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  1. This will be optional on Fedora Introduces Offline Updates · · Score: 1
    If you read the feature page instead of TFA, you will find:

    Note that this feature does not prevent you from using yum and other commandline tools to install updates whenever you want to.

    So, this really is a non-issue.

  2. Re:Tomography on Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like a simple 3D to 2D projection issue, no? Not really simple. The input data is "raw" in a sense that it contains lots of artifacts from the acquisition which have to be removed during reconstruction.
  3. Re:Tomography on Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What they are is doing is reconstruction, basically analyzing the raw data data from a tomographic scanner and generating a representation which can then be visualized. So its more doing numerical methods than graphics.

    And BTW even rendering the reconstructed results is not that simple, as current graphics card are optimized for geometry, not volumetric data.

  4. Images in XML? on Does the World Need Binary XML? · · Score: 1
    ...mobile-phone companies such as Nokia, have argued for a binary XML format. Without it, large files such as images will take too long to download to devices such as mobile phones

    So they instead of JPEGs they use something like this?
    <image width="800" height="600">
    <pixel type="rgb">#FF0011</pixel>
    <pixel type="rgb">#444444</pixel>
    <pixel type="rgb">#838300</pixel>
    <pixel type="rgb">#303030</pixel>
    ...
    </image>
    WTF!?
  5. Re:There is a much worse Tsunami impending for USA on Arthur C. Clarke Reports From Sri Lanka · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a reference to this theory in a CNN article, talking about "a wall of water more than 164 feet high" hitting the U.S. east coast.

    Don't panic.

    But other researchers in Britain discounted the prediction as the product of a speculative computer model. They said that over the last 200,000 years there had been only two huge landslides on the flanks of the Canary Islands and that there was geologic evidence indicating the slides broke up and fell into the sea in bits instead of one big whoosh.

  6. Re:What I want on First Commercial C++ Development Refactoring Tool · · Score: 2, Informative
    Since you're using emacs you might want to take a look at Flymake -- "an on-the-fly syntax checker for Emacs".

    Description reads as:
    Performs on-the-fly syntax checks of the files being edited using the external syntax check tool (usually the compiler). Highlights erroneous lines and displays associated error messages.
  7. Re:Fedora - RedHat ? on KDE 3.2.0 Released · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to a posting to fedora-list you won't have to wait long:
    From: Than Ngo <than redhat com>
    Subject: Re: kde-3.2 released!
    Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:12:33 +0100

    KDE 3.2.0 for FC1 will be available on ftp.kde.org tomorrow ;-)