Ping 123: Microsoft and the White House, New MS store, Holodesk, YouTube hacked

Laura was too late posting! And Paul, I thought you was in Shanghai :O Oh, you must have recorded this last Monday

Base 4? Yo Dawg, it was hexadecimal! You see only 3s, 1s, and 0s because of what it converted from. Just because you can use other numbers and letters in hex doesn't mean that you have to. 

Paul, I thought that you'd have enough intellectual curiousity to try to figure out my message. How disappointing!

Urm... what happened to the YouTube hacked bit? Did it get hacked? ;-)

Jas

@cbae: Aha! I assume since there was only two types of codes/characters in your message, I supposed it was a binary message encoded in hexadecimal Yo dawg, we heard yo like encoding, so we put an encoding in yo encoding 

Edit:

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Good to see you back on the show Adam. Always fun to have you on as you always seem to make Paul nervous The holodesk thing is pretty wicked! Much like the cool monster Windows Phone you guys erected in New York this week. Did you guys forget to talk about the YouTube hack?

@IRB: They did Also, I think someone stole their Surface table

Pretending you're not familiar with holodeck technology? 

"I think Star Trek had something called the holo-deck."

"But that was kind of a video conferencing thing."

 

Right

...now you're just trolling.

@dtower:I would believe that maybe Adam wouldn't have watched Star Trek, but seriously Paul must have. He knew the score.

Boys without Foys was fun... Adam was great, although I missed Laura quite a bit... I think I can't live without her anymore... My internet crush...

I Tweeted all of my friends about the KIND stuff because those things really deserve attention... AMAZING!

Holodesk looks brilliant... closeness is no longer a requirement for pinching people... and I bet you could throw the Connect 4 2 the floor... can't comment on StarTrek bc... and don't get mad @ me... I've never watched it.

I'M SHOCKED THAT THE BEST PLACE TO WORK IS NOT THE GREAT PLACE TO WORK INSTITUTE! Why is that?...

Finally, why is it surprising that the demographic of the show is a bunch of dudes... We all watch just for Laura really... I'm only kidding... I'm only kidding... I'm only kidding...

Much Love!

It would be great if Ping could air daily.    Missing Laura, but good to see Adam and Paul again as well.  Love the Holodesk. 

 

Where is this Nokia sound coming from? I've noticed in the US it's always said as "no-key-a" but yet, in the UK i've always known it as "knock-e-a", anyone with me on this?

@aseymour:I believe worldwide it's said "knock-e-a". I've watched several official videos and I think they themselves say it like that.

Much Love!

@aseymour:I'm from the UK and here I'm a knock-e-a

New Zealand based ICE AV Technology launched The HoloDesk as a 74"inch DJ Mixer surface dual imagining touch surface at the now famous Earls Court concert with Deadmau5 using The HoloDesk from ICE AV in the first time sell out concert that evening on the 18 Dec 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hegqRGDQ_OA

is it just me or "pocket touch" sound completely inappropriate...
LOL

@Sergio_TheOne: I've watched some videos with Finnish speakers who pronounce it "KNOW-key-yah", which seems to be the most common pronunciation in the US.

Ballmer happens to be one of the few Merkans to pronounce it "NAH-key-yah".

@IRB: I'm not sure age is an excuse. Even my 8 year old knows how holodecks work but that's because I'm raising him up right.  So I guess maybe we can blame Adam's parents.

@dtower:Oh I wasn't saying it was due to Adam's age, he just doesn't look like the geek/nerd type like Paul does

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@IRB: You are correct that I never watched Star Trek  

@Paradoxnode:  Nice!  I love that I needed PowerShell to read your post!

PS C:\> $bytes = [System.Convert]::FromBase64String("UGxlYXNlIHN0b3AgcHJvbW90ZSBwZW9wbGUgd2l0aGUgZW5jb2RlZCB0ZXh0LiBPdGhlcndpc2UgdGhleSB3aWxsIG5ldmVyIHN0b3Agc2hvd2luZyB1cCAtIENoZWVycyE=")
PS C:\> [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($bytes)
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I guess, Laura missed this week's deadline too!  We already missed almost 20 episodes, if you count number of weeks from the start.  It should have been episode #143 this week!  Are we going to miss another?

 

SELECT MissingWeeks = DATEDIFF(WEEK, 'Feb 16, 2009', GETDATE()) - 123 --(Current Ping Episode #)
20