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> Programming was seen as clergy work

You probably mean "clerical"?

For me the slides (also previous slides that worked before) broke after the embedded Carmack Youtube video.

Must be some conflict between WebGL and Flash.

Yeah, I'm having problems too.

The server seems to be overloaded, lots of HTTP requests for graphical resources (PNG files) fail. Check the Javascript console for errors. If loading resources has failed, the game is rendered with incomplete graphics.

Ah. So your interpretation is not that the driver actually crashed, but that it simply was overwhelmed by the workload, and didn't respond properly within the timeout limit as set by the OS?

Heh. Screen went black for a while, after which: "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

Using an old NVIDIA GeForce 6200 with driver 8.17.12.7533 on a 32-bit Windows Vista SP2, browser was Google Chrome 12.0.742.122.

Earlier this year, Spotify put more restrictions on the services they offer to their non-paying users: http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2011/04/14/upcoming-cha... . For example, there is no more unlimited listening: each track can now be listened to only five times for free.

It might be that this tightening of free content was only a preparation for the U.S launch, i.e. the record labels would not let Spotify in to the U.S. market without Spotify changing its services to something more restricted.

Did you consider compressed JPG/PNG on disk versus uncompressed raw image data bitmap in RAM?

A 1024x768 32-bit image is 1024x768x4 = 3.145.728 bytes when uncompressed.

Is this really the case the IP blocks can be sold onwards?

I always thought that IP address allocations were assigned by IANA (through the local regional registries like ARIN and RIPE), and as such were not any property of the assignee to be sold. If an address range was not needed anymore and the assignee surrendered control of them, they would return to the free IP address pool at the regional registry.

Well, one could argue that the patent system supported innovation, namely the original innovator Philips. :)

This guy just was too late, someone else beat him to it.

Yeah, true.

Fortunately the MSDN subscriber downloads inventory is publicly browsable: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/defa...

From there we can see the download details for all "Windows 7 with Service Pack 1" ISO files (all Windows 7 editions, all processor architectures and all languages).

From there we can for example see the following information for the English Professional x64 version:

  File Name: en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_621750.iso
  Date Published (UTC): 2/16/2011 8:49:08 AM	Last Updated (UTC): 2/16/2011 8:49:08 AM
  SHA1: 5ED2584110E03F498DB4458BA9FAFD5A7EF602ED	ISO/CRC: 74F3CB73

With this information, I can be confident in downloading an ISO from a peer-to-peer torrent. When the hash matches, I can be assured that the file is legit and not backdoored.