Slashdot Mirror


User: Dg93

Dg93's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
48
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 48

  1. Re:To Everyone... on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might want to learn to use the google before you spout off, you might find out that this quote is from a 1986 appearance on Saturday Night Live by William Shatner, which predates galaxy quest by about 13 years.

  2. Re:Please... on Teleportation Gets a Boost · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your explanation is correct only in the case where source and target are on the same filesystem (assuming the file system supports the concept of inode/directory entry relocation. If it doesn't, then it doesn't matter if it is even on the same filesystem, it'll still do a copy/delete).

    TYFP,DT

  3. Re:Where's the useful cut-off point? on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 5, Informative

    A high pixel count also means smaller physical sizes for each pixel on the sensor which means an increase in noise.

    I'll take a 3 megapixel APS-C sized sensor over an 8 megapixel sub-fingernail sized sensor any day of the week and twice on sundays.

  4. Re:CMOS? on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 2, Informative



    More like middle upper end - the 1Ds's and D2Xs of the world.

    The high end medium format digital backs (e.g. the PhaseOne P45 39 megapixel medium format digital back) are still CCD.

  5. Re:CMOS? on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seems that most (if not all) the CMOS based cameras that are out now are considered low end junk.

    You mean like Canon's digital SLR series or Nikon's digital SLR series?

    Granted - the medium format digital backs are using CCDs at the moment, though i've heard that some of that has more to do with the difficulty of manufacturing CMOS chips to the size and density needed to make a 50mm x 37mm sensor.

    CCD also has a higher dynamic range - but that comes at power cost - and also slightly less responsiveness.

    So generally speaking, I'd say these days that CCD vs. CMOS comes to a draw, depending on what you're looking for. I'm sure the CMOS vendors will work on increasing dynamic range while the CCD vendors will work on their power/speed costs.

  6. nitpicker's paradise on The Failure of Information Security · · Score: 1

    From TFA: . It was able to perform 256 DES operations in 56 hours.

    Wow. 256 operations in 56 hours - that's what 4.57 operations per hour, give or take?

  7. Re:DRM on HD DVD Demo a Disappointment · · Score: 1

    I rip my dvd's onto a video jukebox that i've got at home hooked up to a projector. This way I can just pick the movie I want to watch and watch it - no dealing with the physical dvds themselves. Kind of like what I do with my music.

  8. Re:Lets talk about Jon Carmack. on Doom 3 Gets Reviews, Piracy Questions, Exultation · · Score: 1

    you did that on purpose, didn't you?

    It's not nice to bait the grammar nazis like that!

  9. Re:Ogg Vorbis support! on Archos Releases Portable Video/Image/MP3 Player · · Score: 1
    If you had a small band, and you wanted to sell compressed songs online, which would you rather use: MP3, where you will have to pay a minimum of $2000 per year

    Did you read where you linked to?

    No license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with an annual gross revenue less than US$100000.00.


    If you're raking in more than $100k/year, you're more than a small band, or you can afford the fees.
  10. Re:what wrong with the original? on Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed · · Score: 1

    You are also guaranteed that two streets with the same name are never in the same ZIP code

    You mean like the streets that come to the corner of Trenton St. and Trenton St. (in Zip Code 02128) or maybe the two streets that come to the corner of Tremont St. and Treemont St. in zipcode 02108.

    Also - with this system, each code is a 1 square METER block. Slightly different scale there. (Where people are getting mile from meter is beyond me, but whatever...)

  11. drop, what? on Mac OS X 'Panther': User at the Center · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Got the drop? There was nothing in this article that hasn't been floating around the mac rumor sites for weeks now.

  12. Re:Ambiguity on Texas Court Blocks Screen-Scraper · · Score: 3, Informative
    That's bullshit. Show me whan the ACLU has EVER defended the KKK even in rhetoric.

    here and here. And that's just in a couple moments spent searching on the ACLU's own site.

  13. Re:yes queries on Object Prevalence: Get Rid of Your Database? · · Score: 1

    transactions (for instance object synchronization in Java,

    I hope I don't have to tell you that serialization is in a whole different ballpark from transactions.


    I hope I don't have to tell you that synchronization is in a whole different ballpark from serialization.

  14. Re:Except for one thing: on Microsoft Introduces Its Own CD Copy-Inhibition Scheme · · Score: 2, Funny
    The sound quality of the copy done through the digital-to-analog then analog-to-digital connection will definitely be inferior to the original.


    And this is different from mp3 encoding, how?


    Thank you, drive through

  15. Re:Memory-Oriented Logic on Ask Donald Becker · · Score: 1

    Ironically enough, one of the labs that don worked at was doing just this (I don't recall whether or not he was on the terrasys project, i just shared an office w/him) - it was a massively parallel bit serial processor, that looked like raw memory to the host machine (in this case, a sparc box).

    Fun stuff...

  16. Re:Client side on SSH-Based Solutions - Looking for Industry Proof? · · Score: 1

    putty now does port forwarding. flash away

  17. Re: why didn't they use horses instead of people? on The Matrix is Reloading · · Score: 1

    There was a hint of this in some of the stories that were written and posted on the website shortly after the matrix came out.

  18. Re:Having worked with both... on Apache 2.0 vs. IIS · · Score: 1

    Erm, php goes back to '94. GnuJSP which was one of the early jsp implementations (and based on a pre-1.0 version of the spec) only came out in august of '99. Active Server Pages was released in late '96 as part of IIS 3...

    The only statement that you have right there is that asp came before jsp.

    But thank you for playing...

  19. Re:Apps? on Review Of The Sharp Zaurus 5000D · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ummm - no. The Personal Java spec is aimed at lightweight machines, and was at jdk 1.1.8 because it doesn't have a lot of the (enterprise app driven) overhead of the Java2 platform. It has nothing to do with supporting applets.

    Java is much more than applets.

    --Dg, a java developer who hasn't written an applet in 4 years

  20. Re:commercial free on Satellite Radio Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    No - he means selling commercials. Radio stations sell commercials. Those commercials sell products. The companies that make those products buy airtime for their commercials in places that they think will get that commercial to the most (and most appropriate) ears/eyes. In other words, if a radio station doesn't have a strong, provable listener base, then companies are not going to buy airtime for commercials on those stations.

    Again. It is hard to sell commercials without an existing user base.

    --Dg

  21. Re:Hehe on Apache Tomcat 4.0 Final Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 3.x and 4.x trees are completely different codebases... My understanding is that the 3.x tree will continue to get a certain amount of maintenance and development while the 4.x tree gets shaken out.

    4.x has been in beta for a while, they've mainly been waiting for Sun to finalize the specs.

  22. Re:How Does Site Inform Browser of Compliance? on IE6 to Implement W3C Privacy Standard · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, even though the P3P standard say its optional, IE6 requires the CP part. For better or worse :)

    --Dg

  23. Re:A fine line on The 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites · · Score: 1

    No, the 'obvious' problem is present equipment -not- following spec. If routers don't know what the ECN bits are, they should leave them alone and pass them through (as those bit positions were marked as experimental/reserved for future use). The problem is in routers that are too intelligent for their own damn good, that busily reset flags that they shouldn't be touching. Things -were- designed for backward/forwards compatibility.

    Router mfgrs saw fit to ignore that.

  24. Re:Video signal quality? on Rack Mount Solution for Desktop PCs · · Score: 1

    Oh, hrm, you mean like, say, the Sun Ray?

  25. Re:JavaServlets on PHP, Perl, Java Servlets - What's Right For You? · · Score: 1

    Looks like you forgot to turn on anonymous posting you moron...