The article is light on details, but there's details elsewhere.

The OPOC engine is a horizontally opposed two cylinder two-stroke engine. As a cylinder in a two-stroke engine has a power stroke on every revolution instead of every second revolution, this engine has very high power density compared to a four-stroke engine of the same size.

Traditionally, two-stroke engines have had very poor emissions. Since the exhaust and intake strokes are not separate, the intake mixes with the exhaust to some degree. This means that some of the intake fuel goes out the exhaust unburned, and some of the exhaust remains in the cylinder with the intake charge, reducing peak temperature. This engine, however, uses assisted HCCI with a diesel injection system, meaning the fuel is introduced during compression instead of intake, so unburned intake fuel does not cross over to the exhaust. (I'm not clear what the "assisted" part is in the assisted HCCI. Perhaps there's a spark plug that's only used during low-power, lean burn conditions?)

The cylinder pairs are intended to be balanced and stackable, so that multiples can be connected together for higher output. TFA suggests that it might even be stacked with an electric motor for low-speed operation.

I imagine these would be very useful for a hybrid, despite the summary title. Unassisted HCCI engines have a small power range, but this would be perfectly fine for a series hybrid generator motor running at a fixed RPM for charging.

Wouldn't be that hard to post a link to your source either.

I don't doubt that's the case, but it seems like one of those unsourced soundbites that may or may not be true. So, with all due respect..

[citation needed]

Some people make regular posts about items they need in their favorite games in their regular status updates too, which you see even if you've hidden their apps.

You could hide their status updates or unfriend them. Since you'll no longer be seeing anything from them either way, it comes down to whether you want them to see your activity even if you no longer care for theirs.

It's good that they've released source for drivers.

It would be better still if they released documentation for their hardware that would be adequate to write a driver.

It's said that source code is the best documentation, but it only documents what the source is doing; not why it's doing it, what it could do, and what it shouldn't do.

No, and that's not surprising in their field. As a company that provides infrastructure, EDS projects are expected to go well. It's not notable when they succeed.

There's just not a lot of articles in the news about "Multi-billion dollar project went as expected". It's not that they never do, rather it's not newsworthy when they do.

Hah! Don't you feel foolish now.

My father once said, to paraphrase.. "you can be one of those complaining about the people getting free cash.. or you can be one of the people getting free cash."

+1 insightful, in retrospect.

I know suicide bombing is all the rage these days, but there's plenty of would-be bombers who would prefer to live. Checking your bomb as luggage used to work (Air India Flight 182), but that doesn't fly anymore. Putting it into someone else's luggage seems like a reasonable compromise.

I've been using Overrated for that. Some posts don't even merit the logged in 1, or anonymous 0.

"The scientists found the DNA code for a skin cancer called melanoma contained more than 30,000 errors almost entirely caused by too much sun exposure."
This is obviously such a ridiculous statement that I'm surprised it made it into the BBC article.
Show me the evidence that almost 100% of DNA errors in skin cells or skin cancer cells are caused by sun exposure...

Wouldn't it be nice if the FASTRA II, which is 3.75 times faster than the FASTRA I, was actually called the FASTRA 375. Then I wouldn't have to ask.

I'm not saying this detracts from what your going for, but Labeling Theory seems to create a self fulfilling prophecy in the whole thing. I've always considered if an interesting thing. You call them hard criminals, you treat them like hard criminals, they become hard criminals.

Game availability for Mac OS X isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be. While the breadth of games for Windows is vastly greater, in terms of games that make me want to install Boot Camp, or build a gaming PC, the majority have Mac versions already, or in production (Blizzard, ID, EA, BioWare). Even indy games (like World of Goo, Braid, and pending, Torchlight), as well as "niche" games, like EVE and Warhammer Online.

Anyway, my point is simply that on the Mac, you give up being a hardcore gamer, but you don't give up games nearly so strongly as hardcore gamers tend to imply.

Additionally, there's Boot Camp and CrossOver (and even VMware which has surprisingly good DirectX support) which makes pretty much any game playable on the Mac itself (although not necessarily Mac OS X).

That's not to say the Mac gaming realm is nearly as broad and deep as on Windows, but your view is more than a bit askew.