Most of the pictures are taken with a lot of light (flashlight?) coming out of the camera direction. This picture for example shows it very clear: http://astropedia.astrogeology.usgs.gov/alfresco/d/d/workspa...

So there is light from the sun, camera and even earth maybe.

Even more amazing is Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch software that did the job! http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Indeed that is a particularly nice sounding time stretch algorithm.

It sounds like a crystal forest on saturn.

You are right. Also take a look at the development of tablets.

In the beginning they were small low-res tablets. But people wanted a bigger screen -> bigger tablets with high-res screens. But people hated to type on the screen -> keyboards added. But people hated to hold it all the time -> stands are added. And suddenly it is looking like a laptop.

I think there is a reason why Laptops and Desktops didn't change that much in all those years.

Here some action: http://www.botndolly.com/media#/medium/15

I think it's very scary standing next to a moving robot that close. It doesn't stop when you get in the way. Hope someone is holding a emergency stop button.

If you've got the right sensors, any unexpected resistance could be used as a trigger to stop motion faster than any human could do it.

The SawStop system does it with electrical conductivity, but feedback from servos will do as well.

I don't think the feedback of the servos will detect a human body part. These servos are very very strong. Maybe when it hit the concrete it will skip a step noticeable in the feedback but that's about it.

This still imparts quite a bit of force to someone, potentially killing them.

This is a 1 ton robotic arm. It won't notice a bit when it hits somebody

They have envelope protection, in software, so if you tell the controls the size and shape of the camera and the surrounding objects they wont drive the camera through the floor whatever path you program in.

But they don't have proximity sensors - like the saw capacitance sensor. It just doesn't work in the real world with large objects and longer distances.

You have to rely on the actors staying on their marks if you want to do a very close approach.

Yes, this thing looks dangerous. I cannot identify any security measurements except that guy in the background who probably has an emergency stop button.

Maybe a stupid question: but do you need iTunes to install an .ipa file? I've seen some programs that can just install these files on any iDevice without the use of iTunes.

And isn't Xcode and an Apple acount enough to sign the app?

Are you talking about distributing ipa files outside of the App Store? As I understand it, you also need $100/year and you're limited to provisioning 100 UDIDs. I don't think this is actually an alternative.

The app maker could sell a XCode project. Each end-user would pay Apple's $99 license fee, provision their own devices, and sign the app with their own key.

I can open a program in my quick-launch-bar with one click before you even typed the first letter of that program. Maybe it's not a design feature, but it gets in the way.

(And yes: I'm using Windows 7 with the Windows Classic theme.)

I have a bunch of programs in my dock and I still prefer to open them with Alfred a lot of the time. If using 'CMD+space, ph, Enter' for Photoshop takes any longer than using quick launch then it's only by a minute amount.

You can still do that in Windows 8 as it still has the same merged quick-launch/task-bar.

Reminds me of the sound of ice. Some examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-94VvaT0Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VbyyhCscVc

Art is expression and communication. Some get touched by the message, some don't. If some people like to pay big bucks for art, just let them.

Some might say Tracey Emin is a bad artist. But I think here message is very clear: pain from being raped and losing 2 kids. It's a sad message.

Like Hugh MacLeod (gapingvoid) I like to say: "Worrying about “Commercial vs. Artistic” is a complete waste of time.".

This might also be a font-issue. Most of the time websites embed different font-types like eot, ttf, woff and svg. But some types lack font-hinting. It depends on the order in the CSS file which supported font browsers will use.

Since the site is down, another link: http://naturalsociety.com/5-million-farmers-sue-monsanto-for...