Ray Cromwell

"Homeopathic" - Ray Cromwell

Daily Show was great on this last night. This has got to be one of the dumbest things I've seen in American politics in a while; and that's a pretty damned bold statement. - Joel Webber

the birthers are weird, but I find the health care nuts much more painful. They might actually do some damage. - saul devitt

This guy's mashup is pretty incredible. If Sony doesn't hire him, they're making a mistake. - Ray Cromwell

That's a really impressive video. Now if only it were feasible to make a game actually *play* like that :) - Joel Webber

I thought the Burger King "7 incher will BLOW you mind, you have a desire to be FILLED...." ad was over the top. - Ray Cromwell

New: code-folding closures for Java, Javascript debugger via Firefox plugin, PHP support, Flex/AIR development, Android, Google App Engine, GWT 1.6, Improved Grails, Issue-tracker linked Task Management, Tapestry, OSGi development, and more. - Ray Cromwell

I have to give huge props to the IntelliJ guys overall. I like Eclipse as well, perhaps because it's just what I got used to (like vi). Swing UIs drive me crazy, though. OTOH, I remember when I first met one of their executives (Alex Tkachman) when we first released GWT, and he wrote the first GWT plugin himeelf in a few weeks. Smart group of people! - Joel Webber

Check out the AdvanceCOMP suite as well. The advpng tool can re-deflate PNG files, usually chopping off a few extra %. Makes me wonder- should GWT output the gzipped scripts by default using a Java port of a 7zip-tuned deflate? - Matt M (inactive)

I downloaded the AdvanceCOMP source last night and tried to see what it might take to automate a C++ to Java conversion on their improved deflater. I quickly remembered why I love Java so much... - Matt M (inactive)

More signs that this year's hyped up bubble category has now all but been locked in, it's "real time". From portals, to push, to peer to peer, to WAP, to e-commerce, social, and beyond, each 18-24 month period seems to have a mini-bubble/hype-cycle where hundreds of followers will pitch ideas piggybacking off the latest fad. - Ray Cromwell

"The porn of the Western world is saturated with the belief that Eastern women are more sexy and sultry and slutty. The most googled brand in the porn world is "Asian Babes." The very phrase evokes legions of solitary sweaty teenage boys in basements across America and Europe. But this stereotype did not emerge with the World Wide Web. It originated with worldwide empires. Suppressed beneath these casual flicks of the wrist, there are five centuries of colonial exploitation screaming to be heard." - Ray Cromwell

Simply Brilliant. In a world where hardly anyone has cellphones, call waiting, without digital cameras, etc amazing to think we lived like this only 15 years ago. - Ray Cromwell

Explains why he always wore masks, and explains rumors of how he 'lost his voice' and could no longer sing. - Ray Cromwell

Michael Jackson patented a special shoe used to do the 'Gravity Lean' move seen in the Smooth Criminal video. - Ray Cromwell

"IT'LL BLOW YOUR MIND AWAY. Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled with the NEW BK SUPER SEVEN INCHER. Yearn for more after you taste the mind-blowing burger that comes with a single beef patty, topped with American cheese, crispy onions and the A1 Thick and Hearty Steak Sauce." - Ray Cromwell

Reminds me of a conspiracy book I read in college, the Clam Plate Orgy: http://www.amazon.com/Clam-Pl... - Ray Cromwell

It certainly departs from any "vague attempt at reality". The pre screening I went to was full of laughter in a moment that was so ridiculously cut as to completely dance around the impracticality of dodging large blocks of rock. - Brandon Titus

I'm hoping my expectAtions have been lowered enough that I'll like it. - Ray Cromwell

Massive new expose. - Ray Cromwell

This is an old comparison from November, the Theora people are complaining, I hope it is redone with latest and using "best case" encoding parameters from developers. I still want to see a comparison using real video with film grain. What worries me is, MPEG4/H264 is an international standard (yes, patent encumbered), but there has been massive software and hardware investment in it. It performs particularly well, and does good on mobile devices at low battery (like iPhone 3GS). The push for open-web video to support Theora and *only* Theora with no provision to even dynamically link to OS supported codecs worries me and seems politically and ideologically motivated in denial of reality. - Ray Cromwell

This reminds me of the GIF patent discussions we had ten years ago. Hell, I am getting old, remembering ten year-old discussions... - Lars Trieloff

Screw Apple! Please port this to Android ASAP. I am so sick and tired of Apple's paranoid App Store policy - Ray Cromwell

"Wainting for approval" will kill App Store. - Didier Girard

they'll go to cydia store. Then we'll be able to get C64 twitter app on iPhone :) - Jean-Charles VERDIE

Bahaha! - Ray Cromwell

As a sufferer of Gout, this is amazingly good news and could lead to a new class of drugs to combat the condition. - Ray Cromwell

"Hey 4chan, these guys are Scientologists!" - Ray Cromwell

Greatest Minds of the 70s invent video games. - Ray Cromwell