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  1. Re:And Apple will ... on New Film Renders Screen Reflection Almost Non-Existent · · Score: 1

    Although it only works well in a dark room with no windows, a glossy screen gets you better contrast and brightness by not having that anti-glare coating.

  2. Re:Hey Milton Bradley, here's your new cash cow! on US District Court: Game Elements In Tetris Clone Infringe Tetris Co.'s Copyright · · Score: 1

    Does Words with Friends use exactly the same game board positions for double,triple letter/word scores as Scrabble? Do they use exactly the same dimensions for their game board? Just curious - I never played. Those are the kind of things we're talking about. Your argument is purely reductio ad absurdum.

  3. You also for got this one:
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  4. Re:Patent good in this case on Time Warner Cable Patents Method For Disabling Fast-Forward Function On DVRs · · Score: 2

    Except it's not quite working. Have you noticed how many new shows are getting cancelled without getting a real chance? It's probably in part because the target audience has already planned to wait and see if it makes it to a full season or gets renewed for a second season before planning to watch it on Netflix in 2 years.

  5. Re:Had to include a keyboard on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    Only pro edition by default. In Windows 7 Home, you click/tap your user image - or go straight to the desktop if there's one user defined and no password.

  6. Re:Awesome on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    But those would only require matting, not a new lens as the post above suggests.

  7. Re:Sure.... on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    If I were the FTC, I would have honeypot numbers in every prefix for just this reason. Why don't we have a smart FTC? Sounds like a good way to shut these guys down.

  8. Re:Cover Keyboard, all gimmick, no substance. on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    I think the reason for that is that if you don't have a table, you'll fold back the cover and use it as a tablet and the on-screen keyboard.

  9. Re:Am I adequately paranoid? on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    Beware of spammer. Yeah, I don't know why anyone in their right mind would drop their email address on this form.

  10. Re:It should be Opt-In, not Opt-Out. on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    Sure it can, but by definition it would be mostly empty. At least by the time they comply with your request.

  11. Re:Sure.... on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 2

    Guess where those guys got your number from.

  12. Re:Awesome on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    And why would they have to buy new lenses if it's not to have an anamorphic lens?

  13. Re:might be okay? on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    No - it's 48fps for each eye. RealD uses two oppositely-polarized frames projected simultaneously, for example.

  14. Re:I'll pay for 48fps 2D on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    With the RED cameras they use, I think they get rolling exposures - so they could have different frame rates and different shutter speeds saved to disk at the same time. I've never touched one- I can't afford to even look at one. So I'm guessing 24/48 is just to have both versions be as similar as possible.

  15. Re:In other news on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    And dynamic contrast, and dynamic range compression for audio, and sharpness enhancement, digital noise reduction, etc.

  16. Re:In other news on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    It seems you haven't heard of 2:3 pulldown in encoding, and reverse 2:3 pulldown on playback. This enables 24p-capable displays to fully reproduce the original 24fps from a standard DVD.

  17. Re:Awesome on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 2

    If widescreen format really did give you more frames per meter of film, you wouldn't need an anamorphic lens to display it. No, you don't get more frames - they are roughly square frames, and they are "unpacked" with the anamorphic lens to the full width.

  18. Re:Awesome on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a bit of gimmick in Pirates. For completely gimmick-free 3D film, try Hugo. Not in theaters anymore, though, but is on 3D Blu-Ray.

  19. Re:Deep Packet Inspection? Wrong. on Ethiopia Criminalizes VoIP Services · · Score: 1

    So...if every user in your country sets up a blacklist such that they only connect to nodes outside their own country, then you can't block them. Unless you put nodes in another country or spoof the IP of another country.

  20. It all looks better than what I ate in school, but I'm in the U.S., and there's almost zero budget for school lunches.

  21. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    I use Launchy

  22. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    The path is editable. If you didn't customize it, that's your concern.

  23. Re:Feels like late '90s all over again on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Windows 98 had gradients. Or was that just Second Edition?

  24. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 2

    The equivalent shortcut on Windows is Win+R

  25. Re:Erm... on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're not an IE developer. They're a web developer. Their only responsibility is ensuring that there's no rendering issue in IE9 or IE10. Or in really rare cases, a performance issue with JS. Otherwise, what works for Webkit works for IE now - more or less. This is a huge deal.