, software engineers, nutjobs, probable nutjobs, likely nutjobs, really likely nutjobs, really really likely nutjobs, CAPS-LOCK-LOVERS, the Police, the FBI, the CIA, and your mom). Keep that in mind.
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A group of anonymous programmers has released a new software tool christened as “RatDVD”, which will crunch video from movies into small packages, while creating a single file that keeps intact DVD “extras”– alternate endings, outtakes, director’s commentary and the like.
This is what the developers claim about the nifty proggy on their web site:
ratDVD takes a full featured DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file – while preserving all the features of the original DVD such as:
- Full anamorphic picture, seamless branching, multiple video angles, multiple audio channels, subpictures, etc.
- Keep movie versions (Directors Cut, Theatrical version, etc.), Alternate story endings, making of, video commentary , cut scenes, etc..
- Keep complete menus, navigation and features
- Reliable high quality, valid check-summed container
You can also convert a .ratDVD file back to DVD format, burn it to a DVD-R and watch the movie using a regular DVD player.
But it will not support encrypted DVDs. They need to be decrypted before they can be used with ratDVD. For decrypting the regular DVD movies and for more detailed instructions, there is a guide on that web site.
Because it retains all these extra features, allowing them to be burned back onto a DVD or browsed on a computer, the software is already being discussed in video-focused Net circles as a potential successor to the most popular formats used for trading movies online today.
This is going to usher in another P2P video downloading riot, for sure!
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