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  1. Re:1080p? on Samsung Ships the First Blu-Ray Player · · Score: 1

    Unless you remaster your 24fps movie with the algorithms that Philips Natural Motion tellys use.

    You know, the ones that detect motion and create intermediate frames to give you smooth 100Hz motion from a 50Hz (25fps) source. I own one of these beasts and the effect is postitively stunning. And that's done in real-time. If it can be done at the mastering stage the current problems associated with Natural Motion wouldn't exist.

  2. Re:Digital SLRs on Prototype System Blocks Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't need to be visible - CCDs respond to infra-red light quite well.

    Try pointing a remote control at your camera and press some buttons.

  3. When I see rubbish like this on Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack · · Score: 1

    it makes me just a little more glad that I've already migrated nearly all my clients to OpenOffice.

  4. Actually on Why Ballmer Should Leave Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think Ballmer is doing a superb job. Please don't get rid of him.

    The sooner he runs that two-bit company into the ground the sooner us IT professionals can get on with our lives.

  5. Re:So? on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    Oh well I have my beliefs and I don't care if no one else believes what I do. A good life involves giving to others, for in the end only kindness matters.

    hehe, been listening to Jewel lately per chance?

  6. Re:leds everywhere on Shuji Nakamura Awarded the 2006 Millennium Prize · · Score: 1

    This might be a good starting point.

  7. Re:Purple...ish on Shuji Nakamura Awarded the 2006 Millennium Prize · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if/when we'll ever start using ultraviolet lasers to access data?

    Well duh. You wouldn't be able to see your data then!

  8. Re:No blu-ray on Comparing the PS3 and 360 · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's $500, dude.

    $600 just gets you a flash reader, Wi-Fi, HDMI and a silver logo.

    None of which (not even HDMI) are necessary for HD on the PS3.

  9. Re:Rip them all?? on Replacement for Jewel Cases? · · Score: 1

    My mistake, I'd thought we were just talking about the case alone.

    I should have clicked when you said polycarbonate that you were including the CD.

  10. Re:Rip them all?? on Replacement for Jewel Cases? · · Score: 1

    polystyrene? polycarbonate? aluminium?

    What kind of jewel cases have you been looking at?

  11. A good motivation on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System · · Score: 1

    to open source drivers, no?

  12. Re:Do it like they do on the Discovery channel... on New Crater On Moon Caught On Video · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting that Al Qaeda would happily obliterate any number of cities if they had the power.

    Just because they haven't yet doesn't mean it's through lack of trying.

  13. So now it's official on Labs Compete to Build New Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 3, Funny

    The US is confirmed to be producing weapons of mass destruction.

    Who's up for 'liberating' them?

  14. Re:Three possibilities, one answer on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    Possibly where you live, but you know it really doesn't have to be that way.

  15. Re:Three possibilities, one answer on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you're an american, so I'm going to reply based on that assumption. What kind of shoes do you wear? Most likely they were made in sweatshops. What kind of clothes? Do you eat fruit, ever?

    These are pretty naive assumptions IMO.

    How do you know the GP doesn't buy Fair Trade?

  16. Why only Apple? on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    Experiment:

    Go down to your local electronics retailer and inspect ten products in the store.

    Turn each one over and note where the "Made in China" sticker is located.

    Are there really manufacturing plants in China that aren't sweatshops? Why do we import bulk goods from China if not because they're cheaper than everywhere else? And why are they cheap? Because they don't have to worry about pesky expenses like reasonable wages.

  17. Re:When will these people face reality! on The Pornographers vs. The Pirates · · Score: 1

    Everyone else just gets it from P2P and that ain't gonna change.

    Or just doesn't go near it in the first place.

    There are more people in that demographic than you think, despite what pop culture tells you.

  18. Sigh on The Pornographers vs. The Pirates · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...pornography is again leading the way

    Yes, that's right:

    Pornography made VCRs popular, jump-started the Internet, invented the light bulb and put man on the moon.

    *rolls eyes*

    It's amazing what lengths people will go to in order to legitimize their dirty little pasttimes.

  19. Re:That's a statistic I'd like to see expounded... on How Nintendo Could Win It All · · Score: 1

    Perhpas they rent games from the local video store.

  20. Re:Biotech vs. IT Careers on Japanese Scientists Make Alzheimers Progress · · Score: 1

    Smoking doesn't avoid those years - it just makes them happen sooner.

  21. Curious on New Clues for Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 1

    How certain are people about the age of this device? The consensus seems to be 80 BC, but what dating methods have been employed to reach that conclusion?

  22. Re:You can help end this argument on OpenBSD Ahead of Linux for Wi-Fi Drivers · · Score: 1

    A good procedure to be sure, but why not just use the documentation that the OpenBSD people have written for their drivers?

    No point re-inventing the wheel.

  23. Re:Who cares? on Sony Pushes Back Release For Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 1

    And you're not concerned in the slightest that we just might be handing the console gaming market to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)?

  24. Re:Why Do We Want To Get Rid of Sony? on Sony Pushes Back Release For Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 1

    No one really wants to fork over $600 for a console

    That's $500, no one wants to fork over $500 for a console.

  25. Re:Shocking on French PM Unreceptive To RMS · · Score: 1

    Bah, you're just bitter that they invented the metric system.