The headline was bad, as it doesn't include the qualification.

It is a limited qualified version of free.
Free to learn on, is about it.
If you get good at it and show some talent you might be suitable for hiring by pixar.
I don't think there is anything of interest for programmers there either.

It is kinda cool that they have released this cross platform, but you can see how its a little self serving for pixar. Clearly they seem to want a cut of any profits that might be made from a small independent film maker using this software.

This release basically targets potential recruits that should need less training if pixar finds them talented.
maybe i'm too cynical

Why on earth would they want to do that? The thing should cost more its a marketing piece, a regular google watch now that should priced below or competitively with Apples version.

People are stupid on average and would be daft enough to leave incriminating files on laptops and smart phones that's why customs needs an over-reaching power like this.

The problem is really is revealing a password that you use elsewhere. So change it before you go make it 1234 or password or some other trivial thing. Maybe put a fresh copy of windows on before you travel, or would that be suspicious in itself. Customs can give you a hard time already even your butt isn't secure.

New Zealand wouldn't be the first country to make failing to hand over encryption keys illegal, just make sure your laptop is clean and it isn't a problem. It's not like you can't download a file once you are past customs.

could probably cut that down to 6.27 by 9.7 (theres usually an inch of margin on most pages.

Kind of the problem with ereaders is pdf files all seem formatted for A4 paper and are pretty bad on a computer screen and even worse on an ereader like looking at a room through a letterbox.

reformatting them is a nightmare too.
 

I think its fair to say that it takes a user to install it first, linux has pretty much always had trustworthy repositories, Google not so much.

I love some of the things you can add to chrome but there seems to be little to no security checking of what an app or extension does. That does worry me.

must mean something different outside of yorkshire

Actually it does make sense small cracks do concentrate stresses at the head of the V which break through the crystal structure a layer at a time.

As a simple demo get a piece of paper and pull on it, you will find it pretty hard to tear it , now just nick the edge of the paper and try again, you should find it yields quite easily.

The tensile strength of steel would be a lot higher if it wasn't full of imperfections. incidentally there are two crystal structures you get with steel face centered cubic and body centered cubic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

now the interesting thing about this is that when you cool down steel rapidly you get one form and slowly you get the other form so if your quenching something more than a foot thick you get both types of crystals since heat just isn't removed fast enough from the centre. the larger crystal structure is in the centre and the smaller crystal structure is on the outside. This means the inside is trying to be bigger than the outside. so the outer surfaces are massively stressed. like a bomb stressed seriously. You can't cut through steel stressed like this with a saw as the cutting would unbalance the stresses and it would blow apart, so you have to do something called plunge grinding which is done in a massive lathe with a grinding wheel taking it down equally on all sides.

This is what happens when you produce a roll for a cold rolling mill the outside is very hard with a softer core. Usually the forces are lower than the uts of the steel but sometimes it isn't and you get catastrophic failures. generally this happens in the quenching tank where its safe you normally hear a few bangs as lumps of steel spawl off from the outside followed by a boom as the roll breaks apart and goes crashing down to the bottom of the tank.

Rarely they fail after the heat treatment, joe the hardness tester where i used to work was nearly killed by one. he'd hardness tested it around 12pm (the hardness was abnormally high around 890 vickers) an hour later it blew apart a ton and a half of journal end was launched across the factory floor missing his legs by inches. he was off work for a week after with the shock. We also had a used roll blow up in a storage warehouse one weekend and it took a wall out, this had been in service and had been worn down to below a serviceable size. Even after all that time it was still stressed ...

back on topic , it seems reasonable that by removing the sites for cracks to occur the uts of the steel will be much higher, normally the way round the problem is to make the thing bigger that way the forces applied will not break the cross section of course that makes it heavier and harder to work with which is why its a specialized area like drilling where this has been applied, with the plating thicknesses used the cost will be way higher than for the regular steel pipes, i'd expect probably more than 10x the cost but the rig would be able to drill deeper and that's what matters, and the return on that makes the drilling costs look like peanuts.

funny thing i'm writing a reply to you on a netbook with a 1024 by 600 screen. Physically bigger than the phone screen. Possibly comparable cpu with the n270 in this netbook too. Maybe a little light on ram. However it seems this was a phone designed for android so at least shares the specifications of an android phone.

