Now that it has actually gone live and we can see what photos are being selected for relevance there is a longer and more complex answer:

Hell no.

Organising your paragraphs around trolls - it is a brave strategy. I guess that you no some grammar nazi will bite on the first, and who could resist correcting the abortion of a description of a fusion bomb on a tech forum. Don't mind me, I'll just sit here to watch

Do you know anything at all about the Blue Brain project?

Serious question: if you do not then there is a video floating around from ICC'11 with Henry Markram explaining an overview of the project. Given that they are building artificial simulations of biology specifically so that they can explore how they work, build hypotheses and then experimentally validate them it is somewhat hard to see how this approach can be described as cargo-cult AI.

Hopefully these guys can solve that problem.

Do you know why the target bandwidth for USR (15Gb) is lower than the bandwidth for SR (28Gb)?

It seems strange that they would not take advantage of the shorter distance to increase the transfer speed.

Obligitory grammar nitpick: surely you mean play too loose?

If bandwidth is finite, serializing downloads means one finishes first, and can be used while the others download.

No. If you run all of the downloads in parallel then one of them still finishes first and can be used while the others finish off.

Also, when the available bandwidth per-stream is lower than the available bandwidth per-link it is quicker to run the downloads in parallel. Lastly, when the total bandwidth across all the streams is still less than the link (which is frequently true) then the sequential time of each is unaffected by running them in parallel, but the total time is greatly reduced.

I think that you underestimate the value of soft modes of failure, particularly in maintaining quality standards. Examiners are human and it is much easier to say "not yet" than it is to say "and you're out of here".

So it really is like AIDS, Cancer or Death?

Thanks for the reply - that's a really interesting use for them.

What do you use it for? If you are plugging secure data into an untrusted box it seems that you have no defense against something on the box simply reading all of the data. For example if Spotlight indexes the drive then it has leaked data immediately.

Mostly. It would start with interesting ideas and strongly developed characters that tell an interesting story of our time. Sadly by the time the final curtain drops in the desert outside of Las Vegas we will all be convinced that the story ran its course long ago and that the untimely appearance of the hand of god himself to trigger a nuclear detonation is the sad work of a creative mind all spent. In short the main problem that it would cause is that the extra 300 pages of padding cannot hide the lack of a good ending.

Take a look at filmon.com, they stream all of the free to air channels as well as a few others. The SD feed is ok quality for free, or they have a subscription service for a HD stream. I think that it is a legal service, they have some information about paying channel providers on their website, but they have been sued before and there might be one case still pending.

You seem to have a strange difficulty in thinking. The internet may be a "GLOBAL" area, but this is not the internet. This is a small part of the internet called slashdot that has an explicit english language bias.

I would assume that the japanese can speak english well, it is the dominant world language after all.

I see your point: on an english speaking forum I should always think in the context of forums outside the english speaking world. Sure. Totally. Makes perfect sense.