I'm glad to see our baby Ankoder reported by the latest AWS newsletter :)

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Ankoder
Ankoder is video transcoding API that allows anyone to integrate video transcoding to your website within minutes. Ankoder is built on AWS and
 also supports file uploading and hosting of videos to Amazon S3.
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1708&categoryID=72
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As a result we received lots of mails from all over the world (kill me lots of time to reply :), exciting.

Interesting functional language - maybe Sun should release some thing like "jFunctional"? FP will be hot in the next decade, I believe. But lisp is dead, already.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/default.aspx

后悔没下mkv的版本，反省中。。。电驴缓慢拖1080p 14G版本中。。。考虑买超大背投中。。。快去看吧，比第一部好多了

A Legend Never To Be Solved

Hofstadter's book elevates recursion (in the broadest sense of self-reference) to exalted heights, leading to Andrew Plotkin's recursive definition of recursion: "If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is."

Those software you can see: archlinux, xmonad, swiftweasel, vim, screen, weechat, rxvt-unicode, pidgin, dzen, Breeze Tissue
Those hardware you can see: LG 21" widescreen lcd, lenovo thinkpad x61, microsoft wireless 2000, Palm

Finally I throw WMII away and turn to xmonad. The only reason is that WMII has very poor(nearly none) support to multi display (xrandr), which is perfectly supported by xmonad. Xmonad is faster than WMII+ruby, since xmonad.hs will be compiled to binary file by GHC instead of executing by interpreter.

The whole system is running on my X61 box, the 21" lcd connects to the laptop, make a more larger virtual screen together with X61's lcd. This can be achieved easily with xrandr. Now I can always keep an eye on irc and pidgin :-) For comfortable I bought microsoft wireless keyboard+mouse (works perfectly with linux, amazing), though I love thinkpad's trackpoint very much. The reason I use X61 instead of a desktop box as the core is that I don't need to synchronize between office pc and my laptop now, and I can use the big wide screen at the same time.

Haskell, xmonad's implemtation language, has an interesting static type system. Seems I'm still prefer static type and compiler after long use of ruby :-)

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Maybe we who live in china could connect to AWS as fast as light one day? A really good news.

Dear AWS Customer:

Many of you have asked us to let you know ahead of time about features and services that are currently under development so that you can better plan for how that functionality might integrate with your applications. To that end, we are excited to share some early details with you about a new offering we have under development here at AWS -- a content delivery service.

This new service will provide you a high performance method of distributing content to end users, giving your customers low latency and high data transfer rates when they access your objects. The initial release will help developers and businesses who need to deliver popular, publicly readable content over HTTP connections. Our goal is to create a content delivery service that:

    * Lets developers and businesses get started easily - there are no minimum fees and no commitments. You will only pay for what you actually use.
    * Is simple and easy to use - a single, simple API call is all that is needed to get started delivering your content.
    * Works seamlessly with Amazon S3 - this gives you durable storage for the original, definitive versions of your files while making the content delivery service easier to use.
    * Has a global presence - we use a global network of edge locations on three continents to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.

You'll start by storing the original version of your objects in Amazon S3, making sure they are publicly readable. Then, you'll make a simple API call to register your bucket with the new content delivery service. This API call will return a new domain name for you to include in your web pages or application. When clients request an object using this domain name, they will be automatically routed to the nearest edge location for high performance delivery of your content. It's that simple.

We're currently working with a small group of private beta customers, and expect to have this service widely available before the end of the year. If you'd like to be notified when we launch, please let us know by clicking here.

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这两天猛然发现各国人民对科技的理解实在是大不相同

在美国，科技就是由物理学统治的太空。月球是人家第一个爬上去的，可能和这个有些关系。美系科幻例如《安德的游戏》，《基地》系列，都是构建在太空背景上的，更不要说那些变态的硬科幻(《红火星》)，改个题目就是很好的毕业论文。

在俄罗斯，科技就是物理。俄国的科幻似乎比较杂，想什么的都有，不像美国人那样盯着外星人太空船星际跃迁立体战争不放。很有意思的民族。

在日本，科技就是自虐。。 日本人对宇宙的好奇似乎没有，大概是被美国主子管着，基本不敢幻想。就我目前看过的电影来说，日本人对折磨人真的很有兴趣。从攻壳到苹果核到vexille(好像是这么拼来着)，统统都是生化人的故事。(高达没看过，银英不想看，别烦我)

在中国，科技就是中央电视台。。。。今天偶然转到中央台，在播《科技博览》，画面中一位老爷爷和一位老奶奶在叙述他们家墙壁上让人毛骨悚然的怪影。。。最后出动的专家是某职业学院的老师。。。。。在用一块纸板和一把皮尺做过精确测量之后。。。发现原来是墙上小孔成的像。。。。。

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http://www.idolhands.com/personal/obama-is-restful/ Obama will get votes from geeks, certainly.

Do you know what's the best way to do this in ruby?

suppose:

class A; end
class B < A; end

The best answer(I'm sure) in comments.