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  1. Re:Am I the only one? on Discovery's Last Go Round, As Seen From the Ground · · Score: 2

    I take it you have never seen 2001?

  2. Re:Best looking dead OS I've seen on Ubuntu 10.10 Multitouch Support Demo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about bitching about it once they have it finished?

  3. Re:Pro / cons on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Lol, talk about a black and white world! Have you ever heard of Europe? In particular the UK, a democratic and economically powerful nation. Socialised health care works very well here, despite the utter bullcrap the Republicans were spouting. Death panels ffs!?!! What rot!. Trust me when I say the people of the UK were collectively furious to a level I've not seen in a long time.

  4. Re:Beautiful pictures on Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would assume he collects many hundreds of frames with a much shorter exposure time and then adjusts for the motion in the frame prior to "averageing" frames. A Bayesian statistical model that accounts for motion and various noise sources, any optical aberrations etc.. would be capable of extracting the level of information seen in these images.

  5. Re:Yes but... on OpenShot Video Editor Reaches Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Watch some of the screencasts in the video section of the Openshot website, it looks like it is fairly well featured with a not-too-steep learning curve.

  6. Re:Brilliant piece of software on Inkscape 0.47 Released · · Score: 1

    Which packages are breaking out of interest?

  7. Re:What kind of dumbass captions are these? on Big, Beautiful Boxes From Computer History · · Score: 1

    mussstttt.....ressssiiisssstt.....

  8. Re:Give me six lines of code... on World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel · · Score: 1

    I hate TCL..... urgh. Needed to write a gui for scilab in tcl. I don't think I've ever been so irritable while coding. A language designed by a bastard.

  9. Re:2009 Reinforcement Learning Competition on Mario AI Competition · · Score: 1

    It would be more interesting to make a more complex game/simulator, however the problem with this is it rapidly raises the bar for entry into the competition. Amatures without the necessary computing power could end up being rather left out.

    A game where the input space is larger and less predictable, which also has scope for live tactical and/or strategic decisions would be interesting. How about a 3D, fully Newtonian physics space combat simulator in a chaotic asteroid field. Basically robocode++. The agents will only have line of sight radar to work with ie the code only reports un-occluded asteroids/enemies (position, object dimensions - spheres for simplicity) each frame. A selection of weapons would mix it up bit (missiles, guns and mines). Hmm, maybe limited fuel.

    Thats could be a challenge. I'd be damn cool anyway. :)

  10. Re:consider CUDA programming on Mario AI Competition · · Score: 1

    Actually you are quite wrong to say CUDA is irrelavent. Not all the AI techniques that could be applied to this problem require heavy branching. Neural networks, for example, can have minimal branching and will be considerably accelerated using CUDA/OpenCL.

  11. Re:The summary is missing something... on BD+ Resealed Once Again · · Score: 1

    So pull one out of a TV....

  12. Re:1.21 Jigawatts on The Science and Physics of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    It varies, depending on a variety of factors a lighting discharge on Earth has a peak power output between ~30-300TW.

  13. Re:May I be the first to say... on Ultracapacitor LED Flashlight Charges In 90 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I wonder how intelligent the search and collection algorithm will be.....

    GENERATION 28: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Then subtract 2.

  14. Re:machine learning resources on Reading Guide To AI Design & Neural Networks? · · Score: 1

    I'd second the recommendation of Bishops book, it's superb if your interest is in using neural nets for pattern recognition.

  15. Re:If AI Design was any Good on Reading Guide To AI Design & Neural Networks? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sorry, no. Genetic algorithms are optimisation algorithms that use a parallel, quasi-historical method to explore parameter space. They can not an artificial intelligence.

  16. Re:let me be the first to say on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 2, Informative

    bollocks

  17. Re:Also not intended as a troll, but on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried installing Ubuntu? I've installed it on a ton of machines, including at least one RAID configuration and have never had a problem with GRUB not being set up correctly.

  18. Re:InnoTek? on Review of Sun's Free Open Source Virtual Machine · · Score: 4, Funny

    root@SanityInAnarchy:~> modprobe -r pedantry
    root@SanityInAnarchy:~> modprobe humour

  19. Re:Ha ha ha ha... on EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whatever Bill.

  20. Re:I hope this reaches the UK.. on EU Funds P2P-Based Internet TV Standard · · Score: 1

    The digital broadcasts are currently running at reduced power to prevent interference with the analogue signals. Once the analogue signals are turned off the digital signal power will be increased. This should solve the reception problems experienced by a lot of people.

  21. Re:Anyone try the latest totem? on Hardy Heron Alpha 4 Released · · Score: 1

    I reccomend you install and setup mythweb. It can be used to control mythtv, display the listings and recorded programs, etc.. It also has this wonderful little feature - if you set up a network share to the recordings directory you can click on the recording you want in mythweb and the appropriate file link is given to you. If you setup your browser correctly you can get it to open the file directly. No more faffing about. :)

  22. Re:Anyone try the latest totem? on Hardy Heron Alpha 4 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about the fact that mythfontend, stupidly doesn't have a "run-in-window" option. I'd like to watch TV in a small, movable window that I can put in the corner while working/reading. Mythfrontend doesn't do this nicely.

  23. Re:KDE 4.0 is still alpha! on KDE 4.0 Is Out · · Score: 1

    What do you do that ends up killing XFCE out of interest? I've always found it to be fairly solid in both xubuntu 7.04 and xubuntu 7.10.

  24. Re:Very Inappropriate on NASA Requires JPL Scientists To Give Up Right To Privacy · · Score: 1

    Well thats wonderful until you want to know whats going on in space and have to rely on Russia, China or the EU for information because you drove away anyone with a clue. That is going to cost you a LOT.

    You seem to be under the assumption that the space scientists you drive away will want to stay in the US. Given that they could no longer research the thing they love in their own country, I think you'll find the EU, Russia and China will have quite an influx of people. The majority of scientists I work with work out of passion for the subject, not the money. Take that away the source of their passon and they'll inevitably leave to seek it out elsewhere.

  25. Re:Some things in life, money can't buy... on Multiple FLAC Vulnerabilities Affect Every OS · · Score: 1, Insightful

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    +1 for anal stupidity.