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  1. Re:Not knowing what to say, I sent it 'pizza' on Google Launches SMS Search Service · · Score: 1

    Many phones contain a GPS locator device. Unfortunately, I've yet to see one that actually lets you view your GPS coordinates.

  2. Re:This may be king of mobile service offerings. on Google Launches SMS Search Service · · Score: 1

    All recent Verizon phones I've seen use some kind of predictive entry system called "T9". It works pretty well. Out of Samsung, Motorola, and Nokia, I've found the Samsung phones to have the most efficient UI (for me anyway), although the voice quality was not as good as on the Motorola.

  3. Re:GOOD! on House Shoots Down Draft, 402-2 · · Score: 1

    Exactly, they are there voluntarily. How would you feel if you volunteered to do something good for your country, and got spit on for it? You probably wouldn't volunteer again, nor would others be encouraged to do so. Support your troops!

    That kinda presuposes that you think what's going on in Iraq is good for the country. If that's the criteria, then there are quite a few troops who don't support our troops. I have friends in the military. I don't support what they are doing, but I don't respect them any less for it. It's not their fault that their boss is an asshole.

  4. Re:The long tail is already here on The Long Tail · · Score: 1

    Those bands are hardly wicked underground, but I agree it was some shameless name dropping.

  5. Re:RFID on Smart Cars Tell You About Road Signs · · Score: 1

    Teenage boys already know how to modify limit signs - it's called a can of spray paint.

  6. Re:Independent reporting on Canon's new 16.7MP Digital SLR, with WiFi · · Score: 1

    Well, raw files aren't in RGB - they are a dump of the sensor readings. I can't find a reference anywhere, but it looks like each site on the sensor is just sensitve to intensity, not any particular color.

    A grid of filters is placed over the sensor so that each sensor location receives a different color. The camera (or software if working with raw files) interpolates the other color values from it's neighbors.

    I got this info from the "CRW Files" section of this page. It's written by the author of dcraw, which converts a variety of raw image formats into RGB.

  7. Re:Independent reporting on Canon's new 16.7MP Digital SLR, with WiFi · · Score: 1

    Except a raw image is 10bpp (on Canon cameras, anyway). These pixels are then interpolated with their neighbors to create the 24bpp bitmap that is used to create the JPEG. Most cameras let you save the raw data directly, giving:

    14,000,000 pixels @ 10 bits/pixel = 140,000,000 bits

    140,000,000 bits @ 54,000,000 bits/second = 2.59s

    So the situation is even better!

    Also, I believe many raw formats include some basic (run-length?) lossless compression.

  8. Re:I'm left out... on Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System · · Score: 1

    I assume you mean BitKeeper and Arch. There is also SVK. The homepage is a Wiki, which I find kind bletcherous, but I hear it is pretty good (I have no personal need for a distributed RCS). It's based on Subversion, which I do use and is excellent.

  9. Re:Strange on Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from Internet · · Score: 1

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /www/d/dago/htdocs/gallery/classes/User.php on line 90

    Stunning, simply stunning....

  10. Re:It's about time... on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1

    I would say WWII killed a fair number of people...

  11. Re:ok, I'm outta here! on Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine · · Score: 1

    Is there some law about that where you live? I remember going to all-ages shows at bars in Boston when I was in high school and they would just put an X on your hand. Sadly, the practice seems to have stopped.

  12. Re:Interesting.... on Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can still get a six of PBR for about $4.50 and it is as decent a beer as you can get for that price. Way better than budmillercoors.

  13. Re:No, a really really bad one would modify your M on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 1

    I imagine pretty much every virus scanner watches the MBR like a hawk and warns you if something tries to modify it. It's even built into the BIOS on some machines.

  14. Re:Wow, interesting on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Yoko - she inherited a whole bunch of rights. Jacko might also have a thing or two to say.

  15. Re:Like Lennon said... on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shut the fuck up! V. I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

  16. Re:Cost inefficient? on DVD / Hard Drive Recorder With 28-Day Capacity · · Score: 1

    Everyone who complains about the noise from a PC in their living room must live in the middle of nowhere. I have a PC in my living room and there is no way I can hear it over the traffic, kids playing, sirens, ghetto blaster sound systems, dogs barking, parties next door, trains, and the occasional gunshot. Trust me, when I watch TV, the volume is up high enough that noise from the PC is not the problem!

  17. Re:Slashdot lawyers on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 1

    What would protestors have protested against during the DNC?

    How about the fact that Kerry voted for DOMA, supports the state ammendment to ban same-sex marriages, and voted in support of invading Iraq?

    He's not a candidate, he's just "Not Bush".

  18. Re:I am too on New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Also don't forget that flash memory burns out after a certain number of writes. It's fine for digital cameras, dictation devices, and tranfering the ocassional file, but would you want /var on a flash device?

  19. Re:LISP IDE on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    :-P

  20. LISP IDE on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 2, Funny
  21. Re:Not the first time... on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: 1

    My 11th-grade Spanish is a little rusty, but I think "No va." would translate as "Don't go."

  22. Re:Too Many Connections? on SF Author Robert J. Sawyer Looks at 2014 · · Score: 1

    I already have contacts that are something like SPF 25. They aren't tinted though, so they don't cut down on glare.

  23. Re:Of course not! on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree it's silly, but can you imagine the rucus it would cause in this country if they were chanting, say, a Latin mass?

  24. Re:Story title and summary all wrong on Austrian Physicists 'Teleport' Light Over 600m · · Score: 1

    IANAP either, but I believe the uncertainty principle will muck it up. When you go to read the state of your entagled photon, you won't know if any change in the state is due to a change in the other photon or due to your attempt to read the state. My understanding is that action at a distance only occurs in situations where it conveys no information.

  25. Re:MSN on OS Stats Removed From Google's Zeitgeist · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think you mean "fair and balanced" stats.