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  1. Wavelet patent on Procedural Textures the Future of Games? · · Score: 1

    So, anyone know when the patent on wavelets expires?

    Does anyone still care about algorithm patents?

  2. Re:Rose Colored Glasses on Democrat Win May Be Good News For Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    ... but still signed into law by Clinton nonetheless. He had used his power of veto plenty of times before, so why not here? His lack of a veto on this one indicates support for it.

    Or are you saying that Bush shouldn't be held responsible for any of the legislation he's signed into law, since he just doesn't consider any of it important enough to veto?

  3. Re:Not even capable of what the original XBOX can on Wii Confirmed at 480p · · Score: 1

    So say 720p24 for film.

    No.

    35mm film has a resolution closer to 3000p24. Yes the frame rate sucks, but that's mostly for historical reasons now; there's no good reason that the next wave of digital movie cameras won't be able to do at least double that. They'd better anyway, or theatres are going to lose even more marketshare.

    Anyway, the point is that even older movies, if they've been stored properly, can be transferred to a much higher-definition format than current DVDs. No higher framerate (although with MPEG motion estimation and interpolation even that could be faked), but a much higher resolution.

    The more I think about faking higher frame rates in next gen DVDs the more plausible it seems - my Philips 32" 100Hz TV interpolates frames in realtime and the smoothness for pans and zooms is staggering, even with older source material.

  4. Re:Does resolution matter? on Wii Confirmed at 480p · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  5. Re:two words on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 1

    I'm not making any assumptions. I'm just providing the fix, which is what was asked for.

    If people don't want to implement it that's their funeral.

  6. Re:indeed, me too on PS3 8x More Power Hungry Than PS2 · · Score: 1

    Just curious - what's Kraft done to hurt people, apart from a bit of spam?

  7. Re:Uh oh... on Midnight Best Buy Launch Locations for PS3 · · Score: 1

    Well maybe some people want a controller that doesn't care about the rooms lighting conditions and games that aren't regionalised. Or enough computing power to actually render decent games.

    Just a guess but I'd say after the Wii is released there will be even more people queuing up for the PS3.

  8. Congratulations you've been... on PS3 8x More Power Hungry Than PS2 · · Score: 1

    ...Zonk3d!

    Come back next week when Zonk claims the PS3's Real Time Clock runs at 14.31818MHz and asks in this day and age who would buy a 14MHz computer?

  9. Re:Pfft. on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 2

    03:14:08 January 19, 2038 UTC, shortly followed by 03:14:09 January 19, 2038 UTC.

    Honestly, there's no good excuse for anyone not using at least 64-bit integers to represent unix time these days, yes even on 32-bit architectures.

  10. "treat", yes that's it. on Researchers Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection · · Score: 1

    ...test for the abnormality and treat babies at risk of SIDS

    I think we know where this will probably lead.

    Anyone have the stomach to research the Down Syndrome test?

  11. Re:Huh? on An Argument Against Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Oh, okay.

    I'd just figured it must have been a reference to some new in-joke propagating across /. like "in a row?" or AOL user 17556639.

    Seriously I don't think the GGP post was silly for missing the "joke" when the original phrase was nothing but hyperbole, and rather lame hyperbole at that.

  12. Re:HTTP/1.1 Design on Optimizing Page Load Times · · Score: 1

    From RFC 2616, section 8.1.4:

            Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy.

    It's not a browser quirk, it's specified behavior.


    Ah, got it: the RFC is broken and needs updating. Thanks.

    Anyone else care to provide Comments for this Request 2616?

  13. Re:Huh? on An Argument Against Software Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh good - someone who gets the joke. Could you kindly explain it for the rest of us?

    thanks,

  14. Re:what the hell? on First Hutter Prize Awarded · · Score: 1

    Which would work fine, until it had to distinguish words like salt and slat.

    Or words not in a dictionary, like GetPidOf()

  15. Re:It's only going to get worse on Nintendo Profits Up 72%, Sony's Down 94% · · Score: 1

    I have a 110VAC - 12VDC transformer here that has all the correct markings indicating that it has been tested to all relevant US electrical safety standards. I also bought a US-NZ pinout adapter so I can plug it into my mains power over here.

    Is it okay if I go and plug it in? Thanks.

    I know if I made products destined for another market with different standards I'd want to make damn sure they were tested and certified to those standards. Especially if it has my name on it in big bright letters and there was a chance of it zapping someone.

  16. Re:Crapweasel on Slashback: IceWeasel, Online Gambling, GPU Folding, Evolution · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe that this is a problem. Red Hat has been using the same policy for quite some time: ...in clear violation of the Mozilla Foundation's policy. The Fedora Project Board might not have a problem with that, but Debian likes to avoid breaking rules where possible.

  17. Re:This was in the news a year ago on Samsung's Hybrid Hard Drive Exposed · · Score: 1

    Hmm so I wonder if Samsung had to sign some kind of non-compete clause to keep Linux and OSX out.

  18. Re:Don't block sites on VDARE Fights Blocking By Censorware · · Score: 1

    "You have a right to your opinion, however sick, twisted, and wrong it may be."

    That's right, I do.

    However I have no right to force you to redistribute my opinion to others. None at all.

  19. Re:right on Flash 9 Beta for Linux Available · · Score: 1

    I don't run Mozilla. I run Firefox.

    You run Mozilla Firefox.

  20. Re:So... how long? on EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers · · Score: 1

    I mean, I really like the idea of a common currency, but given the number of problems and the obvious attempts to create a single government to rule over Europe, how long until the UK decides to leave?

    I don't know, but some guy called John had some ideas quite some time ago about what might become of it.

  21. Re:Payback? on Google Campus to Become Solar-powered · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's down to about ten years to payback the cost of household solar system

    What an age we live in.

  22. Re:useless suggestion on Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    Yes, the RSS xscreensaver modules have been known to hard-lock SMP boxes running the proprietary nVidia driver.

  23. Re:useless suggestion on Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    If his X server crashes every hour or so he's got bigger problems. The proprietary nVidia driver has a lot of problems but frequent crashes is not one of them.

    There are exceptions to this, for example some of the OpenGL screensavers from JWZ's xscreensaver collection, most notably the RSS screensaver suite has been known to cause problems.

    I have three computers that run the proprietary nVidia driver, two of them in dual-head mode. None of them crash at all, and this is after 20-50 days uptime and excessive use including OpenGL applications.

  24. Re:GIMP needs fresh developers on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Tell me why you need CMYK, this comes up every time the GIMP is mentioned and it's always by people that have no use for it.

    What, you mean nobody bothers printing out pictures anymore?

  25. Re:GIMP needs fresh developers on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed. The terrible way they handled the FilmGimp/Cinepaint fork should be enough to convince anyone that the leadership does not have its users at heart.