Time for scientists to get to work? What an elegantly simple solution.

The next time I have to debug something, maybe my fist step should be identifying the problem [taken from dilbert..]

I was hoping that my first sentence that they are powerful enough encompassed video decoding. Oopsies.

Hopefully netflix runs out the HDMI port. That would be another fun use-case. no ripping, encoding, and several hour long transfers to a micro SD card.

Its cool that the n8 came with the adapter, but what I've seen is that most don't.

Also, I'm pretty sure its not the poor little 680 MHz ARM 11 that is doing the video decoding.

Yes they are powerful enough.
Second, some people want to use their tv as a slide show projector.
Third, its an extra feature for those people out there who shop based on feature lists.
Fourth it creates a need for people to buy a mini HDMI to full size converter. Even if its just to experiment with and never use again.

The first video has some text saying that the current robot vs robot record is 176 strokes.

I know its semantics but its nice to see an industry specific title with the word "roboticists" Instead of the generic "scientists" or "researchers" do XYZ.

It'd be funny if a bunch those occupy wallstreet protesters decided to occupy the handicap parking at apple.

Who's the Jerk who sold a bunch of monkeys to Iran ?

And that's billions of dollars right?

I'm wondering who is responsible for the Falun Gong website and where they live?

It'd be pretty hilarious to see a lawsuit in US courts against the Chinese government going after Chinese government property. (US debt)

I wonder how long this will last until a class action suit.

I think the ISPs are hiding behind the variables like distance to the tap and peak hours to not make a good faith effort to provide what they are advertising.

In many cases people pay for 3mbs but get 2mbs, then upgrade to the 6mbs plan and get 4mbs, which demonstrates the ISPs capability to have delivered the full 3mbs in the first place.

Sorry there should be a carriage return between the the "jmp lbl_1" and the ".ds 50"

I've been wondering about this for 13 years now (when I started learning z80 and 68k assembly) if antivirus software was smart enough to analyze for things like:

  jmp lbl_1 .ds 50 /* declare 50 bytes of storage */
lbl_1:

And those 50 bytes are filled in with random patterns. But this article makes it sound like there are multiple jumps that are being generated which I've also considered. Or dummy for loops.

I'm surprised virus writers are only starting to do this. Any assembly coder worth his salt should be smart enough to think of this.

Floating point precision is slightly different between powerpc (64 bits and fused multiply and accumulate instructions) and x86 (80 bit internal results)

I have my last name registered as a domain so I could have a first_name@last_name.org email address. But I occasionally get news mails that address me as Ralph, my dads name, from the Missouri state university, where my dad went. I also get environmental political action emails addressed to him.

I've examined the links closely and none appear to be phishing attempts.

I'm wondering if these institutions have bought supposed good email addresses from a company that came about them through some kind of "smart" interpolation algorithm.

Why bother with a petition?

It would be much simpler if someone simply edited wikipedia's article on world wonders to say that it is a world wonder.