The US should also adopt L/100km, rather than, as TFA suggests, Gallons/100Miles. Seriously, if they're going to switch the measurements anyway, it makes more sense to switch to metric, like most of the rest of the world already has, than to retain the imperial system.
The problem with the CSIRO here is that since they are governement owned, they are tax payer funded and instead of using that money to fund real research that benefits everyone, they're sinking it into legal battles in an attempt to extract more money from foreign companies. While they technically aren't patent trolls in the classical sense, since they certainly are doing some real work, their aggressiveness in enforcing their patents makes them almost as bad.
The problem here is that patents are only supposed to cover the one specific method of implementing the invention. But with all the overly broad patents in this area, you have Apple patenting the actual gestures, preventing those same gestures from being used by any other device manufacturer, even if the multitouch detection system were implemented in a completely different way.
Seriously, patenting finger gestures is like patenting a method of turning a door knob. It's completely ridiculous, and it's only going to force every phone manufacturer to come up with their own overly complex and insanely unusable gestures, just because they weren't the first to file for a patent on the obvious.
Opera has had operamail.com for many years, but as far as I know, it has not been linked with the My Opera social networking site. As you can see from its current state, the operamail service has not been maintained for years. According to the TOS on that site, it's been outsourced to Outblaze - another mail company I know nothing about. It seems obvious that this new acquisition of FastMail.fm will change that.
(Disclaimer: I work for Opera, but I am not involved with our email products. The above represents my own opinion)
Are you sure about that? Don't the pressed discs have the same file/directory structure as BD-Rs, and so if they can play those files unencrypted on BD-Rs, why couldn't they on pressed discs?
Although I'm sure there wouldn't be too many pressed BDs that are unencrypted (Big Buck Bunny might be a rare exception, though I don't know for sure), it doesn't make much sense to unconditionally force all pressed blu-rays to be encrypted. Though, maybe they figured the extra AACS licencing fees they would get made it worthwhile anyway.
Already have it in my utorrent queue!
I think GP was referring to the uncensored version leaking, which it hasn't yet, and which I'm sure you don't have in your queue. Of course, the aired version would have hit the torrent sites within hours.
It's not an entirely bad idea. The major drawback of the plan is that the films are infected with DRM, making them useless on any platform but Windows, and dependant upon the reliability of DRM activation servers. From past experience with several major vendors, these are not very reliable at all. They'll be shut down in a few years, causing customers to lose access to their films, forcing them to buy again.
I would consider buying the drive if it met the following conditions:
1. DRM free. I refuse to buy any films that are infected with DRM, except DVDs, of which I own a large collection and already ripped to my hard drive.
2. If the other included films, besides Star Trek which I've already got, were any good.
3. If the cost of the drive + films were being offered for a competitive price, better than what I could get buy getting them individually elsewhere.
Possible ways to destroy a star:
1. Place a black hole near by so that it consumes the star. (Techniques for locating and moving a black hole are left as an exercise for the mad scientist attempting this)
2. Use a Stargate to dial another gate on a planet near a black hole and send the gate into the star, eventually causing it to explode in a Supernova
3. Send it on a collision course with a neutron star. When they collide, the combined mass increases the gravity so much, that they explode in an even bigger supernova and result in a black hole.
4. Red matter.
5. Construct anti-matter bomb with sufficient anti-matter to annihilate the star and its solar system.
roman_mir, It would have been clearer if you referred to it as base 64 *encoding*, rathern than encryption, since it has nothing to do with cryptography.
On an unrealted note, with regards to the V8 performance test, the reason Chrome's V8 engine works well with the V8 benchmark is because the tests themselves are bias towards the specific optimisations that the Chrome developers have chosen to include in their V8 engine.
Carakan, on the the other hand, has, for various reasons, been developed to optimise for different cases. There are trade-offs here which, as a result, affect the performance of Carakan in some of the tests included in the V8 performance test.
Disclaimer: I work for Opera the on Carakan team. I cannot go into specifics about what optimisations and trade-offs have been made.
It's a simple 3 step process:
1. Publish details of brilliant invention.
2. ???
3. Profit.
On a more serious note, I don't support patents at all and suggest that, if you do decide to patent it, you at least attach some sort of irrevocable, royalty free licence to it, which would at least let you keep it around for defensive purposes in case you get sued. Just don't become a patent troll.
Also, perhaps instead of simply publishing it publicly for everyone immediately, you could find a company involved in a similar field or a manufacturer that you can work with to get your product developed, whatever that may be. That would help to give you the first-to-market advantage, assuming your invention really is an original idea.
I think he was referring to the current Labor government who were elected in late 2007. I'm not sure what the Internet Industry Association (IIA) has to do with the government though. I could be wrong, but I believe the IIA is just a normal industry association with no formal ties to the governement.
Nah, it's encrypted using an algorithm that results in all 1's. You need to learn the key as well, so you know which bits need to be flipped to 0. But once you know the key, the actual data can be decrypted using the simple bitwise AND operation between the data (all 1's) and the key.
Here's a hypothetical for you:
Child A is taught to be inquisitive about everything around him. As he encounters things in his daily life he figures out how they work, rather than accepting them as magical black boxes.
Child B sits in a classroom with 40 other students doing multiplication tables until he has them all memorized.
Who do you think is going to be a better engineer someday?
You appear to have presented these as mutually exclusive options. This is a false dichotomy; they are clearly not, as you even admit later on in your comment.
IMHO, the problem with boring classes has more to do with the teaching methods, rather than with what's being taught. If the lessons are boring for most students in a class, find better ways to engage them and get them interested in the topics.
The subsequent series from the Tertiary through Quintessential phases weren't recorded from 2003 onwards, well after books 3 to 5.
Oops, I meant the phases were recorderd from 2003 onwards.
"It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa
