While others have pointed out that the article DOES talk about pavement, there is an additional reason to paint roofs before roads: roofs overheat our houses and we use more a/c to cool them off. Roads to not need cooling (though cars on them do, but that is a secondary effect).
If you had asked me about the distribution of first digits of prime #s yesterday I probably would have guessed logarithmic, regardless of base (except for binary, of course).
Think about it. We know that primary # are distributed logarithmically. A set of N digit #s has equal subsets of numbers starting with 1, 2, 3, etc. Those subsets are equal in size, exclusive and completely ordered with respect to each other. So it follows that the # of prime #s in consecutive subsets would be a logarithmic function. And if you add the sizes of prime subsets for each starting digit, you'll still get a logarithmic distribution.
If an entity sues for copyright infringement on some work they claim copyright to and loses with prejudice, they are stripped of any copyright to the work they sued for.
Simple. In litigation, there needs to a concept of jeopardy. Both sides can lose. Not just the case, but something substantial. The defendant here is being sued for monetary compensation. In criminal cases the prosecution jeopardizes their ability to prosecute in the future using better evidence. We clearly need the same principle to apply to copyright litigation.
If you don't want to take away the copyright, at least make the plaintiff pay the amount they were asking for in damages to the defendant. Jeopardy would restore balance to the system.
Russia has shown itself to have complete double standards. Either Chechnya can break away and so can South Ossetia or neither can.
Actually, Russia has shown itself to be completely consistent. Nobody should have control of any energy natural resources around Russia but Russia. Not Georgia, Chechnya, South Ossetia or Abkhazia.
This is seriously not a big deal for Apple. If they lose in court, they will simply start selling their OS as an upgrade. And since the only way to get an "upgradable" MacOS computer will be through Apple, Psystar's business model will fail because they will not be able to claim first-sale principle. (Assuming the idea of upgrades does not get tossed, but that probably will not)
Of course, if Apple does lose, the case may change the shape of the computer industry because of implications for the EULA.
I think this has great potential. Now that all the parsing/compiling has been accomplished, I think they should setup a system where they can store the compiled bytecode and simply retrieve it if a page with the same javascript is loaded (ex. reloading GMail).
The next step after that is of course to JIT the bytecode, meaning compile it to the native architecture and eliminate all unnecessary calls. Even without further optimization or register allocation, such JIT-ed code would run MUCH MUCH faster. Unfortunately it would become architecture-specific.
Okay, I get that he was misbehaving and has been punished.
But how many times in recent past have we found that modifications on Wikipedia have been coming from the government and been overly partisan? And what happened to those employees? Nothing, as far as I can remember. What about all those e-mails sent through partisan servers from the White House because it was, well, partisan? How were these employees punished?
The government (and other employers) should set a policy and stick to it. Many employees find themselves with huge amounts of downtime these days, and forcing them to sit there and stare blankly at their screens is not a solution anybody can reasonably expect to work. Many people play solitaire, and nobody cares. I read news and occasionally post to Slashdot. And since being partisan is apparently not a problem (unless it's a new policy, in which case I'd like it enforced en masse) I would think the employee has a case. Especially if s/he was supporting the "wrong" party.
What you are saying is that the cost of covering a certain area completely with solar cells will remain expensive because cost of basic materials (silicon wafers) remains high. The answer is that you don't need to cover an area completely - you can cover it with mirrors and shine a very powerful beam of light at a smaller solar cell. I'm sure there are limits to the rate of concentration, but better technology may give us higher limits.
To everyone who thinks the Tata Nano is underpowered, that car had 24hp, and was capable of hauling 4 people. It wasn't comfortable, but it worked. It climbed mountains (I was personally in one of those as it climbed to some small village in the Alps). And it consumed very little fuel - around 40 gpm, I think. And since nobody was comparing it to huge western cars, it was just fine. Read the link.
I think this car will be the bomb, and will be imitated by other car manufacturers in India.
Great. In my building we tried using CFLs for hallway lighting but they kept burning out very quickly (in weeks). Something about them not being meant for 24/7 use. We're looking at installing motion sensors. CFLs also burned out very quickly in the bathroom when I installed them.
