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  1. in a tech bubble, anything is a breakthrough on Scribbling On Digital Photos · · Score: 1

    What does it look like? A 3D animation of a photo flipping over? Amazing how a tech bubble can make the smallest piece of software be worth billions & billions of dollars and employ thousands of people.

  2. abolish standards based programming? Never on Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Standards based programming isn't going anywhere. That's crazy. We need Direct X, OpenGL, JMF, & MHP if only to outsource large chunks of the programming to cheaper divisions. How great it would be if everyone could base their career on hand optimizing ray tracing algorithms for SSE V, but the economy would never support it. These things have to be outsourced to select groups, firewalled behind a standard & higher paid programming done to the standard.

  3. you wish on Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney · · Score: 3, Insightful

    GPUs are going to be driven by the same things that drive game consoles & set top boxes. You can copy pure software, but you can't copy dedicated chips. You can copy video rendered by a CPU but not video rendered on a dedicated chip. Dedicated chips are going to stay cheaper than CPUs for many years. Just because you can decode HDTV in software doesn't mean there still isn't huge momentum behind set top boxes and DTCP enabled GPU's.

  4. UPnP is dead. DLNA is dead. Long live DECE on Sony CTO Starts New "Buy Once, Play Anywhere" Group · · Score: 1

    This new standard will be the standard to end all standards. Plug & Play. Interactive Java games. Local storage. Not so sure about movies.

  5. A mere $359 on 3M Launches First Pocket Projector · · Score: 1

    Whew. Amazing how cheap $359 became when gas hit $4.

  6. Do people really like advertising? on Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search · · Score: 1

    Or is the love of advertising on social networks an immitation of how The Goog prioritizes search results? If people don't naturally prefer sponsored links, their search votes could cost Goog a lot of money.

  7. Biogenic theory of coal formation reborn on Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine · · Score: 1

    Seems to support biogenic coal formation. Unfortunately in this age of 25 megapixel pocket cameras, the only record we have of these forests is a 433x253 thumbnail.

  8. Any still left in stores? on Hacking Esquire's E-ink Cover · · Score: 1

    Assuming you can still find a bookstore, who on earth would still have this one in stock?

  9. Nothing taxes can't fix on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    After the malfunction, TradElect was immediately bought by UK's government for $200 billion and all its debts waved. In an unrelated story, medicare tax was raised yet again because of an unexpected shortfall.

  10. laptop "live" on Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures · · Score: 1

    The new battery spec & format spec for batteries with proper ratings is laptop "live". Current batteries will be upgradable to laptop "live" when the 9 laptop live implementors at Pioneer finally pass their certification.

  11. It's standards based programming, man on Chrome Vs. IE 8 · · Score: 1

    This is what U always wanted. Software based on Java standards. You don't think all that Java TV, MHP, J2ME, SNMP, Davic love was just Sun's effort. Why build a platform specific browser on a library when U can build it on 5 layers of standards.

  12. reinforcement learning vs. simulation on Stanford's "Autonomous" Helicopters Learn · · Score: 2, Informative

    This story got a lot more attention than the other zillions of autonomous helicopters out there. The disappointment with the Stanford one is it is reinforcement learning. It's recording and playing the commands of a human pilot instead of simulating a dynamic model and deducing commands based on a genetic algorithm. The real value in ground based autopilot is having enough computing power to use biological algorithms.

  13. What Mozilla was originally, before now on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 1

    And it'll be where Mozilla is now, later.

  14. learn standards not Java on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    Java credentials are mainly about the standards. Become an expert in the J2EE standard, the OCAP standard, the J2ME standard, or whatever the latest big Java servelet standard is. Java was originally pushed as platform independance, but now is being pushed for its standards base.

  15. what's so hard about it? on Robots Learn To Follow · · Score: 1

    You'd think following robots would be a no brainer. Put an infrared beacon on the human & program the robot to always be within a certain distance of it.

  16. it's going to happen on Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review · · Score: 1

    It's inevitable. It would cost more to get Ares I to work than to make new shuttle parts. What about having 1 shuttle launch a year for crew transfer only & what if that freed up enough money for a shuttle derived lunar capability involving half a lunar payload on a shuttle & half on an Ares V.

  17. when does it air on piratebay? on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 1

    It's going to air anyway.

  18. A lot of work to build rocket engines on Rocket Racing League Flights With Armadillo Engine · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The 10 years it took Armadillo to reach this point just shows how hard to is to design a liquid fuelled rocket engine. As for the "rocket racing league" ever having an actual rocket race, don't hold your breath.

  19. Coworker domination on Google Tests Custom Highlights, Comments In Search · · Score: 1

    Now we can call our coworkers idiots on all their Google hits & keep them from ever getting hired again.

  20. Beats mcmansions in Bakersfield on Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For all the billions Calif* spends propping up worthless mortgages, it could build gigantic ziggurats & actually house people.

  21. no, it doesn't look fast on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    The "screencast" still looks horribly slow compared to what native code did 10 years ago. Hard to believe this is now fast.

  22. Lumberg reading material on Six Questions To Ask Before Telecommuting · · Score: 1

    The Lumbergs have definitely taken over for these Computerworld Management stories to have replaced the Alan Cox sleep deprivation studies. No, telecommuting is dead. That's why they made India. Better start saving up for that Silicon Valley nano studio apartment.

  23. no. it doesn't look real on Leaping the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    The GooTube thumbnail looked better, but the higher resolution shot on image-metrics.com looked fake. Also, the voiceover still requires a living human.

  24. Change in Ubama U can believe in. on Obama's Evolving Stance On NASA · · Score: 1

    It's change in Ubama U can believe in.

  25. Welcome to the big leagues, kid on Can I Be Fired For Refusing To File a Patent? · · Score: 1

    U have to file patents in business. The days of federal subsidized student loans are over.