and considering they haven't released the service in the UK yet
Not officially, but you can sign up using your UK account (I just did). Your UK/US/FR/DE/CA amazon account will work across stores, all except the JP store, which requires it's own account. Never used the IT or CN sites, so I'm not sure about those.
I'm on my second MX Revolution after I wore out the buttons on my first (about 3 years use). Even if I have to keep replacing them at the same rate, it's still the best mouse I've ever used. Good shape for my hand, variable traction scroll wheel, and the 3-way thumbwheel + 2 thumb buttons is enough for all useful tab manipulations.
I just wish they still made them: all their 'replacement' mice aren't nearly as useful.
All it takes is one accident, and you've got a disaster on your hands.
Eh? The reactors at the Fukushima no.1 complex were hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, THEN a 12m high tsunami, and THEN several explosions. So far, the only injuries from radiation have been two workers who received surface skin burns to their legs (on the severity of a bad sunburn) because they ignored their dosimeter warning alarm.
The Fukushima incident has shown that even with multiple massive accidents, even old designs hold up pretty damn well.
Hang on, I'm sure there's a reason against this, but the Fukushima Daini complex is RIGHT THERE:
The main problem at the moment is loss of power to the cooling pumps without fully functional backup systems. Restoring power requires reconnecting the Fukushima Daiichi complex back to the grid, a connection that has been severed by the quake and tsunami. Instead of attempting to link to the grid as a source of power, why not restart one of the shut down but functional reactors at the Fusushima Daini complex and use it to power the cooling pumps for the rest of the reactors at the Daini and Daiichi complexes?
The laser would have to be focussed pretty accurately onto the satellite to be effective. After passing through a few hundred kilometres of atmosphere twice, and being hugely out of focus (i.e. diffused over a large area), the most you'd see from the ground would be a bright flash, no worse than an Iridium flare.
Because MS point are not only sold directly: you can buy printed codes worth x points from brick&mortar stores, or online via non-MS resellers. MS have no way to tell if code XXXXXXXXX was purchased legitimately or generated algorithmically.
Although the vast majority of released blu-ray discs are still region-free. Of all the discs I own, only two are locked to region B.
Heck, it was one of the nails in the HD-DVD coffin during the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray battle. Theatres in other countries were suddenly finding less customers because it was cheaper and better to just import the HD-DVD that go to the theatre, OR the movie wasn't out in theatres yet!
As if this wasn't also true for BDs, or has always been true for DVDs. HD-DVD had a smaller layer capacity and a MUCH smaller theoretical maximum capacity, so BD had a big following from those looking to it as the next backup media. That, and the PS3 pretty much inflated the blu-ray install base overnight to eclipse HD-DVD.
it would be extremely trivial for such a compromised phone to broadcast and infect all XBox 360's within range
A browser exploit can cause a phone to spontaneously sprout limbs, open your 360, connect itself to the JTAG header, and perform the NAND dumping and flashing nonsense currently required to run unsigned code? That's one hell of a phone!
5: VP8 patent pool is created, both VP8 and h.264 patent pools are simultaneously challenged (due to sharing many underlying basic features) and said challenges succeed, everyone switches to h.264 as the technically superior codec once patent encumbrance is eliminated as a factor. And monkeys will fly out of my ass.
Probably not while maintaining the current track record, no. But I can guarantee that many, many astronauts and potential astronauts would find the risk entirely acceptable.
Not so sure on this. Does not interact maybe, but gravitational attraction should bring particles close to each other.
nor does it collide with other dark matter.
Why not?
Now, obviously dark matter particles would be unable to escape a black hole just like anything else. However, the vast majority of dark matter will never interact with a black hole -- it will just orbit forever.
Now this just smacks of nonsense. Why would dark matter magically start orbiting a black hole whereas normal matter, with the additional benefit or photon and particle wind to push it away, would not?
Unfortunately not. As the article mentions, those are finalised specs: any changes would result in VP8 decoders no longer working with newer VP8 files.
Phenotypical adaptations would exhibit within a single generation. Genetic adaptations, if any, would take many thousand generations, and enough to cause speciation would take many times longer than that, even if the effect of immigration from earth were ignored.
I wonder how long until someone still hanging onto a copy of the film (as in, physical put-it-in-a-projector film) hooks up with someone able to shove a dSLR with a custom macro lens onto film moving rig (i.e. a hacked up old projector), dumps the resulting images through avisynth/whathaveyou, and releases an unofficial HD master. There are so many different custom remasters using various mixes of DVD and LD sources that they'd hardly be wanting for people eager to get their hands on 4k copy of even a grubby original film 'master'.
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and considering they haven't released the service in the UK yet
Not officially, but you can sign up using your UK account (I just did). Your UK/US/FR/DE/CA amazon account will work across stores, all except the JP store, which requires it's own account. Never used the IT or CN sites, so I'm not sure about those.
I'm on my second MX Revolution after I wore out the buttons on my first (about 3 years use). Even if I have to keep replacing them at the same rate, it's still the best mouse I've ever used. Good shape for my hand, variable traction scroll wheel, and the 3-way thumbwheel + 2 thumb buttons is enough for all useful tab manipulations.
