Google Data » Ian Fette https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Fri, 03 Apr 2015 21:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 X = G / (C*H*R*O*M – 3) https://googledata.org/google-chrome/x-g-chrom-3/ https://googledata.org/google-chrome/x-g-chrom-3/#comments Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:55:00 +0000 Yesterday, we posted a demo video with a secret challenge where the first clever person to crack the code would receive a Cr-48. Just 20 hours later, the puzzle was solved correctly by the team at Jamendo. Congratulations!

Here’s how you can find the puzzle and the solution.
First, around 2:24 in the video, you see the following equations on the board:


The constants solve out as follows:
G = 900.91
C = 8335727
H = 269462689
R = 222647
O = 694079
M = 552
The final equation is written as:
X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3)
Plugging in the previous answers gets you to:
900.91 / 191605050401140404051920181525
At that point, the puzzle changes from math to code where the numbers represent letters. It hints to that by the final equation spelling CHROM3, but we expected people to get stuck here and have to play around for a bit. The first mental leap is that you have to visually identify 900.91 as goo.gl (just like spelling words on a calculator: 9=g,0=o,0=o,9=g,1=l). The division sign is a slash ( / ), so this pretty clearly points to the Google URL shortener. From there, you need to figure out the shortened URL.

The number 191605050401140404051920181525 may confuse people for a bit, but the large number of zeros and the repeated "04" and "05" sequences in it visually allude to pairs within the string. Once you see that, it can be broken up into:
19 16 05 05 04 01 14 04 04 05 19 20 18 15 25
If you've gotten this far, you've probably noticed that all of those numbers are between 1 and 26. From here, it's just a straight mapping to letters of the alphabet (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc). Decoding the full string gives you:
s p e e d a n d d e s t r o y
Putting everything together, the end result is:
That URL points to a page where you can fill out a form to request a shiny new Chrome notebook (the form is closed now, of course).

Posted by Chris Lyon, Hardware Engineer, Chrome OS Team
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/x-g-chrom-3/feed/ 0 Hello HTML5 https://googledata.org/google-gears/hello-html5/ https://googledata.org/google-gears/hello-html5/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:13:00 +0000 Posted by Ian Fette, Gears Team

If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it's because we've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We're not there yet, but we are getting closer. In January we shipped a new version of Google Chrome that natively supports a Database API similar to the Gears database API, workers (both local and shared, equivalent to workers and cross-origin wokers in Gears), and also new APIs like Local Storage and Web Sockets. Other facets of Gears, such as the LocalServer API and Geolocation, are also represented by similar APIs in new standards and will be included in Google Chrome shortly.

We realize there is not yet a simple, comprehensive way to take your Gears-enabled application and move it (and your entire userbase) over to a standards-based approach. We will continue to support Gears until such a migration is more feasible, but this support will be necessarily constrained in scope. We will not be investing resources in active development of new features. Likewise, there are some platforms that would require a significant engineering effort to support due to large architectural changes. Specifically, we cannot support Gears in Safari on OS X Snow Leopard and later. Support for Gears in Firefox (including 3.6, which will be supported shortly) and Internet Explorer will continue.

Looking back, Gears has helped us deliver much-desired functionality, such as the ability to offer offline access in GMail, to a large number of users. Long term, we expect that as browsers support an increasing amount of this functionality natively and as users upgrade to more capable browsers, applications will make a similar migration. If you haven't already, you will want to take a look at the latest developments in web browsers and the functionality many now provide, reach out with questions, and consider how you can use these in your web applications. Gears has taken us the first part of the way; now we're excited to see browsers take us the rest of the way.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-gears/hello-html5/feed/ 0 Hello HTML5 https://googledata.org/google-gears/hello-html5-2/ https://googledata.org/google-gears/hello-html5-2/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:13:00 +0000 https://googledata.org/?guid=8ba18783f66ee5d4eb87aa29cebae21b Posted by Ian Fette, Gears Team

If you've wondered why there haven't been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it's because we've shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We're not there yet, but we are getting closer. In January we shipped a new version of Google Chrome that natively supports a Database API similar to the Gears database API, workers (both local and shared, equivalent to workers and cross-origin wokers in Gears), and also new APIs like Local Storage and Web Sockets. Other facets of Gears, such as the LocalServer API and Geolocation, are also represented by similar APIs in new standards and will be included in Google Chrome shortly.

