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  1. How do you know CoreImage isn't future proof? on Lightroom Vs. Aperture · · Score: 1

    "Since Aperture relies on Core Image and a fast video card to do its adjustments (RAW decoding is done by the CPU), it's limited to what the single 3-D card can do." This really depends on where Apple decides to take CoreImage doesn't it?

  2. Re:will refuse the charge on Amazon Adjusts Prices After Sales Error · · Score: 1
    I'm not exactly sure how or when orders with an invoice price of "0.00" are considered properly completed, but I would guess at the time the order ships.

    IANAL but from my experience the FTC will say anything sent to you *must* be charged for prior to it being sent. If they don't charge you before sending it then it's free. Even if a company sent you two items when they should have sent one, just keep it. I've done this a few times with items ordered online (some costing over $1000) and never been charged.

    Amazon doesn't have any legal ground to charge people for things they've already sent and already said had an invoice price of $0.00.

  3. Re:The GPL is a Virus on Mark Shuttleworth Tries To Lure OpenSUSE Devs · · Score: 1

    People have been saying the GPL is a virus for a real long time now. I tend to agree.

  4. If Sony can, Apple can on Ars Technica's Hannibal on IBM's Cell · · Score: 1

    If Sony can fit it in a console and sell a hundred million of them in a year, I'm sure Apple can fit it in a Computer and sell a few million of them as well. If you're going to talk about size/heat dissipation/price, that is.

    Besides, those slides show that the 64-bit PPC on it has VMX. That's Altivec, baby. Sure, the SPE's don't have the full functionality of VMX but so what.

    The biggest issue I see is that the Cell's design requires the programmer to have full control of the machine. Tell an SPE to do something and don't worry about it. There's a lot of "what if"'s in there. Like "What if some other program tells that SPE to do something else?" etc.

  5. Re:One button is justifiable, no scroller is just on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ::Looks down at his Apple keyboard::

    Up Arrow, Down Arrow, Up Arrow, Down Arrow

    That seems to work fine and is on the keyboard. (Albiet on the right side but so what...) I can also hit the space bar to progress one page in Safari, just like pine.

    Most of the time I just use the scroll wheel on my IntelliMouse. ::shrugs::

  6. There's an Apple on that list. on Sun's Patent and Licensing Practices Examined · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/

    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apsl-2.0.php

  7. Re:Complete bollocks on Is VOIP Over WLAN DOA? · · Score: 1

    He never called VOIP DOA. He said VOIP over WLAN is DOA.

  8. Sooo... on California Offers Cellular Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    when does it go into effect?

  9. Quake? Lies on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    It's a common misconception, but neither of those games were ever written in Objective-C. Here Carmack talks about it:

    http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/QuakeEd/qedi t_ info.html

    And here's the code for QuakeEd:
    http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/Quak eEd/source .html

    I can't find the references for Nuclear Strike right now but it's the same case where the Map Editor was written in Obj-C.

  10. Is it just me... on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1
    or should that be

    Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Hard-on.

  11. OS X Apps on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    ...don't need to be reinstalled if you have a spare HD. Just drag the important stuff over, reinstall on the main drive and drag it back.

    Of course, since I've only ever had reason to do this once since OS X came out(new HD), YMMV.

  12. mod parent +funny! on Microsoft Announces Three More Critical Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    please? :-)

  13. Re:Power Supplies on Rack Mounted PCs for the Home User? · · Score: 1
    You didn't say, did you bother to switch the input voltage on the power supply?

    (little orange thingy on the back)

  14. Re:first step in playing defensivly on Netflix to Offer Movie Downloads · · Score: 1

    Not true. There is a limited amount of capital in the economy. Capital drives quality, there is an upper limit on quality. consequently, there's also a lower limit on quality - and that's the one we tend to seek out.

  15. One rule for you, one rule for me. on PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request · · Score: 2, Insightful
    fair-use-foiled-again dept.

    So, can anyone tell me why it is that it's "fair use" for "us" to disregard a companies copyrights but it's not okay for a company to disregard our copyrights?

    Did I miss a memo or what?

    Or are we all just a bunch of hypocrites?

  16. Re:first step in playing defensivly on Netflix to Offer Movie Downloads · · Score: 1

    I guess it'd be bad form to point out that apple still ownz that maket, eh?

  17. Re:True on Computerized Time Clocks Susceptible to 'Manager Attack' · · Score: 1

    I used to work for RS (SF bay area) and I've never had this problem. The payroll was submitted every weekend - in spite of the 2week pay period. The only time this kind of issue ever came up was once when one of my co-workers did not fill out a timesheet for the 3rd pay period in a row despite repeated warnings. He was paid for the hours scheduled the previous two pay periods, paid nothing for the last.

    I'm not defending RS. RS does suck ( http://www.radioshacksucks.com/ ).

  18. Re:already lost on Viet Dinh Defends The Patriot Act · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Yes, and I've also taken it off when I reached my destination. Not to mention that I don't recall it ever pressing me into the seat because it sensed that I *might* have crashed into something.

    What's your point?

  19. prior art? on IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers · · Score: 1
    http://www.topcoder.com

    Or does IBM own them too?

  20. Re:Not a disease on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 1
    (This doesn't even BEGIN to mention the fact that someone with a tendency to absentmindedness is particularly unsuited to a regimen that requires they remember to take a drug to remember incidentals.)

    I'll second that. This is off-topic for sure but if you take more than 200mg a day of dilantin don't do it without an alarm on you at all times. I was taking 200mg twice daily with variances in the administration of ~4hours. This produced times of very high & very low concentrations (think 2x to 1/2x what it should be) of the drug in my blood during the day. The result (which I thought were just seizures for quite some time) was some nasty neurotoxic effects.

    In case you're wondering about the seizures, yes, I'm epileptic.

  21. Re:so.... on Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners · · Score: 1

    "Of course, that's not to say that I think this camera thing is a good idea. The more we make schools like prisons, the more students - even the "good ones" - will feel like they're criminals."

    Or maybe feel empathy for criminals, something we haven't a lot of in this country.

  22. From a Purely Economic Standpoint on MPAA School Propaganda Program Examined · · Score: 1

    This makes no F*cking sense. This is $100,000 they could have spent suing their customers. These kids are in elementary school, what's the point? Yeah they're going to download stuff, it's not like they can get jobs. All this is doing is telling kids to be whinier, and greying the line between theft and ownership for them. You think we've got clepto's now, just wait a few years for these kids to hit high school. They think they've been stealing for years, you think they're going to pay for that soda?

  23. mod up parent on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    I've been wanting this feature for a while.

  24. This PDF is the INITIAL DESIGN SPEC on Dell $38m Supercomputer [not] More Costly than VT's G5s · · Score: 1

    Yes, slide 13 does indicate that they will be running OSX.
    Did you notice that slide 11 indicates that they are using Gigabit Ethernet? They're not. They're using InfiniBand which is 10ghz. This PDF is months old, it even says so if you'd read it.

    I love my mac, but stupidity should be painfull.

  25. So...AT&T DOESN'T have my best interests in mi on Is That Cell Phone Tower Watching Me? · · Score: 0
    You don't say

    http://www.ulocate.com/