I hope this type if knee-jerk reaction will stop and the government starts looking at more than just short-term stop-gap measures. I suspect the best way of getting people to be more energy efficient is to raise prices on energy. If gasoline cost $10/gallon, people would take a bus or ride a bike. If electricity cost 50c/kWh, they'd turn their lights off (and use candles which would lead to tons of fires, but that's an entirely different issue).
I just talked to a transportation engineer about why carpooling isn't popular. The short answer was that it's inconvenient. We just need to get past the point where the inconvenience will be outweighed by extra cost, and then people will pay attention.
I am a rather heavy browser user. I usually have in excess of 50 tabs open. I usually keep going back to 3 or 4 of them, continuously open new tabs and close them, and occasionally go through the ones I have open and read/close them. I normally hibernate my computer (I run XP) and shut it down only occasionally. Currently my laptop has idle time of 107 hrs and Firefox has CPU time of 2hrs. I think I last restarted Firefox to install an update.
I used to have really serious memory problems with Firefox. My memory usage would skyrocket very quickly, and I'd have to close it and reopen. This stopped a while ago when I installed FlashBlock. I rarely view flash anymore, and my memory footprint is rather stable. Right now I have VM Size of 403M - not small, but I have 4 windows and 97 tabs open. Have fairly few add-ons installed: DownloadHelper, FlashBlock, IETab, TabMixPlus and TalkBack.
I don't believe that memory leaks on Firefox are a problem, at least not on Windows. I think it is the plug-ins that are causing the problems.
Equally perplexing is the accounting of iframes. Let's look at someone like double click's alexa rating. Now it's hard to say, but I don't think I've ever visited their website. Have you? But according to Alexa, they have nearly a 1% share of the internet. I'd tend not to believe it...
That's not surprising to me at all. I don't think this is because of all the iframes that pop up on pages, or they would have a much higher percentage than 1%. I think it's actual ad clicks. When you click an ad, you go to a doubleclick link which will redirect you to the advertiser's page. If all those ad clicks are counted as actual traffic, 1% is actually a very believable figure.
So far I've only seen people who say they're downloading it. But my question is why?
The article missed one important fact about PDFDownload - if you just want to open PDF differently than in the PDF plug-in, go to Tools->Options->Content->File Types (Manage) and change the way PDFs are handled. I just delete the handling of PDFs altogether, and I get a nice little download window asking me what to do with the file: open in Acrobat (external app), a different app, or just save to HD. And if you can pick your own app, then why view in HTML?
Additionally one would assume that the air compressors would be run off of electric motors, which allows them to use electricity produced anyway they want.
Actually, I think that this assumption is wrong. Power plants are actually rather inefficient at converting the thermal energy they produce by burning coal/gas/etc or fissing Uranium into electricity. I would hope that we can come up with a more efficient way to use the energy more directly to compress air. Even if we get a 30% energy improvement, distribution of these air cannisters may actually end up being cheaper/more energy efficient than converting mechanical energy of steam into electricity and distributing that. There are lots of power plants everywhere, so these cannisters wouldn't have to go far to any particular market.
Why do you think conservatives dominate talk radio and political blogs? It's because they feel like they don't have a fair outlet in the mainstream press, so they took over an alternative market to get their voice out, and the market responded enthusiastically.
Actually, it's because turning on the radio is much easier than reading. So the scores of people who can't be bothered to read a newspaper and instead prefer listening to the same 10 songs over and over and over again are easily attracted to the mindless comments made by the likes of Limbough and O'Reily who think that subtelty is a Mexican dish that is would make America more attractive to illegal immigrants. Most people I know who can read and think for themselves get a gag reflex when forced to listen to conservative pundits.
Gmail? Google Maps? I use those two regularly. I know lots of people who switched all their e-mail to GMail (keeping their old addresses by forwarding and using foreign From:). I use Google Maps pretty exclusively, after I got disappointed with both MapQuest and Yahoo Maps.
Google Calendar is actually also pretty darn good, and new users (who aren't all locked into Outlook/Yahoo/Palm/whatever) like it a lot.
I would say that those two are VERY successful extensions. Certainly not *LOSING* extensions. Calendar is at least on par.
So I installed it tonight, and after a reboot tried syncing. For some reason, I had a couple of bad crashes. Might be the fact that there is also a new firmware available and the update software was interfering with WMP11. So I installed the update and now it all works!
