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  1. Re:Poor performance on First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD · · Score: 2

    This isn't the point. You get 16 cores (slowish compared to top of the line, they may be) that will fit in a single socket on a single motherboard, with a single power supply. This is a *huge* cost saving for machines that it makes sense to use them in...servers, where single core performance is relatively stupid to consider.

  2. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Heavy Duty Electric Unicycle Maker Takes On Segway · · Score: 1

    All goes well until you lose traction/limit your balancing torque. Some melted ice cream would be enough to faceplant a forward lean.

  3. Re:Article Title on Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment · · Score: 1

    My wife: "Sweet! It looks a bit like a urinal though."

  4. Re:So true on Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android · · Score: 1

    You have to vote on the translation, then click "allow us to use this" for it to be used for improving the service.

  5. Re:Google does evil? on Google Starts Indexing Facebook Comments · · Score: 2

    Well yeah, if you record that conversation, and knowingly sprinkling the tapes all across the world for, *literally* anyone to access, forever.

    You don't have to post *publicly*...if you do post *publicly* then know that what you post is *public*.

    Seriously man?

  6. Re:It is all coming up roses. on Google Starts Indexing Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Or, you don't understand the definition of "public". One of the two. Probably the later.

  7. Re:Google does evil? on Google Starts Indexing Facebook Comments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Posting a comment publicly means you have no problem with who sees it or how it's used. "Available to all" is the definition of "public". This is like shouting on a street corner and getting mad at someone listening!

  8. Re:Point Cloud ? on "Holographic" Desk Allows Interaction With Virtual Objects · · Score: 1

    Nice point! But, I imagine it comes from plug in solution that the kinect is. Why would they want to make a custom solution? JUST KIDDING! Although, this seems to be the modern mindset, which is perfectly fine for interesting idea creation.

    Call me unimaginative, but I picture vr glasses as becoming cheaper before something the size of a cabinet does.

  9. Re:"XP" on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Or, maybe it's a realization that an os can be "good enough", and doesn't really matter in the big picture, as long as it doesn't get in the way....and this is how it should be. It should "just work" and let you run or do whatever it is you're trying to!

    -Captain Obvious

  10. Re:A real hologram ? on Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? · · Score: 1

    So, would phase modulation be possible with something like a stack of these?

  11. Re:Heavy metals? on 10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater · · Score: 2

    Removal and disposal of the now, toxic, organisms is the problem...

    They do this with the common water hyacinth. It's great for cleaning up heavy metals and many chemicals, but then you have many thousands of lbs of heavy, wet, plants to remove and do something with before they eventually die, decompose, and release everything back into the water.

  12. Re:Weird abstract... on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    Actually, Battlefield 3 is the only example you could use that is actually wrong. They went all out for PC, as mentioned in this interview.

  13. Re:A real hologram ? on Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? · · Score: 1

    ...so, no?

  14. Re:OH, Goodie! on Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route · · Score: 1

    So, literally, we'll give the brick wall to our grandkids. Nice man...nice.

    I think there will be a sudden interest in the tremendous plastic reserves that we've been hoarding in our landfills.

  15. Re:not much information... on Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? · · Score: 1

    I might be wrong, but I believe a voxel is like a 3d pixel in the information sense, where a hogel is closer to a physical display pixel.

  16. Re:A real hologram ? on Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? · · Score: 1

    Could it be something like light blue optics holographic pico projectors, but with some sort of layered setup?

    See the page marked 750 for summary of tech...any ideas based on this?
    http://www.nadya-anscombe.com/downloadlibrary/Tech%20Focus%20Nov%202010.pdf

    Awesome magazine btw...includes e-ink subcapsules and why plasmas burn-in in that issue.

  17. Re:hm... on CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere · · Score: 1

    The colored finger tip caps let you do something that's computationally simple, like blob detection....so, they were more of an indicator of non-programmable gpus and relatively slow cpus at the time. You pretty much need a programmable gpu to do it real-time without blobs, and those only partially existed, using shader language hacks, before the modern video cards that support CUDA and openCL.

  18. Re:Of course on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 2

    So, the kids that had all of the content blocked previously are employed to scour the alleys of the internet to make up for all they missed. It's great how innocence is protected, to a sometimes bizarre degree, until the clock strikes 12 on your 18th birthday....

  19. Re:screw buying for kids... on 3D Printer For Your Kids · · Score: 1

    What kind of resolution would you need for a scanner?

    I see some others mentioned them, but I personally think the rep rap and makerbot are a joke, although, clay printers have been made with slight success.

  20. Re:screw buying for kids... on 3D Printer For Your Kids · · Score: 1

    What materials would you want it to work with?

  21. Re:Deconvolution on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    Now, include the camera extrinsic parameters and time in the function you're deconvoluting. It's still deconvolution...just with more parameters and a time axis :)

  22. Re:Motion Blur not Focus Blur on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    It was probably the extrinsic camera parameters, through time! HAHA!

  23. Re:Interpolated missing data is still just a ficti on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    No, this is motion deblurring. The information is there since the final image is just the integral of images from every viewpoint the camera saw while the shutter was open...so it's just a sum of an image that was translated and rotated. Figuring out how the image was translated and rotated and rotated through time to lead to this final image sum is what they're doing. There are many interesting papers on google.

  24. Re:Interpolated missing data is still just a ficti on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    Cool beans that covers this problem. As the paper mentions, the common and fast math for deconvolution (division in the s-domain) only works for uniform blur with a PSF. It seems like a more iterative approach is required since the easy math can't be used.

  25. Re:Interpolated missing data is still just a ficti on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing all the constant luminance point sources all over in the frame would make motion "estimation" much more accurate. :) Especially considering the path along with relative velocity (v = k*brightness) is, literally, presented. Try doing it when your only motion reference is a blurry mailbox :P

    Still, very cool though.