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There's one change I've noticed - the awesomebar dropdown has changed. I think it's the "Searching for something already in your bookmarks or open tabs? We added super smart icons to let you know" referred to in the official release notes.

The icons look different and the layout of the content is slightly different. Here's a shot of the previous version and the new version.

Classic Theme Restorer -> Location bar (3) -> Alternative appearance seems to restore the previous layout but it seems to still have a new font.

Fun times.

There's one change I've noticed - the awesomebar dropdown has changed. I think it's the "Searching for something already in your bookmarks or open tabs? We added super smart icons to let you know" referred to in the official release notes.

The icons look different and the layout of the content is slightly different. Here's a shot of the previous version and the new version.

Classic Theme Restorer -> Location bar (3) -> Alternative appearance seems to restore the previous layout but it seems to still have a new font.

Fun times.

Again, this works in the US with big suburbs where everyone has a parking lot with an electric outlet. In other countries (like good old Europe), where most people live in apartments and there is just no way you can plug your car at night, it doesn't work. It is just impossible until you can refill your car in 5 minutes like with gasoline...

FWIW I was in Norway several years ago and saw an EV charging point just on the sidewalk in the middle of the city (photo - I think it was Oslo).

My recollection is this was an early experimental programme and they were free to use for the presumably very few people that had EVs at the time.

This was the first time I'd seen anything like this (I'm Australian) and I was struck by the simplicity of it - literally just a random pole stuck into the street. I've not looked into it but I'm guessing building those things is not significantly expensive because most of the important infrastructure they need to deliver the electricity is already in place.

I've since been to France a couple times and seen similar things there, although I believe they were dedicated ones for a car sharing scheme that happened to use electric cars. But again, these things were just plonked into the middle of the city with seemingly little effort or disruption.

I asked MPEG-LA what I would need to do to correctly license an open source h264 implementation. They fedexed me a massive contract:

http://trog.qgl.org/20110114/the-mpeg-la-license-agreement/

I'm not interested in reading that whole thing. I would happily give them some money to get a "correctly" licensed ffmpeg thing for commercial use.

Could MPEG-LA package up a version of ffpmeg/x264 and sell it off their site or would that violate the license of those software packages, I wonder...?

Hmmm... is that supposed to be to this tune?

And for those in need of a clue the earlier Cluepon can be found here

• FilePlanet
  
• id Software
  
• MnGamers.com
  
• Meccaworld
  
• 3D ActionGamers
  
• Gaminggroup.com
  
• Blue's News
  
• Queensland Gamers League in Australia (QGL)
  
• Avault
  
• German Mirror at GXP.de
  
• Stomped FTP2