The files that I copied onto the Sansa were correctly recognized and marked as "already on device". The rest of them copied very very quickly. Adding more files to the list works exactly as it should. It didn't remove any files or anything like that either.
I still think that the interface could be better, but at least the functionality is what it should be.
I have a Sandisk Sansa e270. For some reason, I just don't want to buy an iPod Nano. Guess I'm just cheap? This is the next best thing - 6gb of flash, small, similar interface, half the price.
I used to use WMP10 to sync my files. It wasn't the most convenient method, but it beat doing the sync by turning the Sansa into a USB drive (it reboots forever, updating some databases). Selecting which files to sync up was fairly simple, and the syncing was fast. The biggest complaint I had was that it didn't really understand the concept of syncing on multiple computers (home and office). One has to become the main computer and the other... I dunno.
I installed the WMP11 beta, because I was hoping that that part of syncing would have been fixed. Well, I regret that decision now. Luckily, I'm going to reinstall this computer soon anyway.
Basically, syncing is incredibly slow now, the interface much less intuitive and for some reason it keeps uploading copies of the same files. I gave up on getting that sync right. I'm downloading the final version, I'll install it probably tomorrow.
Evidence does not require experimentation, your definition is flawed.
That's somewhat true. Once we've determined that certain observations are tied to certain events, we can use start using these observations as evidence of these events. But until we understand these correlations, the observations are just that: observations. Not evidence.
All three of these definitions require prior knowledge of correlation between events: burglars break windows, understanding facial expressions, witnesses aren't always liars.
No matter what evidence they demonstrate to show that there is no connection between CO2 and global warming nothing they show will ever be listend to.
Because you should definitely listen to cigarette companies when they tell you cigarettes are not only safe, but also not addictive.
Seriously, though, I was with you up to that point. I am not an expert in the field, but I have gone to listen to experts speak about the subject. From what I understand, there is no "evidence". Evidence requires experimentation, and we're living in the only known experiment RIGHT NOW.
But there are lots and lots of observations that point towards CO2 being a factor in global warming.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that the Gaming Industry could show up to an event like this and have God as a witness and no one there will listen to them when they say videogames do not cause children to perform violent acts.
Again, no one is doing controlled experiments, so there is no evidence. But, just as food for thought, US Army found that their soldiers were more willing to shoot people when they trained with life-like dummies for target practice. There probably is a link between watching and acting out violence in a simulated world, and lowering the stigma of performing violent acts. The interesting thing is that we live in one of the least violent societies in history, so we expect that stigma to go significantly higher, perpetuating the cycle.
I think it's only fair to do the same for Firefox 2.0.
I loaded about 40 tabs that I am currnently using in Firefox 1.5 (two windows) into Firefox 2.0. The memory usage was about 170mb, while Firefox 1.5 is ~140mb. (These are still mostly the same tabs as with IE 7, and that used over 400mb). 30mb increase isn't a big deal for me, but I would like to know what causes such an increase, and if it's worth it. The browser was still rather fast and responsive, so I don't really mind.
On an unrelated note, I installed Tab Mix Plus testing release in FF2 just to be able to make the tabs smaller and get SessionSaver to work. It's good, but I don't like the way the tab scroll buttons can sit on top of a tab. Plus I actually liked the default FF2 method of having one button on each end of tab bar, depending on whether I wanted to scroll tabs to the left or right.
Overall, I'm not sure if I'll be switching or if I'll stay with 1.5 for a while. 1.5 has been really stable for me lately, and I don't necessarily want to mess with that.
Oh, and it's beyond me why FF2 bittorrent isn't up on http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ yet, but that's a totally different issue. They must have too much bandwidth. I went there to download the installer, and I was offered the file from a Japanese mirror! (I'm in US) And on a related note, I thought that including a bittorrent client in Opera was a little overkill, but I've now changed my mind. I believe that bittorrent should replace ftp and http as a default large file transport method. I would really like to see a very light bittorrent client built into FireFox. (Not an extension - with the default download)
Slashdot Mirror
While others have pointed out that the article DOES talk about pavement, there is an additional reason to paint roofs before roads: roofs overheat our houses and we use more a/c to cool them off. Roads to not need cooling (though cars on them do, but that is a secondary effect).
m
How will I filter out annoying ads without FlashBlock?!?!
If you had asked me about the distribution of first digits of prime #s yesterday I probably would have guessed logarithmic, regardless of base (except for binary, of course).