I just wish they still made them: all their 'replacement' mice aren't nearly as useful.
All it takes is one accident, and you've got a disaster on your hands.
Eh? The reactors at the Fukushima no.1 complex were hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, THEN a 12m high tsunami, and THEN several explosions. So far, the only injuries from radiation have been two workers who received surface skin burns to their legs (on the severity of a bad sunburn) because they ignored their dosimeter warning alarm.
The Fukushima incident has shown that even with multiple massive accidents, even old designs hold up pretty damn well.
Even in Britain we spell it 'defensive', because that's the proper way to spell it.
Hang on, I'm sure there's a reason against this, but the Fukushima Daini complex is RIGHT THERE:
The main problem at the moment is loss of power to the cooling pumps without fully functional backup systems. Restoring power requires reconnecting the Fukushima Daiichi complex back to the grid, a connection that has been severed by the quake and tsunami. Instead of attempting to link to the grid as a source of power, why not restart one of the shut down but functional reactors at the Fusushima Daini complex and use it to power the cooling pumps for the rest of the reactors at the Daini and Daiichi complexes?
The laser would have to be focussed pretty accurately onto the satellite to be effective. After passing through a few hundred kilometres of atmosphere twice, and being hugely out of focus (i.e. diffused over a large area), the most you'd see from the ground would be a bright flash, no worse than an Iridium flare.
Second link is the IAEA updates page, must have placed a tag incorrectly.
The most useful reporting I've found so far has been from World Nuclear News' regularly update article, along with the and the NISA press releases/
Alien
Made in 1979. Before the first commercial GUI-based system. When vector-monitors were still in regular use.
The clacking noise is gratuitous though.
Because MS point are not only sold directly: you can buy printed codes worth x points from brick&mortar stores, or online via non-MS resellers. MS have no way to tell if code XXXXXXXXX was purchased legitimately or generated algorithmically.
Heck, it was one of the nails in the HD-DVD coffin during the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray battle. Theatres in other countries were suddenly finding less customers because it was cheaper and better to just import the HD-DVD that go to the theatre, OR the movie wasn't out in theatres yet!
As if this wasn't also true for BDs, or has always been true for DVDs. HD-DVD had a smaller layer capacity and a MUCH smaller theoretical maximum capacity, so BD had a big following from those looking to it as the next backup media. That, and the PS3 pretty much inflated the blu-ray install base overnight to eclipse HD-DVD.
I've regularly found tracks on the Japan ITMS that are only available in DRM form.
it would be extremely trivial for such a compromised phone to broadcast and infect all XBox 360's within range
A browser exploit can cause a phone to spontaneously sprout limbs, open your 360, connect itself to the JTAG header, and perform the NAND dumping and flashing nonsense currently required to run unsigned code? That's one hell of a phone!
5: VP8 patent pool is created, both VP8 and h.264 patent pools are simultaneously challenged (due to sharing many underlying basic features) and said challenges succeed, everyone switches to h.264 as the technically superior codec once patent encumbrance is eliminated as a factor. And monkeys will fly out of my ass.
Is it safe to continue flights in private hands?
Probably not while maintaining the current track record, no. But I can guarantee that many, many astronauts and potential astronauts would find the risk entirely acceptable.
Cue the many, many Party Van jokes.
Seems like a perfect material to build a REALLY big fish tank.
Only if you don't want to see your fish*. This stuff, like most other metallic glasses, is just as opaque and reflective as regular crystalline metal.
*Yes, I am aware that you were making a Star Trek joke. However, whales are not fish, they are mammals. So there. Pbhrrrbt!
Dark matter only interacts gravitationally.
OK.
Dark matter does not collide with matter
Not so sure on this. Does not interact maybe, but gravitational attraction should bring particles close to each other.
nor does it collide with other dark matter.
Why not?
Now, obviously dark matter particles would be unable to escape a black hole just like anything else. However, the vast majority of dark matter will never interact with a black hole -- it will just orbit forever.
Now this just smacks of nonsense. Why would dark matter magically start orbiting a black hole whereas normal matter, with the additional benefit or photon and particle wind to push it away, would not?
constant development
Unfortunately not. As the article mentions, those are finalised specs: any changes would result in VP8 decoders no longer working with newer VP8 files.
Phenotypical adaptations would exhibit within a single generation. Genetic adaptations, if any, would take many thousand generations, and enough to cause speciation would take many times longer than that, even if the effect of immigration from earth were ignored.
it's more or less as good as h.264
Nope. A shame, but at least it's better than Theora.
Firefox does not support h.264.
Most 'flash video' you watch now is h.264 in an flv container.
Very very little:1 is still better than 0:1
I wonder how long until someone still hanging onto a copy of the film (as in, physical put-it-in-a-projector film) hooks up with someone able to shove a dSLR with a custom macro lens onto film moving rig (i.e. a hacked up old projector), dumps the resulting images through avisynth/whathaveyou, and releases an unofficial HD master. There are so many different custom remasters using various mixes of DVD and LD sources that they'd hardly be wanting for people eager to get their hands on 4k copy of even a grubby original film 'master'.