For 10 points u cnt miss this 1! All I want is something interesting.?

Question

Right people I want something scientific or funny or both or something unusual people would like to know about. Some kind of news maybe that's weird or funny.

It would be very good if its a whole article on something.

Answer 1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7438...

You want something weird look at the mating rituals of pandas.

Answer 2

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/17/do...

This is a big step for these folks. They are in for a tough time. wish them luck! :)

Answer 3

Steven Segal could kick Chuck Norris' ***

Answer 4

This may not be hilarious but certainly will be interesting to everyone with a digital camera/mobile (cell) phone/computer.

The aim of JPEG 2000 is not only improved compression performance over JPEG but also adding (or improving) features such as scalability and editability.

In fact, JPEG 2000's improvement in compression performance relative to the original JPEG standard is actually rather modest and should not ordinarily be the primary consideration for evaluating the design.

Very low and very high compression rates are supported in JPEG 2000. In fact, the graceful ability of the design to handle a very large range of effective bit rates is one of the strengths of JPEG 2000.

For example, to reduce the number of bits for a picture below a certain amount, the advisable thing to do with the first JPEG standard is to reduce the resolution of the input image before encoding it.

That's unnecessary when using JPEG 2000, because JPEG 2000 already does this automatically through its multiresolution decomposition structure.

The following sections describe the algorithm of JPEG 2000.

Color components transformation

Initially, images have to be transformed from the RGB color space to another color space, leading to three components that are handled separately.

There are two possible choices:

Irreversible Color Transform (ICT) uses the well known YCBCR color space.

It is called "irreversible" because of the quantization errors it introduces.

Reversible Color Transform (RCT) uses a modified YUV color space that does not introduce quantization errors, so it is fully reversible. The transformation matrices are:

The chrominance components can be, but do not necessarily have to be, down-scaled in resolution; in fact, since the wavelet transformation already separates images into scales, downsampling is more effectively handled by dropping the finest wavelet scale.

This step is called multiple component transformation in the JPEG 2000 language since its usage is not restricted to the RGB color model.

Answer 5

GENOA TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Even the Air Force knows a good burger is hard to find. Aaron Kay's superior officer agreed to extend the serviceman's leave by one week so he could be on hand for the opening of a new White Castle restaurant in Livingston County.

The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell reports Kay was scheduled to return Monday to his base in Okinawa, Japan, and learned about Tuesday's planned opening in Genoa Township.

The Howell High graduate had returned to Howell with his wife and children to visit family. The 34-year-old loader master on C-130 cargo planes says he was "kind of heartbroken" about possibly missing the opening.

Kay says there isn't anything that comes close to a White Castle burger where he's stationed.

Answer 6

Coldplay's new album is brill.

Answer 7

Wife's nagging left me impotent

An Italian man is demanding £140,000 in compensation after claiming his wife's constant nagging left him impotent.

Sergio Vinucci, from Parma, has produced medical evidence in court that backs up his claims that his wife's nagging caused him so much stress that he has been left impotent.

He said: "All she ever does is complain. It is extremely stressful and it has left me unable to be a man. I want some compensation."