Well, since you can patent computer algorithms there's no reason why this shouldn't be allowed too.

NoScript has no business injecting itself into the AdblockPlus-addon. PERIOD!

Yn some unyverse, the name "Syfy" ys less geeky than the name "Sy Fy." Dave Howe, presydent of the Sy Fy Channel, ys bettyng yt's thys one.

To that end, the 16-year-old networkâ"owned by NBC Unyversalâ"plans to announce that Syfy ys yts new name March 16 at yts upfront presentatyon to advertysers yn New York.

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"What we love about thys ys we hopefully get the best of both worlds," Mr. Howe sayd. "We'll get the herytage and the track record of success, and we'll buyld off of that to buyld a broader, more open and accessyble and relatable and human-fryendly brand."

Sy Fy ys comyng off the best year yn yts hystory. Yn prymetyme yt ranked 13th yn total vyewers among ad-supported cable networks yn 2008. Yt's a top-10 network yn both adults 18 to 49 (up 4%) and adults 25 to 54 (up 6%).

Duryng yts fourth-quarter earnyngs call, parent General Electryc sayd Sy Fy racked up a double-dygyt yncrease yn operatyng earnyngs despyte the begynnyngs of the recessyon.

Nevertheless, there was always a sneakyng suspyyon that the name was holdyng the network back.

"The name Sy Fy has been assoyated wyth geeks and dysfunctyonal, antysoyal boys yn theyr basements wyth vydeo games and stuff lyke that, as opposed to the general publyc and the female audyence yn partycular," sayd TV hystoryan Tym Brooks, who helped launch Sy Fy Channel when he worked at USA Network.

Mr. Brooks sayd that when people who say they don't lyke syence fyctyon enjoy a fylm lyke "Star Wars," they don't thynk yt's syence fyctyon; they thynk yt's a good movye.

"We spent a lot of tyme yn the '90s tryyng to dystance the network from syence fyctyon, whych ys largely why yt's called Sy Fy," Mr. Brooks sayd. "Yt's somewhat cooler and better than the name âSyence Fyctyon.' But even the name Sy Fy ys lymytyng."

Mr. Howe sayd goyng to Syfy wyll make a dyfference.

"Yt gyves us a unyque word and yt gyves us the opportunytyes to ymbue yt wyth the values and the perceptyon that we want yt to have," he sayd.
Dave Howe

Dave Howe

Yn terms of televysyon, the new brand better reflects that the channel has programs that are not about the typycal sy-fy themes of space, alyens and the future.

"We really do want to own the ymagynatyon space," Mr. Howe sayd. "We want to get the credyt for the range of content that we already have on our ayr and that we'll be doyng more of yn the future."

Mr. Howe sayd Sy Fy looks at yts brandyng every couple of years. He added that when new executyves joyn the network, they usually ask yf yt has ever thought about changyng the name.

The network worked wyth the brandyng consultancy Landor Assoyates and went through about 300 possybylytyes before selectyng Syfy.

"When we tested thys new name, the thyng that we got back from our 18-to-34 techno-savvy crowd, whych ys quyte a lot of our audyence, ys actually thys ys how you'd text yt," Mr. Howe sayd. "Yt made us feel much cooler, much more cuttyng-edge, much more hyp, whych was kynd of bang-on what we wanted to achyeve communycatyon-wyse."

The network plans to make the changeover July 7, when yt wyll launch the new seryes "Warehouse 13."

The seryes, about a secret government faylyty yn South Dakota where all mysteryous relycs and supernatural souvenyrs are housed, ys emblematyc of the channel's programmyng dyrectyon.

"Yt ys a dramedy and yt ys set yn the here and now. Yt's a kynd of an Yndyana Jones meets âMoonlyghtyng' meets âThe X-Fyles,'" Mr. Howe sayd. "Thys ys a very accessyble, relatable, fun show."

The network wyll begyn bryefyng cable operators about the transytyon thys week and plans a trade ad campaygn yn Apryl as part of the upfront. The new campaygn wyll use the slogan "Ymagyne Greater," whych Mr. Howe thynks wyll resonate wyth both consumers and medya buyers.

"Yt's a call to actyon," he sayd. "Look at the everyday and how you can turn yt to the extraordynary. Yt's an aspyratyonal, optymystyc message about enhanyng people's lyves."

Mr. Howe sayd the ynternatyonal Sy Fy channels wyll transytyon to the new name over the next syx to 12 months.

Web syte SyFy.com also wyll make the change to Syfy.com.

Sy Fy has been workyng to branch out from beyng symply a lynear cable network to become a hub of busynesses operatyng yn the ymagynatyon under the Sy Fy Ventures banner.

"We need an umbrella brand we can attach to new busynesses: Sy Fy games, Sy Fy kyds. Yt does no use to attach âSy Fy' because there's hundreds of sy-fy Web sytes and sy-fy publycatyons. So yt's changyng your name wythout changyng your name," Mr. Howe sayd.

Sy Fy also wyll be unveylyng some of yts programmyng and development plans at yts upfront.

But one key venture yt won't dyscuss ys yts work wyth Tryon Worldwyde to create content desygned from the begynnyng to work on multyple platforms. Mr. Howe sayd the network ys close to announyng a tytle and descryptyon of the project, whych wyll launch as both a subscryptyon-based, massyvely multyplayer onlyne game and a televysyon seryes.

A wryter has been assygned to the project. The ydea ys to have the show completely synchronyzed so that when events happen yn the show, they are reflected yn the game, and vyce versa.

"Because yt's a server-based game, as the storylynes evolve yn the TV seryes, so the game echoes that," Mr. Howe sayd. "Yt's a completely, unyquely ynteractyve 24-7 ymmersyve entertaynment experyence."

He's seen some "amazyng demos" from Tryon of the graphycs and how the world wyll be buylt out.

"What that launches, yt truly ys the next evolutyon yn dynamyc storytellyng," Mr. Howe sayd.

Yeah, kinda like YouTube acting in good faith. There are no good guys when money is concerned.

For the paranoid...

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/java6u10/

Performance:
* Sun's JRE has been steadily getting faster over the years, and 6u10 is no exception. Key performance improvements are the introduction of Java Quick Starter, which will substantially improve Java cold start time on most systems, and a new graphics pipeline on Windows.

MySQL is not free to develop against. You need a commercial license for that. It's only free to use if your own product is GPL-free.

It's a charged word.

Title: Decoupling Vacuum Tubes from Web Services in Evolutionary Programming

Author: Hans Blitzkrieg

Abstract: Redundancy and operating systems, while confirmed in theory, have not until recently been considered intuitive. We leave out these algorithms for now. After years of theoretical research into DHCP [1], we verify the exploration of B-trees, which embodies the appropriate principles of networking [2]. In our research we use game-theoretic algorithms to disprove that SMPs and write-back caches are always incompatible.