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  1. Re:2d to 3d??? on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    You use painters and rotoscopy-artists to fill in the blanks.

  2. Re:Before anyone says it: on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: 1

    The only irony is the one that ends with a death.

  3. Not annoying at all on Hubble In Anaglyph Stereo 3D · · Score: 1

    Depth perception is what space images lack. We have colors, movement, but no depth.

    I've anaglyph lenses. It seems your visualization is a simulated stereo taken from one image instead of two eyes, because all the layers look flat, like images in cards. I hope with time you develop a better simulation technique to increase the immersion.

  4. Re:Please reconsider on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I second this. Kids that age need to learn how to play with phisical things, computers can come later. As a father of two I know what I'm talking about.

  5. Re:a legion of lawyers on Google Spent $100M Defending Viacom Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    what do these people create?

    They are keeping society in peace. With no other way to solve their conflicts, companies or particulars will try to end their problems with violence, just like mobsters do. Ok, you don't want to pay me? BAM. I invented this product, not you... BAM.

  6. Thanks, but no thanks. on Adobe Finally Fixes Remote Launch 0-Day · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. Comparing some documents side by side between Foxit and SumatraPDF, Sumatra rendering has some issues with gamma and images. Text rendering is a little better in Foxit. I can live with the yellow blank starting page, though.

  7. Naica, huge crystals on 7th Graders Find Large Cave On Mars · · Score: 1

    You are talking about Naica, an impressive cave with no life conditions. A friend of mine was a producer for all the documentaries made a couple of years ago.

    http://www.naica.com.mx/english/index.htm

  8. My alienware does the same on Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops · · Score: 1

    Using the caera to log me in and log out when other persons approach the camera.

  9. This comes from the greeks on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    This is called suspension of disbelief. It's a contract between the actors and the public, sometimes work and sometimes doesn`t.

  10. Plutonium in my pocket on Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser · · Score: 1

    I rememeber my first class of Modern Physics Lab at college. This class was held at the 5.5 MeV accelerator of the university. The professor enters into the room and says we are going the calibrate the machine, Maria. Then he puts his hand inside his pocket and brings out a small cilinder with plutonium. Since this day I understood something is wrong with experimental scientists.

  11. Summary on Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20% · · Score: 1

    "The technique could be especially valuable for programs that are difficult to parallelize, such as word processors and Web browsers."

    The release says this technique is for programs difficult to parellelize "by running the memory-management functions on a separate thread".

  12. Scuse me? on The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    First. We had a revolution exactly 100 years ago in Mexico. We don't need another one. You don't seem to know much about history.

    Second, you also don't seem to know much about demography. Indians, original people, whatever you want to name them are less than 10% of the population, 18% european and the rest (we), are the result of the mix between Spaniards and the indegenous people (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograf%C3%ADa_de_M%C3%A9xico#Grupos_.C3.A9tnicos).

    We are poor because among other things we inherited a corrupt and injust system and we grew up as a colony. We usually don't produce/create/convert anything and while we're rich in natural resources like oil, we don't transform it and just sell the fluid and we buy back gasoline, diesel or plastic. So, we hace social clases, but these are not decided by race. Alas, Carlos Slim, the richest comes from a Libanese family.

    We're still poor because in the last 20 years the farmers left their massively and moved to your country or to the border states to work on sweatchops, most of those now desappeared.

  13. Re:Putting scanners in US airports... on Airport Scanners Can Store and Transmit Images · · Score: 1

    You know all these measures will be enforced all over the world, right? Every international airport with flights or connections to the US have been adopting all the restrictive measures you already know, so expect scanners in other countries soon.

    I know we (Mexico) have body scanners for several years now but they were sent to the airport warehouse because of misbehaviour of the security officials, this has been documented.

  14. Mexico City vehicle database on Why Oracle Can't Easily Kill PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Back in 1998 we developed a system to manage the vehicle and drivers license database for Mexico City, all done with Perl, TK and PostgreSQL. We faced the problem with the 2GB limit size of tables, can't remember the solution.

  15. Nature finding a way. on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    So, basically this guy was googling while nature was doing its work.

  16. What I look? on What Do You Look For In a Conference? · · Score: 1

    I live outside the US so it was always expensive to travel to a conference recesion or not. What I've found from conferences like SIGRRAPH is that they do better when they choose a west coast city, mainly because the main part of the industry works there. So know your audience and where they work/live.

  17. Re:This is not new on Building 3D Models On the Fly With a Webcam · · Score: 1

    BTW, with David you need a laser.

  18. This is not new on Building 3D Models On the Fly With a Webcam · · Score: 2, Informative

    I haven't read the article yet, but there's already a program doing this with cheap cameras, version 1.0 was free:

    http://www.david-laserscanner.com/

  19. Wikipedia is for anal retentives on Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You have to be obsesive to mantain as a Wikipedia contributor. All if not most of my contribution was deleted, including CC licensed images.

  20. Re:Some people fear guns like they fear bugs on Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle · · Score: 1

    Considering from time to time a waco appears armored to the teeth inside a school or a fast food restaurant, I don't think it's irrational to have fear to big guns.

  21. Re:Boring. on COLLADA Contest Winners From Siggraph 2009 · · Score: 1

    WTF? This has to be the least interesting thing related to Siggraph ever. I'm sure they did a good job designing it for the platform, but it's just a fucking model viewer.

    iPhone is the coolest thing these days. This year almost every technical paper at SIGGRAPH had an iPhone application to show an inplementation of the idea.

  22. Kronos Group, not Collada on COLLADA Contest Winners From Siggraph 2009 · · Score: 1

    Kronos Group is the consortium in charge of Collada and other 3D standards, not Collada.

  23. Corrupted governments on Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 1

    This was their worst error: they tried to make business with countries with corrupt governments. OLPC tried for years to sell to Mexico, with no avail, instead Mexico choose a commercial company for their massive computing for children projects (eg. enciclomedia www.enciclomedia.edu.mx). OLPC had no money to "lobby".

  24. Good news on Swine Flu Genetics Suggest a Vaccine Is Possible · · Score: 1

    This is great news because gives time to laboratories when the virus returns next fall.

  25. 555 survivor on Microchips That Shook the World · · Score: 1

    Chips usually have a short manufacture life. It's amazing the 555 timer is still in use, even after 556 (two 555 in one chip).