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  1. Re:30 fps - unlikely on Add Another Core for Faster Graphics · · Score: 1

    Wow, if only you had told the authors of the tech report how ray tracing worked before they spent all that time working on actually doing the math on it.

  2. Re:Hey on Original Star Trek Getting CGI Makeover · · Score: 1

    They already have.

  3. Personally it just looks like a sucky movie on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 1

    It just plain doesn't look like anything vaguely similar to something I'd want to watch. Judging from the TV ads.

  4. Re:majority? on Edward Tufte Talks information Design · · Score: 2

    Because being outspoken has nothing to do with whether you are in the majority or minority.

  5. Re:Limit vs. No-Limit on Poker Driving Artificial Intelligence Research · · Score: 1

    You have the variance backwards. Limit wins it by miles...

  6. The earlier attempt, not so good on Morphine Relief Without Addiction? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Heroin, the non-addictive replacement for morphine, worked out so well on the non-addictive side...

  7. Re:You've just been tagged by an FBI database on Iran's President Launches Blog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because they weren't already...

  8. Re:Or do it my even better way! on Microsoft Port 25 interviews Miguel de Icaza · · Score: 1

    So all the negatives of strncpy with none of the positives.

    It might be better to restrict the length copied to match the destination rather than the source...

    Even if you did that right, you didn't null terminate after the call, and even if you added that extra bit of code you'd be wasting time setting chunks of bytes to 0 because strncpy is retarded.

  9. Re:To the anti-game critics: on Bully Trailer Hits the Web · · Score: 1

    Ask Lot. Mind you the "men" the people wanted to "have relations" with were in fact angels - whom you would expect would be able to defend themselves with firey swords or something. Lot probably just didn't like his whiny daughters much and saw an opportunity..

  10. Re:Man-Made Equivalent on James A. Van Allen - Dies at 91 · · Score: 1

    Unless you consider the International Space Station to orbit in the atmosphere then that particular test wasn't in the atmosphere...

  11. Re:ARRGH! -The greatest human accomplishment lost? on Has Anyone Seen the Moon Pictures? · · Score: 1

    Try making a copy of a video feed by pointing a camera at the TV screen playing it. Now try it with technology from 1969.

    "higher res" understates the quality difference significantly...

  12. Re:Define "exaggerated." on Reuters Admits, Pulls Doctored Photos · · Score: 1

    If the photographer edits the image in photoshop to add a person who wasn't there to the image, or a building that wasn't there, or some smoke that wasn't there, or some flares that weren't there then we call it a doctored fake image.

    If the photographer makes the scene darker than it was or brighter than it was in photoshop then we just call it a processed image, not a fake.

    If the photographer chooses what to include in the frame (and what not to) then we also don't call it a fake image.

    There really is an obvious difference.

  13. Re:Define "exaggerated." on Reuters Admits, Pulls Doctored Photos · · Score: 1

    But that's completely unrelated to what happened.

    Doing a copy-n-paste to produce copies of the scene so that there seems to more flares or more smoke is not the same as cleaning up the contrast/brightness or removing dust marks or whatever.

    The buildings that got duplicated in the copy-n-paste were not seen by the sensor (well they were seen once, but not multiple times).

  14. Re:WWW/HTML is a minor problem on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 1

    No they won't.

    If you get my street number wrong the postal service will happily deliver it to the number you specified. If the person who is at that location feels like bouncing it back then it'll get sent back to you as undeliverable - just as the owner of the domain name you typoed to can set things up to do. Or the person who gets it can toss it in the trash - as the owner of the domain you typoed to can do. Or the person can keep it and so what they want with it - just as the owner of the domain you typoed to can do.

  15. Re:WWW/HTML is a minor problem on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 2, Informative

    And if you typo it as friend@hmail.com it'll go somewhere else as well...

    or if you typo it as freind@gmail.com it'll go to someone else too...

    Maybe you could try not typoing the address in the first place. Strangely enough when you make a "typo" on the envelope of a letter your letter might end up at the wrong house.

  16. Re:Makes me wonder about some things. on Strange New 'Twin' Worlds Found · · Score: 1

    But aren't they getting close to the sun all the time? In effect still falling towards it? Seems like it would be perpetual motion were they not?

    They will be getting closer due to friction, however, there isn't a lot of friction on a planet moving through space.

    Also the solar wind will be providing a force to push them away - though F=ma, and F is tiny, and m is large...

  17. Re:violate the DMCA? In what way? on Circuit City Ripping DVDs for Users · · Score: 1

    Estoppal would make breaking the encryption OK I suspect - if the copyright holder gave you permission to make a copy. As least if the copyright holder (or an agent thereof) brought the court action.

  18. Re:what about the lucky sevens? on The Next Three Days are the x86 Days · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every place that speaks English does too, except the USA (and a handful of Pacific nations who caught it from the US).

  19. Re:How about they use the old coolant on Fewer Heat Shield Dings on Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 1

    I was actaully going from memory from my chemistry days at uni - back before I made the switch from chem eng to comp sci. But a google gives:

    http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/ bp/ch22/activate.html#rate
    http://www.chem.brown.edu/chem12/catalyst/catalyst .html

    and of course at some that don't state the speed must be increased:
    http://wine1.sb.fsu.edu/chm1046/notes/Kinetics/Cat alyst/Catalyst.htm
    http://www.purchon.com/chemistry/catalyst.htm

    So yes I guess people do call inhibitors catalysts - learn something new every day I guess...

    As for TEL being a catalyst, I'd still argue it isn't because it isn't the TEL that does anything, it's the products of its decomposition which would be classified as catalysts assuming the link you have is correct (I don't know the details - chem eng was about the cat cracking side of petroleum, not the burn it an engine part :)

  20. Re:Understanding the Approach to this on Turning Network Free-Riders' Lives Upside Down · · Score: 1

    He just knows more perl than you, the system function is perfectly safe when used like that, the useless quotes around $url indicate he could learn some more perl, but that's not a security issue.

  21. Re:How about they use the old coolant on Fewer Heat Shield Dings on Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 1

    Envoronmentalists have also helped us a great deal. For example eliminating Tetra-ethyl-lead ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra-ethyl_lead )- a catalyst used to slow down the raction of gasoline burning (a catalyst either speeds up or slows down a reaction by definition).

    A catalyst "by definition" lowers the activation energy of a reaction, how you manage to translate that showing down a reaction I don't understand. The other part of the "definition" is that the catalyst is unchanged at the end of the reaction, but tetra-ethyl-lead is decomposed and the by-products help reduce knocking (but you linked to a description of that...) and is not reformed by the end of the reaction.
  22. Re:What's the copy protection like? on Prey Review · · Score: 1

    Whereas other people would rather not screw around with disks and even play it with the extra battery instead of the DVD drive in their laptop...

    Of course most people would prefer both, no required CD and no phoning home.

  23. Re:The star is 1,950 light years away? on Astronomers Awaiting 1a Supernova · · Score: 1

    The point being it isn't an "end of the world" scenario backed by huge amounts of science - it's a back of the envelope guess...

  24. Re:The star is 1,950 light years away? on Astronomers Awaiting 1a Supernova · · Score: 1

    But if you check the footnote, that "One theory" is a back of the envelope calculation and some guesses combined together to say it would provide 1000x as much gamma radiation on the Earth as a solar flare...

  25. Re:You're not understanding. on The Future of Computing · · Score: 1

    You're right about adding 100 being a completely retarded way of working out 100x slower.

    However, the bad algorithm was 2^n not n^2 (which is also stupid in itself...)