DEADBEEF

Well there's the old saying that "luck is where opportunity meets preparation".

...as in "you make your own luck".

Just an aside, but much of the bailout money was recovered when the shares the UK acquired were subsequently sold on once the banks had restabilised.

If push came to shove, would you be willing to go on the stand and testify as much if compelled to?

...worked for youtube.

Not even close.

"In fact, during this period, the travel industry lost over £2.1 billion in profit."

Does this even make sense?

Surely you mean a 'frikkin laser beam'?

For games I'd also suggest opening the prompt just after the user has just beaten their high score.

They're still going to be pretty pumped and are far more likely to leave a positive review.

An idea I had was a site where members can make a list of all their possessions and how much it'd take for them to part with each item.

They then have the opportunity to search the stuff other people own and see much they'd want for it, and can make offers if it's something they'd be willing to pay the asking price for.

Basically a classified ads site for stuff you aren't really bothered about selling, but would do if the price was right.

Don't know how you'd monetize it though as most transactions would probably be done cash, in person.

Something like... (Pseudocode)

    for( i= 1,100 )
    {
      if( i%3==0 ) { print( 'Fizz' ) }
      if( i%5==0 ) { print( 'Buzz' ) }
      print( '\n' )
    }

I wonder if there's some magic you could sprinkle in to the iterator so it only iterates through numbers which are divisible by 3/5, ignoring the rest?

It probably wouldn't speed the operation up much (if at all) in this case, in a more complex real world scenario though it's best to look at every angle.

How is the geo-IP lookup performed?

It put's my location in rural Algeria (I'm in Nottingham, UK). It does this even if I check the 'share my location with geosay.com' type warning that Firefox provides.

With Chrome & Opera it again puts my location in rural Algeria, however clicking on 'Share location' narrows it down to a map of the whole of the UK (better, but still not too useful).

Saying that, I don't think it's a problem with your site, as clicking on the 'show my location' button (above the streetview guy) in Google maps can't find me either and I'm guessing you're using the same google maps API to do your lookups.

The NHTSA spokeswoman said the agency wouldn't comment on its Toyota probe until a broader study is completed in conjunction with NASA, which is expected to take months.

NASA? really?

They then went on to mention 'the National Academy of Sciences', so I'll assume it's a misprint.

A few years ago I started helping out making user generated content for a HL2 mod in my spare time.

The mod got quite popular and a couple of us got invited on an all expenses trip to the US to visit Valve's HQ and meet Gabe etc along with the mod's creator.

Helped re-write the entire thing from scratch to eliminate the myriad of bugs which had gradually crept into each subsequent update, still in my spare time.

A few months later started selling the mod on Steam. I think so far it's sold in excess of 500k copies.

In case you haven't guessed, the game was Garry's mod.

I didn't make anywhere near as much as Garry the mods original author, who's pretty much set up his own fully funded game dev studio with the proceeds, but it was a fun summer nonetheless.

I predict that 'real' 3D movies will go the way 3D sound did years back. 'Fake' 3D will die out as the camera technology gets cheaper.

When Dolby surround first came onto the scene audiences were wowed by the immersiveness that the surround sound added to movies.

Studios responded by 'faking' 3D sound for movies originally recorded only in stereo. These didn't sound anywhere near as good as true surround sound and audiences weren't impressed.

Eventually the equipment needed to shoot a movie in surround sound became cheap enough that every production could take advantage of it.

I think we're seeing the cycle repeat itself.

Lets not forget that when colour film first came out studios attempted to add colour to existing B&W films, this didn't work too well but eventually colour film became cheap enough that they all used it.

Average CPM is around $2.5 - $5. Reddit gets 280M pageviews pcm.

Therefore, if it's only breaking even and not turning a profit then their server, bandwidth & wage bill must be in the region of between $700,000 (2.8M/1000x2.5) and $1,400,000 (2.8M/1000x5) per month.

Either their servers are massively inefficient, they're paying their staff too much, they're selling themselves short to their advertisers, or their offices are wallpapered with banknotes.

Either which way, they're doing something massively wrong somewhere.

For a similar project we used the IR sensors off a USB ball mouse along with homemade encoder wheels to provide motor feedback. This method costs next to nothing and is pretty damn accurate.

It was a ball mouse which featured two scroll wheels, meaning we could recieve feedback from 4 DC motors using a standard USB interface & mouse driver.

We used the mouse buttons as triggers to mark the rotation stop points for use in the initialization routine.

The motors we ended up using were high end electric RC car motors. They were the highest torque in the smallest package we could realistically get that still fitted our budget.