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Re:Free rider problem solved? by Roger+Wilcox · 2012-06-08 10:20 · Score: 1 · on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops

+1!

Parent presents the crux of the current situation perfectly: if obvious and timely improvements are patentable then those patents granted to obvious and timely improvements serve no purpose other than a barrier to entry for competitors. Who can afford to enter business when every item, every process, and every configuration needs to be checked against a patent library with millions of entries? Especially now that patents have become this ridiculous.

Wedge-shaped notebook PCs? Electronic typewriters have used this basic design principal for nearly 50 years!
http://img289.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=188880203_unnamed_122_202lo.jpg
Does that look like a wedge to anyone else?

This boils down to a patent on miniaturized notebooks that also happen to fit all their internal components comfortably inside. Ridiculous. The principle is not new, the improvement is apparent even to a monkey, and the patent should have been thrown out immediately.

Re:This is the only cyborg I care about by Master+of+Transhuman · 2010-09-12 14:34 · Score: 1 · on September Is Cyborg Month

Well, I screwed those goddamn links up!

Let's try again:

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3936/summerglau232tw3.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9497/summerglau1514gg2.jpg

http://img205.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=54834_summer-fire_230B78_122_111lo.jpg

http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=39069_Summer-G001_122_72lo.jpg

Re:This is the only cyborg I care about by Master+of+Transhuman · 2010-09-12 14:34 · Score: 1 · on September Is Cyborg Month

Well, I screwed those goddamn links up!

Let's try again:

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3936/summerglau232tw3.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9497/summerglau1514gg2.jpg

http://img205.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=54834_summer-fire_230B78_122_111lo.jpg

http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=39069_Summer-G001_122_72lo.jpg

Re:Pure Fud by 4D6963 · 2010-05-05 22:53 · Score: 1 · on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor

Their nipples and cunts are showing. sauce

Re:Pure Fud by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-04 07:37 · Score: 0 · on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor

The bikini tops are actually cut out (see the original - warning, probably NSFW). Still, calling a single, briefly viewed image “porn” is ludicrous.

Re:Give the guy a break... by Xeno+man · 2010-05-04 06:52 · Score: 1 · on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor

Not the exact same photo and from the same shoot. http://img157.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-30648/loc939/00376_0460_ff2009-darksand1-3001_123_939lo.jpg

Nipples are exposed and lips are flapping in the wind but there is a big overreaction. Nude != Porn, Porn = Sex.

Re:A setup by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-04 04:51 · Score: 5, Informative · on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor

Not really, here is the original image (for all intents and purposes)
http://img157.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=00376_0460_ff2009-darksand1-3001_123_939lo.jpg

Very poorly made bikinis.

A poster idea for you by MrSteveSD · 2010-04-08 08:15 · Score: 1 · on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK

http://img131.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-2060/loc477/52504_DigitalEconomyPoster_122_477lo.jpg

Re:Let's just get this out of the way, shall we? by xouumalperxe · 2010-01-08 03:19 · Score: 1 · on 400 Years Ago, Galileo Discovered Four Jovian Moons

And religious nerds are way cooler than science nerds. And the girls are hotter...

That's what you think.

My favorite robot of all time! by Master+of+Transhuman · 2009-01-18 14:47 · Score: 1 · on The Best Robots of 2008

Nobody can beat this robot for looks, deadliness or comic relief!

http://monsterscifishow.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/61979_summer_glau_-_unknown_photoshoot0001_122_1140lo.jpg

http://img133.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc620&image=09741_Summer_Glau_2192_122_620lo.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=summerglau1514gg2.jpg

Cameron terminating a bad Terminator in the future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGQGI7V8o8

Scary Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZN5-kHETc&feature=related

"They knew where we live"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCWTThe4Cs

Cameron Seduces John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPGGzBUquU&feature=related

Cameron Cuts Derek Off Because He Didn't Follow the Phone Security Code Protocol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDgWGs9Wdo&feature=related

Would You Like A Bedtime Story?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEcJjq5ByiM&feature=related

You lied to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OisxAXVAMEs&feature=related

Cameron plays pool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6t83BHB6OQ&feature=related

Re:If Microsoft Produced Tron by Anonymous Coward · 2008-07-26 11:13 · Score: 0 · on Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild

If Microsoft produced Tron, the MCP would look like this

Or perhaps something like this (SFW)

Re:Opera screen real estate vs Firefox by RiotingPacifist · 2008-06-21 04:29 · Score: 1 · on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

I can do that in firefox WITHOUT having to code anything, plus how exactly do i get fusion as purely an interface customisation?
smallfox
I mean i think i could shave a few more pixels of with some smart userchrome code or a nice theme but tbh it's small enough for me and all i had to do was install 2/3 extentions and add some simple lines to userchrome.