Think about it. We know that primary # are distributed logarithmically. A set of N digit #s has equal subsets of numbers starting with 1, 2, 3, etc. Those subsets are equal in size, exclusive and completely ordered with respect to each other. So it follows that the # of prime #s in consecutive subsets would be a logarithmic function. And if you add the sizes of prime subsets for each starting digit, you'll still get a logarithmic distribution.
Nothing to see here, move along.
m
If an entity sues for copyright infringement on some work they claim copyright to and loses with prejudice, they are stripped of any copyright to the work they sued for.
Simple. In litigation, there needs to a concept of jeopardy. Both sides can lose. Not just the case, but something substantial. The defendant here is being sued for monetary compensation. In criminal cases the prosecution jeopardizes their ability to prosecute in the future using better evidence. We clearly need the same principle to apply to copyright litigation.
If you don't want to take away the copyright, at least make the plaintiff pay the amount they were asking for in damages to the defendant. Jeopardy would restore balance to the system.
m
Russia has shown itself to have complete double standards. Either Chechnya can break away and so can South Ossetia or neither can.
Actually, Russia has shown itself to be completely consistent. Nobody should have control of any energy natural resources around Russia but Russia. Not Georgia, Chechnya, South Ossetia or Abkhazia.
m
This is seriously not a big deal for Apple. If they lose in court, they will simply start selling their OS as an upgrade. And since the only way to get an "upgradable" MacOS computer will be through Apple, Psystar's business model will fail because they will not be able to claim first-sale principle. (Assuming the idea of upgrades does not get tossed, but that probably will not)
Of course, if Apple does lose, the case may change the shape of the computer industry because of implications for the EULA.
Cheers,
m
So you also want to pay per mile of road you use?
It's called gas taxes. And road tolls.
m
I think this has great potential. Now that all the parsing/compiling has been accomplished, I think they should setup a system where they can store the compiled bytecode and simply retrieve it if a page with the same javascript is loaded (ex. reloading GMail).
The next step after that is of course to JIT the bytecode, meaning compile it to the native architecture and eliminate all unnecessary calls. Even without further optimization or register allocation, such JIT-ed code would run MUCH MUCH faster. Unfortunately it would become architecture-specific.
m
Okay, I get that he was misbehaving and has been punished.
But how many times in recent past have we found that modifications on Wikipedia have been coming from the government and been overly partisan? And what happened to those employees? Nothing, as far as I can remember. What about all those e-mails sent through partisan servers from the White House because it was, well, partisan? How were these employees punished?
The government (and other employers) should set a policy and stick to it. Many employees find themselves with huge amounts of downtime these days, and forcing them to sit there and stare blankly at their screens is not a solution anybody can reasonably expect to work. Many people play solitaire, and nobody cares. I read news and occasionally post to Slashdot. And since being partisan is apparently not a problem (unless it's a new policy, in which case I'd like it enforced en masse) I would think the employee has a case. Especially if s/he was supporting the "wrong" party.
m
That's enough to power 3 time flux capacitors!
m
Short answer: mirrors.
What you are saying is that the cost of covering a certain area completely with solar cells will remain expensive because cost of basic materials (silicon wafers) remains high. The answer is that you don't need to cover an area completely - you can cover it with mirrors and shine a very powerful beam of light at a smaller solar cell. I'm sure there are limits to the rate of concentration, but better technology may give us higher limits.
m
Reminds me of the Polish Fiat 126p. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_126
To everyone who thinks the Tata Nano is underpowered, that car had 24hp, and was capable of hauling 4 people. It wasn't comfortable, but it worked. It climbed mountains (I was personally in one of those as it climbed to some small village in the Alps). And it consumed very little fuel - around 40 gpm, I think. And since nobody was comparing it to huge western cars, it was just fine. Read the link.
I think this car will be the bomb, and will be imitated by other car manufacturers in India.
m
Great. In my building we tried using CFLs for hallway lighting but they kept burning out very quickly (in weeks). Something about them not being meant for 24/7 use. We're looking at installing motion sensors. CFLs also burned out very quickly in the bathroom when I installed them.
