去年Google那个往马桶里面放东西就可以上网的我还一直记得。其实愚人节也是一个很好的广告时机，哈哈。想起来公司的软件也是在2年前4月1日宣布开放公测，打开注册和下载的

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首先是我发的我们公司的一条新闻 -__- 不少人上当，暗爽中:D

竞舞台Garena与浩方战略重组，打造世界最大的游戏娱乐平台


今 日, 世界性对战平台竞舞台Garena与盛大(NASDAQ: SDTH) 旗下的浩方在线达成协议，双方将进行战略重组。浩方在线将成为竞舞台Garena的中国部分，而竞舞台Garena也成为了盛大迈向国际市场的第一步。世 界范围内影响力最大的竞舞台Garena，以及中国在线最高的浩方平台强强联手，一举占据了世界范围内99%的市场份额。在最近几天内双方都将升级客户 端，双方的用户不用担心，用原有的账号登陆即可与另一方的用户互联。

双方的高层对此有以下的发言:

Albert Li, Garena CEO: "能与盛大网络达成协议我们感到非常的荣幸，这也是竞舞台Garena跨出的最大一步。我们会继续为大家带来更好的服务，更好的游戏体验"

陈天桥,盛大CEO: "我们非常兴奋能与竞舞台Garena最终达成协议，这将为盛大的海外家庭战略打下结识的基础，同时也标志着盛大正式进入了海外市场"

关于竞舞台(Garena)



    竞舞台(Garena)将互联网最先进的革新技术应用与游戏对战平台中，让所有玩家都能享受到非一般的畅快游戏体验。
    竞舞台(Garena)支持了时下最流行的几乎所有游戏，并且在不断增加新的游戏：: "魔兽争霸 3: 冰封王座", "使命召唤:现代战争 "CS 1.6", "CS: 起源", "星际争霸","战锤4000", "雷神之锤4"

关于浩方对战平台



      浩方对战平台，是世界目前最大的游戏对战平台之一，注册人数1亿 1千万，在线人数超过70万人。
     浩方对战平台能够为玩家提供基于互联网的多人联机游戏服务，可以进行诸如 CS ,War3 , SC , FIFA等等流行游戏的联机对战；拥有强大的社区系统和完善的周边服务系统；作为国内最大的电子竞技联盟组织，浩方也提供了目前最为丰富的竞技游戏资讯和 网游游戏资讯。


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Google 2008愚人节系列:gDay - 可搜索未来的互联网

Google 搜索技术强不强大?当然不强大!为什么?姑且不要说实时搜索,就是用它来搜索一两年前互联网上已经有的内容,也不一定都能找得到.但不要抱怨,因为 Google今天正式发布了一项名为gDay的新功能,利用它,你可以搜索未来的互联网.换言之,你不必等到某些内容被创建,你可以在它们被创建之前就搜 索到它们.听起来很酷吧?

不过正如你所知，gDay也不是万能的，利用gDay，你只可以搜索24小时后的互联网内容。为什么？因为Google发现搜索24小时之后的内容，准确度不高。据Google称，使用gDay搜索，准确度可达75%~95%。

gDay基于Google全新开发的MATE（Machine Automated TemporalExtrapolation，机器自动化时间推断）技术，可以根据现有的互联网信息预测24小时后的互联网将会是怎样。因此很明显，你可 以用gDay来搜索明天的六合彩号码、股价甚至猪肉价格，有了gDay，你就是未来的主宰！

如果你在中国，那很遗憾。因为gDay当前只可以搜索澳大利亚的网站。不管怎样，你可以拜托你的澳大利亚亲朋好友帮你搜索一下：



欲了解更多与gDay有关的信息，请进入其官方网页：

http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

当然，这又是Google的愚人节恶搞，由Google澳大利亚分部创作。：）

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Gmail Custom Time - 定制Gmail发送时间

新闻来源:驱动之家
Google今天加入的新功能是让Gmail的定制时间发送电子邮件，通过定制时间与日期，发送出去的邮件可以显示成一个较早的日期。根据Google列出的使用说明，仅需要在Gmail设置中"设置定制时间"然后定制自己的日期，那么电子邮件就会以适当的时间发送出去。

通 常情况下，发送的时间应该晚于信件撰写时间。但是Google在愚人节特别提供了发送较早时间选项，你选择"其他"选项，就可以设定为较早的时间，最早你 可以设置为2004年4月1日发送（Gmail发布日），这样你的朋友就会在信箱中收到一封几年前的来信了。至于这样到底好玩不好玩，那要以你而定，大家 可以亲自核查一下。

