Which is not to say the whole thing isn't still really cool.

don't you understand?

Good for some maybe, but Flickr doesn't support RAW formats - basically just jpeg of tiff. Tiff's are too large (Flickr pro has a 20MB file size limit), and jpeg's are lossy.

Only any retail price less than $285,714,286. I'm sure Amazon would be happy with collecting $85,714,286 for each sale.

Funds are not intended for basic research leading to process development, although if an applicant deems such R&D to be necessary to achieve performance targets, the inclusion of such work may be included in the overall project plan and schedule, up to 20% of the total proposed budget under...

so, no, not basic research. The high-risk here refers of course to the risk of commercial success:

OMP's emphasis on advanced biofuels is intended to encourage industry to invest in traditionally high-risk biofuels.

From a science (but not commercial) point of view basic research grants tend to be very risk adverse.

Don't think they work well in caves...

... process the quarter million diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks on Sunday, ...

Acutally, as of 29th November Wikileaks have published a grand total of 246 cables, which by my reckoning is not quite the same as a quarter of a million.

...or who may have knowledge of the distribution or sale of this software.'"

I think by now this includes everyone on slashdot...

A very crude guess of about 10mp, assuming that the extra light gathering is solely based on larger pixels and that they are assuming they can get lenses that cover this side with the same maximum aperture as for a 35 sensor. Sensor is 50 times larger and pixels 100 time larger.