I always read Fukuoka, as being pronounced 'fuck you, okay' is that the way say it, or is that just me?

OH MY GOD... there is a Robot World show? Why did nobody tell me? And why aren't you live blogging it Engadget? for the love of God, Robots!! Go now...

The HVR-Z5J has XLR inputs, the HVRs are the pro versions, HDR is consumer version, it was the same with the DCR/DSR standard def camcorders. I had to look at this and the HVR-V1 for a long time to spot the difference, it seems to have a manual iris ring but apart from that not much difference. Not everyone is an 'indie film maker' (yeah right) 'consumer' or 'you tube fool'. TV stations, program makers and news organisations still buy and use a lot of tape; it's cheap, robust and fits their existing infrastructure.

It's Darth Vaders Tie Fighter, not a Tie Bomber.
Is that lens flare real or PS?

I misread that title and thought it was UAVs, I thought that would be so cool, a predator drone with flapping wings...imagine my disapointment.

I have sweaty palms at the thought of this hotness, and those sweaty palms my friends will make this baby stink like a dead thing.

The watermarking system uses a noise pattern that is superimposed on the picture, it's pretty much invisible unless you are comparing it side by side with the original. the watermark can be detected by running it through software that looks for specific patterns. most broadcasters are using these systems now.

Having looked at all the photos I'm a little dissapointed, it's more a 'Museum of Robot Aesthetics and Toys' than actually being a serious place. I would have thought thought it would be more 'Science Museum' (the one in London) and less 'Hello Kitty', When you think about the history of industrial robots and the current level of sophistication of things like Asimo etc (yes I know it was there, but in about a 10:1 ratio with all the Otaku stuff) there must be all sorts of cool stuff you could fill that museum with...meh guess I'm in a minority.

whenever I get into debates about copyrights I always use publishing as an example; physical distribution versus digital distribution. the costs of printing, binding, shipping and point of sale are reflected in the cover price, but then you look at how companies want to transition their business to digital distribution and they keep the same pricing structure, but have no costs. Look at the sony reader store, they try and sell public domain books for the price you'd pay in Borders (hello Gutenberg), or iTunes, where 10 tracks of crappy 128k aac costs as much as CD. My point is that this guy is not pissed at Google per se, he's just seen the writing on the wall. I'm all for paying royalties to artists, but I'm damned if I'll give 90% of the cover price of something as profit to some greedy corporate jackass. This is why people get into filesharing, because of the inequities of the old media. and they respond by lobbying government into criminalising anyone who doesn't buy their products.

Amusingly the river into which she fell was called 'The Sense'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday/story/0,,2041775,00.html