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  1. Re:Not the only Amazing ATI Card on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 1

    VGA output required [...] severely constrain my possible choices

    You *do* realize that you can plug a VGA cable into a DVI-I port with an adapter, right?

  2. Re:This doesn't belong here on Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel" · · Score: 1

    Click on "Help & Preferences", click on "Sections" under the "Index" heading, click the leftmost circle next to "Idle" in the box that pops up, and then click save.

  3. Re:Best Christmas Gift, in the Kernel way on Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents · · Score: 1

    While we're at it, could we add a new unmaskable fatal SIGPULSEAUDIO that the kernel automatically delivers to pulseaudio whenever someone tries to run it?

    I guess SIGKILL would also work.

  4. Re:what does it DO? on Khronos Releases OpenCL Spec · · Score: 2, Informative

    This isn't necessary for that because modern GPUs already have dedicated hardware for video decode.

  5. Re:This isn't a new nvidia driver on NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux · · Score: 1

    I think the confusion stems from the fact that there's also a new beta driver release that supports this, 180.06.

  6. Re:Form follows code. on NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fine. Now what programs use this API?

    mplayer (sort of, it's still pretty rough around the edges):

    ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/mplayer-vdpau-3076399.tar.bz2

    It'll probably take a while before complete, stable support for all of VDPAU's features (like timestamp-based presentation) are fully supported by the common video players.

  7. Documentation here on NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux · · Score: 4, Informative
  8. "Abort, Retry, Fail?" is NOT an error message! on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    It's printed after an error message as a prompt. As in,

    OMFG, I can't read your hard drive because it's on fire!
    Abort, Retry, Fail?

    The first line is the error message.

  9. Re:Why not head mounted displays? on How Nvidia Wants To Bring 3D Glasses Back · · Score: 1

    Try putting your nose an inch from your screen and then focusing on it. Head-mounted LCDs are going to need additional optics to put the image farther away, and that means they'll be bulky and heavy no matter what. The advantage here is that the shutters are paper-thin and the only even slightly heavy part is the battery, and those are pretty light these days.

  10. Re:Beating against the solar wind? on NASA to Launch Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    Unlike a sailboat, in a solar sail vehicle, you can fold up the sail and fall.

  11. Re:Abuse of TLDs on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    "This document proposes that the DNS top-level domain ".local." be designated a special domain with special semantics, namely that any fully-qualified name ending in ".local." is link-local, and names within this domain are meaningful only on the link where they originate.

    "Any DNS query for a name ending with ".local." MUST be sent to the mDNS multicast address (224.0.0.251 or its IPv6 equivalent FF02::FB)."

    Sure, it's a draft, but ICANN would be daft to register that one.

  12. Re:Does anyone else remember... on NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Whitespace on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    Whitespace is useless as a programming language. It's more of a machine code. What is could be useful for is a compile target. I once tried to port a toy compiler that I wrote for a class (in Haskell, compiling Lisp to Ocaml bytecode! How's that for wacky languages?) to compile to Whitespace, but was thwarted by its lack of any meaningful memory management. You'd be better off with Brainfuck.

  14. Re:Shotgun lawsuit? on Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case · · Score: 1

    Actually, this goes a bit beyond a 'shotgun' lawsuit--this is more a handgrenade lawsuit, or a roadside bomb lawsuit.

    Can we get lawyers sent to Guantanamo for terrorist barratry?? 'Cause that would be awesome.

  15. Re:Blashphemy ! on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 2, Funny

    I object!

  16. Re:Speed on Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? · · Score: 1

    Wait, does this mean that relativity predicts that objects are black holes in reference frames that are going fast enough and not in others? Crazy!

  17. Re:But he loves you! on Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean tinfoil pants?

  18. Re:The same reason that books still have chapters. on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 1

    Quake Done Quick With a Vengeance beats the first level of episode 2 in a mere 7 seconds: http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com/qdqwav.txt

  19. Re:Why fix what isn't broken? on Caltech Creates Electronic Nose · · Score: 2, Informative

    veryone who went to Caltech was a student of Nate Lewis. He teaches the required freshman introductory chem class.

  20. Re:I smell something... on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ugh, that was a terrible bun, though I did loaf at it.

  21. Re:The foolishness of binary-only anything on Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    I know this thread is old, but it bugs me every time somebody drags out the old "NVIDIA knew about it for 2 years" line. Rapid7 didn't do their homework and mistook a similar bug in the X server (which, I might add, is open source). See http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/ enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1971

  22. Re:Nah - add your opinion to this website, I did. on Shutting Down Annoying Recruiters? · · Score: 1

    Would you like to receive our free monthly email newsletter, "Hollywood Uplink?"

    No


    Watch out: they don't actually care whether or not you would like to receive it. They'll send it anyway.

  23. Re:Reshuffle existing IPv4 space on IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010 · · Score: 1

    No they don't. The first 7 bits of 15 are 0000111. The first 7 bits of 16 are 0001000. For it to be a /7, they'd need something like, say, 16.x.x.x and 17.x.x.x.

  24. Re:Sure there is on Intel Reveals the Future of the CPU-GPU War · · Score: 1

    It's not really what you asked for, but I wrote this for a graphics class in college:
    http://aaron.homeip.net/~aaron/lab4.tar.bz2

    Run it with ./oglRenderer 500 500 vornoi.wrl

  25. Re:mkdir on How To Adopt 10 'Good' Unix Habits · · Score: 1
    Even if he did have wonky mkdir behavior, he'd be better of doing [ -d /a/b/c ] || mkdir -p /a/b/c anyway. The mkdir(1p) manpage says of the -p option,
    Each dir operand that names an existing directory shall be ignored without error.

    so testing for the directory first is a waste of time anyway.