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Lots and lots of plastic wrap. Plus all of the coders are named Harry.

I was asking myself the same thing recently. Here's what I found:
http://www.startrekmovie.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7257
http://startrekwiki.wetpaint.com/thread/1776380/best+viewing+order
http://vidthekid.info/misc/trek.html

I'm sure there's many other devices and firmware to choose from, but I have a few of these WD TV boxes and have considered coding some of my own stuff for them starting with one of the custom firmware projects that are already available.

Yeah, I'd have to say I'm with you on this one. I once failed an interview because the interviewer wanted me to say that java Strings are immutable, and it's been maybe 10 years since I consciously thought about it. Hell, the times it really made sense to use a StringBuffer or a StringBuilder instead of using simple String concatenation have been few and far between.

The types of performance issues I see are attributable to architecture and design, such as 1) code so complex it retrieves the same large dataset 39 times during initialization of the app; 2) Deep data fetches to populate 25 backing views for a list of items being displayed, because someone decided it was more 'performant' to populate large data structures and UI objects for when that when the user selected something from the list, the associated detail view would pop up immediately. Never mind how long it took the list to display. 3) designing a data model to optimize the production of XML transport data, rather than modeling entities of the business domain and treating serialization of that data as a byproduct, rather than the product itself.

Stupid, stupid things kids worry about. And if you don't think I know anything about writing Java code, you can download and run this.

I waited a few days for the article to disappear .. hope you find see this.

Here is a copy ...

http://www.hearoisrael.org/Torah_Cycle.html

Here's another copy

http://water-desert.wetpaint.com/page/Yearly+Torah+Cycle

Here is mine

http://www.olivetreemessianicfellowship.com/index.php/Main/torah-cycle.html

Here's one that was lifted previously and since been edited ..

http://www.shema-yisrael.org/torah_cycle.html

Search (Google: torah cycle) now puts me back on page 1, but not in the top spot it used to have. Again, I don't really care, just using it as an example.

Here. A much shorter and more useful table.

Your requirements are rather onerous. Why don't you list ALL places where you can exchange USDGBP and what the current exchange rate is. It's just nonsense.

I've made a list, I probably haven't got all of them:

https://www.bitcoinexchange.com/
http://www.buybitcoins.com/
http://www.sellbitcoins.com/
http://www.bitcoin4cash.com/ (appears to be down)
https://www.bitcoinmarket.com/ (appears to be down)

The exchange rate normally hangs around 200BTC per USD. but the price has gone up recently because of the /. publicity.

This site used to offer exchange but not at the moment: http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/page/Exchange+Rate

Likely, there is an 'economy-of-scale' element at play here. If they have to develop custom hardware for such a device, then it can be a huge challenge for them to cover their costs. A surprising 18% of Americans have some for of hearing disability: http://disabilityhistoryinamerica.wetpaint.com/page/Disability+Statistics+In+America You have to look at the addressable market size for these companies; if there are other countries internationally who do not have a large percentage of their population who use hearing devices. Compare this with netbooks where almost any person is a candidate for a new machine. That's a much more large addressable market for a computer manufacturer. That being said, I'm with you, I wish these devices could be far more affordable.

Indeed, she is working on Tim Puckett's search team. Tim Puckett is a very driven amateur supernova hunter who collaborates with a number of other observers, like Jack Newton, who is the other co-discoverer listed. They collect massive amounts of data each night with semi and full automatic telescopes Basically they don't have the time to sift through all of it. Hence they created a search team of amateurs looking through their data. Caroline was part of this search team. Tim Puckett and his team have discovered hundreds of supernovae so far and show no sign of stopping.

She didn't spent hours on end in the dark staring through a telescope. She didn't put up her own supernova search (which is more or less impossible for a 14yo, due to the huge financial step you have to take and the amount of time it takes). She spent hours looking through images generated by automatic telescopes. It is great that she had the dedication to go through it but it isn't very hard. If you go through enough data it is certain you will find a supernova (I believe they find a supernova on 1 image out of 9000). The hard part is setting up a telescope to scan the sky, calibrate each image and present it to you.

It does disservice to the "co-discoverers" to not mention them in the summary. Without them Caroline Moore likely wouldn't have had data to sift through. I don't know the exact story but the part of each discoverer is probably: Tim Puckett coordinates the supernova search program, Jack Newton made the discovery image and Caroline Moore noticed the supernova.

References:
Tim Puckett's website
Jack Newton's website
Caroline's story

As a last note. The days of amateur supernova hunting are quite numbered. Two large professional telescopes with aim to provide close to 24 hour surveillance of the sky will come online in the comming years. LSST and PanStarrs will sweep the skies with large apertures, huge CCD camera's and an impressive field of view. When those projects are running amateurs will have to aim for the holes that aren't observed...

Hearing that a 16 year old had found a supernova she pronounced "I could beat her".

Oh dear here we have it engineers making personalities ...

http://hitchhikers.wetpaint.com/page/Genuine+People+Personalities?t=anon

It is quite cheap (30 UKP), and is a very geek-friendly product. It has the all important serial interface which sends out the data every 6 seconds, but it is a TTL-level interface, which gives purchasers the oportunity to exercise or develop their hardware skills, by constructing their own interface with the widely available MAX232 chip and a few capacitors. It also provides an oportunity to exercise software skills when parsing and displaying the XML data the port sends out.

It's almost as if the designers decided to provide an interface, but also wanted to provide a few challenges for users to solve.
Here are some more links from CurrentCost fans:
http://currentcost.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
http://www.sgurr.co.uk/lundycam/energy_monitor_interface.html

We've got a list-in-progress of politicians pages here on our wiki ... other links (and formatting cleanup) greatly appreciated.

jon

Nptlabs is currently in development on an online Wed Development Environment located on EC2. It uses nxserver to function as though it is local. If you are interested check out http://projectcodemonkey.wetpaint.com/.

Here is the page of the project:
http://design4dev.wetpaint.com/page/TV+Computer?t=anon

Now is the time to start getting the word out -- and testing out which methods do or don't work. Check out Get FISA Right's strategy on our wiki for our thinking on how this fits into the bigger picture.

jon

PS: Here's the YouTube video for the ad.

There's a lot more information about the Senator Obama - Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity - Get FISA Right my.barackobama.com campaign on the Get FISA right wiki. Check it out, and please join the group! Mike Stark's Will Obama feel the sting of social networking? on OpenLeft gives some great context on the campaign. And there's a Facebook group too. Are we web 2.0 or what?

If you're an Obama supporter, here's a group that is trying to pressure him to stand on principle: http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/SenatorObama-PleaseVoteAgainstFISA No matter whom you support, contact Obama's campaign, Senate office and other Senators: http://get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com/page/What+else+you+can+do

This is hardly anything new, Leopard has been running on the Sony VAIO UX for awhile now. The UX is about the same size, and double the performance of the OQO http://micropctalk.wetpaint.com/page/Installing+Macintosh+OSX+10.5+(Leopard)?t=anon