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Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 2, Insightful) 168

by strider44 on Sunday October 31, 2010 @05:56AM (#34078276) Attached to: New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance

Because MKV and MP4 are containers, whereas VP8 is a codec... I'm more than half convinced that you're just trolling.

Comment Re:Penrith isn't in Sydney... (Score 1) 120

by strider44 on Thursday December 10, 2009 @03:33AM (#30385640) Attached to: Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall

Really? Did someone pick it up and move it since the last time I was there?

Comment Re:g'day mate (Score 1) 189

by strider44 on Thursday May 14, 2009 @03:11AM (#27948277) Attached to: An Australian Space Agency At Last?

So, serious answer to a stupid question:

Australia has had a long history in space exploration purely because it's an island on the opposite side of the world to the US and most other space age nations. This includes broadcasting the pictures back from the moon and being a hub for a large number of satellites.

Basically, you can't contact a satellite directly very easily from the US if the satellite is on the other side of the world. Australia's always going to have its place.

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