Hey I've got a question for you Comcast
If people mistype my web address (ww.example.com), and Comcast shows them an ad, Comcast sends me part of the proceeds, right?
because Comcast is making money off of my brand name...

after self registering once, the same addresses & procedure works for the future

and don't feel singled out, Comcast's CD also refused to run on Windows XP ;)

I don't see global sources in the first page anymore :P

Bing's results compared to google's side-by-side don't look all that different.
Even without the spam, the websites are kinda crappy, which is par for the construction industry.

In Maple, Tools -> Tutors will show you the steps to solving loads of the most common math problems.

Looks like someone at Wolfram reads Slashdot - I'm no longer seeing "car" under direct travel times.
FWIW, the results are better than Google's.

And all of those concerns are insignificant when you consider tacking on an AI that can execute maneuvers, handle turbulence, variable winds, bad accelerometer data... generally do the things a UAV needs to do in order to get to and from its coordinates.

You can fudge things a little here and there with weight & power but get a seg fault in your autopilot and watch your plane crash into a hillside. :)

Anyone know of open-source projects for controlling these things?

eh, then why does that last one say
"You will need Flash Player 8 (or higher) to view this website."

See "The R&D issue"

I hear ya... I now have 2 laptops with recalled batteries, a desktop with a bad Nvidia chipset that they waited until was out of warranty to recall, and another desktop that I bought factory "refurbished" that arrived with a broken DVD burner that had pieces audibly loose inside, a shattered SATA power connector hanging off the power supply, and (a year later) developed a problem of spitting out garbled text at POST instead of booting up. At least when I pried open that DVD burner I found a beat up pr0n disc.

Seriously, how bad does quality control have to be to refurbish a computer but miss two broken parts including a DVD drive that won't even open and close?

Whatever quality HP used to have is looooong gone.
They're just another crap commodity PC producer hoping their products will go out of warranty before all the defects manifest.

nuff said

It was funny to throw stuff at you :P

Most modern CD/DVD writers implement some form of buffer-underrun protection. Like you note, a custom writer might be needed, but not extremely customized with "custom formatted media."

Nuclear power plants used to pay in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars for WORM drives with the capacity of a DVD. I'm actually surprised there aren't any OS projects utilizing buffer-underrun protection to turn a DVD?R into a poor man's WORM-like drive.