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  1. Re:HI! on John Carmack Left id Software Because He Couldn't Do VR Work There · · Score: 1

    Yup, it is good that there is couple companies hashing out the technologies. In couple years we'll have reasonable priced next generation VR goggles available and if we are lucky, they come with opensource SDKs.

  2. Re:HI! on John Carmack Left id Software Because He Couldn't Do VR Work There · · Score: 1

    Didn't say the specs weren't bad, if they just could do something with the persistent image problem (only show the image for a fraction of the frame) it might be nice. And their field of vision is quite narrow still.

  3. Re:HI! on John Carmack Left id Software Because He Couldn't Do VR Work There · · Score: 1

    And when it delivers 96Hz or faster screen with non-persistent image at 1080p resolution, it might be usable in VR.

  4. Re:microwave on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I wanted to define the target as boiling but the article only speaks about warming the water with the microwave oven, which would happen when random photon emitted by the oven (most likely the outer surface of the oven) is absorbed by the cup.

  5. Re:This just in... on Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I hate these binary people, the truth is that the world is ternary.

  6. Re:What assholes on Oracle Broadens Legal Fight Against Third-party Solaris Support Providers · · Score: 2

    Yup, Oracle is right on this case. The companies can provide support for Solaris, as in how to fix and configure things and also distribute OpenSolaris but distributing Solaris updates that have been downloaded from Oracle's password protected support site or providing login credentials to Oracle's support site is not ok.

  7. Re:microwave on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 2

    Warming the water would only take seconds, boiling is of course measured with standard coffee cup, thus means 1.25 deciliters of water at sea level :)

  8. Re:microwave on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1

    The microwave in the example does suck, even the very first microwave oven we got in the 80s did boil a glass of water in 60 seconds.

  9. Re:As an owner of a Solidoodle 3.... on CES 2014: Formlabs 3-D Printing Redux, With New Software (Video) · · Score: 1

    I also hope that cheap UV-resins become available, unfortunately it seems that stereolithography companies want to go the inkjet route and keep their formulas secret so they can sell the print materials with higher margins for profit.

  10. Re:other applications on New MIT Camera Takes 3D Photos in the Dark · · Score: 1

    Sadly it seems they don't have 1-photon sensitive ccd. The article says:

    “We didn’t invent a new laser or a new detector,” notes Kirmani. Instead, he explains, the team applied a new imaging algorithm that can be used with a standard, off-the-shelf photon detector.

    They are sending single photon pulses of light repeatedly to the target position until they managed to capture one and then continue to scan the next "pixel" of the target. So this wont help with any of those things you listed.

  11. Re:If there's no human fall back, I'll never trust on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    Half of the cars I've had didn't come with ABS, ECU, airbag, security. They all did come with car radio/cassette player.

  12. Re:3 pound $500? on How You Too Can Be Shut Down By the Feds For Flying Drones · · Score: 1

    These aren't the drones you're looking for

  13. Re:From TFA, SQRL does not rely on a smartphone. on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    Also it doesn't even require QR codes, you just need a link on the page with sqrl:// instead of http:/// to launch the authentication app.

  14. Re: Steve Gibson is a... on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    I guess you didn't read the spec, no identifiable information needs to be sent.

  15. Re:In before on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Are you really eating more calories per day or do you just believe doing so. Did you keep track what you ate before your low-carb diet? I was on Atkins and noticed that I actually had trouble getting to 2000+kcals per day when eating stuff that was near zero carb. With high carb foods it is way too easy to reach 2000, 3000 or even 4000 kcals per day.

  16. Re:What is the point? on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 1

    Too bad that FMRI isn't that accurate either:
    "In 2007 on episode 93 of the TV program Mythbusters, the three members of the build team attempted to fool a non-automated fMRI test done by Cephos Corporation. Although two of the members were unsuccessful at fooling Cephos, the third member was able to successfully fool Steve Laken of Cephos, according to this member by keeping his mind in constant activity. The one out of three failure rate suggested that fMRI-based lie detection required further development"

  17. Re:Background on Mechwarrior Online Developer Redefines Community Warfare · · Score: 1

    Clever developer would allow people with 1st person view choose if they want to play with 1st person view players only or allow 3rd person view players too. And same option for 3rd person view players.

  18. Re:Potayto/potatoh on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Sure sure, I was just pointing out that it is silly to demand civil unions and say that marriage is reserved for churches as if current churches wont allow gay marriage one can just create a new church that will allow it. So there is no point in doing that.

  19. Re:Potayto/potatoh on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    and what the point might be?

  20. Re:Potayto/potatoh on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Just that if someone wants to protect the term "marriage" from gays by turning the government backed marriages into civil unions and only allowing churches to do "marriages", they will be suprised that it wont prevent gays from getting married.

  21. Re:Good ... on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    If you can choose your sexuality, then why don't you try it for a week or two? This week watch straight porn and be aroused by that and then choose to be gay and watch more straight porn, it shouldn't arouse you then but gay sex should.

  22. Re:Good ... on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    They would need to revoke more than just tax breaks. That is one valid way to fix the situation, just remove marriage from the laws, all of them. I wonder which one would upset the community more, adding a new group to get access to already existing laws and benefits or removing them all?

  23. Re:Good ... on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Your workaround doesn't really work, someone can just organize a new church that allows gay marriage and then gays can also get married. Not that this is a problem for me, but it might be a problem to those who are against gay marriage :)

  24. Re:From a citizen's standpoint on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    If you allow churches to decide what is marriage, what prevents me from founding a church that allows marriage for polygamist?

  25. Re:You've got it backwards there chap. on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    I recall that at one point the church was against marriage (in Europe around the middle ages).