The first LCD TV I brought 12 years ago was a 720p Sharp Aquos that worked exactly like this, even with detachable external speakers on either side.

I didn't think the Encode capabilitys of the chip were exposed.

My First ever pop maths book was Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh, damn good romp through the history & philosophy of maths and that spacific problem.

Not actually very mathsy tho

I hear you brother, as the other poster said it poisoned the back story for me, see my similar post.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1853080&cid=34121402

Yes but good fiction is a mirror with which we see our very nature, & science fiction is often the mirror we turn on the uglier aspects of our selves.

From black people in space in TOS to the morality of suicide bombing and questions about the nature of humanity in BSTG, Scifi writers have used the genre to point out the inconsistences in the prevailing moral zeitgeist, the constant falling back on magic is just sloppy writing & robs the story of any teaching power it might otherwise have had.

I thought you were going to complain about all the spiritual bollocks in the story lines. Why is it that in fiction, fortune tellers are always correct, where as IRL they're such obvious charlatans.

For this reason I use JFS on my MythTV recording partitions but ext3 everywhere else. When I set it up 3 years ago I found a very comprehensive set of Linus FS benchmarks that included deletes of large files, JFS was the fastest at this and not far off the fastest at most other tasks, can't find the page now.