Re:Opera screen real estate vs Firefox by SilentChasm · 2008-06-20 19:53 · Score: 5, Informative · on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

Opera's interface is every bit as customisable if not more so. False. I challenge you to put a "back" button next to the Help menu on the menu bar, then. You can do it in IE. You can do it in Firefox. Opera forces that space after Help to be waste. Here it is:Screenshot :P

There's a back button, forward button and an addressbar next to help. Not technically what you said but close enough that it shouldn't matter. Probably technically cheating aswell as it's not the 'real' menu bar.

You're right that you can't put stuff in the menu bar in Opera though, and you should be able to. It is a waste of screen space. In order to make that screenshot (without manipulation), I used the custom buttons page on http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons to add each of those menu items to the "Main Bar" (after clearing it), then I added the back button and decided to go a step further and add the address bar and forward. I had already used the toggle menu bar custom button to hide the actual "Menu Bar" (I normally don't have a menu bar even, the panel is enough).

If you look closely I have the entire main menu as a button in the tab bar (labeled "Menu" with a black arrow next to it). If I click that I'll get a menu with all the main menu bar items in it. Over on the right I have a view button which will display the "view bar" where I've hidden the menu toggle button.

I could have combined everything on the menu into the tab bar instead but it wouldn't have looked like the main menu colorwise. I could have everything in one bar like the great-grandparent has in their firefox screenshot. Less than their screenshot even if I put everything in the tab bar instead of a seperate one.

Also there is a panel toggle on the left of the screen. I typically don't use the main menu except for the File-> Import/Export menu options so hiding the entire thing makes sense since all bookmarks, history, widgets, mail and newsfeeds are available in the side panel and most settings are accessible via keyboard the shortcuts F12+none, ctrl, shift.

If you really want to get bitchy about wasted space you could put all the menu options, the addressbar and everything normally in a toolbar into a custom panel and get rid of every bar (even the tab bar if you want) and just have the panel toggle at the edge of the screen. Hide it when you don't need it. You can't get much less wasted space unless you changed the theme for your desktop to use less space for the window decorations (I think that would be going a little far). The entire window would be space for the page except for the small scrollbar on one side and the panel toggle on the other (not necessary with keyboard shortcuts).

Re:Opera screen real estate vs Firefox by dotancohen · 2008-06-20 19:33 · Score: 1 · on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

The thing I like about Firefox is how changeable it is:
Screenshot

I've been organizing the bars like that since I started using FF, and I find it makes for much better use of that space than just a gray, blank area.

Agreed, I hate wasted screen real estate:
http://www.dotancohen.com/images/examples/firefox.png

Notice that the File | Edit menu has been collapsed into a single root menu on the right (My language goes from right to left, sorry). The Google search box is gone (I can google directly from the aweso^W location bar) and the tabs are on the side. Perfect for making use of this widescreen monitor's unusual geometry, which means that half the horizontal space usually goes to waste yet there is never enough vertical space.

Re:Opera screen real estate vs Firefox by Dun+Malg · 2008-06-20 17:30 · Score: 0 · on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

The first thing you notice when you launch Opera 9.5 is that it occupies less desktop real estate than Firefox 3, with less toolbar space and smaller borders, giving you more room to view pages. The thing I like about Firefox is how changeable it is: Screenshot I've been organizing the bars like that since I started using FF, and I find it makes for much better use of that space than just a gray, blank area. I was doing that with IE before I discovered Firefox, and was overjoyed when firefox decided to add that feature. A friend of mine suggested Opera a few years ago, and I was highly annoyed at how it made no provision for using that "dead space" after Help. I see they still don't allow it. The Opera devs apparently don't like any idea they didn't come up with themselves. And that quote above? What a crock! What idiot uses the toolbar layout as it comes out of the installer? Anyone with half a brain CUSTOMIZES.

