Crap, sorry mod me down :-(

I need to learn to read all the way to the end of the story. Looks like, for some reason, some guy at the company named Daniel Harrington was keeping a USB stick full of passwords, security notes, and source code.

A lot of good ideas seem really obvious in retrospect. They're the kind of things that make you go, "Huh, why didn't I think of that?" Being a good inventor is about having the insight to think of those simple things no one else has thought of yet, actually going and and doing them, and then demonstrating how they are useful. Probably if it doesn't seem simple in retrospect, it won't be that useful either.

Well of course it's bang on target. They have a six month release cycle where they release come-what-may without a feature list.

The FAA is a tricky one but the others most definitely would be unconstitutional if attempted by the Federal Government:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I don't know if they already do this, but when /. discusses the turing test, then you find lots of crazy questions, you might ask the chat partner... ("why did the refrigerator lay an egg in the air?" or so)... I think if you'd ask a real person such crap, he'd get pissed and insult you ("wtf?", "are you trying to bullsh*t me?", "f*ck you, I'm leaving!") so a chatbot should get "angry" if you write stuff that it doesn't understand
and real people usually have strong feelings towards politics or so - so maybe the chatbot might get angry with you, if you disagree with him on strong-feeling topics ("you want to vote for mccain? are you f*cking nuts!? don't you know that...")

But if it really *can* import any PDF, allow basic editing and export, that could really be a boon. Other apps that allow that are either incredibly expensive, horrible to use or just too out-of-date. Does it support "encrypted" PDF's if you have the passwords, etc.? Does it allow image/text editing/extraction from a PDF? If so, then this update would be worth it for that alone.

It imports into Draw. Short edits to text and filling in forms is simple. If you're wanting to make extensive changes to the formatting and style of the document then it is more difficult but possible. The PDF is treated as a vector image with text layers and objects for graphics and table elements. Upcoming versions of the PDF Import Extension will import into writer which will make extensive edits easier but at the expense of fidelity.

Do you have brake lights on your car? Do they activate when you engine brake? At the very least you should tap the brake pedal to make sure the person behind you is expecting you to slow down.

I don't think you are going to get a tablet PC that can touch a Wacom just yet. Also, I would suggest trying a Wacom before you buy, if possible. While many people think bigger is better (insert joke here), after actually using a Wacom, they usually find a smaller size fits their needs better. I've found the 6"x11" to be fine, while the 12"x12" was too big. The one you're talking about, the 12"x19" is actually about 25"x17", and almost 1.5" thick. That takes up a lot of desk space, and is probably too big for your lap.

That's OK. It looks like they're doing you a favor. If it makes you feel any better, they don't support Vista either.

Why don't you look up the word "supremacist", then read the post you're replying to. I don't see where he said anything about superiority.

On a lighter note:

What we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got
And keep it stirring for
A hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score

As someone pointed out, due to assortative mating that doesn't actually happen in practice.

...Oh, I don't know, I think there's also alot to be said about occupied having less children than unnocupied people.

RuneScape?

And of course if this software is open source, you can just remove the MovieData->ReEncrypt() call and re-compile.

Which, by some miracle, don't need to be steered. They are magical half-cylinders which always point at any available light source. And, for whatever reason, you seem to be deliberately ignoring the value of reflecting light back from beneath the cylinders. So, effectively, they looks like self-steering half-cylinders plus the other half cylinder gathering "waste" light.

Don't underestimate the value of "don't need to be steered". Eliminating those moving parts and the associated control automation shaves a huge amount off of installation and maintenance costs. And the lower profile is also pretty useful (wind resistance, aesthetics, clear lines of sight for other things like satellite dishes).

Remember: the intended application of this technology is rooftop static PV systems, a retrofit application. Steerability is not a factor; the panels are going to just lie on the roofing. The cylindrical design means that a portion of their surface is always almost tangential to the incoming sunlight, maximizing conversion there. A flat panel has less local peak efficiency unless it's steered and sun-tracking, which is not the application in question.

Really, this sounds like a good compromise for moderately effective PV generation in rooftop retrofit applications.

Perhaps there is an ulterior motive? Is this some collaborative ploy to get DVD fair-use copying to be officially declared illegal?