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Trying out the bike in the shop, but wrong colour and no ABS

From Wikipedia

The Suzuki V-Strom DL650 is a mid-weight dual-sport motorcycle manufactured in Japan by Suzuki and sold worldwide. It was launched in 2004. The name V-Strom combines V referring to the bikes engine [...]

After scanning through the archive Python articles at Clark’s Tech Blog I noticed a link to MIT’s MIT 6.00 Intro to Computer Science & Programming, Fall 2008

This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. [...]

I have just finished ripping these

my CD collection, into Apple lossless audio files. Now I will never need to rip my music again because unlike MP3 or AAC files there is no compression, so converting from Apple lossless to another future lossless format means no audio quality is lost.

Converting to Apple lossless has blown out [...]

After installing Snow Leopard on my Macbook I was excited to see if I could use OpenCL.
OpenCL is a technology to use your graphics card to do tasks that are traditionally done by the CPU

The most common example given is encoding videos. A video card, a GPU is substantially faster for some tasks.
For example in [...]