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  1. The PS4 will have HD4k2k capability, rumoured for Q4-2013

  2. next big thing is HD4K2K = 4 times the number of pixels than an HD screen, some sport this year is being recorded in HD4K2K so are most movies, where was it in this advertorial NO WHERE.
    Horrendously expensive at present like $55k for a 3m screen but prices will drop with Moore's law regularity

  3. Going way back on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto written in the Renaissance in 1516 in Italian, there are modern English translations and modern retellings
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086074/ for the movie, very visual
    Also, an opera by Vivaldi
    this is a fantasy retelling of the fictional account of Charlemagne's invasion of Spain, which was fictionalised as in Chason de Roland. So even by the 16th century it was many layers of retelling.

  4. Re:On the Beach on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Not a forgotten novel as it has been done as a movie TWICE
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/ - Gregory Peck, Ava Gardiner, Fred Astaire
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/ - Rachel Ward, Bryan Browne

  5. Re:Forgotten but recently rediscovered on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    I expected no-one would know this book, only book she wrote, great read, recommended

  6. Supply for Q4 to be down 28% on ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks · · Score: 2
  7. Thank you on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I somehow found /. well before the first sale and found it always useful. CmdrTaco, thank you for all of the stories and for posting sme of my story submisions.
    Now following you on G+
    (for awhile and until they catch up with me with their name policy)

  8. More than 4 bases in DNA on Personal DNA Sequencing Machine One Step Closer · · Score: 1

    There are at least 8 bases in the DNA sequence and this will be only looking for 4 of them
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110721142408.htm

  9. Re:California, Pacific NW are next on 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued · · Score: 1

    So the 6.7 and the 4 * 5 that have hit Indonesia this week are not significant

  10. Re:7.4 != 9.2 Not even close. on 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued · · Score: 1

    The Christchurch quake was 6.2

  11. Re:Incoterms on 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year · · Score: 2

    Yes, but no-one deals is in anything but FOB or FIS.

  12. Re:Not really a habitable planet ... on NASA's Kepler Spots Its First Rocky Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    the ^2 was there when I typed it, but /. appears to have eaten it.

  13. Re:Not really a habitable planet ... on NASA's Kepler Spots Its First Rocky Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Life at the anaerobic microbial level would be well suited to this, but higher organisms not

  14. Not really a habitable planet ... on NASA's Kepler Spots Its First Rocky Exoplanet · · Score: 0

    Not a habitable planet as the gravity would be about 20 m/s and put it in the habitable zone and gravity would get you again as hydrogen would not achieve escape velocity as it does here and thus build up in the atmosphere preventing any accumulation of oxygen

  15. Re:400M ? on Closing In On 1Gbps Using DSL · · Score: 5, Informative

    That means a mini DSLAM in a street pillar connected by fibre to the exchange, this gets the speed they need for the connection without the need to replace that last "mile". Still a significant cost to put in but saves about 80% on a full fibre retro-fit to the house/business

  16. Original story is "Amazing Horned Dinosaurs" on Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    The PR from University of Utah http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=092010-1 lots more details than any of the NEWS sites have published also check out http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100922121943.htm

  17. It works, but ocean dumping is more efficient on Capturing Carbon With Garbage Heaps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Professor Gregory Benford has papers on it. http://www.physics.uci.edu/faculty/benford.html There are several papers here going back several years discussing geo-sequestration of carbon in a manner non returnable to the atmosphere. The proposal here does not lock the carbon away.

  18. Success for "News Limited" on Times Paywall Blocks 90% of Traffic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those figures look like this is going to be a successful strategy for the company. Other "apocryphal" sources would have suggested that 95% loss would have been expected.

  19. What a bug ridden site for a source on Murdoch's UK Paywall a Miserable Failure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The web site at newser.com call in at least 21 other sites according to No_Script and Ghostery shows at least 5 trackers as well.