The question that intrigues me is will this phone upgrade like a pc or will its first and last operating system be the one that it ships with? Can it switch distro maybe run an arm version of debian ?

Is it open enough?

The spec seems reasonable, not stella but its a phone i think the gpu will be up to the job of playing youtube video's and capable enough for web browsing. I'm tired of throwaway android devices that don't get updates it might be ok. The article basically says nothing about the software at all and that is the difference between it running android and running linux.

It's all about personal choice
I can't dictate what you eat, no one can really unless your in prison or similar.
There is more than just one type of potato , tomato , cabbage carrots onions ect.
They are different and some of us know enough to choose which varieties to use. If GMO matters to some people then they should be able to choose to eat it or not.

I guess we all have our quirks about what we eat personally i don't like banana's revolting things there is nothing wrong with them. I choose not to eat them.

You probably like them so more banana's for you.

GMO food may be cheaper but it will not kill anyone if they choose to not to eat it.

why is it a problem for you for people to be informed of what they are eating, you wouldn't stand to be force fed what you don't like. Why is it a problem for you if some people choose not to eat GMO.

Your not my mammy, you can't make me eat what I don't want to eat.

I find it hard to imagine windows 7 running well in 400MB of ram, In practice taskmanager has shown booting to the desktop taking around 1GB A Windows 7 desktop is pretty much unusable with 1GB of ram 1.5GB at least lets you boot up and run office or a web browser.

previous experience with XP has found it sluggish with 512 MB but reasonable with 756MB 2000 is very zippy on 512MB and great in a VM. Some of the linux desktops are pretty bad in a VM especially unity but xubuntu is quite usable.

well to be fair I don't think even the biggest racists in the world have problems with black people labouring in fields. Besides your not eating the workers, hopefully.

You do get meat pies but generally its labeled as to the meats included, one i don't like is mechanically reclaimed meat which basically comes from steam cleaning the bones. Another one is things like southern fried chicken gougons made with 100% chicken breast and bulked up with soya (in the small print).

if you want to eat dog or cat food thats fine by me , just don't expect me to join you for supper.
Do you like good strawberries the ones locallly grown which are full flavoured or the rubbery ones the supermarkets get in which are capable of surviving being shipped in the back of a trick. you do know there are mainly types. Cheese there are lots of different types like cheddar, (mild, mature ...) red Leicester, Edam... ect. Then you get the squirty cheese in a can called squirty cheese . with meats on a single animal you get lots of different cuts and maturity. All striploin isn't the same a good one you can practically put your finger through it and a bad one will be like chewing rubber.

Good food you should try it some time.

I guess you could say the same about horse meat in pork or beef after all its just as safe as anything else. However it did cause a big scandal recently.

Or take your average supermarket chickens some most even are battery farmed in cages, some are free range some are corn fed (corn fed are actually a different color and visibly different). But they are all as safe as anything else.

Then there are burgers which are made from meat unfit for human consumption until washed in ammonia, not listed as an ingredient as its part of the process.

Or as george bush senior once said "I don't like brocolli' why not its as safe as anything else.

See there's the thing people choose what they want to eat and have their likes and dislikes so if they prefer not to eat something because it is gmo why should anybody trick them into eating something they do not want to. Like the battery farmed chicken and the free range version, you may just prefer to pay the premium for free range chicken.

America seems to have a thing for cheap food, trouble is there is potential for a lot of upset if people really know what they are eating and there seems to be pressure to avoid honest labeling. A recent label 100% pure fruit juice (contains 27% fruit juice). To be fair the best way to avoid eating stuff you don't want to eat is to buy fresh ingredients instead of food from a factory. Takes a little more time to prepare maybe, but worth while.

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