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  1. Domotica for self-study on Scientific R&D At Home? · · Score: 1

    Study yourself, your spouse and/or children. Seriously. Get some domotica installed, and monitor your activities as you lead your life. Formulate hypotheses and vary the circumstances. Besides the challenges involved in getting good readings, you will learn stuff about your family and yourselve that will otherwise always go unnoticed. And if you apply scientific rigor and creativity you might even get some real scientific results.

  2. Missing letter on University of Wisconsin-Madison Bucks RIAA · · Score: 1

    This lawyer's blog reproduces the letter. So, where is the link to the letter sent by the RIAA? I couldn't find it.
  3. What about performance of slashdot? on 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers · · Score: 1
    I just did a completely non-scientific experiment. I pressed reload three times on the main page of slashdot. It took 9, 9 and 10 seconds to get the complete refresh.
    For good measure, I also tested with IE6. I got 12, 12 and 11 seconds.

    What is the experience of other users?
    My specs:
    • office LAN connected to SURFNET in the Netherlands.
    • FF2.0
    • WinXP SP2
    Performance on other websites:
    • http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2 secs
    • cnn.com 2 secs
    Regards
  4. Re:rogue on Gaming Now and 20 Years Ago · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You should not compare the experience that YOU had twenty years ago to the experience YOU have now playing computer games. That is not fair. You changed too much during those twenty years.
    • You probably had a richer imagination back then
    • Playing a computer game -any game- was relatively newer to you back then, than it is now.
    You should probably try to find a way to compare the experience that a kid today, new to computers, would have with a particular game-genre, with the experience you had, twenty years ago, with a game of that genre.
  5. Re:My comparison on The Rise of Digg.com · · Score: 1
    Digg: The RSS feed doesn't contain the link to the story, forcing you to go to their useless comments page.
    Digg user frankvanrest has published a better RSS feed at http://dlfwww.liacs.nl/frank/rss.php
  6. Doubts? on Mystery Australian Big Cat Shot · · Score: 1
    The retired engineer said he lugged the cat back to his camp, but put the carcass into the river after removing the tail and photographing it.
    Why did he put the carcass in the river?
    How do we know for sure he shot the cat in Australia?
  7. Medical implications on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1
    Could the medical implications include:
    • Removing scar tissue
    • Repairing sports injuries (twisted ankles?)
    • Re-introduce defects at birth that you were treated for at a young age?
    • Close intentional pearcing-holes (as in for earrings)
    • What about vaccination?
  8. Augmented Multi-Party Interaction on Creating a High-Tech Meeting/Conference Room? · · Score: 1

    The European Union sponsors this project: http://www.amiproject.org/
    It includes speech recognition, face tracking, gesture recognition, recording of meetings with multiple synchronised camera's en microphones, interactive white-boards, etc.
    Partners include various universities, scientific institutes and industrial partners.
    Lots of interesting stuff there...

  9. Re:On this subject on Firefox 1.0.1 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry, but I can't find such an increase. There is a small spike, but not really significant. Also, in the cumulative graph nothing major happens.
    In fact, I come to the opposite conclusion: there was no noticable increase afterward.

  10. Misleading title: DirectX is more than Direct3D on The End Of DirectX As We Know It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about the parts of DirectX that are not about 3D? The article is only about the Direct3D part of DirectX.
    I'm using DirectShow a lot myself actually. Are changes expected there too?

  11. Re:Sending DNA doesn't seem like a good idea... on SETI Finds Interesting Signal · · Score: 1
    Of course the odds of anything on this topic happening (good or bad) are so poor that I don't think anyone has to worry.

    Famous last words ...
  12. 64 bit code? on Virus Writers Look Ahead: Target 64-bit Windows · · Score: 0

    And? Is it faster?

  13. Re:Ok but seriously... on Kazaa Ruled Legal in The Netherlands · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have to disagree with you. I can not believe that in other countries all criminal acts are acted upon by law enforcement.

    My opinion is that this "gedoogbeleid" happens in other countries too. But then why do we Dutch think we are the only ones having it?
    Recently there have been some incidents (fireworks explosion in Enschede, fire at new-years party in Volendam) where poor law-enforcement has been part of the discussion. However, I think that a major reason why soft-drugs usage, copyrighted file trading (and perhaps other issues too) are not acted upon as much in the Netherlands as in other countries is, because everyone accepts them.
    Dutch tolerance and freedom? Yes, but not given by the parliament or government, but defined by all Dutch people.

  14. Re:Torrent here! on LOTR:Return Of The King Trailer · · Score: 5, Informative

    My download through this torrent link is corrupt. At 1:42 into the movie the sound becomes distorted and video stops.
    I'm using BitTorrent 3.3, the newest as far as I'm aware.
    I tried it twice. Did not help. Is anyone else having problems?

  15. WHAT DOES IT DO? on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hello?

    All this talk about the GPL is fine, but WHAT DOES IT DO?

    Regards, etc.
  16. I had a great time at Philips Research on Internships in the Post-DotCom Era? · · Score: 1

    Philips, Philips Student Site
    I got paid roughly 600EURO a month in 2001. Had a great time at Philips NatLab, soon to be the High Tech Campus. I am dutch, but I know they accept foreign students too.

    Disclaimer: I don't work there anymore.

  17. Re:Screw upgrades....and non-display uses? on The Fastest Video Card You Can Buy · · Score: 1
    And what about Image Based Rendering (IBR)? Here is an introduction for people really interested. The basic idea is to use photos to create a 3D-model of reality. If this could be made realtime the applications are endless! Think about:
    • robot navigation
    • remote presence
    • (i'm a sports fan:) automatic referee
    • human-machine interface (gestures / VR)
    • ...
  18. Re:You don't need any external software! on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    You have a cool Volume Serial Number. It might explain why it isn't working as advertised...

  19. Re:in the long run, that will change on Mesa 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, could that perhaps lead to a company taking this open source for the great - but ugly - game, and creating a fancy "front-end" for it. And sell it for a few bucks? Could be interesting.

  20. Dead Horses: on Ruling in Aimster Case · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "The horse is dead. Fuck it or walk away, but stop beating it." - Not my quote

  21. I won't tell anyone! on Delivering an Earth-Shattering Discovery? · · Score: 1

    Just tell me, I promise I won't tell anyone!

  22. Relevant extra links: Arcot Systems on MS Passport and... Visa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Arcot Systems and Arcot Press Release. For those interested.

  23. Company behind it on Star Wars-like Holograms · · Score: 4, Informative

    Zebra Imaging is the company behind it all. Might be slashdotted already...

  24. Re:Gilmore's letter to ICANN director Cerf on ICANN's Time Is Up, According To John Gilmore · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some tidbit of information that I didn't know about: Vint Cerf happens to have some STRONG ties to another mayor news-item: WorldCom: WorldCom: Resources: Cerf's Up (Check out the date on this piece) Since I didn't know this, I guess other people might not know it either.

  25. Interesting Applications? on Cheap 3D Computer Vision? · · Score: 1

    Can anyone think of more interesting apps for this? How about this one: A computer system that is able do be referee for a sports game.