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  1. Re:What if you move your eyes on Smart Rendering For Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    It's being rendered at around that rate as well.

    The VR software includes some ability to shift an already rendered frame because of head tracking, the same approach could probably be used to compensate for eye motion. I'm not sure how much an eye really moves in 1/60th of a second. It also has a micro-stutter that is probably fairly unpredictable. Gross motor movement takes a while to start and stop, so the viewport of the next frame can generally be calculated with reasonable accuracy.

  2. Re:Turn about's fair play on The Tech Industry's Legacy: Creating Disposable Employees · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw the BLS stats, but i don't think you're right. The median tenure of the workforce is increasing. The length of tenure is highly related to age, and the workforce is aging.

    What you really need to see is if the tenure time is actually increasing across age bands and not just for the overall workforce. Here's a somewhat dated analysis (compare figure 1 and figure 2): http://www.frbsf.org/economic-...

    You can see the overall tenure is increasing, but the tenure of each age subgroups are actually declining. It's just the change of the population in the subgroups has dominated the results. This is called Simpson's Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

    So the truth is that for any given age, job tenure was higher in the past. As they say, "lies, damned lies, and statistics."

  3. Re:Pope is right! on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    Offense is in the eye of the beholder which basically means communication is forbidden except after it has already happened. How can you think that there is any free speech left?

  4. Re:Self-defeating name on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    I think you're exaggerating D's success.

  5. Re: too many words on A Common Logic To Seeing Cats and the Cosmos · · Score: 1

    The person being quoted was being quoted as an unrelated independent expert. Having a recognizable (at least in one of the domains) name would certainly help for that.

  6. Re:Solar Panels on Ask Slashdot: Minimizing Oil and Gas Dependency In a Central European City? · · Score: 1

    People use most of their energy during non-sunlit times during the winter in Central Europe. It's primarily heating from gas, not electricity usage. This is why they care about Russia who is the only possible gas supplier.

    The answer the the question is actually incredibly simple. Switch to electricity. It's more efficient to heat homes burning natural gas at a electricity generating plant and using heat pumps than to burn the gas directly on premise. Gas is not the only suitable fuel for electrical generation, so the monopoly can be broken by switching the power plants to coal/wind/nuclear. This is a fairly capital expensive proposition, but on-site solar heat production in the European winter is pure wishful thinking.

  7. Re:Biased to the point of Worthless on PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests · · Score: 1

    Which proprietary database vendor would that be?

  8. Re:No degree = no job on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    But you really think it's so unlikely that someone picks up this knowledge without a degree? The textbooks used in universities are available to the general public, and there are also resources like Coursera that do provide a semi-traditional learning environment without conferring a diploma.

    Unless you're really drowning in candidates, it probably makes more sense to interview for knowledge of CS theory (or use a standardized test) instead of doing a resume-filter.

    Your anecdotal evidence is easily countered by other peoples' anecdotal evidence. Mine, for example.

  9. Re:Send in the drones! on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Are you joking? The Iraqis were being killed, not Americans.

  10. shipping on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    From cpsc.gov:

    Customers should immediately stop using and unplug the recalled power cords and contact Hewlett-Packard to order a free replacement. Consumers can continue to use the computer on battery power.

    I must say that I am very impressed by the fast shipping!

  11. Samsung also releasing one on OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD Hits 1.8GB/sec With Standard Toshiba MLC NAND · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Here's the real waste: on How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? · · Score: 1

    not relevant. DRM infested streaming media is still cacheable. The same data is sent to everyone -- no one uses per session encryption because it's an even more pointless waste of money. Only the decryption keys are delivered by the DRM system.

  13. Re:Other HMDs? on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    AFIACT, that community just went down the shitter. I don't suppose the community was worth $2 billion to Oculus, anyway.

  14. Re:Kickstarter is not an investment on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    milk piles of money

    Does that sound as ridiculous to anyone else? Does the money come out of the teats in a pile already, is it extruded as a solid, or is it a liquid form that somehow someone piles?

    I don't have anything intelligent to say about your post or the Oculus tragedy; I just wanted to highlight a phrase that makes me want to giggle.

  15. Re:35 GB of uncompressed audio? on Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With Titanfall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's the claim, but the probable truth is that it's intentional bloat to reduce piracy.

  16. Re:So... this is a cheaper version of a HSM? on University of Cambridge Develops Potentially More Secure Password Storage System · · Score: 1

    Not only cheaper, also it provides no physical security and can leak the master key. Hooray!

  17. Re: Why the fuck do you want to live forever? on Genome Pioneer, X Prize Founder Tackle Aging · · Score: 1

    Three counter points:
    1. Human evolution is no longer driven by natural selection.
    2. More natural is not the same as better.
    3. Even with arbitrarily long human life spans, suicide would be an effective mechanism of death.

  18. Re:It would be an error code on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 5, Informative

    40X errors can still return an entity. The HTTP spec even says that the server SHOULD return an entity explaining the error. I'm afraid you're the one being a moron.

  19. Re:so why not set up shop elsewhere? on How European Startups Are Battling Labor Laws For Developers and Programmers · · Score: 1

    This can be fixed by requiring insurance in dangerous fields. Then insurance companies have the incentive to encourage corps to improve safety (will lead to lower premiums). Workers compensation is actually an insurance, but it's not run correctly. It doesn't really have a logical risk-to-premium and instead relies on historical results.

    Many public works require bonded contractors, which also avoids the "bankruptcy solves everything" problem.

  20. Re:so why not set up shop elsewhere? on How European Startups Are Battling Labor Laws For Developers and Programmers · · Score: 1

    http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/medical-liability-costs-us/

    Malpractice isn't why the US pays so much for health care. Please correct your knowledge base.

  21. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 5, Informative
  22. Re:I Know People Like You on Taking a Hard Look At SSD Write Endurance · · Score: 1

    Replacement batteries aren't usually that expensive. Definitely cheaper than a new laptop.

  23. Re:Uh ... What? on Pushing Back Against Licensing and the Permission Culture · · Score: 1

    No one in the history of man has released open source without a license. That doesn't even make sense.

    You're so upset to be binding people to conditions of a license, but have no problem binding them to the far more restrictive copyright law. Does this make sense to you?

    I think you probably should stop using the term open source until you understand what it means.

  24. Re:Uh ... What? on Pushing Back Against Licensing and the Permission Culture · · Score: 1

    If they want to redistribute your created work, then they are extremely vulnerable to your whims.

    > If they want to use the whole thing, then fine.

    Without a license to redistribute your work, it's copyright infringement.

    There's no gift here, because publishing it isn't releasing any of your rights, except the right of first sale. You didn't give them a damned thing except legal liability. It sounds like you either have no understanding of copyright law or you intentionally have your head up your ass.

  25. Soldiers shooting at their fellow citizens on Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs · · Score: 1

    I've often heard this meme about soldiers refusing to fire on their own countrymen. Is there any example of a professional military refusing such orders?