Read up on Strata Smith. Basically your theory is similar to the theories before he noted that fossils were increasing in complexity as they went up the layers, and he could identify the layers based on the fossils he found in them and he could successfully predict the next layers above and below. This made him money predicting where coal would be found, which was big money back in Victorian england. So basically your theory was disapproved over a hundred years ago, assuming you take into account the evidence. If you ignore the evidence, well then, basically any theory can be proved. That is how religion works.

Well you do need a naming system and Planet is a useful naming system. What is evil about that? There are only 8 planets so you don't really need to subdivide them more. And if the earth-moon is a binary then what are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune? Pluto on the hand was relabelled by that evil committee not because it is also a binary, quaternary or whatever, simply because there are potentially thousands of dwarf planets, so calling them planets was not useful. That is usually the big complaint about that committee. I hadn't heard that people were unhappy about the Moon's status.

which "dumb-ass" scientists that do not influence the impact of the moon on the earth are you talking about?

The Moon is considered a moon as the barycentre is within the Earth. Pluto on the other hand has its barycentre outside of it, though in its case we usually refer to it as a Dwarf planet rather than Dward binary. ...or am i missing something?

Actually while Reddit has a lot of rubbish, it also has a lot of good content and good intelligent contributors. Also the ranking system that puts good answers to the top does usually work and while the linear approach of slashdot has some merit, in slashdot we end up with "frist post" rubbish up the top and you have to wade through content to get to the good stuff. So i miss Usenet too, but usenet was about the contributors, and they are on Reddit.

Tablets are great for simple browsing. Most of my use of my iPad is casual browsing the web and reading books. It goes in the toilet with me but i guess i should steralise it a bit more often. The reading experience is different to a laptop. You would think it would be the same but it is not. Form and function i guess.

Not really news? Guess that is why you are not a journalist. Once they discover the many other dwarf planets then it will stop being news but a finding like this is a big deal. The other dwarf planets are not confirmed. Until then, this is newsworthy as it is confirmation of that hypothesis.

We keep finding more comets and they are relatively common but most of them are news and there are multiple newsworthy comets a year reported (and many other little ones not reported).

and then the text is searchable, which the audio is not. If someone uses certain keywords then up the priority and keep the raw audio for them.

How much processing is required to do the speech->text? A fair bit i assume, and having heard many calls where i can't understand the other person then speech->text won't work.

perhaps with the lost Malaysian flight they know where it is but can't say so they don't reveal the capability. or.. they don't know.

What about 3D screen support for VLC? I haven't been able to get that working. I am using Windows 8.1 and NVIDIA with a shutter style glasses and 120MHz screen.

...to fix it.

I think the main value will be in the interface. My dishwasher, washing machine etc have rudimentary interfaces. Just as TV's used to have controls which moved to the remotes (some TVs do not operate without a remote), the same thing will happen to devices. Those interfaces on the device are expensive so there is a saving there.

The other, perhaps more useful thing, is to make them better at power saving. The smarter the device, the easier it is to intelligently reduce power consumption. That is something that could pay for itself.

In our house we have light bulbs controllable from an iphone because.... well, i dunno. But as we start to do this stuff, people will come up with ideas on how things can work together more intelligently, eg, letting the airconditioner know i am home and adjust accordingly. It could be like 3D TV or it could not. Sometimes you work out the full use after you build it.

Agree with that. The other concern i have is that i want results only after 2011, for example chasing up statistics/surveys and looking for relevant ones, I constant find results from, say 2005. But because the site it is on refreshes the container for the content, it looks like new content. Note an easy thing to solve but perhaps google can hash the content, excluding the framework, and work out the true age of the content.

This issue was not a problem when everything googled was new, but after ten years we are getting the old and new mixed in together. Give it another ten years and the problem will be much worse.

Refining searches, as you detail above, is something that not everyone needs but when you DO need it, it is frustrating not to be able to be exact.

I get that, but 50 shades is badly written sex. There is no shortage of better written books that will steam up your glasses.

What Snyder did for screenplays was fine. He helped writers understand a structure. The problem was management being risk averse and insisting that all movies follow the Cat even in some cases to the exact minute. Management not knowing their industry and so constraining script writers from doing what they do best. It is the same problem where one successfully movie comes out and suddenly there are lots of copies in the same genre simply because that is lower risk. None of this is Snyder's fault. One reason i do not watch many Hollywood movies. I find foreign language movies and indie movies much more interesting, unpredictable and refreshing.

That's classic. I would prefer to read the book on the marketing campaign. It is original, brilliantly executed and delivered results. Forget the original book.