What do you think this is?

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What do you think this is?

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I noticed this at the bottom left-ish area of some frames in a Google IO 2008 video:

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Looks like some kind of binary information, but what do you think it means; what's the pattern?

Any ideas?
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Re: What do you think this is?

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Dunno. My guess would be binary - it's actually a repeating pattern: 1011011010110000, which doesn't convert to anything meaningful in ASCII, and is 46768 in decimal.
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Re: What do you think this is?

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Nice interpretation. Looks like trail of ants to me though ;)
pickle wrote:Dunno. My guess would be binary - it's actually a repeating pattern: 1011011010110000, which doesn't convert to anything meaningful in ASCII, and is 46768 in decimal.
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Re: What do you think this is?

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It's not 1011011010110000, but 0100100101001111 (or 01001001 01001111).
01001001 = 73 = I
01001111 = 79 = O
Google IO :)
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Re: What do you think this is?

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kaszu wrote:It's not 1011011010110000, but 0100100101001111 (or 01001001 01001111).
01001001 = 73 = I
01001111 = 79 = O
Google IO :)
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Re: What do you think this is?

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Awesome, kaszu!
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