If that was true we would already have a very large amount of MiT level engineers and Harvard Business school level people walking around thanks to iTunesU. The fact of the matter is that while sitting through a lecture can indeed be useful, where you actually learn the material is through the homework assignments and meeting with professors during office hours to review confusing topics. I'm not denying that the occasional luminary could pull it off and learn something entirely on their own, but the average student needs that safety net that the classroom provides.

People choose the obvious choice that would lead to the greatest perceived payoff. Kind of Ironic since op's article starts off with a Prisoners Dilema. A cursory glance of the article shows that the Quantum theorists only managed to re-create the classical model. Just because I add complexity to solve 2+2+2 by multiplication instead of addition doesn't mean I've done anything exactly groundbreaking. If anything I suppose this confirms that Quantum Theorists have their basics correct.

Just bumping Handbreak since it's my personal favorite. Here's a nice vid tutorial incase your lazy like the rest of us and don't feel like reading: Methodshop - Handbreak . It is the OS X version but not that far off from what you'd expect to see in Linux

Crap, in the time it took to write this some people posted some of the points on metered usage but it's still a (somewhat) persuasive argument bandwidth caps for anybody wondering about the issue.

It's infrastructure, privatized albeit and more often than not acting as a monopoly in most areas. Some legislation should be put in place to ensure that isp's don't stagnate the growth of digital delivery services through things like Time Warners 40 gig bandwidth cap. Even Comcasts' generous 250 gig is soon going to look paltry as content-dense traffic becomes more ubiquitous on the internet.

New business models for entertainment and software industries will be cut off at the legs when consumers can't stream their movies through perfectly legitimate services like Hulu or download games over clients like Steam. Keep in mind that intellectual property has become an exceedingly large portion of the American Economy as manufacturing jobs have been outsourced to countries with cheaper labor.

The only thing these bandwidth caps are going to do is raise the barrier of entry for less wealthy individuals to interact with an increasingly content-rich and relevant source of information. As railroads and highways were an important part of creating an infrastructure to facilitate the trade of physical goods across the country so will the internet come to become the same in translating information-based products in the coming century.

ISPs should stopped from putting overly excessive restrictive premiums on consumer access to a market that will come to compose increasingly large portion of the American economy. Nobody, neither the producers nor the consumers will be able to benefit otherwise.

/rant

As well as calculating some simple statistics like 5C2. Check out a quick cheat sheet for a guide for everything that Google can do.

While I am remiss over the lower quality streams when compared to the old windows media player stream the added mac compatibility as a result of using silver light goes far in making my mixed os household a lot happier.
So far I have not experienced any of these buffering problems and I hope they get fixed soon for the users experiencing them.
If anything I think users should be pressing netflix to be more aggressive in adding more movies to the instant watch service - I can only watch 30 rock so many times. Expanding the program's feature set by adding things such as subtitles or alternative language audio streams would also be welcome.

I noticed that this has been tagged with "nextbadconsoletopcport". The F.E.A.R. series started out on the PC and the PC has always been the lead development platform on the development of this project.

While the site owners won't have any explicit liabilities they will have to deal with the legal fees involved in receiving the letter from people's lawyers.

If someone managed to hire a crackpot for their lawyer I suppose that they could be dragged beyond civil litigation on the claim that hosting the content for so long is an endorsement/facilitation of what took place.

Not only a story, but a story by a guy who won the Internet Speculative Fiction Database's Best novel award 6 times. They're pretty dead on with their awards, I've been going to them for a while whenever I need a good sci-fi book recommendation.

That's true, but my point was that someone could quite possibly use the internal speaker of the second gen ipod as an microphone.

After dealing with intel's op code hell, all I can say is that whoever comes out with a better method of recording op codes and their uses than the labyrinthine intel and amd manuals will become my patron saint.
But seriously is there any good x86 op code references out there?

While the 2nd gen ipod touch doesn't have a built in microphone, a clever engineer could use the built in speaker since the two things are physically similar.

However, mics are usually smaller to allow decent high frequency response. Try plugging in a pair of headphones into your computer mic jack and speaking into them - you might be surprised.