We realize there is not yet a simple, comprehensive way to take your Gears-enabled application and move it (and your entire userbase) over to a standards-based approach. We will continue to support Gears until such a migration is more feasible, but this support will be necessarily constrained in scope. We will not be investing resources in active development of new features. Likewise, there are some platforms that would require a significant engineering effort to support due to large architectural changes. Specifically, we cannot support Gears in Safari on OS X Snow Leopard and later. Support for Gears in Firefox (including 3.6, which will be supported shortly) and Internet Explorer will continue.

Looking back, Gears has helped us deliver much-desired functionality, such as the ability to offer offline access in GMail, to a large number of users. Long term, we expect that as browsers support an increasing amount of this functionality natively and as users upgrade to more capable browsers, applications will make a similar migration. If you haven't already, you will want to take a look at the latest developments in web browsers and the functionality many now provide, reach out with questions, and consider how you can use these in your web applications. Gears has taken us the first part of the way; now we're excited to see browsers take us the rest of the way.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-gears/hello-html5-2/feed/ 0 Google Chrome OS – FAQ https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-os-faq/ https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-os-faq/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:53:00 +0000 Introducing the Google Chrome OS' blog post, and so here are a number of your most frequently asked Qs – along with our As. We'll be sure to add more to this list as popular questions come in.

Is Google Chrome OS free?
Yes – Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost.

What companies is Google working with to support Google Chrome OS?
The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build devices that deliver an extraordinary end user experience. Among others, these companies include Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

I'm a developer – how can I work with you?
Thanks for your interest. Later this year, the Google Chrome OS code will be open sourced. We're looking forward to working with the open source community and making our own small contribution to the great work being done out there. Please stay tuned.

If you are interested in a full time position as a software engineer please visit the jobs pages for the following offices and indicate that you are interested in Chrome.
Posted by Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director

Update on 7/8/2009: We updated the list of companies we are working with.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-os-faq/feed/ 0 Gears 0.5.21.0 Released https://googledata.org/google-gears/gears-0-5-21-0-released/ https://googledata.org/google-gears/gears-0-5-21-0-released/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 16:30:00 +0000 Posted by Ian Fette, Gears Team

In conjunction with Google I/O we're releasing a new version of Gears, 0.5.21.0. This version includes minor bugfixes and three new features:
  • Drag & Drop support for dragging files into a web page and letting the web page act on those files
  • Image thumbnailing
  • Blob builder API, which allows script to build binary blobs, including valid multi-part-form-encoded blobs that contain binary file parts, which can then be uploaded using Gears.HttpRequest
Documentation on http://code.google.com/apis/gears/ will be updated soon with more details about the new features.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-gears/gears-0-5-21-0-released/feed/ 0 Gears 0.5.21.0 Released https://googledata.org/google-gears/gears-0-5-21-0-released-2/ https://googledata.org/google-gears/gears-0-5-21-0-released-2/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 16:30:00 +0000 https://googledata.org/?guid=0c257c02441ad426ea64b5b160dc4656 Posted by Ian Fette, Gears Team

In conjunction with Google I/O we're releasing a new version of Gears, 0.5.21.0. This version includes minor bugfixes and three new features:
  • Drag & Drop support for dragging files into a web page and letting the web page act on those files
  • Image thumbnailing
  • Blob builder API, which allows script to build binary blobs, including valid multi-part-form-encoded blobs that contain binary file parts, which can then be uploaded using Gears.HttpRequest
Documentation on http://code.google.com/apis/gears/ will be updated soon with more details about the new features.
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