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  1. Re:So... how much does Slashdot get off each sale? on DVD Player With DVI Output · · Score: 1

    Slashdot: We've finally found the second step to the ??? profit equation.. muhahaha!

    specticjr: So... how much does Slashdot get off each sale? Or is this just a strict pay-one-time only advertisement?

    Slashdot: Oh shit.. they discovered our secret formula.. retreat!

  2. Re:Whoops on Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? · · Score: 0

    Slashdot already has an excellent moderation system in place, why bombard the editor with e-mail?

  3. Re:Whoops on Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? · · Score: -1

    Stories really should be moderated in the trench before they are posted. With the number of users present at any given time, dupes would never make it to the front line.

  4. Re:You are kidding, right? on .Net:... 3 Years Later · · Score: 1

    play on words, but shouldn't a "hotfix" be like a "hotswap", where the system stays up and continues to function without introducing any downtime?

  5. Re:nah... on .Net:... 3 Years Later · · Score: 1

    With so many AC's posting, it's surprising /. hasn't implemented a visible hash to tell them apart..

  6. ANIMUSIC on Crazy/Nerdy Computer Art Installations · · Score: 1

    ANIMUSIC is more than worth checking out. The current DVD and CD is arranged very nicely and the eye candy is amazing. There is going to be a 16:9 and 5.1 (hoping for DTS) release in the early first quarter of 2004.

  7. .torrent on Unreal II Demo Released · · Score: 1

    Not to mention torrent is in Unreal II descriptions everywhere, making a .torrent link hard to find.

  8. Re:What about compiling from source? on Linus on DRM · · Score: 1
    [ ] Support for DRM
    "Unless youre insane, Say N"
    Perhaps M would be a better choice?
  9. Re:I could see Apple leading the charge with this. on WiMax Formed To Promote 802.16 Standard · · Score: 1

    Imagine an ad-hoc cluster of these..

  10. Re:What are their priorities? on Keith Packard's Xfree86 Fork Officially Started · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remote X is a lot faster than comparative solutions for Windows. VNC is horribly slow, almost unusable on a 100 Mbit/s LAN. It's alright if you drop your colors to 8bit or bgr233, but it is still horrid. X flies across my network at 24bpp and runs as smooth as the remote processor allows. Perhaps some decent compression would help here? I find remote X far too valuable to just throw out the window.

  11. Re:Lossless format on FLAC Joins The Xiph Family · · Score: 1

    Lossless compression doesn't "throw" anything out, it just rearranges the data so that redundant sequences can be represented in a smaller amount of space. Take a look at this. It simplifies how this type of compression is achieved.

  12. OB /. Poll (Re:Is there a Linux song?) on OpenBSD 3.2 Song Now Available · · Score: 2, Funny
    • Already got one. Linus pronouncing Linux.
    • Linux don't need no stinking theme song!
    • Linux is song enough, you insensitive clod.
    • CowboyNeal should sing it.
  13. Re:CD-R? on Ebay vs. Musician · · Score: 1

    CD-Rs are less reflective than CDs
    CD-RWs are even less reflective than CD-Rs

    CD-Rs are fairly new compared to CDs, hence why older CD players didn't need such a sensitive sensor.

  14. Re:On Art Bell Tonight on Dinosaur Mummy Found · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, if Nibiru truly exists and is inhabited by the reptilian-like species that is rumored. The size of this mummified dinosaur is in line with the rumors of the 3 to 6 meter tall species, and supposedly they only consumed liquid food like ambrosia, or something along those lines. That would explain why the pyramids were so advanced and precise for the time. Just some interesting stuff to think about. Search Google for Nibiru and check out some of the information for yourself.

  15. Perl as a LKM for native interpretation on Ask Larry Wall · · Score: 1

    Are you considering implementing Perl into the Linux kernel in the future so that low level kernel events could use Perl interpretation natively and speed up general scripting speed? Or possibly perhaps make special Perl opcodes to access compiled dynamic storage locations for variable space?

  16. Re:Multi-layer tv? on Light-Emitting Polymer Displays · · Score: 1

    100 pages does seem a bit excessive, but one extra page would be nice. You could change channels on your virtual screen, and then fade out your physical screen and sync it back up to the the virtual to make for some nice fade-ins.

    But seriously, if you stack up let's say about a centimeter worth of these pages, then you would be able to look around the "physical" page and see all the remaining pages in a true 3D representation. Using this innovation, you could play real 3D games, not just games drawn out to appear 3D on a 2D screen.

  17. Re:Shareholders first question on Weather Channel Sponsors OSS ATI Radeon Drivers · · Score: 1

    Maybe weather.com owns stock in ATI, and since money isn't in software.. the hardware aspect may force the "not-so-spendy" *nix people into buying physical devices. Useful video drivers for *nix are comparable to gold, and the opensource variety more than doubles the value.