Opera screen real estate vs Firefox by kestasjk · 2008-06-20 16:57 · Score: 5, Informative · on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

The first thing you notice when you launch Opera 9.5 is that it occupies less desktop real estate than Firefox 3, with less toolbar space and smaller borders, giving you more room to view pages. The thing I like about Firefox is how changeable it is: Screenshot

I've been organizing the bars like that since I started using FF, and I find it makes for much better use of that space than just a gray, blank area.

Which robot would you prefer? by Master+of+Transhuman · 2008-04-12 08:05 · Score: 1 · on Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq

Now which one would you like to be shot by?

This: http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/04/swordsss.jpg

Or this: http://img45.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-9024/loc72/39069_Summer-G001_122_72lo.jpg http://www.sexygirlsdepot.com/wp-content/assets/2008/03/summer-glau-7.png

re by JohnVanVliet · 2008-04-08 16:01 · Score: 1 · on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes?

light gray on black a shot of my desk top http://www.fedoraforum.org/gallery/file_4gallery/4/3/2/0/2/jvv1_original.png or http://img241.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=13374_4321_122_507lo.jpg

re by JohnVanVliet · 2008-03-16 06:01 · Score: 1 · on Google Sky Now Available Through Your Browser

well i still like Celestia and Stellarium better than Google http://img212.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc27&image=99258_IoNormal1_122_27lo.jpg http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/images/screenshots/various/mercury_1K_2K_4K_Mercury_2__John_van_Vliet.jpg http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/images/screenshots/various/venus_1K_2K_4K_Venus_1__John_van_Vliet.jpg http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/images/screenshots/various/saturn_2K__4K_Rhea_1__John_van_Vliet.jpg

re by JohnVanVliet · 2007-12-14 21:07 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Saturn's Rings Are Ancient

just a screen shot of Saturn's rings i posted in a diff. forum
http://img181.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc37&image=55459_satring_122_37lo.jpg
the image is 1024x718

Re:I personally like the homepage by marcello_dl · 2007-08-14 08:12 · Score: 1 · on Yahoo Edges out Google in Customer Satisfaction

I totally agree, the pages one accesses often must be clean and fast. Google home has still things i didn't like (arial default font, failed to work as local page, and a look somewhat too anonymous). But that was easy to fix. It was also online (but the page was against google guidelines in several ways) and is still kinda accessible through the library

Picture by posterlogo · 2007-02-24 10:37 · Score: 1 · on New Technology Could Lead To 3D Printers

here: http://img5.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=56621_315 _1116_F4_122_14lo.jpeg

Also, it's not exactly "paper" they're printing on:

"We used N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) gels to construct sheets with inducible non-Euclidean gtar. The gels are produced by mixing NIPA monomers with bisacrylamide (BIS) (6% by weight of NIPA) cross-linker in water. The addition of catalysts initiates polymerization of a cross-linked elastic hydrogel [Supporting Online Material (SOM) text]. This gel undergoes a sharp, reversible, volume reduction transition at Tc = 33C (19), above which its equilibrium volume decreases considerably. Calibration experiments (fig. S1) using various homogeneous (each of a different fixed NIPA concentration) gel discs provide the relation between the monomer concentration and {eta}, the shrinkage ratio of the "activated" gel. These measurements show that dilute gels shrink a lot, whereas gels with high monomer concentrations undergo moderate shrinking."

Re:so slashdot can decide which stories they choos by kestasjk · 2006-12-06 05:56 · Score: 2 · on Google's Silent Monopoly

Speaking of Slashdot censorship, can anyone tell me what happened to this story:
Apple Quicktime virus on MySpace

It was on the front page, but as soon as I clicked on it I got the "Move along, nothing to see here" message, and it was gone from the front page. If you look at the poster Spiked_Three's page you can see that the story is listed as accepted.
Did this get suddenly yanked off the front page while IE MySpace worms and MS Word 0-day exploits get through just because Slashdot has a lot of sensitive Mac owners?

I come here to read tech news, not to have my ego stroked. If something relevant happens I want to hear about it regardless of whether it makes a company I like look bad..

Re:And so why do we care? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-01 07:58 · Score: 0 · on Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt()

Holy Shit!

What's going on here?