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Hi-res videos coming to YouTube
YouTube may be the most popular video sharing site on the web. But it's often panned for having some of the lowest-quality videos on the web as well. And when we say quality, we're not making value judgments about the videos of teenagers singing karaoke. What we mean is that YouTube tends to encode videos at low bitrates and low resolutions.But YouTube co-founder Steven Chen says that will change soon. When you upload a video to YouTube, your original file in all its high-res glory is sitting on YouTube's server. But the site compresses that video into a Flash video file that can easily be watched from pretty much any computer with an internet connection.
Chen says YouTube is working on technology that will auto-detect a user's network speed and determine whether to stream a low quality or high quality version of the video. The new player could be up on the site within three months.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