另外，根据Google表示，一个人每年仅能发送10封过期电子邮件，否则大家会对准确性丧失信心。

至于为什么是10封，从以下公式中可以推出： N = 总共发出的邮件数 P = 用户认为邮件准确性的概率 φ = 黄金比例 L = 人平均年龄



访问Gmail Custom Time : http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

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接下来这个是www.infoworld.com的，虽然创意一般不过既然是敏感话题，也是比较有意思的。微软与雅虎达成一致。472亿美元成交

Microsoft, Yahoo agree on buyout price
Redmond nabs Yahoo's datacenters, Web properties, and ad platform for $47.2 billion

After much internal debate and industry speculation, Yahoo today agreed to be acquired by Microsoft, adding $2.6 billion to Redmond's original offer of $44.6 billion on Jan. 31.

The agreement was reached near midnight last night, thus closing a contentious quarter for the Web company, one rife with in-fighting and power jockeying since Microsoft's initial offer.

Of the agreed $47.2 billion, $10 billion is in cash and the rest in stock, with $1.12 of Microsoft stock being swapped for each share of Yahoo stock, roughly a 12-cent-per-share premium over Yahoo’s $29.05 closing stock price on Monday.

The final price -- $33 per share vs. the original $31-per-share offer -- was less than Yahoo’s board wanted, sources said, but its recent “poison pill” actions such as providing all employees with four to 24 months of severance, based on their level in the company, should they be laid off in an acquisition, limited its ability to obtain a higher offer from either Microsoft or another firm such as Google, said Arbor Research analyst Jane Simons.

“The acquisition with Yahoo will better position Microsoft in the Web advertising market, as well as provide a strong platform for the delivery of Internet-based services to consumers and business users,” said Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, which will oversee the Yahoo service offerings.

[ Follow the entire saga over Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo in our special report. ]

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who had publicly opposed the acquisition, said, “Being part of Microsoft will let the Yahoo vision reach further than we could have done on our own. And we will provide Microsoft the engine it needs to deliver on its Web-based services vision.”

Yang will join Microsoft as “chief Yahoo,” with specific duties to be determined later. Employees that Microsoft decides to retain will be offered an Xbox 360 game platform and a Zune music player as tokens of appreciation, in addition to cash grants and stock-option incentives for higher-level employees, Johnson said.

Although Yahoo had previously suggested a possible counteralliance with Google as a way of combating a Microsoft takeover, Google’s parallel announcement today that it would acquire the social media site Facebook indicates that Google saw little value in adopting Yahoo and was seeking to compete with Microsoft in new spaces, said Nigel Hydecombe, an analyst at Trapezoid, a U.K. research firm.

When the Yahoo acquisition is completed, Microsoft will transition MSN users to Yahoo and leave its MSNBC.com service alone. Ironically, hackers hijacked the MSN DNS addresses shortly after the announcement and redirected all traffic to Google for about 90 minutes, before Microsoft could wrestle back control. Likewise, Yahoo’s DNS was redirected to its Chinese site, which has become a poster child for advocacy groups of corporate complicity in China’s stifling of free speech. Yahoo regained control in less than an hour.

It’s not yet determined which MSN functionality will be moved to the Yahoo site or what Yahoo functionality will be discontinued or changed. But Microsoft will transition to Yahoo’s advertising platform, which has done better than Microsoft’s, although neither has posed a significant threat to Google’s dominance in that sector.

“We expect a six-month transition planning process to make the final decisions,” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO.

Executives at both Microsoft and Yahoo indicated that Yahoo’s extensive datacenter holdings would contribute to Microsoft’s ability to offer Web-based services, such as the Web site hosting, Office add-ons, and Dynamics small-business on-demand apps that Microsoft has slowly been releasing under its Live brand.

Reaction from analysts and consumers ranged from disbelief to praise.
Galen Gruman is executive editor of InfoWorld.