I hope this type if knee-jerk reaction will stop and the government starts looking at more than just short-term stop-gap measures. I suspect the best way of getting people to be more energy efficient is to raise prices on energy. If gasoline cost $10/gallon, people would take a bus or ride a bike. If electricity cost 50c/kWh, they'd turn their lights off (and use candles which would lead to tons of fires, but that's an entirely different issue).
I just talked to a transportation engineer about why carpooling isn't popular. The short answer was that it's inconvenient. We just need to get past the point where the inconvenience will be outweighed by extra cost, and then people will pay attention.
m
I am a rather heavy browser user. I usually have in excess of 50 tabs open. I usually keep going back to 3 or 4 of them, continuously open new tabs and close them, and occasionally go through the ones I have open and read/close them. I normally hibernate my computer (I run XP) and shut it down only occasionally. Currently my laptop has idle time of 107 hrs and Firefox has CPU time of 2hrs. I think I last restarted Firefox to install an update.
I used to have really serious memory problems with Firefox. My memory usage would skyrocket very quickly, and I'd have to close it and reopen. This stopped a while ago when I installed FlashBlock. I rarely view flash anymore, and my memory footprint is rather stable. Right now I have VM Size of 403M - not small, but I have 4 windows and 97 tabs open. Have fairly few add-ons installed: DownloadHelper, FlashBlock, IETab, TabMixPlus and TalkBack.
I don't believe that memory leaks on Firefox are a problem, at least not on Windows. I think it is the plug-ins that are causing the problems.
Cheers,
m
CmdrTaco wrote:
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Equally perplexing is the accounting of iframes. Let's look at someone like double click's alexa rating. Now it's hard to say, but I don't think I've ever visited their website. Have you? But according to Alexa, they have nearly a 1% share of the internet. I'd tend not to believe it...
That's not surprising to me at all. I don't think this is because of all the iframes that pop up on pages, or they would have a much higher percentage than 1%. I think it's actual ad clicks. When you click an ad, you go to a doubleclick link which will redirect you to the advertiser's page. If all those ad clicks are counted as actual traffic, 1% is actually a very believable figure.
And I've never heard of Alexa until now
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So far I've only seen people who say they're downloading it. But my question is why?
The article missed one important fact about PDFDownload - if you just want to open PDF differently than in the PDF plug-in, go to Tools->Options->Content->File Types (Manage) and change the way PDFs are handled. I just delete the handling of PDFs altogether, and I get a nice little download window asking me what to do with the file: open in Acrobat (external app), a different app, or just save to HD. And if you can pick your own app, then why view in HTML?
Cheers,
m
Additionally one would assume that the air compressors would be run off of electric motors, which allows them to use electricity produced anyway they want.
Actually, I think that this assumption is wrong. Power plants are actually rather inefficient at converting the thermal energy they produce by burning coal/gas/etc or fissing Uranium into electricity. I would hope that we can come up with a more efficient way to use the energy more directly to compress air. Even if we get a 30% energy improvement, distribution of these air cannisters may actually end up being cheaper/more energy efficient than converting mechanical energy of steam into electricity and distributing that. There are lots of power plants everywhere, so these cannisters wouldn't have to go far to any particular market.
m
I just tried doing Microsoft Update with IE7, and it just hung. It's sitting there, blank and unresponsive.
Could installing IE7 be the solution to incessant Windows updates?
m
Why do you think conservatives dominate talk radio and political blogs? It's because they feel like they don't have a fair outlet in the mainstream press, so they took over an alternative market to get their voice out, and the market responded enthusiastically.
Actually, it's because turning on the radio is much easier than reading. So the scores of people who can't be bothered to read a newspaper and instead prefer listening to the same 10 songs over and over and over again are easily attracted to the mindless comments made by the likes of Limbough and O'Reily who think that subtelty is a Mexican dish that is would make America more attractive to illegal immigrants. Most people I know who can read and think for themselves get a gag reflex when forced to listen to conservative pundits.
m
Gmail? Google Maps? I use those two regularly. I know lots of people who switched all their e-mail to GMail (keeping their old addresses by forwarding and using foreign From:). I use Google Maps pretty exclusively, after I got disappointed with both MapQuest and Yahoo Maps.
Google Calendar is actually also pretty darn good, and new users (who aren't all locked into Outlook/Yahoo/Palm/whatever) like it a lot.
