Nor has it anything to do with fruit or one-breasted women riding horses and shooting arrows.

Well, if the salesperson is working in China it would be nice for him/her to know he's losing his job on April 10th.

According to TFA, they can currently make the structures as small as 200 nm, meaning that there is "only" a factor 20 difference. To make things worse, creating this "cloak" to hide a 1 micrometer object took 3 hours, so creating a cloak for Mr. Potter will probably take years, if not decades.

No, that article states for *some* countries how many percent of the total downloads come from the ballot screen (Poland 77%, Spain, Italy, Denmark over 60%)

In other words, this looks a lot like marketing with some selective data. Not that that's surprising or weird, but still.

Could be, but it doesn't say so in TFA. It may be *implied*, but that's not good enough in my book.

Nice to meet you, dsavi. You can remove that comment now :P

These numbers don't mean too much, because at the time the ballot screen was introduced Opera introduced a new version of their browser as well. Probably at least part of the increase is caused by this new version, and not by the ballot screen.

However, still nice to see people trying something different.

It seems you all either need new sarcasm detectors or should read "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin.

I expected more from you, Slashdot!

Wouldn't it be easy if you had one card for ID, public transport, payments, building access, getting your treatment, etc?
It probably should have some kind of Chip. Now this would be perfect day!

Bowling, fitness, golf, various other sports games? Seriously, take a look at the Wii lineup and you'll see plenty of games that could be considered action games in the widest sense but usually aren't.

Since I suppose that 133ms + delay from your screen is quite noticeable. Too bad if you're sword fighting with a friend, 133 ms can make the difference between living or having your head roll on the floor!

You never played splitscreen on - say - the NES? Ik worked quite well, even on the small tvs people had back then. Given the average gamer now probably has a 40" full HD tv, splitting that in four shouldn't be a problem at all. Now get of my lawn.

Small correction: multiplying very large numbers is done with the use of the FFT, addition/subtraction not. That's because multiplication is very similar to convolution (try to multiply to numbers on paper and you'll see its pretty much the same as convolution of the numbers represented as arrays of digits), and convolution in the time domain is equal to pointwise multiplication in the frequency domain. For numbers with more than a certain amount of digits going through the FFT is actually faster. Furthermore I suppose you're referring to the Gauss-Legendre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussâ"Legendre_algorithm) algorithm. Its difficulty is not in multiplication, because that can be done relatively fast using the FFT, but in the fact that there's a square root in it. If you approximate the square root wrong, this error will propagate through your iterations, so you must be very careful about that. Anyway, cool stuff!