原地址 http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/01/14FE-april-fool-microsoft-yahoo_1.html

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接下来是中国开源的VeryCD.非常有技术含量哦



新版的电驴(easyMule 1.0.0)已经正式发布了。
这 个版本的电驴不但使用了全新的更方便操作的界面，还开始兼容了http/ftp的下载协议，从今天开始，全互联网所有的下载服务器也都加入了电驴阵营，成 为了P2P网络中的一个点，帮助大家共同为P2P下载加速！由于电驴使用了革命性的http下载技术，下载速度可以远远突破带宽极限。

下载:电驴(easyMule)1.0.0
访问:主页


欢迎大家测试以下文件的下载速度:

http://download.VeryCD.com/test/2008.4.1.iso

请使用easyMule下载(在easyMule的“下载”中点击“新建”，或对连接按右键，选择“用电驴下载”)，并仔细观察下载速度和所用时间。

注:
1. 前文所指的全互联网所有的下载服务器，未包括哪些设置了帐户登录等权限限制的服务器，咱不搞流氓.
2. 关于下载速度突破5M，绝非愚人节玩笑，绝非PS，耳听为虚眼见为实，请自己用easyMule下载看看.
3. easyMule显示的下载速度绝非造假，俺们是开源软件，欢迎下载源代码监督！
4. 新版电驴的首次公开亮相，难免还有不足，我们正在不断改进，希望大家多多支持开源软件


这个确实不是玩笑，呵呵，后来有人发现了



今 天上CB看到这个关于电驴下载速度的骇人消息，第一反应就是愚人节的玩笑，千万不能上当。但是看回复，有发现n多人证实这个夸张的下载速度，所以忍不住还 是下载测试了一下。没想到我1M的带宽，下载速度居然达到6M！检查了一下文件大小和下载用的时间，发现并不是显示有假，用winrar打开这个iso文 件，发现内容是一个两百多兆的txt文件，忍不住好奇打开看了看。不知道是哪个没良心的搞个那么大的文本文件，看一下害我机器卡了十多分钟(好奇害死猫 阿)，不过还好没白费，终于发现了这个文件的秘密，就在文件的最尾部，发现了以下文字：

愚人节快乐!

这个文件下载的秘密，来自于电驴独特的下载压缩技术，能够在文件传输前先对数据进行压缩，从而起到加速下载的效果。

我们使用了特殊的例子(本文件压缩后只有一百来K)，来演示先压缩再下载的效果。在实际使用中虽然不至于那么夸张，但电驴的下载压缩技术，仍然会默默的帮助您，为您节约每一字节带宽。

新版电驴是一个完全开放源代码的P2P分享软件，他来自于包括您在内的所有互联网民的智慧。

新版本兼容了http/ftp协议后，互联网上运行着的成千上万台服务器，也都成为了电驴分享网络的一员。

这只是一个开始，让我们共同见证他的未来!

www.easymule.com
2008.4.1

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接下来是每次都搞怪的暴雪，几年前那个WOW双头食人魔，需要2个人一起操作的新闻非常的搞笑。本来以为要说什么SC2公测的新闻呢。不过这个也不赖: 牛头人机枪兵，结合了魔兽系列和星际系列

New StarCraft II Unit: Tauren Marine

Trains From: Mulgore
Armament: 88mm Impala Gauss Rifle
Role: Shock Troops

nthe old Confederacy, terran marines were mostly criminals or rebels who had undergone mandatory neural resocialization. Freed from any previous allegiances or ideologies, these fearless soldiers stood ready to defend Confederate interests with their lives but exhibited an annoying tendency toward petty larceny, vandalism, and occasional cannibalism.Confederate authorities were unable to requisition enough reliable troopers in this way, and eventually recruiters turned to a new source of fresh meat for the grinder.

Starmap

The obscure planet of Azeroth was found to harbor a dizzying selection of humans, mutants, and aliens in a state of perpetual superstition and conflict. The most physically imposing of these warrior races were the so-called 'tauren,' an anthropomorphic bovine genotype with super-human stamina, overpowered racial combat abilities, and bizarrelywell-developed horticultural skills.

There is a cow level

While most tauren were satisfied with their agrarian culture and primitive existence, the Confederacy was able to lure away large numbers of young bulls for a life of adventure and violence along the galactic rim.Other tauren referred to these adventurers as 'mad cows,' and they were ostracized from the rest of their kine. The newly created taurenmarines didn't care--they got neat-looking armor and big guns to own everyone else with. These beefy new soldiers are now an integral part of the Confederate military, and have managed to horn in on the roles traditionally filled by firebats and other infantry units.






Note the presence of another Azerothian genotype in this image, in this case a vicious aquatic species known as a Murlok. Whether this is some kind of mascot or an amphibious alien mercenary is unknown.


哈哈，今年这些内容都不错 :)