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  1. This sounds more like a game... on Amazon Launches Answers Service Beta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This sounds more like a game than an actual useful search engine.

    On the other hand, having services like this and virtual cash in several games, maybe it's time to propose some kind of uniform standard instead of getting a huge selection of virtual currency (which will happen anyway because lots of different standards for the same are fun). Exchange Quest Coins against Warcraft Gold so you can finally buy that weapon, sell off your character and use the profit to buy Wii points so you can get more virtual console games, in the meantime paying a percentage to whatever virtual bank pops up in Second Life or so. Just great.

  2. Re:What's the solution? on From Bess to Worse · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the site admin is still going to register and use the HotAdultVideos.com URL; maybe to redirect to the .xxx domain.

    Most official (pay) sites have warnings; it's usually the free galleries that don't.

    Those who don't want their children to see the naughty bits have to do something very simple: monitor them when they're surfing. There's the added benefit of spending quality time with your kids. Then they can also explain why they don't like that the kids go there instead of just relying on a dumb filter that is easily tricked.

  3. Re:DRM is good on Music Execs Think DRM Slows the Marketplace · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If we have a effective and uncrackable DRM system
    ...we still have the infamous analog hole, and people will be satisfied with 128kbps-quality rips. I don't think you can wean 'm off the drab.
  4. Diebold replacements on Everybody Votes on the Wii · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cheaper, less prone to corruption, and cuter, too.

  5. Re:Not to mention on MacResearch Introduces OpenMacGrid · · Score: 1

    Solve the texture problem with a good centralized library of textures - or use procedural ones - not that uncommon. Just imagine that a node will only render a small square of the scene (or even spend its time calculating the light sources from a single render pass which are then put in the pipeline) and nobody's getting the entire movie.

    Of course, there's the problem if you manage not only to catch every single piece, decrypt the bitmaps, -and- manage to put 'm in the right order. However, the amount of work you need for that is way more than bribing someone for a pre-release version.

  6. Movie studios and CGI on MacResearch Introduces OpenMacGrid · · Score: 1

    Y'know, I imagine stuff like this would be nice to speed up the rendering farms in movie studios. Either make 'm pay for the access or give every contributor with enough cycles a free ticket ;).

  7. Re:You've gotta be shitting me on Canadian Copyright Group Wants iPod Tax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The filet mignons can no longer be used by anyone else. The stream of bits representing the music can, because it's not gone after it has been copied. Congratulations for falling for the "stealing" FUD and using a bad analogy.

  8. Re:DAmn hollywood on Public Iris Scanning Device In the Works · · Score: 3, Funny
    FTFA:

    The device is able to scan the iris of the eye without the knowledge or consent of the person being scanned
    Not only Minority Report. Wesley Snipes' performance in Demolition Man also demonstrated the scanning of an iris without consent (simply by scooping the eyeball out of a freshly killed person and plopping it on a sharp object, waving it in front of the scanner).

    Just be glad that they copied it from Minority Report instead of Demolition Man. *shudder*
  9. Re:Red eyes on Videogames Sharpen Player Vision · · Score: 1

    I can't see anything... ;)
    Sure you can, it's just got lots of bloom.
  10. Re:Looking forward to it. on Google Docs to support Powerpoint · · Score: 1

    will it support animations?
    The HTML Canvas tag will probably take care of that. Or they'll have to put everything in Flash, but that's not really a solution to the problem, and not hip & hot Web 2.0.

    On the other hand, most of the animations that are used in Powerpoint don't belong there anyway.
  11. Iframe deprecated? on Bosworth On Why AJAX Failed, Then Succeeded · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where exactly do you see it's deprecated? W3schools doesn't mention it, Wikipedia does neither, and on the W3 page for iframes nothing is mentioned about deprecation. If you mean the oh so hip use of using a hidden iframe to send all kinds of crap back and forth instead of the XHR object, then yes.

  12. Re:Are you surprised? ppc ubuntu on Vista Upgrades Require Presence of Old OS · · Score: 1

    Anyone that uses Google docs, calendar, etc, can see that the OS is becoming less and less important.
    But anyone who creates actual content will have to stick with the OS. Music, graphics, movies - you can't do that with the Google model.
  13. Re:Axiom. on Global Collaborative Music Experiment · · Score: 1

    The AC upstairs just decided to finally register after 3+ years of lurking and being an AC ;).

    An alternative would be http://www.asio4all.com/ - which can get the latency for regular soundcards down. But then you're usually still stuck with the cheap noisy outputs of on-board soundcards and no fancy inputs - in case you'd record guitars or vocals, having a box with preamp you can stick a microphone in is a very nice thing to have.

    The Axiom is neat indeed - looks very luxurious. Add to the controller the fact that you can get hundreds of softsynths for free on http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php/ and you can get going. On the other hand, few things are as lethal as a folder full of plugins and no idea on how to work with 'm. Anyway.

    I personally find it a great and incredible development that, provided that you have a computer and an internet connection you can set up an entire music making environment on a whim. While detractors will say that it'll be crap, I don't think Sturgeon's Law is going to change (as in 90% of everything is crud) - it just means that the 10% that -is- innovative/quality/good will get bigger.