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Comment Re:Wayland vs X (Score 1) 315

by EyelessFade (#39598907) Attached to: Update On Wayland and X11 Support
If you'd bothered reading anything from their faq, you'd known that they plan on using OpenGL and was going to, but they can't yet because it draws inn all X11 libs. AKA GLX. And network transparency will come, they even say so in TFV. "It's trivial"

Comment Re:WebM (Score 3, Insightful) 320

by EyelessFade (#39344981) Attached to: Mozilla Debates Supporting H.264 In Firefox Via System Codecs

Companies that won't support H.264: Mozilla

And Opera

Companies that won't support WebM: Many...

Which? Microsoft and Apple? So to on each side then.. And guess what; Microsoft don't support h264 in IE, they just support plugins. Blah blah everybody blah blah.

zero devices and a microscopic share of the whole video format ecosystem but think the whole world will bend to their will for WebM.

Yeh google should remove all support for h264 in android. Oh thats 60% of smart phones. woops. And remove flash and h264 from youtube. Should make webM relevant then. How many sites do you use which have videos?
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Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation 85

Posted by samzenpus from the nuclear-plant-of-the-apes dept.
PolygamousRanchKid writes "Scientists in Japan are taking a novel approach to measuring the impact of radiation in a forest affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis: enlisting the help of local wild monkeys. Takayuki Takahashi, a professor of robotic technology at Fukushima University, told CNN Wednesday his team was working on a collar fitted with a dosimeter to measure radiation levels that could be fitted to the monkeys before they are released back into the wild. Takahashi said the experiment would help researchers understand how radiation in the forest can affect human beings, as well as wild animals. While human scientists have been monitoring radiation levels from the air, the use of monkey 'assistants' will give them a clearer idea of conditions on the ground."
Science

Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal 259

Posted by samzenpus from the devil-in-the-dark dept.
Sven-Erik writes "Could living things that evolved from metals be clunking about somewhere in the universe? In a lab in Glasgow, UK, one man is intent on proving that metal-based life is possible. He has managed to build cell-like bubbles from giant metal-containing molecules and has given them some life-like properties. He now hopes to induce them to evolve into fully inorganic self-replicating entities. 'I am 100 per cent positive that we can get evolution to work outside organic biology,' says Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow. His building blocks are large 'polyoxometalates' made of a range of metal atoms — most recently tungsten — linked to oxygen and phosphorus. By simply mixing them in solution, he can get them to self-assemble into cell-like spheres."

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