You forgot Bob.

Why? Are you for teen pregnancies?

The FAQ on Rashkar's website (http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/) gives a good explanation. The whole thing is a repeated measurement process, with accurately timed recordings of the detector. The explanations and PR are (sadly) typical for SIGGRAPH papers nowadays. It's a bit of bullshit, you never "see" a photon flying through the scene. For this to happen, another photon would have to interact (reflect) off of this moving photon and be recorded by your camera.

Still, this method is quite interesting to visualize the propagation of spherical light wave fronts through a static scene. However, what I was missing was the imaging of reflected light, as it bounces through the scene. That would truly be educational. I could only make out the sampled pulse moving and intersecting the different objects in the scene.

Here in Germany we always have meters. But we read them ourselves and post the result 1x per year to the power company via a web form. Of course one could perform fraud using that, but when I move out, a guy from the power company will come around and read the meter. If there is a difference, I would get caught by then. I think this works pretty well and keeps the costs down.

iOS 5 changed the on/off text to I and O, like on power buttons and the like. The I representing a 1, or the on state, and the O representing a 0 or the off state.

Yes, there are nice, open protocols. But sometimes you've gotta work with what you get: for example, I own an iPhone, and I really do like it. My music library at home however is served by a nice 50€ OpenWRT WiFi router with an attached USB thumb drive and a USB sound card. At the moment I use mpd on the router and MPoD on the iPhone for playing the music. Thus the iPhone is merely a remote control. This is already nice, but what I'd really like to do is this: Since a number of revisions I can use the iPhone (or my MBP for that matter) to stream music (and video) to AirPlay enabled speakers/displays (e.g. AppleTV, AirPort Express). However, I cannot stream to my OpenWRT router. This has changed, and in the future I will be able to use mpd with the iPhone, as well as AirPlay. Or if some people come over with their iPod Touch or other iOS devices, they can also stream some music to my stereo. You can do this with 3rd party apps etc., but if it works out of the box for iOS devices, I am all for it.

Not to nitpick, but the MBA come without the DVD drive. :-)

What I've said before, and will say again, is that I'll never truly believe that marketing data can provide that much value.

It's not just marketing data. Both Google and Facebook are a massively huge platform on which you can present your products. If you're not on Facebook with your company, and if your product does not show up on the first page of a Google search, you have a problem as a big business.

I use OfflineIMAP to make local copies of my IMAP accounts. I would have pasted the link, but /. does not like pasting on Safari / OS X. So just google for OfflineIMAP. IIRC the tool makes a standard maildir hierarchy of your IMAP account. So you can use it with any sane mail program.

AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350, 2.6.35-22-generic Ubuntu x86_64 GNU/Linux

Chrome 8.0.552.224: 8008
Firefox 3.6.13: 4395
Konqueror: Did not pass... Hans during the first benchmark

It later mentions using 128Mbyte just for level 1 cache, so that would be around 1024 cores.

You say you can 32 KHz sounds? That would make you incredibly sensitive. The best hearing in humans goes up to approx. 20 KHz. You would be well into Ultrasound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound). I guess you meant that you can hear signals sampled with 32 KHz, which would limit sounds to a frequency of 16 KHz.