  18. Re:yawn. on Sun Files Suit Against Microsoft for Anti-Trust Violations · · Score: 2, Funny
    > what took them so long?

    Did you see the size of those PDFs?
  19. Re:If they want... on Unintended Results From U.S. Hardware Dumps In Asia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i would, and so would a lot of other people. they need to ship them to a stockyard, put them in catalogs and place them on the internet. that would catch, especially if all you have to pay for is shipping for the item you want to buy.. hell, put a 5 item or weight minimum on each order. now that's something alot of the younger generations would visit many times a day religiously just to see what's around--and they would actually be able to afford some things to tinker around with. imagine the amount of drivers and documentation that such an act would surface into the open source community. Allowing the new generation of soft and hard coders to work with some simpler devices would pay off for everyone in the long run. every great coder has to start somewhere..

  20. $299? on Sony Announces Version 1.0 Of Linux for Playstation 2 · · Score: 1

    According to this link:

    The kits will cost $188.30 in Japan, $299 in the United States and $215 in Europe.

  21. near-perfect zooming on New Sampling Techniques Make Up For Lost Data · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If it is possible to use these mathematics techniques to replace all of the unknown parts of an image, then why not resize the image a few times larger than the original and save the random parts of it? This would allow the algorithms to fill in even more detail to each image relative pixel. Upon resizing the image to 2x the original size, you would find much better clarity and precision than just resizing the image without.

    On a side note, you could apply random color-relative noise on to the entire zoomed image before you save the random parts, then it might pick up the slack of the algorithm placing the same bordering colors over the unknown pixels.

    If they consider digital music captured with this set of algorithms near-perfect, then near-perfect zooming is just around the corner.

  22. Re:gggrrrrrr on Business Wants a New, Profitable Internet · · Score: 1

    then they can build there own damn NET! call it biznet. Get all that damn commercialism off the internet.

    Because commercialism is only profitable to the business when waved in the consumer's face. Good old keepin' up with The Sims.

    Business wants to stay in the customer's line of site, or they're afraid someone else will be in their vision before they are. The best they could hope for is a .biz domain, satisfying business while staying in the site of the consumer.

    That would be nice, but then users could filter their content and completely circumvent the entire ".biz" existance. Now how many of us would do that?

    *cough* *cough* not I....... <EG>

    Note: The use of the word site instead of sight was intended for the context.

    Caffeine; it's what's for *.

  23. Re:way to go on Britannica and Free Content · · Score: 1

    "Due to Slashdotting, you are looking at a plain-HTML version of this story. Eventually, we will return it to normal service. Sorry about this." -- kuro5hin.org (26-Jul-2001, 0930 GMT)

    I wonder if the slashdot effect will be considered a denial of service attack in the near future...

    if(site.bandwidth < slashdot.effect) { site.is_awol(true); slashdot.victory++; }

  24. mod up, and ye shall find the answer... on Interested In A US Linux For PS2? · · Score: 1
    • Purchase
      Yes
    • Intended Use
      Hobbyist Use
    • Internet Connection
      DSL/Cable Modem or Better
    • Own a PlayStation
      PlayStation or PSOne

    Teacher: (taking attendance) Bueller?....... Bueller?.......Bueller?
    Girl: Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
  25. Re:Learn to program in a nicer language first on Developing for the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    The previous post is NOT a troll.

    I completely agree with it. What is psuedo-code? Code that describes the programming process in simple terms. Most psuedo-code is modeled after BASIC, so wouldn't it make the most sense to learn that way? If nothing else, a new programmer could lay out the basis of what a program is going to accomplish without taking into account the ramifications of a more complex syntax and data (memory) management.

    I learned how to program with DOS batch files because of the simplicity of a file holding a series of commands. After I found that it didn't offer the power I needed, I moved on to QBASIC with ease. Constantly reviewing my syntax, It allowed me to keep better track of files and gave me a simple interface to do my own graphical programming, and I could get help on just about any situation by pressing F1. After I grew too big for QBASIC, I moved onto QuickBASIC. This allowed expansion with seperate source files and larger source sizes, and enabled me to create my own independant executables with ease so I could run them on any DOS system.

    Now I find myself programming in a variety of other languages (Perl, C, C++, etc.) and I don't even think about the difficulties associated with them. I have been using Linux solid for a couple of years now, and I found the transistion to be easier than I could have ever imagined.

    The moral of this story is to learn what you can, but don't bite off more than you can chew. If you learn the basic fundamentals of programming, you can take it with you anywhere.