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Thanks! That was really well-written.

Nice, this will be good combined with this Chrome extension [1] to set a custom URL for new tabs.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-redirect/i...

Analogy-making is an important part of perception.

Why not?

It's not really an inherent design flaw - it's an implementation problem. If everyone was running 0.8 this wouldn't have happened.

This impressive video from Armadillo is three years old. I wonder what they are up to now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0qlIoSSkQ

Yeah well, that's just like, your opinion piece, man.

Great video! Scalability is the obvious issue though.

Why? The pdf is what I'm interested in. I don't particularly care where it's hosted.

I don't see much of a difference. Is that the point? Are you saying that JPEGMini are just compressing to ~83% quality?

>Energy-wise, we’re talking about 1.36 milliwatt-hours per cm3, about twice the density of activated carbon, and comparable to a high-power lithium-ion battery.

That's not really comparable to any "high-power lithium-ion battery" at all - Wikipedia quotes 250–730 Wh per litre for Li-ion (so 250-730 mWh/cm^3), and a quick calculation with a laptop battery I have on hand agrees - 84 Wh stated in 27x4x2cm = 388 mWh/cm^3.

>The hard realization was that the stuff in my head just couldn't be expressed by any real world media, even of my own design. Reality sucks like that.

There is a term for this: Weltschmerz.

Freebasic [1] is a modern cross-platform BASIC compiler and it's really rather good with lots of ported libraries. I often use it when I need to knock up a little graphics demo or something really quickly. I'm starting to use Python more for that sort of thing now, but you can't beat BASIC's lack of overhead, especially for graphics.

[1] http://www.freebasic.net/

I've come to really dislike websites and services that don't tell you what they're about straight away.

It says in the sidebar "a community for 2 years".

Wow. There is at least one printer on there in a US governmental department, and on one of the settings pages is a huge list of emails of employees. And now I'm probably on some kind of list.

    The crime in question was accessing a computer system in an unauthorized fashion

Via a URL accessible to anybody? If I poke around on your website and find your /hiddenstuff directory, am I guilty of a crime?

That was a great talk, and an impressive demo of feature generation.

Things must have changed then - I find security is very lax at Imperial, especially in the EEE department.

Chrome. There is an image at the top of the page, but the 'App' section has a light blue background.

In fact, the following sections (support, operations, social, etc.) don't render at all for me - just a background with no text. Is the page not broken for anyone else?

edit: Interestingly, the page doesn't render for me above a certain width of around 1000px. Was this intentional? It's pretty bad design either way.

White text on a light blue background is not what I would call beautiful.

I'm upset as well. It just all seems so absurd and unnecessary, like a cruel game.

>We live in a very unfair world.

I thought I already understood this. Today puts it in even sharper focus.

"The English rule provides that the party who loses in court pays the other party's attorney's fees.

Nearly every Western democracy, other than the United States, follows the English rule."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule

What exactly are you referring to?

I still think this is a very interesting idea, but haven't seen any attempt at implementation yet.

http://www.10gui.com/

>One cannot just look back at all the things that have happened and conclude they are right because you have prospered.

Absolutely. This is the just world fallacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

I would probably use this if PHP were enabled.

Exactly. This is why I like 10/GUI as a compromise.

http://www.10gui.com/video/