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Time to trot out trivia. As the article points out, the Silk Road faded in importance in the 1400s. But it doesn't say why. There were three major reasons why it faded. The first was the final fall of Constantinople in 1453, ending the last remnant of the original Roman Empire. This made trade with Europe harder. The second was the development, initially by the Portuguese but followed by others, of direct sea routes…
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Bit off-topic, but related: I recently completed a trip to Budapest; both me and my friend were having cameras, and while she, as usual, made hundreds of photos I decided to try something different - I shoot 2 - 5 second videos instead. It's interesting how it can capture the atmosphere of the place qualitatively better than a plain photo would. One thing you quickly realize is that filming tourist attractions isn't…
A friend showed me the HTC One recently. Apparently the camera shoots those mini-videos by default, and you can then pick a still from there. You can also stitch multiple shots into a single one: http://blog.htc.com/2013/05/your-sequence-shots-with-htc-zoe...
Did anybody thought of the black market site "silk road" rather than the actual Silk Road before clicking on the link?
That soviet train tracking system looks beautiful. Wouldn't mind that on the wall of my office.
It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their pages on regular hardware instead of 27" iMacs or rMPB... The scrolling is horribly lagging, and the gifs/videos are all black: http://prntscr.com/1gq4he http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6
It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their pages on regular hardware instead of 27" iMacs or rMPB... The scrolling is horribly lagging, and the gifs/videos are all black: http://prntscr.com/1gq4he http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6
I watched on a 5 year old Mac in Chrome. Looked great to me.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bit off-topic, but related: I recently completed a trip to Budapest; both me and my friend were having cameras, and while she, as usual, made hundreds of photos I decided to try something different - I shoot 2 - 5 second videos instead. It's interesting how it can capture the atmosphere of the place qualitatively better than a plain photo would. One thing you quickly realize is that filming tourist attractions isn't…
A friend showed me the HTC One recently. Apparently the camera shoots those mini-videos by default, and you can then pick a still from there. You can also stitch multiple shots into a single one: http://blog.htc.com/2013/05/your-sequence-shots-with-htc-zoe...
Do you know if the HTC One Google Edition does this, or only regular HTC One?