I would say that those two are VERY successful extensions. Certainly not *LOSING* extensions. Calendar is at least on par.
m
So I installed it tonight, and after a reboot tried syncing. For some reason, I had a couple of bad crashes. Might be the fact that there is also a new firmware available and the update software was interfering with WMP11. So I installed the update and now it all works!
The files that I copied onto the Sansa were correctly recognized and marked as "already on device". The rest of them copied very very quickly. Adding more files to the list works exactly as it should. It didn't remove any files or anything like that either.
I still think that the interface could be better, but at least the functionality is what it should be.
m
I have a Sandisk Sansa e270. For some reason, I just don't want to buy an iPod Nano. Guess I'm just cheap? This is the next best thing - 6gb of flash, small, similar interface, half the price.
I used to use WMP10 to sync my files. It wasn't the most convenient method, but it beat doing the sync by turning the Sansa into a USB drive (it reboots forever, updating some databases). Selecting which files to sync up was fairly simple, and the syncing was fast. The biggest complaint I had was that it didn't really understand the concept of syncing on multiple computers (home and office). One has to become the main computer and the other... I dunno.
I installed the WMP11 beta, because I was hoping that that part of syncing would have been fixed. Well, I regret that decision now. Luckily, I'm going to reinstall this computer soon anyway.
Basically, syncing is incredibly slow now, the interface much less intuitive and for some reason it keeps uploading copies of the same files. I gave up on getting that sync right. I'm downloading the final version, I'll install it probably tomorrow.
m
Evidence does not require experimentation, your definition is flawed.
That's somewhat true. Once we've determined that certain observations are tied to certain events, we can use start using these observations as evidence of these events. But until we understand these correlations, the observations are just that: observations. Not evidence.
All three of these definitions require prior knowledge of correlation between events: burglars break windows, understanding facial expressions, witnesses aren't always liars.
m
No matter what evidence they demonstrate to show that there is no connection between CO2 and global warming nothing they show will ever be listend to.
Because you should definitely listen to cigarette companies when they tell you cigarettes are not only safe, but also not addictive.
Seriously, though, I was with you up to that point. I am not an expert in the field, but I have gone to listen to experts speak about the subject. From what I understand, there is no "evidence". Evidence requires experimentation, and we're living in the only known experiment RIGHT NOW.
But there are lots and lots of observations that point towards CO2 being a factor in global warming.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that the Gaming Industry could show up to an event like this and have God as a witness and no one there will listen to them when they say videogames do not cause children to perform violent acts.
Again, no one is doing controlled experiments, so there is no evidence. But, just as food for thought, US Army found that their soldiers were more willing to shoot people when they trained with life-like dummies for target practice. There probably is a link between watching and acting out violence in a simulated world, and lowering the stigma of performing violent acts. The interesting thing is that we live in one of the least violent societies in history, so we expect that stigma to go significantly higher, perpetuating the cycle.
m
I posted a super-quick one-benchmark review of IE 7 here:
http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/664690/
I think it's only fair to do the same for Firefox 2.0.
I loaded about 40 tabs that I am currnently using in Firefox 1.5 (two windows) into Firefox 2.0. The memory usage was about 170mb, while Firefox 1.5 is ~140mb. (These are still mostly the same tabs as with IE 7, and that used over 400mb). 30mb increase isn't a big deal for me, but I would like to know what causes such an increase, and if it's worth it. The browser was still rather fast and responsive, so I don't really mind.
On an unrelated note, I installed Tab Mix Plus testing release in FF2 just to be able to make the tabs smaller and get SessionSaver to work. It's good, but I don't like the way the tab scroll buttons can sit on top of a tab. Plus I actually liked the default FF2 method of having one button on each end of tab bar, depending on whether I wanted to scroll tabs to the left or right.
Overall, I'm not sure if I'll be switching or if I'll stay with 1.5 for a while. 1.5 has been really stable for me lately, and I don't necessarily want to mess with that.
Oh, and it's beyond me why FF2 bittorrent isn't up on http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ yet, but that's a totally different issue. They must have too much bandwidth. I went there to download the installer, and I was offered the file from a Japanese mirror! (I'm in US) And on a related note, I thought that including a bittorrent client in Opera was a little overkill, but I've now changed my mind. I believe that bittorrent should replace ftp and http as a default large file transport method. I would really like to see a very light bittorrent client built into FireFox. (Not an extension - with the default download)
m