ah wait, you present that suggesting that the Star Wars guys ripped it off from the other films...is there anything to back that up?

This keeps coming up, somebody takes a scene or character from a current movie and strongly suggests it was nicked from some classic.

Surely there is an alternative, in that there is a certain flow/makeup of scenes that 'people' in general find more compelling than others? So the Star Wars trench scene started as something, then was edited etc till it felt right. The Dambusters scene most likely went through the same process. Given both involve flying things in a line, there are bound to be similarities...as even though Tie fighters and X-Wings have no need to behave like WWII fighters, its easier for the creators and our believability that they do. Which means they are going to use the same manoeuvres, and have the same restrictions. They're both climatic sequences too, so both directors will be going for similar psychological responses (intentionally or just case it 'feels right') etc etc

I've no idea if anybody as studied this aspect of films, but tbh I find it more likely, than modern films painstakingly copying old scenes, that just seems a pain in the arse to do.

As the article said one of the problems seems to be that there isn't enough knowledge to deem whether the patent is obvious when its granted.

Maybe one solution would be a Jury of experts. Basically the same as traditional jury service in the US/UK etc, you get called up and then, instead of deciding if he did or not, you spend a week going through patents in your field with other experts?

it's weirder than that, MS scrolls tended to work, Logitech (and the rebranded) didn't.

But FreeWheel (http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/freewheel.shtml) fixes all that, and in Access 97 VBA windows which behaved differently again...and yes unfortunately I still have to use both on a regular basis.

As the original RFC doesn't mention anything about what should happen if you went to example.com, I'd have thought the professional thing to do would be ask!

Release a statement, let people put some pros/cons...hell a surveymonkey would have been enough.

My results for Chrome 10.0.612.3 were around the 12k mark too, which seems to show that the browser performance is no where near what our CPU's are capable off. As the Intel i series is performing the same or worse! Either that or the engine in chrome 9/10 is vastly improved!

Core 2 Duo 2.66 @ 2.81Ghz
4Gb
Win 7 64Bit

of every damn site now needing a login to do anything.

Shopping sites are the worse, no I don't need an account, I want to buy this one item from you, oh no google checkout or paypal...well I'll go else where then.

Why? Why not use RTF, or in fact just plain text?

well no, that's the thing...yes I played it quite a bit, but not *that* much! didn't play

Same as Wolfenstien I know all the secrets on the first few levels, but again not played that in years.

But it gets released on a phone or latest console and I know exactly where to go:)

Thanks for that! I knew I recognized it as soon as I saw that 'squiggly' (well squiggly for doom) tunnel.

But fuck knows why my brain decides that remembering map layouts of game I last played 16 odd years ago is a good idea! Maybe it's because your using most of your senses and non-repetitive muscle movements??

Add .qr to the end of shortend url and you get the QR code:
So for this page: http://goo.gl/pWiq.qr

A shame this, as a lot of the earlier reviews of the SED technology picture quality had it just about equalling CRT, but it was firmly beating Plasma, and obviously LCD was a distant 4th.

Oh well, maybe OLED can be ramped up in size and down in cost, as that doesn't do too bad in the PQ stakes.

tbh I think this is a good thing. Meamo died because there was just 3 devices that ever used it, so all the promise it had as an OS were stunted. With this descision MeeGo will *have* to evolve and at least keep up with Android and iOS.

Nokia have always had a problem with their ranges, they produce so many models that whats supposed to be high-end has less features than the middle phone of the other range...see the N and E ranges for quite a few examples of this.
This will give the ranges a consistent and global difference.

Having said all that, Symbian S60 and ^3 still has (and had for a while) features that other phones are only just getting!

Concerns about privacy they'll have by the dozen...maybe someone should also point out what a technological clusterf**k this would be.

They can't even convert a PDF to an easily accessible HTML page. How the hell would the they manage with the massive amount of raw data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, (do they even know how many search engines there are?) How would you deal with the false positives alone?

This is just as moronic as the UK government thinking its easy to just 'store' all comms for 3 months, in case the police needed it.

What they should be doing is making sure that the reporting methods are easy and universal accross the EU, that every EU memeber has the wording in its laws to take down host sites and to work with non-EU states to make sure that international sites can also be taken down quickly.

Then it can move to the much much harder issue of properly defining child porn, and making that standard. None of this wishwashy crap that would make Donald Duck illegal because he's got no pants on! Or locking up grandparents from taking photo's of their children.

No need to waste billions of our money on some half-assed badly implemented privacy invasion.

It's not online privacy that's broken. All that's changing is people's awareness (or more importantly lack of) of what privacy means in the digital connected world.

Street view is a good example, no one bothered to drive around the world taking 360 pictures of everything and logging the gps coords, so before Google did it, that information just wasn't accessible but more importantly it wasn't private either. By making it easily accesible to all, made people jump to outragous claims of privacy invasions. But afaik there isn't a single country where the roads aren't owned by the 'public'. So everyone has the right to go down a street and 'look' and so the drunks, cats in windows and people leaving sex stores with Black Mamba dongs where doing so in public and could have been seen by anybody. Just because Google 'looked' and stored what they saw, doesn't change this fact. If you don't want Google or anybody else to see what your doing, don't do it in a public or publicly visible space. You've never had the right to stop people looking through your windows, but you do have the right to block those windows, that's your choice.

The wifi mac/ssid issue is similar, you are publicly broadcasting those bits of information, anybody can retrieve them from the 'public' electromagnetic waves and store it. You decided to make those bits of data public when you chose to use WiFi tech, the fact you (and a lot of others) don't understand or care how WiFi works is irrelevant. Again you have the choice not to use WiFi.

Similar with FaceBook, you are choosing to publish information to a third-party. At the end of day it doesn't matter what privacy you thought you'd agreed to when you hit 'submit'. You've choosen to make it less private.

I think it boils down to: "People are slowly realising just because no-one gathered or analysed the information before, doesn't make that information private."

That's just illogical, if you allow on base .NET language you should allow both. The syntax is the biggest difference and arguably given C# closeness to Java and C++ it would the more logical choice for a school taught language.