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571.
IBM plants transactional memory in CPU(nextbigfuture.com)
3 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
572.
by wgx 15y ago
While I sympathise with OP's frustration at others making money from their work - there is provision in UK copyright law: "using any work, for the purpose of reporting current events, with sufficient acknowledgement, is a valid exception to
573.
by wgx 15y ago
"Asylum Seekers" will be involved somewhere.
574.
by wgx 15y ago
How will the Daily Mail react: "Ecstasy Cures Cancer" headline seems unlikely.
575.
by wgx 15y ago
Ah so he does - although no video from the 'copter.
576.
by wgx 15y ago
They didn't make it clear in the interview if they'd solved the imaging problem or not yet. How do you get usable video (or stills) back from a camera that's rotating constantly - and potentially, erratically.
577.
XKCD == NSFW... are stick figures always SFW?(xkcd.com)
4 points by wgx 15y ago|1 comments
578.
by wgx 15y ago
Impressive to note that it can utilise the host's GPU if present. Nice touch, in an evil way.
579.
Cory Doctorow's SIGGRAPH keynote on Copyright reform(boingboing.net)
1 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
580.
by wgx 15y ago
See my comment again: generally .
581.
by wgx 15y ago
OK, "WWW" is fairly universal, but generally it's best to avoid any text - an icon should be language-independent.
582.
by wgx 15y ago
It reads like a hostage statement at gunpoint.
583.
by wgx 15y ago
The second 'Idea dump' I posted on my blog yesterday - make of them what you will.
584.
Idea dump #2 | willgrant.org(willgrant.org)
2 points by wgx 15y ago|1 comments
585.
by wgx 15y ago
Agree - the colorization did it for me as well. Very nice.
586.
by wgx 15y ago
Or: they become popular despite, and then they're too scared to improve the UI for fear of change?
587.
Crowdsourced identification of London rioters(londonrioters.co.uk)
9 points by wgx 15y ago|10 comments
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Nanode - ATMega with Ethernet built in for $40(hackaday.com)
3 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
589.
GelSight at MIT makes 3D scanning fast and cheap(mit.edu)
3 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
590.
by wgx 15y ago
Yes a friend was complaining about that recently. It's a bruteforcer's dream.
591.
by wgx 15y ago
..although the software is hardly written for the layperson! http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/LHCathome/Physics/
592.
by wgx 15y ago
Wow - I remember reading about this at university about 10 years ago. Still, interesting for those who've not seen it yet.
593.
Help CERN's Large Hadron Collider with your downtime.(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by wgx 15y ago|1 comments