The concept design of the ship Princess Kaguya has been carried out in cooperation with one of the top cruise ship building yards in the world, Aker Yards Cruise & Ferries (www.akeryards.com).

The size of the ship, 450,000GT, 505m length, 58m breadth hull, 20 decks, was first determined as an adequate level as defined by the requirement to have the “functions of a city”.

The highest priority was the functionality of the vessel so the appearance of the ship is in no way eccentric, and remains orthodox.

Trial speed is 22kn, which is more or less standard, however if one considers the grand size of the ship, its speed is nothing but surprising.

The largest allocation of floor space on the ship is the multi-purpose hall. This awesome floor space of 7,000 square meters is essential for various kinds of events to be held. It is about 10 times bigger than any of the halls in the hotels, and is capable of holding any kind of trade show, convention, in-door sport event, etc.

Three different class hotels, each with 1,200 rooms.

The size of the shopping mall was something also not to be compromised. A spectacular 300m long, 16m wide, 18.4m high atrium, to hold about the same number of shops as in a department store.

The building has not yet started but with a solid investment team I can’t see any reason why this shouldn’t become a reality.

More info and specifications [Source: princesskaguya.com]

Update: Royal Caribbean have already ordered a 360m length, 73m heigh ship named Genesis which will be ready for launch in 2009. The massive vessel weighs 12 times the Eiffel tower and will have a capacity of 5400 passengers. Until Princess Kaguya sets “sail” it will be the worlds largest-ever cruise ship.

Absolutely incredible. Cheoptics360 is a Vizoo’s product which can change our understanding of 3D for always. This is a documentation of the 5×5 meter Cheoptics360 in the Vizoo’s showroom. No special effects or compositing has been used editing this movie. This is the real thing.

Official web-site.

Last week at the office Dreamweaver CS3 kept crashing on me when I was working on PHP files. In the end it crashed almost instantly after I opened a file. Very annoying indeed! Instead of re-installing etc. I did some googleing and found the following issue explained several places including on Adobe’s support pages.

Issue

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when working with certain PHP or ASP files in Code view or Design view after the clock goes back one hour, when Daylight Savings Time ends. The crashes only occur when selecting certain lines in Code view, or selecting certain objects in Design view. The crashes only occur in files that have PHP or ASP code, intermingled with HTML code. The crashes do not occur in Dreamweaver 8 or earlier (Ref. 229536).

Reason

The Dreamweaver CS3 WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file has been corrupted by the time change.

Solution

1. If Dreamweaver is open, quit the application.
2. Delete the WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file from the Dreamweaver user configuration folder. Note that on Windows, the Application Data and AppData folders are hidden by default, so verify that your Windows Explorer folder options are set to View Hidden Folders. The location of this file is as follows:
   • Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows Vista:
     C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
   • Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows XP:
     C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
3. Restart Dreamweaver.

Source: TechNote - Dreamweaver CS3 crashes after Daylight Savings Time ends

Hopefully this might save some of you valuable time.

Finally Gamer’s Wishes Come True for those of us using the laptop / notebook:

“NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU Comes to Notebooks”

World’s Fastest Notebook GPU Brings DirectX 10 HD Gaming to Mobile Gamers

Nvidia announced yesterday (Nov 19th) the immediate release of the new 8800 series for laptops fully capable of running new games like “Unreal Tournament 3″ fantastically even at HD resolutions of 1920×1200.

In addition to serving as the core of a great, notebook gaming platform, the NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series GPUs feature the NVIDIA PureVideo® HD engine for superior quality playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray, and HD movie downloads. The GeForce 8M Series also contain NVIDIA’s PowerMizer® * technology that intelligently balances battery life and performance.

The GeForce 8800M-series consists of 2 products, 8800M GTX and 8800M GTS. Only the number of Stream Processors seams to separate the models “on paper”.

PipeBytes is a simple service which allows you to send
a file to a friend.The unique benefits of this service are:

• No software to install.
• All you need is web browser.
• Send files of any size!
• Your buddy could start downloading file as you upload it.
  (That makes the file exchange process up to two times
  faster than other web-based file exhange services!)
• It’s private unlike BitTorrent or other P2P techologies.
  The file is not shared on Internet - it is sent directly to your recepient.
• You can watch YouTube videos while file is being transferred!

This is a very simple way to send your music, movies, presentations, executables and any type of files to anyone with just a web browser!

The service is still under development and a few common questions (and limitations) are answered in their FAQ.