The marketing which claimed that VP8 was better than x264 used a two year old build of x264, and optimized VP8 for PSNR, while x264 was not optimized for that. Also, note that even in the mobile calender test, x264 was still ahead.

Both H.264 and VP8 use the pretty much the same exact approximation of DCT. They should be identically good at reproducing each others errors. The better performance in the mobile calender test is probably more representative of either a coincidence or the fact that the encoder has especially been optimized for certain standard test sequences. Also, I'm glad that the people doing this comparison tested for SSIM rather than PNSR. It's a metric which, while not perfect, has a much better correlation with "looks good" than psnr.

This would be the first free blu-ray encoder. It's a pretty big step in creating a fully open source toolchain for film creation.

I have a rooted G1 and use Cyanogenmod: it provides several enhancements, such as root, which allows for Wifi/bluetooth based tethering. It is also somewhat more responsive and quicker than the official firmware. It does have less battery life, and can be less stable then the official version however. While it is true that Android is open source, Android without many of the base apps such as Gmail/Google maps is not particularly useful. Still though, this won't prevent me, and other users from using this mod. And since I paid for the phone, and by extension, the applications that came with the phone, I should be able to transfer them to a new operating system on the same phone.

No, this isn't magic. Plastics are made from hydrocarbons which are drilled for. This is merely an innovative method of recycling, and while it saves fuel, the volumes won't be high enough to be a real energy solution in the end.

RTFA: This company has already built a facility, and has already landed a contract for the fuel. They are using a well known technology, just with a slightly different take (IR instead of chemical catalysts). This doesn't exactly look like vaporware to me.

This isn't exactly something new, pyrolysis is a perfectly viable way of generating fuel. If you heat plastic enough - it decomposes into base hydrocarbons.

I was a freshman intern at a very small engineering company this past summer, 4000+ per month for a full time (40 hours/wk) intern is the norm. I'm also electrical engineering rather than CS, which pays more. I'd recommend asking your boss for a raise.

Isn't it kind of easy to shoot down blimps? Can't anything a blimp does be better done with a satellite or a loitering drone?

There's more than just GPS.

Here's a listing of all current/proposed global systems. Regional only systems such as IRNSS or Beidou1 are not listed.

GPS - United States - Fully Operation
Galileo - EU/China/Israel/South Korea/Norway/Etc - 2013
Beidou2/Compass - China - 2012?
GLONASS/ - Russia/India - Complete in 2010

You really don't know what a mean is do you?

An average of salaries should show a slightly higher mean wage for women since as a higher percentage of the population they have a slightly higher probability of being in very high paying positions.

Think about this for a second. Second issue is this - women are generally considered the primary caretakers of children, and at the same time, are more likely to take time off, or prefer to work less hours. This is probably a good reason why they make less.