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  1. Re:Couple questions... on Google Works On Kinect-Like Interface For Android · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, if you were deaf, this would be one easy way to have real-time communication with someone. Getting a table mount for it would be the least of your concerns.

  2. Re:Wait, this is serious? on Google Works On Kinect-Like Interface For Android · · Score: 1

    You beat me to it. Of course, someone's already implemented this using a Kinect

  3. Re:None. on Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? · · Score: 1

    Which if you're in the U.S. buying DSL or Cable is usually promised at >0.0kbps. That "up to" isn't just there for aesthetics.

  4. Re:Depends on what you're doing. on Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to add VoIP to your blacklist. Sounds terrible trying to talk when someone else is talking over you because they're responding to what they thought you just finished saying. 300ms would be unbearable. At that point, you'd almost rather have 5000ms and know you have to wait before speaking.

  5. Re:The article writer is a deaf idiot on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Unless you watch it on a TV with the tv commercial loudness filter turned on. Basically a dynamic range compressor. And out of the box, it's usually turned on and stupid people like it that way.

  6. Re:Twenty years ago, all mp3 encoders were really on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Guess how long ago 1992 was? That's not exactly a gross overstatement - rounding off by 2 years?

  7. Re:Logic seems flawed on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Well - the fact that you can see the flicker says that your eyes can see 60hz. The fact that the interpolated-motion 120Hz TV's just look wrong also says you can see above 60hz. Yes, if the background stays the same, 60fps would look very smooth. The mind fills in to interpolate motion quite well - but it uses ALL available data, so it can't ignore the flicker.

  8. Re:Eureka on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Well done.

  9. 14 Million coders - for all the bugs on Cloud To Create 14 Million Jobs? Not So Much · · Score: 1

    That's how many people the foresee it will take to prevent things like leap day bugs. Since obviously they don't have enough people to prevent it yet.

  10. Re:Have developed? maybe not yet on Flesh-eating Bacteria Inspires Highly Selective Instant Adhesive · · Score: 1

    You could accept the fate of having to buy a new toilet seat and break or cut off all the unnecessary parts of the glued-on seat. You would end up with a small, thin pressed-wood plank on each cheek most likely.

  11. Re:Only root? on Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive' · · Score: 3, Informative

    And it really shouldn't be that hard. If you make a print driver for Mac OS X, you likely already have a CUPS ppd created.

  12. Re:what a difference! on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    They did it for Seinfeld. It works for most shots, but a few feel too close-cropped. I've been watching the series in HD on late-night TV for a few months now.

  13. Re:yup on Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's · · Score: 1
  14. Re:NB4 Crackers on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 1

    You mean fingerprint, not checksum, right? Otherwise, that would be one huge lot of checksums given all the possible zoom, focus, position, model of TV, and anything else that can entirely change the checksum.

  15. Re:It may be true, however... on Developer's View: Real Life Inspirations Or Abstract Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like Facebook Connect or Twitter's oAuth. A great idea - already taken by Paypal, technically - but I would love to see it adopted more universally.

  16. Re:Dual Thumbsticks on PSVita Released In the USA and Europe · · Score: 1

    There's a large market for different kinds of gamers than Sony draws. It's part of their branding. I've NEVER played a game that uses both analog sticks on any console. And people like me know that we can choose Nintendo and get more of the games we like.

  17. Re:Doors closing... doors closing on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    You just have to establish a Pee Corner

  18. Re:News to me on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 2

    On topic though, when I was growing up in the 90's I saw stranded cars all the time, broken down on the highway and byways. Now in the last 5-6 years I see one maybe once a week. It's not statistical, just anecdotal, but as a general sampling it does seem to support that cars break less often compared to their older designed counterparts.

    At least here in IL, you can lose your license for abandoning a vehicle. Or at least can't renew it until you pay all the fees. If you have to pay no matter what, there's not much point abandoning a vehicle and getting the extra fines. These sorts of laws are probably responsible for some of this reduction.

  19. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    The BIOS splash screen is just a pretty picture to show while it's doing its Power On Self Test (POST). It's not holding anything back.

  20. Re:They are bad at naming things. on Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide · · Score: 1

    A full-text index is inefficiency? It's certainly faster than reading all the text on the disk. Are you talking about the extra step taken in advance to save time in the future? Yes, overall there's more processing involved if you only search once in your life. If you search every day, you'd appreciate the near-instant results.

  21. Re:quacks on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    Hilarious quote:

    "The first one could have been a fluke," Ratard told Shots. But now that we have a second one, the only explanation is the use of the neti pot."

    I guess they didn't realize when they said it that a fluke is another kind of parasite.

  22. Re:slashdot title also written by a moron on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    Why can't a small start-up come in and start making these generic drugs? Why aren't there companies that do nothing but profit off of patent-free medications? I'm afraid I know the answer - that the big companies will ramp up production again just long enough to push these guys out of the market.

  23. Re:What does this sentence mean? on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you mean. There are no live cultures in cottage cheese. I don't think there's even any dead cultures.

  24. Re:Eat shit, not yogurt on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what the appendix is for? Repopulating gut flora?

  25. Re:Did AdBlock kill the free internet? on Will "Do Not Track" Kill the Free Internet? · · Score: 1

    An IQ of 100 is based on the mean of intelligence scores. The score of 100 isn't arbitrary - it's based on the actual mean.