Do you really see trillions of dollars of benefits from such a thing?
It's not like the money would be created or destroyed either way. More interesting to think of the resources that would be expended - lots of brainpower, lots of gear, a bit of fuel and a few lives risked.
You did try googling for, say, 'open source c++ numerical library' right?
I ask because that yields a fair few that welcome contributions; maybe if you told us what your issues with them are then that would help us find you some alternatives.
Dude does groundbreaking work, work gets suppressed by British government for reasons of national security, dude gets screwed.
At least this guy didn't then get force-fed oestrogen by the government until he killed himself, which is something I suppose.
There are already bootleg hardware HDCP strippers on the market. It used to be possible to shut down these devices by revoking their keys, but that's now gone out the window with the master-key leak. Expect the next generation of devices to let you upload new keys to them, or maybe generate new keys themselves.
Software decryption is kinda interesting but you're right, hardware is where it's at.
Google's Super Secret Search Algorithm: SELECT @search_results FROM internet WHERE @search_results = 'good'
search_results
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1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Yeah, but Russell and Whitehead would make for a better videogame.
"Dear Bertrand, please come to the castle. I've baked an incompleteness theorem for you. Princess Godel"
It's-a me! A-Bertrand Russell!
Why will Windows Phone 7 succeed when Kin failed?
Because it is a better platform with better carrier support and (one would hope) better marketing?
Common sense says that heavier objects fall faster.
At human-scale and in human environments, they generally do.
Also: Woohoo!
A democratic institution representing the desires and best interests of it's electorate?
What gives?
Another analogy would be popup books, although that one worked out a bit differently.
If Sony can pour millions into telling everyone that 3D is the bee's knees then I can take 2 minutes to voice my opinion that no, it ain't.
I've watched full episodes of South Park off the official site over WIFI and was pleasantly surprised by the performance.
Exercise for the interested reader: Can you see any problems with judging video playback quality using a source material that's animated at around 3fps?
"Ada is the work of an architect, not a computer scientist." - Jean Icbiah, inventor of Ada, weenie
