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  1. Re:afaik on In Istanbul, Cameras To Recognize 15,000 Faces/sec. · · Score: 1

    Politicians are not interested in reforming. Once you commit a crime, you crossed the other side, i.e. you become a person that should have not existed.

  2. Re:Wrong... on Budget Graphics Card Roundup · · Score: 1

    If I need to play the new games now, instead of 5 years later, then I don't think paying $100 more now is very important.

  3. Re:Underemphasized game-changing improvements on A History of 3D Cards From Voodoo To GeForce · · Score: 1

    SIMD and MIMD architectures are well known solutions for parallelizable problems for over 40 years now.

    The Transputer was released in 1984. Transputer CPUs in 16x16 or in 32x32 configurations could do raytracing in low resolutions in almost real-time, back then.

    Stream processing is nothing new, it just became affordable for PCs.

  4. Re:I'm sick on Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are right.

    Although the movie is incredibly bad, people go see it.

    It's because it has the names Kirk and Spock in the titles. The exact same movie with Picard and Data would be labeled as boring and as bad as Nemesis.

  5. How about a sidebar that minimizes itself? on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1

    When the mouse is over the sidebar, the sidebar expands and presents all the tabs. When the mouse gets away from the sidebar, the sidebar is minimized and the web page is shown in all its glory.

  6. Re:will not prevent anything on Database of All UK Children Launched · · Score: 1

    You just revealed the next step.

  7. Re:Database hits gnutella in 3 ... 2.... 1 on Database of All UK Children Launched · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Watch how this plan fails spectacularly...and then they will ask to put a chip in our children...and then the adults will follow...

  8. Re:how is it cannibalism? on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am not touching G. W. Bush, no matter how hungry I am. I'd rather die...

  9. Another interpretation... on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 1

    "I did not get filthy rich, because instead of you people paying me money for every shitty movie I have made, you download it from the internet; therefore, the internet is useless".

  10. Re:creationism/evolution on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: 1

    The oldest christian Church is the Orthodox Church, not the Catholics.

  11. properly written C++ does not use memcpy on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    That's a lower level function which is not normally used. Since std::vector is widely available, the need to use memcpy in C++ is minimal.

  12. Re:Hmmmm.. on Artificial Ethics · · Score: 1

    Please let's not over-complicate things.

    The brain is a neural network with only one function: pattern matching.

    All the experiences of a person (sight, sound, smell, etc) are stored in the brain and linked with responses. The brain's function is to apply pattern matching in order to find the response that matches the current experience in the maximum degree.

    For example, when we see danger, our levels of discomfort rise above normal levels. This is because the brain has recalled a previous experience which is linked with a response that makes us move.

    This is why babies, that lack those experiences, are not afraid of dangerous things, for example fire or heights.

    When the scientists realize this simple truth, AI will become a child's problem.
     

  13. Re:Breaking News! on Greece Halts Google's Street View · · Score: 1

    Innocently? you mean taking photos or army and airforce bases? where it is strictly prohibited and there are labels everywhere around the bases that taking photos or videos is explicitly forbidden?

  14. It's also good for practical jokes on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imaging putting a little bit of that in ones shoe...a great laugh!

  15. Re:The first things to do on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 1

    1) functors and lambdas simplify code greatly.

    2) it's time for C++ devs to know about functors.

    3) I can't bind functors with Qt signals.

  16. Re:The first things to do on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 1

    Qt works on Windows, Mac, Linux/X11, embedded Linux, Windows CE (according to Trollech).

    Boost works on almost any modern operating system, including UNIX and Windows variants (phrase copied and pasted from boost site).

    So I think boost works in more platforms than Qt.

  17. Re:The first things to do on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 1

    Boost::signals doesn't need to work across threads because it can be made to work across threads with very little code. All that you need is a single template class which wraps the signal into a QEvent.

    No ugly mess if whatever common functionality they have is removed from Qt.

  18. Re:The first things to do on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 1

    1) parent-child relationships are not enough in many cases where objects are shared across multiple domains.

    2) nowadays STL is as efficient as it gets across all major compilers - plus you'll get big speed ups with the upcoming changes in C++0x.

    3) I did not say anything about pthreads. I said 'replace Qt threads with boost threads'.

    4) Introspection has nothing to do with signals and slots. Qt signals and slots are very limited in what they can do.

  19. The first things to do on Qt Opens Source Code Repositories · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1) replace Qt memory management with TR1::shared_ptr (or boost).

    2) replace Qt collections with STL collections.

    3) replace Qt threads with boost::threads.

    4) replace Qt signals and slots with boost::signals.

    In other words, make Qt play nice with STL and boost, which are the foundations for developing C++ code these days.

  20. Re:What a ridiculous topic on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    But the true question is: can we get a new series? it was the series that had the Star Trek magic, not the movies.

  21. Re:Worst Case on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Funny that you say that.

    I was listening to a sports show on my local radio station, and the people talked about Star Trek. Do you know what they talked about? the Borg!!!

    It seems that the Borg were different enough as a threat from other sci-fi shows that made them stuck in people's minds. I think the Borg was good sci-fi, due to the fact that they were a mixture of biological and mechanical entities and being a single collective consciousness.

  22. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, with all the writing talent out there, this is the best they can do? ANOTHER time travel plot? I'm surprised Spock didn't try to save some whales while he was there.

    That's your criterion, and mine as well. Not to Paramount though: their criterion is the $$$, and judging from the opening so far, it is quite successful. Don't hold your breath for a proper Star Trek movie or series. The best we will get from now on is Star Wars in the Trek universe.

  23. Re:I'm disappointed on Duke Nukem Forever Gameplay Footage Leaked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not the gameplay that is important in these games, it's the atmosphere, the wow factor. In all single-player FPS, the gameplay is nothing more than shoot-the-bad-guys, but some games do it in a fun way, some are dull...

  24. Re:Bleah. Not impressed on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    You also forget:

    1) the whole Federation Fleet was at another sector, leaving Earth and Vulcan unprotected.

    2) The Narada kicks the shit out of the few vessels that traveled to Vulcan, which means they had some serious weaponry, but when it was time to fight the Enterprise...they had nothing.

    3) The transporters became magic devices. First Scotty and Kirk beam out from Delta Vega to the USS Enterprise, while the latter is in warp, and then from Titan to Earth.

    4) Wasn't Delta Vega at the edge of the Milky Way?

    5) why did they fire at the Narada in the end? it was going down.

  25. Re:Captain Kirk on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    What about the beam up from Titan to Earth? isn't that silly or what?