As Stanislaw Lem either didn't understand statistics or was simplifying for those who don't ;-)

For an equal chance of failure = (n-1)/n, you need x=ln(1/2)/ln((n-1)/n) parts to have a greater chance of failure.

For n=10e6, that's about 693 thousand components. Quite a lot less than a million!

Correct me if I'm wrong, I won't mind.

I think: The sun is behind the camera, and the apparent angles you see are caused by the shadow being forward (from the camera perspective) of the object. In the parts with vertical edges (the thruster) the shadows look aligned, but in the parts with curved edges underneath (front and back), the resultant offset produces an optical illusion.

Take another look.

It might well be the FAT32 patent (actually VFAT). It was upheld in 2004 or so for usage on memory cards, and a lot of Android phones have card slots, unlike iPhones, which would explain why this is not an Apple shakedown too.

Fuck off. Since 1547:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_all_intents_and_purposes

I think nature has a distinct advantage still... it needs to be legal for engineers to incorporate either euthanasia or eunuch-making tech.

You could allow searches for indexed terms that match regexp fairly easily. That's what I think the GP is after.

I upload photos from my current phone. I used to upload from my old phone. Sometimes from my real camera, via my macbook.

I'd quite like to have all my statuses and discussions easily convertable to a journal.

I think an export/import facility should be standard, normal, required functionality.

FTA:

The idea isn’t that they want you to transfer your data away from Google — they just think it’s important that you can

Hear, hear!

I used it with reasonable success. It depended strongly on the people you were collaborating with being good at putting their input into the right place in a document. We had one user who just brain-dumped into the last document he had had open, which reduced functionality almost to zero. I won't be at all surprised to see some elements of Wave turn up in Google+.

Bloody marvelous. Hadn't come across those (and I work in open data for the uk govt, albeit in an unrelated field!). Thanks.

http://www.lymington.com/seawaterbaths

The showing or playing in public of a broadcast to an audience who have not paid for admission to the place where the broadcast is to be seen or heard does not infringe any copyright

I have never understood how the PRS have got away with that.

It's even Online

I love the internet.

Effectively, we've reached the point where it's easier and cheaper and better to move electrons around nuclei, than to move nuclei around other nuclei.

That really brings that 'living in the future' line into... focus.

I've just done a test with (1) a small section of a public image of sushi, with all metadata removed and (2) a photo I just took of some bananas on a white background.

(1) correctly identified what it was, gave me websites using the full original image, full marks, 100%, v.g.

(2) Showed me chopping boards, boxes, a violin... anything where the image had roughly the same colours in roughly the same portion of the image.

So I conclude that it is both. The hash is extremely effective, as you might expect it to be with precomputed info, but the node search is rubbish.

RTF***ingA

Not a competitor to Chrome OS

The “Restart to Safari” of OS X Lion will draw comparisons with Google’s Chrome OS. However, the two are worlds apart. True – both offers only the browser with nothing else. However, with “Restart to Mac”, Safari’s password manager is deactivated and users of that mode cannot download any file as the filesystem is completely off limit. Restart to Safari does not remember anything that the user might have done after a reboot.

Chrome OS on the other had has password manager and has access to the filesystem. In short, Chrome OS has been designed with the browser as the main destination and OS X’s “Restart to Safari” feature is aimed for those time when someone asks for your computer to check something on the web and you do not want them to see your files or mess them up.