So will videos on Google Video need to be re-encoded to play on YouTube?

A lot of the content on Google Video is already postage-stamp sized and blurry. A further encoding could make them unviewable but all but the most dedicated fans.

The second URL explains it quite clearly:

So if it is against YouTube's policies, then it's out.

If you are curious, TED.com has a brief but interesting video that explains how YouTube automates their search for copyright infringement, and how effective it is regardless of the quality of the submission. These automated systems can tag shaky video recorded onto mobile phones, for instance.

The true shame of the 24/7 news media is that it moves from story to story without any sense of scale or importance. Because there has not been any continuing visible signs of the continuing catastrophe since the gas ventings, they have moved on to other stories.

Having listened to Dr. Kaku, I'm just glad I don't work as an engineer for TEPCO.

While it's nice to see Google doing the right thing, I question their change of heart. My own guess would be that far more people began leeching ungodly amounts of Google Video content, putting a strain on Google itself.

Rather than continue the pain, Google simply decided to allow people to transfer video from Google Video to YouTube.

The iPad is the market leader, but I'm holding out for the 2nd Gen.

As per Apple's standard operating practices, Calendar/Financial Q1 is the slowest of the whole year. So I'm expecting Steve Jobs to jump up on stage and wow us sometime at the end of January 2011. (It might be later, but my bet is still on Q1.)

Exactly. Some of us live in company-sponsored expat apartments where the hum-drum actions like paying utility bills is handled by others.

I'd just like to add my voice to the chorus here.
Google's whole raison d'être is search, and I often can't find anything of value anymore.
I'm not entirely certain what has happened, but it definitely sees as if something has gone wrong at the heart of Google. Instead of being an unstoppable force, I can now foresee a better search engine that can beat Google at its own game (and not from Microsoft or Yahoo! but rather from someone completely unexpected).

None of the options go far enough.

Doron Swade who wrote "The Difference Engine" (the non-fiction book, not the steampunk fiction by Gibson and Sterling) can tell you this:
It's not possible to create The Analytical Engine. Why? Because Babbage never stopped creating the designs. There is no one clean, complete set of designs for the Analytical Engine.

If someone were to build it, they would first have to pick and choose from among Babbage's numerous sketches, then fill in any of the missing bits. It's not a true, 100% authentic, Babbage design, unlike the simpler Difference Engine, which had a clean set of engineering drawings for its creation.

I always thought that learning the constellations was a waste of time. Now I have proof.

There was an even older, better, simpler version of Trade Wars that used a 1000-sector universe where everyone had the same type of ship (with the same number of holds) and there was one planet called The Wanderer.

Can anyone remember the version number? Is it available to play over the Internet today?
(If I had to guess, I'd say it was called Trade Wars 9.014 and came out long before Trade Wars 2002.)