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  1. Re:Summary wrong: Not a coma! on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 1

    They aren't saying that you can miss 95% of the cerebral cortex ... in fact the cerebral cortex is what is left intact in those hydrocephalics (cerebral fluid in the center, cerebral cortex on the outside).

  2. Re:Sad on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 1

    C++ if we are lucky ... some poorly scaling kludge with existing scripting languages without any form of JIT compiler if not. It's a pity no big MMOs adopted this and threw some consulting fees their way.

  3. Re:Computing Power? on ARM Exec Says 90% of PC Market Could Be Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, because watching graphics through a couple Mb/s video stream is just like the real thing.

  4. Re:Wait - Sell? on India Objects To Google Book Settlement · · Score: 1

    The settlement in question which these Indian authors are so upset about was just about the right to publish excerpts though right?

  5. Re:Obligatory on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 1

    MPEG? You mean ITU don't you?

  6. Re:Ideology meet reality on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Flash is H.264.

  7. It's not a funding problem ... on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Very few companies could afford a license compatible with the LGPL ... hell, I'm pretty sure the MPEG-LA isn't even authorized to issue such a license, so you'd have to make private deals with everyone. Going to take 100's of millions of dollars easy, maybe more.

  8. Re:HTML5 Video on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ugh, quicktime ... I'd even rather have flash.

  9. Re:What about write speed? on IBM Sets Areal Density Record for Magnetic Tape · · Score: 2, Informative

    Depends on the number of parallel read/write heads, wasn't in the article ... a quick google shows present tapes take between 25-50 passes to fill a tape at ~7 minutes per pass, god that's slow.

  10. Re:of course on 80% of .gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure more money has gone into lobbying against DNSSEC than in favour ... it's going to have a really big toll on the CAs after all when everyone can just put a self-signed cert inside their DNS entry and have end to end authentication completely without a CA.

  11. Re:do not want on Forget LCDs and LEDs, Here Come LPDs · · Score: 1

    Delay? That's not how the phosphors on high refresh rate CRTs work at all anymore ... they basically just flash (intensity falls off by a factor 1000 within a msec). You can engineer phosphors without afterglow at all. Long afterglow phosphors are from the early days of TVs ... "modern" CRT monitors are basically strobes (which is ideal for motion perception ... capture and hold blurs, regardless of the transition speed).

  12. Re:How Thick is the Display? on Forget LCDs and LEDs, Here Come LPDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Precision optics seem like overkill to me ... all that shit with f-theta lenses and optical correction of pin-cushions seems so ... archaic.

    As long as the distortion is static and a sufficient maximum distance between lines is maintained you can just correct it digitally can't you? Transistors are cheap nowadays, really really cheap, hardware to perform an image warp on a HD signal is pennies worth of die space on an ASIC (in volume, the million dollar mask costs have to be earned back first of course).

  13. Re:Anectodal info on Forrester Says Tech Downturn Is "Unofficially Over" · · Score: 1

    Only if the population growth is equally distributed, not when most of the population growth is in the poorer classes.

  14. Re:Shouldn't be surprising on Average Budget For Major, Multi-Platform Games Is $18-28 Million · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wouldn't be surprised if half the budget on MW2 was marketing, if not more.

  15. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 1

    Britain's debt wasn't denominated in it's own fiat currency unlike the US.

  16. Re:Active glasses? on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    Anything below 120 Hz is going to flicker something awful, you really want 144 Hz minimum (which will flicker at 72 Hz per eye, which is not perceptible for most people).

  17. Re:Active glasses? on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    Actually not really, RealD's tech is most common and they have some kind of electronic filter in front of the projector which can circularly polarize the light for frame sequential projection. I personally saw Avatar in a cinema with a Barco system which also used a single projector with frame sequential circular polarization (dunno what they use to apply the polarization, could simply be a filter wheel in front of the projection lens). Sony has a special lens for their 4K projectors which splits it into 2x2K, so frame parallel, but I don't know if that's actually being used anywhere (it's pretty new). The only widespread system using frame parallel projection with 2 projectors is IMAX digital.

  18. Re:Active glasses? on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    The problem is halving resolution ... when they have just been telling us for a couple of years we need 1080 lines.

  19. Re:Active glasses? on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    IZ3D uses linear polarization though ... so tilt your head and you get cross-over.

  20. Re:I genuinely wish they would just give it all aw on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    We need more ipv6 only torrents.

  21. Re:Could last another 10 years... on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 2, Informative

    They can't sell em, at best they can go into the ISP business with them.

  22. Re:Trends on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Not unless ICANN changes the existing policies to allow resale of assignments and gradual increases of costs of assignments as the pool of unassigned addresses gets smaller.

    At the moment there is no market.

  23. Re:I Actually Side with Dick's Estate on Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate · · Score: 1

    Most likely?

    They had a registered trademark for electronic handheld games and on the small chance of a suit succeeding Motorola just said fuck it, pay em off ... it's cheaper.

  24. "Technically"? on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Technically they were already immune? That's a rather important technicality ... because you explicitly blamed Obama for giving them immunity from prosecution. In actuality 12425 is the executive order which gave them that ... the one with Ronald Reagan's signature below it.

  25. Re:About time to arm ourselves on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's cut and dry ... Reagon was an illuminati selling us out to the UN.